This is AOC speaking in Las Vegas, campaigning for Jacky Rosen and Joe Biden, but especially Jacky Rosen, I think. Republicans are coming hard after Jacky Rosen’s seat. You will recall that earlier this year we raised funds for Four Directions in Nevada.
Well, we’re not stopping there.
Just to give you a little peek ahead, we are trying to connect with a couple of organizations in Nevada to see if they might be a good fit with our strategic fundraising. That’s all I’ll say for now.
Check out this 2-minute barn burner of a close from AOC. I like AOC and I think she’s good for Democrats overall, but I’m not one of the “oh, she should be president one day” club. Bat damn, I got goosebumps watching her closing here. h/t trollhattan
AOC: I have a message for this conservative court and Donald J. Trump. The women and people of this state do not consent. And the woman and people of this country certainly do not consent to Donald Trump nor this corrupt court that he has enabled. pic.twitter.com/I6MfefIrae
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 22, 2024
She even calls out the corruption of the not-so Supreme Court. Watch it if you can!
Baud
👍
WaterGirl
@Baud:
Use your words, Baud! :-)
Juju.
Dayam!! She’s really good at that.
Josie
I just signed up with Post Cards to Swing States. This group lets you choose where you want your post cards to go, and I chose Nevada. They supply the cards and a choice of messages, and the writer supplies the written message and the stamps. I will be writing a few each day all this summer so that I can mail my cards in October as directed. I’m kind of excited to be doing this, since I don’t like door knocking or phone banking
Dorothy A. Winsor
AOC is a talented politician
Baud
@WaterGirl:
☹️
WaterGirl
@Baud: hahaha
You are so clever and interesting, emojis pale in comparison!
WaterGirl
@Josie: That’s excellent!
I need to update the postcard options in the sidebar.
MattF
I see why they so hate and fear her.
cmorenc
Some politicians are best-suited to be visionary activists for the policies and country we should be striving to achieve, but not so much the role of the messy role of achieving successful, if often frustratingly imperfect executive implementation. Though AOC is a distinctly different in many ways from Bernie Sanders, nonetheless they are alike in both being in the category I just described.
Looking at another era (Civil War), Thaddeus Stevens was in this same general category of an effective visionary advocate who would probably not have been well-suited to be President. OTOH, Abraham Lincoln was the rare sort of character who was effective at both roles. OTOH, Joe Biden is a good example of someone who is extremely good at achieving frustratingly imperfect executive implementation, while (alas) not as good as we would wish at selling the visionary part.
wmd
She’s got fire in her belly.
smith
I always thought AOC was a major reason Empty Greene is so nutsy. There’s no way Greene can match either her political impact or personal style, and it drives her crazy. Jasmine Crockett has recently been added to the mix as well, so poor Empty’s being double-teamed.
waspuppet
I really like that she called Trump “a gangster, and not in a good way.”
I don’t know whether she’s ready to run in 2028, and I do wish we could break the dynamic of “I like this person, therefore they should be president.” But I wouldn’t write her off as a candidate someday either.
@MattF: The other reason they hate and fear her (besides racism and sexism, but that goes without saying) is that she’s serious when it’s time to be serious, and she takes no mess, but she also has fun. They can’t call her a humorless, screeching harpy (I mean they can but no one believes it), and that drives them crazy. She drives home the fact that, 40 years of propaganda notwithstanding, conservatives are NOT the cool, fun ones.
pika
@Josie: I’ve been writing with them since 2020, and they’ve really refined their operation!
featheredsprite
@Josie: I am a fellow warrior. I am working in the letters to voters arm of the Vote Forward effort.
Forward, march!
WaterGirl
@waspuppet: I don’t think OAC is anywhere near ready to run in 2028 or otherwise, but I do think she’s very effective where she is.
And she does have talent as a politician. AOC adding “and not gangster in a good way” shows that she is thinking on her feet. She responded to the audience suggestion that Trump is a gangster, repeated it, caught herself because in some circle gangster is a good thing, and seamlessly added “and note in a good way” without losing a beat.
Kudos to her.
WaterGirl
@waspuppet: Jasmine Crockett is also hot, and hip (for lack of a better word) and I like that Jasmine takes a fair amount of heat away from AOC.
Attractive, smart, and in your face in the best way – I think it drives Republicans mad. Moskowitz has it too, though he’s not female so it plays out differently with the Rs.
WaterGirl
Okay, this is totally unrelated to everything, but I think it’s sweet.
JWR
I’m so old I watched the AOC clip way back when it was posted by trollhattan in the last thread! ;)
But yeah, she is good. Damn good, if you ask me.
ETA fixed. For clarity.
BR
I’ve never been an AOC supporter but never a detractor either, and I think she’s ready if she wanted to run for president in 2028. Unlike some other backbenchers in congress who are all about soundbites and grift, she seems to be serious about the job in all its respects.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@WaterGirl: What is Gene Rayburn
JWR
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: What is Pat Sajak.
WereBear
@Josie: I signed up, too. It was easy, and that helped, but I have enough time to make sure I’ll get mine done.
I let them pick my state. :)
Juju
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Dead?
WereBear
Are Canadians taking over our game shows? MAGA exclusive — the threat from the north, eh?
rikyrah
Always doing the work, WG.
Thank you 👍🏾
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Juju:
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TBone
May I point out the difference between gangster and gangsta? It cannot be easily audibly distinguished, but the difference is real.
AOC is gangsta.
WaterGirl
@JWR: Did you not see the h/t to trollhattan up top?
Anoniminous
AOC would be wasted as president. She has the talent and skills to be a real power in the House.
counterfactual
From what little I’ve followed of AOC’s career, she’s not angling for President but Speaker of the House in a few years.
EarthWindFire
@Josie: Thank you for posting this! Just signed up for Michigan.
WaterGirl
@counterfactual: She can have Speaker whenever Jeffries retires, and not before! :-)
dc
@WaterGirl: I love that they highlight that he was an immigrant.
WereBear
Now I need to buy 300 Postcard Stamps. But I’ll also pace that task :)
Josie
I don’t know how to reply to more than one commenter and don’t want to clog up the thread with multiple messages. Thanks to those who are signing up to write and to those who are already writing, no matter which group you choose. Together we can make a difference.
zhena gogolia
Good clip.
JWR
@WaterGirl:
Yes, but the name was necessary for my little “joke”, which wasn’t much of even a little one. And I went so far as to link to the original comment just because it was there, I could, and so I did. Force of habit, I suppose.
trollhattan
California peeps: Newsom has announced the deal hammered out with the Leg. for the 24-25 budget, and beyond. (New FY begins July 1.) Happy fun times of big surpluses are over, for now.
https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-budget-deal-4/#:~:text=Gov.%20Newsom%20and%20legislative%20leaders,the%20state's%20rainy%20day%20fund.
WaterGirl
@dc: Yes! I caught that, too! Well done.
Melancholy Jaques
@trollhattan:
Nothing gold can stay
gkoutnik
@Josie: Thanks for the info. Just exactly what I can do and need to do. I just sent for 200 cards and addresses in Nevada to start.
Melancholy Jaques
@counterfactual:
I think the US senate is more likely, but I’m just a spectator from the left coast.
159 for the sta,ps.
@Josie: Me too, I got my 300 for, GA and it was $159 or so for the stamps.
Mike in NC
We went to a cat adoption fair this morning after being told they had a Ragdoll available. Unfortunately, we were also told the cat (a male about 7 years old) doesn’t get along with other cats at all and that left us out of the picture (we have boy Ragdolls age 8 and 9). We’re also way too old to be chasing kittens around the house, and they had several to choose from.
Raoul Paste
That was an impressive AOC clip. She picked up the gangsta comment, went with it, and didn’t miss a beat
gene108
@waspuppet:
AOC’s good looking, and Republican men know they got know shot. Has to hurt their egos.
It’s part of the dynamic when people finally figured out Taylor Swift isn’t a good ole’ country gal or a Nazi Aryan princess.
Liberals have all the popular hotties on our side. 😁
Drives conservatives bonkers. 🤯
Spanky
I just got an email ping from the FTFNYT:
So they’re going up against Men’s Health now for clicks and giggles?
jowriter
@WaterGirl: You are spot on. Jeffries is right for this time, but I see her as a worth successor to our first woman Speaker. She has really grown from her place in the Squad to someone with a more broadminded view of what our Democratic coalition must look like, along with a capacity to speak to that coalition. May she continue to mature as a real leader for the future.
WaterGirl
@159 for the sta,ps.: Welcome to commenting! Unless you have a typo in your nym that you want me to fix? m instead of a comma?
Baud
@Spanky:
1. Forearm curls.
Spanky
Still hanging out online here, since I see the temp outside is 94 and the dewpoint is 69. The sky is a steel-gray haze.
WaterGirl
@Josie: If I want to reply to you, WereBear and zhena (#35,#36 and #37), here’s what I do.
I click reply to WereBear and then I click the ‘X” to close the box. Then I hit reply on Josie and click the X. Then I hit reply to zhena.
At that point it should look like
Then I can delete the extra spaces and type whatever i want to say to all of you.
OR
If I want to say something different to each of you, I just click in the space between them and type the appropriate message under the appropriate nym
WaterGirl
@JWR: Got it! Good linking to the comment!
WaterGirl
@Mike in NC: Disappointing! They should have told you that up front!
They probably hoped you’d get there and settle for some other cat when that didn’t work out.
TBone
@jowriter: she’s a real leader right now, all grown up and everything.
WaterGirl
@jowriter:
Amen!
WaterGirl
@Baud: I see what you did there. LOL
Josie
@WaterGirl:
Thanks. I’m going to save this in my “Internet for Dummies” folder.
Lynn Dee
AOC has a lot of natural talent and she also really seems to be paying attention and learning everything she can. I admire all of that. Remains to be seen where she goes with it. Her future remains unwritten, meaning I don’t think she’s closed anything off at this point, intentionally or otherwise.
TBone
Let them show their whole entire cuckoobananas cockamamie asses, Digby sez.
I agree. Video at link re: Project 2025
https://digbysblog.net/2024/06/22/they-are-fanatics/
Citizen Alan
@waspuppet: TBH, I would much rather see AOC as a Senator from NY than as a failed Presidential candidate.
kindness
AOC was in Las Vegas on Thursday, eh? I wonder if she ran off and saw Dead & Co at the Sphere? Their residency there is Thurs-Saturday nights till middle of August. Don’t laugh. I went a few weekends back. Incredible fun. The D&C Sphere shows. Vegas…. meh. Food was good. 100 degrees always sucks.
JWR
@TBone:
Damn, that Nazi dude is a friggin’ Nazi
ETA Double damn, that guy, Kevin Roberts, is heartless in his ignorance.
Ruckus
@cmorenc:
I’m not sure that a real middle road visionary would actually be as valuable as we might wish, given that there seems to be two sides that seem to be blind to any kind of center. That blindness or unwillingness to work the other side is, I believe, because of the level of communications, good or bad, that we have in this day and age. Add in that the right has been slowly losing their grasp of what the majority of the country seem to want – to move forward, while what the right seems to want, for the majority of the right, is to move backasswards about a century.
UncleEbeneezer
Protestors are big mad at AOC for supporting Biden and condemning acts of Anti-Semitism.
UncleEbeneezer
NO COLLUSION!!1!
BR
@UncleEbeneezer:
Where is the Fuentes bit in this video? I don’t get it.
TBone
@JWR: 👍😣😡
Everyone needs to see it. Looking away is not an option.