I have watched my sister & bff die from cancer. It’s brutal. You can’t look to the future which makes you want to isolate. It’s mentally so sad. It’s painful.
God almighty some of these comments sound like they’re coming from MAGA. Pelosi pushed for him to allow him to retire with grace. He’s stepping down as Ranking Member; that’s not enough?
No!!!!! Nobody should take a leadership job when they have cancer. It’s so hard. The drugs, the pain, the fear. It’s not a great frame of mind. Pelosi didn’t want AOC in that position
You would think AOC would be the Democrat party nominee top pick. Chuck Schumer sadly announced John Fetterman and Adam Channing Gray for possible nomination for the chair.
A friend of mine that started to hate him once he came to power but still works for him, told me 3 hours ago that Chuck Schumer both emailed and called Fettermen. He has not responded yet because he has been in and out of both the office and hospital like usual.
Let's see if they give it to her. Pelosi is the reason she was blocked & he was given the seat. These ancient relics need to get out & let the youth take over! They're not any different than they've always been, 99% of the democrats in office are Republicans in democrat clothing posing as liberals!
Pelosi didn’t do anything. Jesus stop making excuses for her. You sound like Bernie and the “rigged” bs. Her colleagues LEFT and center said “hard pass” and the vote wasn’t even close.
Umm, maybe you should read what happened, and what Pelosi did, and then I'll post the facts about Hillary rigging the primary, because you sound like you don't pay attention to anything that's happening, you just believe whatever you imagined happened!! Holy Fuck!!
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actively working against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is peak old guard keeping the Democratic Party down.
Connolly, on the other hand, received the support of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who reportedly made calls on his behalf to party members.
This isn't some conspiracy or allegations of anything clandestine. This was very open and in the public that Pelosi endorsed and whipped votes for Connolly.
The horrible news was when he was given the position to begin with. Cancer doesn’t play. Has no rules and has no sense of humor. Irony it gets, so here we are, AOC HAS BIGGER FISH TO FLUSH. You had your chance. Deuces suckers!
This is the same jerk who got voted instead of AOC. He was already sick and senile and didn’t have the decency to back off and be a statesman and guide for AOC.
Please stop the cult like fawning. AOC is not even a member of the House Oversight Committee. There are many fantastic Dems on the Oversight Committee. One of them should be elevated to Democratic ranking member. http://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/members.
#HouseOversightCommittee
Sorry for Connelly. F*ck Cancer! Praying for his speedy healing.
AOC should be considered for it now. She's smart & she's a fighter. She doesn't accept big money & is against insider training. Love to see Crockett throw her hat in, as well. Smart & Sassy fighter. We need more like them!
Sorry, you should have stopped after „horrible news”.
Yes it is an opportunity, but everything has its time and its place. And this is not it.
I do like her to on oversight, but can we please not see gain in the suffering of a decent person, who is doing the right thing for himself and the country?
I certainly wish him well, I just wish he had thought about this before the vote for the oversight committee. He could have supported and advised AOC. 🤷🏼♀️
@pelosi.house.gov has never forgiven @aoc.bsky.social for not keeping her mouth shut when she first got elected and will likely happily see the country suffer rather than give AOC a spot on an important committee.
Hopefully @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will stop with that type of gameplay.
Had he stepped aside for AOC when he had that opportunity, I wonder how she might have made a difference. Given his prognosis, retirement now is in order.
More like fuck neoliberals resistance to changing for the better. The only reason he’s stepping down is the cancer and not that he’s in his 70s and completely out of touch.
Great, but apparently Connolly wants to hand the ranking membership over to some septuagenarian drunk. Connolly should, for health reasons, resign his seat immediately in order to focus on his health and time with family.
Yes, this is not great news for Rep. Connoly and we wish him comfort. I haven't even scrolled down this thread yet, but I'm going to make you a bet: at the first mentions of #!OC taking another shot at that leadership, the Establishment Dems will circle the wagons and come down like a ton of bricks.
Stop teasing the people. You must realize the Democrats nor the Republicans, especially the Republicans, will never allow @aoc.bsky.social to take her rightful place in our government..😉
Can anyone help me understand why Nancy insisted on his having that role? Does it offer us advantages, is he pulling favors from gop for long standing agreements? It cost capital & momentum
Jasmine Crockett is the vice ranking member. Why elevate AOC when another young, competent woman is next in line ... oh, wait, I remember something like this happening a few months ago ...
See Pelosi was wrong to push for him. She holds the party back her and Shumer need to stop being jealous and afraid of the younger people and move aside just like they harassed Biden into doing.
Why AOC when she was absolutely trounced in the vote the first time? It wasn’t even close. Her colleagues don’t see her as a coalition builder. Also Jasmine Crockett is the vice ranking member currently. AOC is just like Bernie, a lot of attention seeking bluster with no actual political skill…
Sadly, institution uber alles tends to rule with, well, institutions like Congress. With institution lovers like Biden that was great. However with institution haters like Trump, that can't work. When Trump thinks outside the presidential box, so must the rest of us who'd Make America Sane Again.
I do agree, but as even as AOC has indicated, it's their own internal bureaucracy that has caused the issues that they have in adapting the party quickly to current conditions. Hopefully, as the younger leaders get into power they can change that for future generations.
I'm very sorry.
I still am baffled that a person who has given so much to public life couldn't see it was time to pass the torch. Then!
It's very sad that it takes a cancer recurrence after all his life commitment.
Please-AOC!
Fortunately for us she found her calling leading the resistance! Hopefully she is not swayed from that. As for Connolly I hope he gets the very best care.
She won't get it. She doesn't take mega donor money, so she's a troublemaker in their eyes because she's free to speak her mind at all times. This annoys them.
Dude I had to google that. I couldn't believe she was still in congress. FFS. Nancy doesn't make this choice tho - no? Hakeem Jeffries is the leader. Or does she? cos that's just weird.
Chair positions are picked based on SENIORITY! They don’t check who’s hot on social media…they pick folks with experience! Go to MAGA if you want to be led by shiny new toys that can give hot takes on cable tv news🙄
The moderate Dems are more afraid of AOC than the GOP is. Pelosi and Jeffries will pull strings behind the scenes. Bernie, and AOC need to start a progressive party!!!!
If Nancy Pelosi is on HER deathbed and #AOC runs again for the leadership, she will once again do what she did when she was in the hospital in Europe: get on the horn and break the kneecaps of her former House minions when she was Speaker with her last dying breath.
Not exactly. AOC is no longer on that committee. They were successful in keeping her out. It might go to Jasmine Crockett who is on that committee. Though they may fight her as well. The question is what took him so long?
And all the ranting and raving from her fanatical devotees won't change the fact that she's shit at her actual job of making laws (0 laws passed in six years) and DIDN'T EARN THE POSITION you think she's entitled to.
She can’t even get a bill enacted. Here 👇 is a thread of some Dems that started in Congress the same time as her in 2019 and the number of bills they have gotten enacted. I didn’t post all 63 new Dems from then, but all the ones I looked at all had enacted bills. https://bsky.app/profile/maudi63.bsky.social/post/3lntwtu5ook2y
And she voted with the GOP against the infrastructure bill. But I'm sure like GOPers, she brags about the money and projects it brought to her district.
131 or 64% of her colleagues voted for Connolly. She didn't even carry her own progressive caucus, and one of them publicly endorsed Connolly over AOC. You can blame Pelosi all you want, but if AOC's colleagues trusted and had confidence in her, that vote would have gone very differently.
The House of Representatives isn’t a fiefdom for your favorite. That position has to be won. When she can win leadership, engender her colleagues belief and trust in her leadership, then she’ll win. Right now they see her for what she is
I’m sorry, to my mind those are the same thing. You build a coalition to legislate, to gather votes for your proposed legislation, which is what Reps are there to accomplish. It’s all the same thing. It’s why a solo artist in Congress doesn’t usually have much to show for their time there.
Nah, she does not have it in her.
So many overlook the bigotries that she and the squad walk with.
She is a never for me.
Great at a rally, kinda like those monster truck folk, shit at politics and platform. Your start needs to look more like this.
Do I think she’s there now or in the foreseeable future? Absofuckinglutely not.
Do I think she has some potential? Yes. I do. She could use her smattering of positives, own up to her mistakes, build a coalition & actually become a force for good.
She does not even hear her racism or antisemitism, has never owned up to the shitty voting record during Biden/Harris.
The opposite of being good at politics and leadership.
She came in acting like she was the Speaker on day one and despite a few moments of pragmatism for convenience, hasn’t changed. Been a no thanks for me from the beginning.
Hakeem Jeffries is Minority Leader, Minority Whip is Katherine Clark, Pete Aquila is the Caucus Chair…they are the House Leadership…Nancy Pelosi is a House member for her district…please try to keep up…she’s been out for a year…smdh
I am terribly sorry for him having to deal with the cancer returning. But that man should have been out of politics years ago and he should never have gotten the position he is currently in. We The People deserve far better representation.
I am sorry that he is having health issues but what were the Democrats thinking, it is quite obvious to all of us that they need new blood, young blood. Give AOC this job!
He is an admirable person, he knows what he is doing, he is considering himself and his family and his health first, but he is also considering all the groundwork that he’s already done and building bridges for the next people to cross!
If @schumer.senate.gov fucks her over again it will be time for pitchforks at the DNC. Stop protecting billionaires and work for the American people, Chuck!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/31/1662843/-DNC-lawyers-say-it-can-pick-candidates-in-smoke-filled-back-room
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/12/19/aoc-defeated-house-oversight-committee-vote-democrats/77066728007/
Connolly, on the other hand, received the support of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who reportedly made calls on his behalf to party members.
#HouseOversightCommittee
AOC should be considered for it now. She's smart & she's a fighter. She doesn't accept big money & is against insider training. Love to see Crockett throw her hat in, as well. Smart & Sassy fighter. We need more like them!
Yes it is an opportunity, but everything has its time and its place. And this is not it.
I do like her to on oversight, but can we please not see gain in the suffering of a decent person, who is doing the right thing for himself and the country?
Go, girl!
She?
.. sorry about the cancer thing though.
Hopefully @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will stop with that type of gameplay.
Telling it like it is, standing up for the people…not just the billionaires.
Wish she were my representative, maybe someday I will be able to vote for her…😉💙
Love Pelosi but she’s not kidding anyone with that move
Russia is sending killers
Wish him health and recovery
But with all due respect, he never should have been put into a leadership position by Nancy
For the love of GOD, can we get some youth and energy in these positions?
Thanks for your work.
Best wishes to Gerry Connelly
I was being facetious.
All he did was waste a chance for other up-and-coming leaders.
🇮🇪🇪🇺
Look up. ^^^
You're describing Trump, who fucking blew the pants off Democrats in every "swing" state in 24 after 32 felonies, two impeachments
Because Harris was promising only crumbs 4 middle class.
#wakeup
Only this time, AOC's got a mass grassroots movement behind her. They can break House Dems' balls as hard or harder than Nancy can.
I still am baffled that a person who has given so much to public life couldn't see it was time to pass the torch. Then!
It's very sad that it takes a cancer recurrence after all his life commitment.
Please-AOC!
the first time either.
Maybe you're the one who should keep up? 🤣
I know Google can be tough....here you go.
https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-loses-oversight-gerry-connolly-2002263
AOC clearly knows how to rally the crowd. We need hope and inspiration
unless you were there to hear and see Pelosi do this, I suggest you stfu
And all the ranting and raving from her fanatical devotees won't change the fact that she's shit at her actual job of making laws (0 laws passed in six years) and DIDN'T EARN THE POSITION you think she's entitled to.
And you want her to be president?
Yes we do want her and her policies to be President.
America is sick and tired of the filthy Democrat centrists.
And this. Is why you’ll never win anything
The oracle of the internet
Sure
Supporting the continuing allowance of corporate money into politics is why we have Trump now.
But sure more of the same is the solution.
Because black
Also: 1/3rd the people on this list are currently unemployed.
AOC COULD be a good leader if she actually tried to build a coalition instead of being a cowboy and bashing Dems every chance she gets.
And I’m NOT an AOC simp in the slightest. She’s a loudmouthed, ineffective legislator.
So many overlook the bigotries that she and the squad walk with.
She is a never for me.
Great at a rally, kinda like those monster truck folk, shit at politics and platform. Your start needs to look more like this.
Do I think she has some potential? Yes. I do. She could use her smattering of positives, own up to her mistakes, build a coalition & actually become a force for good.
I doubt she will, but anything’s possible. 🤷♂️
She does not even hear her racism or antisemitism, has never owned up to the shitty voting record during Biden/Harris.
The opposite of being good at politics and leadership.
💯 👏🏽
You are confusing SM influencers with politicians.
That's how this stuff works.
Get some accomplishments under her belt and then try to be a chair.
They were handed a trash talking script & they're still repeating it cuz they're too ignorant to form a thought on their own.
AOC is 'owed' nothing
https://bsky.app/profile/lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social/post/3lnvbf3ga522q
"They don't like her."