AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?
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As long as they have access to those profits they obviously and legally cannot.
apr 12, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Or has campaign donors whose personal wealth is similarly tied up?
apr 13, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
What did our Grandfather's do to Facists in 1939 to 1945?
apr 13, 2025, 2:02 am • 2 0 • view
Love her but she is a woman and a minority. Sad but true we have to learn from the past to get out of the nightmare we are currently living in.
apr 13, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
It should be illegal for any politician to have ownership of any stock(direct or indirect) or getting payments from any corporation
apr 13, 2025, 1:39 pm • 39 1 • view
Nothing is going to happen till we regain power, it should be fixed then. How do we monitor it?
apr 13, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
www.opensecrets.org
apr 13, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks that will come in handy !
apr 13, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
agree'd... or, I suggest a 15day wait period. Politicians/elected officials should post all trades they will make 15 days prior to investments. Let us all take advantage of the data they have.
apr 13, 2025, 3:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Troll account, block and report
apr 13, 2025, 4:06 pm • 2 0 • view
FIGHT WE WILL, FIGHT WE MUST , WE THE PEOPLE WE NOT BACK DOWN
apr 13, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
If the establishment democrats that are owned by corporate donors don't give the party over to the progressives, who don't take corporate campaign donor's money, & are fully committed to doing the bidding of the people, the democrats are never going to win another election ever again! We're Done!!!
apr 13, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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apr 13, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 1 • view
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apr 13, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Looks like AARP is fighting back. #socialsecurity www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5WO...
apr 14, 2025, 12:33 am • 1 0 • view
HONESTLY? THEY OUGHTA FUCKING KNOW BETTER. BOTH/ALL PARTIES.
apr 13, 2025, 2:52 am • 2 0 • view
Trying to understand Republicans is like trying to pick up a turd by the cleen end.
apr 13, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
AOC…a brilliant communicator.
apr 13, 2025, 2:46 am • 11 0 • view
"In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians [or their buddies] enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, through insider trading, kickbacks, bribes, and special favors from lobbyists and corporations, or they simply direct state funds to themselves and their associates." (Wikipedia)
apr 13, 2025, 6:45 am • 1 0 • view
I've been saying all along the real reason for this tariff crap was to manipulate the stock market so the rich could get richer without regard to how the rest of the country is affected. Watch this until the end. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
apr 13, 2025, 8:28 am • 4 2 • view
It's called Distributional Tyranny. It will implode within, because it's not sustainable. We need to restructure our society to be more transparent, sustainable and equitable to ALL.
apr 13, 2025, 8:30 am • 2 0 • view
This is the way we take it back. A full-on, 4yr campaign that exposes their crimes out loud as they commit them…in a way that ppl can clearly understand the impact the crimes have on them personally. It really is our last shot…if the country votes Rep in ‘28 after living thru this mess, we are done
apr 13, 2025, 1:08 am • 2 0 • view
📌
apr 13, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
If we have elections, I hope she demolished Schumer to send a clear message.
apr 13, 2025, 3:08 am • 2 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 1 • view
🎯
apr 13, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 12:34 am • 4 1 • view
REMEMBER flowers in our hair? Time to WAKE UP the generation who marched with flowers in their hair, barefoot, singing Joan Baez to name one! April 19th a good start! youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...
apr 13, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
I can't figure out why I'm supposed to hate this woman.
apr 12, 2025, 11:10 pm • 147 1 • view
She’s a commie socialist Marxist radical left liberal.
apr 12, 2025, 11:35 pm • 32 0 • view
She’s a normal working class citizen who followed a path into the nasty biz of politics to try and make a difference for working Americans & fix what is clearly broken !
apr 13, 2025, 1:55 am • 5 0 • view
You don't gotta sell me on her, she's already got my vote.
apr 12, 2025, 11:43 pm • 172 0 • view
Lol.
apr 12, 2025, 11:47 pm • 12 0 • view
😂
apr 13, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
Glad I read "fluent in sarcasm" before blocking, now following 🤣
apr 13, 2025, 3:51 am • 6 0 • view
youtu.be/pGbMArzXGVU?...
apr 13, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah and you're a rightwing loonie
apr 13, 2025, 3:05 am • 2 0 • view
I was being sarcastic
apr 13, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 1 • view
Sorry when l see red I charge!At this point it's not wise to take maga stances.Not much slack given now a days
apr 19, 2025, 5:11 am • 0 0 • view
Fair enough. We’re on the same team. 💙
apr 19, 2025, 5:33 am • 0 0 • view
Good cuz I'm a Socialist,Marxist,Commine
apr 19, 2025, 8:59 am • 0 0 • view
And he's a dictator who is stealing from the poor and middle class to give to billionaires and himself
apr 13, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 0 • view
I know. I was being sarcastic about AOC. 🙂
apr 13, 2025, 2:33 pm • 2 0 • view
If you actually knew what these words meant you wouldn't be using them to describe AOC.
apr 13, 2025, 9:34 am • 0 0 • view
I was being sarcastic
apr 13, 2025, 11:09 am • 2 0 • view
Brown and female round out your list.
apr 13, 2025, 1:24 am • 8 0 • view
She’s also a radical Zionist who supports the genocide of Palestinians (a thing that some terminally online people believe)
apr 12, 2025, 11:38 pm • 7 0 • view
Sorry, forgot that part
apr 12, 2025, 11:41 pm • 2 0 • view
(scrolls down) there’s one
apr 12, 2025, 11:40 pm • 9 0 • view
The same type of people that vilify AOC are the same type of people that used to claim interracial marriage was communism Conservatives don’t mind socialism when it benefits them, they only mind when it benefits the people they’ve been told to hate
apr 13, 2025, 1:59 am • 14 1 • view
Yes darn her and all those socialists advocating for the most basic of human rights *shaking fists into air*
apr 13, 2025, 4:23 am • 4 0 • view
I figured it out and I do not “hate” her- quite the opposite! I love AOC! 👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻💙🇺🇸💙
apr 13, 2025, 1:09 am • 2 0 • view
Cuz she’s spitting too much truth for all the folks with hands over their ears
apr 13, 2025, 1:36 am • 3 0 • view
She is so good at this and the voice we need for these trying times.
apr 13, 2025, 12:46 am • 25 3 • view
I guarantee all those companies are in the portfolio of AOC . I know I am in the minority, but I wish AOC was not doing these rallies with Bernie. I fear the right wing populace will discredit what Bernie says, because AOC has no credibility
apr 13, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
No they aren’t . You’re an idiot. It doesn’t take much to check.
apr 13, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
So you have no idea , AOC was telling people something all while she put on make up on Instagram. Her met gala , red lettered dress made her to be a tone deaf hypocrite.
apr 13, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
Break away from that fear. That fear is false and exists in your mind because the patriarchy has conditioned you to fear. You know who these men are, we all do. They’re more scared of us than we should be of them.
apr 13, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
You don’t know me, but believe me when I say I am not afraid of men or women. Not a fan of the patriarchy, but can still think independently.
apr 13, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
A valid issue, but a ridiculous time to be making it. These fuckers just cannot make a straight-up case against fascism even when it's tearing our country apart.
apr 12, 2025, 11:37 pm • 3 0 • view
The fuck are you talking about a ridiculous time. There was massive insider trading this week alone which is what she's talking about
apr 12, 2025, 11:47 pm • 11 0 • view
She's blaming everyone but Republicans for the mess we're in. She and Bernie are opportunists, they are cowards, and are cancers on the body politic.
apr 12, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
WTF are you talking about?
apr 13, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
Oh you appear to live in a different reality than the rest of us. Still somewhere in 2016 good luck
apr 12, 2025, 11:51 pm • 7 0 • view
Funny you bring up 2016, because BernieBros provided a massive assist to the election of our first openly fascist president in that election. Keep running against "the system, man," and keep wondering why your impact on electoral politics remains completely negative.
apr 12, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I have voted for every shitty democrat since John Kerry you got the wrong girl on this one. Even when kamala hugged the Cheneys I spent so much of my 20s protesting
apr 12, 2025, 11:58 pm • 4 0 • view
Not saying this is you, but if you trash Democrats 364 days out of the year, and then vote for them on that one other day, you're probably hurting more than you're helping.
apr 13, 2025, 12:09 am • 2 0 • view
Both AOC and Bernie campaigned for Kamala and Hillary. Y’all are just struggling to cope. Practice what you preach and blame the republicans, not a leftist faction in the party.
apr 13, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
That's their whole thing? Fighting against the oligarchy. They are fighting it dude.
apr 13, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
We could weed out the politicians who are in it to make a fortune. Refreshing idea.
apr 12, 2025, 11:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Exactly right. Liars, cheats and billionaires have to go. I am with AOC, Bernie, Warren, Chris Warner and the people who speak truth.
apr 13, 2025, 2:57 am • 4 0 • view
AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock? --- She is rightfully stating the obvious, but some really needs a reminder !
apr 13, 2025, 2:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Preach ‼️
apr 13, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Idk, Democrat. How can anyone possibly fight oligarchy with superspreader events?
apr 13, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
Reverse all the caps on medications that are essential to live is wrong
apr 13, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
It's beginning again! to sound like OCCUPY S2 E1
apr 13, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you think this time we can fix that or as usual it gets lost in the sauce?
apr 13, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
She has so many stocks tied up in so many industries. This is hypocrisy incarnate.
apr 13, 2025, 3:04 am • 3 0 • view
Not true. Fuck off.
apr 13, 2025, 3:56 am • 2 0 • view
I was going to question why you're braindead enough to defend an American politician, but then I saw that you're a boomer. And lo, all my questions were answered. 🫠
apr 13, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
?
apr 13, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
We know, you're clueless.
apr 14, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Her appeal can no longer be denied
apr 13, 2025, 4:37 am • 4 0 • view
This question is too difficult for unempathetic fuckwits. See: Republicans.
apr 13, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
Wait till she hears about who owns the US Supreme Court
apr 13, 2025, 4:29 pm • 4 0 • view
She already knows! AOC hasn’t changed and knows exactly what’s going on
apr 13, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
THAT IS INSIDER TRADING. THEY ALL SHOULD GO TO JAIL.
apr 13, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
And they’re ignorant
apr 13, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
OH Gee Senator MIKEY LEE in Utah your constituents aren't Happy with anything YOU or Your pal dictator donny do 202-224-3121 or 801-524-5933 KEEP your hands off OUR National Parks Keep X off Social Security and MY voting Rights MIKEY WANTS OUR LAND Some for his pocket and the most for BIG OIL
apr 13, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 1 • view
She's so clear.
apr 13, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 0 • view
AOC and a many other younger more scrupulous Dems should join the Independent party and start showing real reform, solutions, be completely transparent with an actual plan! Sell your plan instead of rowing against the orange tide - articulate our priorities and show the path to get them
apr 12, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Everyone seems to forget “conflict of interest”!
apr 13, 2025, 12:52 am • 1 0 • view
She is extremely spot on and a future leader of our country etc
apr 13, 2025, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
It's not supposed to be objective, it is based on what the constituency wants, and until you build a constituency that wants those things and talks to each other about those things, they're gonna keep getting voted down and out
apr 13, 2025, 11:44 am • 2 0 • view
Unfortunately there are a lot of people who don't like her. I am afraid she cannot win. We live in a society in which women who speak loudly are still loathed. Fuck the patriarchy!
apr 13, 2025, 5:01 pm • 5 0 • view
Wake up! The tide is changing.
apr 13, 2025, 5:59 pm • 3 0 • view
I totally agree with this. It is abhorrent that US system encourages corruption in this way. Not many countries around the world allow leaders to trade in stocks their decisions influence for obvious reasons. And this wasn’t caused by Trump. It’s the system.
apr 13, 2025, 1:42 am • 10 1 • view
Well said, AOC! Your font he right path and I wish you the power and swiftness needed to find legal results in ctuality...
apr 12, 2025, 11:22 pm • 10 1 • view
She will be our next President
apr 14, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
So so right
apr 13, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Does she mean “members of Congress” for “anyone”?
apr 13, 2025, 1:49 am • 3 0 • view
💪💪💪
apr 13, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
Why can’t we have a strong woman in the White House? It’s overdue already.
apr 13, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 0 • view
As long as Republican voters keep drinking the Kool-Aid the Republicans keep feeding them, the Republicans will keep cheating and some Democrats too like Kristen Sinema and joe Manchin.
apr 13, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
🤺
apr 13, 2025, 4:13 am • 0 0 • view
Come on Americans, you have some great people. Please stand up and fight, now is the time.
apr 13, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 1:48 am • 2 0 • view
She is a major Jew hater. She may be right on about some things, but really mean, hateful and dangerous… not just to Jews but everyone
apr 13, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
Ask about 90% of Congress that question.
apr 13, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
These are not good people. They are watching a genocide happen in silence. Being quiet on Palestine is disqualifying.
apr 13, 2025, 4:15 am • 3 1 • view
AOC is the chosen one.
apr 12, 2025, 11:15 pm • 2 0 • view
You can’t talk about corporate greed when the greedy are in the room. #dumpthedonors #removethegreedy
apr 13, 2025, 1:38 am • 3 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 12:56 am • 228 25 • view
“Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men, it is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a fight about to start when tomorrow comes.” Les Miserables #ProtectTheConstitution! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U
apr 13, 2025, 2:43 am • 44 17 • view
This is great, thank you. I first thought it was Walt Whitman, who deserves another look. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46480/...
apr 16, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 1 • view
Thanks! I needed that👊
apr 13, 2025, 2:48 am • 7 0 • view
I’m not crying, you’re crying. This song gets me every time. Wish all GOP would learn the lessons from Les Miz…
apr 13, 2025, 4:15 am • 8 1 • view
Same - crying buckets every time
apr 13, 2025, 4:27 am • 4 0 • view
Wow! 🥲
apr 13, 2025, 8:21 am • 2 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 12:56 am • 137 20 • view
When I talk to folks about AOC they tell me she is too radical, when I listen to her speak she is none of that.. many folks fall victim to the workings of our nefarious press/media and believe what they read or hear without investigation.
apr 13, 2025, 10:24 am • 16 7 • view
People want different results using the same variables. That’s not only stupid it’s impossible.
apr 13, 2025, 10:31 am • 5 2 • view
Exactly! It’s just logical, FFS! There’s nothing radical about it!
apr 14, 2025, 11:23 am • 2 2 • view
The Democratic minority leader @schumer.senate.gov should NOT be participating in the republican crypto Plan!! Democrats should not be involved in corrupt crypto by Trump. DEMAND THIS TRAITOR'S RESIGNATION✊️ #chuckchuck #bookernotschumer www.newsweek.com/democrats-ar...
apr 13, 2025, 8:51 am • 4 1 • view
Schumer is a toothless enabler, incapable of reaction and display of leadership. He's completely useless.
apr 13, 2025, 11:27 am • 3 1 • view
❌
apr 14, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
True. This country has move so far right in the past 70 years, it's hardly recognizable.
apr 13, 2025, 3:22 am • 17 2 • view
I remember when Canada elected a conservative government for the first time in years and he joked that Canadian conservatives were still far left of the GOP. I really hope the US gets more Bernie and AOC and Jasmines elected and truly representing the people. ❤️
apr 13, 2025, 4:19 am • 16 2 • view
I so fervently hope so!
apr 13, 2025, 11:31 am • 3 0 • view
cdn CONservatives are now known as MAPLE MAGA. their current greasy shitweasel of a 'leader' is pierre poilievre. he was leading in the polls by 25-30% til trudeau stepped down, then carney won liberal leadership race & now liberals flipped the script with trump's annexing threat lol😀😁🎯🇨🇦 #PERFECT!
apr 13, 2025, 4:51 am • 8 0 • view
We say ETTD: everything Trump touches dies.
apr 13, 2025, 11:33 am • 1 0 • view
i read the book. i read rick's next one, too. 😉
apr 13, 2025, 12:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Especially if she's up against Dan Patrick
apr 13, 2025, 11:08 am • 1 0 • view
Tax the rich and remove the loopholes...
apr 13, 2025, 1:58 pm • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/dana...
apr 13, 2025, 9:52 am • 2 1 • view
@democrats.org: We can't win with all this purity tests and virtue signaling. That's why Gavin Newsom is the correct choice.
apr 13, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
fuck no. You haven't kept up with gavin newson's fuckery.
apr 13, 2025, 12:50 am • 1 0 • view
Another white guy. Perfect.
apr 13, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
They can’t. That applies to Dems as well as Republicans.
apr 13, 2025, 1:04 am • 3 0 • view
Greed and corruption are the way for so many in our government. What Musk and Doge are doing seems to be a giant smokescreen.
apr 13, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I have always agreed but it hit way harder hearing it in person.
apr 13, 2025, 3:17 am • 2 0 • view
Obligatory AOC ❤️😍❤️
apr 13, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I can tell she’s doing well because all of the “stay home, don’t vote” trolls are now inventing reasons to hate her and not vote for her. She has them scared.
apr 13, 2025, 12:02 am • 1 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 3:12 am • 4 0 • view
Ah, you must mean Congress.
apr 13, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view
I seriously worry about her. She is such an amazing woman that I worry so much that they’re going to have her killed. I would not put it past Trump to have AOC killed
apr 13, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
... These powerful Oligarchs are in our faces at every major sporting event. Look at every commercial very carefully. AOC is correct. Understand the Bullshit these fucken companies are selling you ...
apr 13, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
The reality during the 2nd coming of the MAGA Messiah is that they only people's health the US federal government now cares about is Trump's & his MAGA billionaires'. www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics...
apr 13, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 1 • view
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apr 13, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
well, i imagine it's possible that some decent moral folks are capable of doing this anyone in Ruplican politics? um, no they're the definition of corruption
apr 13, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Integrity, we need more of it in politics. 💙 AOC
apr 13, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
AOC—>Wolf in sheep’s clothing.
apr 13, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
I, Leo Pena, Trust in Gaia, the Constitution & Jesus; periodt!!! 🥄💚🥶🦅❤️🔥🌟🦁✝️🗺️🧡🤠🗽🧲 #PedophilicMagats 's PC is annoying!!!! I'll just borrow, its not stealing b/c I'm taking the image and leaving a gif avec sound within a SubStack; Paraphrasing Daliso Chaponda. leopena037.substack.com/p/the-consti...
apr 13, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 1 • view
Declare. Divest. De-crypto.
apr 13, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
When Obama won in 2008, 60 blue U.S.Senators were swept in on his coattails. Enough to overcome the filibuster & pass single-payer universal healthcare. Bill was killed by 2 “blue” senators: Max Baucus and Joe Lieberman, financed by medical insurance industry. Moral? Think big!
apr 13, 2025, 4:18 am • 3 0 • view
This is so true, now you know why Republicans and yes Democrats fight to stay in office. Our government will never work for the people until Oligarchs, Corporations, and Wall Street are removed from the process.
apr 13, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
AOC, what are the practical, concrete steps that can be taken to overturn Citizens United, especially given today’s Supreme Court?
apr 13, 2025, 10:11 am • 9 0 • view
The least that can be done on the dem side is to make primaries free of PAC ( dark) money. Dem establishment won't budge. Citizens United is just a distillation of impact the big monies have over both sides of the aisle.
apr 13, 2025, 10:41 am • 6 0 • view
True! Doing this and implementing term limits are key to reforming our broken political system.
jun 7, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a real quandary…if R’s are accepting hundreds of millions of $$$, how do D’s compete without doing the same?
may 4, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Start small from deep blue seats and states and then gradually increase the number of seats every election cycle. In states like New York public funding already exists , expand it. It will help the party reach grassroots not just feed consultant class $2b every presidential election.
may 4, 2025, 9:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Sorry,I might be ignorant, but it sounds like by doing that, we’d just be defending incumbents.
may 4, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
True dat
apr 16, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
If Bernie got sidelined, what hope do we have th we female Bernie Sanders will do better. The Dems are a failed party, with no backbone to stand up for the nations. They'll roll on her if Hillary decides to try again without a thought. It's sad.
apr 13, 2025, 8:11 pm • 12 1 • view
AOC benefits from Bernie's experience. Bernie predicted the Oligarchy and the New Dem/Third Way corporate cuddling, affluent cuddling milquetoast centrists have been proven inept and inadequate. AOC is channeling FDR's Economic Bill of rights , timeless, timely, and more Democrat soul than the DNC
apr 14, 2025, 1:28 am • 3 1 • view
Yeah, but we don't have a two party system here to allow for it, sadly. Don't get me wrong. I love the idea. The entire thing hinges on the DNC not being absolute ass. Right now? I'm not hopeful.
apr 14, 2025, 1:36 am • 2 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
She takes it on the road! She takes it to the people! Work week giving them hell in Washington, weekends illuminating their grift and cruelty to the people where they live. This is what resistance looks like, Schumer! Get off your ass or get the hell out of the way.
apr 13, 2025, 1:33 am • 2 0 • view
AOC, my daily dose of fresh air. And hope. 🙌🏻💙
apr 13, 2025, 12:33 am • 8 1 • view
You Can't! WTF!!!
apr 13, 2025, 5:32 am • 3 0 • view
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apr 13, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
Now do you get why insider stock trading by Congress is bad???? And, why you should not have kept voting for the ones abusing it!!! If we even get a chance to vote again, Pelosi & Schumer need TO GO! Resigning would be better.
apr 13, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
We're coming for the oligarchs
apr 13, 2025, 1:25 am • 4 0 • view
This is definitely going to be a MAJOR point of concern for me in future elections. It's time to get money out of elections. Out of congressional votes. It's time for transparency in the DC lobby. In who is authoring legislation and who financially benefits from its passage.
apr 13, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The republican congress! Conflict of interest
apr 13, 2025, 9:29 am • 1 0 • view
Trump needs to be impeached, put in jail from the verdict of last year and pay all the fines he owe since that verdict
apr 13, 2025, 3:33 am • 26 3 • view
How about blind trusts for all government officials. It’s not that hard. We can do this.
apr 13, 2025, 2:32 am • 4 0 • view
Sadly this applies to both parties, but do admit it's all of the Republicans.
apr 13, 2025, 10:08 am • 7 0 • view
AOC's net worth is about $500,000.
apr 13, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
That would mean dems admitting they are part of the problem but that ain't going to happen
apr 13, 2025, 11:00 am • 2 0 • view
Their assets need to be in a blind trust. And while we're at it: their salary needs to be tied to minimum wage. If the People don't get a raise, neither do they.
apr 13, 2025, 7:30 am • 37 5 • view
They should only be allowed to trade a total stock market fund. No picking winners or shorting. They can bet on America. “Blind trusts” are rarely blind. Rick Scott (R-Fl.) is the poster boy for that.
apr 13, 2025, 2:07 pm • 3 0 • view
No, they shouldn't. They're not there to make a profit.
apr 13, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Or be allowed to trade in individual stocks while a member of Congress, like MTG? Note: Contrary to MTG and most other members of Congress, AOC has already agreed not to trade stocks while she is in Congress.
apr 13, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
We need a yearly wealth tax to begin to deal with wealth disparity: By total net worth 2% on couples having over 50 million 5 % on amounts over 100 million 10 % on amounts over 1 billion 25% on amounts over 10 billion Halve the brackets for individuals.
apr 15, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I pray that democracy lasts long enough in the US for the Republicans to be soundly thrashed and for AOC to become the first female President. Keep her safe in the meantime.
apr 13, 2025, 8:57 am • 55 3 • view
I can't believe they didn't make this illegal decades ago.
apr 13, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
🫡👍🎯💕🥊🥊🥊🥊
apr 13, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
And Pelosi thought she wasn't experienced enough to head the Oversight committee... F U Pelosi! 🖕
apr 13, 2025, 3:03 am • 4 2 • view
🇺🇸👏
apr 13, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
High level politicians should have to convert all of their investments into general market index and tax-free accounts like the average worker invests in, and they should have to divest of any individual stockholdings. They can ride the results of the market along with their constituents.
apr 13, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Now we’re getting somewhere
apr 12, 2025, 11:09 pm • 28 0 • view
Frankly, I want to see numbers. Like, I didn't buy $GEO, $PLTR, $TSLA on 11/6/24, even though each was glitteringly obvious.
apr 12, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I think there’s an app that lets you make the same trades as certain individuals. Peak embracing corruption.
apr 12, 2025, 11:33 pm • 2 1 • view
Well, whoever that was who made $2.5Billion... 😁
apr 12, 2025, 11:35 pm • 2 0 • view
apr 12, 2025, 11:30 pm • 5 0 • view
Didn’t Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels say something like all the institutions of a human society (e.g., government and religion) are the outgrowth of its economic activity. The harder you try to get away from your fate, the closer you are to your destiny.
apr 13, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
I was there also and it was incredible!! A-O-C!!!
apr 13, 2025, 3:21 am • 9 0 • view
Glad to hear it. She has the energy of a thousand suns✨
apr 13, 2025, 4:20 am • 2 0 • view
“Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men, it is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a fight about to start when tomorrow comes.” Les Miserables #ProtectTheConstitution! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U
apr 13, 2025, 2:42 am • 7 3 • view
@landslug.bsky.social
apr 13, 2025, 12:27 pm • 4 0 • view
No elected official should be allowed to trade securities. I'm a freaking peon and I'm restricted from doing it
apr 14, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
Ask Pelosi
apr 13, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
No.
apr 13, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
Serious question: How do we get Millennials and GenZers to engage and show up to protests? Are they not getting the seriousness of this? Or are they not getting the information at all?
apr 14, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank Reagan for "trickle down" economics. Under Trump, billionaires will decide what cuts to make to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran's benefits, education for poorer states, food stamps for hungry children in order to fund an extension of Trump's tax breaks for billionaires.
apr 15, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
They don't believe in objectivity. Only financial issues count.
apr 13, 2025, 9:44 am • 3 0 • view
Basically mandate that all investments owned by congresspersons are put all their liquid assets into a simple index linked fund. The DNC can do this right now for it's members mandating that they do this to be allowed to caucus with the party.
apr 13, 2025, 8:12 am • 1 0 • view
I hope @schumer.senate.gov retires. I don’t want vengeance. I hope he goes peacefully (retirement).
apr 13, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Truth.
apr 13, 2025, 3:12 am • 3 0 • view
The felon and his maga cronies in government got to go! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRYPgUe/
apr 13, 2025, 12:35 pm • 4 2 • view
A-FREAKING-MEN...
apr 13, 2025, 11:04 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you AOC!
apr 13, 2025, 1:54 am • 1 0 • view
She gets hotter everyday 🥹
apr 13, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
No person with shares in a company will support a bill to be passed if it will cause the value of its shares to drop even if that bill was in the interests of the people.
apr 17, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Similarly, lobbying places the people at a disadvantage. Businesses will lobby to have a law changed to make profits bigger as we see in pharma instead of the people who do not pay to lobby for a law to be written in a certain manner.
apr 17, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t see why politicians can’t invest only via a blind scheme run by an independent government body, no one gets to see where the money is put, just buying units of “USA gov investment fund”.
apr 13, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
It always comes back to money and/or power. Always!!!
apr 13, 2025, 1:14 am • 7 0 • view
Follow the money.
apr 13, 2025, 2:08 am • 5 0 • view
Go Dem AOC!!!
apr 13, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
🎯🎯🎯
apr 13, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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apr 13, 2025, 9:47 am • 3 1 • view
Truth
apr 13, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 1:07 am • 5 1 • view
The level of corruption & fraud is now at epic levels in the gop MAGA government which was so called 'democratically elected'. This has become normalised by these parasitic criminals thus through networks linked to these AHs! The crimes being committed have grown into this 'cancer of criminality'.
apr 13, 2025, 10:47 am • 2 0 • view
This can be applied to dems as well
apr 13, 2025, 10:59 am • 4 0 • view
Correct! But the level of this current bunch of crooks is on another level! Numbers & networks involved ref gop in past & current has always been more extreme!
apr 13, 2025, 11:26 am • 2 0 • view
Sorry but when those pacs have you choosing a genocide over winning an election that suggests it's pretty extreme
apr 13, 2025, 11:35 am • 1 0 • view
Genocide is another debate (both are 110% complicit, same face, AIPAC etc), what I'm talking about is financial, democracy & constitutional crimes & extremes by the goo who are openly now manipulating markets, weaponising US financial system to try and intimidate global system.
apr 13, 2025, 11:42 am • 3 0 • view
TL;DR They can’t.
apr 12, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
There goes AOC, hittin the nail on the head. Again.
apr 12, 2025, 11:31 pm • 17 1 • view
🎯
apr 12, 2025, 11:09 pm • 6 0 • view
AOC for NY senate; get rid of chuck NY for the country’s sake.
apr 13, 2025, 4:51 am • 1 0 • view
TRUTH!!!
apr 13, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
Anyone else think that the dems are cooked moving forward? That is if america is a democracy in 2028
apr 13, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
Every Senator is a MultiMillionaire & half +/- of the House… no one NO ONE has made choices for us in 30-40 years… It is Tims to force those people out their jobs.. Run for that Seat
apr 13, 2025, 12:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Right on, AOC!
apr 13, 2025, 2:57 am • 6 0 • view
Ok, well welcome President Vance then. She cannot win.
apr 13, 2025, 4:43 am • 3 0 • view
Guess you didn't vote for Kamala.
apr 13, 2025, 6:35 am • 2 0 • view
Look where that got us.
apr 13, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
AOC thank you for Speaking!
apr 13, 2025, 11:47 am • 2 0 • view
Click the link and watch the trailer.
apr 13, 2025, 6:11 am • 3 2 • view
Is that from Jane Mayer’s book?
apr 13, 2025, 9:56 am • 1 0 • view
I was wondering, too. Her book "Dark Money" is awesome!
apr 13, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Isn’t it? Scary as hell, but excellent
apr 13, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 1 • view
Recommend reading or listening!
apr 14, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
AOC delivering the TRUTH on traitor trump's abominable administration. She is right on time.
apr 13, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 1 • view
#AOC2028? I mean, she gets it.
apr 13, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 7:00 am • 1 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 7:30 am • 3 0 • view
That's a leader. Si, Se Puede! ✊
apr 12, 2025, 11:30 pm • 2 0 • view
‘Energy’? You mean has. Specifically shale gas. Ie condensate ie carcinogens and LNG which China won’t buy any more
apr 13, 2025, 11:02 am • 0 0 • view
Both sides.
apr 13, 2025, 12:37 pm • 5 0 • view
Nailed it!
apr 13, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 0 • view
#LizzieWest #CallYourSenators music.apple.com/ca/album/cal...
apr 13, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
“ #Canadian #Public #HealthCare kills #Canadians!! #UniversalHealthCare doesn’t work agh the wait times!!” *ahem*
apr 13, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
Our president one day.
apr 12, 2025, 11:54 pm • 2 0 • view
She’s powerful and amazing ‼️‼️
apr 13, 2025, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
They cannot and that's why we have fallen behind other countries in many ways.
apr 13, 2025, 6:12 am • 6 1 • view
Way, way behind. Trump tried to demean Denmark. They have free healthcare and college. 5 weeks of paid vacation. 24 weeks of parental leave. I wonder how they can do that and for some reason the US cannot?
apr 13, 2025, 6:40 am • 23 4 • view
easy, they share their "secrets" publicly: denmark.dk/society-and-...
apr 13, 2025, 6:49 am • 11 2 • view
Thank you for that link, very interesting read.
apr 13, 2025, 7:04 am • 2 0 • view
That’s a fascinating insight into how the Danish system evolved. Interesting that the start of it was the thinking of a king.
apr 13, 2025, 8:29 am • 2 0 • view
It's easy when you aren't trying to make billionaires multibillionares as government policy.
apr 13, 2025, 8:13 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. Watching a Michael Moore doc (capitalism a love story?) is really where it was obvious AF to me just how much better off other countries are than the US. If we were truly the richest country we wouldn't have the systemic issues we have.
apr 13, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
because for many decades the US system has considered that everything must be a profit business, and that of course includes healthcare and education. And that's what you have with crazy expensive college tuitions and healthcare, most of the population is left out. Although they keep voting for that
apr 13, 2025, 7:20 am • 2 0 • view
They all need blind trusts...
apr 12, 2025, 10:54 pm • 36 1 • view
I was astonished to learn that they didn’t have blind trusts
apr 13, 2025, 12:39 am • 6 0 • view
Absolutely
apr 12, 2025, 10:57 pm • 6 0 • view
Thanks, mate, AOC, as per usual, nails it.
apr 15, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
We ought to start calling their donors and tell them we hold the company accountable for every fuck up the politicians in their pockets are making. www.opensecrets.org www.fec.gov/introduction...
apr 13, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 1 • view
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/top-don...
apr 13, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 12, 2025, 11:24 pm • 4 2 • view
It turns out that there are very few actual rallies. 50501 is now billing it as a day of action. www.fiftyfifty.one
apr 14, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Schumer, you need an injection of AOC.
apr 13, 2025, 3:05 am • 2 0 • view
This is all part of the Heritage Foundation Project 2025. A systematic dismantling of our democracy.
apr 13, 2025, 1:41 pm • 3 0 • view
And it's working!
apr 13, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
If we somehow manage to keep our democracy, AOC will be one of the reasons why. But she is just one person. It’s going to take all of us doing everything we can. Join a PROTEST. Call your Representatives.
apr 13, 2025, 4:13 pm • 4 0 • view
So you have to wonder, where are the rest of the democrats? And why? I feel many of them also benefit from the same corruption. But maybe lean a little bit left of the GOP. AOC has zero invested in the market. This should be a requirement of any government official. Here in Canada too
apr 13, 2025, 5:19 pm • 4 0 • view
I agree 💯 percent. Unfortunately, it’s our lawmakers that write the laws and regulations, and so far there are very few of them that want to outlaw insider trading. AOC has been very vocal about it, but almost every one else, like you said, is corruptly benefiting.
apr 13, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
She's not wrong.
apr 13, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
Be very careful, AOC. They're not so worried about Bernie because of his age - but you are surely a target of the haters in America who have no grasp of what might be lost through Trump&Company
apr 14, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
So true!
apr 13, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
EXACTLY.
apr 13, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank god for the octagenarian and the Millennial or there wouldn't be anyone speaking up for pissed off Americans @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Its almost like the Democrats have no party leadership trying to give Americans an option.
apr 13, 2025, 4:47 pm • 18 1 • view
GenZ voted for Trump.
apr 13, 2025, 7:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Gen Z didn't vote for Trump. They went more for Trump than they did in 2020 but that youth vote still went to Harris.
apr 13, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
By that measure, the sole demo that voted Trump was GenX.
apr 13, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Primarily the boys. They love Rogan.
apr 13, 2025, 7:11 pm • 9 0 • view
The point here is that "the young people" won't save anyone. Baby-boomer women and GenZ women showed up the polls in the same way.
apr 13, 2025, 7:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Gen z is trying to get jobs and start their lives, they’ll see the problems with the oligarchy soon enough.
apr 14, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 11:11 pm • 21 2 • view
Dear AOC, your boss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi killed two attempts to establish a stock trading ban. The call is coming from inside the house. No money for Democrats until Schumer gone.
apr 13, 2025, 2:00 pm • 4 0 • view
Basically all true. The focus needs to be replacing candidates at local levels who will stand by their word not to take corporate pac, dark, or lobbyist money. We need a true progressive blue wave. Keep up the good fight.
apr 13, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Easy. Because they can.
apr 13, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow 😮
apr 13, 2025, 1:18 am • 0 0 • view
apr 13, 2025, 2:10 pm • 2 0 • view
We need AOC for president
apr 13, 2025, 2:14 pm • 11 0 • view
EXACTLY! LOCK THESE CROOKS & THUGS UP!
apr 13, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Our days are filled with a new reality, not a reality most of the world expected. Some disruptions were expected but utter chaos was merely feared and not expected. Fight with your voice and your feet if you are able. Be fierce, be brave, be free. Demand Democracy!
apr 13, 2025, 2:16 am • 6 1 • view
AOC … calling it out 💙
apr 13, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
The MAGAT party is transforming this country into, in a sense, a banana republic, especially its ruthless leadership which is unquestionably undermining laws and guardrails that abolish transparency allowing them to corrupt and exploit our wealth, political system and economy to their benefit.
apr 13, 2025, 4:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Representatives should have the same healthcare as the least of their constituents. We would have universal healthcare in a matter of weeks if congress were treated the same as everyone else.
apr 14, 2025, 3:02 am • 3 1 • view