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DSA Is Eyeing a 2028 AOC Presidential Run
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Honestly we need her in the Senate for at least two terms before she's president, once she's served her terms as president she'll be stuck as powerless as Obama probably feels rn, let's milk having someone like her for as long as possible, and that starts with her taking that feckless shit head Schumer's Senate seat.
poor aoc, great leadership qualities but when she had a chance to ditch the dsa she doubled down on the commie cesspit
maybe by the time she does run the mamdani feedback loop will have turfed out the commie mystics
Obama is only "powerless" because he has chosen to be.
Taft became the Chief Justice of The US Supreme Court after leaving the office of president.
It’s a symbolic run to shift the Overton window in the right direction and to take some of the lightning off some more moderate candidate, who will look less radical next to her.
It's so ridiculous saying moderate candidate would look less radical next to her, there is nothing radical about AOC, Bernie, El-Sayid, Mamdani, yet here you are carrying the enemy's water and showing how biased they made you by describing them as radical, when you don't have to at all.
I get what your saying is meaning the voters, but my point is how is making sure people have healthcare, quality education, clean air & water, radical? The rich have done such a masterful job brainwashing the shit out of our society over the centuries of disinformation and religious indoctrination.
Dude please give it a rest. We’re talking about how candidates are perceived in the general election. You know this is full of distortions, double standards, lies, and many dated associations.
Giving me shit for calling clean air radical only shows you don’t know how to have a meta conversation about political discourse itself and are on a hair-trigger to give speeches at any provocation.
Fuck everything about this; strike while the iron is hot or be ruled by pedofascists forever. You won’t get another chance. You do not realize the danger we are all in.
customary way would be to wait until she's in her 70s
Ok, six senate terms then.
Exactly... this is the way. She's not electable until she's similar in age to Susan Collins.
I get what you're saying but she'll do much more good as President than sitting in Congress.
Trump showed just how much power the office has, for someone willing to wield it.
She can serve in congress after her presidential terms, no?
No president leaves office popular enough to win a race for a Senate seat
Edit: *in our modern era, for the pedants
I'm certain that isn't true. They are just normally done with all the shit and don't want to deal with a lot of the same shit but with the addition of being out ruled by any of the other assholes in Congress.
Andrew Johnson
Obama could totally run for Senate at any point. Presidents have done it before
He could probably win a seat on Tuesday if they announced it today lol
No legislator is more valuable sitting as one of 100 for a decade or two than taking their turn as president.
I don't think the world or America can wait that long.
Yes! This!
Nah. Retiring after a presidency is a tradition, not a law. Hit them while you have momentum from midterms (hopefully).
Then if she still wants anything to do with this trash fire she can just go back to being senator.
It’s probably a tradition for a good reason. I suspect that 8 years of being president is exhausting and leaves even the best of us spent physically, mentally and emotionally (current golfer in chief being a notable exception)
Mostly because a lot of recent presidents are too old to do anything else. The rest made enough money not to want to.
Obama is still young enough that after a long break now he could do another Senate term or a relatively brief federal judge shipfor 5to7 years comfortably.
Even lazy-ass Trump is not immune to the rapid aging affect of being president. The difference is that it's usually due to the stress of trying to effectively run the country, while his is due to his manic narcissism from being in the spotlight 24/7.
Oh man if you put her in the senate for two terms the leftists will have so much ammunition why they hate her.
the fascist propagandists, I think you mean
There is some overlap in that venn diagram yes but a lot of leftists are decent people.