cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35624613
3 Sep 2025
Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.
This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.
Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.
This is what happens when you have 70 and 80 year olds in office.
At one point they just don’t care about the consequences … because they won’t live that long to see them.
We care because we’re young enough to know that the future doesn’t look good.
They don’t care because they won’t live long enough to see the future.
This is what happens when you have 70 and 80 year olds in office.
Jeffries is 55, and already a worthless time-server. Imagine what he’ll be like in 20 years if he’s still in office by then.
I will always dispute this idea that old people don’t care about the world after they’re gone. Most old people love the world too, and they love people who live in it and many of whom will outlive them. Most old people don’t want to imagine that the world went to shit soon after they died. The ones who don’t care are either in despair or old sociopaths, and the sociopaths didn’t care about other people earlier in their lives either. You might be right that these old politicians don’t care, but they’re not representative of old people as a whole. This idea that old people stop caring what happens to the world is very much a young person’s idea of old people.
Not old people I met. Trump loving old people don’t want the world to go on without them. My dad, and those around him I heard them talk. They think it’s their right to destroy the planet.
Some even believe that if we nuke Israeli then Jesus will return. Some of these crazy fuckers are begging for the world to end.
People like that were idiots long before they got old. Now they’re old idiots.
I suspect those people have always been latent assholes who put themselves before everyone else. Trump just brought it out in the open.
The other day I was watching the John Oliver segment about the Baileys. In case you don’t know those are the imaginary family that Chuck Schumer models his policy for. How anyone can vote for that man is beyond me.
It explains a lot that he runs all his decisions through what his fictional trump loving conservative voters want tbh
And for every former Democrat who is now a Trump supporter, there are four non-voters who’d vote for a Democrat if they thought the party would actually fucking do something.
Note: The number 4 is an estimate based on my vast experience bitching about politics. A more rigorous measurement might yield a slightly different number.
Surreal
Mehdi is one of the greatest journalists of our time, exceptionally talented at breaking through walls of bullshit, and as is often the case I couldn’t possibly agree with him more here.
Neither of these two are capable of rising to the occasion. Schumer needs to retire, and Jeffries should probably do so as well.
But when you lead your party to defeat in an election, shouldn’t you … lose your job?
THANK YOU.
That the removal of leadership that has ran the party into the ground so hard is even in question speaks to how badly the internal structures of the party need reforming. We can’t keep pretending that a system that relies on informally pressuring officials to step down when they doggedly cling to power in spite of the will of the voters is going to work.
And Hakeem Jeffries was supposed to be Pelosi’s successor. LOL
Everone hates him so I’d say other than not having massive gains from insider trading he’s living up to her legacy.
You can’t deny Pelosi had her party in lock step. She actually stood up to Trump and the GOP and allegedly even convinced Biden to bow out of the race.
I couldn’t imagine Jeffries doing any of that to a fraction of the efficacy that Pelosi did. Frankly, the only thing I’ve seen him do is dodge questions with vague corpospeak. Pelosi had big flaws but I’d take her over Jeffries’ useless ass any day.
While we are handing out prizes to dubious people for dubious reasons, I’d suppose we’d want to be consistent and hand out the same accolades to the filthy republicans, for exactly the same reasons you praise pelosi?
Are you really awarding points on the technical execution of a system that sells us down the river and allowed Pelosi to get rich on insider trading? Seems a bit grotesque. Screw Pelosi and the republicans too.
He’s the embodiment of a wet noodle.
He is Pelosi’s hand picked successor - one of the best at collecting and cashing donor checks and doing what he’s told after. Also a staunch Israel supporter - Israel First!
These are the democrats complicit in the fascist coup
Primary them.
No shit. Everyone’s been saying this and screaming this from the rooftop for months. Those two are useless wet noodles and are actually harmful at this point. Get rid of them.
This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.
That says it all, doesn’t it?
Russia bought out Republicans while Israel bought out mostly both (with all resistance left being beneath the Democratic banner, not to assert a both sides false equivalence)
Time, maybe. But no way they are stepping down willingly.
Get fucked chuck!
Just based on results alone – nevermind Schumer’s advanced age – this one is fucking obvious.
He’s so hungry for power, he’s eating the Guardian’s opinions.
chick definitely; jeffries can be replaced as speaker - he’s got room for growth. end citizens united.
Jeffries will never not be useless. He needs to go.
