Scared Hakeem Jeffries rolls out the red carpet – Latest News
Hakeem Jeffries is rolling out the welcome mat for the people who need his head mounted on their trophy wall.
The House minority chief supplied a hearty “welcome aboard” to state Assembly members Claire Valdez and Micah Lasher in addition to congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brad Lander, each progressive Democrats related to the Democratic Socialists of America.
All however Lasher have been backed by slick DSA kingmaker Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“Congratulations to our newest members of the NYC congressional delegation,” he wrote on X. “From public servants to union organizers to community activists, the path is different but the work is the same. We must decisively address the affordability crisis and crush far-right extremism!”
‘You’re subsequent’
Never thoughts that Dems would classify immigration enforcement and sturdy borders as “far-right extremism.”
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But it’s fairly robust to crush the proper flank when you find yourself actually being eaten by a pack of lefty loony socialists who don’t imagine in prisons or borders.
Pols who suppose they’re representing the people of Gaza, not New York City.
If Jeffries can’t see the rebel occasion’s plans for him, he’s both blind or naive.
But he can see it, and he’s scared. After all, they’ve already began salting and seasoning him, making ready him for a DSA roast.
At the DSA victory occasion final week, supporters have been taunting Jeffries. As his face got here up on the tv, the group of pasty-white downwardly cell socialists chanted, “You’re next.”
It was jarring.
Meanwhile, champagne socialist streamer Hasan Piker was taking purpose at Rep. Ritchie Torres — who stored maintain of his district — sounding like a coked-up ’80s wrestler chopping a promo.
Fealty to Palestinians
“Ritchie Torres I know you won tonight,” he snarled. “I’ll see you in two years, motherf–ker. I’m coming for you, Richie. Sit on that f–kin’ seat for the next two years. I hope you remember that. Every day, every time there’s a decision that you can make where you are pro-Israel, I hope you remember. You better act right, Ritchie.”
This is how the DSA views normie Dems — as issues to purge. And threaten. They need fealty to Palestinians. They need it loud and proud.
Just ask Scott Wiener, who’s working for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat. He was harassed in public twice by antisemitic lunatics, as soon as inside a restaurant after which at a Pride march. In January, Wiener, beneath stress, stated that Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza.
It nonetheless wasn’t enough to spare him humiliation.
Despite the messaging from Jeffries’ soon-to-be colleagues, they don’t wish to advance an affordability agenda. They wish to eat the wealthy and abolish ICE and due to this fact borders. Their first order of business isn’t to convey down costs for working people however to get more of their comrades elected. It’s a bare energy grab.
And the worst of all of them is Avila Chevalier, who has spent her grownup life in class. On X, she has actually bragged about wiping her greasy paws on an American flag. She doesn’t imagine in deportations or jail. In a deleted X account, she was praising Marx and Lenin.
She co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which has known as for the “total eradication of Western civilization.”
And then there’s Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who went on “Meet the Press” to plug his new guide. He tiptoed too.
“I want us to be a big tent party. I mean, I’ve been saying this for years. I think that it’s actually a sign of a party that is alive and growing when there’s a contest of ideas inside the party,” Murphy stated.
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‘We are capitalist’
Well, not if one of these competing ideologies needs to burn that tent to the ground.
With so many liberals screaming that the Dems moved too far left on social points and immigration, the reply is to line dance even additional to the left and repackage socialism as affordability?
How about all of us decide to chopping taxes and never throwing more and more money at ineffective packages like Mamdani’s pledging $15 million for trans youth and hundreds of thousands promised to legal providers for unlawful aliens?
But there are some Dems drawing a line in the sand.
Last week, 13 Dem House members and candidates got here collectively to pledge in “The Promise to America.”
“We are capitalist, not socialist,” they wrote.
Yet, Jeffries is permitting himself to get pushed round. They’ll be feasting on his carcass in no time.
