AOC Blasts Rumored DNC Chair Contender: ‘Disease’

https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-blasts-rumored-dnc-chair-contender-rahm-emanuel-1986954

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  1. She didn’t call Emanuel a disease. She’s saying corporate influence on the D party is a disease. She could be right. The left may be better off with a message of economic populism. OTOH, maybe that ship has sailed.

  2. Democrats should be the party of the working class not corporate interests. I agree with her.

  3. Rahm has no shot, even Biden made him an ambassador just to get rid of him.

  4. Rahm fucking Emanuel? Really? Dems want to keep losing I guess.

  5. I wonder if/when she make the Jump to Senate. I’d hate the lack of job security knowing I have to get re-elected every 2 years.

  6. Establishment pushing Emmanuel who: “After serving as an advisor to Bill Clinton, in 1998 Emanuel resigned from his position in the administration and joined the investment banking firm Wasserstein Perella, where he worked for 2+1⁄2 years. Although he did not have an MBA degree or prior banking experience, he became a managing director at the firm’s Chicago office in 1999, and according to congressional disclosures, made $16.2 million in his 2+1⁄2 years as a banker.”

    Then went on to get a Freddie Mac Board position and get roiled with scandals… the same Freddie that destroyed the economy with subprime loans.

    Good job democrats shooting ourselves in the foot. How about we nominate a real grassroots progressive organizer to DNC chair.

  7. This dude does not need to be anywhere near the DNC ANYTHING…

  8. Fish heads in the mail? Help me out on that one.

  9. I hope the Democrats begin to realize that they’re controlled opposition since they take money from the same donors that support the people they’re running against.

  10. Rahm was a disease for Chicago; his tenure included shutting down lots of public schools and covering up police misconduct, he didn’t even bother running in 2019 because he knew how much the city hated him

  11. The DNC as a whole is a disease. We need to get rid of these establishment cronies in our own party.

  12. podcast. “He is the most skillful, political kind of infighter in the Democratic Party. He’s been a member of Congress, he’s been White House chief of staff, he’s been the mayor of Chicago.”

    Oh you mean he shit all over democratic constituencies relentlessly, ran everything he was involved in hard right and yielded masses losses for the party?

    May as well completely destroy the party the same way Axelrod pushed Kamala to dump all her progressive economic policies as her message that last few weeks, which is when all the actual swing voters broke for trump.

    Idiots who are totally out of touch.

  13. Nominating a corporate democrat donor shill like Rahm Emanuel is a good way to ensure continued losing for Democrats

  14. She only “blasts” him? At least she didn’t “slam” him. Fucking internet journlism.

  15. Rahm Emanuel (along with all his cretinous brothers) is a genuinely evil person.

  16. If they make that guy dnc chair I’m totally out of the Democratic Party forever, period.

  17. She’s 100% right here. Emanuel is absolutely a toxic choice for the party. And they really do need to rebuild from the local level up.

  18. Trump is a billionaire. His unelected right hand man is the wealthiest person in the world. They’re going to cut taxes for the rich and keep their boot firmly on the neck of the working man. It should be a complete lay-up for the Democrats to run on an anti money in politics, fighting for the working class against a cabal of plutocrats narrative, but it entirely hinges on them purging their own party of corporate interest first.

  19. I adamantly believe that it is the DNC’s screwed up messaging and lack of messaging that is holding us back. Turn it over to the younger generations.

  21. Fuck Rahm. He can stay in Chicago. Dems need a progressive economic message a la Teddy Roosevelt, bit more crony capitalist stooges.

  24. That really would seal the deal for Democrats and basically punctuate the end of the Democratic Party forever. Rahm Emanuel is literally an investment banker from the Obama era that could not be more out of touch with the path forward that the Democrats need to clear. Rahm Emanuel as DNC chair must not be allowed to happen.

  27. >”There is a disease in Washington of Democrats who spend more time listening to the donor class than working people,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “If you want to know the seed of the party’s political crisis, that’s it.”

  28. Corporatism is what keeps losing Democrats elections. If they choose Emanuel, they might as well not even show up next election as people won’t turn out for them.

  29. > U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will skip an event later this week commemorating the victims of the United States’ atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 over the city government’s decision not to invite Israel, which is currently waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip.

    > Boycotting the Nagasaki memorial service to protest the exclusion of Israel, a state which is actively committing genocide, is incredibly disrespectful to the civilian victims of mass killing in both Japan and Gaza.

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/rahm-emanuel-nagasaki

  30. I don’t mind corporate influence on the DNC anymore as long as it actually influences.

    Every major media apparatus has been ridiculously unfair to Democrats and liberals, there’s a huge double standard, and no effective messaging penetration whatsoever into the lifestyle experience *of* blue collar workers or even racial minority groups anymore.

    A whole Democratic leadership council of Appalachian Latino factory workers who only talk about inflation would still flop.

    Everyone blaming the people, policies, or messaging of the Harris campaign can’t offer an alternative substitute that would actually have changed anything.

    What’s the point of having wealthy corporate players on the team if they can’t make major, savvy, effective moves at a greater level than the rest of us? We proved we can raise big money from lots of people regardless. Concentrated power and ownership can and should be a worthwhile boon but it hasn’t shown up for us at all.

  31. I just changed my voter registration from Democrat to None. Forgot to change it after the last primary.

    I give money to progressives. I did donate to Kamala and Bob Casey here in PA Senate race (which he lost) but now it’s back to no DNC, no GOP-lite, just progressives who care about people not corporations. Though I’m afraid the DNC will never learn.

  32. DNC is so dumb they deserve to lose. AOC and Bernie need to lead the party. Get rid of Pelosi and Schumer.

  34. I live in Indiana. In the 2006 and 2008 elections Howard Dean ran the fifty state strategy, put time and money into my state for the first time in my adult life. We went from 2/9 House seats to 5/9 in 2006 and held them in 2008. Every Democratic leader threw a tantrum over it and we went right back to the old strategy. We faded right back to 2/9.

    Rahm Emanuel was one of the loudest voices forcing things back to how they were. He was Obama’s chief of staff when Democrats got slaughtered in 2010 because of his backroom dealing to turn universal healthcare into the Heritage Foundation’s plan and then abandon it. Read up on his term as mayor of Chicago if you want to know exactly why this piece of shit needs to be nowhere near any position of power ever again.

    Because of the people like him my state is crumbling around me. Democrats don’t even run a candidate in a lot of races because what’s the point? A shit ton of work and harassment just to lose by a landslide while the party showers money on safe seats on the coasts? Even Buttigieg walked away from Indiana and never came back. Why would he? This is a Democratic dead zone and it’s not because there are no liberals here. How many people like me are there across all these red states who would happily work their ass off to get Democrats elected if there were even a whiff of hope? Who could have access to abortion right now, not watch their schools being systematically torn down, not sit in jail over a joint? All because this ass clown has a giant ego and voice in the party despite failing every time he’s given power.

  36. We need a complete overhaul of Democrat leadership. The current regime is out of touch.

  37. That headline is objectively terrible and defamatory to AOC. What she said was quite different: “There is a disease in Washington of Democrats who spend more time listening to the donor class than working people.”

    The reason it is defamatory is because calling someone a “disease” is like calling someone “vermin.” It is fascist rhetoric in the sense of stripping someone’s humanity, calling them a pest or a virus.

    There is no way AOC would refer to an individual person as a disease because she is politically savvy enough not to accidentally engage in fascist rhetoric. It is also basic human decency not to refer to a human person as vermin or filth or a disease.

    Talking about a disease in Washington, however, in reference to a pattern of behavior that manifests a sickness, is a different story. It isn’t fascist rhetoric to refer to a pattern of behavior as sick or, in this case, diseased, because behavior patterns don’t get dehumanized.

    The Newsweek headline thus deliberately misrepresents what AOC said by implying she called a person a disease which would not only be fascist rhetoric, it would be low-brow ad hominem of the kind she is too smart for.

    So yeah, Newsweek brings the garbage (again).

  38. AOC spitting here, the billionaire class has “diseased” the party from the top down. Glad her and Bernie are calling it out.

  39. Yeah he’s a perfect example of everything wrong with the Democratic party.

    So congrats to Rahm Emanuel on being the new DNC chair.

    The stupidity of the Democrats and Republicans is proof that the deep state doesn’t really exist. If there was one big secret shadow government running things, they wouldn’t be so disorganized and stupid all the time.

  40. Wait a minute. Wasn’t Rahm Emanuel the guy that was got on several counts of corruption. What the hell is wrong with the DNC.

  41. Here’s a secret, the establishment Democrats are STOKED that Trump won. They know they will bring in more money than they know what to do with. This is why they always screw up every election, it’s on purpose. They make more money as the minority party, they don’t have to stand for ANYTHING, just oppose the Republicans. They do the same exact thing when they’re the minority. THE SYSTEM IS A SCAM.

  42. The Dems are useless. The Washington Generals. Trump is a grifter and a liar, but at least the Republicans appear to have ideas about what they want to do (albeit mean, crazy shit). Elected Dems are just shills providing no pushback, explaining esoteric ideas like global warming and then laughing when people complain about the price of eggs. If you can’t buy food, Newport Beach going under doesn’t seem that important.

  43. Most of the GOP is extreme right, half of the dems feel like moderate Republicans. This disease is by design.

  44. I mean, it doesn’t really matter anymore. Trump and MAGA are prepared to consolidate power into a one-party state where political opponents/dissident voices are extinguished and oppressed.

    By the time we get to 2026 and 2028, elections in the USA will be a shell of what they once were. Even if we somehow manage to hang onto election integrity, we will be 2+ years deep into a culture of fear and oppression propagated by MAGA. Musk, Fox News and others will continue their misinformation campaigns.

    People need to realize that the American Democracy we’ve been able to enjoy for the last 2 centuries is gone.

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