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Exactly - it really feels like a watershed moment of some kind, though I'm not exactly sure how
by threevox 6y ago
Exactly - it really feels like a watershed moment of some kind, though I'm not exactly sure how
- Larrikin 6y agoIt's a super simple non partisan issue that can get him some press that isn't about his sedition
- krapp 6y agoAbout that... https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944
- philosopher1234 6y agoAOC is such a firebrand. I love it. Not a lot of politicians who give me the sense that they're actually fighting for me.
- kortilla 6y agoHow does that tweet make you think she is fighting for you and not just for publicity?
- Larrikin 6y agoWords have context around them
- philosopher1234 6y agoWhy would it make me think any different? She's right.
- kortilla 6y agoBecause she’s been there for quite some time now and achieved very little legislatively. The extreme grandstanding for her Twitter followers got her boxed out by her own party. She’s now just the lady with the socialist hot take for the evening news without any real means to change anything.
- Larrikin 6y agoShe's still a house representative, being known at all is a massive first step in such a large body. She's also just survived her first election as an incumbent. Two years in the house as a freshman with a Senate and president that would block everything anyway is not a time scale where you can reasonably expect to have massive legislation passed.
- throwawayboise 6y agoYou just described 75M Trump voters...
- koheripbal 6y agoShe reminds me of Trump in his early primary days. Lots of zingers on Twitter - no experience - no compromise.
- danesparza 6y agoIt is kind of hard to forget conspiracy to commit murder and sedition. She does kind of have a point ...
- ralston3 6y agoLmao I laughed so hard. "You can resign" XD
- paulddraper 6y ago> Ted Cruz almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago Well not that much of a watershed moment I guess.
- unethical_ban 6y agoI wish she would tone down rhetoric sometimes - There is a lot of straight-up factual fire to spit, and Ted Cruz did not literally factually try to murder her. She could have made her point without that phrasing.
- Kye 6y agoDemocrats tried even tones for decades without much to show for it.
- asveikau 6y agoHe did endorse the would-be murderers. Major news networks literally played video of people on the floor of the chambers saying "Ted Cruz wants us to do this". https://www.google.com/search?q=cruz%20wants%20us%20to%20do%20this https://www.google.com/search?q=cruz%20wants%20us%20to%20do%...
- adventured 6y agoAnd the guy that got caught telling people to assassinate AOC during the riot, blamed Trump in hindsight; while his prior tweets made it exceptionally clear that he did it of his own volition. That's called trying to blame someone else to save your own ass, blame shifting.
- pdevr 6y agoAgree. They, of course, have their own reasons for doing this. But regardless, I feel it is a very good thing to happen. If influential people from both parties can work together for issues like this, it will make the world a better and fairer place for the middle class and the poor.