Dems Choose 74-Year-Old Gerry Connolly Over AOC for Key Committee Role

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-committee-oversight-vote-connolly-1235208146/

48 comments

  1. Political suicide. This is the end of democracy. Billionaires are flying into Mar-A-Lago this week to kiss the ring. And Nancy screws us again. Fuck her.

  4. Yet another old, white, entitled geezer to stand for us. Go dems. You really get us.

  5. *Just* when you thought the Democrats had used up their whole year’s supply of bad ideas.

  6. Glad she ran! I appreciate her skills. I’m sure she will continue up the ranks. Wish it all didn’t feel so dire tho.

  7. Dems will never learn why they lost the election. At this point this is all intentional.

  8. Of course. Why would the Dems ever want to actually win for once???

  9. Unless Democrats make some significant changes they’re losing my support. I’ll vote for progressive candidates in primaries, but I’m not voting for any moderate Democrats on any level. Fuck ’em.

  10. I wish the US had it’s own Labor Party or something similar. I’d jump to support that in a heartbeat 

  11. Where was Jeffries? He needs to grow some balls against Pelosi and the other old white dudes and dames

  12. A 74 year old man with cancer who most haven’t heard of is the party’s choice over a very popular, young, healthy, woman.

    Yeah, let’s keep doing things the old way because that’s worked so well.

    edit 2: **Democrat Who Beat Out AOC For Top Oversight Job Violated Federal Insider Trading and Conflicts-of-Interest Law, Report Claims**

    Connolly, who will oversee investigations into allegations of fraud and corruption in the federal government when President-elect Donald Trump starts his second term next month, violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act after he failed to disclose three stock transactions ahead of the 45-day reporting deadline in January 2023, a Raw Story analysis found.
    **All three stocks Connolly failed to disclose have government contracts**.

    https://www.ibtimes.com/democrat-who-beat-out-aoc-top-oversight-job-violated-federal-insider-trading-conflicts-interest-3755868

    edit: https://www.msn.com/en-au/politics/government/inside-aoc-s-plan-for-dems-to-go-after-corporations-especially-those-tied-to-trump/ar-AA1vRAtC

  13. Tired of establishment Dems not learning lessons and continuing to double down on why they lost to Trump 2 times.
    The country needs a center left party for the people and boomers need to gtfo of the way.

  14. I am so fucking sick of it here.

    Democrats should be acting like the Trump admin is a 1393847 alarm fire. Instead…they’re electing boomers with cancer.

  15. Fucking morons. I am now officially an Independent. I cannot stomach any more self-sabotage and selfish decisions from the geriatric neo-liberals who refuse to allow change.

  16. Dems are professional losers at this point. Literally do not want to win, they just want your money.

  17. Pilots have to RETIRE at 65, no matter what.
    And 80% of our government is over that age, and get to continue to run this country. They probably can’t even reset a modem and think zooming in adds pixels of something.
    See judge here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/rittenhouse-trial-judge-disallows-ipad-pinch-to-zoom-read-the-bizarre-transcript/

    We need mandatory retirement age, they already get socialized healthcare and pensions for life. Just fuckin retire and fade into obscurity already.

  18. They’ve learned absolutely nothing. I can’t believe I listened to these people for all these years.

  21. “Gerry’s a young 74, cancer notwithstanding,”

    I cannot believe this is a real quote. These people are delusional.

  22. DNC just keeps kicking itself in its collective junk over and over. Pelosi is pretty much the devil.

  23. And people call me a ‘bothsider’ when I point this exact shit out. The Republicans hate you, The Dems don’t care. Not equal, but not better either.

  24. His photo next to hers speaks volumes. Nancy, even with the hip injury, is still calling shots to keep AOC in her place.

  25. > “Gerry’s a young 74, cancer notwithstanding,” said Beyer.

    Bruh.

  26. Hi I’m a Democrat. Where’s the line to punch myself in the face?

  28. The next four years is gonna be rough.

    Then the next four will also be rough…

  29. Ensuring that Dems will achieve absolutely nothing for the country or working class except for the wealthy donors.

  30. This most recent election has really made me hate Democrats. You know why? Because they have to have it their way and they take their base for granted. People show up to vote these people in, they fight to get the vote out – not because they like them but because they know the other guy is worse – and they get repaid with a giant middle finger.

    It’s not just this. It’s the repeated suppression and disrespect towards progressive voices and progressive values. Yet they still act like they are owed support from the American left while they do little to nothing to actually further the agenda of the left. Meanwhile the Republicans will publicly humiliate themselves just to appease their increasingly unhinged base. When a batsh*t crazy Republican gets elected they embrace them, because they realize it helps further their end goals.

    No wonder sanity lost when the people who represent it aren’t willing to fight half as hard as those who fight for insanity.

  31. “I’ve seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn’t believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don’t want a phony Democrat. If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don’t want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign”

    . Harry Truman.  

    Our party is run by phony democrats. Republicans in Democratic clothing as Truman would say.

  32. Hello to all the people just discovering the Democrats are a donor run party that will never give us the change we need

  33. I was having an ok day. Now I feel depressed. There’s no hope for this country, let alone the Democratic Party.

  34. If you wanted a demonstration of how much Pelosi wants to keep her ability to do insider trading with impunity and maintain the shitty, shitty, (ultra-shitty) status quo, I present exhibit A.

  35. I’m apathetic at this point. One party is openly facist and wants to enact draconian laws. The other is tone deaf and doesn’t actually listen to the American people. We’re on our own. The government doesn’t care about us unless they’re up for re-election. I’m just going to watch this play out. I’m done fighting.

  36. Yup, I’m switching my registration to Independent. These people are determined to lose, they are beyond saving.

  37. That my #1 problem with the Harris campaign. They *said* fascism was coming, and then didn’t *act* like it. Because, fundamentally, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer et al don’t really believe it. They believe that even if things get bad, they will be able to retire to their huge homes, give speeches, etc.

    The voters could feel this disconnect.

    Meanwhile Trump is playing the game of thrones. Win, or die. So he promises HHS to Kennedy, social policy to the Nazis, Intelligence to the Russian spies… plays the game to win. Sure, it will be chaos. But he took this election as seriously as a heart attack, because it was.

    Until you get people like AOC who actually seem to appreciate the fucking stakes, who understand, even if they don’t support, why someone in chronic pain might gun down a CEO on the street.. nothing will change.

    Democrats needs to set a cap on age for all leadership positions of 60. Be the young party. That will count a *ton* for future elections. Then set up a party blind investment fund (this might already exist) that *all* Democrats need to sell everything into when they are elected.

    Democrats: we are young, and we don’t insider trade. Bam, a winning message people will connect with.

  38. Speaks, no… shouts volumes about how much consideration the party gives to the most vocal of their voting base.

  39. So we’re just gonna keep letting septuagenarians and octogenarians run the country. People who have one foot in the grave and won’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions. Great.

  40. Some of the Dems are completely corrupt and on the take. Naturally, they want someone like AOC out. She’s way less controllable.

  41. I’m on a break from the dems. Which is insane because I’ve fought for them for years, but I’m just over decisions like this

  42. 74 year old couldn’t get hired at fast food due to age yet gets put into a position of policy decision…make it make sense.

  43. If I hear one more person blame the voters for losing to Trump when things like this keep happening, I’m going to lose it.

    Democrats are an incredibly unserious party. Leadership and all their consultants and pollsters need to be jettisoned into the sun.

  44. The Democratic Party is a fucking disgrace. They will continue to fail and lose until they get their heads out of their asses. It would be embarrassing if it wasn’t pathetic.

  45. I’m guessing Dems are just going to stick their stance of “At least we’re not the Republicans” as their only appeal. 

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