Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of potential impact of 2024 election
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of potential impact of 2024 election
Just remember, America. You voted for what's coming. You asked for it and so you have no one to blame but yourselves.
They told you exactly what they are planning to do.
The problem isn't that America voted for this. Only 21% of the country voted for Trump.
The problem is that America didn't vote at all.
The people who abstained from voting, made their vote. When fascism is on the line, you don't get to sit out and be absolved. They've signed on for everything that is to come.
You can't count people under the voting age and you need to add the people who didn't vote because it means they supported whoever got in power. 170m registered voters in 2020 so must be similar. 43% of registered voters voted for him, 40% for Harris, 1% others, that's 16% who didn't vote that we can add to Trump's number... But that's just registered voters and doesn't count eligible ones who didn't register!
Only about a 4th of us...a fourth voted counter and the rest didn't or can't vote....
I didn't ask for it. I voted for Harris. If what you said they are going to do is the truth, you'll suffer the consequences too, and will be just as guilty as I am.
Yes.
I voted against trump. Why am I to blame?
They told you exactly what they are planning to do.
Which is why half of the country voted against Trump, and why a lot of the other half voted for Trump. He told us exactly what he was planning to do.
We have very little say in how our government works. Over the course of US history the material decisions have been whisked away to less democratic structures (eg the supreme court, the federal reserve). Even early on the democracy was built for property owners (owners of people and land). People are feeling disenfranchised and the vote for trump is a (petulant) vote to flip the gameboard. Of course voting for trump is one of the worst things you can do if you want you and your community’s lives to improve, but the fundamental motivation is disenfranchisement and anger
Yes. Blue MAGA disenfranchised left wing voters.
MAGA emboldened right wing voters.
Republicans are always at fault for being right wing fascists.
Democrats are currently at fault for being right wing fascists.
The 2/3rds of American adults that are disenfranchised without representation are the victims.
Maybe AOC will learn from that spectacular sell out she did at the Nth hour, and will learn from her mistakes.
Democrats have absolutely shit messaging and refuse to speak to the working class unless they deign to condescend and you're blaming checks notes "blue MAGA"? What planet are you on?
Not all 32 left wing voters in America!
Everybody is warning us of the impact of the election. They've been warning us for years.
The problem is that Americans stood up and either said "We know. We just don't care.", or "We know. We want it that way."
To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
After briefly speaking to one of my younger (white, male, most likely straight, but turns out he's prob an "enlightened centrist") co-workers earlier today, it seems like there are people who just don't believe it can happen.
He told me that "both sides have their propaganda" when I asked if he's read Project 2025. I wanted to scream.
The conversation literally ended with me telling him that this has happened before. He said, yeah, but not here. I was like, we're not special. Such a disappointing conversation. Ruined my day/night. Literally used the "it will never happen here" line.
This is a man with a STEM degree. He's not stupid.
I think there are a lot of people who are in for a shock when the shit really starts hitting the fan.
Then you've got the "Did Joe Biden step down?" crowd just completely oblivious lol.
In the aftermath the number of fuckwits I saw not voting or voting against their own interests has been insane.
Socialists sitting out because of Gaza.
Black women complaining Trump won but not voting.
Working class woman whose husband is in a union and he himself voted Harris; whose son is gay... Yep, she voted Trump.
I'm so tired of trying to drag along stupid people.
22% of America said Fuck America, and thus we were fucked.
Or we know but don't think it'll actually happen
Kamala Harris was given an assignment that no other person in American history was given — to construct a presidential campaign in 90-100 days with absolutely no expectation or anticipation that she would be called to that assignment
Canada's federal election process is 36-50 days, or half that.
I agree with most of what was written, but I wanted to point out that countries put forth a scalable platform every 4-5 years in half the time. It's a bag-drive, but it's the timeline.
It is true, election cycles are much shorter in other countries but that's just not the case in the US. There's a saying that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Trump has been in the news with his bat shit crazy rhetoric for years now. That's hard to defeat in just a few months. Especially when his base is so fanatical they will vote for him even if he killed someone.
Dude this is America, it takes us four months to shop for Christmas gifts. Spikes in "did Joe Biden drop out?" happened on search engines during November 5th. We're idiots.
To be fair, that also included variants like "when did Joe Biden drop out?" Obviously, people are idiots, but that was at least somewhat misleading.
Before Last Week Tonight, John Oliver was on a podcast called The Bugle and I can remember him bemoaning how long US elections were compared to Britain. I wonder how he feels about covering our bullshit all the time now, I imagine similar to the exhaustion that led Jon to mostly retire
If all candidates are on the same timeline then I agree. That's not the case here. 100 days vs literal years of planning.
Yes and no, the official campaign is a month and a half but the campaign starts way before that. Also the leaders are chosen way ahead of the campaign, Harris became the candidate 3 months ahead of the election.
I'll vote for her.
If you get another vote.
Oh no, women are gonna lose reproductive rights, climate change will get worse, Trump wont face any consequences for his rampant crimes, prices will outpace wages and minimum wage will be forgotten. There will be genocide and protests will be crushed.
Wait who was president the last 4 years?