Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, met privately in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
Jeffries and Kushner discussed an array of topics, including possible areas of common ground, the sources said. Although Kushner does not have an official role in the current administration, he has remained deeply involved, especially on issues related to foreign policy, and continues to serve as an outside adviser to the president.
The timing of the talks is striking. The midterms are less than 75 days away and Republicans are facing headwinds in recent polls. Democrats feel cautiously optimistic about their chances of taking the House and Jeffries would be in line to be the next speaker.
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ceenote@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 30d
A politician chosen for leadership based on fundraising ability finds more common ground with rich assholes across the aisle than with their own voters? Color me shocked.
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 30d
Look, he’s not supporting Medicare for all or universal healthcare, but he’s willing to start conversations about planning conversations about concepts of a plan to improve healthcare for undefined people, what more do you people want
ceenote@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 30d
Translation: The think tanks haven't told me how to push back against what all my voters want yet.
underisk@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 30d
I wouldn't call Matt Yglesias a tank or accuse him of having thoughts.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
Wow, he is doing a lot of things.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 99 pts · 30d
Fuck Jeffries. We have the worst possible most incompetent dem leadership at the most critical time in American history. Jeffries is an absolute piece of shit and will go down in history as one of the major players in the destruction of the U.S. because of how fucking dumb he is.
teslekova@lemmy.ml · 42 pts · 30d
They're not incompetent. They're doing exactly what they're paid to do. They are liars, frauds, and traitors, but they are paid to do so by the Epstein class.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 30d
By corporations. Sure some of them are run by Epsteins clients, but the underlying problem is broader and structural, not moral.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 30d
"The Epstein Class" intentionally incorporates those that were Epstein's clients and those who are merely wealthy enough to be, but may not have been. This is good for several reasons, including the tying of the moral to the structural (as symptom, not cause) and creating pressure and division within that class. It does not suggest a lack of structural failure.
It is correct to call them the Epstein class.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
I'm not excluding these people, but by relating this to Epstein specifically you are excluding all the corporate corruption that is unrelated to abusing children.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 30d
All corporate corruption is related to abusing children.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 30d
Always was...
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
Disagree. Only some corporate corruption is.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 30d
Think a bit wider than sexual abuse.
teslekova@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 30d
Quite right, which is why I referred to a class, rather than to individuals.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
The whole school of corruption needs highlighting. E.g. 2bn of crypto corruption has nothing to do with Epstein, but shouldn't be overlooked.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 30d
We're using "Eptein class" as a catch all synonym to the oligarch class or really the capitalist class. It avoids reactions to the word capitalist among normies who still consider themselves capitalists. People tend to "just get it." I think it's a good slogan for agitprop.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
OK, as shorthand.
It's too stale, male and pale for all cases.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 30d
Why did nobody primary him?
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 30d
This is the fall of the Weimar Republic, part two.
postcapitalism@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 30d
I beg to differ. He is a whole sack of shit
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 30d
"Look, we both butter our bread at Epstein's table. Let's make a final decision to publicly support the Israeli genocidal state and only support the Saudi genocidal state on the down-low."
ceenote@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
Thor_Whale@lemmus.org · 46 pts · 30d
Nobody wants Jefferies as speaker. So once again it's a bag of shit the only difference is it has a ribbon on it. America is fucked.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 30d
You don't compromise with a fascist. You can only become compromised by a fascist.
SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 30d
Birds of a feather
_chris@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
You can only
become compromised byshow that you’ve been a fascist the whole time.mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 33 pts · 30d
Jefferies sucks.
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 30d
If you have common ground with a Nazi you're a Nazi.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 30d
Their common ground is trying to stop the DSA and actual progressives making them look bad. It's an existential threat to their status quo of corruption.
breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 30d
This is absolutely what democratic voters want
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 30d
Jefferies want low Dem turnout to slightly increase his odds of pushing out Martin after midterms so they can get a neoliberal morning the presidential primary again. Even if that means two more years of Republicans having House and Senate.
He's gonna keep doing stupid shit, I've been calling it for months and it's nowhere near as bad as it can get yet.
If Dems take the House on a wave of progressives, there's no way he gets Speaker now that the DNC can't us the VF as a club to get him the votes.
For him personally his career is over if all the progressives who won their primaries win their generals. He's afraid he's gonna get Paul Ryan'd.
Yewb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d
He needs to get out of politics all together he is not welcome here
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 30d
If he doesn't get Paul Ryan'd, he should be even more afraid that he's gonna get [REDACTED]'d.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
This is my take on it as well. Or to put it another way, Jeffries has become SO singularly focused on political strategy and optics manipulation that he has become oblivious not only to what it looks like from the outside, but that voters are actual people with needs who happen to be increasingly angry right now and he's dancing with the son-in-law of the guy personally responsible for this growing hell.
He doesn't even seem to have an inkling of the fact that by voluntarily involving himself with Kushner, in many eyes he has aligned himself directly with Trump. He certainly has in mine. I don't give a good goddamn what the letter after his name is: if he's voluntarily dealing with Kushner he is not averse to Trump, nor does he have a problem with anything Trump is doing. Period, end of.
This is what it looks like when a political actor gets so mentally sucked into playing the game of politics that they entirely lose sight of human voters and tangible outcomes for others in real life. Only someone so far up their own ass that they can scratch the inside of their right nostril with their left big toe can do what Jeffries is doing with Kushner and think it's going to fly.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d
Hes in litithe safest district in America for Dems...
And his last primary was this season and the state party cancelled it when no one challenged him.
No one.
It was literally months ago, and no one ran against him. Granted a lot of it's very wealthy, but redistricting in 2023 means he's vulnerable to the left.
But he has no chance of losing the general, he's not doing any of this to win his election.
And this isn't "for the greater good" either it's to maintain neoliberalism even if it means helping trump
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
You're not wrong about any of that, but if the progressive wing wins a significant minority of a Dem majority, Jeffries' days as Speaker are numbered, IMO.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 30d
Let me guess, their common ground were bank accounts...
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 30d
Nice to know they're planning on how to enact fascism in the best way possible.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 30d
Why the hell is Kushner involved in american federal politics?
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 30d
Because Trump can't do the blackmailing himself to get Jeffries inline.
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 30d
Kushner can do whatever the fuck he wants too, he's not tied to any laws beside Saudia Arabia's because that's where he lives.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
Anyone with residence outside the USA are not required to follow the law when visiting the USA? So disband ICE because foreigners can do no wrong?
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 29d
Making leaps there. He's running the US while not a citizen or under the regulations of international diplomats or anything. He's just a middle eastern(now) guy that bought trumps daughter.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Did you read your own comment?
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 29d
Yeah. What issue do you have? He's been in the middle east for no one knows how long, he's talking to democratic minority leaders, and is running us foreign policy. He's running the US from Saudi Arabia, he lives there and he's no one but a rich boy that made a deal to marry trumps daughter.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 29d
I don't normally check comment history but made an exception for you. I like what I see. One suggestion though, would save time if you deleted your comments before you made them.
OakTree@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 30d
Just sounds like Kushner is trying to buy up public land again
Blibly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 30d
Disgusting fascist fellating fuckfaces. Do we need any more proof that Jeffries and the "moderates" need to be ejected from our political process? Not just the Democratic Party, the whole damn process.
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org · 12 pts · 30d
Common criminal goals?
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 30d
Execute them both together on the same set of gallows
MrErr@piefed.world · 11 pts · 30d
There is no difference between Republicans and Establishment democrats.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 30d
Winterbehere@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d
The fact that they are both loyal to Israel first and foremost?
spacegoat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 30d
Jeffries looks evil
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 30d
Because he is.
echo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 30d
Jeffries needs to be kicked to curb...
hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 30d
Yes, this is the liberal Democrat party.
xSikes@feddit.online · 5 pts · 30d
No, thank you. I don’t trust either. Jeffries, you’re too centered,pal. Fuck off.
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 30d
Well to be fair, kushner was duely elected by the tohotjwona jtewo eeeetktewetet
FUCK Jeffries
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d
I could have started that conversation for them. They are both cunts. Next?
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
Money and corruption run strong in both cases. I'm not sure why they had to pretend like they met about other things.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 30d
Suavevillain@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d
The power of centrist leadership baby.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 30d
And it’ll be used against Dems if there are any bumps in the road. It’s a carrot before the midterms, and T has a grip on the stick.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 30d
Where are the liberals to mock progressives for saying both parties are the same?
Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 30d
They have no shame
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 30d
The ultimate one is a zionist supremacist genocidal radical religious establishment/Mossad rule over the US. How they can cooperate to diminish DSA, and block all progressive agendas.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 30d
Arsekisser
The only thing weaker than American politicians are their citizens it seems
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 30d
If I had only known how cheap our American politicians were I would have purchased some of them for myself.
But NOW I have to buy them back after Russia has inflated their worth.
Stern@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 30d
"So we both think our diehards are absolute fucking morons right?"
DadVolante@sh.itjust.works · -16 pts · 30d
And when the mayor of New York does it, leftists cheer.
When a dude with a literal Nazi tattoo gets platformed by Bernie, leftists cheer.
Y'all are not serious people.