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    She’s one of only half a handful of Dems that sound ready to lead people into battle. The difference between how she uses knowledge and intelligence to speak to people is in stark comparison to Trump sounding exactly like he has dementia. She listens and responds. Trump just keeps interrupting any question he doesn’t like. Fuck you Maga. Fuck you entirely. You god damn idiots.

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      What’s funny is I was almost going to call Sanders out for, absolutely looking too old for this shit. He’s more competent than RFK.

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    I hope she will be successful in actually overtaking the party to some degree, as most high-ranking party members would certainly see that differently

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    I feel like this is actually what republicans want. Feels like they want another minority woman to run right into them again. She’s wonderful but it feels like political sabotage.

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      Nobody liked Hillary or Kamala before they ran. It was them becoming the front-runner that forced to party to turn about face on them. AOC on the otherhand… Is beloved

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    I still have to lol about how the stupid qons tried to use her dancing in university as some kind of BAD thing.

    Back when Denver Post still had a comment section and they’d allow gifs, and if the topic was AOC, I’d post her dancing. A few of the local wingnuts would try to get me banned/my posts removed over it, esp. if one of the qanon mods was on-duty…

    She’s the best. Why the buzzkills in the unhinged right tried to paint a beautiful intelligent rep like AOC dancing during college as a bad thing is anyone’s guess, but that sure as fuck blew up in their faces…

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    Weird. The party that claims to be “for the people” keeps putting centrists in charge. We’re ready for someone who is actually for the people!

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        “It’s my turn.” was everything wrong with Hillary’s campaign in a nut shell.

        How the fuck are you able to make yourself look like an unhinged ego-maniac who just wants to be President for the sake of being President, when you’re running against Trump? That shouldn’t be possible.

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          How the fuck are you able to make yourself look like an unhinged ego-maniac who just wants to be President for the sake of being President, when you’re running against Trump?

          This isn’t a problem of Trumpism, it’s a naturally occurring brainworm in Americans broadly speaking. Trump’s a nasty dim-witted freak, so watching him climb to the top of the pile we’ve been raised to believe was a meritocracy causes all sorts of cognitive dissonance. But everyone running for President (except maybe Mike Gravel) ends up looking like this. The thing that separates the Obamas and Trumps from the Hillarys and McCains is whether cheering for the unhinged ego-maniac feels fun or not.

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      She’s just the most recent candidate. The most recent candidates, and most recent Presidents and Vice Presidents are almost always in these sorts of lists, especially in the weeks and months following an election, before the next campaign starts.

      Joe Biden was a favorite in these sorts of polls in 2015/16, despite saying he wouldn’t run, because he was just VP.

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    I promise you the Democratic Party will do whatever it takes to keep her away from leadership roles because she actually wants to change things.

    That’s the one thing the Democratic Party is consistent on: rejecting progressives, even if it means letting the conservatives win.

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    I’ve been saying for about 5 years, maybe better, that she is the person I am most excited to vote for as president of the United States one day.

    I don’t even have another name in mind.

    I will be as happy to vote for her as I was for Sanders in the primaries, twice. I legit can’t wait.

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      How about Jasmine Crockett? I hope between the two of them, they start inspiring and generating tons more to go into politics.

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        Hope Crockett gets to be gov of texas… She reminds me of Ann Richards in all the best ways. She’d make a great president too.

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    We should be so lucky to have a party she represents in this country. The only reason she has that seat is by defying the DNC as a spoiler. They only elevate politicians to the Federal level on the basis of how good they’ve proven they are at collecting that sweet, sweet corpo bribe money.

    The DNC and democratic leadership would rather dissappear her Than Trump by a mile.

    The pendulum is the point. Both parties are well bribed to maintain the capitalist’s murderous control. Good cop and bad cop are both just fine with mass homelessness and entire murder for profit confidence scheme market sectors. One laughs at you when the capitalists cause you harm, the other just shrugs and says “golly gee market forces nothing we can do! But I affirm your right to die horribly as who you are here in this cardboard box under a freeway! Pronouns are free so whatever I still get bribed 😁” (edit to be clear, respecting others identity is the right thing to do and basic decency, but there’s a hierarchy of needs, self-actualization only matters if you have your basic needs met. You cannot live in an affirmation ribbon, you cannot eat a preferred pronoun, priorities.)

    If the Democrats were led by someone talking about redistribution, that bribe gravy train would stop. If by some miracle AOC manages to steal the party out from under them as Trump did the RNC, the DNC would be fighting her every move and comment the way we wish they were countering Trump right now. In fact, here’s how Democrat leadership spent the months leading to Trump’s inauguration:

    https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/aoc-pelosi-oversight-committee-connolly-raskin

    Defending the country from one of the only slightly left Reps in the entire federal government.

    Democrats like Schumer and Pelosi are far closer to Trump than AOC.

    https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775

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    Zero chance the DNC will run her. They’ll give us another white bread, right of center, compromise candidate. The Overton window has shifted so far right we need to build a new wall to house it.

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      Oh I fully expect Democrats to endorse Trump for a third term if the alternative is a real progressive.

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    My concern is that now that Trump is in office and project 2025 is in full swing, that we will never see another fair election again.