Got a lot less patience for this shit after listening to the story of that six year old Palestinian little girl bleeding out in the back of her car surrounded by her dead relatives bc she got shot by a tank and the IDF blew up the ambulance the red crescent sent after a 3 hour wait to receive an approved route from the israelis
Yeah, these fucking losers could've just said nothing and it would've been better
They'd still be complicit in the genocide but they may as well be Fetterman with the way they're slobbering over genocide joe like this
This is just disgusting and honestly even though I hate him more, I genuinely have a bit more respect for the ogre himself for being open about his support for the genocide instead of doing this weasel bullshit
Yeah fuck all these hand waving liberals and their constant grand standing. " Vote for biden or else trump will do away with everything " = we will never do anything nor stop anyone else from doing it, but we will cry.
Takes a rare streak of courage to fight for the public good and against your own material interests
It's easy to be a "socialist" when you're slinging cocktails for subsistence wages. Much harder when you're being interviewed on late night, wearing designer gowns to the met gala, etc.
AOC has a Trump-like cult of personality around her. There are people who think everything she says and does is pure genius, even when it completely betrays all supposed leftist principles.
I think it’s more than that. She positioned herself early on as an Everyman type of person who’s just like your typical millennial/zoomer with playing on stream a part of it.
People who are new to politics see AOC as the strongest left-wing voice. Her being a woc probably also helps.
it'd be funny if they were both hooplahing for biden on a gamble of becoming president via the vice-presidential seat but biden decides in a complete upset declares Nancy Pelosi as his new Vice-presidential runningmate, wins office and dies on day one
You know, at least if AOC and Bernie sold out to Biden for his (empty) promises to withhold weapons from Israel or push harder for a ceasefire… I would respect that. But what did they actually get? Promises to make marginal changes to the Supreme Court? Just pathetic.
The article doesn’t even mention the strange claim AOC makes about Ohio making deadlines for the ballot before the DNC announces their nomination and how the republicans could challenge them for replacing the nominee. Odd behavior.
This is going to sound like a tinfoil hat theory to defend her actions so lemme say she's dumb as fuck, a huge dissapointment and a certified lib.
I think her and Bernie are trying to triangulate (poorly)
It's a bunch of power seeking dems calling for biden to drop out based on horserace bullshit, nobody's actually arguing to replace him with somebody with better politics just better optics of not being the fucking crypt keeper.
I think bernie and AOC think they're being very clever by advocating for biden so that when he does eventually step down and then his replacement loses anyway they can say "can't blame us progressives for this one we were saying he should stay"
Unfourtunatly their plan boils down to getting liberals to stop blaming them for everything by becoming turbo libs.
Not really, seems like he's going to get replaced if he has to be dragged out screaming so they want to be on the record advocating for him because in this scenario they think the statements won't affect the actual outcome but in hindsight they can say they weren't the one "splitting the party"
If they said nothing people would just say it was the progressives (I know, meaningless descriptor) that called for biden to be replaced and cost the dems another election.
Again they're making the mistake of trying to argue withing dems framework where Clinton ran a great campaign and leftists were just to sexist to support her.
I think they may also be triangulating that since everyone is against Biden, if he wins everyone else will have burned their bridges with him but the progressive wing (Bernie/AOC) will have had his back.
The problem with this is that Biden is the only guy who could actually lose to Trump, even with the assassination attempt. Any generic democrat they pick to replace him will probably beat Trump, so all they're doing is tying themselves to ship that will either sink now or in November.
I would say that there must be something they feel they get out of supporting Biden but that would assume they're savvy politicians, which they don't really seem to be
She and Bernie are burning whatever goodwill they had built up over the years. I wonder if she’ll be a “firebrand” again if Trump wings again like she was during his presidency.
It seems like January 6 really shook her and she began to turn even more liberal after that. She was already pretty liberal though, calling reading theory classist and defending Obama. This outcome was bound to happen.
I mentioned that by pointing out her calling reading theory classist and defending Obama. Both happened in the same article. That’s when I noticed something about her was off
It seems like January 6 really shook her and she began to turn even more liberal after that. She was already pretty liberal though, calling reading theory classist and defending Obama. This outcome was bound to happen.
She claimed that there were people casing the Capitol before Jan 6 happened and that the panic buttons in her office were disconnected when Jan 6 happened.
Lol, I want Biden to stay the candidate becuase I think it will be really funny to see how bad it gets by November, also being constantly humiliated and abused for 5 months is the least that this man deserves.
AOC wants Biden to stay the candidate for much stupider and more childish reasons.
The winning move if you're a careerist and opportunist is to be a lukewarm Biden loyalist in public while hoping he dies before election day in private. Even if he were to step down, it's pretty easy to pivot from a lukewarm Biden loyalist to "we must support the new candidate against Trump." However, AOC is shilling for Biden a bit more than what a lukewarm Biden loyalist would do. This is surprising.
Capitalists love to make their opposition party look like a bunch of losers.
"Hey, for pennies I bet we can get the entire party to fall in line behind a pudding-brained half-dead guy, wrecking their careers and becoming a laughing stock in front of millions of people."