Asked AOC if she believes women’s allegations on Platner
Called it “really challenging" and "hard to stomach”
"But at the end of the day, I think this is a choice between these complicated situations” and Collins’ record.
"I don't think that it's to hand wave away any of this”
"American elite culture was forming me to be kind of a bad person."
Vice President JD Vance says it wasn't politics that brought him back to faith — it was the need to be a good husband and father.
Speaking with Jesse Watters ahead of the release of his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, Vance said the more he thought about raising children and building a family with his wife Usha, the more he was drawn to Catholicism and away from a culture focused on "prestige" instead of what truly matters. |@JesseBWatters
Republicans control every branch of state government in Georgia and refused to fund MARTA like most states do. The Republican controlled legislature *just* passed a bill making transit referendums even harder. If you don’t know these basic facts, you shouldn’t represent our state
Twenty years ago, after two presidential elections in which George W. Bush won every electoral vote in the former Confederate states, there was debate among Democrats over the idea that the party should give up on the South altogether. The thinking was that the South was a hopeless proposition for any progressive party and that pursuing the chimera of southern comfort would inevitably mean kowtowing to the region’s militarism and atavistic cultural views.
Two years later, Barack Obama broke the GOP electoral-vote lock on the South by carrying Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia. And by 2020, Georgia was electing two Democratic senators with views difficult to distinguish from those of their party colleagues elsewhere. Yes, Republicans have generally maintained a strong hold on the region, writes political columnist Ed Kilgore, “but no one can credibly argue that competing there would compromise the party elsewhere, aside from adding to demands for dollars.”
Now, Democrats have both a moral obligation and a political opportunity to respond to Republican attempts to monopolize legislative representation through the racially minded partisan gerrymanders, writes Kilgore. “Millions of southern Democrats, particularly Black voters, could lose nearly all their influence in states where Republicans hold governing trifectas.” Fighting back would go a long way toward addressing long-standing concerns both in and beyond the region that the party takes Black support for granted.
Read Kilgore’s full column: https://t.co/8WK190db1Q
POV: Billionaire @RickJacksonGA flying around to campaign events in a private jet AND private helicopter trying to act like he understands Georgians’ struggles #gapol
PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender.
AOC: It’s not a secret the disdain Ted Cruz has for people who work working-class jobs. It’s not a secret what he thinks of the waitresses, the line cooks—he thinks we’re less than him. He thinks that because he has a Harvard degree and has never scrubbed a table that it makes him better than someone who has actually had to work for a living.
I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.
Beautiful speech by AOC at the Ebenezer Church in Gerogia.
"I'm here today, brothers and sisters, with a simple message. We stand together and we are not going back. What happens in Georgia happens to New York, what happens to Tennessee, happens to California. What happens in Louisiana happens to ALL of us.
Because this is America we are not divided by State. We are united by our humanity and common citizenship. Because no man can grant us our humanity. No Law can erase it. No king, no system and no President can strip it away.
Because it is not given by man, it is ordained by God."
Dismissing AOC for talking about the rich in terms that a majority of Americans agree with is a mistake. The idea that the system is rigged to benefit the rich and that the working class up to the middle-class cannot get ahead is one of the most salient political arguments. Trump used to make it himself! Then gamed the system for himself and his friends - including the fraudsters he’s pardoned - of course.
The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.
If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.
The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.
We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.
Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.
State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important.
Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin, the only two candidates in the race with strong records of standing up for all Georgians.
Early voting is already underway and Election Day is May 19th. Find out where you can vote at https://t.co/OHJnsHnuiB.
Obama:
For those of you who still think that we’ve got little green men underground somewhere, one of the things you learn as president is... government is terrible at keeping secrets.
This idea of conspiracy theories — if there were aliens, alien spaceships, or anything under the control of the United States government that we knew about, seen photographs... I promise you some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend.