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When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

This fight is for everything.

How stupid are these people?

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Let there be snark.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

“But what about the lurkers?”

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

People are weird.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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Speaking of Las Vegas, and Nevada in General

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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

She even calls out the corruption of the not-so Supreme Court.  Watch it if you can!

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  4. 4.

    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

  10. 10.

    cmorenc

    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…

    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.

  12. 12.

    smith

    @MattF: I see why they so hate and fear her.

    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.

  13. 13.

    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.

  15. 15.

    featheredsprite

    @Josie: I am a fellow warrior. I am working in the letters to voters arm of the Vote Forward effort.

    Forward, march!

  16. 16.

    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.

  17. 17.

    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.

  19. 19.

    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.

  20. 20.

    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.

  28. 28.

    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.

  30. 30.

    Anoniminous

    AOC would be wasted as president. She has the talent and skills to be a real power in the House.

  31. 31.

    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.

  36. 36.

    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.

  38. 38.

    JWR

    @WaterGirl:

    Did you not see the h/t to trollhattan up top?

    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.

  45. 45.

    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.

  46. 46.

    Raoul Paste

    That was an impressive AOC clip.   She picked up the gangsta comment, went with it, and didn’t miss a beat

  47. 47.

    gene108

    @waspuppet:

    The other reason they hate and fear her (besides racism and sexism, but that goes without saying)

    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. 🤯

  48. 48.

    Spanky

    I just got an email ping from the FTFNYT:

    Five exercises for a better sex life

    So they’re going up against Men’s Health now for clicks and giggles?

  49. 49.

    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.

  52. 52.

    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.

  53. 53.

    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

    @WereBear

     

    @Josie

     

    @zhena (her whole nym)

    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

  60. 60.

    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.

  63. 63.

    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.

  64. 64.

    JWR

    @TBone:

    Video at link re: Project 2025

    Damn, that Nazi dude is a friggin’ Nazi

    ETA Double damn, that guy, Kevin Roberts, is heartless in his ignorance.

  65. 65.

    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.

  66. 66.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Protestors are big mad at AOC for supporting Biden and condemning acts of Anti-Semitism.

    I told you a long time ago these protestors are anti-democrat. That they are protesting AOC, Bernie and Bowman is the icing on the cake to their movement. They are also now shifting to align with white nationalist like Nick Fuentes who is a neo nazi

  67. 67.

    UncleEbeneezer

    NO COLLUSION!!1!

    CNN — A Republican strategist was sentenced Friday to 1.5 years in prison for facilitating an illegal contribution from a Russian businessman to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.

    Jessie Benton, who worked for the pro-Trump super PAC and was a longtime aide to former GOP Rep. Ron Paul, was convicted by a federal jury in November on several charges, including conspiring to solicit an illegal foreign campaign contribution.

    Both the Trump campaign and Trump himself were not aware of the scheme involving Russian money, the Justice Department has said.

    According to evidence presented at trial, Benton helped a Russian national secure a ticket to a Republican National Committee event in 2016, where he would have the opportunity to meet and take a picture with Trump. The Russian national paid Benton $100,000 to get the ticket, prosecutors said.

    Benton created a fake invoice suggesting he had received the money for consulting services, donated $25,000 of that money under his own name to the RNC to get a ticket to the event and pocketed the remaining $75,000.

    A veteran GOP operative, Benton has now been convicted of crimes related to the 2016 and 2012 elections.

    He was previously convicted of falsifying federal records as part of a plot to buy an endorsement from an Iowa state senator, who flipped her support to Paul during the 2012 Republican primary. Trump pardoned Benton for those crimes in late 2020, wiping those convictions off the books.

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