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WE CAN’T HAVE AN ELECTION, WE’RE DEMOCRATS!
Powerline ^ | 17 June 2024 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 06/18/2024 5:52:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Liberals claim to be in favor of democracy–or, at least, Our Democracy™️–but if someone actually runs against them, they take it as a personal offense. Consider this tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom I take as a good exemplar of contemporary liberalism:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
People everywhere need to understand how disgusting and abnormal it is for special interests to dump nearly $15 million to unseat a member of Congress in a primary.

This is corruption. It is a core threat to American democracy. It also fuels Trump.

Support Jamaal Bowman.

There is nothing shocking about $15 million being spent on a Congressional race. In the 2022 cycle, a number of House races drew more than $40 million in total spending. And Ocasio-Cortez herself knows how to spend money: she spent $18.9 million on her own 2020 House race.

So what is going on here? Maybe AOC is offended because the money is being spent on a Democratic primary–someone had the temerity not only to challenge a sitting Democrat House member, but to actually raise money in support of that challenge. But AOC certainly isn’t opposed to primary challenges; she gained her Congressional seat by winning a primary as an insurgent challenger against longtime Democratic Representative Joe Crowley.

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The braying ass AOC tweets.

1 posted on 06/18/2024 5:52:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Projection


2 posted on 06/18/2024 5:54:28 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: Rummyfan

The Democrats now use “democracy” as every Leftist political party and faction has always used it - to them “democracy” means “us”, meaning them, and when they say something, anything, is a “threat to democracy” what they actually mean is it is a threat to them. And they always count on the ignorant masses to not understand that.


3 posted on 06/18/2024 6:00:27 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Rummyfan

Protect “our democratsy”

support voting early and often

jail republicans

oppress the people with one hand and make signs about freedom with the other


4 posted on 06/18/2024 6:00:37 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Wuli

Soviet Union and all communist countries, including China and North Korea were (are) Peoples Democracies!
That’s what AOC wants for the USA.
People Democracy means:
Get the “right” person in power by any means.
Once the “right” person gets into position, the only way they leave is in the casket.


5 posted on 06/18/2024 6:11:22 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Rummyfan

At this point in America, anyone that identifies as a democrat is as dumb as a box of rocks...


6 posted on 06/18/2024 6:20:06 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Rummyfan

The other day AOC said there was too much anti-semitism in her party.

Who kicked her in the ass?


7 posted on 06/18/2024 7:04:08 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Rummyfan
AOC People everywhere need to understand how disgusting and abnormal it is for special interests to dump nearly $15 million to unseat a member of Congress in a primary.This is corruption.

Pot...kettle...black...

8 posted on 06/18/2024 7:34:44 AM PDT by econjack
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To: econjack
"Pot...kettle...black..."

Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle, Mr. Black meet Mr. Pot & Mr. Kettle, never turn your back on those two, they will vote to kill you, just like they did to Socrates.

A democracy in the political meaning of the word; the original meaning defining a specific political system, means a country governed by unlimited majority rule.

A democracy is a form of government in which the majority has the right to vote on anything, and to pass any laws they see fit, the sole standard of legality being a majority vote, that is a counting of numbers.

Democracy is incompatible with a constitution, because the principle there is that the sole standard of right and wrong in politics is a counting of noses, a majority rule.

The best example of that system are the original city states of Greece, where if you remember the majority had the right to vote a death sentence for a man if they disapproved of his ideas.

And Socrates was the best example, the most famous one, of what is wrong with a system of democracy.

Socrates was condemned to death because a majority of the citizens found that his ideas were subversive to the youth of Athens, {Greece} and he refused to escape though he had the chance. He declared that his fellow citizens were wrong in their decision, but they had the right to vote away his life, which is a ghastly example of the sanction of the victim, and a perfect example of the nature of a democracy, as a political system of government.

9 posted on 06/18/2024 9:53:31 AM PDT by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s). )
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To: Stanwood_Dave

Doesn’t mean much since we are a Republic, not a Democracy.


10 posted on 06/18/2024 11:23:57 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Wuli

isnt that the sickest thing???😖

oh & heres another one

we go by truth not facts
that is the dubest thing ive ever heard🤓
isnt it you need facts to establish the truth??🤓


11 posted on 06/18/2024 12:24:24 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (loose lips sink shipse humidity)
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To: econjack
WOW, you just might want to re-read my post. The only thing I can equate your response with is a 747 flying 37,000 feet over your head.

Maybe I should try the direct route; ARE YOU "F-ing" stupid?

No-WAY shape or form was I implying the United States is a Democracy, what I was pointing out is THE "F-ING" DANGERS OF A DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!

12 posted on 06/18/2024 2:49:21 PM PDT by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s). )
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To: Stanwood_Dave

I wasn’t referring to your post, but rather the article.


13 posted on 06/18/2024 6:40:36 PM PDT by econjack
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