Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called for Democrats to elect “brawlers” who fight for the working class to counter GOP power and oppose policies endorsed by figures like Elon Musk.

Speaking alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders in Las Vegas, she criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for not filibustering a GOP spending bill and labeled the decision a “tremendous mistake.”

Ocasio-Cortez urged voters to support candidates willing to take bold stances.

She continues her “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Sanders across Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona.

165 points

And she’s fucking right.

Nancy Pelosi has got to go.

The boomers except for Bernie have got to go. (which does not include Nancy, she’s fucking silent generation)

We need ACTUAL young blood, not 74-years-young.

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33 points
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Bernie is so old that he’s a Silent Generation and not even a Boomer, however Bernie has more energy and larger backbone than most Democrats ever have had.

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8 points

Yes, those things are true. And he’s the exception.

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41 points

Honestly I think Bernie should go too. He deserves a good retirement after a long career of solid work. We need people in office who can run the show for the next thirty years.

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78 points

The Democratic Party has been saying Bernie is too old for over 10 years and yet he’s still has more energy & competency than 95% of the lot. He absolutely deserves a good retirement but he’ll never get that.

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29 points

He’s doing a great job. When I say Pelosi and Schumer should go, it’s because they’re cowards at best and traitors at worst and they should be replaced by young people who are…not those things. When I say Sanders should go, it’s because he’s done a great job, he deserves a vacation and the opportunity to write his memoirs, and there should be someone younger at the ready to take the mantle.

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I’m not sure the time he has left in him but, while he is up and going, he…we should be grooming his replacement. Not AOC either. Not that she wouldn’t be a good one. It’s that we could use the numbers. I wouldn’t want 2 to turn into 1. We have to have someone lined up and ready to go from the get go.

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1 point

They say that because it’s just an excuse, they don’t like him and they don’t like his ideas.

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16 points

He deserves it, but he is staying alive by sheer force of patriotism and duty. I don’t think he knows how or wants to retire. Not while things are still so fucked up

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9 points

Bernie should go if and only if he’s passing the torch to a suitable replacement. (or by his own choice whenever that would be)

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3 points

Right, and that’s one thing I’m worried about. Because at some point, it no longer becomes his choice. The man will die someday, and if he dies in office without an appropriate successor coming up behind him, things will be quantifiably worse.

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5 points

I will miss him, but it’s better to select a successor to endorse than to die in office

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3 points

Yeah me too, he should be trying to find like minded talent to fill his seat. And maybe work on building the “resistance”.

He is great but he is also aging.

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5 points

Nancy Pelosi does need to retire but she’s better than Chuck “Folding Chair” Schumer.

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12 points

Would you rather have a 3 ton or a 4 ton elephant standing on your head?

IOW, it doesn’t matter whose worse, they BOTH need to go.

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2 points

If public schools were segregated when you attended school you should step down.

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4 points

She’s RIGHT! Which is why I’m GLAD the DNC is tapping Known Fighters JOE BIDEN and KAMALA HARRIS to come back!

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36 points

Yes. Go primary Chuck out of office and make somebody with a fucking spine the minority leader.

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54 points
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I want AOC, Warren, Jasmine Crockett, and Buttigeg. They have been the only politicians in rank that I’ve felt have been representing. And Walz, too.

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42 points

Don’t forget Bernie, he’s been going around the country holding how to fight the oligarchy rallies

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29 points

Yeah 😢 It’s sad that an 83 year old is one of our strongest fighters. I believe he is also not seeking reelection.

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6 points

He’s not far off my mother’s age and she’s doing great so I have that to compare to but jaaayyysus… I would not want to be fighting as hard as he is at his age. Man deserves some rest.

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No. He’s been holding “please fight the oligarchy” rallies while saying little to nothing on how.

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25 points

From what I’ve read, he’s being pretty clear about primarying moderate “Democrats” and voting out Republicans.

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21 points

Elizabeth Warren talks a big game, but she shrivels under pressure. I’d love her if she were half the person she claims to be.

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8 points

Honestly, I’ll take that any day of the week. It’s far better than someone like Newsom who is actively courting right wing figureheads so he can agree with them about how bad progressives are.

The party would be so much better if we could get rid of the members that hate progressives.

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9 points

I would like for them to split off from the party and start a new movement dedicated to fighting for the people. They have the influence to start a way stronger 3rd party than modern is politics has ever seen.

At bare minimum, they should band together as a new sect of the Democratic Party and establish that their ring of the party advocates for people instead of oligarchs.

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13 points

They need to do a progressive takeover of the democratic party. Just like how the MAGA extremists took over the republic party

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4 points

Then you’ll have GOP for decades as the non-GOP vote splits between parties.

The US is solidly a two party system and you need to work within it.

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8 points

Exactly this. When the GOP had similar problems, they sparked the “Tea Party” that ended up taking over the party.

We need a “Guillotine Party” to do the same for the Democrats.

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3 points

lol I still would rather they just start a third party, but maybe I could get behind Guillotine Democrats

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The “tea party” was never a third party. They were a faction of the republican party.

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7 points

I agree with this. The time to split is now.

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32 points

And DNC says it’s time to just be turtles.

Please let dnc finally clean house

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6 points

Turtles is too kind. It’s more like fainting goats

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1 point

Never will. We need a new party, not a new democrat

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12 points

No, we need to take over the Democratic party. If you realistically want to actually win as opposed to grandstand.

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And how do you propose we wrest control of the Democratic Party from its corporate overlords and put the power in the hands of the working class?

Seems about as farfetched as a new party imo, but I’d love to hear a realistic plan.

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