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Nonsense. AOC is about as principled and moral as anyone can expect from a politician. Just because she doesn't perfectly align with your expectations on this one specific issue, does not mean she should be tossed aside.

This position does not negate her positions on Universal Health Care, Climate Change, Worker's Rights, Immigration Rights, etc. Even with her position on Israel (which could evolve) she is still on the correct side, and a strong warrior against MAGA.

It's really, REALLY stupid to reject her on this one single position on this extremely complicated issue.

And this is why Dems lose elections - Republicans fall in line, Democrats fall in love.

The MAGAs will back anybody with an R, even if they are pedophiles, while a Dems will only vote for a candidate whose every single issue lines up perfectly to their individual demands. If not, they either don't vote at all, or they vote for an impossible 3rd party candidate whose positions line up even less, but at least they aren't a Dem.

I've been an Unaffiliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977. I've NEVER voted for a candidate I've liked. EVERY single vote I've made was the lesser of two evils. Frankly, as an independent who takes positions on both sides of the spectrum, depending on the issue, or often takes a nuanced position in the grey area in between, I doubt there ever could be a candidate who lines up perfectly for me.

AOC isn't evil because her position on Gaza isn't exactly what you want. We've seen and heard enough of her to understand that she's a rare example among politicians: someone with authentic principles and morals, and motivated to fight hard for working Americans. She's still worth following because at least we know that overall, she'll be working for positive change for all Americans, and not just a tiny demographic.

We can't make Perfect the enemy of positive change

Maybe?

WTF is wrong with you? Of course I'm not taking it personally, and obviously we wouldn't be taking away billionaire's fortunes under the current regime. There isn't the Congressional votes to pass it, nor would HitlerPig sign it.

IF we manage to take our government back, AND remove the DINO Democrats who are nothing more than Republican-Lites, then we can hopefully have a Congress who will pass legislation authorizing a re-write of the 1974 Tax Code, which baked-in Trickle Down Economics, resulting in an annual $2 Trillion shift of revenue from the middle/working class to the wealthy.

Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion From U.S. Workers Each Year

'We were shocked:' RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1%

And who would take it? The Democratic government, acting on behalf of the American people. It's not done with guns (or shovels, WTF?), it's done with computers, and law enforcement. Their bank accounts will be frozen and confiscated, and their properties and assets seized and sold at auction, or utilized by the government.

These mechanisms have always been available, the Dems just never used them, while the MAGAs never histate to exploit them as much as possible.

Your description of Universal Health Care is ridiculous, and instantly destroys any credibility you might have.

And how are you going to do that? Are you willing to take it by force? Because that's the only way it's going to happen. You have to take it by force.

No, we'll take it by legislation and re-writing the tax code, but if they want to hold out, than yes, we'll take it by force, and that will be a LOT worse for them.

Yeah, he was a larger than life character, and the end of the company was spectacular. Most companies end with a whimper, his ended with an explosion.

I have a little personal anecdote about the end of DeLorean Motor Cars. At the end, I was living in Cleveland, OH, where DeLorean's brother had a Cadillac dealership, which also sold DeLoreans, of course.

When the company crashed, the government, or the bank, or the court, or somebody, was coming to take all the cars that were sitting in the factory parking lot in Detroit. The local news caught a helicopter shot of a long line of DeLoreans driving out of the lot, and down the road in a long line. They didn't bother to follow them.

A few days later, it was reported that all the surplus DeLoreans were missing, and DeLorean was hiding them somewhere, and they showed the footage of the cars driving off.

A few days after that, I was taking one of my favorite shortcuts through Lakewood, the suburb where DeLorean Cadillac was located. My shortcut was a small road/alley, with far less traffic and lights, which went behind the businesses along the main road.

One of those businesses was DeLorean Cadillac, with a big parking lot behind the dealership. I'd passed that lot many times, and it was always a mix of Caddys and DeLoreans, but this time I saw that it was FULL of nothing but DeLoreans, packed in like sardines. I had no doubt that these were the missing DeLoreans that the authorities were searching for.

So, of course I notified the authorities where they could find the cars, right? Fuck NO. DeLorean didn't seem like a bad guy, just a major dreamer who got desperate. I always kind of admired him. So I kept my mouth shut, and made the authorities find the cars without my help.

What's the point of a misleading click-bait title, if you aren't going to have a link to click? This makes it sound like they are getting ready to release him when he gets pardoned.

Here's the real story:

It behooves us to be prepared’: Walz, other Minnesota agencies weigh in on rumors Trump will pardon Derek Chauvin

In reality, he is currently in a Federal Prison, but if HitlerPig were to pardon him, he would be sent immediately to Minnesota, to fill out his STATE life sentence. Taking responsibility for his imprisonment is what they need to be "prepared" for, not his release.

If we had a family member or a neighbor who obsessively hoarded dozens of cats, or filled up rooms with newspapers and pizza boxes, or kept putting busted up cars in the backyard, we would have them mentally evaluated.

But if they hoard wealth beyond what they or their descendants could ever spend, they are considered successful businesspeople to be respected, admired, and emulated. In reality, they are out-of-control hoarders, and the first thing that needs to happen is to remove the item that is the focus of their OCD - their money.

There's no Fascist Fun like a good old-fashioned book burning:

Ohio man accused of burning 100 books on Black, Jewish, LGBTQ history

MAGA Moron got a library card, checked out 100 books, and burned them all, posted it on social media.

He needs Alternative Librarians for his Alternative Facts.

Librarians have always been badass defenders of the First Amendment. They can never be beat, least of all by the government.