r/politics • u/Hootinger • 16d ago

No Paywall Hakeem Jeffries says Medicare for all is not legislation he currently supports

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/hakeem-jeffries-says-medicare-for-all-is-not-legislation-he-currently-supports-268371525570
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u/mostpeopleheresuck12 16d ago

Fuck him. Vote him out.

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u/Kakistocracy_0 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah, he's a fucking scumbag. Perfectly represents what the Democratic party should NOT be. 

They currently represent PACs, the wealthy, and corporations... Just like Republicans.

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u/Userdub9022 Oklahoma 16d ago

They're all bought and paid for

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u/twistedpiggies 16d ago

Not all of them, but, yes, the vast majority of them are.

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u/mattbuilthomes 16d ago

Yeah, isn’t he who someone thought Epstein would be really impressed with?

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u/starliteburnsbrite 16d ago

Maybe what it should not be, but what it definitely is. 

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u/MoneyBeeeee 16d ago

He's just a corpo dem. There's a spectrum and he's veering to the right.

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u/Kakistocracy_0 16d ago edited 15d ago

the establishment Dems, the whole leadership of the Party, veers to the right.

Edit: I want to see the Democratic Party move FAR to the left of where they currently are.

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u/MoneyBeeeee 16d ago

If you mean towards the center, then sure; that 'neutral' area where those in power of both parties put profits before people.

Still feel like bothsidezing dems in general in with republicans is disinfo though.

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u/Kakistocracy_0 15d ago

I DESPISE idiot Both-sides'ers. Repugnant corrupt Republican pedo-worshippers are clearly worse in every possible way.

However, it is still an empirical fact that, as CaptaiNose points out, "The democrats are a center-right party."

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u/CaptaiNose 16d ago

The democrats are a center-right party

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u/xopher_425 Illinois 16d ago

I've stopped saying Democrat vs Republican. It's conservative vs progressive, as most Democrats are still conservative.

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u/Kakistocracy_0 16d ago

This is true.

And I'll go one further and say politics is a struggle of class warfare.

It's the Wealthy vs the Workers.

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u/xopher_425 Illinois 16d ago

The wealthy are conservative to preserve their wealth.

Sad thing is, they could still be wealthy without desperately clinging onto things from the past, and in more ways than just financially.

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u/floghdraki 16d ago

Jeffries and Schumer are not just like Republicans, they are Republicans.

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u/fdar 16d ago

Ridiculous. If you think they're the same as Republicans you're either a shill or not paying attention at all.

We could do much better, specially when it comes to Schumer, but still either of them is miles better than any Republican currently in Congress, it's not even close.

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u/floghdraki 15d ago

Wolf in sheep's clothing.

You are not paying attention if you think these people are helping Democrats.

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u/Walrus_Pubes 16d ago

These elitist democrats are here for their super pac handlers, not us. Don't be fooled, people. 

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u/bluegardener 16d ago

They are very different. The Dem's are the boring corporate drones with a small but growing left wing. The Republicans are trying burn the country to the ground.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 16d ago

They aren't meaningfully different from Republicans.

Both Democrats and Republicans push the party further right and will gladly make workers' lives more miserable to bolster the military and stock market.

There is no practical difference between them.

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u/bluegardener 16d ago edited 14d ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Greg Casar, Summer Lee, Delia Ramirez, are all in congress right now and quite progressive/left.

This year there has been a small wave of new progressive democrats nominated that might also get into congress. Some are guaranteed shoe ins and some like Abdul El Sayed have a tough fight. This doomerism doesn’t help.

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u/Workman44 15d ago

It's wild how people will simultaneously say that they're both controlled by money and also say in the same breath that they aren't the same. Y'all realize they are the same? One plays offense, the Republicans, and one plays defense, the Democrats. Sword and shield, both used against the common man

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u/DuskLab 16d ago

A Democrat would need to primary him first, which they failed to do in June just gone by. "Vote him out" in this electoral cycle now means vote in a Republican.

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u/mephi5to 16d ago

Fuckhim Jeffries?

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u/20_mile 16d ago

Sentiment like this is why the saying, "Republicans only need one reason to vote. Democrats only need one reason not to," exist.

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u/Defiant_Wolf5934 16d ago

He and the rest of the old guard need to go. They are incapable of reading the tea leaves and seeing how badly Americans are struggling. Just vote them out.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 16d ago

Yea this guy is fucking useless

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 16d ago

He won his seat 75%-25%. He's going precisely nowhere.

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u/No_Foundation16 16d ago

100% This sell out has got to GO!

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u/MoneyTalks45 New Hampshire 16d ago

It’s a good plan and a winning play. AIPAC conservative Dems are losing in many races. The tide is shifting. We have to keep up the pressure. 

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