• Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    As annoying as Torres is, Jeffries is the far more important one to boot out immediately. Schumer has to be forcefully evicted as well.

    I’ll be honest though. If the proposed replacements aren’t solidly hardline anti-Israel, anti-imperialist, anti-ICE (abolition AND MORE IMPORTANTLY prosecution of every single person connected even tangentially to it), etc. then… why bother? Getting a less assholish asshole is still getting an asshole. Lesser evil stuff repeated. I find it infinitely hard to believe anyone with (D) in their title will be even close to my personal criteria above despite that stuff polling well. Especially explicitly anti-Israel. It’s got like 96% democrat voter support. You’d probably get elected just saying you’ll propose a bill yearly to carpet bomb Tel Aviv. Like that Roman senator who used to always say “Oh, just one more thing. We must destroy Carthage” or whatever. Nerds know who I mean. The famous asshole. This time for good.

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      1 day ago

      I 100% agree with everything you said

      Personally, I think a challenge to Jeffries is coming alongside a challenge to Schumer. The way AOC is posturing seems as though a run for president or senate is coming. AOC isn’t perfect but would be a hell of a lot better than Schumer and wouldn’t take a ton of heavy DSA lifting to win that election. If she were able to campaign alongside somebody challenging Jeffries in NY I think it would be a pretty easy two-for-one campaign.