‘Progressive’ Democrats Freak Out as AOC Tepidly Backs Biden in 2024 “Given that field”
“That field” consists of New Age guru and genuine weirdo Marianne Williamson and decidedly liberal RFK, Jr.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has come out with a less than ringing endorsement of Joe “I am the Democratic Party” Biden’s 2024 reelection bid, and her fellow socialists among the ‘progressive’ Democrats are freaking all the way out.
She stated she supports Biden . . . “given that field.” That field consists of New Age guru and genuine weirdo Marianne Williamson and decidedly liberal RFK, Jr. who appears to have more support on the populist right than he does among his fellow Democrats.
Ocasio-Cortez told the “Pod Save America” podcast Thursday she would support Biden, who faces two long-shot challengers in the 2024 Democratic primary.
“I believe, given that field, yes,” Ocasio-Cortez said when asked whether she would support the incumbent president in the next election.
“I think he’s done quite well, given the limitations that we have,” she added of Biden’s first three years in office. “I do think that there are ebbs and flows, as there are in any presidency.”
Rep. @AOC endorses President Joe Biden.
Listen to the full interview:https://t.co/xDCxw5XxhN pic.twitter.com/DTc6RYH7FT
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) July 7, 2023
The Washington Examiner has more:
She praised both the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act that went into effect under Biden’s administration, adding that the IRA “was a massive step in terms of our climate agenda.”
However, the New York Democrat said there are still areas of Biden’s presidency that need improvement.
According to her, “We have major structural issues in this country.” The most important thing, she explained, is electing senators “that are willing to stand up and stare the filibuster in the eyes, and stare a lot of structural issues about the Senate in the United States. And it will be what holds back this country from an enormous amount of progress.”
AOC, of course, is a socialist, and she was a fervent supporter of self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2020, so much so that she nominated him months after he had officially withdrawn from the race.
Just as Sanders had seemed poised to legitimately win the Democrat nomination, the party elite—fearing that he was unelectable—shunted him to the side in favor of Biden.
Democrats who like to refer to themselves as “progressives” are furious that AOC is betraying the cause, and it’s hilarious.
Leftists on the [Twitter] platform accused the lawmaker of selling out her progressive and anti-war values with her decision to support the second presidential term of the Democratic Party leader who recently just approved of providing controversial cluster bombs for Ukraine’s war effort.
Critics accused the Congresswoman of “maliciously” selling out working class voters with the endorsement.
Endorsing Joe Biden now is a betrayal of progressive interests. It was true of Bernie Sanders’ endorsement & its true of AOC.
*Most* Democrats don’t want Biden to run. Bernie and AOC are tragically out of step w/ the movement & the moment. https://t.co/WFC5MFUkcH
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) July 7, 2023
I'm so embarrassed I had faith in @AOC and defended her for years. I was so excited when she won.
Can't believe it's come to this.🤦🏻♀️
— Jane Manning (@janeamanning) July 7, 2023
Yes, Biden has done a good job! (If you like drilling permits on federal land and cluster bombs…) https://t.co/3p7Le2j7s3
— Graham Elwood (@grahamelwood) July 7, 2023
— Against late capitalism 🪶 (@Inhumansoflate1) July 8, 2023
I absolutely dispise her now!!!
— Vietnow 🍉🐔 (@Wadeinth3water) July 8, 2023
There is not enough anger at Bernie Sanders and AOC for taking working class money, lying to desperate people, and selling them out in malicious fashion pic.twitter.com/Xe0zRejHBk
— Revolutionary Blackout Network🥋 (@SocialistMMA) July 8, 2023
Is it bad that I’m giggling at her mob turning on her? Something about reaping whirlwinds and just deserts.
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The wheels on the short bus go “Thump Thump Thump” as AOC is tossed under.
Snakes chowing on tails.
Not Trump Trump Trump?
Whenever I encounter a dumb slut bartender (not all bartenders are dumb sluts, but a small percentage are) I tend to ignore them. Especially when they do double-time as a Marxist wannabe tyrant.
I don’ t know about the “slut” thing, but she is a moron and has shown herself be as corrupt as dumb.
If Fetterman could talk, he’d blab the same drivel this dumbass does.
They became establishment so fast….
No faster than a lot of the Tea Party candidates we sent off to Congress.
“ No faster than a lot of the Tea Party candidates we sent off to Congress.”
Yeppers….the ‘one eyed McCain’ comes to mind…though not traditionally Tea Party, a disappointment just the same…
I knew I was done with that dipshit when I heard him gaslighting about how Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal wasn’t such a debacle after all.
McCain? He’s been dead for years
Gonzo: they are referring to Dan Crenshaw, who is proving to be as much a turncoat as the deceased John McCain. He wears an eye patch, and so is known as Eye Patch McCain, or One Eyed McCain.
The tw0-eyed McConnells and Grahams come to mind,
McCain’s ‘Maverick’ act always stunk. I used to think he might have been the token Rep tarred in the Keating S&L scandal but over time I’ve decided he was as crooked as Biden is, and was protected because he was reliably antagonistic to anything the Dems wanted opposed.
They always were. That’s why they enjoy the success they have. Sometimes the tail wags the dog and has to be fixed, but these “outsiders” typically aren’t.
She wants to date him…
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via carbon-14 test …
Given examples like Biden and Fetterman, I don’t understand why Democrats think anybody is “unelectable”. With their vote-creating machine, they could elect the White House dog.
They know the elections are rigged:
THE FIX IS IN: Joe Biden Has No Campaign Headquarters, Has No Plans to Hold Campaign Events, Is Not Spending Campaign Money, and Democrats Aren’t Worried:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/fix-is-joe-biden-has-no-campaign-headquarters/
What happens to Biden’s campaign money if it is not all spent or he does not run? Could it be given to a newly established “Biden Foundation”? If so, that and pardons all around is his exit strategy if things go further south.
Actually I think the country would be much better off if they had elected the White House dog. He would probably bite the puppet masters!
“The most important thing, she explained, is electing senators “that are willing to stand up and stare the filibuster in the eyes, and stare a lot of structural issues about the Senate in the United States.”
So, it’s about grasping govt and institutional power above all. We knew, but nice of her to say it out loud.
AOC should carry Bernie’s bastard to fruition just to keep up with Chelsea’s disease free propagation.
All in the name of diversity aka Satan.
This really shows you how dumb the left is that they can’t understand what AOC is saying.
AOC is right. Given the current field of Biden, RFK, and Williamson of course she’s going to support Biden.
If the left doesn’t want Biden why isn’t anyone else on the left running?
Why won’t any leftists challenge Biden? They know they can’t beat an incumbent president, but perhaps are waiting for the other shoe to drop on Biden and the nomination to be wide open, or for KH to become President – and she is far left.
I think it would be a mistake to wait on Biden to drop out. Once Harris becomes President your going to be accused of racism in trying to unseat the first black female POTUS. The left is going to go crazy because as we all know the left is obsessed with gender and skin color.
If you run now you can claim Biden and Harris is not up to the task and if he drops out you can still run. The racism charges could still be made but it would be weaker because you could say you were running while Biden was still POTUS.
Will anyone else on the Left be allowed to win in the primaries?
Biden became the nominee because the fix was put in.
Comparable efforts will be made this time, either for Biden or for his designated successor.
Even AOC can figure that out.
AOC proclaims, “ Tepidity in defense of stupidity is so nice.”
RFK Jr is running in the ‘populist left’ candidate lane. The populists on left and right have a large degree of overlap on many issues; dislike of corporate welfare, the idea of too big to fail institutions, forever wars and aggressive foreign policy/empire/Nation building, distrust of neocons and the admin State/deep state IC among others.
It is important to remember that roughly 10 million Obama voters pulled the lever for Trump in 2016. Those were the disaffected members of the populist left who got PO about HRC and the DNC shenanigans used to get her the nomination, aka Bernie Bros. That is a bit simplistic but pretty damn accurate.
RFK Jr is actually right about a lot of things – particularly about how dependency on Big Pharma and Government money corrupted the Media. But he is also a crank who is wrong about a lot of things. As bad as he is, he is preferable to Dementia Joe.
He is still a leftist.
No shit, he’s RFK’s Son.
I would add that the populist left and right also share a desire to “burn it all down.” The populist left imagines a communist utopia rising from the ashes, while the populist right imagines a magical return to 1776. Neither is realistic, neither will happen. Or is even possible. But here we are.
“I would add that the populist left and right also share a desire to “burn it all down.” The populist left imagines a communist utopia rising from the ashes, while the populist right imagines a magical return to 1776. Neither is realistic, neither will happen. Or is even possible. But here we are.”
Yeppers…but I would take the magical return to 1776 over the former. Shoot, a return to 1962 would be OK….maybe 1984….a lot of dates other than today…. 🙂
This is nonsensical. You get that, right?
Yeppers
Hee! You make me smile.
Well as I consider myself a member of the populist right I have to disagree. Maybe it’s a matter of perspective. As a cynical realist with a strong libertarian streak I am quite aware that reverting to a Congress constrained by the explicit enumerated powers of Art 1, Sec 8 is not currently attainable.
What’s possible is limiting agency powers, paring back the administrative state, returning to a foreign policy regime/outlook that minimizes military adventurism, creating a more fair burden of taxation via tariffs+ flat tax+ head tax, block granting funds directly to the States for Federal/State partnership programs like Medicaid allowing States to experiment (which guts Fed agency staffing), working to reshore domestic manufacturing, achieve N American energy independence, use our anti trust system to be break up ‘too big to fail’ entities or those without a true competitor like FB and finally reform the Fed Reserve by limiting its ability to create unlimited dollars and purchase govt debt.
In other words return power to the States and to the people while restricting, as far as possible, the ability of the Federal govt to get us into foreign wars, piss away taxes on boondoggles, pick economic winners and losers, grow indefinitely larger and more intrusive, keep running up national debt in time of peace and so on. All can be done to one degree or another IF we force our political leadership to do it.
I’m completely on board with all of that. What you lay out here, though, is not a “libertarian” nor a “populist right” agenda; that’s pure constitutional conservative.
Using anti trust to break up companies seems kinda populist as opposed to doctrinaire ‘conservative’. Using fiscal judo/sleight of hand with block grants to gut the Federal bureaucracy seems more libertarian in impact than constitutional conservative.
Agree to disagree. Keep in mind this is a list watered down to what is politically attainable at the very outside edge of contemporary politics v what I would actually prefer to do.
Un huh. I can agree to disagree, but I don’t think we actually disagree at all.
We do. Look at it this way then, from my populist/libertarian perspective someone like Lindsey Graham is a doctrinaire conservative, a regular old conservative or what you call a constitutional conservative. Those who call themselves constitutional conservative may not want to be categorized with him but the shoe definitely fits from my perspective.
Lindsey would have an apoplectic fit if we shutdown the ability of govt to engage in foreign entanglements, stopped bullying other Nations and stopped getting into endless wars around the globe.
Likewise he would flip out if the power of his office was reduced b/c his influence and that of the rest of the politicians in DC no longer mattered as a.result of ending the picking of economic winners and losers using regulations and/or the tax code.
He would come unglued if he couldn’t find something to pontificate about that was worth doing but which he had no intention of following through on but pontificate anyway to fool the sheep. People like him and those sheep who support them aka ‘regular old conservatives’ would rather keep any changes minimal and leave something to do ‘someday soon’ but who’s day never quite arrives.
These folks earned the ‘conservative’ label b/c they abhor change, even wholly necessary change like reforming Social Security to keep it going for generations beyond current beneficiaries. They, unfortunately prove this time after time by re-election of regular old conservative politicians like Cornyn and Graham. Even in supposedly deep red States that’s the consensus choice of regular old conservative voters.
Graham is not a constitutional conservative; he’s a big government, big spending, big war neocon of the Bush-Cheney “compassionate conservative” (i.e. progressive) ilk. He was huge into amnesty and climate change crap, definitely not constitutional conservative positions, and he was very anti-Tea Party (which was all about small government and lower taxes: Taxed Enough Already, remember?). He also supports a national law banning abortion, while this is a state issue per the Constitution.
There is nothing “constitutional conservative” about Grahamnesty. Remember when he said that free speech needed to be curtailed after the burning of the Koran in Florida that time? NOT constitutional conservative by any stretch of the imagination since that, in particular, is an attack on the Constitution itself. Ditto his stance on Patriot Act-“justified” illegal spying on Americans in America: he thinks that is super duper A-OK. It’s not. In point of fact, the Patriot Act itself is not viewed favorably by actual constitutional conservatives (like me; I want it gone).
Maybe we are just using different words to describe things? You’ve read enough of my stuff over these many years, do you really think that I, an actual constitutional conservative, and Lindsey Graham hold any of the same views? On pretty much anything? The only time I can remember responding positively to anything Graham did was when he went off on Democrats over the Kavanaugh confirmation. He did it several times, and it was magnificent. But that doesn’t make him a constitutional conservative by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, nothing you describe here has anything to do with constitutional conservatism.
Imagine how that would bring the sides together, over s’mores.
Mmmm, s’mores! Unfortunately, unifying over “burn it all down” is a bad idea. Not every (or any?) enemy of my enemy is my friend.