Posted on 11/30/2022 4:48:19 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
House Democrats just picked a successor for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has decided to give up the gavel at the end of this term. Their choice is Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), a progressive. On the surface, this choice makes sense. However, in one key way, going with Jeffries makes hypocrites out of the Democratic establishment.
Why? Well, Democrats have rightly lambasted former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. They have decried, albeit often painting with far too broad a brush, Republicans as the party of “election deniers” and made the GOP out to be a threat to democracy itself.
Here are just a few examples of this kind of rhetoric:
Pelosi herself has said, “Republicans continue their attacks on our democracy. … Meanwhile, House Democrats will always defend democracy.”
Yet the House Democrats’ new leader has his own long record of “election denial.” Jeffries has repeatedly denied the results of the 2016 presidential election and spread conspiracy theories that it was illegitimate and stolen.
“The more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes,” Jeffries tweeted in 2018, referencing Trump’s election to the Oval Office. “America deserves to know whether we have a FAKE President in the Oval Office…
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So what? This is great! This clown will be performing in front of the entire world. It’s going to be non-stop entertainment.
Abortion activist, too
Jeffries is a real commie bastard.
Hakeen ? Wish it was Prince Akeem
I stopped reading right there.
She didn’t decide to give up the gavel. It is being taken from her. Pried from her cold clammy clawlike hands.
it’s only election denying and “insurrection” when conservatives do it.
get with the program!
I heard Ha-Ha Keem mention he was looking forward to a bi-partisan relationship with the Republicans………then began a tirade against the extremist MAGA republicans who will have to be controlled by their party if they were going to work together”. (Paraphrased)
I’m not very fond of Jeffries, but at least Nazi pelosi will no longer be bugging us for the most part.
Well, Democrats have RIGHTLY lambasted former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen
incorrect
Jeffries and AOC will fight it out for the Smartest Congress Critter Crown
We ain’t seen nothing yet after the lies and hype over Floyd, Charlottesville, etc. They are ALL IN on this strategy.
Well this way they’ll be able to blame the blacks and the weirdos they’re putting in positions.
She didn’t decide to give up the gavel. It is being
taken from her. Pried from her cold clammy clawlike hands.
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Nanzi knows her “happily ever after” dream bubble with her
and Paulie dressed to kill for some Deep Swamp soiree got busted.
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