He didn’t take her class when she was a conservative at UT; he took her class when she was a progressive at Harvard.
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Fucking racists, gonna racist.
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I don’t think JUST Seth Rich and Benghazi would have been enough. Those things resonated more because they already had over 20 years of invented, comic-book-worthy villiany to make them credible to the erm, easily convinced.
Most of our contenders were never in the position to really have much material with that ominous tone to work with. Elizabeth Warren, for instance, was a teacher. I guess they could say she was bumping off other professors, but meh, it lacks zazz.
It’s another good reason, I think, to start picking younger candidates.
And Rep. Omar. It’s super easy to see that any female or PoC politician will immediately have a conspiracy about sexual deviancy and killing people.
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Yes, I can’t image how much of the covid relief aid went in little nazi piggy banks.
lol, yes. >.> I dunno where that came from.
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They literally say AOC is an actress who is playing the part of a politician in order to cover up the real puppet master. That’s a thing that exists in right wing media right now, and you don’t have to get obscure to find it.
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Yeah, there’s no arguing AOC or Ilhan Omar. It’s a rotten shame. I’m not saying it’s impossible, granted, we elected someone named Barack Hussein Obama a few years after 9/11, but frankly America is just too bigoted and anti-socialist.
The question is, would you run AOC or Ilhan Omar against Trump? Would you take the high road and pick the best candidate for the job, and risk another four years of Trump? Pragmatism would dictate just getting him out of office and building a new momentum to usher in someone like them down the road, wouldn’t it?
From Parliament and the British Slave Trade: Key dates
1807
The Act to abolish the British slave trade receives Royal Assent
1833
An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies is passed by Parliament
The Americans prohibited the importation of enslaved persons in 1808.
Suppose the American had been soundly defeated.
Would Lord North still be in charge, instead of Pitt? Would Wilberforce (an independent allied with Pitt) be able to pass his bills?
Would there have been a French revolution?
Would the economics of dismantling the slave trade and slavery have made sense?
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I mean, I absolutely wouldn’t run AOC against Trump, because she’s not yet eligible for the presidency.
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You might enjoy this Twitter feed, which has been offering similar notes since mid-2017.
Hypothetically ;p.
AOC is only 30 now sure, but when it is Tucker Carlson or Tom Cotton, would you nominate her?
The question is whether it is selling out to run candidates that can actually win, or take the high road and risk living under whichever cartoon character they choose for four years.
What is it with Harvard? Seems that every time I hear about some rich, privileged, person in some kind of powerful position, doing stupid shit, they’ve got Harvard in their resume. Seems that Liz Warren might be the exception, unless thar be skeletons in a closet.
I have to start keeping a list of these Harvard fucks.
The person who wins the nomination process usually IS the candidate who has the best chance of winning the general election. So if AOC had enough popular and institutional support to clinch the nomination I’d say sure, let’s do this thing.
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Sell him to die on the sugar plantations
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I don’t believe any candidate can win in the main election with only votes from their own party these days. As close as the last election was, Democrats voted for Trump, and being that close, that matters.
And this is assuming the person who wins the party nomination is really the one that would get the most votes within the party. It may sound paranoid, but I don’t believe that is even true with someone like Hillary Clinton, given the massive political machine she had to sway state and local political machines, unions, fatcat donors, etc. It certainly isn’t simply determined by popular vote.
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If it is possible to get some number of Democrats to vote for the likes of Trump then it should be equally possible to convince some number of Republicans and Independents to vote for someone like AOC.
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"…to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.”
So, like waiting for the revolution?
Oh, wait…
That’s true – the margin for victory is that thin. What the Dems constantly miss is that there are a whole bunch of progressives (especially younger ones) who don’t vote because they’re not interested in a choice between right-wing extremism and neoliberal-lite business as usual. Get out even a portion of those voters (especially in EC swing states) with a candidate who offers substantive progressive policies (not just charisma-driven hopey-changey rhetoric) and the Dems will make their margin every time.
But instead the Dems keep trying to appeal to conservatives, a strategy that really doesn’t work.
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To illustrate that point:
Neither party is anywhere close to representing the majority of Americans.
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