Let’s not forget that AOC voted to protect the rail corporation from a union strike.
kindly take your scarecrow to another field.
Cool a 74 year old, that’s the life expectancy of a male in the US.
Hopefully
Somebody arrest this man.
Wait, what’s your salary?
A 74-year-old with cancer.
Senatorial class lives 10-15 years longer than their working counterparts. This is also true outside the US.
Gerry Connolly more like Gerry Atric.
If AOC sticks with the Democratic party instead of going independent she proves the DNC was right to deny her power. Why bother caving to AOC’S demands if she will keep sheepdogging people to the party and get nothing in return?
What they’re saying: Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), a Connolly ally, acknowledged Connolly’s greater seniority likely played a role in his win but argued “it wasn’t just that.”
It wasn’t just that. He also has a penis
The only thing that mattered was that his opponent was a progressive.
AOC 2028
A 74-year-old who is dying of cancer was chosen over a 35-year-old rising star at the insistence of an 84-year-old woman (who is currently undergoing hip replacement surgery) just months after an 81-year-old Presidential candidate was forced to drop out of the race because he showed sever symptoms of cognitive decline during a debate. If this were a satire about a gerontocracy, I would think it was too over the top.
And a 78 year old is president elect
Oh yeah, if we’re talking Republicans too, don’t forget that the 82-year-old Senate minority leader, who has had mysterious freezing spells this year, was hospitalized for a fall just last week.
What…
…are you…
talking about?
Are you talking about this? The guy who has cancer?
In my original comment, yes, he is the person with cancer I’m referencing. In the comment you’re replying to, I’m referring to Mitch McConnell, who suddenly froze mid sentence during a press conference.. Twice.
The state of politics is truly terrifying.
After 2016, ive wondered for a while if it would have made more sense to run progressives in republican primaries instead of dem ones. We would probably have been better off if progressives took advantage of republican party weaknesses
“Everyone sort of made the case that they would be the best to help change the message across the country. … He’s a very good communicator,” said Beyer.
Oh yeah that’s exactly what’s going to fix the problem Democrats have. Electing another old ass Clinton era Democrat to a position of power. It’s not like everybody’s pissed at them for losing the Presidency, the House, and the Senate all in one go.
It’s not like everybody’s pissed at them for losing the Presidency, the House, and the Senate all in one go.
With their amazing communication skills.
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See it from their perspective. They are doing their hardest to be as useless as possible and people still vote them.
At this point, how pissed everyone is matters jack shit because they know their public loves outrage for the sake of outrage, and the very same public that votes them, is totally neutered and incapable of choosing or voting for anything else
They are using the fact that people can’t go anywhere else and are weaponising that to do absolutely nothing.
They have played their voter base for absolute fools
Democrats running out of foot to shoot themselves in
AOC loses key vote in House Oversight race to Gerry Connolly
an Old. White. man.
Seriously. It’s pissing me off; more so the republicans doing it. we need minority voices. We can’t expect the republicans to do it- lets just be honest here. and I doubt very much if Connolly will be able to push back nearly as much as AOC can and will. (never mind, whether or not he’s willing.)
An old white man with cancer that he announced a month ago. He should be focusing on his treatment, not adding more to his plate.
And give up all that juicy government funded healthcare?
Don’t they get it for life as a perk? All he’d lose is the power
For the moment, maybe.
but I’m fairly certain he’d get better healthcare as a serving rep over a ‘former’ rep.
What the fuck? This is a special dipshit cherry to put on top of just automatically choosing the oldest option. Even if the leadership still hate AOC, choose someone who’s definitely going to be at the top of their game, not award important positions to so he can be proud while taking time off for his pressing health needs.
What the fuck? This is a special dipshit cherry to put on top of just automatically choosing the oldest option.
He won because Pelosi wanted him to win. That is literally the answer.
Gerry Connolly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Connolly
The Congressman’s Congressman. He represents the district right outside DC. Also, prior to running for office he worked as an aide to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations where he managed committee oversight of international economic issues, international narcotics control, and United Nations and Middle East policies, and published reports on U.S. policy in El Salvador, Central America, Israel, and the Persian Gulf region.
So, expect a guy who will toe the line on all our accumulated foreign policy blunders while banging a gavel to silence another generation of anti-war protesters.
It gets worse than that, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Connolly#Legislation_sponsored
Sponsoring legislation with Darrell Issa - a shameless, virulent Silicon Valley shill of a politician - as Trump lards up his cabinet with Friends of Peter Thiel is a bleak sign for the future.
Dude is probably already in diapers. Old as fuck
Apparently diagnosed with cancer, on top of it all.
Democrats would rather nominate a corpse to high office than a Millennial.
Yeah, the cancer diagnosis should have been enough for him to be out. What a shit-show.
The ghoul strikes again.
Annoyed? Give her a war chest: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/alexandria-ocasio-cortez
Money is speech after all.
This was a vote by the DNC so money likely didn’t have much to do with it. She committed the taboo of being a progressive.
Yes, but if AOC becomes a fundraising juggernaut she’ll be harder to ignore
Yeah they’ll trot her out every so often to plead for funding to “save democracy” but they’ll never giver her power or a seat at the table
DNC is billionaire controlled opposition to make facism possible
She lost to a 74yr old…yeah that guy needs to retire. Get out of the fucking way.
AOC runs several investigations that lead to results.
Connelly… Is old and has seniority.
Great fucking job Democrats. Getting my seat warmer ready for
20222026 already!2022 was 2 years ago.
Thank you.
Well what a fucking surprise; the gerontocracy continues its undefeated streak.
