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.
And she’s fucking right.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They say that because it’s just an excuse, they don’t like him and they don’t like his ideas.
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)
Nancy Pelosi does need to retire but she’s better than Chuck “Folding Chair” Schumer.
She’s RIGHT! Which is why I’m GLAD the DNC is tapping Known Fighters JOE BIDEN and KAMALA HARRIS to come back!
Yes. Go primary Chuck out of office and make somebody with a fucking spine the minority leader.
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.
Don’t forget Bernie, he’s been going around the country holding how to fight the oligarchy rallies
Yeah 😢 It’s sad that an 83 year old is one of our strongest fighters. I believe he is also not seeking reelection.
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.
No. He’s been holding “please fight the oligarchy” rallies while saying little to nothing on how.
From what I’ve read, he’s being pretty clear about primarying moderate “Democrats” and voting out Republicans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
lol I still would rather they just start a third party, but maybe I could get behind Guillotine Democrats
The “tea party” was never a third party. They were a faction of the republican party.
And DNC says it’s time to just be turtles.
Please let dnc finally clean house
No, we need to take over the Democratic party. If you realistically want to actually win as opposed to grandstand.
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.