What is Pelosi thinking?

You may not see it, but you’re constant praise of AOC is going above and beyond normal agreement with her political views. But don’t listen to me, listen to the other posters in this thread that do not support Trump and want him to be a one term president but are complaining about her words from last week. Trump’s recent tweets are obviously bad news for him, but that’s going to blow over when the next big thing comes out while we still have AOC trying to undermine the Speaker as well as presidential candidates not far enough to the left for her.

Anyway, your attempt to try and claim her statement had nothing to do with her implying that Pelosi was racist is almost laughable. But I am going to guess different people have different ways of gauging what they consider intentionally racist. For example, as a black man, I find it borderline racist (soft bigotry of low expectations) when liberals imply people like me are unable to get identification to vote and as a result we should never implement voter ID. The liberals that disagree with me (many of whom are ironically white and never lived in the places I lived in) insist that I am wrong and it’s perfectly normal for minorities to be unable to get identification, which is the real reason why the GOP wants to implement voter ID under the theory that the vast majority of minorities would vote Democrat.

One poster here posted a few links in response stating how I was wrong, even though from personal experience I found it harder to get to the DMV when I lived in rural North Carolina (with mostly white people), which had no public transportation and the DMV a minimum of a 20-30 drive than when I lived in NYC or Atlanta with a large minority population and DMVs within walking or public transportation distance.

@KungfuKitten: You are reading to much into it or not enough into it. AOC's charge on Pelosi is similar to Booker and Harris charge on Biden......carelessness.

And I believe her.....for example, Pelosi did not condemn Trump for Trump's Omar-9/11 video until 2 days later, while the rest of the party already did.

@ad1x2:Once again, AOC said that Pelosi is not racist and has no racist animus. Facts are facts.

If their is a mistake from the AOC side in all this, its her chief of staff's comments 3 weeks ago. But, you cannot refuse to admit blunders from the moderates of the party, Pelosi herself, and the Congressional Black Caucus. Its THEIR blunders that could have been costly.

The truth is during the feud, "The Squad" as able to dig their talons into Donald Trump himself over the abuses at the border camps, which has led to Trump's major blunder yesterday. So really Dems should celebrate The Squad, not work against them.

@texasgoldrush: Moderate candidates like Biden can defeat Trump in 2020 because he is willing to work with both sides and can convince independents that he won’t try to make radical changes. If Tulsi Gabbard had a chance at getting the nomination, she could win too since even liberals that think she is a DINO would vote for her just to push Trump out of the White House. In addition to that, as long as she didn’t go too far left she could even get a few Republicans due to her being the first Democrat since Carter to serve in the military and the first Democrat since Johnson to serve in combat if she was elected.

Far-left candidates that boast they want to create de facto open borders such as Warren or Beto may give you a warm and fuzzy, but outside of voter fraud they will not beat Trump in a general election unless he does something catastrophic (in the eyes of everyone, not just leftists that want him gone no matter what). Don’t let Twitter fool you, the country as a whole is not prepared for open borders, which is exactly what decriminalizing illegal border crossings would be.

Get out of your bubble or you will be disappointed. If AOC was old enough to run she would lose against Trump no matter how many more likes she can get on Twitter than he can. If AOC keeps screwing around, she may even be primaried out of her own district. Despite the media’s attempt to bury it, there were a lot of people pissed off when she led the way pushing Amazon out of New York.

@ad1x2: No, Trump matches up well against moderate candidates. Once again, do I need to remind you that he defeated a moderate candidate in 2016? Next, ideology isn't everything, you have to run a good campaign, and Biden is not running a good campaign. At times in the last couple months, Biden looked scatterbrained. He is basically an Al Gore. And Biden will not be able to really get the votes he needs from parts of the base, who he has alienated. Elizabeth Warren is the best candidate suited to go against Donald Trump, from her background on economic issues, to how she runs her campaign. And the foundations of her economic policy once again, have pre-Reagan Republican roots.

And really assuming a candidate will win because he is a moderate is a very dangerous line of thinking. In fact there was a huge upset in a local election in the Houston area last year for Harris County Judge (the county executive position), where a very popular moderate Republican incumbent (in Harris county, which is a center to center-left county overall) got stunned by a left wing 28 year old AOC styled Latina. Nevermind that once again, while moderates did well in the House elections last year, they took losses to conservative Republicans in the Senate.

Warren does not support open borders. AOC doesn't either. And Beto is no leftist, he is pretty much a centrist.

Next, AOC has no chance of getting primaried out of her district. The Queens DA primary race showed how strong AOC is in the Queen's part of her district. And from the looks of it, AOC's opposition of Amazon is being vindicated by the rising rents around Amazon's HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia. NYC does not have an employment problem, it has a housing crisis. The NYC establishment is going to be concentrated on defense as well as other challengers are primaring them.

So you get out of your bubble. The Squad came out overall winners in "the feud" because unlike moderates, they manage to unravel the President.

@texasgoldrush: Horrible strategy,

hillary lost because shes shady and crooked and had alot of baggage.

Not because she was a moderate...

you really think the reason hillary didnt win was because of moderate policy? not at all, it was because she was Hillary Clinton lol

Her backing of free trade deals and anti-labor policies (she was center-right economically), helped cost her the Midwest. Trump was able to play the populist card and won over the region.

Biden voted and supported these policies as well. Take warning.

not to mention many seen that corruption in action when she pretty much bought out the then bankrupt DNC to ensure her nomination.. its kind of cute how people on the left think they'll get a choice in the upcoming primaries, the superdelegates within their own party will choose for them like they did in 2016

Bernie didn't have the votes. Super-delegates weren't the difference. Also trump has turned off everyone BUT his base. And he didn't have the popular vote to start. He'll have less next election. He ONLY won because of the archaic EC.

With how the Dems are self-destructing, what makes you think it will be any different in any aspect next time?

Wishful thinking you are doing.

I'm one of the people who opposes Trump.

And, really, wishful thinking? That would be Trump losing by a landslide... like he should have done last election.

Thinking about her next million dollar paycheck.