AOC mad at her colleagues. Rightfully so.

[Greyhead]

We need all of elected leaders to stand up. Get some balls Dems.

https://www.rawstory.com/stop-playing-nice-aoc-mad-at-dem-colleagues-who/

[claudette]

1. Agree

There should be ZERO votes cast by Dems for any of Dumpy’s nominees

[Autumn]

2. Those Democrats are complacent. We will remeber those Democrats

who went along with those who are destroying our democracy. History will not be kind.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

35. Couldn't agree more!!

[berksdem]

61. Didn't Bernie vote yes on two of the picks?

[Autumn]

63. He, as every other Dem, voted for Marco Rubio. Only sane pick I've seen

[niyad]

80. You thiink rubio is sane?

[misanthrope]

84. And what?

Does it matter if you recall them or not when democracy is gone? There's no method for memory's recourse then.

[Autumn]

85. If you think their actions don't matter then don't worry about it. nt

[Opbrg]

3. Any Democrat that sits back and lets

them destroy our democracy will not get my vote if we even have any future elections.

[unblock]

4. Right on! We absolutely need to be in "stop fascism" mode. Everything else is secondary.

If the felon-in-chief is allowed to do whatever he wants, nothing anyone does in congress will matter.

Congress needs to gum up the works as best they can, but that's alone is not nearly enough. Just as musk just waltzed in, Donnie can give his people jobs by simply ignoring Congress.

And musk controls the payment system, so they can draw a salary. Or more. All without congress. Illegal? Sure. But who's gonna stop them?

It's probably too late, but we have to be on an all-hands crisis mode opposition to fascist government footing, 24/7/365 until we can force him out.

[Think. Again.]

27. ⬆⬆⬆THIS⬆⬆⬆

[valleyrogue]

5. She is aiming at the wrong target.

Talk is cheap when the real culprits aren't held to account.

[Autumn]

6. Talk is cheaper when your allies do not have your back. AOC has pounded

thesel culprits since the beginning. One of the few to do so.

[Deuxcents]

8. I think she's aiming at the right targets and I agree with her. More leaders need to show leadership

And she’s showing them the way.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

36. AOC is EXACTLY the leader we need at the right time... GO AOC!! WE LOVE YOU!!

[Gore1FL]

19. Isn't that literally what she is asking for?

You can blame the tree for falling in the road, sure. Why is it wrong with demanding people help with the cleanup?

[Cirsium]

20. No

It is entirely appropriate - it is essential - that we hold our allies to a higher standard than we do our enemies. We don't hold arsonists and fire fighters to the same standards. We expect more from fire fighters, and when they fail to answer the bell we don't blame the arsonists.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

37. 👆THIS!!👆

[Bettie]

32. So, no one should have any expectation

of elected Democrats standing up for the country and instead voting for oligarchy because it is convenient and probably ends up benefiting them personally rather than the people they represent?

What is the "right" target? Democrats who refuse to vote for his nominees?

[Greyhead]

46. We need more of our so called leaders to stand up.

Keith O had a good pod yesterday on standing up. Also Thom H pod about the same topic. Listen to them and call your reps I call mine but it doesn’t do much good. All of our politicians are red including a majority proof state legislature. I still call, today hoevens office said they getting a tremendous amount of calls.
Hopefully these magas see what these bastards are trying to do.

[H2O Man]

83. Baloney.

[Skittles]

7. please stop with the BALLS nonsense

THE most delicate body part is not required for COURAGE

ENOUGH ALREADY

[FHRRK]

9. Too damn funny

And KICK

[Skittles]

11. it's fucking ridiculous

balls cannot take even a little tap without the host folding like a deckchair

meanwhile, pussies, that DELIVER BABIES, is associated with weakness

it is misogynist CRAP and I am SICK of seeing it done repeatedly on DU - WTF

[FHRRK]

49. I believe you are missing my intended point, so I will try another

It is like rearranging chairs on the Titanic!

Get it, I fucking don't give two fucking turds about the use of the term balls that seem to upset some. In fact, I would argue it makes it worse.

But hey, we can continue down the path and push more into the loving arms of Joe Rogan, Stephan A. Smith, That gummy faced mfer, and others. But oh, we can be so fucking pure while we spend the rest of our lives bitching about the use of the word ball.

For another win, us old white guys can sit back and slam AOC for being too progressive.

I for one stand completely behind her and the message of the OP regardless of using what should be considered a minor offense of the word balls.

[Skittles]

50. maybe you like to excuse sexist crap on a progressive board

I DO NOT

*OVER AND OUT*

[niyad]

64. It is absolutely disappointing to know that, no matter how many FUCKING TIMES

the sexist and misogynist language, on a "progressive" board, no less! is pointed out, it STILL keeps showinng up, and is even DEFENDED.

Thank you for your most enlightening post. It is important to know how verry little women's concerns are valued by some. Indeed, so little valued that some even claim that THEY are offended because the language is being called out. Sadly, this is not a new thing.

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. I always liked the comment attributed to Betty White on that subject

Even though she didn't actually say it first, if at all, it fits.

[niyad]

68. Yes!!!

[progree]

17. I don't know why DU people can't say "get some gonads" or "grow a spine" instead of "get some balls". /nt

[niyad]

69. Annoying, is it not?

[progree]

76. Perplexing and incomprehensible too /nt

[JoseBalow]

77. Say "gonads" instead of "balls?"

[progree]

79. Yes, why not? Defn of gonads is the primary reproductive organs - testicles (balls) in males and ovaries in females

I use gonads as a generic (i.e. both sexes*) form of "balls". Yes, both testicles and ovaries have a lot to do with reproduction, and neither have anything to do with courage, nor does spine.

*Yes, I know there are some non-binary people as well

[The Wandering Harper]

75. yes

guts works just as well and is nicely genderless

[Maru Kitteh]

10. SHE displays courage yet we still get "balls." Sorry, I just can't recommend

the post. Why do we feel like the courage of women must be legitimized by the anniontment of male gametes? It’s gross.

[Skittles]

13. I AM SO SICK OF IT

WTF!!! Misogynist CRAP is what it is

[Bettie]

34. Language changes slowly

but it does eventually change.

This one will probably take a while, since right wing white men really like talking about their testicles as if they are something truly special. Exhibit: the little boy working for Muskrat who calls himself "Big Balls"....

[birdographer]

42. This one won't change

(Many) men define themselves by their genitalia. That will never, ever change, and so this reference will never, ever change.

[niyad]

65. Sorry, language can, and does, change quickly in many cases. Think

about tech, all sorts of things. The reichwing assholes are one thing. People on progressive board, where such language is called out repeatedly, have no excuse for the use of sexist, misogynist language..

[Think. Again.]

29. The "yes" Dems must see some benefit in supporting a fascist take over or they wouldn't be voting yes.

[yardwork]

14. I'm mad at her colleagues too.

[W_HAMILTON]

16. Is she upset that Sanders voted for Rubio?

[Cirsium]

21. She should be

I am. Aren't you?

[FoxNewsSucks]

28. Yes. That was a 99-0 vote though,

probably some kind of mutual senatorial club circle-jerk kind of thing. One which I'm sure republicons would not honor, but we're "nice" so we do.

[Cirsium]

30. I know

...

[Polybius]

54. It's easy for us on DU to say that we wouldn't vote for Rubio

But if we were Senators, the pressure or experience first-hand might be different.

[Cirsium]

57. What?

You can't be serious.

We didn't vote them into office for them to cave to pressure.

[Polybius]

58. Of couse I'm serious

99-0 is nothing to joke about, even Bernie went along. Armchair quarterbacking is an easy job, but being a Senator is a lot different. Maybe they got along with Rubio and viewed him as empathetic, which is what Duckworth said.

You may have been a Yes and don't even know it if you were a Senator.

[Cirsium]

59. OMG

OK. So getting along with their pal Rubio is more important than we are? I fear you are right. Do you think you are defending them with that remark? Wow.

"Armchair quarterbacking is an easy job, but being a Senator is a lot different." This is comedy gold. The exact opposite is true. It is much, much easier being a Senator than almost anything else in the world. Try being a farm worker in this climate.

I agree that 99-0 is nothing to joke about. It is something to cry about, though.

"You may have been a Yes and don't even know it if you were a Senator.'

Huh?

[Polybius]

60. I tend not to disagree with recent unanimous decisions or votes

I wasn't there in the closed-door meetings. Maybe I would have been a Yes vote too if I was given assurances or some type of deal was made.

[Cirsium]

62. I guess

"We can't really know what's going on" is such a dodge.

[W_HAMILTON]

82. If Independent Bernie Sanders from super blue Vermont can't help but vote for Republican nominees...

...I think that lets off pretty much most every other damn Democrat as well, so I guess we can most past criticizing them as a whole and focus on the one(s) that are actually the problem (right now, Fetterman comes to mind).

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

38. She should be... I am!! And I absolutely LOVE Bernie!!

[Hitorque]

73. I hope so...

[Karasu]

18. No need to worry. I'm sure people like Cadaver Connolly were going to get around to it any fucking day now.

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Sarcasm, in case that actually needs to be said.

It blows my mind that leadership is apparently so damn afraid of AOC, progressivism, and passing the baton to the younger generation of the party that they'd rather have a rapidly dying man with fucking esophageal cancer on the oversight committee, twiddling his thumbs as the country plunges into a fascist hellhole.

[usonian]

22. God gave men unprotected balls so that they would be cautious in all matters. It didn't work.

[niyad]

70. No, it did not work at all.

[barbtries]

23. I called my Democratic Rep today

to urge her to do that. Valerie Foushee, NC.

called tillis too for all that's worth. consider budd a lost cause.

[Mountain Mule]

24. I am so very angry with my Colorado representatives

Especially Senator John Hickenlooper. He has been completely silent through all of this and has obediently voted to confirm all of Trump's cabinet picks. I don't know what the hell kind of game he is playing, but he has shown no interest in standing up for the people of Colorado or for Democrats. I very much hope that he gets primaryed so that I can vote against him.

You go, AOC!

[Polybius]

55. Not all of them

He didn't vote to confirm Pete Hegseth or Pam Bondi.

[JustAnotherGen]

25. A 90 minute Instagram live

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This is what I mean when I say our Electeds in DC need to bypass the media. The media (RS) is now covering the social media as they do the MagaPublicans.

YouTube, Instagram Live, videos on their pages. . . this is how you get the message out whether you agree with the content or not.

[BoRaGard]

26. You tell 'em, AOC!

[MuirWoods]

31. Get Some Balls

I assume you’re implying that bravery requires “balls”.

You are offending some of the best people (females) this country has to offer

By your logic, you have to be a man to show bravery. Men have balls. Females do not.

I suggest you educate yourself before offending any more people.

[niyad]

67. Thank you!

[yaesu]

33. I think WE THE PEOPLE must take to the streets

to the fascist scotus homes, to the fascist tech bro homes, go wherever we need to go and make life miserable for them. That is our patriotic duty. Play mind games with any fascists voters you know, they are stupid and very easy to manipulate, again with the assignment of making their lives miserable. Use your imagination and fight like your lives depend on it because it does.

[Scrivener7]

39. She's absolutely right.

[Handler]

40. Absolutely agree 💙

[flashman13]

41. WTF is wrong with these people. We are governed by historical illiterates.

The Reichstag voted itself out of existence after handing all power over to Hitler. Most of the members didn't live to see the destruction of the Reich and the demise of Hitler. 60+ million more people paid the price for their cowardice.

These morons in the Senate are voting themselves out of existence. Trump claims Canada doesn't exist. The fact is that a functioning Senate no longer exists.

I'm going to be anxious to see if my post gets removed for speaking plain truth about the people that are actively killing off the United States of America that we all grew up in and even believed in.

William769 was absolutely right this morning. The sky isn't falling, the sky has fallen.

I have a very bad feeling about this. I fear there will be blood before this sickness passes.

[TomCADem]

43. Progressive Playbook - Scapegoat Democrats and Media...

…and posture for the base without trying to expand it, then call it a day.

MAGA Republicans did not just preach to the choir, but went outside of their bubble by going on Jim Rogan, street corners with MAGA kiosks, and speaking at school boards against CRT to grow their base.

In contrast, AOC and a lot of Democrats just preach to a smaller and smaller choir by blaming Democrats.

[Brogrizzly]

45. lol Jim Rogan

You mean Joe Rogan, and if you think that’s progressive spin tactics, wait until you read about the Jacobins, eventually, hopefully you get there

In fact I find your view parroting many Russian bots and trolls.

noblesse oblige, my friend, noblesse oblige

[Karasu]

48. Oh, please. There's so much wrong with what you said it would take forever to address it in

detail. So I'll just make this quick.

This isn't a matter of "posturing for" or "expanding the base." What are you even talking about this for? The election is fucking over and that shit is completely irrelevant to the situation we are facing (and may not ever be relevant again, the way things are going). We're under a fascist government now, in case you haven't noticed. And she isn't "blaming Democrats" for the current state of affairs, she's calling on them to be louder and more aggressive, like most of us on this site have been. Which--to their credit--more and more Dems are doing.

And I'm sick of this "MAGA didn't speak to the choir, they went out and appealed to everyone!" BS the MSM was pushing. They did NOT appeal to everyone, they appealed to idiots. Joe Rogan might be popular, but he is very much part of the "bubble" much of American culture is in. Frankly, many American voters are outright stupid and/or completely uninformed, looking for simple solutions to complex problems. Republicans (especially modern Republicans) speak stupid a hell of a lot better than Democrats do, and like all authoritarians, offered them the simplicity they crave, couched in lies. That's all there is to it.

Like the previous poster said, your post really does come off as trolling.

[luxmatic]

44. Jesus Christ on a stick...

Our country is in the middle of a fascist takeover, and in typical Dem fashion, a number of you are chastising others for merely using a well worn turn of phrase.

That fascist thing can wait! Idiom policing is how we ensure our democracy stands!

I'm usually quiet and stay out of the way, but this just makes me angry. Eyes on the prize folks.

[J-9]

47. You beat me to it.

I was going to say why are we arguing over balls when there's a fascist, oligarchal take over rn.

[Skittles]

52. because SOME OF US CAN MULTI-TASK????

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and btw I bring it up EVERY TIME I see that crap, ever since I have been on this board

[niyad]

72. See post 71., 53, 64. . about a dozen more in this thread to help you

understand.

[Skittles]

51. always another time

WHATEVER

[Skittles]

53. JFC

I bring up ANY misogynist garbage I see and I've been doing it SINCE I'VE BEEN ON DU

SOME OF US CAN FUCKING MULTI-TASK, IMAGINE THAT

[niyad]

71. You know what makes US angry??? The FUCKING DEFENSE of misogyny

and sexism on a, presumably, progressive board. As I quoted Elizabeth Cady Stanton in an OP this morning, the status of women in a society marks its level of civilization. We barely reach barbarian level, and, based on posts in this thread, even that is an overestimate. Eye on what prize, exactly, if women have no value?

[Meowmee]

56. In addition they are all insane, crooks, criminals etc. !!! isn't that reason enough?

Apparently not. Have at it. When RFK jr murderer is installed prepare to die and be murdered.

[niyad]

66. Could we PLEASE STOP with using sexual slang for male genitalia as a lazy

synonym for courage, bravery, fortitude, guts, determination, etc.????

[Hitorque]

74. She referring to Fetterman?

[JoseBalow]

78. This thread is nuts

[electric_blue68]

81. Modt of us can walk and chew gum at the same time...

So we can fight a fascist take over and further diminish sexist language.

Sexist language, like racist language is a social construction that lowers, or dismisses various peoples personhood. Because it is language, and often frequent it's a ubiquitous type of put down that's all around us. Like the air we breath.
It's important to point out.