A politician chosen for leadership based on fundraising ability finds more common ground with rich assholes across the aisle than with their own voters? Color me shocked.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
314 points (99.4% liked)
politics
30960 readers
2375 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles. Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to US politics and contain quality and original content. Social Media adjacent hosts like Substack are allowed, but ONLY if they tie back to a company/subsidiary. No personal or friend group blogs and no self-promotion. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and re-hosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing other users of being bots or paid actors.
- No memes, trolling, misinformation, or low-effort posts/comments (including reposts). If you see posts like this that anger you, do not engage. Report, block, and live a happier life than they do. Any slap-fight is subject to comment removals. Fights full of rule violations will result in temporary bans to cool off.
- No manipulating votes via bots or alt accounts; this will result in permanent bans. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in an account ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be permanently banned.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules and use critical thinking when reading, posting, and commenting. Users that repeatedly have comments or posts removed, weaponize reports, or violate the code of conduct, will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. The reason(s) behind moderator action(s) are publicly available through the Modlog.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Look, he’s not supporting Medicare for all or universal healthcare, but he’s willing to start conversations about planning conversations about concepts of a plan to improve healthcare for undefined people, what more do you people want
Translation: The think tanks haven't told me how to push back against what all my voters want yet.
I wouldn't call Matt Yglesias a tank or accuse him of having thoughts.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Fuck Jeffries. We have the worst possible most incompetent dem leadership at the most critical time in American history. Jeffries is an absolute piece of shit and will go down in history as one of the major players in the destruction of the U.S. because of how fucking dumb he is.
They're not incompetent. They're doing exactly what they're paid to do. They are liars, frauds, and traitors, but they are paid to do so by the Epstein class.
by the Epstein class.
By corporations. Sure some of them are run by Epsteins clients, but the underlying problem is broader and structural, not moral.
"The Epstein Class" intentionally incorporates those that were Epstein's clients and those who are merely wealthy enough to be, but may not have been. This is good for several reasons, including the tying of the moral to the structural (as symptom, not cause) and creating pressure and division within that class. It does not suggest a lack of structural failure.
It is correct to call them the Epstein class.
I'm not excluding these people, but by relating this to Epstein specifically you are excluding all the corporate corruption that is unrelated to abusing children.
load more comments
(4 replies)
Quite right, which is why I referred to a class, rather than to individuals.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Why did nobody primary him?
This is the fall of the Weimar Republic, part two.
I beg to differ. He is a whole sack of shit
You don't compromise with a fascist. You can only become compromised by a fascist.
Birds of a feather
load more comments
(1 replies)
Nobody wants Jefferies as speaker. So once again it's a bag of shit the only difference is it has a ribbon on it. America is fucked.
"Look, we both butter our bread at Epstein's table. Let's make a final decision to publicly support the Israeli genocidal state and only support the Saudi genocidal state on the down-low."
load more comments
(1 replies)
Their common ground is trying to stop the DSA and actual progressives making them look bad. It's an existential threat to their status quo of corruption.
Jefferies sucks.
Why the hell is Kushner involved in american federal politics?
Because Trump can't do the blackmailing himself to get Jeffries inline.
Kushner can do whatever the fuck he wants too, he's not tied to any laws beside Saudia Arabia's because that's where he lives.
load more comments
(5 replies)
If you have common ground with a Nazi you're a Nazi.
Potential areas of common ground
Just sounds like Kushner is trying to buy up public land again
There is no difference between Republicans and Establishment democrats.
Let me guess, their common ground were bank accounts...
This is absolutely what democratic voters want
Jefferies want low Dem turnout to slightly increase his odds of pushing out Martin after midterms so they can get a neoliberal morning the presidential primary again. Even if that means two more years of Republicans having House and Senate.
He's gonna keep doing stupid shit, I've been calling it for months and it's nowhere near as bad as it can get yet.
If Dems take the House on a wave of progressives, there's no way he gets Speaker now that the DNC can't us the VF as a club to get him the votes.
For him personally his career is over if all the progressives who won their primaries win their generals. He's afraid he's gonna get Paul Ryan'd.
He needs to get out of politics all together he is not welcome here
If he doesn't get Paul Ryan'd, he should be even more afraid that he's gonna get [REDACTED]'d.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Nice to know they're planning on how to enact fascism in the best way possible.
Common criminal goals?
Disgusting fascist fellating fuckfaces. Do we need any more proof that Jeffries and the "moderates" need to be ejected from our political process? Not just the Democratic Party, the whole damn process.
Execute them both together on the same set of gallows
The fact that they are both loyal to Israel first and foremost?
Jeffries looks evil
Because he is.
Money and corruption run strong in both cases. I'm not sure why they had to pretend like they met about other things.
Jeffries needs to be kicked to curb...
Yes, this is the liberal Democrat party.
No, thank you. I don’t trust either. Jeffries, you’re too centered,pal. Fuck off.
Well to be fair, kushner was duely elected by the tohotjwona jtewo eeeetktewetet
FUCK Jeffries
I could have started that conversation for them. They are both cunts. Next?
view more: next ›