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« [I]t's extraordinary to me that Donald Trump keeps recycling his "low IQ" insult. This is from the dumbest president EVER to sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And there's not even a close second. »

— Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) as heard at C-SPAN.

Yep, most of the time Trump waddles between incoherent and semi-coherent. When Donald was a kid his smart older sister was presumably bribed to do his homework for him. So his stupidity can only partially be attributed to dementia. Being a dumbass is a lifelong affliction for him.

Trump tries to deflect attention away from his brainlessness by calling people he doesn't like "low IQ". Because he uses this insult disproportionately at African-Americans, there's more than a hint of racism involved.

It tells us about Capitol Hill Republicans that they continue to pander to a notorious narcissistic dumbass. Do they think that voters haven't noticed?

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« [W]hat’s been interesting to me is that for decades, the Republican Party has lectured America about fiscal responsibility, about the debt and the deficit. It’s always been phony. This bill proves it. One thing we do know is that every time a Republican president comes into office, the one thing we can count on Republicans to do is to pass a massive tax cut for wealthy Americans and, in the process, stick working-class Americans with the bill by raising the deficit and the debt. »

— House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) speaking at the House of Representatives Thursday on the Musk-Trump substitute for an already agreed upon continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown. From the congressman's official site.

Hear Rep. Jeffries's remarks as they were delivered in full.

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My representative spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

If Democrats pick up about half a dozen House seats then Hakeem Jeffries will become Speaker of the House.

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There are still some people under the delusion that Republicans are great for the economy. In fact, for the past 40 years they create a fiscal mess when they are in the White House and when they lose power they then excoriate Democrats for not cleaning up the GOP mess fast enough.

Republican fiscal policy is this: Give enormous tax breaks to their filthy rich friends and cut programs which help middle class and poorer Americans. Because of the enormity of those tax breaks, the deficit explodes. And when Democrats need to raise the debt limit to pay for those GOP tax breaks, the GOP then blackmails the country with threats of a national default and an international fiscal crisis.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08), leader of House Democrats, minced no words when criticizing the narrowly passed bill which threatens national chaos if the demands of the far right “Freedom Caucus” in the GOP are not agreed to. Rep. Jeffries calls the GOP bill the Default on America Act. 

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) on Twitter reminding everybody that Democrats and Republicans aren’t alike.

Not one GOP member of the US House or Senate wanted you to get that $1,400. By contrast, all 51 voting Republican senators and 94.9% of all Republican House members voted to give massive tax breaks to the filthy rich in December of 2017. With Republicans, it’s perfectly fine to increase the deficit – as long as it helps their billionaire masters who then show gratitude by contributing more to GOP campaigns. 

In a bizarre twist to the unanimous GOP opposition to the stimulus, Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tried to take credit for the stimulus even though he voted against it.

GOP Senator Absurdly Tries to Claim Credit for Stimulus That He Voted Against

Speaker Nancy Pelosi was having none of Sen. Wicker‘s or any other Republican’s hypocrisy. It was classic Pelosi.

Pelosi Slams Republicans Who ‘Vote No And Take The Dough’ On COVID Relief Package

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been preemptively peeved for days that Republicans, every single one of whom voted against the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, would take credit for its popular provisions anyway.

“All of it is an opportunity for us to grow the economy by investing in the people for the people,” Pelosi said of the package on Tuesday. “And I might say for our Republican colleagues who — they say no to the vote, and they show up at the ribbon-cuttings or the presentations.”

She later added that some of them will go home and take credit for it in their districts, despite working to sink it.

These warnings turned out to be more prescient than perhaps even she would’ve guessed. On Wednesday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) touted a provision in the package — conveniently opting not to mention that he voted against it.

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“Unfortunately, Republicans, as I say, vote no and take the dough,” she said. “You see already some of them claiming, ‘oh, this is a good thing,’ or ‘that’s a good thing.’ But they couldn’t give it a vote. Anyway, enough of them.”

Republicans are generally not reality-based. Donald Trump told 30,573 lies while in office. Somewhere in Sen. Wicker’s scrambled brain he thinks that voting against a bill helps get it passed.

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« We're going to win in November, and then we’re going to crush their souls as it relates to the extremism that they are trying to unleash on the American people. »

— House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) on plans to push back on Republican efforts to eliminate Black congressional representation in the South. From C-SPAN's coverage of his weekly press briefing.

At the beginning of the briefing he sounds like Hakeem Jeffries (who happens to be my rep) . Towards the end, he sounds increasingly like Drogon breathing fire.

For those who claim that Democrats aren't tough, look forward to crushing MAGA souls over the next few years.

Reconstruction was ended prematurely as part of a dirty deal to settle the disputed 1876 presidential election which installed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was meant to clean up a part of that lingering mess. The GOP US Supreme Court gutted Section 2 of the Voting Right Act in its Louisiana v. Callais decision in April. Even before the ink was dry on Louisiana v. Callais, Republican trifecta state governments in the South began proceedings to gerrymander Black US reps out of power.

So Rep. Jeffries and other Dems are embarking on a program to encourage more blue states to counter-gerrymander the neo-Confederates down south.

No matter which state you're in, volunteer to help and/or contribute to Democratic candidates for state legislature. These are the folks who draw congressional maps. Along with efforts to flip both chambers of Congress, Democrats need to concentrate on control of states. A good place to begin your efforts to help is the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.

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Do your part to crush MAGA souls!

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WHAT A SPEECH!

Few people will remember what Kevin McCarthy had to say when he limped into the speakership very early Saturday minus his cojones. But Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) gave an extraordinary speech at the time of the handover.

Republicans may currently have narrow control of the House, but they are divided, delusional, and weakly led.

Democrats are united behind a strong and competent leader in the person of Hakeem Jeffries.

If House Republicans spend the next 22 months the way they’ve spent the past week, we’ll be seeing much more of Hakeem Jeffries in the Speaker’s chair in the 119th Congress.

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) on Twitter telling Mitch McConnell where to go.

In typical fashion, Republicans give out hūge tax breaks to the filthy rich and then blame Democrats for exploding the debt. This hypocrisy has been going on since the Reagan administration. And the only result has been a rise in income inequality.