Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) lost her bid to lead Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, defeated 131-84 by Rep. Gerry Connolly in a secret caucus vote.
Reports suggest former Speaker Nancy Pelosi actively lobbied against AOC, backing Connolly by making calls and using political capital to sway votes.
Connolly, 74, cited his experience and record as decisive factors in his victory, despite progressive disappointment over AOC’s loss.
Supporters viewed AOC’s bid as a chance to revitalize Democratic strategy, calling the outcome a missed opportunity for the party.
It’s great to see the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing and continue to refuse to evolve.
They learned alright. They learned that they don’t need to win elections to rake in billions in donations. They just have to put in a half-hearted effort and the cash will roll in. They really do not care if they win or lose. They also don’t care what happens to us when fascists take over as long as there there’s enough zeroes in the DNC checking accounts.
I don’t think they’re ignorant, they’d just rather support the fascists than the progressives.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
It’s not their fault they keep loosing, it’s the voters who are too dumb to understand that Democrats are marginally better than fascists. /s
Why would they learn anything? The entire .world instance, Dem Reddit/Twitter, etc. does nothing but run defense for them, tell everyone they need to vote for them no matter what, and browbeat everyone who engages in criticism of the party during every election season, local and national.
It’s your duty to vote to stop fascism (again). I’m so tired of that message. They can earn my vote, I’ve tried stopping fascism twice now, what have they done besides maintain the status quo
OK, but the alternative is allowing fascism, which is worse than voting for the status quo.
We just needed to hold on until the boomers died.
Turns out constantly voting for the status quo when it is shit got us to fascism anyway!
Boomers disappearing won’t fix this, they’ve already indoctrinated members of Gen Z. The problem wasn’t that being born at a specific time made you a conservative, it’s that conservatism requires a lot of idiots to support it. They’ve bred their fresh crop of idiots, and they won’t stop digging their hooks in until we unfuck private media ownership and enforce education standards.
Why would they? American 2 party system just means they have infinite job security, funding and no reason to adapt. So you can either choose flawed Democrats or literal idiots. What will you do?
I genuinely confused how people expect things to be different here. I’m not an American so maybe I’m missing something, but this genuinely seems a system design flaw rather than anything else.
The Democrats are a deeply unserious party even as fascism approaches. They might get what they deserve but the rest of us will have to suffer because of their arrogance. Again.
The Democrats promoted Trump’s words because they thought he would be an easy victory. It just gave him free ad time and enabled dipshits to vote for him.
The Democrats promoted Trump’s actions in ads because it raised campaign revenue for the 2018 Midterms and 2020. Dipshits just saw them and went “He’s hurting the people I hate, based and redpilled!!”
The Democrats copied Republican talking points with COVID, Trans people, police brutality and funding, the border “crisis” and then wondered why a fascist voting base doesn’t want a non-white woman running on the platform of “Back to 2016 Trump’s America”.
They would rather have fascists run America because fascists don’t hurt the bottom line and don’t threaten the rich, only the working class.
The Democrats copied Republican talking points with COVID, Trans people, police brutality and funding, the border “crisis”
I don’t remember any of that happening.
a non-white woman running on the platform of “Back to 2016 Trump’s America”.
Treason Trump gave rich people and corporations a gigantic tax cut and raised taxes people making under 75k. Kamala was going to raise taxes on corporations and lower taxes on the middle classes. Tax rates are the #1 thing everyone should be focusing on because wealth inequality is the driver of almost all other problems.
Isn’t Pelosi supposed to be in an ER with a fractured ego or some shit?
Man, the DNC really hates young people. :( smh.
The DNC hates anyone remotely left of center and absolutely LOVE anyone right of center.
DNC just hates leftists, age doesn’t really matter.
No, they have a thing about not giving power to young people. Everyone has to wait their turn which means not getting leadership positions until you’re at least 70.
I didn’t know Bernie was young.
He also runs as independent, specifically because the Democratic party pulls this shit
I mean, it does seem like they have a particularly pointed disdain of young leftists/progresives.
And they put a 78 year old with esophageal cancer in charge.
Fuck the dems. I’m done voting for them.
And they put a 78 year old with esophageal cancer in charge.
Who the fuck are you talking about?
Hakeem Jeffries is 54 years old. He’s in charge of the Democratic Caucus. Pelosi has been retired for years. She has no power. AOC lost by 50 votes. There is no way Pelosi caused that. She was only included in the headline as clickbait to troll people.
Yeah, but that’s not the dude who won. He did: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Connolly
At least it seems to me that’s the guy.
They’re seriously using the word “schemes”? This is like one of those “I am Firm; You are Obstinate; He is a Pig-headed Fool" jokes.
