Happy 34th birthday, AOC!

it's AOC's birthday.

amidst the horrors in Gaza, let's take a moment to give virtual cheers for a tireless, courageous, witty and badass congresswoman. her impact on congress and the body politic amongst so many around the world can't be understated. she inspires people in their 80s and pre-teens - trust me, i read the comments. she's brave, kind, and relentless in her desire to do good in the world. she's succeeding and so beloved.

Feliz cumpleaños, AOC!

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Bigger Than Bernie: The Other Progressive Challengers Taking On the Democratic Establishment (via Christopher Hass)

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The Other Progressive Challengers Taking On the Democratic Establishment

By Christopher Hass “Today,” Bernie Sanders booms in his monotone shout, “we begin a political revolution to transform our country—economically, politically, socially and environmentally.” He marks each beat with his right hand, as if conducting with an invisible baton. Behind him, a lone seagull flaps its wings as it flies across Lake Champlain. The crowd of 5,000 that has come to Burlington, Vt., on a sunny afternoon in May to witness Sanders’ official campaign announcement breaks into a cheer. At the time, it was easy to dismiss talk of revolution as the rallying cry of a 74-year-old democratic socialist who clings too dearly to memories of the 1960s. Eleven months and more than six million votes later, Sanders’ call for revolution is harder to ignore. But what, exactly, would this political revolution look like? It’s not hard to imagine Sanders marching in the streets with the masses—he’s walked plenty of picket lines, most recently alongside Verizon workers in New York City last October—but that’s not the revolution he’s calling for. For Sanders, political revolution means shifting control of American politics away from corporate interests, convincing non-voters to go to the polls and attracting white working-class voters back to the Democratic Party, all while moving the party left enough to embrace democratic socialist policies. A political revolution of that kind is going to require two things: a wave of candidates committed to a bold set of progressive ideas and a mass of voters with the political will to elect them. There’s evidence both of these are already here.

Progressives are fired up here for a victory against big money. —Jamie Raskin read the full interview In These Times spoke to U.S. House and Senate challengers across the country who are very much a part of this wave. They are all outsiders to varying degrees, and all of them are running against the Democratic establishment in its various forms—from corporate donors and super PACs to the head of the Democratic National Committee herself. These challengers range from first-time candidates to experienced lawmakers, from community organizers to law professors. Each is balancing the individual concerns of the voters they seek to represent alongside the larger mood of the nation. None of them is running because of Bernie Sanders, but they clearly benefit from the enthusiasm and sense of progressive possibility his campaign has created. It would be a mistake to call them “Sanders Democrats” (and it’s unlikely Sanders himself would want anything to do with the term). Some have endorsed Sanders, others remain neutral or even back Hillary Clinton. But they are coalescing around a set of progressive policies familiar to anyone who has heard Sanders speak, including single-payer healthcare, free college tuition, a $15 minimum wage and breaking up the big banks. It’s hard to imagine a Democratic platform more at odds with Bill Clinton’s centrist Third Way of the 1990s. More importantly, these positions increasingly reflect the popular will. Even after the brutal battles over Obamacare, polls show that more than half of Americans support moving to a single-payer healthcare system. Fifty-eight percent want to break up the big banks. Sixty-three percent support raising the minimum wage to $15. And Americans are nearly united in agreement (78 percent) that Citizens United should be overturned. What’s striking about recent polling, though, is not the support for these progressive policies (many have enjoyed widespread approval for a while), but the openness to new, radical ideas—especially among young voters. In a January YouGov poll, people under 30 rated socialism more favorably than capitalism. On the eve of the Iowa caucus, when asked how they describe themselves, 43 percent of Democratic caucusgoers chose “socialist.” Take a moment to let that sink in. This is what happens when you have a generation of young people whose central experiences with capitalism have been two recessions, a financial crisis, crushing college debt, flat wages and soaring income inequality. For young people, the devil they don’t know is looking better and better than the devil they do—and that sentiment is fueling insurgent challengers. Many of these candidates continually emphasize the need to purge U.S. politics of corporate money, starting with the Democratic Party. “It’s easy for candidates to say they’re for overturning Citizens United, but it’s really meaningless when they’re also taking so much corporate and dark money that they’ll never follow through,” says Tim Canova, who is running for Congress in Florida’s 23rd congressional district. “The Democratic Party has lost its way. It has gone corporate and Wall Street on so many issues that it has unfortunately turned its back on its own grassroots base.” And it’s more than a matter of principle: Many of these candidates believe that voters are fed up with how the corporate capture of the party has pulled it to the right. “The Democratic Party has been Lucy with the football and the voters have been Charlie Brown,” says Tom Fiegen, a candidate for Senate in Iowa. “Democrats have pulled the football away too many times, so the voters say, ‘Nope, I am not going to be tricked again. I am not going to have you lie to me and tell me you’re on my side, and then when I send you to D.C., you vote for the TPP or you vote for the Keystone Pipeline.’ ” Nowhere is this trust gap felt more keenly than among young voters. Sanders has won the support of young people like few politicians before. In each of the 27 states that held primaries or caucuses in February or March, he won the youth vote, often by more than 50 points. In his home state of Vermont, he defeated Hillary Clinton among voters under 29 by an overwhelming 95 percent to 5 percent. Tom Fiegen saw how this played out in Iowa. “In the conventions I went to,” he says, “there was probably 30 to 40 years difference in age between Bernie supporters in one half of the room and Hillary supporters in the other half of the room.” Fiegen himself has endorsed Sanders, and you can hear in his voice the same passion that has animated so many young people: “We are idealists. … We want a better world. We think we can achieve it. We’re willing to basically throw our bodies in front of the bus to do that.”

The number one lesson that everyone can learn from Bernie Sanders, and that I’ve tried to emulate, is: Tell the truth. —Tom Fiegen The challengers:

Tim Canova (FL)

Donna Edwards (MD)

Tom Fiegen (IA)

Lucy Flores (NV)

Alan Grayson (FL)

Eric Kingson (NY)

Pramila Jayapal (WA)

Susannah Randolph (FL)

Joseline Peña-Melnyk (MD)

Jamie Raskin (MD) It would be a mistake to overlook the fact that this year’s election is playing out in a moment when protest movements have interjected themselves into the national conversation in a way we haven’t seen in a long time. Black Lives Matter, Fight for 15, the climate movement and more have demonstrated the value of setting uncompromising demands and pushing the boundaries of what is politically possible. It’s no surprise then that some of these progressive challengers come directly out of protest movements. Pramila Jayapal, a Washington state senator running for the 7th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, has a long history of activism and advocacy in Seattle. She founded the post-9/11 immigrant rights group Hate Free Zone (now OneAmerica), which has held massive voter registration drives. “The only reason I got into politics was because I believed it was another platform for organizing,” she says, “and that’s what I want to do with my congressional campaign. We’ve brought in thousands of leaders, young people and people of color and women who never saw themselves as part of democracy.” Joseline Peña-Melnyk, who is running for Congress in Maryland’s 4th District, says: “These movements give me hope for the future of our democracy. They show that the spirit that gave rise to the civil rights movement is still alive as people take up causes that matter and challenge the status quo.” Donna Edwards, a co-founder of the National Network to End Domestic Violence now running for Maryland’s open Senate seat, agrees. “I’ve always believed in outside movements,” she says. “Government doesn’t move effectively and elected officials don’t move effectively unless they have a big push from the outside.” Candidates like Debbie Medina, a democratic socialist running for state Senate in New York’s 18th District, are happy to be that push. As she told The Nation, “This election is just another rent strike.” Sanders himself is arguably the biggest protest candidate of them all. But a funny thing is happening: Many of the protest candidates are winning. By the middle of April, Sanders had won 16 states, as well as the Democrats abroad primary. Donna Edwards has led by as much as 6 points. Polls show Lucy Flores, a Sanders supporter running for Congress in Nevada, leading by 20 points. In Maryland’s 8th congressional district, Jamie Raskin’s two closest opponents are busy arguing over who’s in second place. For any new president to enact a progressive agenda, they’re going to need a new Congress. The establishment, however, is not going quietly. In Florida, where Tim Canova is challenging Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her congressional seat, news got out in March that the Florida Democratic Party (FDP) had denied Canova’s campaign access to the party’s voter file. His supporters created an uproar; the file is crucial to any campaign’s get-out-the-vote efforts. The FDP eventually backed down in order to avoid, in the words of the state party executive director, the “appearance of favoritism,” but the policy remains in place for all other Democratic primary challengers in Florida. And not just Florida—Democratic challengers in other states are routinely denied access to this data or charged extra for it. “The DNC and state Democratic parties must stop favoring incumbents over insurgents in Democratic primaries,” Canova says. “We need to recruit activists committed to our progressive agenda to run for office, and that includes challenging incumbent Democrats.” Given that these candidates want to rid the party of corporate influence, it’s no surprise that many are going head-to-head with big money. In Maryland, Jamie Raskin’s two biggest challengers in the Democratic primary are a wine mogul named David Trone, who has already spent more than $5 million of his fortune on the race, and Kathleen Matthews, who once oversaw the Marriott political action committee and is now herself the recipient of more lobbyist money than any Democrat running for the House in 2016. “My major opponents here have no real history of involvement in Democratic Party politics,” Raskin says. “They are creatures of the big money politics that have overtaken our country.” He’s won the endorsement of both liberal groups and a number of Democratic state lawmakers, and—borrowing a page from Sanders’ playbook—has relied on a surge of small-dollar donations to remain competitive. “Progressives are fired up here for a victory against big money,” Raskin says. In Nevada, Lucy Flores faces a multi-millionaire, Susie Lee, who has loaned her own campaign $150,000. But as Jeb Bush will tell you, money alone only gets you so far, especially in a year when voters seem more interested in authenticity. “The number one lesson that everyone can learn from Bernie Sanders,” Tom Fiegen says, “and that I’ve tried to emulate is: Tell the truth.” Donna Edwards put it this way: “We should not run away from who we are as Democrats and the values that we share. … We lose elections because our voters stay home.” For a President Sanders or a President Clinton to be successful, they’re going to need voters to come out not just in November, but in 2018, 2020, and beyond. For any president to enact a progressive agenda, they’re going to need a new Congress, made up of people like Donna Edwards, Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal and others. When Barack Obama first ran for president, he spoke frequently about how his election was not about him, but us. He may have meant it, but it was hard to shake the feeling that at that moment in American history, it was in fact very much about him and the qualities he possessed. Today, when Sanders uses the same language, you believe him—if for no other reason than it’s hard to imagine a wild-haired septuagenarian in a baggy suit as the catalyst for a popular movement. Clearly, something deeper is going on. For the most part, Sanders himself has remained focused on his own election fight with Hillary Clinton. He has avoided talk of the future. But in a recent interview with Cenk Uygur of the “Young Turks,” Sanders let his guard down for a minute, saying, “We need, win or lose for me, a political revolution which starts electing people who are accountable to the working families of this country.” There it was—“electing people,” plural, not a single president. That’s what revolution looks like. These challengers are also carrying the flag of the political revolution sparked by Bernie Sanders. This Piece Originally Appeared in Christopher Hass Read the full article

House Passes Bill To Aid Border Crisis, Socialists Vote No In Bloc! What Is That About?

House Passes Bill To Aid Border Crisis, Socialists Vote No In Bloc! What Is That About?

The mess on our southern borders continues to get worse by the day, and nobody has quite known what to do. It came as a big relief to everyone genuinely concerned about the fate of our Southern American neighbors, who have come to us for help, that the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill to give these people some relief.

The House voted 230 to 195, mostly down party…

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WATCH AOC's Unhinged Socialist Rebuttal To President Trump's Speech

After Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi Watched AOC's Trump Speech Rebuttal on MSNBC, She Probably Believes She's Running A Kindergarten With The Children Running Amok

Yesterday, before President Trump's Address to the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis along the U.S. Southern Border, the Democrats Nancy, and Chuck threw a childish temper tantrum wanting equal TV time. Of course, the Mainstream Media immediately agreed with the dynamic duo of dimwitted Democrats. So, we joked about how the Dimms should have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez give the rebuttal to Trump’s speech. And she did... Whoo-hoo Today we wrote an article on how the President was so accurate, fact checkers needed to stretch, twist, and simply ignored what President Trump said during his Oval Office speech to come up with anything to whine about. If fact-checkers set aside their liberal bias for one moment, they would find no need to do such calisthenics if they fact-checked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's simpleminded socialist rebuttal to President Trump. AOC who couldn't name the three branches of Government is now being put forward by the two leaders of the fake news media, CNN, and MSNBC, as the enlightened 'woke' voice of the Liberal Loony Toon party. Cue Rachel Maddow and MSNBC: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers an impassioned response to President Trump’s address" If MSNBC meant "Impassioned" as in wrong, short-sighted, devoid of facts, and basically nothing more than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez giving an unhinged rant... Then yes, MSNBC nailed "Impassioned" perfectly. With every word she spoke, AOC's head was jerking around like a bobblehead doll with a broken spring. Here are just a few of the things Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed "No one should feel unsafe in the United States of America, and that includes, our amazing, beautiful, productive immigrants" Well, she's right immigrants are amazing, beautiful, productive people... it's the illegal ones that aren't so amazing, beautiful, and productive. I assume this part of her rant was in response to President Trump talking about illegal immigrant murders, rapist and common criminals? She went on to say "The one thing the President has not talked about is the fact that his systematical violation of international human rights borders on..." At this point, Ocasio-Cortez brain caught up to her mouth and screamed out Wait, WHAT?   After swallowing hard, she then continued "Human rights on our border" Ocasio-Cortez repugnantly brought up the fact that a migrant child died while in Border Patrol custody. Despite the fact that the Border agents brought this poor 8-year-old to the Hospital not once, but TWICE on the same day he died. According to even the liberal New York Times article, the border agents showed as much concern for this child as any parent would. Of course, in AOC's dimwitted mind, forget the fact that this innocent child's father made him walk over a thousand miles, without adequate, food, water, or medical supplies... In Ocasio-Cortez's world, 'it was the border patrol agents who were responsible for this 8-year-olds horrific death.' Read more about this here Nancy Pelosi Cries ‘Compassion To All Children Of God’ EXCEPT ONE AOC continued her previous assault on ICE, after her last attempt a few months back. Polls showed that even among Democrats, ICE has the overwhelming support of the American people. Despite her being universally panned the last time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went through a list of ICE's supposed crimes against humanity, and demandd to know why President Trump was defending them? For those of us who support President Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continuing to spew her imbecile thoughts is great news. Not only does it show how unhinged she and her Socialist Democrat friends are. It also proves that Nancy Pelosi can't control the lunatic House members, running around inside the Speaker's kindergarten class. Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unhinged rebuttal Read the full article

Why Ocasio-Cortez's Solution To ‘Fix’ Migrant Caravan Crisis Won't Work

On top of managing the vast U.S. military and everything else the position demands, the president is also responsible for ensuring American borders are orderly, efficient and secure. So when a violent caravan of migrants made its way toward the United States, President Donald Trump hardened the border. Troops were stationed, concertina wire was stretched and plans were made. The migrants eventually slammed into the border but were repelled with ease. This might not have been the case if someone besides Trump lived in the White House. In fact, Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York announced her own solution for the border crisis — one that almost certainly would upend civility and rule of law in the United States. The young Democratic Socialist does not see the need for a secure border, instead hoping to place 5,000 government caseworkers there to speedily process the migrants through to the United States. Seriously. What if instead of sending 5k troops to the border, we had sent 5k caseworkers to review + process visa applications? In addition to averting moral crisis, it also would‘ve saved enormous amt of resources. But we don’t talk about the financial recklessness of GOP admins, do we? — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 26, 2018 Although the border may seem like an arbitrary line on a map to some, it’s a critical symbol of our national sovereignty. Borders are incomprehensibly important. There’s a reason they’re so central in human history. According to the Ancient History Encyclopedia, some of the earliest found human-made walls date from a time when mammoths still roamed the earth. For 10,000 years, the humble border has stood the test of time as a foolproof way of figuring out what belongs where. Borders are so crucial that a word even exists for a mass unwelcome crossing of one: invasion. Just to be clear: The main problem Ocasio-Cortez would likely have with that video is a barrier keeping the horde out of the United States. Along with wanting to open America for every beating heart, Ocasio-Cortex also officially supports Medicare for all and guaranteed federal jobs, two things that would be exponentially harder with no border control. Open Borders and socialism can't work side by side.  I thought she knew that... Read the full article

Nancy Pelosi Scolds Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez And The Squad In New Book House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) di......Read the rest by clicking the link below! https://worldwidetweets.com/nancy-pelosi-scolds-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-the-squad-in-new-book/?feed_id=47967&_unique_id=60763d3388f72

AOC joined mehdi hasan to launch his name media company, zeteo, (pronounced za-tay-o) for a full range discussion about her political rise and agenda.

she hasn't done anything like this for a while, so this was really fun! mehdi is a great interviewer.

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A former Obama campaign staffer is the first woman to lead Italy's main left-wing party A rising star of the Italian left has won election to the leadership of the Democratic Party, the country’s second-largest political group. Thirty-seven-year-old Elly Schlein will serve as the main opposition leader to Giorgia Meloni, the country’s far-right prime minister—the first time both of these roles have been…Read more... https://qz.com/italy-politics-opposition-leader-young-progressive-1850164116

Riot Aftermath: Still-Shaken Lawmakers, Troops Still Stand Guard WASHINGTON (AP) — On Jan. 6, the U.S. Ca......Read the rest by clicking the link below! https://worldwidetweets.com/riot-aftermath-still-shaken-lawmakers-troops-still-stand-guard/?feed_id=2513&_unique_id=601f03d662c87

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez AOC reaches Silver III in League of Legends

One Big Happy Family! Why AOC and Bernie Are Donald Trump's Best Friends.

One Big Happy Family! Why AOC and Bernie Are Donald Trump’s Best Friends.

Hello, world, from Millennial Democrats! We hope it finds you well. Earlier today, a debate was held between a few of our members, which led to a consensus decision. Some asked if I would clarify the organization’s reasons for refusing to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as there are certainly many people on the left who, to put it mildly, do not agree with that decision. First…

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Electing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Like Giving A Child A Loaded Gun For Christmas

The United States is supposed to elect the brightest minds to lead our nation, instead, New York elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a dimwitted night light.

Mere words can't describe the stupidity that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spews out on Twitter almost on a daily basis.  Click On The Picture / Link To Read Her Latest: http://bluepillsheep.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tweets-more-stupidity/ Read the full article

Will Democratic Rebels Dethrone Queen Nancy?

(The American Conservative)After adding at least 37 seats and taking control of the House by running on change, congressional Democrats appear to be about to elect as their future leaders three of the oldest faces in their party. Nancy Pelosi of California and Steny Hoyer of Maryland have led House Democrats for 16 years. For 12 years, they have been joined in the leadership triumvirate by Jim Clyburn of South Carolina. If these three emerge as speaker, the majority leader, and majority whip, all three Democratic leaders will be older than our oldest president, Ronald Reagan, was when he went home after two terms. By the 2020’s election, all three House leaders would be over 80. Was this gerontocracy what America voted for when it awarded Democrats control of the House? Hardly. Some Democrats won in 2018 by pledging not to vote for Pelosi as speaker, so unpopular is she in their districts. And if all who said they want new leadership was to vote for new leaders on the House floor January 3—when the speaker will be chosen—Pelosi would fall short. The race for speaker could then break wide open. Some 16 Democrats vowed Monday to oppose Pelosi on the House floor, one shy of blocking her return to the speakership after eight years. In a letter that went public, the 16 declared: “Our majority came on the backs of candidates who said that they would support new leadership because voters in hard-won districts, and across the country, want to see real change in Washington. We promised to change the status quo, and we intend to deliver on that promise.” The likelihood of the rebellion succeeding, however, remains slim, for no credible challenger to Pelosi has yet announced. What explains the timidity in the Democratic caucus? Pelosi punishes enemies. Democrats calling for new leaders have already been branded as sexists with the hashtag “#FiveWhiteGuys.” Yet the evidence is mounting that a Pelosi speakership would prove an unhappy close to her remarkable career. One week after the election, 150 protesters from the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats blocked Pelosi’s House office to demand action on climate change. They were joined by the youngest member of the incoming Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Pelosi declared herself “inspired” by the protesters, 51 of whom were arrested. She urged police to let them exercise their democratic rights and pledged to revive the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which Republicans abolished. Dismissing the committee as “toothless,” the protesters demanded that Pelosi’s party commit to bringing an end to the use of all fossil fuels and to accepting no more campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry. Not going to happen with Pelosi as speaker. For when it comes to the leftist agenda of liberal Democrats from safe districts—Medicare for all, abolish ICE, impeach Trump—Pelosi would pigeonhole such measures to avoid the party’s being dragged too far to the left for 2020. And if the House were to pass radical measures, the bills would die in the Senate or be vetoed by the president. Moreover, within the House Democrats, the various factions are going to be demanding a new distribution of powerful seats, of which there are only so many to go around. Democratic women, who won more seats than ever, will want more, as will the Congressional Black Caucus and the Hispanics. It will most likely be white male Democrats, that shrinking cohort, who will be the principal losers in the new House. That adage about Democrats being a collection of warring tribes gathered together in anticipation of common plunder has never seemed truer. What, then, does the new year promise? As it becomes apparent that there is little common ground for bipartisan legislation on Capitol Hill—except perhaps on infrastructure, and that would take a long time to enact—the cable news channels will look elsewhere for the type of action that causes ratings to soar. That action will inevitably come in the clashes between Trump and his enemies and the media that sustain them. Out of the House—with Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters, and Jerrold Nadler as new chairs—will come a blizzard of subpoenas and a series of confrontations with witnesses. From special counsel, Robert Mueller’s office will almost surely come new indictments, trials, and the long-anticipated report, which will go to the Justice Department, where Matthew Whitaker is acting attorney general. Then there is the presidential race of 2020, where the Democratic Party has yet another gerontocracy problem. By spring, there could be 20 Democrats who have announced for president. And five of the most prominent mentioned—Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Mike Bloomberg—are also over 70, with Elizabeth Warren turning 70 in June. While some candidates will be granted airtime because they are famous, the lesser known will follow the single sure path to the cable studios and the weekend TV shows—the trashing of Trump. And trading barbs is not Nancy Pelosi’s kind of fight. Read the full article