Hakeem Jeffries on Rachel Maddow - Swing and Miss .

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49. you do realize this is a just few minutes of the Dem leader

...responding to bullshit expectations that Maddow should know better tthan to whine and ask, like, 'what are you going to do to stop Trump and the republicans' paraphrasing here.

What goddamn bullshit to ask the leader of the party out of power, the most ineffectual body for a minority party because of all of the privileges afforded the majority, what he's going to do with the zero authority he has to do nothing more than cast a vote to stop Trump?

Do people really think we're this stupid to believe that a minority of Democrats in the House are responsible for stopping the majority of votes in the republican majority?

How the fuck... never mind. maddow knew the answer. She just wanted to set the Dem leader up for that.

I liked how he bristled at the end. These teevee news actors think too much of their performance.

They want to reduce the work of the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives to a narrative they invent for their show, and some people look at that believeing it's the real thing.

It's not. It's not even accurate. Maddow showed a clip of somone saying something factually ignorant about what they expect from Democrats, and instead of correct it, she threw it in the face of Jeffries like Barbara Walters trying to make her guests cry for the camera.

And the audience went wild.