After Democrats’ historic victory, why is this how Hakeem Jeffries is responding?

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries isn’t interested in seeking impeachment charges against President Donald Trump.

Speaking on MS NOW’s Morning Joe Wednesday, Jeffries laid out his priorities for his party’s newfound leadership in the House of Representatives.

“The American people don’t want us to get even. They want us to get things done on their behalf because life is way too expensive,” Jeffries said.

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    Republicans have had their traitorous asses kicked, and now I want to see all their Orange “initiatives” rolled-back, starting with the Big Ugly BIll but also defunding and/or dissolving ICE (and paying some kind of restitution to the people ICE has murdered, at minimum), terminating the Iran war, restoring ALL DOGE cuts, rolling back defense spending to at least Biden-era levels, abolishing all Trump tariffs, offering our sincere apologies to Canada and the EU and restoring our economic and political relations with them to Biden-era norms. That and much much more, there’s so much shit to fix and Republicans should be made to suffer while those fixes are made. They fucked up the country and should feel the pain of restoring it like the traitors they are.

    But Democratic leadership tiptoeing around like Quislings, kissing up to Republicans as if Dems are still afraid of them and don’t want to make them mad because some people, the meanies at the top or fatbody traitor Republican LARPers in Kansas or some backwater might not like the new Dems in power? Too fucking bad, the whole lot of them had it coming and Democratic leadership needs get going doing the fixing and Republicans had better learn to like it. If Democratic leadership can’t get the job done without checking first to make sure that the feeeeeeelings of Republicans and their leaders (which includes Orange Diaper Baby of course) won’t be hurt then they can look forward to a short stay in power.

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    Everyone please write your reps demanding they don’t vote for schumer or jeffires

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    A narcissist will tell you that being held accountable for their actions is the same thing as punishing them, it’s not.

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    “We have won the election, so we obviously don’t need to change or do anything and just keep everything as it is…”

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    pretty bog standard dem playbook: pretend they’ll fight, win, and then back down and let status quo maintain while nothing is fixed to pre-rep levels.

    it only ever ratchets worse.

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    We did that once and that’s how we got Trump 2.0. we filed to prosecute the insurrectionist, the rapist, the conman. Now we have war criminals and Nazis still running around the White House!

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    Thank you for quickly establishing that you have zero inkling of what the general public actually wants, Mr. Jeffries.

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      Half of Congress would probably be perfectly happy caucusing with the other team. They don’t care and tout whatever party line gets them paid. AIPAC and MORON-PAC (i.e. MAGA pocketbooks) have been very lucrative partnerships for them.

      All I’m saying is it’s probably all a dog and pony show for Jeffreys. He probably has no interest or stomach for a protracted fight when they can just coast and give some lip service.

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    Anyone who looks at last night and says “voters want Democrats to work with Republicans” deserves a kick in the groin.

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      No, you don’t understand. Hakeem Jeffries already made plans with Jared Kushner to move forward together so the nation can heal.

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        Hakeem Jeffries made plans with Kushner to squeeze all he can for Israel over the next 2 years before he gets ejected at the primaries.

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    He’s right, I don’t want even. I want fucking annihilation. I want to drop the hammer on these chuds so hard they can’t get elected until the next century. I want them to think twice about ever doing it again. I want them scared.

    And you can do that while also making life fair and affordable. These are NOT mutually exclusive goals. In fact they are very much connected.

    Do both or resign ya chucklefuck.

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    This asshole needs to go and he can take Schumer with him: Holding powerful people accountable for their numerous and wildly egregious crimes isn’t “getting even”.

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      One might even say that Jeffries and Schumer are some of the powerful people who need to be held accountable. Hashtag NotAllDemocrats /s