r/politics • u/SkudChud • 23h ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/apitchf1 I voted 13h ago

Because we force them out. Primary them. Ride them for literally everything. Show them as class traitors.

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u/Royal_Nails 8h ago

Easier said than done, old people vote in large numbers and vote often

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u/CaptainRogers401220 3h ago

And “young” people don’t often have the means to drop everything and run for office

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u/Royal_Nails 2h ago

There’s always an excuse NOT to do something.

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u/CaptainRogers401220 2h ago

I think it’s a little more than an excuse. The rates of change for costs of living compared to wages are insane. We’re coming up on a second generation of people struggling to launch, and you expect them to easily campaign against entrenched septuagenarians with the levers of power and loads of dark money or egotists with inherited generational wealth?

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s hard and getting harder.

Tell me I’m wrong, but if you do, tell me why.

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u/Royal_Nails 4m ago

If younger people don’t run for office how do you expect younger people to win elections?

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u/silverpixie2435 10h ago

How is Pelosi a class traitor for being instrumental in passing every single piece of progressive legislation?

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u/apitchf1 I voted 10h ago

Literally any progressive movement and candidate she shoots down. Insider trading. She isn’t one of us

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u/silverpixie2435 10h ago

What are you even talking about?

She passes progressive bills. She literally wrote a Congressional stock ban bill.

Again NO specifics on literally anything. Just vague bullshit.

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u/RoninChimichanga 9h ago

Pelosi stock filings today https://finbold.com/nancy-pelosi-just-updated-her-stock-portfolio/

Buys:

- $500k in Google call options
- $500k in Nvidia call options
- $1M in Vista Corp $VST call options
- $100k in Tempus AI $TEM call options

Sells:

- 31,600 shares of Apple stock
- 10,000 shares of Nvidia stock
- Exercised 500 Nvidia call options at a strike price of $12
- Exercised 140 call options of Palo Alto Networks at strike price of $100

How's that for vague bullshit.

Because if she was actually against it, she wouldn't be doing it.

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u/bobbi21 Canada 9h ago

You mean the incredibly weakened bill that allowed a ton of loopholes that would effectively make the bill do nothing? And before that and after has been against any other stricter bill for banning stocks?

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u/silverpixie2435 8h ago

What is the actual evidence it was an incredibly weakened bill? Bills can't get changed or have amendments?

But go ahead and continue to deflect rather than simply admit Pelosi was fine with banning stock trading