xpat first i googled "great reset" and "international" and "one world order", and came across something disturbing, written by a Heartland Institute goon...and then published as an op-ed in The Hill. sometimes people talk shit on the hill and i think come on, they're not that bad. but then other times i remember that they publish garbage like that without a warning to their readers that the Heartland Institute has functioned as the leading purveyor of bogus "science" on climate change since the 1990s.
anyway, it turns out she didn't mean anything close to what that guy was saying. instead, she's onto another theory about how Trump is behind the Great Reset, which involves the elimination of all debt. Makes sense for Trump! And for me, lol! but for her it functions as her final explanation for why she isn't voting for Trump this year (she left President and VP blank on her early ballot)
― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Any US concern about not knowing the result of an election on Election Night is extra-baffling when said results do not even take effect for another QUARTER OF A YEAR afterward
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
only 1 republican presidential term (2005-09 bush) has been legit in the last 28 years
nb that even though this was an actual popular vote win, it's fine to not consider the reelection of an illegitimate president who started a fake war for votes to be a legit term
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
^^^^^^
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
surely the framers envisioned a network call by 11pm EST
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
What's so baffling about it? They're trying to engineer a Trump win out of nothing.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
the race to call predates Trump
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
(and is not exclusive to the US - indeed, part of the bafflement is that the US' self-regard for its democratic process does not boast that the quarter-year gap allows for confidence in a measured and reviewed count)
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
mostly, because the election is a TV show and the TV people want to have a ending before they go off the air
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
most states don't even certify results for a few weeks--this is the judicial equivalent of expecting a 30 minute pizza delivery
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
it definitely won't be the time to risk running a progressive, amirite?
if a progressive decides to run and has the kind of juice it takes to run a national campaign, voters will see their name on a ballot and have every opportunity to mark that name. if the voters are too timid and fearful to seek a change, there's no easy remedy for that.
The DNC doesn't determine everything for us unless we let it. We can organize and throw what weight we've got behind a progressive. Look how much control the RNC had when Jeb was their guy and Trump brushed him aside.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
archival footage of the 1969 UK general election call
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
drag 'em sis
.@AOC on the New York Times’s bombshell investigation of Trump’s taxes: https://t.co/xAbI0YRPca pic.twitter.com/zht1EH9ztA
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
She is an inspiration
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
she brings meaning to my life
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
otm, she really is a revelation
how she explained the whole fundraising ladder that first-term congresspeople are expected to start climbing was so mindblowing to me - just explaining 'this is what the job is and why it's so compromised' from the get-go. who does that? only the illest.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
I mean the fact that she really is a working-class person who was able to seize on a good opportunity rather than someone whose entire life goal is a cushy 50-year political career is a big difference here
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
we need 60 like her in the senate and 250+ more like her in the House
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
New reporting on the AOC-Yoho incident: The day after Rep. Ted Yoho harassed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with his disgusting, vulgar tirade, @AOC approached Yoho and told him, "You do that to me again, I won't be so nice next time."https://t.co/BXck5vpLdt— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 28, 2020
wheeeew
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
she then told him I'LL PUT TRADEMARKS ON YOUR EYELIDS
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
ya just got PULVERIZED ya Yoho! *AIRHORN*
― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
A couple of other passages from that profile that resonated with me:
Neither the financial collapse nor the fundamentally broken health care system were abstracts for Ocasio-Cortez, a vocal supporter of Medicare for All and a persistent critic of the Affordable Care Act. “The main reason why I feel comfortable saying that the ACA has failed is because it failed me and it failed everyone that I worked with in a restaurant,” she says. She would take wads of cash tips to doctor appointments. “You try buying insurance off of Obamacare,” she tells me, a line meant for her out-of-touch colleagues. (As a bartender, she did buy a plan, paying $200 per month, she says, for the “privilege” of an $8,000 deductible.) For a while after she was sworn in, even with a snazzy congressional insurance plan, Ocasio-Cortez says, she still rolled to the pharmacy and paid cash for her prescriptions out of habit. The first time she saw a doctor or dentist in years was when she became a congresswoman.
...
Under a President Biden, “if his life doesn’t feel different,” she points to a cab driver whizzing by our table, “if their life doesn’t feel different,” she gestures to people walking by the beauty shop and Bengali Halal Grocery, “if these people’s lives don’t actually feel different”—now she is giving a stump speech over her omelet—“we’re done. You know how many Trumps there are in waiting?”She is tired of incremental change, of “bullshit little 10 percent tax cuts,” she says. “I think, honestly, a lot of my dissent within the Democratic party comes from my lived experience. It’s not just that we can be better, it’s that we have to be better. We’re not good enough right now.”
She is tired of incremental change, of “bullshit little 10 percent tax cuts,” she says. “I think, honestly, a lot of my dissent within the Democratic party comes from my lived experience. It’s not just that we can be better, it’s that we have to be better. We’re not good enough right now.”
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
^It’s honestly shocking to me that mainstream democrats in 2020 can’t just say **that**
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
honestly the stodgy method of politician-speak is played in 2020, which is one of the few things Trump and some other Republicans have hit on.
nobody wants to hear their democratic Senator say "I am troubled by this undemocratic acquiescence to a foreign power", they want to hear "aw naw, this is some BULLSHIT!"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
otm
― a certain derecho (brownie), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
It’s honestly shocking to me that mainstream democrats in 2020 can’t just say **that**
They can’t because they don’t agree with her, though.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
Still, Ocasio-Cortez rejects the idea of "aspiring to a quote-unquote higher position just for the sake of that title," she said. "I think it's part of our cultural understanding of politics, where — if you think someone is great, you automatically think they should be president," Ocasio-Cortez added. "I joke. I'm like, 'Is Congress not good enough?'"
Of course she is shy about it and it's a long way off but I sure as hell hope to be able to vote for her someday.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
she should 100% primary schumer in 2022
― cointelamateur (m bison), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
Yeah I’d love to vote for her for pres but I wouldn’t be mad at all if she were to garrote Schumer in a primary challenge and then go on to be our longest-serving Senate Majority Leader
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
if only that was how Majority Leader worked
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
true. but in my dreamworld someone like Schumer being successfully primaried might put the fear into the dorks. but I suspect he reality would be quite different, particularly in the near term
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
I don't think primarying Schumer in '22 would end well.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
what if she punks him out and he retires rather than suffer the humiliation
― cointelamateur (m bison), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
jk he wouldn’t
In a difficult midterm election where they want to keep Biden's suburban Republicans on their side the machine isn't going to give an inch to challengers, they'd pour money into primarying her (or anyone else who tried) at the same time.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
Ilhan Omar has a 17 year old kid ??!?!?!?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 October 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
Astounding
I presume you all do understand that if AOC were to primary Schumer and then become Senator AOC, she would not inherit Schumer's power as Leader, but would be the least senior Senator on any committee she sat on. The Senate Dems would just elect a new Leader who'd almost certainly be another geriatric status quo Senator from who knows where.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 29 October 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
yeah she rules
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 October 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
xpost Senate Majority Leader.........Diane Feinstein
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 October 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
yeah ftr I do understand that taking out Schumer doesn’t mean you assume his role as Leader.maybe a celebrity could primary Chuckles
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 29 October 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
30 years from now our Majority Leader will be Senator Jack Black
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 October 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, October 28, 2020 10:59 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
primary them too
― cointelamateur (m bison), Thursday, 29 October 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
^ now yer on the right track. especially if the better candidate goes on to win the seat. this has got to develop into a national movement to give voters better choices, no matter which states now appear hopeless. there is strength in numbers and progressive voters in places like WY need a way to be counted, so their true numbers can be seen, no matter what that number may be.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 29 October 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
yeah ftr I do understand that taking out Schumer doesn’t mean you assume his role as Leader.
this only works if you drink your enemies' blood from his skull iirc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
💯% worth it, would do again https://t.co/0crlR7eXWT— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 29, 2020
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
I mean yeah, isn't that called WINNING?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
Pff, Trump would have walked out wearing the clothes because he's *smart.*
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link