Slotkin addressed sweeping cuts by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and fears over what it could mean for Medicaid
    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      30·
      14 days ago

      AOC and Bernie are the gold standards. Be great if the bootlickers became un-nominatable and unelectable. Would definitey settle for at most NOMINALized

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    40·
    14 days ago

    “I get it that it makes people feel good to see people yelling,” Slotkin told the audience. “But not one of those words is stopping the actual things that Donald Trump is doing, and I am about action, not words, and I will stand by that as long as I live.”

    Please, Senator, tell us about your actions that are stopping Donald Trump from doing what he’s doing. No need to be coy. Its what you “stand by as long as you live”. This should be an easy answer for you.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
    35·
    15 days ago

    Constituent Kristin Fellows, 62, asked the Democrats how they are pushing back against Musk and President Donald Trump.

    “We know that you are against these current awful happenings going on in the world, but it is simply not enough for you to repeatedly tell us that you are,” Fellows said, according to the Associated Press, and the question was met with a round of applause from the audience.

    “My job is to be more than just an activist. It is to answer the call when there’s an immigration raid and we need to figure out where our people are,” Slotkin said. “All of those things require me to be more than just an AOC.”

    Slotkin ought to know where “our people” are since she voted for legislation requiring any immigrant who’s baselessly charged with petty nonsense like shoplifting to be detained (archived).

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      111·
      14 days ago

      How incredibly inhumane. Immigrants built this country. If anyone here isn’t the descendant of an immigrant; they are an either an descendant of a native American to survived the genocide, or of a chattel slave who survived the anti-black violence that’s been prevalent in this country for over a hundred years.

      If the ideal version of America is supposed to be freedom and democracy where anyone looking to make a better life for themselves is welcome, then anti-immigrant sentiment is anti-american.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    25·
    14 days ago

    AOC/Sanders aren’t even that leftwing.

    It’s just an optical illusion looking at them from inside the burgeoning fourth Reich of Stupid Hitler’s crazy town.