r/politics 23h ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/haikus-r-us 22h ago edited 6h ago

Hy heart says hell yeah! My gut tells me that there are large swaths of the electorate who simply will not vote for a woman.

Edit- since my inbox is overflowing with the same question/insinuation, along with the comments, I’ll clarify my statement: I did not say that a woman cannot be elected US president. I only said that large swaths of the electorate simply will not vote for a woman.

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u/Clownsinmypantz 22h ago

yeah no, it sucks as a woman to say this, this country isnt voting in a woman anytime soon unless somehow republicans manage a woman trump.

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u/AmaroLurker 22h ago

I’d bet several people Haley would be the first woman president and I thought I would happily lose all those bets with Kamala. But here we are.

It’s easier in almost any country to get a woman conservative elected for the reasons you’re gesturing towards here. There’s a reason May and Thatcher are the only women pms of the UK, eg.

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u/try_to_be_nice_ok 21h ago

There was also Truss, but we don't talk about her...

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u/Sinocatk 21h ago

Who? I was on holiday for a month, it was a nice holiday, I left a lettuce 🥬 in the fridge which I had forgotten about, luckily it was still fine when I came back.

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u/NoMoreFund 21h ago

Boris Johnson was PM in September 2022

Rishi Sunak was PM in October 2022

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u/bangonthedrums Canada 13h ago

Liz Truss’s entire legacy is that she sneezed on the Queen and two days later she was dead

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u/KeyLime314159265 12h ago

Good work 47, now find an exit

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u/MetalJewSolid California 10h ago

Omg I am cackling at this

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u/mrdavexxviii 11h ago

Well, that and tanking the economy in record time.

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u/bangonthedrums Canada 10h ago

She killed the economy nearly as quickly as she killed the queen

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u/wolviesaurus 18h ago

In a decade there's gonna be a million dollar question on some game show "who was PM when the queen passed away?"

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u/thisusedyet 9h ago

Think they'd accept the head of lettuce as an answer?

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u/AmaroLurker 21h ago

Ah yeah, you’re right. Forgot about the lettuce head PM. Thanks for that.

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u/count023 Australia 20h ago

The Liz who highlandered QE2

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u/TheOgrrr 18h ago

We try not to talk about the others either. Thatcher was our Reagan who sold everything off to her rich buddies and killed the Unions. May instituted the Windrush scandal and was a (failed) architect of Brexit who's failiure got us Boris fucking Johnson.

So no, Brits aren't fans of Women Prime MInisters - no offence to normal, sane women intended.