Elijah Manley was still a teenager when his frustration with President Trump pushed him to get involved in politics. Today, he’s finally old enough to run for Congress. Upset with how his own Democratic Party is responding to Trump, he’s decided to do just that.
Good news but also butterfly meme.
Please, we need to get people in office who are at least young enough to know how to use social media correctly
We need more young people to run in general. They can hire people to handle social media but we need people who are going to be directly impacted by the laws they pass.
At the very least people who were born AFTER color television.
How about a simple test: if you remember Kent State happening, you’re now too old for office.
I’m 57. I remember where I was when Reagan was shot. I’m too old to be a politician.
Depends, were you celebrating Regan being shot?
Of course not. He lived
I remember being bummed that the bullet wasn’t just a little more to the side for effectiveness.
No you aren’t.
There is no “too old to be a politician” since old people exist and need representation too.
We just ought to have representation that matches demographics, but that’s DEI and basically communism now or something
That’s great n shit but how about we get AOC the fucking nomination?
This country is nowhere near ready to elect a woman. Put AOC up and you hand the election to the republicans again.
That great news! Unfortunately my generation, including myself, did not step up.
Are you registered to vote?
How about replacing Pelosi instead. We could use plenty like AOC tho.
One of them is primarying Pelosi.
Source? David Hogg has specifically said “not Pelosi” in recent weeks.
Personally, I’d love to see her ousted and we finally pass the STOCK Act in the following session.
She’s getting challenged. It was announced before David made his statement though.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191241/nancy-pelosi-gets-surprising-new-primary-challenger
Jesus tap dancing Christ, I thought she left Congress when she gave up the speakership! Amazing and disappointing to learn differently…
Gotta keep that grift going
Critical that the next generation are immune to AIPAC. That is the only way to break free of the Zionist chokehold
They need to be immune to so many different PACs. And they need to learn the lesson Biden and Kamala didn’t: you actually get more funding my courting us, the people, than you do the corporations. Yeah, the corporations have more money, and they’ll give you some, but they’ll give more to the republican candidate, and what’s more, there’s more of us.
DNC hasn’t conducted a legitimate presidential primary since 08. That is EIGHTEEN straight years of effyou from the DNC. No signs they plan on wavering anytime soon. Your next candidate will be anointed for you.
Eighteen?! HA! Luxury!
We lost every state but Minnesota. Then we lost to an attack ad. Then we got a centrist. Then we lost to a war criminal. And that’s just the national stage! Our red state candidates were BMW-driving dockers-wearing Sales weasels from central casting with as many progressive ideas as mistresses.
Just because you didn’t like the outcome of an election doesn’t mean it wasn’t legitimate.
I’m too educated and perceptive to be gaslit that weakly. Take your garbage somewhere else please. Lincoln McAfee and Malty O’Marlin were fake candidates. And everyone saw Klobuchar, Buttegeig, and Harris coordinate together after the SC primary. Take your garbage somewhere else please.
Know who else denies the legitimacy of elections? Trump supporters.
Take your midwit garbage somewhere else please. I’m too educated and perceptive to be gaslit by your garbage. Do better.
Believing in the legitimacy of elections is better than believing in conspiracies.
Just because you fail to process cause and effect in reality doesn’t mean the DNC holds fair primaries
Mayo Pete: “It’s my time to shine!”
You’re high as a kite if you think a super pac doesn’t have infinitely deeper pockets. They just bid the minimum for these politicians. If millions of grass roots donors gave everything they could, it would be a rounding error for them to match it.
No I know the PACs have more monetary power than we do. But Kamala stopped getting as much funding when she turned to them instead of us. The PACs love republicans because the republicans will do anything for money
Good! That party needs a major shake up. Oh. And some damn balls(metaphorically speaking)
Yes to both of these. This is precisely what Democrats need.
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Harris didn’t lose because she was a woman; she lost because she was a bad candidate. It’s that simple.
According to the data the women thing seems to be the major issue
whered you hear that? not trying to sound confrontational just wondering
It’s fine. I mean a lot of it is interpretation but if you look at the places where people came out to vote in drove compared to the last election it’s mostly states known for not being favorable to a black women being in power.
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As a non American, I keep seeing this excuse and I’m always gobsmacked.
Bad candidate compared to… Trump?
You lot sure know how to pick them (or not, as it were).
As another non-American, comparing her to Trump is very reductive, because fundamentally she and Trump were trying to appeal to completely different sets of people. Yeah yeah lesser evil and all that, but that doesn’t work in the real world.
When your base doesn’t care about anything but checking boxes, leadership does just that.
Not a troll, just a male chauvinist
Is no criticism of Democrats allowed without being called some form of bigot? I voted blue but I’m not going to pretend that the candidate I voted for represented basically any of my problems. I’m not in the group of people that her campaign claimed to serve.
You’re being called a chauvinist because of your statement that a woman can’t win.
It’s because you said something misogynistic/chauvinistic.
Criticism is allowed and welcomed.
What you did wasn’t that.
Hope this clears things up!
Excuse me ?
You seem like a sexist separate from your criticisms
The DNC sucks and all, but they aren’t a cult and don’t run people who lost again.
They do run people who lost the primary though
If they got picked as VP, true!
Except VP isn’t a position that is elected, so its pointless to pick them for president.
It is elected, but as a package deal. If they’re popular it’s not a bad idea to choose them as a nominee, but…yeah, Harris was not.
Its not elected, no one votes for VP. In the olden days, sure, but if the VP is elected than so is any family members of the president, making the trump kids political appointments the explicit will of the people, and no one wants that to be true.
Now is the time to do it. Definitely not in 2029 though.
No, because the election would be over by then.
Oof, 2028? I just woke up…
Will they also like AOC abandon even their half baked center left opinions to fold into the democratic mainstream?
Trump is not even the problem, he’s better than most GOP.
Trump is a bell weather that the post-WW2 Breton Woods paradigm is over. That’s all he is. We are going to either go through crazy poltico-socioeconomic change or be crushed under the weight of our own inflexibility.
The next AOC?
So more groomed and astroturfed ‘champion for the peoples’ to create the ilusion there is some leftism in the uniparty and keep the flock from choosing 3rd party.What do you say leftists?
Okay, so that’s a big raspberry from the leftists.
Yay? This is obviously good news. Were you implying something with “leftists”?
Yeah, the “leftists” in some places can’t bring themselves to support any Democrat. Some can’t even support democratic elections. They call Democrats “libs” and hate them for not fixing all problems. And they spent a lot of time and capital grinding their views prior to the 2024 election. Since then they’ve been quieter, but I expect that to change the closer we get to midterms.
It’s really weird.
If you think the DNC actually cares about you or wants to solve your problems then I have a Medicare for all to sell you.
unfortunately some of the states where it was barely holding D, will be R next election. much like manchins state.
Someone becoming a brand name like AOC did is certainly possible, they just need to make room for themselves very quickly.
Let’s be honest. The left is dying for anyone with half a brain and an entire heart to step up.
