“I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader said on Fox News Sunday.
I already messaged my rep to not vote for this asshole as Speaker of the House. I suggest you all do the same.
That’s it, the fight ain’t over yet.
Holding criminals liable for their criminal activity is not “getting even”.
AIPAC Shakur never fails to show us who owns him. Capitalists and Israel.
Giving Jeffries the surname “Shakur” is an insult to the Shakur family. Look them up. The name is a political statement.
It is wrong to call him that and a bigger insult to Shakur family, but jefferies is purely performative politics.
Yes, and people calling him AIPAC Shakur are displaying their ignorance of the black power movement and honestly it’s just gross
I looked it up.
Shakur means thankful in Arabic according to the internet.
AIPAC Shakur is a perfectly fitting name for Jeffries. It shows that he’s thankful and politically motivated by AIPAC because he has been bribed.
Also, it’s weird to claim that a single family owns a word and therefore everyone using that word is insulting someone.
I suggest you look up virtue signaling, vicarious offense-taking, and white knighting.
So you missed the entire history of the contemporary black American Shakur family, where the name was adopted by Black Panther James Coston as part of his conversion to Islam after Malcolm X’s assassination? Where that others in the Panthers choose to adopt that name for themselves as a sign of solidarity, respect, and commitment to black liberation? Where Tupac’s mother changed her name for this reason, and changed her son’s name as well.
The only thing linking Jeffries’s moniker and the Shakur family name is that AIPAC and Tupac end in the same three letters. It both assigns a very specific radical revolutionary name to an opponent, which in and of itself is disrespectful to the name and the family, but then does so simply because Jeffries is black, because none of the white people in Congress that take money from AIPAC are called “AIPAC Shakur”.
There’s really not a single legitimate reason to use the moniker, and there are at least 2 reasons not to.
To be clear, Jeffries deserve an insult. Using Shakur as part of the insult is insulting to the Shakurs. Jeffries has not earned that name.
So only the definition that you prefer is valid. Not the actual meaning of the word.
Who gets to decide what words mean?
Do you also get bent out of shape when someone says Uncle Tom? Is that not insulting to historical Toms? This is your argument.
Maybe wait for the family to tell people that they are offended instead of you pretending to be offended for them.
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Virtue signaling – Expressing outrage to demonstrate one’s moral superiority or social awareness.
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Vicarious offense-taking – Taking offense on behalf of someone else, particularly when that person isn’t offended.
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Manufactured outrage – Deliberately pretending to be offended to create controversy.
only the definition that you prefer is valid. Not the actual meaning of the word
So the meaning of a word is how it’s used. This case with Jefferies, the meaning of the word is “famous black man like Tupac”. That’s the meaning. We know this because the person assigning it to him is not speaking in Arabic, and not applying the same moniker to white people.
So even in that basis alone, the moniker may as well be “AIPAC Blackman”. Because that’s literally the extent of thought being put into it.
The problem is that Tupac’s name is not just some accident of history. It is a deliberate choice. Therefore it comes with meaning.
Meaning is constructed. It’s not something found in a dictionary, it’s a participatory process.
This is true for plenty of other names: Hitler, Trump, Gandhi, etc. Imagine calling JD Vance’s wife “A Hot Ma Gandhi”. Not only is it offensive simply by virtue of the dehumanization that comes from decontextualizing a name based on ethnicity or race and just applying a famous name of one member of that community to another (like calling all Chinese people Lee or Ching), but it’s ALSO applying a name with the baggage if honor to a person who doesn’t deserve that honor.
I wouldn’t be offended on behalf of the Gandhi family. I would just find it offensive and ignorant.
This is like that. I am not upset on behalf of the Shakur’s, I am upset as me, because it’s an ignorant and offensive name for all of these reasons. And you defending it is a lot like the good old boys saying “what are you some kind of Indian lover? If they don’t like it let them come tell me to my face that they don’t like it”. It’s not a good look
You do go through so much effort to be offended.
You’re really trying hard to twist something that isn’t meant to be a racial insult into one.
Jeffries likes to rap in public events so the AIPAC Shakur is more directly making fun of his sold out nature plus making fun of how bad of a rapper he is. As in, he’s a fake Tupac.
You’re working off some random definition he found on some bullshit name site to argue why he should not just ignore the family that made the name famous, but take it away from them. Let’s not pretend like you’re not using “AIPAC Shakur” as a loose Tupac reference.
And now you’re likening being against this to somehow also thinking referring to codifying fictional character must mean it’s an insult to all people named Tom? You know that’s not an equivalent situation.
It’s possible to be personally offended by someone being so fucking obtuse and neckbeardy about justifying a shitty thing they said. Your amorality is not a good enough defense, and it’s downright stupid to not consider how trying to rip away a famous name from a famous family just so you can use a racially coded insult is perfectly okay.
It would have been infinitely more respectable if you demonstrated the capacity to take a step back and see what the mistake was rather than doubling down off the back of some stupid baby name meaning site as if it’s a legitimate source.
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Impeaching Trump won’t do that. I mean, with a Dem-led senate, there would at least be a trial, but they’d need at least 10 GOP senators to remove, and that won’t happen.
Impeaching Hegseth? Clarence Thomas? Aileen Cannon? Go for it. Still probably won’t happen, but those are all people more vulnerable to the shame of impeachment. They might even resign.
There’s a lot of criminal activity to expose among people who can actually be indicted and convicted. People who might testify after Trump’s get-out-of-trial-free card expires, but most importantly, people who can now be made to stop hurting the country.
I’d still rather see them use War Powers over Iran and close ICE concentration camps than put Elon Musk in jail, if it came down to a choice, but I think they can do all three.
Why do they need 10 reds to do that? I thought they just needed 60% of the senate, and democrats have 54
They need 2/3’s. So 67 i guess
To be pedantic, they need 2/3 of those in attendance. So if EVERYONE shows up that’s 67, but Senators often don’t all show up. This year alone there were 3 senators that missed more than 10% of all days in session (with varying justifiability).
They need to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s a pedophile to get enough support to actually remove him from office. With both houses, maybe there’s a shot they can force the unredacted Epstein files to be released, but we’ll see.
If only there was a Democrat president who had access to the full unredacted Epstein evidence and could have directed his DOJ to go after the criminals with the evidence therein!
Not necessarily sticking up for biden, but the documents were sealed, held up in court at the time, and they thought they’d have more time.
Then the pedophile used the release of the files in his campaign trail… which he never really did, to no one intelligent’s surprise.
Literally. I called that that spineless shit would lead us right back to Trump in 24, but did anyone listen? Noooooooo of course not. We needed someone “electable”
If only you knew what “sealed court documents as part of an ongoing investigation” meant.
If only you understood how long investigations into Epstein had been goin on. The FBI released their first investigation findings in like 2005. thats 21 years ago, almost 22. Dont talk about it like it just happened this last cycle. Its been a cornerstone of both parties policies for 2 decades and 5 presidential admins.
Which ended 20 days before his term did.
In other words, release the epstien files.
Yeah, pretty much
I think enough republicans are seeing the writing on the wall that getting ten of them to side with Dems on impeachment/removal might not be entirely outside of the realm of possibility…
Trump will pardon everybody.
Even if you get an impeachment and conviction, Vance will pardon him and everybody.
You’ll have to wait until Ds win presidency to hold them criminally accountable. Better to investigate and make a case in my opinion.
U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 1
“The President […] shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
I don’t disagree that dems will need more control to hold the fash accountable, but in the case of impeachment he cannot be pardoned.
Sure but they were very clear with this message throughout the campaign.
The usa do not have the institutions for real accountability
People like him, Schumer, DWS and Hillary are the reason we’re in this mess to begin with. America wanted Bernie in 2016, but he would have shone a light on the massive corruption in all corners of Washington DC, so the DNC couldn’t let him do that.
People need to realize the world needs a serious change, not just a new coat of lipstick on the pig.
Consequences for whats been done IS THE ONLY reason this blue “wave” happened.
This is not how we need to retake this country. Do NOT let this chump have any power. He’s a spineless loser.
We have you back the branches, don’t fucking betray what we did.
He needs to fuck right off.
Fascist enablers get the same fate as their enablees.
He better not be speaker.
Hakeem is worthless. Nobody cares what he thinks.
I want every single ICE agent to spend the rest of their lives running on a hamster wheel for 16 hours a day to generate free electricity for the grid more than I want to be able to afford food again
They are both beholden to Israël and Israeli funds. They have no interest in doing the bidding for the American people, never have.
They need to be replaced by people with morals and who cannot being bought cheaply by an authoritarian regime that promotes genocide.
here comes the “let bygones be bygones”…
‘all water under the fridge. We might want to do some of these things later…’
Its not about “getting even”, its about ensuring these people don’t have an ounce of political power going forward. We cannot allow them back in government.
Oh yes, that worked so well last time.
Honestly, is this a sarcastic joke?
They didn’t even fucking try last time!
They didn’t do shit last time. Which frankly is what they’ll probably do this time
They impeached him
Twice, and since the effect was zilch, I’ll say that’s pretty much doing nothing
100% this, and I’ll add that in addition to the visible and elected people, it’s their financiers that need to be targeted in a serious way. Like, we didn’t break organized crime in this country by just cracking down on the enforcers and hitmen, we dropped the hammer on their accountants and accounts and then all the lower level guys who weren’t getting bail or lawyers or anything flipped. This is the exact same kinda problem.
Getting even isn’t what impeachments are for, you numbnuts…
Get rid of Jeffries - top priority.
