Next, AOC should introduce a bill banning child marriage. Time to protect American kids from GOP perverts.

No wonder they keep trying to sideline her

"People are looking for strength" should be the mantra

I will be forever grateful for President Biden, who delivered unparalleled achievements and progress for Americans that far surpassed my expectations. ❤️ May his legacy shine bright. May he, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, and their entire family be blessed with protection, abundant health, and peace.

“I think people are looking for strength.” I’ve been PLEADING for it. And bring brass knuckles.

Far too few like her.

Hells bells !, the Dems couldn’t even tell the truth about egg prices being due to bird flu !

Or that egg producers were charged and fined for illegally raising prices! Not all them lost flocks. They just jacked up price, got caught with record profits, and Biden and "inflation" still blamed and Dems said nothing.

Yes and barely a word about it. I honestly don’t get it bc it it was so easy to refute.

And leadership hates her for it

Too bad the gerontocracy on the left quashed her. I can't decide if it is fear of youth or fear or talent that leads to succession failures like this. You see it in the corporate world as well. The best and brightest are crushed as threats to those in power.

When those same people need new leaders to help them, replace them or support them they look around and wonder why they are alone.

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. This empire is on the slippery slope to Hell. It's too late for clever strategy. The felon-in-chief is going to burn it all down. And he has already started by blaming LA instead of offering help.

Be unapologetic when you call the racist, bigoted, etc. and be ready for the boos and the attacks, but don’t hedge, and don’t entertain hypothetical alternatives. Lay it down.

Yeah, I mean, this anti-trans bills are incredibly easy to attack in multiple ways. You just have to, you know, GO ON THE ATTACK and people will listen.

She nailed it.

If AOC could finally wrest a measure of control in this damnable party I'd be happy to rejoin it.

I strongly think we lost the election because we looked weak.

Boomer Dems built a brand around looking weak and all it gave us was a bunch of far right Nazis who were given an inch and instead took a mile.

People mistakenly believe politics is about discrete, lasting attitudes of discrete, lasting groups. You just sell them a thing they WANT NOW, like you’re selling soda pop. ‘The customers are really into that tangy transphobic thing now.’ It is nothing like this. E.g., trust plays an essential role.

Arguing for males in women’s sports is not a winning argument. Dems will continue to lose if they back dudes taking opportunities from girls.

She is brilliant at this. She has the charisma and courage to help lead this party out of this political hell scape.

And yet they’re keeping her out of House leadership, and with Schumer (seemingly) running again there won’t be a Senate opening until 2034, so I don’t know what she’s supposed to do with herself for the next decade

She can run for governor and get ratfucked by the NY Democratic Party or run for president and get ratfucked by the national Democratic Party

In my mind if AOC ran for President, I could see her riding the free Fox News coverage to extraordinary results. Much like Trump did with Mainstream news. Conservative outlets would only ever talk about her and nothing else and all that free, even if negative, would be an insane boost.

Keep working on moving up in the House. She gets a chance every two years.

Her district is good with her. I know lots of them

100%! wish the old guard would stop keeping her out of power

She understands human nature& the wielding of power better than Congresspersons 3x her age.

...because she's not 3x her age.

Maybe so. She’s also woke af(for a politician)

So a good thing then.

Good. So-called 'woke' means empathy for others and a readiness to punch back bullies who have hardons for hate.

This is the primary strategy dems should be implementing. Gloves off and call it out every single time. Let's call it the Big Truth say it over and over til Republicans can't stand to hear it anymore.

AOC is the future of the Democratic Party if the Democratic Party grows a pair and lets the power run with the ball.

It all does just go back to "DO THE FUCKING THING I ELECTED YOU TO DO AND YOU SAID YOU WOULD, YOU ASSHOLE" doesn't it?

Sadly, Republicans understand this. That’s why they keep trying to repeal Obamacare even though it’s failed repeatedly. Meanwhile, Democrats are too concerned about what tests well in their focus groups to actually do what their base elects them for.

Really seems it doesn't it? Rs tell their base what to like and the base follows suit cuz they vote by feelies. Dems ask their base what they want then respond "oh that might be too much maybe we should just do a small part of that and maybe we can get the right on board."

"Oppose your opponents."

what a novel idea

"But what if all the right-wingers say we're woke?"

Tell them they don't have to display their racism to the world! That s I what they are saying, they encourage racism... This year their owner is telling them all to buy white sheets and white face-masks because he found to many of his cult

members had brain cancer...the red dye #3 gave it to them...But he did choose it for them because its not used here un the US only China!

But what if the guys on team "keep child marriage legal" are actually looking out for the wellbeing of the children THIS time?

Exactly, the days of reaching across the isle were dead decades ago but Democratic leadership seem to think if they can bring back bipartisanship they can win again. Its insane.

Sorry... You still have to reach across the isle to the sane republicans and indepdents if the country is supposed to be the "united" states of 'merica!

Last I checked there are like a handful of “independents” and almost all except Bernie is a libertarian wacko. There hasn’t been a “sane” republican since the parties flipped. We need to drag this country back to the 21st century whether they like it or not.

I'm not a libertarian and I switched parties to Independent after being a lifelong Democrat over women's rights which do have a major conflict point with trans rights issues. And since nobody wanted to talk intelligently about it, I switched parties as so many others did.

You left the Democratic Party because you just wanted Penis inspectors for your kids to play sports. Got it. 👍

See that's the silly over-the-top rhetoric that logical people like me reject! There's NEVER been anyone checking genitals as a feel-up in bathrooms as AOC proclaimed for clicks. NEVER! Nor are there inspectors in the sports arena for physical feels or views. They inspect PAPERWORK only.

Look we are all just extrapolating the laws you want to make. Yeah we don’t inspect now because we don’t have backwards laws on the books, yet. Once we do like the one passing now the inspections will begin.

And women only want to make laws that are fair to women and to trans. Most of us are not opposed to trans-only sports. Most of us don't care who uses a bathroom as long as they don't expose themselves to others. Again, must of us grew up with the bathroom used by both our brothers and our sisters.

Did you consult trans people, because last I checked they by and large don’t want to compete in a sympathy trans only league with like 1 maybe 2 competitors.

They won't. Women today, due to the rights that we've fought long and hard for, won't stand for that. It's a hysterical drama queen argument that nobody with a legitimate stake in this thing would buy into. It's almost all men that promote AOC's nonsense on that issue.

The rights you would willingly give up and side with republicans with to “solve this trans issue” ok sure.

Well if you think a man will see a doctor convince them they are trans go on years of hormones tell their family and friends they are trans all so they can assault women in a bathroom or beat them at sports, forging a bit of paperwork is nothing. Hence the penis inspectors only way to stop them.

Nobody cares about bathrooms. Most people grew up w/unisex bathrooms in our homes. False equivalence just to dismiss true women's concerns about the sports side of the discussion. Assumptions that Nancy Mace's ignorance carried over to dems & indies is dismissive & dem women fled the party over it.

What true concerns? Because beyond the made up bathroom “danger” you seem not to be worried about and sports which paperwork can be forged. What issue is there other than you just don’t think trans people exist?

True, most of the sane ones either left or got kicked out (Cheney, Kinsinger, Romney, etc.). But there are some that are sane on an issue or two and not totally crazy. You cannot "drag" the country back to the 21st century until the trans issues are handled. It cannot be swept under the rug.

Harris reaching out to the Cheney family during her campaign was the second biggest poison pill for her campaign after her unwavering support of Israel. Also securing Trans rights is part of dragging this country to modern times.

She has compassion for both the Israelis and the people of Gaza. Meanwhile, the grifter was openly giving the okay to kill off the brown folks of Gaza -- flatten it to make more beach-front property. The Michigan loss to the grifter was due to the illogical thought processes of folks like you.

Disagree.Trans already have rights as humans.The issues that need to be discussed are the extra rights they seek that infringe biological women's rights. Real talk needs to be had to find a solution that works for all. Cheney was the republican leader who got the grifter impeached bi-partisan style!

Looks like you will be on the dragged to the 21st century side and not doing the dragging. All your talk of “protecting women” is now getting a law past that will give adults the ability to inspect children’s genitalia so they can join sports. Good job “protecting women”. 👏

“A liberal is a man too high-minded to take his own side in an argument” something like that?

She's the only one I can really think of, at least on a national stage

It has always puzzled me that the establishment Democrats legit think kowtowing to psychopaths is some sort of pragmatic display of smart politicking and not simply a demonstration of their cowardice and opportunism.

Understanding influence is different from identifying, developing, and utilizing influence.

The thing is, she is one of the rare ones who BOTH understand it and tell the truth about it. Almost all of the members of Congress KNOW. She's got the candor and some decent alternatives to offer. She gets not much passed before the midterms. Don't hold that against her.

She is one of the few that can get a message across and sound normal. Crazy they would take an ancient cancer patient to lead the oversight committee and not you know somebody who is really good at communicating. But I guess she’ll do great as a minority member of energy.

I really appreciate her ability to communicate and think she is effective while doing so, but I don't think being a willing pugilist is the totality of it.

Agree. Will the DNC wake up, swallow their egos, and let people like her take the lead?

Continually amazed at how “Knock Down The House” lucked out to capture the origin of a generational talent.

How politics operates today, specifically. Too many Democrats act like they're still dealing with the Republicans of old, which is even more inexcusable when they're treating them like the pre-Gingrich Republicans.

I saw some friends this weekend and they asked me about AOC. I told them she is the last Democrat who knows how politics work.

AOC also has a spine and takes care of her constituents and the country as well. If you told her "I'm going to primary you" , she's not going to go into "I'm a chicken and start kowtowing" mode. Instead she'd pull up her pants more and get her hands even dirtier saying "Bring it" all the way.

Yeah, you first need to believe it and then you govern not shying away from issue. Most issues are complicated but if you fail to engage then you allow the opponent to define you. That is why Bernie is so effective because he frame the issue in a way that have to put them to defend their position

AOC voted against the infrastructure bill…SMH.

she and a few other progressives voted against it bc they knew that Build Back Better was dead if they gave up all leverage on house and senate Moderates, bc all they wanted was the infrastructure law

They never had the votes for BBB. Tying those bills together never made sense. And what leverage? They didn’t have the votes to threaten infrastructure. Only 6 members of the ‘squad’ voted against it. The GOP votes for it were 13. That’s bad politics.

the leverage is that if Dems who cared about BBB stuck together, they could have blocked the Infrastructure Law - what the moderates wanted - from passing only 13 Republicans in the House fucking voted for it LOL

13 > 6…SMH.

"we'll give you your precious infrastructure law if you give us X percentage of BBB" is how it should have gone; the problem is that biden and his WH also cared far more about the "Bipartisan" infrastructure law than about BBB; therefore they weren't willing to play this game

"they never had the votes" and you think passing the infrastructure law which is the only thing moderates in Congress gave a damn about passing was going to make it easier to *get* the votes in Congress that's the job of the President - whipping votes for important laws; at least it should be

They never had the Senate votes. Biden was able to get the Inflation Reduction Act passed in place of BBB. He worked with Schumer and Manchin to make it happen.

"they never had the senate votes" and you think giving the moderate Dem Senators the only law they cared about passing would improve the odds of getting the votes? LMAO

You had a split Senate! You weren’t going to blackmail Senate Democrats into voting for it. That was a fool’s errand at best. LOL

the moderate Dems cared enough about the right wing version of the infrastructure law - actually, Manchin in early 2021 went out to the press to float that he was willing to spend 4 trillion on Infrastructure, clearly alluding to the adequate version authored by Peter Defazio in the House - ........

You played your cards wrong! Obviously…

that it would have been possible to get them to pass a lot of BBB - everything in BBB polled amazingly well, it wasn't about appealing to voters - in order for them to get their precious infrastructure law; the problem is Biden/WH would have had to show they were willing to pass none of it

JFC, grow up. BBB wasn’t going to happen. You did NOT have the votes & you played your cards wrong. Now, stop spamming me with comments. Fuck, I thought MAGA trolls were bad…

which, again, they weren't willing to do; because Biden/WH was obsessed with passing "Bipartisan" infrastructure to prove how moderate and Bipartisan they were; passing that law was supposed to persuade a massive amount of voters to switch to Democrats in 22/24 LMAO

like i mentioned an hour ago - Manchin literally went on fox news sunday to brag about killing BBB like 12 days after Biden signed the infrastructure law LOL

I know what happened, kid. You weren’t going to force his hand. All you did was empower him. Again, it was bad politics. SMH.

that law they passed is a good one; it's not even 5% of BBB no one would have predicted that that was all Biden would get passed after Dems won the GA runoffs

I'm someone who has disapproved of Biden since 2019, when he announced ( i think very lowly of him) and I was shocked - watching from afar - at how he bungled the 2021 governing window; it's almost unfathomable how badly he fucked it up

"tying those bills together never made sense" Joe Biden and his white house started this bc the moderate Dems in Congress kept claiming - obviously lying - that they would help pass BBB if biden passed infrastructure very quickly

to state the obvious: Biden/WH never should have entertained the tying of the bills together; let alone spend their entire governing window of 2021 publicly playing alone with it

go back and check the statements from progressives in Congress and just regular libs on twitter; obviously the entire point of tying the bills together was to only pass infrastructure and kill BBB; this was clear in early 2021; Biden and his WH went along with it bc were desperate for Infrastructure

this wasn't some big secret; Moderate house and Senate Dems spent much of 2021 explaining this out loud; Biden and defenders of him just kept claiming - with zero evidence - that there was some legitimate plan to pass much of Build Back Better, even if leverage on the moderate Dems was gone

Senate Republican Leadership was bragging to the press in mid 2021 about how their plan was to make a deal w moderate Dems to pass the right wing Infrastructure Law and then kill BBB; very much out in the open www.politico.com/news/2021/06...

after Manchin made it clear in late 2021 that he was killing Build Back Better - right after biden signed the infrastructure law, surprise! - Biden and defenders of Biden who spent all of 2021 claiming there was a master plan just completely stopped talking about BBB, as if it all never happened

Painfully obvious how much Pelosi haaaaaaates her for not kissing the ring and playing the political games behind the scenes for personal enrichment.

Sure... but I think there's something else going on as well. A lot of Dems aren't actually progressive and agree with a lot of the shitty bigotry of the Republicans.

Some Democratic politicans do not live in strongly Democratic areas & must actually compete in general elections. See Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez, Sen. Cortez Masto, & AZ Gov. Hobbs Split ticketing has also been a thing for a long time. Trump-Jacky Rosen Trump-Ruben Gallego Trump-Elissa Slotkin

There aren't a lot of progressives, period. I mean, only 19% of voters self identify as progressive according to Gallup. Quite frankly, progressive representation in congress hits way above its weight.

Wish more democrats listened to her .

I really want her at the leadership table and am pissed as hell she didn't get the Oversight Committee job

The facts are that we are dealing with a 24/7 fire hose volume of trump related proposals/ideas/crap.The challenge Democrats in the House & Senate face is how to react to this voluminous stream of important and also baiting distractions. The solution is for the D’s to establish a quick response unit

It’s going to critical that a song sheet is quickly distributed so everyone is on message.

It’s insanity that anyone would think she’s the villain. Hate her policy all you want but you cannot claim she isn’t trying to put the every day person first.

And she is certainly not the only one AOC also has the privilege of representing a strong Democratic constituency.

Walz/AOC 2028!

The MAGATs are worried that in the United States, between 1.14% and 1.6% of the population identify as transgender. No more worrying about the cost of eggs or shipping 20 million

immigrants out f the country so they don't have to eat lettuce anymore,,.. No wonder these morons have no single thought for more than 2 seconds.

That is AOC job to convince these Dems. Not ours, if she can't explain the "weakness" of the Dems, maybe she should try another avenue...'WEAKNESS" is not a word the Dems understand because. we are strong.. I love her but her statement is wrong.

"'WEAKNESS" is not a word the Dems understand" lol, lmao even.

This seems to be the new thing with the media and Dems in Congress..Of course the morons pick it up...They are the weak assholes. Again, who the hell votes for someone that is going to kill them and their spawn...Dems did't, WEAK MORON MAGATARDS did.

Love AOC.

If Pelosi wasn't so hellbent on destroying her, she could have easily helped AOC become the next Tip O'Neill

well, that plus how the Right Wing Machine works too today showed its exceedingly rare amongst voters on the left of the political spectrum too. just total key jangling

When she was elected, I thought, great it's nice to have a few snappy young firebrands in office. But I have really come to appreciate her. She is savvy, she is a public servant, she is courageous, she works her ass off.

HEAR HEAR!!! Dems, listen to the sage, AOC! 🗽💙

She’s kind of a phenom. She didn’t get everything right away but she got it quickly. Learned how to create alliances, speak to even tough issues, is able to make sense in ways that only she and Pete and sometimes jasmine crocker can. I really appreciate her and I wish more Dems would learn from her.

She may be young but she knows things the others have either forgotten or have changed so much they don’t know how to address.

Jasmine Crockett is also awesome.

I don’t know why this is so complicated for so many Dems. Stop playing political consultant and fight back!

They decided during the Reagan era to collectively move to the right. This worked for maybe ten years tops. It was already apparent by Obama's second term that their behavior was just enabling the worst Republicans and abandoning younger people and the working class.

Replace "understand" with "cares" and it's closer to how it really is. Whether in the media, law, or politics, the idea that so many highly educated, trained, experienced professionals "don't know how" to *do their jobs* has gained an amazing level of credence among too many people.

💯 I’ll take an army of her & Jasmine Crocketts.

Those two give me hope that the younger generation of leftwing politicians can really achieve a lot (as long as the Dems actually give them the chance). AOC's snub as Oversight Committee lead was a supremely dumb decision and shows how the "pay your dues" attitudes seems to be counterproductive.

This. But instead of utilizing her talent, the party establishment is actively diminishing her. It’s hard not to feel despair when Pelosi whips votes to prevent AOC from becoming ranking member on the Oversight Committee.

With the oncoming acceleration of climate change, we literally don’t have time to overhaul the party.

Is our most viable option to create a new party led by the next gen of progressive communicators, thought leaders, & innovators?

Negotiate an agreement with the DNC on rules to determine which candidate drops out to prevent increasing Republican odds. If they don’t agree, communicate that effectively to the people.

Rethink everything from scratch. Energize us. Create a good revolution. p.s. “The Good Party” is available with the FEC.

No longer the grasshopper. AOC has learned fast and is a powerhouse.

Probably in part because she's had a real job and been around real people within fairly recent (for a DC Dem) timeframe.

She SHOULD be a top contender for the 2028 nomination. She has avoided the pitfalls of being part of the very-online left while maintaining her integrity on the issues that count. And she’s an extremely effective messenger.

Absolutely spot on

In all my life I've never ever seen an openly gay/ transgender man or woman pose a threat to anyone in any walk of life. What I have seen is people like Rep. Nancy Mace causes all manner of problems to Black, Brown, LGBTQ and soft spoken shy kids who can't or won't fight back. Frigging bullies!

If the whole party was made up of AOCs we’d be in a very different place right now.

She clearly doesn't understand how politics work. Shock value only works on a limited few people in a niche voting group. As she matures, she'll figure it out. But for now, she's often on the wrong side of where the democratic base is. The 2 Texas dems won't be the only ones voting that way.

Because the current strategy the Democrats use is working so well for them

Instead, she let the "independent media" promote the far left trans fight for sports against biological girls become the message that she never stated. That was used against her and the dems for the grifter win. His attack ads were all about that remember?

Their strategy was to embrace the most insane stuff of the furthest left among the party. Example: AOC said "sex work is work" as if that's the message of the Dem party trying to fight off pediphile accusations from the nutty right. Kamala should have addressed the trans issues w/balance to win.

She is the future.

she's so right and none of it is complicated in any way

We need to do a better job of getting people like AOC and those that are like her. Who don’t stand on seniority and false bravado. And accepting gladhanding traitors like it didn’t happen.

Dems haven’t had the power of conviction to defend their values, which are easily defended because they are the better values for the American people. But on the other side, they scream and cry with bizarre confidence to defend the indefensible.

Honestly, we need more of AOC's energy. The smug, "still playing the game" vibes of the Democratic party we have now are really hard to vote for. Voting against the mob is not the same as voting for ethical idealists who get things done.

I think Establishment Dems especially the old ones are too wealthy to be in touch with reality except Bernie and Elizabeth. They get their idea of normal from their ultra wealthy Boomer neighbors. No connection to average Americans.

YESSSSS every word! I keep using the example of how people were absolutely lapping it up when Tim Walz was doing his whole “weird” thing, which was so tame but still had an “Emperor has no clothes” vibe that was working. Apparently Dem strategists told him to cool off the rhetoric though. 🤦‍♀️

She just says it so clearly, and i just don't understand why the Dems aren't willing to follow her lead.

Her lead would be serving people, the democraps prefer to serve the oligarchs

It's pretty straightforward: They'd be seen as moving left and would lose all their corporate donors.

This is it right here. Corporatism.

Follow the money, they don't care about winning anything really, they just want to make as much $ as possible and hope they appear to be trying to get re-elected. The $ is far more attractive than actually making any lives better.

This line of reasoning doesn’t make any sense. Democrats absolutely care about winning. Winning is how they stay relevant, which is far more financially viable than allowing themselves to lose.

A certain former Speaker has been in Congress for 36 years. How stupid would one have to be to be in office that long without understanding politics? Either they're stupid or they aren't interested in defending their constituents. I simply can't/don't/won't believe they're stupid.

As far as financial viability goes, it is absolutely in their personal best interest to serve their donors. They spend most of their time and attention fund raising and most corporations donate to both parties. Reps who lose an election get a seat on the board of a company they passed laws for.

They can better serve their donors by actually winning elections.

Can they? Rich people are getting exactly what they want. What more could Democrats do for them?

Rich people already tend to prefer Republicans.

I worded it poorly, I didn't mean winning elections, I meant winning for their constituents in the sense of AOC saying fighting for things, but I didn't explain it well and probably aren't now. Yes dems want to win elections, but they're as interested if not more in getting paid.

When realistically they could easily win more elections if they actually just set out to improve the lives of their constituents. Hope that clears up what I intended.

literally what leadership means!!!

AOC just summarized the main problem of the Democratic Party—its unwillingness to aggressively fight lies with facts.

You could take off the last three words of your sentence and be just as correct, sadly

It’s more than just understanding how politics operates, she might be the only dem who truly gets where we are now.

She was too young to watch the West Wing thank goodness

If she pays her dues for the next 40 years there's a ranking member slot waiting for her!

AOC gets it. Unfortunately, and to their detriment, Dems underutilize and underestimate her abilities.

That "handful" includes all but 2 Democrats.

She is the Cassandra of the democrats

It’s so frustrating to see the senior Dems fail to follow her lead over and over again.

She is spot on.

It's not hard to understand and yet here we are.

I have no idea who most elected dems think will vote for them going forward. GOP is openly trying to kill people in my family, people who harvest almost all food, and targeting people in my state who lost everything in a firestorm. Dems can either fight for us rfn, or they can get fkd

And that’s why Dem leadership can’t stand her.

She's certainly correct. How many times have we been told the Dems are "bringing a strongly-worded letter to a gun fight"? No one wants to join the side that's just going to get kicked to the ground again and again. Moaning on the pavement that "at least we followed the rules" isn't attractive.

Agree 💯%

She really is the best. AND the thing is, she’s also indirectly referencing Trumpian politics here. Why are people attracted to Trump? They see “strength.” It’s bullshit, but that’s how they interpret it. Dems need to fight sincerely and confidently for their beliefs and project their own strength.

Why do so few of them get it? Age/being in office too long/learning rules that no longer apply? Out of touch consultants?

Some of it is almost certainly that stuff has changed and they are still clinging to old models of politics. Some of it is the (very human) tendency to become friends with the people you work with for a long time. Then add that they are rich and the policies don't actually affect them.

the policies don't actually affect them. That's the way they view it, so much for representing constituents.

I think it renders the benefits/harms quite abstract to them...that is tough for a lot of people.

100%, no one on the congressional lifetime health insurance is worrying about their coverage or pre-existing conditions.

It is because they are old and rich. Their neighbors are all old or rich.

That woman has a long and illustrious career ahead of her and that isn't to disparage in any way what she has already accomplished

@benwikler.bsky.social Nota Bene.

Shame Pelosi hates her and the gerontocracy undermines her at every turn

I don't know if she's interested in the job, but I'd enthusiastically vote for her for president someday.

Conservatives only understand base dominance and submission. They lack the emotional intelligence for subtlety which is why giving them wiggle room or exaggerated deference and respect hasn't worked with any but a handful of religious people who take Jesus at face value. The majority of Rs are gross

I believe she's also saying that we need to show up reliably for the Dems to give them the confidence they need to fight for us. Enough of the circular firing squad and voters not showing up because the pols didn't "earn our vote."

How politics works now.

Glad the Dems are doing so much to throw in the towel on 2026 already. Maybe they can run Joe again in 2028...

So, she must be sidelined at all costs, according to the leadership.

It's because Nancy Pelosi is a narcissist who just couldn't stay out of the spotlight. Pelosi also wants to protect the stock trading that made her wealthy. Typical Reagan era asshole.

Democrats aren't The Resistance any more; they're The Opposition. This is exactly how you oppose.

At the same time, while I understand the realities of political praxis, it pains me that the only way to convince most Democrats to support human rights for trans people is to convince them that attacks on trans rights will also hurt cis women and girls.

Which makes it all the more annoying that Pelosi keeps sandbagging her.

People want them to do their damn jobs

I can't agree with you more

So of course they won't let her into Leadership. Geniuses. All of them.

Yes, I can’t figure out the need for democrats to speak nicely about republicans. They need to tell the American people the BRUTAL TRUTHS about the republicans and all their BS. Naked truth gets everyone’s attention.

She’s so right!!!

What a Senator she would be....she is destined.

Does anyone think she take ONE SECOND of Hegseth's bullshit today? She would be locked on him like a viscious police dog.

And they side line her😪

I like her. She needs a leadership role.

her weakness is bowing to aipac pressure which affects her votes/nonvotes and her endorsement of aipac candidates like jimmy gomez over a viable true progressive opponent like david kim. i don’t trust her.

also, life. once you stand up to a bully, they often just sit back down.