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That's a crazy amount of money. I've never had even 10% of that
Dawg I wish 500k was a crazy amount of money with how expensive everything is these days
It's about what you'd expect honestly since she's been making $174k per year for a decent length of time now.
There is one group of people who both share the ire of most people and deserve it: The ultra rich.
I've had rednecks tell me they disagreed with Bernie on a lot but they liked how he hated billionaires. Ben Shapiro's gaggle of yes-men gave him grief for criticizing Luigi.
If votes count for anything anymore a smart, effective political party would be able to capitalize on this universal hatred.
Sadly, we have the Democrats.
I mean, that's a large part of Trump's original appeal, right? So many people on both sides agree there's rampant corruption in the government and politicians and billionaires getting too rich off it - and Trump promised an answer. And why his current wreckage of government still has many conservatives approving: they believe he is answering, kind of.
Now, if you could get Sanders and AOC to start a new party...
And why his current wreckage of government still has many conservatives approving: they believe he is answering, kind of.
Now, if only we can get them to see that he's got people in his orbit at billionaire techbros who think they're all going to be John Galt, and that the "capitalist utopia" he builds in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is what they're trying to build and it won't be good for them. They think they're all going to live in their own Galt's Gulch when it's going to be more like Andrew Ryan's Rapture.
I love AOC. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat in primary and general elections. Now, whether she makes it to the general depends on the DNC, and I have no faith that the political consultant/establishment class will let anything remotely progressive through. No money to be made.
I guess the only way forward would be to vote for her in the primaries to such a degree that the Dems have not choice but to confirm her through.
She needs to win a senate seat first. I think schumer should retire, and she should run for the seat. If she can win, we can see how many red districts went for her.
Dems have no choice but to confirm her through.
That was the Bernie plan in 2016 & 2020 during the primaries. Clinton had the support of the established Democratic party and with superdelegates Clinton took a commanding lead. Similar situation with Biden, most dropped out before Super Tuesday and endorsed him.
Now both of these instances could be considered "smart politics". If you've got the political maneuvering to win the primary, then maybe you've got the same maneuvering to win the general.
It didn't work out for Clinton. It did work out for Biden.
When we look at our most recent election, it's clear there was a little bit more of a rift, but Harris was chosen and there was no primary.
Now, some of this is simplified and there is plenty to argue. But suffice to say we can't just vote for AOC "so much" that she'll win. I don't see the Democratic party supporting her.
Now it's too early to talk about 2028 realistically and a lot can change between now and then, but if she were running today she'd have my vote.
Or, get so much grassroots activism going that you can start a new party for her.
You might go a round of everyone flaming, "nooo! You have to support Dems or Repbs will win!!1!" But if enough people try a vote for your new party, next time it might have a chance.
She doesn’t have to start a new party. The left side of the dems should just use The Tea Party and MAGA playbook. They co-opted the GOP by pushing out Republican incumbents in local elections first. A shitton of money from the far-right went to these smaller elections. Then they moved on up and replaced Republican state senators. They created enough momentum that Trump became a viable candidate.
Push enough incumbents out and the Democrats have to take the left seriously. Plus it will normalize left wing rhetoric and policies among the populace. Screaming “cOmmUniSm” won’t work anymore when the people have seen these policies being implemented in their own communities.
Maybe my experience is biased but I don't think shouting communism works as well as it used to anyways. Plenty of young people will hear "Communist? Then I'll vote for her!" And the old people are getting exhausted with political hyperbole - "Communist? Yeah like every liberal what else is new."
So, how many decades will this take, and where are we gonna get this shitton of money?
The tea party did it in two Obama terms. And the money has to come from the public. Starting a viable third party isn’t going to be easier or cheaper.
Taking over an existing party would probably be easier.
The green party is currently a shell designed to launder foreign influence in US elections. But there ain't a lot of green party members, and fewer still vote in their party's primaries. Compared to getting the Democratic party to move in a direction other than right or starting an entire new party from scratch, stealing the green party might be doable. Time it right and you can even make russia waste time, money, and effort trying to keep it.
And it's not like Democrats are ever going to hold honest primaries again.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the internet manifest:
1- blame her for having millions due to kickbacks
2- when she proves that her net worth is less than 500K make fun of her for having too little money
There's many things that expose the Right Wing Grift.
When AOC was first elected they mocked her for being a Bartender who "rose above her station"
What more proof do you need that the American Dream is bullshit
When it's a teacher - she reminds me of that mean lady who failed me
When it's a doctor - they're pushing a vaxxer agenda
When it's an engineer - he'll be a bad negotiator
When it's a scientist - we've gotta do what? No thanks.
When it's a lawyer - ah perfect they make everything better
They call at that because you'd have to be asleep to believe it.
I mean if you take the internet as a monolith, you'll find contradictions every where. Some people will hate A because of B, some people will hate A because of C, but either way A is getting hate for both B and C.
So either there are millions of people online with different opinions but the crowd looks the same, or there is one very, very busy troll who is running all the accounts.
~help I'm so tired they won't give me a break to pee~
One busy troll? What makes you think it is just one person? Maybe if it was the 1990's you might have had a single troll per social platform but we are way past that point. A real troll would even be considered high quality with so many bot accounts nowadays.
The trolls are the people who watch cable news
~help I'm so tired they won't give me a break to pee~
Look at this loser here trying to take credit for the entire internet that I write every day. SMH. FWIW @meep_launcher is allowed to pee whenever they want, they just want sympathy. And they write almost nothing of the Troll Monolith, mostly just sitting back and drinking too much coffee while I do all the hard work with about sixteen different keyboards in front of me.
Median property value in DC is $705,000.
She's likely living paycheck to paycheck as a sitting member of Congress. I like it.
Finally, some actual representation.
Shes so goddamn normal it's jarring
The pot accuses a bottle of milk of looking black
AOC is a prodigious fundraiser with a significant national following. She might only have a half-million in the bank, but her name and her reputation are worth orders of magnitude more.
Conservatives have a hard time believing someone like that isn't getting rich quick on $AOCCoin or LeftyBear merch offerings.
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project <-- we are here
Comfortable but not extravagantly wealthy from ~~bribes~~ lobbying. I'm okay with this.
Honestly 500k net in the DC area is low if anything.
It's probably low in any metro area in 2025, sadly.