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How many red lines have been crossed now? I like AOC but the Democrats and Congress aren't going to do shit if they haven't already.
Seven red lines. All of them strictly perpendicular. Some with green ink and some with transparent.
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They do. They can’t do anything through Congress, but they’re helping the ACLU get the cases through the courts. If they go after a member of Congress, that member can personally press charges on the administration. That is her point.
It's a figure of speech. She's aware.
AOC 2028. Fuck the republican traitor filth.
Fun to think about, but American males are not ready for a strong female presence in their lives. They can't handle it.
I would love for AOC to show the world her fire and Americans some grace. Not going to happen with the lot in America right now sadly.
I don't know if American men are ready for it, but neither Harris nor Clinton were strong presidential candidates, and not because of their gender.
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Male here. Hillary was probably the worst female option who's ever ran for president.
Kamala wasn't much better, and felt like a rush job to prevent Biden being an easy sweep.
Not that I'm advocating for trump in either case. I'm just saying its like the old south park joke of douche vs turd sandwich.
Only difference is that AOC is actually a good choice. Whereas Hillary and Kamala were never good choices.
I would fully support an AOC run. I would vote FOR AOC. Whereas with Hillary and Kamala it felt like it was voting against trump by selecting "whoever the opposition is".
Which for the record, isn't a gender thing. Biden was also "not trump" on the ballots in 2020. You didn't vote FOR Biden. You voted AGAINST trump.
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AOC reminding Americans how to be brave. Penny auctions were a thing, which implied Americans used to be able to stand up to corrupt oligarchs and monied interests. Where is that solidarity and sentiment now? Do Americans need to be poor again altogether in order to rise up?
The key to the penny auction was intimidating speculators and outside interests from scooping up property being auctioned away.
Good luck intimating a Blackrock agent at a sheriff's auction in the modern United States. You're not going to scare off a trillion dollar oligarch and a paramilitary police state with pitchforks
Now they would have the auctions online, and there would be no opportunity to intimidate them.
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The people of Worcester, Massachusetts prove that the powers-that-be should not be feared.
https://whdh.com/news/hundreds-rally-for-release-of-woman-arrested-by-ice-in-worcester/
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You can't defeat an enemy that you refuse to fight.
I'm sure the Democrats will take every legal avenue available to them. However, if they run out of legal, nonviolent options, they're going to be in a very rough spot because they don't have any other arrows in their quiver.
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If you come for my constituents, stop no...
If you come for our mayors, that's unfortunate.
Threaten our governors? So sad, horrible, can nothing be done?
Come for me? We're going to have a problem.
None fo the Dems are going to do shit until they come for them directly, a year after it's too late to do shit.
dude we should all be rioting at this point. shit is so fucked.
The oligarchs have the population exactly where they want them to be: poor, unhealthy, divided and unable to mount a concrete unified resistance.
the whole US population has been indoctrinated to believe non-violent action is effective and the only thing thats acceptable. fucking strange for a country that is so hardcore 2a.
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"suggested" they "may pursue"... wow. Did they fire six shots or only five? Y'know, in all that excitement, I kinda lost track myself.
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except you got enablers like schumer and hakeem bending the knee to the megadonors.
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Oh a big problem!? Like what exactly? What are going to do against a group of people who laugh at the supreme court and dont follow court orders? All they can do is send a strongly worded letter and say "Shame shame". We are already a dictatorship these other branches have no power other than for optics.
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Tell me, did she also sLaM him? I'm fucking sick of this posturing, do something already
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If the bar has to be that high given everything they have already done, then perhaps you are living in an oligarchy.
If the trump admin goes after congress members, they're going after the Squad first so most democrats will be on board.
I'll radicalize with her.
I’m so ready for the problem. Pleeeease let me be a problem on these evil Nazi Republicans.
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So this thread has
- people upset the party with no power has no power
- people suggesting violence for others
- defeatists who haven't digged their suicide hole yet
What's new that I missed?
the party with no power has no power
They have the same power that the other party manages to regularly fuck stuff up with, yet can't seem to pull of anything even remotely close
Gonna keep pretending they're not to blame or what?
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You had had a problem for decades. Stop pretending there's some red line that you won't allow them to cross.
Now maybe I'm being pedantic here but this does seem to slightly suggest that the ordinary citizens being kidnapped off the streets, and sent to death camps...whoops, I mean 'prison', without any legal support is not a problem?
However the upper class fools doing absolutely fuck all to stop the ordinary people being abducted by the us's Gestapo being fingered by tRUMP and his cronies is a step too far?
I like her. Don't get me wrong. She seems to be a good one. Speaks her mind etc etc but if she, and the congress people, would've had a problem about the little guys being taken on broad daylight then there wouldn't be any need to have a problem about her unpoors being fingered!!
Remember the German poem:
First they came for the poors but I did not speak out for I am not poor.
Then...
many members of Congress have been fighting for the people that have been and are being targeted.
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That's a good threat, but what happens when nobody backs it up? You just know that establishment Dems will sit it out and people are not going to do anything. So what then?
If he does that, all solutions should be on the table. Including second amendment solutions.
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Do something that would warrent the GOP being hostile tward you, maybe.
Ma'am, with the greatest and utmost possible respect, the rest of the world submits that you people already have several problems.
Hooray for more posturing! Really nice that this current administration has shown without a doubt that our entire system is full of spineless garbage that really will do nothing to balance power, which is literally why those branches of government exist. Yes AOC is a firecracker and more verbal than most. Yes, she drives change and is a speaker for a the people. But without any backup from the entirety of our gov, she's just a megaphone yelling into a void.
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There are going to be so many furrowed brows.
I hope they don’t need to write another Strongly Worded Letter!
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