AOC Blowing up the DNC

[FNFAN]

Prepare to get #triggered . Fair warning.

I don't care.

I'm a single-issue voter. I will happily vote for anybody who will work to put a fully-automatic, suppressed SBR in my hands, sans Freedom Tax. That is my sole criteria. I don't even think that it's about some "guns are the most important issue-blah-bah-freedom-blah-blah" stuff.

(1) I am an asshole.
(2) Every other group wants to trade votes for Free Stuff. Why shouldn't I trade my vote for an M4?
(3) Government is completely inept anyway. Why do you think I prefer my government teensy and weak? Not to lower taxes, to limit the amount of damage they can do.

Now, it just so happens that the people that don't want to do all the crazy shit you mentioned, also are at least leaning towards giving me guns. Maybe not machineguns, but hey, baby steps. So I can be a single-issue voter without voting for anarchy. But yeah--I happily sit out of local elections.

Remember--the other side, the True Believers of Disarmament, they're completely fucking crazy. They'd do anything to achieve their goal. If you wanna fight 'em, you have to get crazy, too.

Your post doesn't trigger me. It just makes me sad. Different strokes.

[vcdgrips]

Joe PNG
I appreciate the honest back and forth.

My core points are we are too quick to dismiss those with whom we do not agree

Admittedly painting w a bit of a broad brush

Those on the right are too quick to focus on how a female political figure on the left looks v. Her political prowess
Those on the right do not apply that same “standard” to females on the right. Ergo my mention of the Trump sisters, Meghan McCain etc.

FWIW

[Joe in PNG]

Joe PNG
I appreciate the honest back and forth.

My core points are we are too quick to dismiss those with whom we do not agree

Admittedly painting w a bit of a broad brush

Those on the right are too quick to focus on how a female political figure on the left looks v. Her political prowess
Those on the right do not apply that same “standard” to females on the right. Ergo my mention of the Trump sisters, Meghan McCain etc.

FWIW

I honestly don't really care how she looks, or how the other ladies you mention look. Truth is, I don't follow those gals either.

There are people who get more involved with how a person looks, or what group/ tribe a person represents over what they are actually saying. The stupid stuff she says tends to overshadow the substance of her position, and her position, while well intentioned, is to basically turn us into Venezuela.

One can make the point that she gets away with saying some pretty stupid stuff because she's attractive, or that she's in the place she is because of her youth and looks. The use of young and attractive spokespeople to sell a product is an old and honored tradition after all. And all this sudden national attention, backed by the very rich she supposedly is fighting aginst, gives the cynic in me pause. Why is she being pushed as some sort of party future?

[Cypher]

If Dear Leader Ocasio-Cortez needs a first gentleman I could accommodate her. Solely for the glory of the Revolution of course ;-)

I don't get it. No matter how many times I look at that woman I just can't see her as attractive.

ETA I don't understand how people can watch her discuss economic issues and NOT think she's stupid

[TCinVA]

Her actions with her fundraising show she is not stupid. She is, she believes, the forefront of a political revolution.

It is her way or the highway. People who don’t obey don’t get resources. And should be run out of the party into darkness.

In other words, she’s being a good socialist.

[blues]

Her actions with her fundraising show she is not stupid. She is, she believes, the forefront of a political revolution.

It is her way or the highway. People who don’t obey don’t get resources. And should be run out of the party into darkness.

In other words, she’s being a good socialist.

"What're you in for, kid?

"I called AOC a horse-faced bitch on P-F"

"Jeez, that's some hard luck."

"How 'bout you?"

"Me?, I admitted to owning a Taurus."

[Glenn E. Meyer]

As far as her being 'dumb' - here's her education background. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-resume/

Not bad. I will be gone when she is president, having beaten Ivanka.

[blues]

As far as her being 'dumb' - here's her education background. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-resume/

Not bad. I will be gone when she is president, having beaten Ivanka.

Either of those two bitches fine women run and I will be starting a new birther movement.

[Borderland]

Yes, let's game the gun control vote by sitting out and end up with a nation where you can set your newly born child in a dark room until it expires, or shank it in the back of the head as it emerges from the birth canal cause it's a reproductive right. Let's out-fox the elections and see open borders with chain migration rights. Let's be play it smart and get some folks in who'll decimate the armed forces, again, while doubling down on their operational tempo and giving them untenable rules of engagement. Let's thrill them with our acumen and let a terrorist organization teach our primary investigative body how to deal with terrorist organizations.

What have we got to lose?

AOC is demonstrating that the DNC needs to be kneecapped, just like Trump kneecapped the GOP. He was their last choice as a candidate and in time he became their only viable candidate. Early on the GOP tried everything they could to stop him. People like Trump and AOC get elected in spite of 2 party politics and PAC's, which is bad for this country. If you don't believe me just look around.

[fixer]

Good.
A full blown American Socialist/Communist Party breaking away from the DNC would not only weaken the DNC but would unmask the true intentions of the hard left.
No matter what Twitter says the US is still a long, long ways away from embracing Progressive Socialism/Communism.

This is my positive side and I agree with it.

Everything else I consume as information inflames the pessimistic side: America is on a hopeless future train wreck of socialism and it will occur in the remainder of my time on earth. There are huge swaths of folks who want their damn socialism and they will have it. They won't re think their plans, if even then, when the conflict goes hot.