His donor list includes controversial figures like Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf and his COO Matthew Grimm, who together spent nearly $150,000 boosting Jeffries’ fundraising committees. Some might recognize Anduril as the AI weapons tech corporation co-founded by Palmer Luckey, a tech billionaire whose recent projects include a company working on genetically enhanced dogs for military purposes.
Another controversial donor includes Mehdi Allhassani, current head of government affairs at the AI surveillance company Palantir, from whom Jeffries received $44,300 this election cycle.
Jeffries also has the backing of cryptocurrency advocacy groups and investment executives at firms including Bain Capital, DE Shaw, and Renaissance Technologies, Sludge reports.
If any of you want to help take Jeffries (and Schumer) down, I made this post of resources to use to pressure our democratic congresspeople over the next few weeks:
Would you consider adding the hashtags and change.org petitions to your list?
#nochuck #nohakeem
Hakeem Jeffries: https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker (currently at 952K signatures)
Chuck Schumer: https://www.change.org/p/replace-chuck-schumer-as-senate-majority-leader (currently at 136K signatures)
We gotta hit them from all angles, and FAST.
He and Schumer have got to be replaced for this incredible gift of momentum to keep up.
Schumer and Jefferies will absolutely puposefully kill the momentum and hand America back to republicans if it meant keeping AIPAC money and Israeli influence.
JFC, we spend a decade battling MAGA, get a major victory, only to find Israel standing right behind them. Now we have to fight them off, too? WTF?
Midterms was just the start. Keep the pressure on, don’t let up now.
Agreed
Peter Thiel. Bros with Kushner.
https://www.wallstrank.com/portfolios/bain-capital-public-equity-management/stocks/DG
Some of the info is paywalled, pertinent for this thread is visible.
Keep these stories coming.
Not exactly breaking news… He was on the leaked list of members of Thiels Dialog forum. Any politician tied to a secretive investment organization run by billionaires should probably be automatically investigated. Especially when official topics of discussion include things like “Navigating WW3”
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Oh cool are we allowed to criticize the entire american system now that the election is over or am I still a russian bot?
Absolutely no one was stopping you from criticizing Jeffries
I don’t mean allowed in the literal sense, but rather the idea that any criticism is dangerous close to an election.
Re: Jefferies, I regret to say I have a specific example: https://crazypeople.online/comment/12195035
Where the fuck have you been? Nobody likes Jeffries.
I can’t believe I have a specific example but here we are.
https://crazypeople.online/post/18496501
Oh sorry it wasn’t “Russian bot” it was “tankie slut”
You’re getting your panties in a twist over “blue no matter who”?
Under what OTHER party in a functionally two-party system are progressives supposed to run?
Right now, the Dems are BOTH Dems and progressives. You’re just showing your own ignorance, along with people trying to crown Schumer and Jeffries because they are suffering from the delusion that Dems won.
Dems didn’t win shit. Progressives swept the country. That first post was absolutely right: third parties get nowhere in this country, and it’s by design, rigged to keep power in the hands of those who already hold it.
They were absolutely right to call you on your shit. Welcome to my block list.
I don’t know why I need to keep saying this but I’m not american so…
BlueMAGA will never admit their faults, they will always pretend that anyone that would dare criticize their guys within 2 years of a federal election is a foreign actor trying to destroy the US.
Because they are just as nationalistically fetishistic as MAGA.
No one’s stopping you! Of course for funsies we would also like to know where you hail from so we can judge the validity of your criticisms
Is that what the whole russian bot thing was about? People thinking I was being an agent provocateur? Or whatever the equivalent is for non-violent behavior? Agent décourager?
Eh, there was evidence that Russia was utilizing bot farms across social media networks to interfere with elections. However, the vast majority of that was happening in 2016.
Since then liberals have utilized it as an excuse to shield themselves from any form of criticism, even in cases where people explained their reasoning, or on platforms like lemmy where it would be silly for a Russian agency to spend time and resources.
This was mostly me being incredulous that people didn’t bother checking my user profile if they thought I was misrepresenting myself as american.
So you admit you are a foreign actor trying to do a mind terrorism against the democratic party! 🥳 We found them! We found the foreigners responsible for Kamala losing. Guys we don’t have to change after all, third way politics is totally here to stay forever.
So you admit you are a foreign actor trying to
LMAO omg I saw this portion pop up on my phone and was really concerned for this person who seemed to think that anyone who criticized the states were like…paid trouble makers.
