Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.

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    For speaker yes

    for primary yes

    for general no if he wins again like this year then we need him to win the general next time as well.

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      No, much of the reason people don’t trust the Democratic Party is because they held their noses and allowed corporate rot to infiltrate over the past 30+ years. It’s a core reason why voters revolted against them in 2016 and 2024.

      Allowing the corporate rot to continue festering is only going to result in another revolt, giving power back to the Republicans in 2028.

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      Fuck that. Expose and vilify every piece of shit you can. I had almost no faith that our elections weren’t compromised in a severe way. These results gave me hope and I’m a pessimistic piece of shit. We need to be loud. Name, shame, expose, get them the fuck out, investigated, and convicted. Sick of the “if you suck me I won’t fuck you” game. No. No more. Pedophiles out, investigated, mulched. AIPAC and all supporters the fuck out. Citizens United eliminated. That’s just to start.

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      I disagree. If there is such a strong dem majority in the house, then fuck it, let the GOP have Jeffries’ seat. If they refuse to listen to us saying to not make him speaker this time, then let’s make him unemployed next election. He’s a greedy coward and he needs to either step to the side or fuck off for good.

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        Yeah we have a wide enough margin now that we can afford a few strategic sacrifices, especially if it means getting someone out of the way for new leadership to come take their place.

        If we back milquetoast centrist leadership unconditionally, we’ll lose the whole margin anyway.

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        There will never, ever, under any circumstance, be an instance where a DNC is as bad as a GOP. We need the GOP to have zero seats before we can put a single Democrat on the chopping block in the generals.

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          I’m sorry, I don’t think you picked up what the other guy was saying. He’s saying that “there’s no dnc now… there’s the people and there’s the door”.

          It’s time for the dnc to figure out if aipac or the people are buttering their toast.

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            The people are about to get their buns forcefully buttered by a bunch of zionist scumbags if they’re actually considering letting DNC lose the generals.