Hakeem Jeffries: "They [GOP] Are In Disarray/They Haven't Been Effective"- - LW News Outlets Disagree

[BitterPill]

Hakeem Jeffries is a Democratic Party rodeo clown. That's all he'll ever be.

One of the Democrat's own was caught with her hand in the cookie jar. The Democrats are quite OKAY with all the federal government corruption, waste, a lack of transparency. Hakeem Jeffries should be thanking the Trump administration for public accountability to the people of this country. He's all smoke and mirrors, and is as corrupt as they come. Their newest boogiemen are the billionaires, look over there at the billionaires! It's a deflection to cover their own complacency with government corruption, and theft. Scoundrels!

FEMA CFO Mary Comans was just fired for funneling $58M to illegal migrant hotels in Manhattan.

Those illegal migrant hotels should be burnt to the ground and replaced with Trump-style resorts like were going to do in Gaza.

MAGA.

 

[trouble13]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries:

"There's been an ongoing effort to push back against far right extremism, and not a single thing that they've actually done is a matter of law right now - - not a single thing. That doesn't suggest to me that there's a scramble - it suggests to me that they are in disarray, and they haven't been effective in accomplishing the things they are purportedly trying to jam down the throats of the American people."

LW fake news outlets disagree. An NBC News Review shows that Trump signed more EOs in 10 days than any of his predecessors did in their first 100 days. Actions are coming at so dizzying a pace that it can be tough to track what Trump has done and what he's turned around and undone.

source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/democrats-struggle-trump-dizzying-pace-rcna191009

Mark Halprin/The Commentary Magazine Podcast:

"I'm baffled and somewhat speechless, and [Trump] is just barreling downfield, and democrats are nowhere on the field, and they've never seen anything like . . . not just the activity, but the inability of [Trump's] opponents to forget stopping him. They're barely (with a few exceptions) slowing him down."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is in denial, and GOP should exploit that.

Gaslighting is one of the left's favorite pastimes.

 

[Artymoon]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries:

"There's been an ongoing effort to push back against far right extremism, and not a single thing that they've actually done is a matter of law right now - - not a single thing. That doesn't suggest to me that there's a scramble - it suggests to me that they are in disarray, and they haven't been effective in accomplishing the things they are purportedly trying to jam down the throats of the American people."

LW fake news outlets disagree. An NBC News Review shows that Trump signed more EOs in 10 days than any of his predecessors did in their first 100 days. Actions are coming at so dizzying a pace that it can be tough to track what Trump has done and what he's turned around and undone.

source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/democrats-struggle-trump-dizzying-pace-rcna191009

Mark Halprin/The Commentary Magazine Podcast:

"I'm baffled and somewhat speechless, and [Trump] is just barreling downfield, and democrats are nowhere on the field, and they've never seen anything like . . . not just the activity, but the inability of [Trump's] opponents to forget stopping him. They're barely (with a few exceptions) slowing him down."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is in denial, and GOP should exploit that.

I mean we are only 3 weeks into this administration so this is extremely funny from Jeffries. I suppose he has to sing and dance for the base but is he expecting the legislative process to move instantaneously? This sounds more like I better get out there and say something before people forget we are here.

 

[eohrnberger]

In short, the constitution has failed us. Its time to go beyond it. Authoritarianism.

What is “authoritarian” about executive branch employees being accountable to the head of the executive branch?

Agreed.

Further, what is “authoritarian” about a president who wishes to reduce the size, power, expense and scope of the federal government?

 

[Bok Tuklo]

... what is “authoritarian” about a president who wishes to reduce the size, power, expense and scope of the federal government?

He should take that up with Congress who is responsible for determining the size, power, expense, and scope of the federal government.

 

[eohrnberger]

He should take that up with Congress who is responsible for determining the size, power, expense, and scope of the federal government.

It is Democrats in Congress who are screaming to keep things as they are; corrupt, bloated, wasteful, expensive.
This suggests that doing what you suggest would be an utter and complete waste of time and effort to accomplish exactly nothing.

No, I welcome the exposure of the corrupt, bloated, wasteful, expensive to the bright disinfecting sunlight of the public, so that the electorate can hold their representatives accountable.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

It is Democrats in Congress who are screaming to keep things as they are; corrupt, bloated, wasteful, expensive.

This suggests that doing what you suggest would be an utter and complete waste of time and effort to accomplish exactly nothing.

Democrats don't control Congress.

No, I welcome the exposure of the corrupt, bloated, wasteful, expensive to the bright disinfecting sunlight of the public, so that the electorate can hold their representatives accountable.

Then don't get tetchy when it is accurately pointed out you favor authoritarianism and the destruction of the republic.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Yes. I agree that the dems are in complete denial- over how truly racist, misogynist, bigoted, homophobic, and anti-science this country really is. They will continue to lose election after election until they learn.

I remember in Trump's first term, people used to say "this is not us". They just couldn't believe it; couldn't wrap their head around it. But you know what? It is. This is apparently who we really are. The dems just have to realize what they are working with here.

Oh, the nonsense.

 

[ataraxia]

Oh, the nonsense.

Yes, we need to stop the nonsense and go chasing after cat-eating Haitians and cancer causing wind turbines.

 

[Integrityrespec]

It is Democrats in Congress who are screaming to keep things as they are; corrupt, bloated, wasteful, expensive.
This suggests that doing what you suggest would be an utter and complete waste of time and effort to accomplish exactly nothing.

No, I welcome the exposure of the corrupt, bloated, wasteful, expensive to the bright disinfecting sunlight of the public, so that the electorate can hold their representatives accountable.

The left is corrupt. Their donors are corrupt, and they both want to keep it that way.

 

[eohrnberger]

Democrats don't control Congress.

Do you really believe that I believe that Democrats are the only ones who are benefiting from corrupt, bloated, wasteful, expensive federal government?

Interesting. Because I don't. Further, Congress, with its entrenched political elites, don't get off their asses for anything nor anyone, regardless of necessary.

Then don't get tetchy when it is accurately pointed out you favor authoritarianism and the destruction of the republic.

Your false accusation of authoritarianism is a fail.

What is “authoritarian” about a president who wishes to reduce the size, power, expense and scope of the federal government?
There is nothing.

History has shown that authoritarian regimes are all about increasing the size, power, expense and scope of the federal government, i.e. their own, not reducing.
Yup. Your false accusation of authoritarianism is a fail.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

What is “authoritarian” about a president who wishes to reduce the size, power, expense and scope of the federal government?
There is nothing.

Unless he tries to do so outside the constraints placed on him by the Constitution. When he does that, he is being an authoritarian and attempting to destroy the republic, which you appear to support.

There is a process and a branch of government that determines the size, power, expense, and scope of the federal government. Ultimately, that is Congress. He is free to make his case or veto bills (which they can override) he does like. But that is it. If he wants to see USAID eliminated, Republicans control the Legislative Branch. He should phone them up.

 

[eohrnberger]

Unless he tries to do so outside the constraints placed on him by the Constitution.

So far it seems that the Democrats are making all sorts of allegations in the hopes that one of them will stick. Kinda like the lawfare they engaged in after Trump came out of office. Much is going to be decided in the courts on these issues, and I reserve judgement until the courts have rules and the appeals process as reached its end.

When he does that, he is being an authoritarian and attempting to destroy the republic, which you appear to support.

These are empty accusations trying to support an equally empty conclusion.

There is a process and a branch of government that determines the size, power, expense, and scope of the federal government. Ultimately, that is Congress. He is free to make his case or veto bills (which they can override) he does like. But that is it. If he wants to see USAID eliminated, Republicans control the Legislative Branch. He should phone them up.

We'll just have to wait and see how all this unfolds. The play is still in the first act, so to speak.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

We'll just have to wait and see how all this unfolds. The play is still in the first act, so to speak.

True. There may be enough people who want to destroy the republic just like you seem to do.

 

[eohrnberger]

True.

There may be enough people who want to destroy the republic just like you seem to do.

LOL. Keep pushing your false narratives. Its what you do.

 

[EnigmaO01]

The founding fathers of this country probably foresaw this as a possibility, but they couldn't imagine people being stupid enough to use democracy to destroy their own democracy. Or maybe they did, and probably thought to themselves, "well, then maybe then in that case that's what they deserve". Oh well, we had a good run, I guess.

"A republic, if you can keep it."
-Ben Franklin

“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents...— despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’ … No popular government was ever without its Catilines and its Caesars. These are its true enemies.”
-Alexander Hamilton

“… cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
_George Washington

“A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law … .”
-Benjamin Franklin

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

My favorite quote is Winston Churchill's: “The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”