Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly, who edged out New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) for a top Democratic post in December before stepping down, died from esophageal cancer on Wednesday, becoming the third Democrat to die in office this term.
The late congressman made headlines in December when, with support from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he defeated AOC to lead the House Oversight Committee, despite reportedly violating stock trading laws, according to Raw Story. AOC would have been the youngest Democrat to chair a House committee at 35 years old.
These assholes are so scared of losing power and corporate money they’re willing to drop fucking dead on the floor of Congress rather than let the new generation take over.
Fuck these boomer assholes.
This will be the legacy of the boomers. They lucked into massive wealth, closed the door behind them, and made sure we had to pry the reigns of societal control from their cold, dead hands. I feel for all the boomers that never escaped poverty and will still be dragged through history with the greediest generation on record to date.
Ahh, Mr. Guy whose turn it was next.
Glad he got to try being useless in an important position before he died.
Surely this is easier then staying in office
Stole the house seat from AOC. Call me Gerry Atric.
DNC death numer three. That’s a Gerry Hattrick.
May he rot in hell…
He didn’t take the House Seat, he took a role within the organization.
Well done.
I would read your book of poetry
Replaced with someone over 70? You know the party’s Democratic
This is SO BAD! There’s only SO MANY OLD WHITE GUYS WITH CANCER the Democrats can Promote before GIVING UP and Conceding EVERY SINGLE ELECTION to the Republicans!
This is HORRIBLE! There’s only So Many OLD WHITE GUYS WITH CANCER we can Appoint to IMPORTANT ROLES before we have LITERALLY NO CHOICE but to Concede LITERALLY EVERY RACE to the Republicans!
Hilarious … the only way to beat the old Democratic party is to wait for them to die
There’s always plenty of gerontocrats to take over.
This is sounding more and more like a Lord of the Rings sequel every time
The gift humans had in LOTR is shorter lives, so new ideas can flourish, grow, and change between generations.
Makes you really want that gift in 2025.
Let’s not pretend super old democrats are the only bad ones.
The problem isn’t that they’re old. The problem is that seniority trumps everything else. He was worse for the position, but he got it because he had seniority.
He wasn’t bad because he was old, he was just worse and got it because he was old.
Yeah, age isn’t so much the issue when we have decent older people like Bernie Sanders and younger douchebags like Josh Gottheimer running around, the problem is that newly elected Democratic party members have all been told that they need to vote for the people who have been in DC the longest and one day eventually it will be their turn
That would be bad enough on its own, but coupled with the destruction of any kind of campaign finance regulations making it a lot easier for moderate Democratic party members to secretly work work with rich donors and Republicans to make sure progressives don’t stay in DC for long, we’ve ended up with a senior group of Democratic lawmakers who have shitty policies their voters hate and only know how to solve their problems through hippie punching
No, just most of them, including almost all of the ones with the most power.
Name two people under 70 who’s amongst the 10 highest ranking in the party leadership.
I’ll even give you Hakeem Jeffries for free so you only have to find one.
Are the good policy choices here in the room with us?
/s
Even conservative think tanks agree, universal healthcare AT WORST would cover every American and cost the same as we are currently paying.
So, we pay the same to not cover every American or we pay the same to cover every American. Which is the good policy choice?
A: The policy choice that continues to funnel money to politicians fundraising activities (and pockets).
They would be if the DNC didn’t stranglehold the idea of “let’s use taxes for good things instead of war”.
We need to remove neo-liberals from the conversation.
This is literally the epitaph of the Democratic party.
But guys, it was his turn! Just like Hillary in '16. Forget what the people want, we need to worry about stroking egos here.
Biden still got his turn though
And where did that get us?
Good.
Stay classy, telling a reporter to “kill yourself” for factually reporting on Connolly publicly announcing his cancer diagnosis.
Why does the party value fealty and seniority so implicitly? There’s a place for the ‘elder statesman’ voice to share institutional wisdom and tribal knowledge, but this man cannot seriously have had more vigor and energy to pour into leadership than someone under half his age…
delete yourself and kill yourself or not the same thing
Yeah I do agree in this case I think she meant delete the account the whole time. Now if it was from a republican…
Remember:
- your side always has good intentions
- the other side is always doing what your side is doing but with malice
Ok then what does it mean, o enlightened one?
Go on and delete yourself, then.
So clever.
“Hatshepsut has more energy than I do!”
I don’t know, guys. Hatshepsut has a proven track record of breaking political barriers for females, leading recovery from a foreign occupation into prosperity, and commanding prolific building projects including some masterpieces of ancient architecture: she delivers. What has AOC done? Dismissing all that accomplishment would be a mistake.
Did you know that the oldest mummy found was actually found in the United States?
Cue Pelosi…
Schumer, pelosi, Ginsburg, and all the other fossils who refuse to retire until they fucking die are just as responsible as the orange piece of shit is for the current state of amerikkka
No, they are not. False equivalence just takes the focus off the people who really are responsible. Trump, his enablers, and his supporters created this disaster.
A lot of useless Democrats failed to stand up and try to stop it. They have much to answer for, but they are in a different category.
It was a system of checks and balances, but the Democrats went along with consolidating power. So while yes, they aren’t the direct cause, they were the adults in the room and they failed in that responsibility.
My guy, they are part of the enablers
May he rot in hell.
I’d rather he rot on this plane of existence so we can be sure it happened.
