Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.
Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.
Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.
Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.
AOC feels like the only hope America has at any improvement.
333 upvotes and i’m the only one downvoting… We are on lemmy a decentralized and open source platform. Do you really feel this person who use X and meta, who gets featured daily on mass media and who is a member of the red and blue party is ever going to make an actual improvement? The hope for america is that people wake up and realize how hard they are getting fooled by the government.
So of course Pelosi shafts her at every turn.
I’m glad it seems that many democrats are quitting their Gatekeeping bullshit with AOC.
So frustrating to see people so concerned about the perception of some strawman caricature the right manufacture for our best fighters that we turn on our own. If it wasn’t obvious, they attack her so relentlessly because they fear her and know her potential more some of our own.
Nancy Pelosi dedicated the month before Trump was inaugurated to ensuring AOC, a spoiler leftist in a sea of her crony neoliberals, didn’t get an oversight committee seat.
Neoliberals Democrats hate actual leftwing politicians far more than they hate their fascist opposition party. Makes sense, Fascists and neoliberals have the same bosses and take the same bribe checks.
Nuh-uh! DNC only takes money from the GoOd billionaires.
I’m more moderate and have always respected AOC, but thought she was too extreme to make a good president. I genuinely believe that the president should be someone who wants to build coalitions and steer the country towards a better future without allowing it to fracture. I still believe that, but I recognize now that my way of thinking can’t win elections in this modern era of politics. Now is the time for a firebrand - someone who would rather lose than compromise. I would still be worried about civil war if AOC became president, but I’m already worried about that now, so no point in holding it against her.
AOC can build coalitions. She even wrote legislation with Ted Cruz. She only stopped working with him after he effectively tried to have her killed on January 6th.
The irony here is AOC is the one who can build meaningful coalitions you haven’t even realized are possible yet.
The working class is the largest player in this game and she speaks directly to the working class of all stripes.
Moderate neoliberal DINOs speak only to capitalists. That’s why they lost their old base who all went to the right.
I think compromise can only work, if the the other guy thought they could lose it all if things went terribly. Compromising ahead of time says “We both get something, no matter what.” Which in turn removes the fear of loss.
This is a bad quality in a politician, as it excuses sleeping at the wheel. There is no fire under their ass to keep them awake.
A thought I had a few days ago,
The left is all about inclusivity and forgiveness unless you’ve made any amount of mispropriety, then it’s a race to drop you as quick as possible.
The right is all about being held accountable for your transgressions, law and order, you do the crime you pay the time, but they have 0 cares about their leaders being held accountable.
I feel like each party is the watchdog for the others politicians, and the left is way too accepting of the right wings transgressions, while the right wing hammers the left as quick and hard as possible (except we just do it to ourselves!)
I agree with you, except the Democrats are only “left” when compared to Republicans. The USA has a conservative party and a fascist one.
What is this gatekeeping about AOC?
She needs to just start her own party.
Take a peep into Jeff Jackson, NC AG. Hoping for big things out of him.
Just looked him up and he looks shit.
AOC is great because she is outspoken and holds actual left wing values compared to 99.9% of her party.
This clown seems like a Kamala-lite with his boasting on his law enforcement and military service history.
He’s one of the few checks that is actively trying to to regain balance to this shit show. Do not discount a lawyer at the state level.
There’s a difference between offering opposition to outright fascism, and being the hope of the future of a political party. The bar is so low right now that I’m happy whenever I hear of someone pushing back in any amount, but AOCs passion and unrelenting sense of justice is fucking inspiring.
We would need 60 of her in the senate, or literally anybody else on the blue team, for America to have any hope. Otherwise Republicans will filibuster any spec of salvation.
Which is why, for now, the Democrats need to be pulling all the tactics McConnell demonstrated for them under Obama.
FILIBUSTER EVERYTHING.
This is not the time for Democrats to be the Party of smooth-running government.
Use those loopholes the Right-stealers gave themselves in the rules. The only thing they should be voting for is bills that entangle, delay, or reject Trump’s blitzkrieg.
And if they have to talk across the aisle, it should be to remind them that if they hand the Power of the Purse over now, they’ll never get it back and they’ll lose all their value to lobbyists, all their stock-market prescience, all their importance back home.
That’s the fun part, the Republicans in Congress are hardly even attempting to pass any laws. All they’re doing is appointments, which can’t be filibustered as of 2013, except for SCOTUS which can’t be filibustered as of 2017.
All they have to do now is not stop Trump and they win, because Congress is in charge of reigning him in.
You cannot filibuster against doing nothing.
What do you mean, “can’t be filibustered?” You fucking shout to drown out the person trying to conduct the vote, and you don’t stop until you and every other non-fascist have been forcibly removed.
I know you were talking about an old timey filibuster and not the modern one.
But for anyone curious, Certain spending bills — bills that deal with spending, revenue, and the debt ceiling — only require a simple majority. There’s a bunch of rules about what can be in the bills and how many times a year you can use reconciliation (once for each of the three topics per year). Basically, no policy changes; just the basic budget stuff allowed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
Not that rules matter in DC anymore. Congress is apparently letting Elon Musk handle appropriations and if Republicans don’t care about the Constitution (or even their own personal power), I doubt like they’ll be worried about following Senate procedure.
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Obstruction of Congress is a Felony, that is why all the rules are laid out for who gets to speak at what time. Anything outside what is explicitly allowed, believe it or not, straight to jail.
Now if they can get the Capitol Police on their side for a little while that would by them time until the National Guard shows up, but then what?
You say that as if legal vs. illegal matters at this point.
sorry for the duplicate comment, the page crashed while I was submitting it so I redid it lol
Legal only matters based on enforcement, and Republicans are in charge of enforcement, so it’s a real conundrum. Feel free to try if you want, though.
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I hope that we can also get a younger white male progressive to work along side her. Not because I think they’d be better, but it might help draw emotionally fragile men who can’t accept a woman in charge. Also, it would mean another progressive reaching the masses, which is always good.
A lot of men are sick of being told they’re emotionally fragile for not wanting to be accused of thoughtcrime. Both sides are responsible for this situation and it doesn’t help to attack the base you’re seeking support from. Dems and you need to learn this.
You seem emotionally fragile.
I’m also a Jasmine Crockett from Texas fan.
A millionaire lawyer who
While giving her husband huge security contracts and buying houses in Hawaii?
Hard pass
Go on you valiant crusader.
Continue to shit on anyone who isn’t perfect,
Please let us know when you find the correct candidate.
I did, it was AOC. I said so up above.
The last thing anyone needs right now is more of the same Democrats who never walk the walk, we need more AOCs.
I mean let’s be honest with ourselves: Anyone who had any relation with the braindead mess that was the Walz-Harris campaign should be instantly made out of consideration.
Walz seemed like a pretty decent choice and I liked him a bit. Is there something I’m not realizing about him?
I’m talking more about the absolutely moronic way the campaign was run than the candidates themselves. Harris and Walz themselves were salvageable (sans Gaza, they were genuinely hopeless there) but anyone who was involved in actually running the campaign and deciding the platform is either braindead or a corporate stooge and either way shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near future elections.
Also to answer your question Walz is the “Israel has a right to expand its borders” guy.
Always Israel lurking in the background. Not sure how I missed that one.
For texas, that’s a step in the right direction lol.
she’s the real deal, but i fear she’s been too vilified by the diaper and his cult, and the far-right wastes of humanity that broadcast all the bullshit that enable him, to make successful run for the white house.
Any effective progressive is going to be vilified. They will be attacked from all sides, and all of their dirty laundry will be made public. Every flaw, every misstep, every gaff, all of it will be blown out of proportion by the machine they threaten.
They should embrace it. Point out that they are NOT the old guard, and point out the hypocrisy. Trump is a literal rapist. Get the poor women who got molested onto billboards, church sermons, ask musicians to make songs about how crappy Trump is.
The passivity of the Geronocrats is why they lost the respect of people.
Bernie knew this, to his credit, and made a point to repeat it often, but people weren’t hearing it.
And Trump hasn’t been vilified?
Vilification doesn’t matter, getting people to turn up matters.