House Dems Secretly Raged as Jeffries’
Marathon Speech Backfired Spectacularly
PJ Media,
by
Matt Margolis
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
7/4/2025 12:35:48 PM
Just one day after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrapped up his self-indulgent “magic minute” marathon, the truth is starting to surface: Even many Democrats weren’t impressed. His hours-long fauxibuster—meant to stall the inevitable passage of the GOP’s One Big, Beautiful Bill—ended up accomplishing absolutely nothing for the Democrats’ cause. The only minds that were changed were Republicans who flipped from “no” to “yes.”
Let’s not kid ourselves. This wasn’t some bold act of resistance or savvy legislative tactic. It was performative grandstanding, plain and simple—a desperate attempt to look like he’s fighting while doing absolutely nothing to stop the bill. [Video]
The bill passed 218-214
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/4/2025 12:41:40 PM (No. 1972940)
Useless and in a position of Congressional power. Why am I not surprised?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/4/2025 12:47:50 PM (No. 1972943)
It's not like 3 dems had decided to vote yea and Jefferies was trying to pull them back into the fold. Who was he talking to? They all voted nay. No Republican takes marching orders from the dems under these circumstances. Other than basically saying no, we don't like it why bother? No alternative other than to let anyone and everyone suck off the taxpayers teat forever.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
valinva 7/4/2025 12:48:20 PM (No. 1972944)
We can all be grateful that Nasty Pelosi wasn't the one speaking or worse yet Maxine Waters or AOC. Hakeem is a useless man with an IQ only slightly above Hank Johnson who he reminds me of when speaking.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/4/2025 12:54:11 PM (No. 1972947)
Grandstanding in a stupid way. I hope they realize their foolishness is documented history; you can't get that foolishness back.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dbdiva 7/4/2025 12:57:08 PM (No. 1972949)
Inner circle?? Is Pelosi's poodle even allowed to have one of those? Did Hakeeeem receive her permission to give this speech? Or.......was she somewhere deep in a drunken stupor incapable of giving him his instructions?
Gotta say though whenever I see a headline that includes "dems" and "backfired spectacularly" or other words to that effect, it really lifts my spirits!
Happy 4th!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 7/4/2025 1:05:17 PM (No. 1972951)
A pointless waste of everyone's time by this obnoxious, self centered affirmative action hire.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/4/2025 1:16:24 PM (No. 1972953)
Jeffries is the perfect Democrap minority leader. He’s not photogenic, his command of the English language is questionable, he can’t keep his mouth shut, and he’s dumb as a post. Keep him right out front, morons.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/4/2025 1:38:52 PM (No. 1972957)
Threatening America with a deportation machine on steroids. That’s exactly what they are longing for. How tone deaf and clueless can you be??
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 7/4/2025 1:41:27 PM (No. 1972959)
"A deportation machine on steroids "....
I read that out loud and my wife and I both cheered.
Excellent, just what we need.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 7/4/2025 1:56:40 PM (No. 1972962)
The Dems are such fools and that marathon about nothing shows it!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/4/2025 2:01:16 PM (No. 1972963)
He is unattractive, not smart, a jorrible speaker and has no leadership qualities whatsoever. We saw all that when he ran for ? with tjat moronic token white Clarke woman glued to his sided and leaping to applaud if he burped or coughed. The Dems have NO ONE. Anf NOTHING.
(Love the Temu Obama)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
crashnburn 7/4/2025 2:32:02 PM (No. 1972971)
Shakespeare had the words for Jeffries "Speech": "Tis full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!"
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
john56 7/4/2025 5:20:56 PM (No. 1973011)
Too bad that AOC and Jazzy Crockett didn't follow Hakeem with a few hours of yaking.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/4/2025 6:17:07 PM (No. 1973027)
He should have dressed in pink and carried a ping pong paddle. THAT would have gotten him better reviews and more respect /s
The only dems that get coverage these days is the radical Leftists and while they excite the hard Left base, the rest of the people cringe because they are so nutty.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SALady 7/4/2025 7:16:30 PM (No. 1973036)
Temu Obama's ego is almost as big as regular Obama's ego!!!!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/5/2025 12:47:05 AM (No. 1973101)
The purpose of congressional grandstanding is positive media coverage and soundbites. The caveat is that you have to say something, profound, memorable or witty. Whining, bloviating and word salads don't qualify.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/5/2025 1:22:27 AM (No. 1973109)
Hakeem should practice his Ebonics.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/5/2025 5:25:31 AM (No. 1973127)
The democrats were stupid and naive enough to elect the Jeffries clown as their leader so the inevitable failure is totally their fault. Next time find somebody with a brain although, given the selection. it's probably not possible.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/5/2025 5:58:51 AM (No. 1973129)
#13 has a great suggestion. Always On Cocaine and the Ghetto Princess will be the perfect solution to the Jeffries problem. Schedule them for some really big inspirational speeches and watch dem popularity soar.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/5/2025 6:19:33 AM (No. 1973132)
Let me put some context on that brief quote from poster number 12. It was a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury but signifying nothing.
Good catch there.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 7/5/2025 6:55:49 AM (No. 1973141)
Only a politician can talk for hours and say nothing.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
govlawyer 7/5/2025 7:12:43 AM (No. 1973145)
Jeffries is the Dollar Store obongo and seeing a couple of his in camera range colleagues falling asleep during is Spartacus moment only highlights the superficiality of the Dems.
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"Performative grandstanding" is all the democrats know how to do.
tearing up speeches, wearing colors, holding up signs, refusing to stand....
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/5/2025 8:30:08 AM (No. 1973161)
Whatever does one do with a class of people who all love the sound of their own voices and have grown to believe that they as handsome as their favorite movie actor? Any marketing rep worth his salt would straight up tell Pelosi and company to never pick a replacement whose name is so closely associated with sputum. It’s a bad association for sure. /s
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/5/2025 9:03:03 AM (No. 1973175)
Is there anything in the House rules which allows another member of the party to sidle up and tell the idiot to sit down and shut up?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Kafka2 7/5/2025 9:20:11 AM (No. 1973182)
The marathon “speech” was a temper tantrum full of lies and hate that was an embarrassment even to some Democrats. Lies and hate are what the Democrats fall back on when they have nothing of value to offer. It was a last ditch attempt to obstruct Trump keeping his campaign promises.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/5/2025 9:36:45 AM (No. 1973189)
Me thinks that he's watched "Mr. Smith goes to Washington"...to many times....his prattle changed nothing...he was auditioning for the top democrat job.....he's worried about aoc...no worries...she'll be paid off with a lucrative amount of money and she'll step aside....just like Bernie baby did when he ran against crooked hillary....suddenly he stepped aside and became owner of two new spacious homes in Vermont....
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
janjan 7/5/2025 10:08:20 AM (No. 1973204)
Let them rage and cry. They obviously enjoy the performances and love to participate. They stayed to gather behind their leader to nod solemnly. I don’t know what he was saying because he was on mute. I’m sure it was profound. Their main complaint was that they missed their flights home.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Grateful 7/5/2025 10:57:14 AM (No. 1973219)
Hakeem is just the latest post turtle to emerge from the 'rat swamp. He postured and gesticulated for hours with no clear objective excpt to mirror his mentor, Hank Johnson. I need to ask this... is there a Hakeem anywhere with an IQ above single digits?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/5/2025 1:15:40 PM (No. 1973252)
LOL #3. Hank is busy keeping Guam from tipping over.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/5/2025 1:36:21 PM (No. 1973260)
Hey Demorons, this is what happens when you check boxes and elect the mentally defective to office.
Hakeem ...isn't that HACKeem?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Petronius 7/5/2025 3:56:31 PM (No. 1973278)
Hawk-tua Jeffries is a demonstrable low grade idiot and a liar.
In other words, he is a perfect spokesman for his party.
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Temu Obama has always been impressed with the sound of his own voice! He was also trying to "out-Cory Booker" Cory Booker!!