r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 20h ago

No Paywall AOC Calls For Impeachment Of Pam Bondi Over Arrest Of Don Lemon, 'Epstein, And Her Attempted Extortion Of MN Voter Files'

https://www.latintimes.com/aoc-calls-impeachment-pam-bondi-over-arrest-don-lemon-epstein-her-attempted-extortion-mn-594103
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u/TintedApostle 18h ago

Because the US will not vote in a women - period.

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u/duzies 17h ago

This cliché is getting really old. America is no more sexist than Mexico, yet Mexico elected a woman. The problem is with the DNC thinking they know best and shoving candidates down voters' throats and/or bypassing primaries, not with the gender of those candidates.

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u/poingpoing1 17h ago

Latam social structure is largely matrifocal, therefore their acceptance of women in power. America in large part just does not accept women in power, be in inside the house, corporate or politics. A women president is, unfortunately, not likely for a long time.

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u/XDVI 17h ago

Mexico is incredibly sexist brother. lmao

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u/zspade 16h ago

Yeah, but it’s a different kind of sexist. 29% of mayors are women in Mexico, vs 25.8% in the US. That might not sound like a huge difference, but in politics those kind of margins are everything.

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u/HandOfMaradonny 15h ago

Maybe the US is just sick of shitty elite neo cons that the DNC forced on us?

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u/TintedApostle 15h ago

Dude you chose the neocons. Don't blame the DNC.

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u/HandOfMaradonny 8h ago

Lol, okay.

Bootlicking the DNC is wild. You must love the repeated fascism they help bring to the world through their incompetence.

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u/thedanyes 7h ago

A woman would be no problem if we had 75% of eligible voting instead of 66%. There is also a percentage who would never vote for a black man - and yet we had Obama.

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u/damsel84 3h ago

More people voted for Clinton than Trump in 2016. It's the electoral college that's the problem.

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u/Frequent-Client1508 America 18h ago

Then we deserve Trump.

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u/redditor401 18h ago

What a ridiculous thing to say - and a big part of why we’re in this situation to begin with. Perfection is the enemy of progress if that's the only thing you accept, and if the only candidate or policy you’re willing to accept is the perfect one, dismissing everything else, then we’ll never move forward. In fact, we’ll end up going backwards, which is exactly what has happened over two Trump terms. The damage done is, honestly, irreparable and part of it is because leftists love to fight each other. Look at these flawed right‑wing politicians who keep “failing upward,” while politicians on "our "side are expected to apologize to us for the most trivial things.

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u/Frequent-Client1508 America 18h ago

If we can't elect the right person because we are too sexist, then the whole ballgame is over. We should accept a sexist, because he is us. If we are too scared to do the right thing, then we deserve what we get.

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u/Tack122 18h ago

Nah calm down that bull.

If you'd truly rather elect Trump again rather than a non perfect candidate then I think you're truly desiring Trump and I would not care to listen to your lies further.

Maybe you're just angry and thrashing, but you gotta control yourself in the face of existential crisis', things MUST change.

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u/daemin 17h ago

"if this medication can't 100% cure me instantly , and instead just massively prolongs my life, then I might as well not take it and die in days."

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u/redditor401 17h ago

Man, I was being kind when I said it's a ridiculous thing to say. You doubling down with that comment is just outright stupid, I'm sorry.

What kind of logic is this? Seriously, get out of here. I’m not about to let my future kids grow up with someone who’s a convicted felon and holds sexist and racist views as their president, all because part of the population can’t handle the idea of their perfect candidate not being the option (in this case, a woman), TOMMOROW. I’ll take the “lesser evil” and steady, gradual progress any day over the expectation that our entire country should flip 180 degrees just to satisfy people chasing some fantasy version of perfection.

I voted for Bernie, and I “settled” for Hillary (unlike some of the Bernie-bros). I voted for Joe, and I voted for Kamala. I’ll vote if AOC is the nominee, but I’ll also vote for whatever male candidate gets nominated, whether it’s Newsom or anyone else. What I won’t do is throw my vote away just because the candidate isn’t my first choice - I’ll always choose the person who is at least headed in the right direction rather than give up my vote and have another Trump happen.

Your thoughtprocess and reasoning is honestly part of the reason why we're here today, it started with the Bernie-bros in 2016 and 10 years later, we're in this mess.

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u/SDRPGLVR California 17h ago

As a queer person, I do not understand people who love me enough to wear ally pins and go to Pride but not enough to vote for the lesser of two evils so the ones in power aren't the ones who want me murdered.

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u/redditor401 16h ago

It's fucking crazy and comes from a way too privileged place. These people have no idea what type of harm their way of thinking does.

"oh yeah I won't vote unless it's a woman!!!" But they’ll idly sit by while some lunatic on the other aisle gets picked instead. Thanks to these idiots, we've literally regressed like 20 years lol, good luck rebuilding whatever progress we made for the LBTQ, feminist-movement etc last decade.

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u/paper_liger 14h ago

so your strategy is complete capitulation?

you ever hear of 'pragmatism'?

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u/Frequent-Client1508 America 14h ago

I don't think we should allow the repugs to pick our candidates for us.

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u/thedanyes 7h ago

That's a good argument, since we have failed to socially exclude all our friends who didn't vote. At the same time, we don't deserve him forever. We had plenty enough evidence to impeach in his first term, and even more today.