Connolly defeats Ocasio-Cortez to lead Democrats on Oversight panel

Literally choosing a 74 y/o with cancer over a popular leftist candidate.

https://connolly.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6160

It's truly a mystery how the USA ended up like this /s

Democrats have, again, learned nothing

They already know full well they need to make a populist shift to win. They'd rather lose than alienate big money.

They're in too deep.

Defund the DNC. They're fucking useless now anyways
- Somebody figure out how to make “fuck off” stop the fundraising texts.

We have tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!

For all the neoliberal Dems crow about Republicans choosing party over country, this is what choosing party over country looks like. The corporate wing of the party would literally choose fascism over leftism.

The corporate wing of the party would literally choose fascism over leftism.
They have before and they will again.

Everyone please wait your turn, we still have half a century of backlog before progress can be considered.

Pelosi right now

The reason Pelosi's doing this is because she's scared shitless of the future but can't come to terms with her part in this mess. If you listen to her speak candidly about Trump (the NYT interview is a great example) you can tell she legitimately fears for her life after what happened to her husband. As a result, she actually believes that the only way to save the country is to move right. She's wrong of course and the data bears that out but there's a large contingent of the Democratic base that agrees and she doesn't have to look far for a permission structure.

That's because they've been manufacturing consent since Clinton. The incessant need to be bipartisan without it being returned means Democrats are justifying further right policies every cycle, just to say they worked across the aisle. The people that want the Dems to move further right are Republicans who left because of the Tea Party. And MSNBC/CNN are all over it too.
She should be scared

Hopefully his cancer takes him soon. That would be a fitting divine punishment for his hubris and refusal to have a shred of dignity and retire at an appropriate time. People who demand power "because it's my turn" are despicable sociopaths. Damning a nation for their own vanity. His soul is as diseased as his body.

Humans gonna human.

the conservative democrats strike again. worthless, all of them.

Ah, the familiar feeling of disappointment by the Democrats

He is 74 years old

So they consider him one of the young bucks?
And has cancer, and not one of the good ones. Esophageal cancer has a ~15% 1 year survival rate in the US. Obviously if caught early prognosis is much better but it is a rare one to catch early.
- I’m not a medical professional, but I would assume this would also hinder your speaking abilities.
  I know there are many ways he could communicate alternatively, but congress person seems like a job where talking is important.

Fuck this evil bitch, she is clearly determined to die in her fucking chair just like Feinstein and RBG. Fuck all three of those greedy fucking pieces of shit.

At least Nancy can continue to directly profit via the stock market while she continues to play the failed queen maker.

She holds plenty of the blame for our fallen democracy too.

Pelosi needs an Adjustor.
- Weegee time

MAGA took over the GOP in 4 years.

Time for progressives and other leftists to do the same to the Democrats.

Democrats: Make sure progressives lose. Democrats lose peoples vote.

Democrats: We should pivot right to win. Democrats lose election.

Democrats: Progressive don't vote, we should pivot even mmore to the right.

All the while raking in billions of dollars from the people of the country.

And yet the left wing of the party won't do shit.

The left wing of the party needs to leave the party. Stop enabling the right wing. Make it clear to Americans there is a centrist party and a far right party right now.
- Ding ding ding!

Looking forward to democrat's continued losses of elections at every level going forward.

Great. Another old white man. Welcome to the owmer class, I suppose.

Kinda sorry to hear that, but won't go batshit crazy about it. AOC will be just fine. She's evolved into quite a Congress Critter, and is one of the top communicators in the House. Her time will surely come. She'll be around for a long time if that's what she wants to do. Dems have gone new blood on 5 committee chairs.

It's AOC's turn when she turns 75!
- She could get the chair in 2 years, and then it might be the ranking chair
Her time will surely come. She'll be around for a long time if that's what she wants to do.
After the water wars and world war 3 surely.

Yay let's get a geriatric to chair the meetings and fall asleep after making Hitler comparisons or claiming that the death of the Republic is upon us. We're in dire straits so it's time for our most feeble and ill-equipped to lead us still!

result!

Continue shitting on Democrats every chance you get to anyone who will listen and then surprise pikachu when your friends (and probably yourself) don't turn out to vote and Trump gets into office.

This is just valid criticism. The Dems since Obamas 2nd term seem determined to make every election as hard as possible for themselves.
This is the time. This is literally when they're figuring out what they're going to do for 2026. If we stay quiet now how can they know what we want in our candidates?
What in the fuck are you talking about?