House Minority Leader Jeffries, NJ Sen. Booker hold sit-in protest on Capitol steps
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Titled "An Urgent Conversation with the American People," the 8-hour livestreamed discussion comes ahead of Congress' return to session on Monday.

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBejfVOUmBs

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjr7VvL9/

Titled “An Urgent Conversation with the American People,” the livestreamed discussion comes ahead of Congress’ return to session on Monday.

A statement released by both officials’ offices said in part, “Republican leaders have made clear their intention to use the coming weeks to advance a reckless budget scheme to President Trump’s desk that seeks to gut Medicaid, food assistance and basic needs programs that help people, all to give tax breaks to billionaires. Given what’s at stake, these could be some of the most consequential weeks for seniors, kids and families in generations.”

According to the statement, Rep. Jeffries and Sen. Booker plan to speak to shared American values and the nation’s religious and moral underpinnings, and how the budget bill opposes these beliefs. They also plan to affirm to Americans watching the livestream that their voices matter, especially in this moment in time.

    • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
      41·
      23 hours ago

      I hope you don’t, because yours is today. Maybe actually read my comment to see what day I voted for, jackass.

      • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
        16·
        23 hours ago

        I read it all. I hope you have the day you voted for. So, I hope you have a good day. I don’t disagree with you. The two party system is shit. I voted Bernie in the primary too.

        • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
          51·
          23 hours ago

          Then stop blaming the left. You’re sewing discord and serving fascism. Hold the Democratic Party accountable for always doing the bare minimum they think they have to and nothing more. That’s what’s gotten us to where we are, not voters that are fed up with the bullshit.

          Give the people something to vote for, don’t blame them when all of the options are evil. No more “lesser of two evils,” it’s clearly not working.

          • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            19 hours ago

            It’s fucking hilarious how you all try to change the meaning of “the left.”

            The left has always been the Democratic Party, bud. And while it can be inclusive to other sociological and political ideologies, at its core, the democrats have been at its epicenter.

            Maybe look up when the term originated from?

            To me, all attempts to co-opt the term appear to only be accepted by those that like to misuse it, constantly.

            • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
              21·
              12 hours ago

              Uh, no? The Democratic Party doesn’t define the left. The Democratic Party left the left. Here’s a bit right from Wikipedia.

              The left seeks social justice through redistributive social and economic policies, while the right defends private property and capitalism. The nature of the conflict depends on existing social and political cleavages and on the level of economic development.

              I haven’t seen the Democratic Party pay anything but lip service to the definition of the left in a long time. Neoliberalism, which is the party line right now, is a right wing ideology.

              • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                9 hours ago

                From your own article:

                “In France, where the terms originated, the left has been called “the party of movement” or liberal”

                And since “liberal” is synonymous with democrats…

                The left are democrats.

                This was fun!

                • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
                  1·
                  29 minutes ago

                  The Republicans don’t call themselves Nazis, and yet they are the party of Nazis. Turns out you can’t trust a group’s self-applied label to accurately describe what they stand for in perpetuity.

          • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
            24·
            23 hours ago

            I’m not blaming the left or sewing discord serving fascism. Trump is the fascism. Anyone who didn’t actively fight against him is the problem.

            • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
              4·
              22 hours ago

              So let me get this straight. Someone says

              Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck

              Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro

              clearly blaming the past inaction of the Democratic Party for the state of affairs today, and you chime in with:

              I hope you have the day you voted for

              And go on to double down that you are blaming this person for fascism. And all of this is you not sewing discord or blaming the left? You know who I hate worse than sycophants? Sycophants who constantly lie to rile people up. I don’t care or believe who you voted for. You behaving like this only serves fascism.

              • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 hours ago

                This is exactly what they did to me and it’s very apparent that they’re not capable of meaningful discourse beyond childish heel digging.

                Honestly, you leave Reddit to get away from this paper thin sports-team politics nonsense and yet here we are feeding the parrots.

                It’s depressing.

                • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
                  1·
                  26 minutes ago

                  I definitely was hoping Lemmy would be better than reddit for this but it’s the same neoliberals bullshitting that was rampant there. It’s exhausting.