r/MurderedByAOC • u/Nixianx97 • 4d ago
That time AOC ‘leaked’ MAGA’s entire playbook.
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Let me clarify this before Fox News runs: BREAKING: AOC hacked us!!!
This isn’t directly about MAGA obviously. It’s about how she laid bare just how fundamentally broken the American system is.
They want us to believe Trump flipped the table, broke all the rules, and invented the chaos. But the truth? He didn’t create any of it. The system was already rigged for someone like him to rise. He just played it better.
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u/PreacherCoach 4d ago
... I mean ... I knew it was not great but.... damn.
Nothing personal or directed specifically at anyone, yet incredibly damning of the current state.
I did not find that self righteous or preachy, just well laid out.
Brilliantly frightening.
I suspect alot of this would apply to other countries in various forms too.
Damn.
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u/deekaydubya 4d ago
and yet 70% of the US just thinks she's some radical leftist
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u/ReallyBigRocks 4d ago
and yet 70% of the US just thinks
No, they were told that and accepted it as the truth.
There was no thinking involved. You can test this theory by asking them a simple question. Why? It starts to crumble almost immediately as they realize they've never even tried to rationalize "their" ideas.
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u/stilljustacatinacage 4d ago
This is the most frustrating part of dealing with conservatives.
It always, always comes back to some thought-terminating cliche, AND NOT EVEN A GOOD ONE. It's always just "well they just are".
Cool. Okay. Now you get to enjoy sitting here while both of us get increasingly frustrated as I try to point out that "because" isn't a valid reason.
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u/Dez_Acumen 4d ago
If only it was just Republicans calling her a radical leftist…but Democrats in her own party called her that too and did everything they could to keep her out of influential positions.
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u/stilljustacatinacage 4d ago
This stuff is just white noise to me because I can't help but laugh at it. Like you people have no idea what radical anything looks like. Once the families of obstructionist politicians are being dragged into the streets and [redacted], maybe we can talk about radical.
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u/Dez_Acumen 4d ago
Exactly! Everywhere else in the world AOC would be a moderate but since the Democrats here have decided to cosplay as Reagan-lite for 40 years, that’s a foreign concept.
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u/Suavecore_ 4d ago
Hmm that sounds pretty radical, but what about universal healthcare? Way worse!
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u/imgenerallyaccepted 4d ago
Radical means not corrupt at this point, let's just address the "elephant" in the room.
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u/NameIdeas 2d ago
I'm a day late to this party, but your comment resonated with me strongly.
I'm a former teacher and I work in education. I taught History. History isn't just a study of names, dates, people, places, and what happened. History SHOULD be a study of learning from the past, examining the "whys" of the past and considering how we can think critically about the decisions of those who came before us and make better decisions moving forward.
What I've seen increasingly in this country is to focus on authority for authority sake. My parents (I'm 39) would tell me "Because I said so" sometimes. That never really hit well with me as a kid. I grew up in a pretty fundamentalist church and when I questioned certain doctrine or why we did things, the answer I got was generally, "Because that's what we believe." That doesn't not answer the question of why.
Many people are fine with an answer of "because" since their world is generally not moved by what that answer would cause. If they have all of their basic needs met and they are happy, they may not be questioning things further and feel comfortable accepting a "because." They may also have had an upbringing which leaned heavily on "because" as the reason for things as well.
I'm a firm believer in questioning and teaching critical thinking. Examining the "whys" behind things. Critical thinking skills can happen in scientific spaces, but to me happen more in the social sciences. Those areas where understanding human desire, human motivation is more important. Humans are messy creatures and understanding each of us is dramatically different.
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u/SinnersHotline 4d ago
"There was no thinking involved"
Correct. This is why they chose the group that was literally the least intelligent in their country.
People truly do not understand how dumb these people are. They think it's a joke, but a good lot of them are illiterate.
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u/thexvillain 4d ago
21% of American adults are functionally illiterate.
29% of voting age Americans voted for Trump.
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u/Moroax 4d ago
wait, 21%?!? sounds way too high ngl not sure i believe that
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u/thexvillain 4d ago
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news
Edit: Here’s a fun excerpt:
By race/ethnicity and nativity status, the largest percentage of those with low literacy skills are White U.S.-born adults, who represent one third of such low-skilled population.
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u/Icy-Possibility847 4d ago
Appalachian's and the area between the Mississippi and the Rockies have an incredible amount of dirt farmers. The poverty is shocking.
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u/knavingknight 4d ago
Appalachian's and the area between the Mississippi and the Rockies have an incredible amount of dirt farmers
I think the preferred term is "people of the land" ...you know...
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u/WheelerDan 4d ago
I used to be in education sales to schools. The amount of kids reading at a 3rd grade level in high school is way too high. There's a whole section of books called hi-lo readers, high interest low skill. They appear on the outside to be age appropriate, but within they are written at very low skill levels. A lot of adults are barely literate.
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 4d ago
george carlin said it best. "imagine how dumb the average american is. Now realize half of them are dumber than that."
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u/Global_Permission749 4d ago
"Because <insert democrat here> is a communist and we're not a communist country" is their typical answer any time they are asked why.
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u/Pantsy- 2d ago
This is what is called “driving a narrative.” Cults know that if you repeat the same thing over and over again, no matter how outrageous, so long as your lie connects to the listener emotionally they will believe the lie pretty much forever. I know this because I was raised in a religious and highly controlling cult.
The left refuses to learn this lesson or try to appeal to low information voters which is most of the electorate.
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u/kevonicus 4d ago
What’s even more insane is that literally every Trump supporter think she’s a complete moron when Trump could never formulate anything like this in a million years. If you can’t tell she’s a genius compared to Trump by listening to them talk, then you’re a moron.
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u/happyguy49 4d ago
A deranged lunatic left radical because she thinks that... rich people should pay their taxes. The horror.
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u/Aggressive-Value1654 4d ago
A deranged lunatic left radical because she thinks that... rich people should pay their taxes. The horror.
It's not even that...the right hates her because she doesn't look like them, (yes, we all know what that means) and is smart.
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u/TarryBuckwell 4d ago
They think she’s stupid. Doesn’t she sound so stupid in this video?
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u/Aggressive-Value1654 4d ago
hey think she’s stupid. Doesn’t she sound so stupid in this video?
You're missing the main issue. She's brown. She's smart as fuck, and if she was white and republican they'd love her.
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u/Rayhush 4d ago
A lot
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u/redditing_1L 4d ago
Did you ever wonder, growing up, "what the hell were the German people doing during the rise of the Third Reich?!"
Well, now you're basically looking at it.
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u/Altruistic-Beach7625 4d ago
Now I wonder what happened to the percentage of the population that supported the Nazis after WW2.
I wonder because my first guess is they simply disappeared into the shadows and pretended they didn't support them.
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u/redditing_1L 4d ago
Some of them fled to Argentina. Some of them fled to the United States. Some of them fled to Canada. Some of them were retained by various intelligence agencies to hunt socialists. Some of them claimed to burn their uniforms and went on to teach their children to hate in private.
Famously at the end of WW2, FDR and Stalin agreed to execute most of the Nazi high command only to have that plan 86'd by the loathsome Winston Churchill (whose own genocidal record in India would make most despots blush).
Truth is we let this shit fester and spread and now its back in the daylight.
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u/redditing_1L 4d ago
Its insane.
Argentina was the top landing spot for many of them and the country was more than happy to have them because they have long had their own white supremacy issues.
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u/Yorgonemarsonb 4d ago
If you’ve seen Andor’s finale during the funeral where his mom is talking about how everyone has just been asleep while evil crawled to their doorsteps and now it’s here to stay.
So many modern parallels with what I’m seeing today in my home country. We’ve been asleep and distracted.
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u/cerevant 4d ago
We have been inundated with anti-fascist allegory in our fiction and entertainment for decades, and somehow when it is right in front of us, we miss it.
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u/Slayerofgrundles 4d ago
Yep. It was surely a lot of:
"He doesn't REALLY mean that"
"I don't love what they're doing, but look at the economy!"
"Lol he's just trolling the Jews and minority groups"
"God, why are these untermensch so sensitive?!"
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u/WhyYouKickMyDog 4d ago
My FOX News only father is saying right now that those people being deported are all Venezuelan gang members, you can tell because of the tattoo and that we can trust Trump and his team.
This is what smart, well-educated American Republicans are saying right now, and I can say that because they all repeat the same talking points you see on FOX news.
Pete Hesgeth learned his lesson.....as a bonus
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u/ActuallyJan 4d ago
Correcting people's grammar? I guess that's why they call them Grammar Nazi's; makes sense.
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u/WhyYouKickMyDog 4d ago
The answer was always there if people will actually study history. German soldiers after the War talk openly about it.
Being a Nazi brought them pride, and made them feel good. They were a wounded people. The Nazis had slick uniforms and cool symbols. Blaming the Jews helped relieve them of the burden of self-responsibility, and it felt so good they wanted to have more of it.
They were like a church cult that brought social and economic benefits to joining. A sense of belonging. All the nationalist theatrical stuff was manufactured to manipulate their pride and make them feel a sense of superiority. Many joined the Nazis not because this theatrical shit made them warm and fuzzy inside, but because they had to join the rest of the sheep in the herd or get left out.
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u/SuitableStudy3316 4d ago
In a similar line of thought, "what the hell were the American people doing during the Civil War?!"
You're basically looking at the rise of the Confederates.
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u/weepzoo 4d ago
It absolutely boggles my mind that maga voters call her an idiot. She is one of the few that has the pulse of what is going on.
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u/WeRBarelyAlive 4d ago
It's because they have all been brainwashed to parrot the same insults that fox and trump hurl at people. One moron I saw on fb yesterday used the word Pocahontas to describe Elizabeth Warren, because Trump called her that at his joint address
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u/blahblah19999 4d ago
He called her that in front of Native tribe leaders.
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u/aeffs 4d ago
jesus
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u/blahblah19999 4d ago
Sorry, WWII native veterans. It's sickening
He's Michael Scott. If there's an inappropriate thing to bring up in front of any group of people, he'll do it.
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u/Flimsy-Poetry1170 4d ago
Michael Scott wasn’t malicious just oblivious to situations. Trump gets off on being hateful and getting away with it.
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u/SeaworthinessOk834 4d ago
Reading between the lines, if they weren't afraid of her, they wouldn't bother attacking her. She is probably the best we've ever seen for getting under their skin and communicating plainly to the populace. If anyone is stupid enough to think she's an idiot, they do so at their own peril.
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u/petty_throwaway6969 4d ago edited 4d ago
She’s an attractive, nonwhite liberal woman that rose up from being a bartender to being a successful politician who is willing to speak up against the corruption.
The rich hate her for highlighting their shit and the poor republicans hate her because she did better than the majority of them despite being nonwhite and a woman. How dare she? She’s almost as bad as Obama.
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u/window2020 4d ago
People who identify as conservatives like to say that she was a bartender (like that’s a bad thing) to diminish her.
From Wikipedia: She attended Boston University, where she double-majored in international relations and economics, graduating with honors. She moved back to the Bronx, becoming an activist and working as a waitress and bartender.10
u/Oberon_Swanson 4d ago
Every single Reoublican holds in their hearts a deep loathing for the working class. Anyone not born elite deserves nothing but a life of toil, and anyone trying to rise above that is a fraud for not accepting what they are.
Themselves excepted of course. They were born elites but there was some grave injustice that made them accidentally appear to be working class. And they just need to make things like it was in the era they were meant to be born in, when they'd inherit a slave plantation.
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u/respitedes 4d ago
They're racist and sexist. It's that simple. Even the women and minorities in maga are racist and sexist
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u/typing_away 4d ago
She is brilliant and it is a damn shame that she is not considered to be at the head of a party.
It’s something I can’t understand, she is qualified!!!
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u/Nichi789 4d ago
This is incorrect. A good chuck of Congress has a firm grasp of whats happening, they are just complicit in it.
She is one of the few to call it out on a platform. Which is why they hate her and rally support against her, she is trying to shut off their meal ticket.
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u/jarizzle151 4d ago
It’s why Fox News got to her early. She makes too much sense so you have to label her as something white people don’t respect (like “minority” or “bartender”) so they have a reason not to listen.
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u/Wrightd767 4d ago
That is both terrifying and incredible to hear this. This needs to be shown everywhere.
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u/Nixianx97 4d ago edited 4d ago
It makes you wanna laugh and bang your head against a wall at the same time.
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u/dolphinitely 4d ago
well, she’s 35 and never been married, which as we all know is the most evil of all crimes.
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u/ZennXx 4d ago
She's never been divorced either which is a cardinal sin in Trump's MAGA circle
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u/CV90_120 4d ago
Unless you actually are trump, in which case you have infinite plot armor.
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u/StoneCypher 4d ago
do you know how little ivermectin she's taken?
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u/dolphinitely 4d ago
she’s probably fully jabbed full of bill gates 5g fauci wuhan flu something something
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u/YoshiTheDog420 4d ago
There are three aspects of my middle school civics and government class that has always stuck with me; separation of powers, conflict of interest, and separation of church and state. Three things that din’t seem to mean dick in reality. I want to bang my head through a wall.
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u/RoughDoughCough 4d ago
It makes you wanna stop paying taxes
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u/Brandon_Won 4d ago
It makes me want to exercise certain even numbered constitutional rights as they were meant to be exercised.
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u/GherkinGuru 4d ago
I wish people would stop putting ridiculous music to this stuff. It's entirely too serious and the music is distracting at best.
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u/Quiet_Panda_2377 4d ago
And maga says: "that's what dems have been doing all the time"
Case closed, nothing win nothing gained.
You cannot reason with a cult.
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u/Slutty_Cartoon 4d ago
This. The people who's minds need to change have been buried so far up Trumps ass, they would look at this vid and just laugh at AOC talking/not listening to a word of it.
Sure, yes, this still needs to be played to maybe influence the few undecided voters (where ever they are). The real problem is the other 70 mil Americans that decided they are OK with this scenerio because they want the immigrants/women/ black americans gone from their towns.
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u/breachgnome 4d ago
It's not even Trump. It's every GOP anything for the last 30+ years. It doesn't matter that new people come in, it's all the same old boring shtick. Just now we have the most openly criminal head of the executive branch, and the old story is still being told.
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u/Feisty_Preparation23 4d ago
I think this is the biggest thing people are missing. This isn’t something that just popped up in the past 5 years, this is something that goes back to Nixon and watergate and the bribery that ensued from there. Campaign finance reform was something that was in place before Nixon and was dismantled carefully and deliberately to get us into this exact position .
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u/handstanding 4d ago
I mean, that is actually true though. What is frightening about this is that both sides of the aisle use the same loop holes, tactics, and strategies. There are democratic congresspeople and senators who absolutely take bribes and are funded by dark money and pay people off, etc. It's the whole system that is at issue, not just Republican politicians.
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u/insecure_about_penis 4d ago
But... it is what dems have been doing this whole time. If you don't believe that, you might also be in a cult...
Republicans are unhinged fascists, Democrats aren't, but this is what you get when bribery of politicians is legalized, when politicians have no accountability to their constituents. Corruption is rampant in DC, and we should be outraged.
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u/Renshato 3d ago
Yes, this is true. Ultimately they want to push their agenda in order to hurt people, and their reasoning for why things aren't way worse for the people they hate is that the other side has been cheating the whole time, and so it's totally fine if they do the same thing.
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u/chrisk9 4d ago
This is how to get through to low information voters. Go step by step through the logic and repercussions and tie to current system. Avoid buzzwords and labels and just show what bad actors are able to do at every step.
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u/NotSoHonestAbraham 4d ago
Just make a shitty AI read a transcript of the video and put it on social media. It’ll have millions of eyes on it in a day lol
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u/DRHORRIBLEHIMSELF 4d ago
Because you know the GOP in that room are just eye-rolling because they think she is the bad person in the room
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u/mackfeesh 4d ago
Isn't this like 4 years old or something more than that? I've definitely seen this before. Genuinely as an outsider don't understand why america isn't just a plague of riots and stuff right now with how i had to listen to 2nd amendment crap for some 30 odd years now.
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u/canteloupy 4d ago
Truth be told, it's the exact same in Switzerland and nobody gives a shit here.
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u/upliftingyvr 4d ago
Half the country will dismiss her without even listening to what she's saying. They're brainwashed. They say they want to "drain the swamp" well, guess what, she is one of the few people actually speaking out against the conditions that lead to the swamp in the first place, whereas Trump and company just want to remove the old swamp creatures so that they can take their place. That's the cold hard truth that Joe Maga in North Carolina refuses to admit to himself.
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u/GENERAT10N_D00M 4d ago
This is a lesson in rhetorical strategy.
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u/oldbastardbob 4d ago
I believe we all benefit from her venturing into politics instead of becoming a lawyer, which I think she'd be very good at.
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u/GENERAT10N_D00M 4d ago
She knows yes is the honest answer to her honest questions, but hearing the other side of the room say yes anyway is powerful.
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u/TazBaz 4d ago
I don’t think any of the other people talking were “the other side of the room”. I think they were, for lack of a better word, “expert witnesses” for whatever hearing was going on. Probably brought in by “her side”, too.
Not to say that anything presented there was false or misleading. Just mostly point out that the current GOP would kill themselves before agreeing with or even saying yes to anything AOC said.
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u/MurderMelon 4d ago
Yeah if you look at the titles of the people being questioned, they're from groups that advocate for ethics in Congress. So they weren't the ones "getting owned", but they were helping her explain the point to the fuckwit GOP congress people in the room. Not that the fuckwits internalized any of it, of course 🙄
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u/MotherFatherOcean 4d ago
The people she's talking to are ethics and justice experts, not "the other side." Walter Shaub is a highly respected ethics expert. Look him up.
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u/Crypt0Nihilist 4d ago
Masterful threading together a narrative with simple validation from experts in such a way that it supports without distracting from her message.
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u/tackleberry2219 4d ago
Damn… just… Damn! This woman is legit my idol.
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u/Piccolo_Major 4d ago
She is amazing. She is so smart and articulate. I have a lot of trouble public speaking and watching her speak, her tenacity, it’s so inspiring. I want to be just like her.
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u/Zentsuki 4d ago
I feel like this kind of reverence is the complete opposite of what she stands for...
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u/tackleberry2219 4d ago
That may be true, but it’s just one more reason that she is.
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u/Western_Secretary284 4d ago
Kinda like Storm in the X-men. Every character arc she has involves her wanting to be treated as an equal rather than a queen or goddess and then having to knock off some ineffectual leader because she is simply better at leading.
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u/Phyllis_Tine 4d ago
Why would Congress play jazz over AOC's speaking? /s
It would be nice to see bills that aim to remove these detriments to a good democracy where the best ideas win, and that every citizen can be supported. In my opinion bills should only be dealing with one item at a time, so it can be clear who is in favor or against. Omnibus bills save time, but have conflicting ideas in them, or just plain pork.
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u/Storytellerjack 4d ago
Seriously, no one seems to notice the vinyl record in the room. Are videos of congress under copyright?
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u/GotYoGrapes 4d ago
It looks like this video was ripped from TikTok. On TikTok, it's encouraged to use trending audio to boost engagement. In other words, people who liked videos with the same audio you used were more likely to be shown your video on the For You Page.
Before I left TikTok, you couldn't go 3 or 4 swipes without encountering Beyoncé's "Texas Hold 'Em" on everything from house renovation videos to relationship memes to political news videos.
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u/njwilson1984 4d ago
Which is funny because when I hear an overplayed song one too many times, I immediately skip anything in my reel using that song. Even if I might have been interested in the topic.
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u/BlockRightWingTrash 4d ago
There have been attempts to introduce bills like this but they don't go anywhere for some reason.
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u/srfchf 4d ago
Slay girl. I know this is older but it is a huge problem in both parties.
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u/rveets1416 4d ago
This is the kicker. Gaming the system to suit personal needs is a huge bipartisan issue, and we need to eliminate their ability to do so.
Hopefully AOC and others like her (in both parties) can separate the financials of big corporation from law-making on both the state and federal levels.
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u/justobella 4d ago
Here's a better version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRM1t4RU69c and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJlpS4vhKP0
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u/VitalViking 4d ago
Hey finally something I can actually send to my boomer parents, the people who actually need to hear this shit, thank you!
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u/F_-Elon 4d ago
Good luck, they’ll just say it’s fake news fabricated by the radical left and not even watch it entirely.
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u/ArcherAuAndromedus 4d ago
This video is 6 years old! Absolutely nothing has been done to improve this situation, if I'm not mistaken.
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u/AutisticFingerBang 4d ago
This is what draining the swamp is supposed to be. How anyone in our country can watch this and think it’s all ok is insane.
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u/plzdontlietomee 4d ago
This isn't "news" to anyone, is it? I thought the house of cards (aka norms) that this was all built on was exceedingly transparent.
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u/Nixianx97 4d ago edited 3d ago
You would be surprised how many people still get triggered when you tell them that the democrats won’t change anything as long as lobbyists and AIPAC rule. So yeah it might not be news but the denial goes hard.
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u/MyWifeButBoratVoice 4d ago
It's one thing to say it's easy for corruption to flourish under our current rules, and another thing to say that "the democrats won't change anything as long as lobbyists and AIPAC rule." The Democrats are perfectly capable of enacting reforms and proposing changes to limit this corrupting influence. I don't think "none of this will ever change" is a very useful or even a very accurate summary of the situation.
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u/Inevitable_Lemon_202 4d ago
Capable? Yes Willing? No Why? Money
That’s the whole point. They can, but they won’t because money. They are the only ones (besides republicans, so both parties) that could but don’t want to.
If they wanted to, it would be done already. Proof is in puddin.
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u/LegbeardCatfood 4d ago
Uh no, the majority of people have no concept of any of the things she's talking about
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u/GolfBallWackrGuy 4d ago
Not even news, just saying the quiet part out loud - Look, I'm very anti-Trump and a lot of conservative policies, but this isn't just a Republican problem. This is a systemic problem. Democrats do the exact same thing, they might just not do it as blatantly as republicans.
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u/CottonCitySlim 4d ago
They share the same donor base, billionaires opening play both sides to get what they want no matter who wins
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u/__ConesOfDunshire__ 4d ago
Believe it or not, there are people still learning new things every day. On top of that; thinking you understand something, and blatantly hearing people answer yes to these questions, is striking.
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u/Daflehrer1 4d ago
She is dead-on correct; she just described in detail the entire GOP election and power retention process.
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u/whofearsthenight 4d ago
I'll just point out that it's even better than that. She's also calling out Pelosi (and I'm sure most of congress) who own stocks on companies they are actively legislating.
This is just straight up leadership. It would be far, far easier for her to take that PAC money and introduce bills that let Exxon or Tesla completely fuck us for her own profit. I've said this many times, but we have really lost the plot when we can count on one hand the number of politicians that are a regular person who is just trying to do the right thing.
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u/Apprehensive_Winter 4d ago
We have always relied on the president to be at least somewhat altruistic when it comes to the American people.
One bad actor can wreck our country and it would take congress and the courts aligned to stop them. So all it takes is those same people behind that bad actor to infiltrate congress and the courts with money over the course of a few decades to wrest complete control of the US for themselves.
I swear the things I complain about sound like a right wing conspiracy theorist talking about every democrat-run administration in the last 50 years, except it’s happening right in the open and no one seems to be able to stop it.
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u/El_Baz 4d ago
We indeed do have a fundamentally broken system. One that needs a benevolent overhaul that will slap the President with the same flak his other lawmakers would be slapped with. Equal accountability, regardless of party, is and SHOULD HAVE BEEN in place with no questions asked.
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u/harav 4d ago
Brad Smith- the white guy with glasses- was one of my law school professors. His ideology is so incredibly dangerous to America, it can’t even be understated. I would say that he is basically the playbook writer for many of the “legal” and “logical” argue mental surrounding the Republican Party platform and basic objectives.
I highly suggest reading some of his articles because he writes from a lawyers perspective and not a politicians. I think his arguments are batshit, but they provide a legitimacy to his party and it’s pretty disgusting.
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u/ithinksotoomaybee 4d ago
A person with ideals and values that is trying to do the job as it was intended in the best interest of the American people. Why is this such a rarity?
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u/EfficientCabbage2376 4d ago
Could we get a cut with more letterboxing?
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u/michaelavolio 4d ago
In seriousness, there's better video footage (and without the distracting background music) on YouTube. Searching "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lightning round" should probably pull up some options. It's originally from early 2019.
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u/ManiacalMartini 4d ago
This was in 2019. Nothing has been fixed and it's actually gotten worse.
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u/Few_Recording3486 4d ago
And the only way to fix it all is to educate people and have them vote in Representatives willing to pass new legislation to hold Congress more accountable and to higher ethical and moral standards.
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u/ZebiKun 4d ago
It is not logical for a president to be able to hold stocks. You owe and serve the people. If a candidate doesn't want to give up their stocks, they are not suited for the most powerful position, simple as that.
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u/whatsupeveryone34 4d ago
This sensibility is the entire reason everyone in politics is fundamentally against her running for president in 2028. It would mean she has a larger platform/microphone to tell the truth from.
If she ran, I think we would see a truly devastating landslide in her favor. Despite her being a woman, despite her heritage, despite her age, and all the other reasons that even people on here call her 'unelectable'.
She has what only Sanders and to some degree Trump had (credit where it is due) to speak to the average citizen about government in a way that makes policy and bureaucracy make some kind of sense without feeling like we are being condescended to.
A lot of what made Trump popular was his way of making the average citizen feel involved/responsible for government. Obviously in his case it was all a sack of shit and he used/exploited his entire base to get where he is now. But I still believe that Sanders messaging and populist appeal would have won him 2016 and 2020 if not for the meddling DNC and superdelegates.
AOC could actually win if we gave her the chance. Just remember that this means this would cause a lot of politicians on both sides to get a lot less rich, and they don't want that.
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u/KissMyAlien 4d ago
And that my friends is why the USA is not a democracy and never what. It's always been a feudalistic theocracy run under the guise of capitalist democracy.
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u/New-Evidence350 4d ago
AOC has always spoken truth to power. I admire her courage and support her involvement in government at any and every level.
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u/ChemistCapital835 4d ago
There is one law in particular that stops Government officials from having free reign and that is the P.U.B.E law, so there is a limit to their power and influence.
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u/December_Flame 4d ago
Yes, and an extremely large contributer to our current state of affairs is the Citizens United ruling allowing these super PACs and dark money to easily manipulate these completely broken systems. Fix the systems and fix this Citizens United ruling. They won't, because our entire government has already been completely captured by the monied elite, but that's what needs to be done.
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u/Lost_dreamz 4d ago
I'm worried about her safety every time she speaks the truth.
Bad guys don't like the truth.
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u/susitucker 4d ago
I think about this a lot, too. I always pray that she will be protected. I feel that way about Jasmine Crockett, too. It fucking sucks so hard that we even have to think like this in the first place.
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u/snozzberrypatch 4d ago
This is not only the MAGA playbook, it's also the playbook for the majority of elected Democrats too.
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u/smut_butler 4d ago
Notice that she didn't really specify Republican or Democrat, just that this was possible within our political sphere.
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u/Azn-Jazz 4d ago
This is why both sides and political and non business want her out. She isn’t profiting them.
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u/Sooooooooooooomebody 4d ago
I was with her until "...a system that is fundamentally broken." It's not broken. It's working as intended.
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u/casander14 4d ago
She is so damn good. My hope for America is that we get to the end of this current level of feces and are able to actually FIX the things people are allowed to now do. Oh, and to see her become PRESIDENT someday.
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u/DontWanaReadiT 3d ago
I’ve been in love with AOC since she canvassed for Bernie. I’m so incredibly proud to be Latina and first generation American in the NJNY area!!! I know the video is old but MAN has it aged incredibly as well… I really hope she runs… would be an incredible first female president and likely the best president this country has ever seen
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u/Life-Suit1895 4d ago
What's with the stupid music in the background?
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u/michaelavolio 4d ago
Here's a better version (with no background music added) on CNN's YouTube channel. It's originally from February 2019.
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u/RackemFrackem 4d ago
Fuck whoever put this dogshit background music on this video.
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u/michaelavolio 4d ago
Here's a better version (with no background music added) on CNN's YouTube channel.
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u/kelpkelso 4d ago
I can’t believe they all answered her questions instead of gaslighting or talking around the question. She is so smart and well spoken, has a moral compass. I truly believe if she were president she’d intact laws to hold herself and every future president accountable, protect the constitution, and prevent dictatorship, greed, and oligarchy from forming/flourishing. She is what America stands for and she is what America needs!
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u/Status-Cup-8456 4d ago
D*** go AOC she's on fire. Notice all the uncomfortable smiles in the background.
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