President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

The Democratic Party, whose entire leadership is made of 70-year-old plus fossils, finally found a fresh new face.

She's 28, is a Bernie Bro socialist, supports a federal job guarantee, free college, and the abolition of ICE.

Way to go Dems. All you had to do was not be crazy, and you couldn't do it.

But Ocasio-Cortez’s challenge goes far beyond surface level; Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a leftist organization that has helped buoy the campaigns of dozens of outsider candidates running on very progressive platforms in places where Democrats like Crowley are used to winning—handily. Some of Ocasio-Cortez’s positions include fighting for Medicare for Alland a federal jobs guarantee, abolishing ICE, and insisting on much more severe policing of luxury real estate development
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When we talk about the word socialism, I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity, and our economic, social, and racial dignity... There is no other force, there is no other party, there is no other real ideology out there right now that is asserting the minimum elements necessary to lead a dignified American life.

 

"Hard left"?

 

We need principled conservatives like Jeff Flake and John McCain. The ones who only vote with Trump 95 percent of the time. Those are the heroes of today.

 

Five percent actually can make a big difference. But I do wish Flake, in particular, would grow a damn spine. But that might anger the check writers.

 

Helped make Donald Trump President. Thinks Democrats are crazy.



Makes sense.

 

"crazy"

 

Speaking of Trump and crazy. He's taking credit for Crowley's loss ...

 

Nope, funny. not mean spirited, as far as I can tell, but I don't know the poster. But not mean at all on the surface. If she was Austrian (?) he might have said she was going "terminator" on them. see? I don't know action stars but you can use the same example for all of them, I assume.

 

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT CRAZY

 

Sane. Civil. Sanitary.

 

Right, because they elected someone more sympathetic to Donald

 

The excrement contained granola flakes; clearly a false flag flung by a Rachel Maddow viewer.