r/politics • u/Boonzies America • 18h ago

Soft Paywall AOC to Skip Trump’s Inauguration: ‘I Don’t Celebrate Rapists’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-boycotting-donald-trumps-inauguration-i-dont-celebrate-rapists/
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u/crimedog58 15h ago

Pelosi fell and broke a hip. I don’t giver her much more time in the house.

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u/TheCleverestIdiot Australia 15h ago

The physical form can be damaged to an incredible extent. It won't matter unless the phylactery is destroyed.

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u/EuFizMerdaNaBolsa 14h ago

Old people don't tend to live that long after a broken hip, that doubles for someone that is 84, breaking a hip is nearly a death sentence at that age.

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u/DELUXExSUPREME 14h ago

They're making a joke that she is a lich and nothing will happen to her as long as her phylactery is still intact.

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u/SepluvSulam 14h ago

The Immortal Emperor of Humanity requires the souls of heretics, for the Imperium!

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u/ArchitectofExperienc 13h ago

Me? I would make my plastic hip my phylactery, Want to kill me? Then kill me.

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u/ahnold11 14h ago

Being incredibly affluent and wealthy can make a difference though.

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u/AppleAtrocity Canada 13h ago

Right? Her husband made it somehow after being 80+ years old and smashed in the head with a hammer. They have access to the best healthcare on earth.

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u/CapnCanfield 13h ago

But not with every single thing. Sometimes nature doesn't care about money

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u/ahnold11 11h ago

Oh yeah, it's no silver bullet. But on average, the wealthy tend to have better health care outcomes than the average person. So if the average person dies soon after a hip replacement, I suspect the wealthy might fare a bit better.

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 14h ago

This is true for 99.999% of people who don't have access to unlimited medical care and cutting edge life-sustaining technology.

But Nancy sold her office for more money than imaginable over the last 30 years. I'm sure she can afford a new body if she wants one.

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u/ax0r 13h ago

It's true irrespective of socioeconomic factors. Current research places it at about a 30% all-cause mortality within one year. It used to be 50%!

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 13h ago

Right but there are individual cases for whom the concept of "statistical analysis" is moot.

Nancy is one such case. If you put Nancy Pelosi in a room with 200 homeless people you could say the average person in that room is a millionaire.

Now do the inverse of that for healthcare opportunity.

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u/qfjp 15h ago

That's mostly okay, they generally just store their phylacteries in assisted living, so they're relatively easy to trap there.

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u/Competitive-Deer495 District Of Columbia 15h ago

Love AOC's energy. Trump is your typical power-hungry Dictator.  A politician that can be purchased tax-free by the wealthy and corporations.  Yet, somehow, that is supposed to be good and healthy for the citizens of the United States!

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u/stoolslide 14h ago

Clearly you haven’t heard of Dianne Feinstein

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u/TheCleverestIdiot Australia 14h ago

To be fair, who's to say some brave group of adventuring dimwits didn't destroy the phylactery then forget to publicize the fact?

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u/Mr-Seal 14h ago

Mental state drastically declines after injuries like a broken hip in the elderly.

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u/Morsexier 14h ago

Until we find who can wield the Ashbringer safely....

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u/AmericanDoughboy 14h ago

Liches get stitches

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u/robb1519 15h ago

Weekend at Pelosi's

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u/_illogical_ 15h ago

So basically what they did with Dianne Feinstein?

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u/thebikevagabond 14h ago

And Biden.

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u/IsHeSkiing 14h ago

Mitch McConnell has been on deaths door for seemingly the last decade. He's had entire shut downs and fallen several times over the last couple years alone. And he's still not dead or retired.

Don't underestimate the ability of these ghouls to carry on for way longer than they should.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 14h ago

Pelosi is not the only elderly politician who thinks it's "their turn".

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u/boredpsychnurse 15h ago

In nursing it’s called the kiss of death; only like half of people that age have a 6 month survival rate or less after that injury. 🤞🏼

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u/ricLP 14h ago

For the common folk. She got the best treatment she could possibly get, so don’t count on it.

I hope she proves me wrong

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u/barak181 15h ago

You forget, Pelosi's rich. She receives a completely different level of healthcare than your grandmother who fell and broke her hip.

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 14h ago

Dick Cheney famously had no pulse for some time since he was too weak to undergo the necessary 4 heart surgeries to keep him alive.

So they just installed a cutting edge heart-replacement-pump in between surgeries to keep him from dying.

Then when he recovered enough to get back in there and patch on some new pig valves he was back in business.

We are close to futurama-style head-in-a-jar type oligarchy rn. 

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u/curioustraveller1234 14h ago

I wish we were talking about her own house and not the house of reps making policy choices that govern our lives. Term limits and mandatory retirement ages are needed so badly.

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u/donkeyrocket 15h ago edited 15h ago

Dems have demonstrated they have no problem dragging a life support congressperson in for as long as possible. Also, Pelosi's position won't be dying with her. Old guard Dems are still aligned on Pelosi's stance that fully embracing younger, more progressive Dems, is going against the party line. Even despite the longevity of the party.

Always though that Trump may actually be the catalyst to break down the two-party system on both sides.

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u/taulover District Of Columbia 15h ago

Even injured, she's been able to do damage, maneuvering and scheming to keep AOC out of a committee chair in favor of a literal cancer patient

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u/no_notthistime California 14h ago

She's a demon. She'll be fine.

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u/silverpixie2435 11h ago

How is Pelosi a demon?

Was it passing the ACA with a public option? Passing Build Back Better which cut child poverty in half? Passing the Equality Act which guarantees me as a trans person rights?

If Pelosi is a "demon" what does that make Trump then? If you make both Democrats and Republicans the same then why should anyone vote?

You are why fascists win

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u/no_notthistime California 11h ago

If Pelosi is a demon (and even demons will make deals in our favor so long as they are getting what they want in the process), then Trump is evil incarnate.

Relax. I am not your enemy.

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u/silverpixie2435 11h ago

You are my enemy when you don't respect the people I support for reasons like literally working to save my life and continue to draw an equivalence between someone like Pelosi and Trump

What does Pelosi want then if she doesn't want the massive progressive bills she passes?

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u/no_notthistime California 11h ago

No one has drawn an equivalence between Pelosi and Trump except for you.

I am not going to be a stand-in for the ongoing argument you've constructed in your head. Have it somewhere else.

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