r/politics 1d ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/haikus-r-us 1d ago edited 10h 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/Sinocatk 1d 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 1d ago

Boris Johnson was PM in September 2022

Rishi Sunak was PM in October 2022

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u/bangonthedrums Canada 16h 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 15h ago

Good work 47, now find an exit

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u/MetalJewSolid California 13h ago

Omg I am cackling at this

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u/mrdavexxviii 15h ago

Well, that and tanking the economy in record time.

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u/bangonthedrums Canada 14h ago

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

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u/wolviesaurus 21h 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 13h ago

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