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He's already changing his tune. He released a previous video blaming Republicans for the failure of the Hegseth vote. No one believed him and he was community noted. He sees which way the wind is blowing so he's getting ahead of it. Now he makes a video acknowledging the 11 democrats who didn't show up for the vote. Our politicians are actors with scripts and no one should believe a word they say.
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The way she went from 'I affirmatively support Jeffries bc he supports my housing agenda in NYC' to 'I support Jeffries bc the race is unopposed' -- eg i have no choice -- is quite telling.
She's being exposed for offering *no* resistance whatsoever. What she's saying here is basically: 'Ofcourse new electeds are coming here with a mandate & don't expect to have to immediately bend the knee...but they'll bend eventually. Look at me. I'm proof.'
Rep. @AOC defends newly elected Dems who want answers about the agenda before pledging their support to @RepJeffries — who she says she is supporting in the “unopposed” race
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They do not have it in them!! They have “numbers”, but no heart!!!!
⭕️ It would take just ~43 House Democrats to keep Hakeem Jeffries from becoming speaker. The Congressional Progressive Caucus alone expects more than 100 members in January.
🔹Its chair, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), co-sponsored Rep. Rashida Tlaib's November 2025 resolution "recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza." Now he says he expects to "deliver the votes" for Jeffries. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another co-sponsor, told MS NOW on Monday that Jeffries will have the caucus's unanimous support, calling his expected rise a "pretty historic moment." In all, 22 House Democrats backed the genocide resolution and well over 40 have described Israel’s actions as genocide.
🔹Jeffries has been one of the strongest supporters of Israel’s military response in Gaza. He opposed a July bid to cut off US military aid to Israel, saying it would "restrict our country's ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the region." His promised "reset" wouldn't touch aid until the current 10-year deal expires in 2028.
🔹The math: Speaker needs 218 votes cast for a person by name on Jan 3, 2027. With roughly 260 Democrats, if 43 commit to naming someone else and every Republican votes against Jeffries, he falls short.
🔹It's been done before. In January 2023, about 20 Republicans withheld their votes from Rep. Kevin McCarthy through 15 rounds of voting. He won only after major concessions, including a rule letting any single member force a vote to remove the speaker, which Rep. Matt Gaetz used to oust him nine months later.
🔗 Drop Site's Julian Andreone asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), another co-sponsor of the genocide resolution who backs Jeffries, whether progressives could use that kind of leverage.
This is the real story. Thank you @5149jamesli !!
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AOC admits that Republicans were able to oust their speaker in 2023 bc of the small margins in the house. When there were similarly small margins in 2021, major left media outlets & Jayapal claimed the plan was impossible bc:
1) you’d end up with a Republican speaker (which is impossible unless Dems voted Republican)
2) you needed someone to run against Pelosi. (False, if you don’t get 118 votes you’re not speaker even if hold outs don’t coalesce behind an alternative).
AOC claimed it would be a bad idea to force the vote bc she wanted to reserve her political capital to win a $15 min wage. Min wage is still 7.25.
Progressives have leverage and choose to bend the knee. And they can always find access journalists on the left to run cover for them.
I asked @AOC about her position on Hakeem Jeffries’ bid for Speaker of the House.
She told me that since nobody else is running, an attempt to challenge him is “unrealistic” xitter.twitterapi.xyz/DropSiteNews/status/21…
We should all be following @briebriejoy
And not only that, it would break the private insurance monopoly. They would never allow that to happen politically.
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Everyone get ready for a lot more of this under the so-called “leader” Hakeem Jeffries!
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Again, you don't need an "alternative." You can write in "Janet Jackson" and if Jeffries doesn't get 118 votes, he's not speaker.
Republicans did this to McCarthy in 2023 over 15 rounds of voting.
“More than a million people signed a petition asking @HouseDemocrats to not elect @RepJeffries speaker— will that carry weight?”
@AOC reiterates that nobody is running against Jeffries, telling @JulianAndreone “it’s not a race right now” so 40+ Dems opposing is unlikely
