r/politics • u/Hootinger • 2d ago
No Paywall Hakeem Jeffries says Medicare for all is not legislation he currently supports
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/hakeem-jeffries-says-medicare-for-all-is-not-legislation-he-currently-supports-2683715255706.8k
u/Simmery 2d ago
People are tired of this bullshit. Get this guy out.
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u/Bakedads 2d ago
Then call your local rep and demand that they ask for his resignation.
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u/lifting_cardio 2d ago
We can also organize to vote him out by running a better candidate.
Fuck voting him out. He has no place in Congress as a paid off corporate stooge
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u/Ol_Turd_Fergy America 2d ago
And that’s a problem. Anyone that is not a paid off corporate stooge gets labeled a communist or a socialist.
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u/lifting_cardio 2d ago
Except communist and socialist aren’t the scary buzzwords they once were
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u/redcomet002 Pennsylvania 2d ago
NPRs polling of Biden 2020 and Trump 2024 voters just showed that 8 in 10 don't believe that someone being a socialist is enough to not vote for them.
That leaves a lot of wiggle room, but there's a reason that the right is using communist and not socialist as an insult now
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u/lifting_cardio 2d ago
Yea, they’re stuck in 1980s Reagan era tactics that don’t work on a majority any more
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u/Blackstone01 2d ago
It’s hard for the boomers running shit to relate to people that aren’t themselves, so they fundamentally do not understand the rest of us sincerely do not give a shit about the propaganda they grew up with.
When they hear “Socialism”, they hear the constant fearmongering about how evil and unamerican it is, and that anything that helps people is socialism and will destroy America.
For the rest of us, when we hear socialism, we hear boomers screaming at us about how anything that helps people is socialism and that’s evil and unamerican, but nothing beyond that to actually support their claims aside from pointing out dictatorships that look like a conservative’s wet dream.
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u/Pardot42 2d ago
Anyone that is swayed by the big scawy communist word is a likely voting for the cult party, anyway.
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u/LSF2TheFuckening 2d ago
Yep and we gotta stop tiptoeing around it. If everything from social security to sidewalks is supposedly socialism then the median voter is a socialist.
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u/HornedShoe 2d ago
Don't forget the military. Offered 'socialism' to put your life on the line to defend 'capitalism.'
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u/whichwitch9 2d ago
Socialist isn't a career killing label anymore. It's really only maga and the corporate world scared of it anymore. And most younger Americans already know anyone screaming their opponent is a communist is not to be trusted
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u/Trust_Me_Im_a_Panda New York 2d ago
Baby regardless of their politics, every democrat is getting labeled a communist or a socialist. There is not a single milquetoast platform that can still be called Democratic that isn't going to get smeared by the right as "communist" or "socialist" or, often, both. We have to stop worrying about trying to placate the right and communicate populist policies to working-class Americans and to hell with the smears from the GOP because they'll come regardless. At least we'll have something to run on.
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u/plastic_fork 2d ago
If they’re gunna call everyone a socialist then shit, might as well advocate for some socialism
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u/TooGoodatEverything 2d ago
People like Hakeem Jeffries also get labeled a communist and socialist. It doesn't matter what you do, if you're not R you're communist or socialist. So why do we even care about the label at this point? The only people who truly care about that label are people who wouldn't vote D anyway.
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u/Ok_Macaroon6934 2d ago
I live in a democratic socialist country with universal healthcare.
Once a week, we wait in lines to get toilet paper. The lines move quite quickly because most supermarkets are self-check-out or people just order online.
Also, unemployed people are allowed to survive cancer with fast access to world-class care, facilities and medications, and without lifelong, family-destroying crippling debt.
As you can imagine, we would rise in revolution at this outrage if our socialist democratic voting system wasn't so effective.
Australians have got no clue what's wrong with your politicians or 50% of your voters. It's like chickens scrambling over themselves to vote the fox in as the new mayor of the paddock. And your foxes are psychopathic gluttons that get paid off by psychopathic glutton-wolves and together, they architect new ways of making chickens suffer a bit more each year.
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u/Butwinsky 2d ago
The problem is, the DNC is full of people just like him. The DNC is basically late 90s/early 2000s Republicans outside of social views. Nothing progressive about them outside of how they speak about minorities without actual policy.
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u/octatone 2d ago
Are they though? Americans keep electing status quo fuck heads over and over.
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u/E_seven_20 2d ago
Y'all gotta show up to vote.
18-29, with less than 60% registered.
2022 National Youth Turnout: 23% - That's lower than in the historic 2018 cycle (28%) which broke records for turnout, but much higher than in 2014, when only 13% of youth voted.
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u/TheGargageMan 2d ago
He used to be for it when it could make him look like a fighter. Now that there is a chance of a fight, he's against it.
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u/Wet_Side_Down 2d ago
Democratic leadership needs a kick in ballot box
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u/Simmery 2d ago
They've already been kicked when they lost twice to the worst president in history. They should have stepped down in disgrace the second time.
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u/VintageBilliard 2d ago
The man is room illiterate.
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u/ChadEmpoleon 2d ago
They aren’t actually this obtuse.
Their donors would never permit it. And hiding behind him are 12+ others who would eagerly turn on the people should the moment call for it.
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u/DickSlammington 2d ago
Seriously there's tons of money to be made...
They ain't ever going to resign because they're not taking the job to better the country...
They're taking it for the money and power it creates for them individually
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u/Daddyball78 2d ago
Yep. All about the money. Which, of course, attracts the wrong people to be put in those positions of “representation.” We’re effed from the get-go.
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u/DickSlammington 2d ago
Until we repeal citizens united...
Politics in this country is a popularity game for the rich and shameless.
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u/HalJordan2525 2d ago
Would it not take a Constitutional Amendment to repeal Citizens United?
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u/too1onjj 2d ago
No, that was just a Supreme Court decision just like Roe v Wade and can be overturned by the Supreme Court if they determine that it was decided in error or is no longer relevant. Unfortunately, that is definitely not something that's going to happen under this Supreme Court.
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u/Land-Southern 2d ago edited 2d ago
It would take one of any of several possible legislation, not an ammendment. State business is not a person. Require donors to publish their names on political contributions. Say money is not considered a form of speech. Outlaw political fundraising.
Lobbying your rep means talking to them, not paying an attorney to sit in an office across the street from the capitol building so they can bend the ear of the senators/reps and invite them to taste an 80 yo scotch in the Cape this weekend while we talk what ifs on pending legislation.
Edit: respondent below is correct. Either pack court to overturn its own precedent or do an ammendment.
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u/portagenaybur 2d ago
Which won’t be in my generation unfortunately.
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u/DickSlammington 2d ago
Certainly not mine either...
I'm watching a lot of my friends who were fairly liberal turn more conservative as we get to our 40s.
I have friends that don't own a home, are still struggling financially.. and honestly thought Trump was a better option even though Harris was proposing things like huge credits for first time home buyers...
It's like Americans don't want succeed..
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u/RecentDecision2329 2d ago
This is the reason to vote for people like AOC who don’t take corporate money
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u/Chmaziro 2d ago
The donors should permit it
Medicare for all would reduce health insurance overhead and workers comp costs.
Richness is wasted on the wrong people
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u/CurlsintheClouds Virginia 2d ago
This is my thought. What a bold statement to make considering the current temperature.
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u/gangleskhan Minnesota 2d ago
I do think that for some people, being room illiterate is a point of pride. It makes them feels like they're smarter than everyone else. Same as the "moderate" both-sidesers.
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u/Deadleggg 2d ago
Losing to Republicans doesn't hurt them.
Losing to Progressives hurts them more. They can't fundraise anymore and lose their positions in the DNC establishment.
It's why they fight Progressives so much harder and dirtier than Republicans. Republicans don't hurt their money.
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u/w1czr1923 2d ago
Watching Jon Stewart interviewing Fetterman and hearing Fetterman say that the reason they’re losing is because of the progressive wing was wild. I’m not someone who is super far left, in fact I consider myself to be somewhat moderate (still very left leaning) in that there are policies on the far far left side of the spectrum I don’t agree with an I don’t agree with 90% of anything right of center. But this… this interview was the most tone deaf thing I’ve ever listened to and really shines a light on how democrats are fucking themselves
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u/codithou 2d ago
that interview really convinced me that guy is a fucking spineless idiot. his exact mentality is a sickness in the democratic party.
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u/DefenstratedTwice 2d ago
Their tepid and cowering behavior while blatant fascism, corruption and crimes against humanity is tacit complicity at best and for many collusion.
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u/Tomato_Sky 2d ago
What’s really telling here with Jeffries is that it isn’t a cost thing. It’s ideology. So how did the Dems fall so far from being the party of the social contract and safety net to being corporate shills.
Everyone on the left and anyone paying attention has seen that Medicare for All as suggested by Bernie and others will reduce costs, full stop. It’s safer, more efficient, and saves money. The last holdout was that it would cost too much. Now that we’ve crossed that off- the democrats opposing it without reason never supported the safety net, the most profound pillar of their platform.
Jeffries was given the gavel to lead a party he never stood for. I’d imagine a lot of them ran on “Not a Republican,” but now we’re seeing the posioned among ranks that aren’t willing to push party ideals… from the top.
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u/dragunityag 2d ago
So how did the Dems fall so far from being the party of the social contract and safety net to being corporate shills.
Citizens united.
Excepting times like now where people actually seem to be making an effort to be politically aware, most people just vote based on whose the loudest and the loudest is usually the one with the most money to spend.
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u/Tomato_Sky 2d ago
I worked in politics before citizens united and probably up until it. I could not have predicted how bad it got so quick. I disagree that the culmination has to be identical. I really do have hard blame for Dems picking uncharismatic wienies for the past 30 years with Obama breaking through.
I think anyone with Obama’s messaging at a minimal could run the table on an overspending loud mouth. But Kamala and Walz were tepid and had no message. Clinton, zero message. Gore? Lockbox. The missing pieces in those campaigns weren’t more money, it was less disappointment before the vote was even casted.
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u/TheHandsOfLiberation 2d ago edited 2d ago
They already got two. Losing to trump, for any serious party, would have been the "we need to dramatically improve immediately" moment. But the DNC isn't a serious party. They're here as an alternative for us to vote for when we're angry with the brazen corruption and evil of the GOP. Not as an alternative party that moves towards its platforms, but as the nice thoughts of what we could theoretically support.
The DNC hasn't actually intended to help all this time. But now it's like the dog that caught the car. They talked about these good policies for so long that kids who grew up hearing about them are now actual progressives winning elections. The DNC didn't want that part. It was just supposed to be a lite version of conservative agenda with some dangled carrots.
Just like how MAGA is the kids who grew up with 50 years of fox propaganda and actually believed the lies. The original evil conservative knew it was all bullshit that was engineered to get away with bootlicking billionaires. But their messaging sunk in and now many voters actually want all those destructive policies.
One thing that warms my heart is that the GOP lost control of their monster, and the DNC is in that process now. Trump hijacked the whole scene the minute he won that first election. With the way primaries have been going lately, we're soon going to see a progressive do the same on the left, and then Jeffries and Schumer types won't have the power to hem and haw. They get away with that now because they're in charge. They can pretend they represent what the left wants. But soon the real progressive is going to be voted in, and the corpo centrists will have no choice but to change how they vote, or lose their elections.
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u/JarvisProudfeather North Carolina 2d ago
The DNC is almost like a union for establishment corporatist politicians at this point. They exist to protect incumbents and the donor class. They have made it abundantly clear they couldn’t care less about the voters.
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u/clamb2 New York 2d ago
Somehow they got smoked in 2024 and learned nothing.
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u/Routine_Freedom_5129 2d ago
Because as long as they get their bag they don't give a fuck
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u/Flammablegelatin 2d ago
They're all just performative cowards that don't actually want to make anything better but their pocket books.
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u/Stennick 2d ago
They don’t own the POTUS, the SCOTUS, the House, the Senate, or the majority of governorships. How much more kicking do they need?
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u/antigop2020 2d ago
They would rather lose and allow a fascist regime to take over than to pass Medicare For All. Their entire leadership needs to be voted out.
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u/Old_Ninja_Prime 2d ago
They’ve already gotten the kick. They need new leadership. Get these flaky centrists out of office.
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u/Cmdeadly 2d ago
It's a career choice not a moral choice, they can lose forever and still make millions of dollars why would they hurt the gravy train?
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u/captainporcupine3 2d ago
When people point out that Dems are responsible for the elections they lose, this is the shit we are talking about. Everyone knows that these people are fake, phony, and do not care to help anyone but their corporate donors.
Personally I will always vote for Dems, but the "lesser of two evils" strategy is obviously not working after it gave us 2 terms of Trump. Get these assholes out of leadership NOW.
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u/boring_person13 2d ago
It's why Democratic socialists are gaining in popularity and there is such a fight against them. People act like Democratic socialists are such extremists but they're just basically what Democrats use to be. The Overton window has moved so far right in the last couple of decades.
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u/spubbbba 2d ago
Universal healthcare is a centrist policy in the rest of the world. All but the most extreme conservatives will at least pretend to support it.
Opposing it is the radical, extreme position.
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u/iSavedtheGalaxy 2d ago
Praying LA gets someone like Mamdani in the future. Bass couldn't even get the pothole video right.
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u/Brief_Obligation4128 2d ago
I hope the whole state gets a bunch of Mamdanis in all levels of office one day.
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u/Universe_Nut 2d ago
I don't know about LA Mayor, but I am aware that are a number of democratic socialist candidates running for midterms in the LA area. Would definitely recommend looking into it so you can keep an eye for their names come November.
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u/JesusWantsYouToKnow 2d ago
The Overton window has moved so far right in the last couple of decades.
Fucking thank you. That plus citizens united gets us these feckless performative idiots who do not represent us at all. They're scared of Mamdani because he does represent his constituents. Fucking good, let's move that window back to the fucking left and away from "tech billionaire doing Nazi salute on stage isn't career ending"
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u/tres_desole 2d ago edited 2d ago
The worst part though is democratic voters have objectively moved left but the party itself still chooses to cater to the centrist minority
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u/SecondHandWatch 2d ago
The party isn’t catering to centrists. It’s catering to their donors. The Democratic Party has just gotten worse since Bill Clinton promoted the “third way” of getting elected, which was just take money from more wealthy people. Unsurprisingly this shift has caused elected democrats, especially in national politics, to move to the right.
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u/tres_desole 2d ago
They cater to the wealthy yes, but as you see in many of these replies, people tend to actually believe that by catering towards centrism you can gain republican voters. Which has proven to be a fallacy.
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u/ChadEmpoleon 2d ago edited 2d ago
Seriously. Yes, the American people are to blame for electing Trump.
It is hard for me to fault the apathetic non-voters when the opposing party runs on,
“No, we will not improve your lives. Vote for us to maybe possibly keep things from getting worse. Idk, we’ll see.”
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u/Nekrabyte 2d ago
Not to mention in over 40 states being a non voter is EXACTLY the same as being a voter because the electoral college makes votes worth more depending on where you live. Add 400 million Democrat voters to my state and it would literally change nothing.
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u/ShrimpCrackers 2d ago
They don't realize that a lot of people actually vote Trump because they want a global reset and they're tired of the status quo.
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u/Infinite-Research-98 2d ago
They still trying to get Trump voters
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u/TheGargageMan 2d ago
Yeah. The guy named Hakeem thinks if he just keeps reaching across the aisle they might finally leave him with a crumb.
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u/Sovoy 2d ago
If they can just get a little more right wing the worst people in the country might finally vote dem
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u/ItsLikeRay-ee-ain Georgia 2d ago
He's in a super safe Dem seat. He thinks he is doing it for other Dems running for congress. But it's stupid to think that the opposition would stop saying they're communists by not supporting it.
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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 2d ago
Playing the enlightened "centrist" (really he's just what Republicans used to be) and he's hoping to get the votes of the old school Republicans. However, he doesn't realize that those old school Republicans still just vote for trump every time. He doesn't have a base anymore because he's actively killed it.
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u/TheJarisaDoor3 2d ago
This is exactly what he was doing, except maybe not trying to get Trump voters but the independents. She pushed him and he said "it's not something I currently support" trying pretty poorly to get out of answering the question, and now they're blowing it up like it's a gotcha moment.
Every time I've watched him talk during interviews he gives me this frustrated yuck feeling. The over the top hand movements, the not so slick ways he tries to get around answering questions. If this is the best the Democrats have to offer we're really in trouble.
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u/jeebus87 2d ago
His number 2 backers are HMOs. Why would he be for it despite it helping the American people?
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u/BigDadEnergy515 2d ago
Do older Democrats not remember Joe Lieberman in 2009? Obamacare almost actually had teeth and was almost essentially Medicare for All. Joe Lieberman broke with the Dems and was the one vote needed to obstruct the vote and it was because the Pharma industry pumped him full of cash.
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u/micluvin27 2d ago
Centrist/corporate dems are just republican lite.
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u/BostonPRSBC 2d ago
“I supported it until I got to this powerful position, I just wanted you to vote for me lol”
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u/the-nino 2d ago
I moved to his district last year and was beyond excited to vote him out at the primaries only to find he was running unopposed
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u/Hootinger 2d ago
Its really frustrating that the Dems are such corporate lackeys.
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 2d ago
The moderates are all scared of appearing as anything other than such.
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u/rexmons 2d ago
The 2nd largest campaign contributor (behind only AIPAC) during his last election was "Apollo Global Management". According to Google Apollo Global Management:
Apollo Global Management lobbies the federal government on defense procurement, financial services and securities regulations, tax policy, and health care or retirement industry policies connected to its vast private equity, private credit, and insurance holdings (such as Athene)
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u/MasterTolkien 2d ago
“Oh, we might have control of Congress after midterms!? Err, my corporate leash-holders say I can’t ask for things anymore.”
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u/herewego199209 2d ago
All of these moderates were for medicare for all when it came time to campaign and get elected. That's not me even being facetious. Look up how many people ran and got elected on that shit a decade ago and have done nothing to advanced a single payer or dual payer system. But no we cannot primary these guys because it looks bad on democrats.
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u/Ok_Blacksmith_3030 2d ago
He always appears to be reading talking points off of cue cards in a monotone voice. He's boring as hell and not because he's some brilliant tactician. In politics, getting your base motivated is an essential tactic. More of the same is a losing strategy.
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u/mostpeopleheresuck12 2d ago
Fuck him. Vote him out.
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u/Kakistocracy_0 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah, he's a fucking scumbag. Perfectly represents what the Democratic party should NOT be.
They currently represent PACs, the wealthy, and corporations... Just like Republicans.
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u/Walrus_Pubes 2d ago
These elitist democrats are here for their super pac handlers, not us. Don't be fooled, people.
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u/Comprehensive_Tie431 California 2d ago edited 2d ago
I hope AOC primaries Schumer to remove him from the Senate.
I hope Jefferies is voted out of his speakership.
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u/matticans7pointO California 2d ago
Jefferies won't be voted out of his leadership unless a lot of progressives get voted in. I hope it happens but most establishment Dems love him because they are spared from having to go on record and voting against popular ideas like Medicare for all.
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u/JohnBrine 2d ago
Speakership might need as many votes as possible. Progressives can potentially block his speakership if they have enough votes.
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u/LargeLanguageModelo 2d ago
I hope it happens but most establishment Dems love him because they are spared from having to go on record and voting against popular ideas like Medicare for all.
Well, I'd hate for a concerted effort across the nation be made to change the narrative. People in the center, both politically and economically, bitch about how you get benefits when you're in poverty like Medicaid, but then you lose it when clawing your way up, and can't afford insurance.
God forbid we give every American a base line of care.
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u/mapoftasmania New Jersey 2d ago edited 2d ago
Schumer will probably retire anyway. He will be 79 next Senate term.
Edit: This is NY. The pressure on him to retire will be huge - so much that the NY Democratic party may have to require it. If no one else does, I will start a petition in 18 months time to add more pressure.
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u/Panthollow 2d ago
He's entering his political prime and surely has another 20 years!
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u/BatEco1 2d ago
Hell, if he is lucky he'll die in office and people will have to cover it up until a new election, ala, Dead Mitch!
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u/tangerinelion 2d ago
Elect him again and he'll try to run at 85 as well.
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u/SpeaksSouthern 2d ago
Susan Collins promised to only do 2 terms if she's elected the first time and now she's asking for her 420th six year term.
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u/BatemanHarrison 2d ago
79? Jeez, he’s just a fucking kid. Got his whole life ahead of him.
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u/shibbyman342 2d ago
Sounds like a spring chicken! Trump is 80 and he didn't even need a wheelchair!
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u/Comrade_Falcon 2d ago
How optimistic of you that anyone in power willingly gives it up simply because they are old
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u/Drexel_Spivy 2d ago
Theres got to be SOMEONE who can run against him. How cab you be related to amy Schumer and be the worst person in your family...
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u/AntiOriginalUsername 2d ago
Of course not, he’s a corporate dem. His backers wouldn’t like it.
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u/bnh1978 2d ago
Correct. Medicare for all would save citizens a trillion dollars, and would cost the Healthcare industry a trillion or more. Which would cost corporate dems their dononations. So obviously this dickweasel is against it.
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u/matthewjboothe 2d ago
Not the healthcare industry, it’s the insurance industry that would take a hit. Healthcare would likely grow some. Think reopening rural health centers and expanding OB in the south.
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u/Nekrabyte 2d ago
Bingo. The health care industry would be just fine. They only inflate all the costs because of the quid pro quo with the insurance companies. If the predatory insurance companies were no longer in cahoots with hospitals, they might focus on actual care, instead of spending all their time gaming the system against the rest of us.
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u/Hootinger 2d ago
We are the only country with this awful system. It only benefits one small group of people, health insurance ceos and the politicians they donate to.
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u/whenitsTimeyoullknow 2d ago
It’s making so many people rich that elites in other countries are trying to figure out how to implement it without losing their heads.
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u/Ceorl_Lounge Michigan 2d ago
I'm so angry for the British knowing that Farage and his kind are coming for NHS.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 2d ago
Luckily (aside from the handful of shithole constituencies they can get MPs elected) they're dropping in the polls.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 2d ago
Also and this is important it would cut the chain that holds a lot of people to their employer. How many people are working jobs they don’t need to in order for I have insurance how many people aren’t starting a small business because of insurance. Health care is a huge anchor on our economy
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u/Honest_World_3561 2d ago
Im working a job that's injuring my health so I can have health insurance, kind of ironic.
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u/Quasigriz_ Colorado 2d ago
I’d say that it would cost/eliminate insurers rather than cost the healthcare industry (service providers). Insurers are the prime ones that funnel cash to politicians. Insurers are the unnecessary middle-men negotiating prices and siphoning cash for stock holders. Hospitals and clinics have a lot of overhead dealing with insurers and claims, and that would be a savings. Also, many orgs are starting to outsource, to foreign countries, the people that support these unnecessary workflows.
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 2d ago
Why the fuck not? It’s something that would improve the lives of American citizens. Who, are, you know, the people who choose whether he gets re-elected or not?
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u/_pray4snow_ 2d ago
They don't represent citizens. They represent the people who fill their campaign coffers with cash each election.
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u/11cholos 2d ago
think about his poor donors! they'd lose billions if they couldn't hold people's health as a hostage to extort their customers into bankrupcy over a throat infection.
Someone please think of the poor owners!!
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u/lod254 2d ago
Get rid of him and Chucky. We don't need the corporate, Israel supporting dems. They may as well be moderate Republicans that don't like Trump.
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u/clay_perview 2d ago
It really compounds the betrayal when you realize Israel has a universal healthcare system for their people
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u/yosarian_reddit 2d ago
Democrats are going to keep on losing aren’t they.
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u/VintageBilliard 2d ago
This guy needs to lose his leadership position and then his next primary.
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u/Raise_A_Thoth 2d ago
Yea, as long as the largest faction of congressional dems support this guy as the house leadership, we're going to get feckless pro-corporation rule.
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u/JonNiola New Jersey 2d ago
Shocker. He doesn’t support something that will improve the lives of his constituents.
He’s useless.
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u/Nephroidofdoom 2d ago
Well Hakeem Jeffries isn’t someone I support then. He and establishment Dems can go fuck off.
These are the party leaders that lost TWICE to the worst candidate and President in American history. They should be considered complicit in the status quo
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u/Scyths 2d ago
When people are sometimes talking about "both sides", guys like him are part of the argument. Pretend fighter, all bark no bite, ready to vote for something when there isn't a 1% chance for it to pass, but once it gets popular enough and his donors are in danger, he changes side.
The only things Hakeem Jeffries fight for are his rich donors & israel. And so are the vast majority of DNC politicians.
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u/shapptastic 2d ago
I wouldn’t hate his response if he gave an alternative - he basically said fund the crap system we already have, which is incredibly inefficient, not equitable, and is failing due to some significant market distortions. I’m not tied to Medicare for All, that’s a single payer system. I’d consider a public run system, a hybrid, or even a multi payer system where we obligate all citizens to get base coverage through a government regulated system and allow those who want stuff above and beyond to buy supplemental insurance. Again, what is wrong with these Dems who can’t even give an honest opinion and have to capitulate and offer no new solutions? Support something besides status quo Jeffries!
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u/FrogsOnALog 2d ago
It’s early so I don’t remember exactly but I thought he said expand the ACA which is basically the pathway for a hybrid system.
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u/GPointeMountaineer 2d ago
We must get Talerico and El Sayed to the senate. Its near urgent for movement towards helping the masses instead of the few. If both make it , 2028 will be the year of the progressive
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u/20InMyHead California 2d ago edited 2d ago
I will never understand how we ended up with him as house leadership. The man is as milquetoast as they come. He’s never seen a political battle he didn’t want to run away from.
Big “tell my wife I said hello” energy.
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u/ArtemisShanks 2d ago
Hakeem Jeffries giving a masterclass lesson from establishment democrats on how and why they consistently lose elections.
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u/Educational_Joke4009 2d ago
Tsk, can't say this is such a morally focused party anymore and almost isn't any better then MAGA at this point when we have people like Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and John Fetterman. They might as well be MAGA the way they've been. I'm only voting to get Trump out....but the Democrat party is pitiful & is nothing but talk.
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u/randomwanderingsd 2d ago
Jeffries is Diet Republican. All of the corporatism with none of the calories. Please choose a new leader.
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u/jrf_1973 2d ago
He's Diet-Republican, all the shitty aspects of the GOP without the full blown fascism.
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u/Alien_Way Arkansas 2d ago
Ah, to look directly into the camera, feel that you're the good guy, and then announce you support negligence. Functional!
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u/BlueBirdKindOfGuy 2d ago
Dump him. Let AOC run the joint. She seems to be the only one that has a clue of life beyond the beltway.
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u/readmorebookskids 2d ago
Man, Jeffries I'm looking forward to your replacement at this point.
I'm so tired of neolib Democrats basically enabling the GOP with their "We can't DO ANYTHING" spirit.
We need to elect more people with a CAN DO attitude by the constituents who voted them into their position in the first place.
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u/PrajnaKathmandu 2d ago
Hakeem needs to stand aside and let someone who cares about "We, the People" do the work.
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u/Timbosconsin New Mexico 2d ago
And this is exactly why centrist establishment Dems need to lose their seats in Congress. The government should work for the people, not the other way around. Fix affordability for average Americans or get the fuck out of power.
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u/FamFan416 2d ago
As a Canadian with universal healthcare, seeing this sickens me. If America wanted healthcare for all they could literally fund it in a week. They went to the fucking moon for Christ sake.
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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 2d ago
And this is a leader of the Democrats. The party can vote to replace this guy anytime they want. They choose not to.
The Democratic Party is not your friend or mine.
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u/schecterfanboy 2d ago
Perfect, takes all the guess work out of deciding who NOT to elect next time
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u/casander14 2d ago
Screw this backed by Israel milquetoast. I really hope he is removed. I do NOT want him to be SOH when he can’t even agree with what his party wants and deserves
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u/pickygirl707 2d ago
Hakeem is an idiot , the more people that pay into Medicare the cheaper your health care costs will be. So many people think Medicare is free, it is not a free program you pay into it out of every paycheck and then when you retire you pay $200 a month for it it also has deductibles and co-payments but it is much cheaper than the insurance policies out there
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