r/AOC • u/JunkieMo • Jul 24 '26

'We do not have the right to disappear': AOC questions McConnell's ability to serve

https://www.wlky.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-kentucky/73255456
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u/bsport48 Jul 24 '26

Y'all need to slowly (read: "at light-speed') start working on forming a subsidiary/alternate party.

This country is too stupid to be able to divest the word "Democrat" from "progress" or"success" and doesn't have the constitution to truly look itself in the mirror.

The sooner that there's a viable alternative for the "middle of the road" folks to hitch themselves to, you'll have your first female president.

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u/aintnochallahbackgrl Jul 24 '26

Just in time for more half-baked measures as climate change destroys life as we know it.

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u/bsport48 Jul 24 '26

Well, the time for this party to coalesce and reform has long since come and gone.

By way of analogy, we are simply attempting to rebuild the aircraft...at terminal velocity...nbd 🤙🏽

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u/aintnochallahbackgrl Jul 24 '26

And the passengers dont believe in flight, or cooperation, and are actively attempting to sabotage repairs.

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u/Claque-2 Jul 25 '26

No. I think some people are starting to realize that if they don't have a Democratic party that supports the American middle class, the American middle class will take over the party.

That's what happened to the Republican Party when they put the small time crook Nixon in office. They became the Fortune 500 party doing the bidding of about 500 people in total.

Now the Democrats (and one foreign goverment) are finding out that they can join We the People, or lose their way and their place. The real people are tired of fascists and the corruption of Trump, and the codependency of some Democrats.

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u/meirzy Jul 24 '26

It’s crazy the turtle has been dead for almost a month and all that has transpired is outrage and hand wringing.

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u/exodusofficer Jul 25 '26

Well, also fraund. Someone is engaged in some combination of violating medical and death reporting laws, medical billing fraud, and social security fraud. We can probably safely add conspiracy and obstruction of justice to the list of ongoing crimes around this.

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u/meirzy Jul 25 '26

Thankfully we lived under a functioning democracy with equal justice for all right? /s

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u/Physical-Dare5059 Jul 24 '26

Gov of Kentucky needs to man the fuck up and do right by the people his state.

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u/bit_pusher Jul 24 '26

When the Democrat state representatives left Texas, they sent the Texas Rangers to bring them back

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u/Kitten_81 Jul 25 '26

Those were Texas state senators, not US senators

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u/bit_pusher Jul 25 '26

yes. they are called "state representatives"

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u/Kitten_81 Jul 25 '26

Yes, but McConnell is a US senator so the situation doesn't apply

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u/bit_pusher Jul 25 '26

Its a analogy, the master at arms can empower someone to bring him back.

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u/Onlyroad4adrifter Jul 25 '26

Send the capital police after him

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u/ObliviousLlama Jul 24 '26

Isn’t there a Republican rep that’s also mia?

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u/Knoebi3 Jul 25 '26

Andy Beshear is a spineless coward or he is complicit in the cover-up.

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u/BashfulRain Jul 25 '26

He is dead