US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isnāt fazed by Congressā failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.
āThere are so many criminals in this administration, itās hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,ā Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNNās Manu Raju on Tuesday.
āThere are going to be many, many, many investigations,ā she added. āI imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.ā
Thereās a lot to probe and arrest but make it work. You go after everyone. Have have to do it all while you work on your campaign promises and fix what Trump broke. All of it.
Sure AOC. I believe you just as much as you said Biden was tirelessly working on getting Israel to agree to a ceasefire.
How many times have the Democrats obtained power, done nothing, then let it go right back to the Republicans again? They are beyond worthless.
But sheās pretty and says vacuous things with conviction!
Ooh, how scary! Well luckily Hakeem Jeffries who she endorses is going to do nothing about it.
Well luckily Hakeem Jeffries who she endorses is going to do nothing about it.
Youāve twisted her words, and sheās already explained it.
The Speaker selection takes place in roughly three weeks via a fixed ballot. There are no write-ins. Candidates who want to be considered have to write a letter to the entire Democratic house caucus announcing their intention.
Right now, today, there is no one other than Jeffries on that ballot.
So explain to the rest of us how she ā or any other House dem ā can elect a different candidate for Speaker when there is no other candidate currently running.
Does she? The best endorsement Iāve heard generally is āwell, no one else is stepping upā¦ā which is lukewarm at best lol
Tier 1:
- affordability efforts
- universal healthcare
- end Iran war
- end military support for Israel
Tier 2:
- abolish ICE
- prosecute the corrupt
- codify body autonomy
- reform the supreme court
Tier 3:
- end Cuban blockade
- end the electoral college
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but they need to get results on Tier 1 ASAP in order to maintain progressive and MAGA turncoat votes.
The EC will quite likely be effectively ended by states before Congress gets to it. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will make the EC follow the popular vote, not the stupid state-based voting currently being done.
People need their food stamps back too, the ones Trump kicked off. Disabled people kicked off other aid too.
Not putting SC reform in tier 1 is an immediate L
SC reform canāt happen until 2029, so no it doesnāt belong in tier 1 on pragmatic grounds alone
If there is a 2029 lmao
ā¦ Sorry, off topic, but why is your icon the buc-ees mascot? Those guys chug maga cock like their life depends on it.
Irony. Think punks and John Lennon rocking Mickey Mouse tees. Buc-eeās is the height of MAGA brain rot culture. A gas station treated as some sort of cultural identity.
That said, they are great rest stopsā¦
My husband brought me bucees sweat pants from his business trip to Austin, we both had a laugh. Then we read up on the owners š³.
The fact that they wonāt sue him means we should all be able to safely use this.
Put it on a bunch of gas stations.
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You know I hate tankies as much as anyone else, but Iāll honestly say JoMiran is one of the few .ml users who doesnāt seem to be one.
As in, theyāre actually capable of rational thought/discussion and has some decent takes from time to time, which a tankie would be utterly incapable of
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Sigh. Anti-NATO and pro-China is not pro-Russia. If anything, we agree with you libs that China and the USA are fighting a proxy war using Russia and Ukraine as condoms.
The US provoked it, Russia started it, then China stepped in and used the opportunity to make Russia completely economically dependent on them.
Russia sucks in so many ways. Ukraine sucks way less because they were the ones who got invaded, and Iām far more on their side, but they have problems too. The people of both countries are being used and thrown away by unaccountable foreign bastards (and domestic bastards in Russiaās case).
Itās just a game to the people at the top. China wants to limit Western advancement on their western flank, and the US/NATO wants to kill Russians and advance their economic influence into countries previously dominated by Russia.
Itās two capitalist markets trying to gain power over each other. We at ml think the solution to this is to bring down capitalism, and the major other communist faction on Lemmy is to do that but bring down the state as well.
Now, does any of this sound like we are pro-Russian to you?
To your final question, yes.
Which part?
Wait what, when did anyone mention swastikas? I must have missed that part of the conversation. What I saw is that they said punks wore mickey mouse shirts. Which is a completely different thing.
Iām not here to defend .ml as an instance, I think itās garbage and most of its users are disingenuous trolls and accelerationist edge lords who would rather see the world burn with no plan to rebuild after rather than contribute in any meaningful or reasonable way to any sort of productive discussion whatsoever.
That being said, Iāve seen JoMiran around on different threads and they donāt act like the usual .ml user. Thereās a couple others too, but theyāre very much the exception rather than the rule over there. Thatās all Iām saying.
And I never listened to the sex pistols, but there are plenty of punk bands who hate nazis, and honestly the punk ethos is diametrically opposed to fascism, so that weird subgenre of nazi punk is not only an oxymoron, but theyāre also just a bunch of posers appropriating the aesthetic and not really punks. They would get chased out of any regular punk venue. Call it gatekeeping if you want but nazis are not punk, even when they try to call themselves that.
Are they big fans of gas stations over there?
Theyāre tankies. So theyāre big fans of obvious fascism and authoritarian ideas claiming itās basically anything else.
Meanwhile the US is evil incarnatez and absolutely everything they do is bad, without exception. Russia and China do no wrong. Even when they do the exact same things.
Theyāre not big fans or critical thinking over there, and aggressively ban anyone not participating in the group think.
You just replied to me to explain, in answer to my question āWhy does dou9m think that I can expect every ml user to be a fan of a gas station brand?ā is that its because they are authoritarians? Like I was making a joke obviously, but your response doesnāt actually make any sense.
Donāt worry, we all know what tankies are, and we all think they are very silly and unimportant people. Itās hard to spend any time on lemmy without knowing about them. I find the people who follow them around screaming about it to be just as annoying as they are.
So for future reference: We get it, my dude.
Donāt worry, we all know what tankies are, and we all think they are very silly and unimportant people. Itās hard to spend any time on lemmy without knowing about them.
I guarantee you a gigantic chunk of people on this site, and even more importantly, all of the people who will end up migrating to Lemmy over the following year, are going to have no idea how to even slightly define what a tankie is.
Give me a call when they hold any political power whatsoever <3
She really blew it when she decided to announce that she wasnāt going to back anyone else against establishment āleadership.ā
Sheās on a tightrope.
She has a lot of people whispering in her ear to primary Schumer in 2028, and calling for someone else to be the majority leader would essentially be a declaration of intent when sheās still weighing her options between that, running for President, accepting a VeeP nomination, or maybe joining the cabinet in 2029.
Thatās not a tightrope. Those are just different ways for her to personally respond to the same problem. She could say Chuck and Hakeem suck publicly and all of those options are still on the table.
If she doesnāt persue Schumerās seat in 2028, sheād be making a powerful senator from her own state an enemy needlessly. She has no vote in the Senate leadership, and sheās not going to change the mind of anyone who does have a say in it. Her strongest allies in the Senate are already going to vote against him. What good does publicly chastising him do?
It lets her constituents and supporters know that she understands and shares their position. Thatās the whole purpose of having a representative in the first place. They are supposed to say things on your behalf, and not only when it benefits them personally. In fact, I would argue that you canāt be a good representative if you arenāt willing to do that when it doesnāt personally benefit you.
Jeffries represents the Epstein class. Anyone voting for him is dead to me.
can you make them dead for everyone instead?
Oh, no!
Too bad Fungus Con can hand out pardons faster than Congress can indict his henchpeople
Accepting a pardon is accepting guilt. In doing so they wave their 5th amendment rights and can be compelled to testify. Which they should all be. Everything thurroughly investigated and documented. Hopefully re incriminating them and others with state charges.
Ya, none of them will actually pay any really consequences. Very good argument for limiting the pardon power of the president.
Probably a better argument for making guillotines
NGL kind of wish some of these congresspeople would stfu so the criminals have less time to prepare before January.
Criminals are going to do what criminals do. The election results were a warning, theyāll prepare for things even if everyone was quiet about it. I say keep talking, pump up their anxiety. Get Trump pissed off more, he tends to fire people then.
I remind you that the case against Trump after his first term ended relied heavily upon classified documents secretly stored in Maralago, some of which were flushed down toilets.
The secret service communication devices and servers all got āaccidentallyā wiped once congress subpeonaād them.
If we give crooks time to prepare then they will successfully destroy evidence.
I agree with that point. Iām not sure legally what can be done about that with the standing Congress, as the majority arenāt going to do anything. Plus, who is in charge of implementing law enforcement? The Executive Branch.
The ones that are smart enough already started preparing as soon as the map started to go blue.
The others are too incompetent to actually hide their crimes.
I find it hilarious that you think Republicans do or donāt do things based on how much we talk about them doing it lmao. Very gullible thinking.
Because itās Kabuki theatre. Nothing more.
Nah
Yeah. bullshit.
Democrats should be looking at making real change:
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Reducing Presidential powers substantially. No more pardons and vetos and executive orders.
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Sweeping reform with new harsh anti-corruption laws.
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Term limits for the house. two terms and done.
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Criminalize stock trading among congress.
Fix the rot going forwardā¦no? then they are just looking for their turn at the trough.
Agreed, although I think before angthing they need to prosecute every single person from John Roberts to every single person Trump has pardoned. Put them all in ICE holding cells like the terrorist illegal aliens they are.
Unfortunately it would take decades of non-uniparty rule to fix this so everyone under 30 can kiss their futures goodbye lol.
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Agree. Actions not words!
I wish American news would stop reporting on what Democrats MIGHT do ā¦ and just report on what they already did.
They keep pumping this endless hope fountain and its getting tiring ā¦ Iād rather hear about what was actually done rather than listening to the possibilities.
They donāt even get sworn into office until January 3, and youāre already upset that they havenāt done enough?
Until then, the present minority has essentially no power.
So, for now, theyāre talking about what they plan to do once they do get the majority in Congress.
š¤£ we are literally living in the onion universe
The news reports on whatever. This happens to be that whatever.
You can just, not read it?
Edit: itās HuffPo, what are you expecting???
Theyāre owned by the opposition, of course youāre getting tired of it. That is the whole fucking point lol.
magas will obstruct and ignore subpoenas and Dems will get blamed for not doing anything, hope Iām wrong and good luck!
In both parties
Youāre downvoted for this but youāre right, even though I (and probably most of the people who downvoted) assume youāre a rightwing dork.
Off the top of my head: Hailey Stevens, Schumer, Fetterman, and Jeffries are all deserving a long and litigious battle at the ICC where they are hopefully sentenced to strict punishments for being directly involved in genocide. Iād go as far to say that both Biden and Trump should be as well, which then sets a precedent for both Bush and Obama to be indicted by them as well.
And yes Iām aware about how the US feels towards the ICC, that should absolutely change too.
Itās the same dynamic as shouting all lives matter was back in the day. All lives Do matter, but that aināt why youāre saying it right now. We see you. (edit the proverbial you, not talking about the guy Iām replying to)
It is funny to me. The comment about criminals on both side infer that the right has criminals. But I am used to idiots who ignore all my condemnation of trump and the right every time I criticize dems
Donāt take it too personally, weāre all pretty much on red alert because we donāt have a reliable information pipeline like we did in the 00s/10s for a little bit
