Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

We still have time to mess this up!

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

It’s a doggy dog world.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

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  2. 2.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Not an AOC fan, but as she matures and gains knowledge and discipline like this, I can become one.

  3. 3.

    patrick II

    I saw this earlier today and it was extraordinary. As I started to write this I was watching Stacy Abrams being interviewed by Rachel and was thinking that there are a number of remarkably talented women in the democratic party right now.

  4. 4.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    There’s been a leak of Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf’s speech to the federal officers being deployed to Chicago:

    Soldiers, no poor sap ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by being all that he can be. Damn the torpedoes, or give me death! Eternal vigilance is the price of duty. And, to the victors go the spoils. So remember: you are the best of the best of the few and the proud. So ask not what your country can do for you, only regret that you have but one life to live! The war against the violent leftists will be won! Fellow Patriots, let the first shot be fired! Search out the Demonrats and frag ’em all!

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

    I’ve been looking forward to seeing this one.  I did watch Yoho’s non-apology.  It was.  Very short.  And ridiculous.

    C-Span has the whole thing up.  Great alternative programming to der Trump.

  7. 7.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    I’d also like to add my support for AOC. Yoho is a total prick and he didn’t mean his “apology” at all

  9. 9.

    Alison Rose

    Yeah, I am so done with men acting like “I have female family members” is some sort of defense against being called sexist. It’s their version of the Black friend. (Although I’d bet a lot of them also use that line whenever they get called out for racism.)

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    Jay

    Mayor Wheeler appeared shocked by federal officers' unprovoked use of tear gas. But this was nothing new for protesters who’ve experienced the same attacks coming from the Portland Police Bureau—an agency Wheeler directly oversees—for the past 55 days. https://t.co/hCtEJW7WUM— Alex Zielinski (@alex_zee) July 23, 2020

  12. 12.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    If Yoohoo was a baby seal and AOC the hunter with a club, there would just be a puddle where the baby seal used to be.

    Brutally honest.

  14. 14.

    Villago Delenda Est

    She is so classy, so brilliant an orator, so filled with emotion without going all Jimmy Swaggart on us.

     

    I want to bear her children.

  15. 15.

    Jay

    Did Tear-Gas Teddy just claim that there wasn't any substantial evidence of PPB collaboration with Proud Boys? On camera? Definitely didn't laugh out loud when we heard that. That would be very immature. Here, have a thread of threads to go with your other threads.— Always Antifascist (@RoseCityAntifa) July 23, 2020

    Gaslight Nation indeed.

  19. 19.

    Emma

    *snaps x10000000000* I have no idea if Yoho had the guts to be in the audience for that, but I choose to believe that he was what she was looking at. Edit: also, are there any Pirates of the Caribbean satires of Yoho? There’s got to be a way to do a clever “Yoho, Yoho, something-that-fits-the-rhythm”

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    frosty

    Baby Seals? (Not the best metaphor) Portland? Every now and then I’d like to see post comments stay on topic for a little while. This was a good one to talk about.

    I’ve been impressed with AOC from the start, other than that swerve to endorse primary candidates that weren’t (IMHO) the best choices for their districts. She’s a hell of a speaker.

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    Elizabelle

    Just watched it.  AOC is an amazing speaker.  No verbal tics.  Straightforward.  Eloquent.   Doing this for the little girls and no longer little girls in her orbit.

    Proud of her.

    Mentions she is 2 years younger than Yoho’s younger daughter.  Thwack.

  24. 24.

    BellyCat

    When a politician can give a person chills listening to them, they are worth keeping an eye on — especially when they are only 30 years old. Stunning response by AOC.

  26. 26.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Elizabelle:

    Mentions she is 2 years younger than Yoho’s younger daughter.  Thwack.

    That specific reference by AOC was the coup de grace for me.  Also, I truly appreciate your use of “thwack”. It makes for very nice imagery.

  27. 27.

    HumboldtBlue

    @BellyCat:

    Obama 2004.

    Ayanna Pressley is raising her voice as well and Symone Sanders is getting ready to be internationally known as Biden’s campaign keeps rolling along. That’s just off the top of my head.

  28. 28.

    oldster

    I’m very impressed by AOC.

    She really exemplifies the old saying that courage isn’t a lack of fear, but doing what you know is right, even when you’re afraid.

    There are steelier people, less emotional people, more sarcastic people, people who look like nothing hurts them, and they can be impressive in their own way. Obama certainly showed less emotion, for instance.

    But AOC is more relatable, exactly because she shows you that it hurts. But she still says what she needs to say. She lets her passion and her sense of justice carry her through the pain.

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    HumboldtBlue

    @oldster:

    But AOC is more relatable, exactly because she shows you that it hurts. But she still says what she needs to say. She lets her passion and her sense of justice carry her through the pain.

    Well said.

    On a far shittier note, the President of the United States sat down for an interview with Dave Portnoy.

    This is Dave Portnoy (standing)

    He started the online sports site Barstool sports.

    I am unclear why or how this interview took place and its purpose could not be a greater mystery.

  30. 30.

    Tony Gerace

    @skerry: Wow, she is great.  Intelligence, integrity and guts.  I hope she runs for president in a few years when she’s 35.  She’ll have my vote.

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    Salty Sam

    There have been so many “performative” speeches made on the floor of Congress- you can watch them and deduce who the intended audience is and what the coded message is embedded in the speech. Yoho’s “apology” was one of those.

    But AOC’s takedown today was just her speaking her brilliant shining truth to ALL misogynist assholes everywhere. She is a force to be reckoned with, and I look forward to following her political career as she grows into it.

  32. 32.

    stinger

    At 6:00 in, I was giving her a one-person standing ovation in my living room. And stayed standing to the end. That was GREAT.

  33. 33.

    Benw

    Ted Yoho, the man who caused the speech that made everyone realize that AOC was a legit prez candidate. Thanks, Ted Yoho!

  35. 35.

    Neldob

    Right on AOC! guess it was nut cuttin time as LBJ used to say. A truck just drove by with Yolos.

  36. 36.

    laura

    To end with gratitude for that shite-bag elevated an already powerful speech. That was an amazing and powerful lesson in truth and power. She’s one to keep an eye on.

  38. 38.

    azlib

    Brilliant oratory. I do not agree with all her policy positions, but she is smart and capable and is comfortable in her own skin. What a takedown!

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Was it Pierce who said that watching her now is like watching Jordan at North Carolina?  We all have to remember she is still at the beginning of her career.  She should get even better.

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    DaveInOz

    I hadn’t had a chance to watch the full thing until today. That was a very impressive speech. I’ve been impressed with AOC since she arrived in congress. She’s going to be a very big presence in the Democratic Party in the years to come, I think.

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