US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isn’t fazed by Congress’ failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.
“There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday.
“There are going to be many, many, many investigations,” she added. “I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.”
I have a bad feeling about this. I swear to god Trump the other rat fucks are going to pull something. They are being too quiet.
Overwhelm the system with so many criminals, just like their Gish Gallop of continouously telling lies every time they speak, they make it impossible to expend the effort to punish them all. Especially seeing as they hold the traitorous SCotUS who will let them off the hook for just about anything.
For the love of God don’t waste your entire time “prosecuting” rich people that seem to always fucking get away with it…get policies passed for us small people that make our lives better for once for fucks sake.
You know there’s different committees that do different jobs right?
Yup but even still the primary focus should be the people. It’s been far too long since that’s even felt like the governments primary focus.
Investigate, use information collected to enact anti-corruption laws, send corruption information to states where it violates their laws, build communications to get citizens behing the bills. Behind closed doors investigation is fine, information is the goal. Changes the appearance of a witch hunt to what Americans really want, no corruption. Go after MAGA polititians criminally and you lost the people that don’t believe you are any less corrupt than the repubicans.
Are we arresting more or less of the administration than after Joe Biden’s term on office?
What about Obama’s term?
Clinton’s?
Okay, but surely under Carter…
Kennedy? Ffs! Surely he had someone prosecuted after the Bay of Pigs.
Okay, fine. But FDR, here was a guy who… nope! Whole Hoover Admin got off Scott free.
Well, maybe this time will be difference.
There’s a lot to probe and arrest but make it work. You go after everyone. Have have to do it all while you work on your campaign promises and fix what Trump broke. All of it.
Tier 1:
- affordability efforts
- universal healthcare
- end Iran war
- end military support for Israel
Tier 2:
- abolish ICE
- prosecute the corrupt
- codify body autonomy
- reform the supreme court
Tier 3:
- end Cuban blockade
- end the electoral college
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but they need to get results on Tier 1 ASAP in order to maintain progressive and MAGA turncoat votes.
People need their food stamps back too, the ones Trump kicked off. Disabled people kicked off other aid too.
The EC will quite likely be effectively ended by states before Congress gets to it. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will make the EC follow the popular vote, not the stupid state-based voting currently being done.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will make the EC follow the popular vote
No it won’t.
States with an opposition majority can simply exit the Compact. SCOTUS can rule the Compact invalid as soon as it becomes a hinge point for a presidential contest. State parties can send up electors that refuse to abide by the compact’s accords.
The only real solution is abolition. Any relic of the system that remains is a loaded gun left in the hands of a cynical bureaucracy.
States with an opposition majority can simply exit the Compact.
They can’t just simply exit. They’ll need to pass a new bill to exit, at minimum.
SCOTUS can rule the Compact invalid as soon as it becomes a hinge point for a presidential contest.
This is potentially true. It seems constitutionally sound from SC precedence, but it’s not like the current SC cares about that. Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.
Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.
You’d need a Democrat in the White House to do that. At that point, there’s no longer pressure to reform the EC.
Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then? Are we not holding any more elections after that?
Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then?
There’s plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction you’d prefer.
The GOP doesn’t have one “master plan” to rig the electoral college. Instead, lawmakers are considering a couple of different versions of a plan that would tie electoral votes to congressional districts.
This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red states… leading to the Dummymander of 2026.
There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.
But the bottom line is that when you’re winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) there’s no big incentive to change the rules.
And when you’re losing, there’s no opportunity to change them.
Continue winning?
Not putting SC reform in tier 1 is an immediate L
SC reform can’t happen until 2029, so no it doesn’t belong in tier 1 on pragmatic grounds alone
If there is a 2029 lmao
… Sorry, off topic, but why is your icon the buc-ees mascot? Those guys chug maga cock like their life depends on it.
Icon? I use Voyager btw.
Irony. Think punks and John Lennon rocking Mickey Mouse tees. Buc-ee’s is the height of MAGA brain rot culture. A gas station treated as some sort of cultural identity.
That said, they are great rest stops…
Nothing says being punk and ironic like having to explain to everyone you’re being punk and ironic.
Buc-ee’s is the height of MAGA brain rot culture.
The place college kids stop at in between home and college? The venue all those city kids eat at on the way to a camping trip or summer vacation? The spot RV driving liberals fill up at while visiting all the national monuments they can find on a map? The physical embodiment of urban gentrification of rural neighborhoods?
This Buccee’s?
My husband brought me bucees sweat pants from his business trip to Austin, we both had a laugh. Then we read up on the owners 😳.
The fact that they won’t sue him means we should all be able to safely use this.
Put it on a bunch of gas stations.
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You know I hate tankies as much as anyone else, but I’ll honestly say JoMiran is one of the few .ml users who doesn’t seem to be one.
As in, they’re actually capable of rational thought/discussion and has some decent takes from time to time, which a tankie would be utterly incapable of
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Wait what, when did anyone mention swastikas? I must have missed that part of the conversation. What I saw is that they said punks wore mickey mouse shirts. Which is a completely different thing.
I’m not here to defend .ml as an instance, I think it’s garbage and most of its users are disingenuous trolls and accelerationist edge lords who would rather see the world burn with no plan to rebuild after rather than contribute in any meaningful or reasonable way to any sort of productive discussion whatsoever.
That being said, I’ve seen JoMiran around on different threads and they don’t act like the usual .ml user. There’s a couple others too, but they’re very much the exception rather than the rule over there. That’s all I’m saying.
And I never listened to the sex pistols, but there are plenty of punk bands who hate nazis, and honestly the punk ethos is diametrically opposed to fascism, so that weird subgenre of nazi punk is not only an oxymoron, but they’re also just a bunch of posers appropriating the aesthetic and not really punks. They would get chased out of any regular punk venue. Call it gatekeeping if you want but nazis are not punk, even when they try to call themselves that.
Sigh. Anti-NATO and pro-China is not pro-Russia. If anything, we agree with you libs that China and the USA are fighting a proxy war using Russia and Ukraine as condoms.
The US provoked it, Russia started it, then China stepped in and used the opportunity to make Russia completely economically dependent on them.
Russia sucks in so many ways. Ukraine sucks way less because they were the ones who got invaded, and I’m far more on their side, but they have problems too. The people of both countries are being used and thrown away by unaccountable foreign bastards (and domestic bastards in Russia’s case).
It’s just a game to the people at the top. China wants to limit Western advancement on their western flank, and the US/NATO wants to kill Russians and advance their economic influence into countries previously dominated by Russia.
It’s two capitalist markets trying to gain power over each other. We at ml think the solution to this is to bring down capitalism, and the major other communist faction on Lemmy is to do that but bring down the state as well.
Now, does any of this sound like we are pro-Russian to you?
To your final question, yes.
Which part?
Are they big fans of gas stations over there?
They’re tankies. So they’re big fans of obvious fascism and authoritarian ideas claiming it’s basically anything else.
Meanwhile the US is evil incarnatez and absolutely everything they do is bad, without exception. Russia and China do no wrong. Even when they do the exact same things.
They’re not big fans or critical thinking over there, and aggressively ban anyone not participating in the group think.
You just replied to me to explain, in answer to my question “Why does dou9m think that I can expect every ml user to be a fan of a gas station brand?” is that its because they are authoritarians? Like I was making a joke obviously, but your response doesn’t actually make any sense.
Don’t worry, we all know what tankies are, and we all think they are very silly and unimportant people. It’s hard to spend any time on lemmy without knowing about them. I find the people who follow them around screaming about it to be just as annoying as they are.
So for future reference: We get it, my dude.
Don’t worry, we all know what tankies are, and we all think they are very silly and unimportant people. It’s hard to spend any time on lemmy without knowing about them.
I guarantee you a gigantic chunk of people on this site, and even more importantly, all of the people who will end up migrating to Lemmy over the following year, are going to have no idea how to even slightly define what a tankie is.
Give me a call when they hold any political power whatsoever <3
Jeffries represents the Epstein class. Anyone voting for him is dead to me.
can you make them dead for everyone instead?
Oh, no!
She really blew it when she decided to announce that she wasn’t going to back anyone else against establishment “leadership.”
She’s on a tightrope.
She has a lot of people whispering in her ear to primary Schumer in 2028, and calling for someone else to be the majority leader would essentially be a declaration of intent when she’s still weighing her options between that, running for President, accepting a VeeP nomination, or maybe joining the cabinet in 2029.
That’s not a tightrope. Those are just different ways for her to personally respond to the same problem. She could say Chuck and Hakeem suck publicly and all of those options are still on the table.
If she doesn’t persue Schumer’s seat in 2028, she’d be making a powerful senator from her own state an enemy needlessly. She has no vote in the Senate leadership, and she’s not going to change the mind of anyone who does have a say in it. Her strongest allies in the Senate are already going to vote against him. What good does publicly chastising him do?
It lets her constituents and supporters know that she understands and shares their position. That’s the whole purpose of having a representative in the first place. They are supposed to say things on your behalf, and not only when it benefits them personally. In fact, I would argue that you can’t be a good representative if you aren’t willing to do that when it doesn’t personally benefit you.
NGL kind of wish some of these congresspeople would stfu so the criminals have less time to prepare before January.
Criminals are going to do what criminals do. The election results were a warning, they’ll prepare for things even if everyone was quiet about it. I say keep talking, pump up their anxiety. Get Trump pissed off more, he tends to fire people then.
I remind you that the case against Trump after his first term ended relied heavily upon classified documents secretly stored in Maralago, some of which were flushed down toilets.
The secret service communication devices and servers all got “accidentally” wiped once congress subpeona’d them.
If we give crooks time to prepare then they will successfully destroy evidence.
I agree with that point. I’m not sure legally what can be done about that with the standing Congress, as the majority aren’t going to do anything. Plus, who is in charge of implementing law enforcement? The Executive Branch.
The ones that are smart enough already started preparing as soon as the map started to go blue.
The others are too incompetent to actually hide their crimes.
I find it hilarious that you think Republicans do or don’t do things based on how much we talk about them doing it lmao. Very gullible thinking.
Agree. Actions not words!
Because it’s Kabuki theatre. Nothing more.
Nah
Yeah. bullshit.
Democrats should be looking at making real change:
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Reducing Presidential powers substantially. No more pardons and vetos and executive orders.
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Sweeping reform with new harsh anti-corruption laws.
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Term limits for the house. two terms and done.
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Criminalize stock trading among congress.
Fix the rot going forward…no? then they are just looking for their turn at the trough.
Agreed, although I think before angthing they need to prosecute every single person from John Roberts to every single person Trump has pardoned. Put them all in ICE holding cells like the terrorist illegal aliens they are.
Unfortunately it would take decades of non-uniparty rule to fix this so everyone under 30 can kiss their futures goodbye lol.
It’s fucking ridiculous how everyone is counting how much money Trump has made in office and no one cares about Pelosi or Warren.
Then the excuse is “oh, well it’s not illegal”. What does the term “lawmakers” mean?
Warren made the CFBP…. Trump serially rapes children. Rick Scott is the biggest convicted fraudster and his company is still doing fine. There are far more Repuvlican fraudsters…. because its literally the entire party lol.
I would sooner talk about Jeffries, Schumer, Fetterman, and many others who are literally treasonous do nothing bastards lmao
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Too bad Fungus Con can hand out pardons faster than Congress can indict his henchpeople
Ya, none of them will actually pay any really consequences. Very good argument for limiting the pardon power of the president.
Probably a better argument for making guillotines
Accepting a pardon is accepting guilt. In doing so they wave their 5th amendment rights and can be compelled to testify. Which they should all be. Everything thurroughly investigated and documented. Hopefully re incriminating them and others with state charges.
Accepting a pardon is accepting guilt
Not anymore it isn’t.
Ooh, how scary! Well luckily Hakeem Jeffries who she endorses is going to do nothing about it.
Well luckily Hakeem Jeffries who she endorses is going to do nothing about it.
You’ve twisted her words, and she’s already explained it.
The Speaker selection takes place in roughly three weeks via a fixed ballot. There are no write-ins. Candidates who want to be considered have to write a letter to the entire Democratic house caucus announcing their intention.
Right now, today, there is no one other than Jeffries on that ballot.
So explain to the rest of us how she – or any other House dem – can elect a different candidate for Speaker when there is no other candidate currently running.
Does she? The best endorsement I’ve heard generally is “well, no one else is stepping up…” which is lukewarm at best lol
Sure AOC. I believe you just as much as you said Biden was tirelessly working on getting Israel to agree to a ceasefire.
How many times have the Democrats obtained power, done nothing, then let it go right back to the Republicans again? They are beyond worthless.
But she’s pretty and says vacuous things with conviction!
I wish American news would stop reporting on what Democrats MIGHT do … and just report on what they already did.
They keep pumping this endless hope fountain and its getting tiring … I’d rather hear about what was actually done rather than listening to the possibilities.
They don’t even get sworn into office until January 3, and you’re already upset that they haven’t done enough?
Until then, the present minority has essentially no power.
So, for now, they’re talking about what they plan to do once they do get the majority in Congress.
🤣 we are literally living in the onion universe
The news reports on whatever. This happens to be that whatever.
You can just, not read it?
Edit: it’s HuffPo, what are you expecting???
They’re owned by the opposition, of course you’re getting tired of it. That is the whole fucking point lol.
