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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    23 hours ago

    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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      15 hours ago

      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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      22 hours ago

      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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        20 hours ago

        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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          19 hours ago

          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.