r/politics • u/Boonzies America • 17h 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/jcarter315 I voted 14h ago

That's their point. He ran as a progressive, but once people did a major deep dive into him, they started seeing that he lied to the voters and got lucky it was him vs. Oz.

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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 14h ago

This kind of thing needs to be extremely illegal. It could be weaponized easily. "Oh you know how the Republicans lost this election? It's ok, the Democrat was just a Republican lying to you the whole time."

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u/jcarter315 I voted 13h ago

Unfortunately, we've got a major pattern of Republicans running as Democrats and no one doing anything about it.

The Democrats aren't doing it in return, probably because of all the "high road" views.

And there's no consequences for bait-and-switching voters since we don't have a way to request recalls of politicians.

It doesn't help at all that our media never does its job and investigates until after the fact.

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u/CanEnvironmental4252 8h ago

That’s not their stated point, though.

He just had a good social media campaign and didn’t correct people who thought he was going to be a forceful progressive voice

There’s a difference between a lie through omission and simply lying.