AOC's support of Sanders fuels 2024 speculation

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/25/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-support-bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-campaign-election-fuels-speculation-2024

 

 

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It was billed as a rally for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. But the only aging white man on the platform was the film-maker Michael Moore, and attendee Brittany Springmeier wasn’t there to see him.

She was in Iowa City for real star of the show, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“She’s speaking for us. She’s speaking for the people. She has a passion for the millennials. She’s speaking for everyone in America who doesn’t have a voice,” said Springmeier, a millennial herself who is unable to work because of a disability.

With the Vermont senator trapped in Washington DC by the impeachment hearings, Ocasio-Cortez was fronting for him at the University of Iowa on Friday evening in the last days before the Iowa Democratic caucuses.

Much of the crowd had already made up its mind to back Sanders, which was just as well because the New York congresswoman gave a 26-minute speech without once mentioning the man she was ostensibly there to promote. A passionate discourse on healthcare and the case for comprehensive public insurance, a cause at the heart of Sanders campaign, then gave way to a rousing appeal to build a movement to transform “a nation in decline”.

 

 

She is the face of the Democrats, surely a VP pick if nothing more?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

8 minutes ago, Boiler said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/25/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-support-bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-campaign-election-fuels-speculation-2024

 

 

 

She is the face of the Democrats, surely a VP pick if nothing more?

She went there to promote BS.  In a 26-minute speech, never once mentioned ole Bernie.  I see the light at the end of Bernie's tunnel, and I seriously doubt it's coming from the sun.  Again.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

She could be angling for VP candidacy but more than that, the intent is to shift the Overton window to a hard left by presenting the idea that these even more extreme left positions and candidacies are somewhat normal. Since people are generally easily compromised by peer pressure, they'll negotiate what they think is a middleground, but in fact its still a hard left shift. Along with the gaslighting effect, this is another form of psychological manipulation.

Edited January 25, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[90DayFinancier 910]

Gaslighting...

 

[laylalex 7,247]

I asked Alex his opinion on this right now, if it were between, for example,  AOC and Pence in 2024. "If it's between a Trot and a theocrat, I'll choose the Trot, particularly if she's fit."

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2 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I asked Alex his opinion on this right now, if it were between, for example,  AOC and Pence in 2024. "If it's between a Trot and a theocrat, I'll choose the Trot, particularly if she's fit."

Well she obviously will be less fit by them, what is the tipping point?

[laylalex 7,247]

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

Well she obviously will be less fit by them, what is the tipping point?

I'll ask him when I'm done getting ready. He's whingeing about how hungry he is and how he'll collapse from malnutrition if I don't get my bottom (not word he used) moving for brunch.

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2 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I'll ask him when I'm done getting ready. He's whingeing about how hungry he is and how he'll collapse from malnutrition if I don't get my bottom (not word he used) moving for brunch.

Sounds like the man needs his sandwich.

[laylalex 7,247]

11 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Sounds like the man needs his sandwich.

Posole, actually. 

[Boiler 43,434]

Hopefully with a bread roll.

[laylalex 7,247]

4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Hopefully with a bread roll.

Plenty of chips and salsa and guacamole. He usually gets flan afterwards. 

 

Edit: I need to shut up and get on with getting up.

Edited January 25, 2020 by laylalex

[laylalex 7,247]

It was steak fajitas in the end, Boiler. 

 

Anyway, I asked him his opinion just now about the tipping point and he says, one word: cankles. 

[Boiler 43,434]

1 minute ago, laylalex said:

It was steak fajitas in the end, Boiler. 

 

Anyway, I asked him his opinion just now about the tipping point and he says, one word: cankles. 

I had a sausage sandwich.

 

Seems a reasonable point of distinction. Hot and cankles are not an obvious paring.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

The swamp doesn't want Bernie. Far left loon yes, but not a swamp monster for sure 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

32 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

The swamp doesn't want Bernie. Far left loon yes, but not a swamp monster for sure 

tfw you bend the 80 year old knee and the swamp still won't accept you