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Alexandria, Virginia
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Charles Costen-Sumpter🇺🇸🏳️🌈🗽 retweeted
With all due respect,
I don’t give a f**k if Schumer has an inspiring personality
The f**king win he and Jeffries just gave us is inspiring enough.
I live in Texas. Schumer and Jeffries just helped overthrow the oppressive dictatorship I and many Texans have been under for most of our life. People can f**k off with that stupid whining “he’s not inspiring” sh*t talk.
Results are more important than charisma.
His job in the House has nothing to do with approving appointments. – at Alexandria, VA
Charles Costen-Sumpter🇺🇸🏳️🌈🗽 retweeted
Will you people please get over who the Senate Majority Leader and House Speaker are going to be...
The only people who have sway are the people in the Senate and the House who will actually matter regarding the votes.
That's it. It's not you. Freakin' calm down.
Charles Costen-Sumpter🇺🇸🏳️🌈🗽 retweeted
Unparalleled audacity to want to oust the person who ushered in a historic win
Given Black people carried this election it is galling to say the black man responsible for orchestrating the win step aside
He defended targeted Black seats
Those members know who had their back
It is absolutely wild that days after massive Black turnout propelled Democrats to a huge victory in the House, mostly white leftists are publicly demanding that Democrats reject the first Black Speaker of the House.
If you wanted a better example of the out-of-touch-ness of the left I’m not sure you could make one up that matches this.
Charles Costen-Sumpter🇺🇸🏳️🌈🗽 retweeted
While the @DemSocialists were attacking mainstream Democrats, @RepJeffries was lining up candidates in red-to-bluedistricts that included ministers, combat veterans, farmers, prosecutors, and other centrists from blue-collar backgrounds.
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Charles Costen-Sumpter🇺🇸🏳️🌈🗽 retweeted
Leader @HakeemJeffries announces Democrats’ agenda starting on Day One:
—Launch new oversight efforts to crack down on Trump’s corruption
—End Trump’s war of choice in Iran and lower gas prices
—Reverse Trump’s Medicaid cuts
—Reverse Trump’s SNAP cuts
—End the Trump tariffs to lower prices
—Extend the ACA tax credits to lower health care costs
This is the "I just woke up" take.
Jeffries was House Democratic leader the whole time. He did not have a majority. Y'all left him with 214 Democrats and then decided he was missing because he was not doing viral denunciations every night.
He just helped win a landslide. That is being up to the job. – at Alexandria, VA
Jeffries just helped Democrats win more than 250 House seats.
Trump is unpopular because he is the president and voters just punished him. Why not include Senate Leader Thune's number or Speaker Johnson? Oh because they too were in the trash.
Congressional leaders always poll in the basement. That is not a reason to fire the people who just won you a majority.
Make sense. – at Alexandria, VA
Pro tip: Mature governing starts when you stop campaigning against your own side.
The campaign ended on Tuesday. Now comes the part leftists keep skipping.
Petitions, call floods, and speaker purity tests are campaign tactics. They do not extend ACA credits. They do not reverse healthcare cuts. They do not run oversight. They do not bring costs down. This proving how progressive you are on the internet is just performative. – at Alexandria, VA
I never saw a leftists orchestrated/bot coordinated insurgent strike against Speaker Mike Johnson's office when he allowed healthcare cuts and DOGE cuts throughout our government that hurt workers.
I wonder why – at Lincolnia, VA
The excuses in the replies are something.
"We couldn't stop Johnson."
"He never claimed to be progressive."
"This is the best time to apply pressure."
Y'all did not flood his office over healthcare cuts. You found the energy for petitions and call campaigns the minute Jeffries was about to pick up the gavel.
That's not accountability. That' coordinated sabotage. – at Alexandria, VA
Charles Costen-Sumpter🇺🇸🏳️🌈🗽 retweeted
I just need Democrats to ignore this online noise and get in there and get shit done.
Like he would….
There they go again. This lawmaker wants to rein in Gina Hinojosa's powers as governor. Will other Republicans go along? houstonchronicle.com/politic… via @houstonchron – at Alexandria, VA
