I think the courts would throw out a “fake” case; although they have accepted them against bakers and florists where LGBTX activists deliberately provoked a quasi-illegal response, somehow that only seems to work for Democrats.

However, the situation positively screams for James O’Keefe to work his magic and get some of the tricksters to boast on camera of their exploits.
Somehow, visual evidence is more convincing to the public than just reading a plaintiff’s brief.
I can’t imagine why!

“A lot will of course depend on how the media behaves or “reforms”.”

CNN and LA Times seem to be moving back to at least part-time reporting rather than full-time advocacy, although I doubt any of their employees have actually changed their convictions.
Personally, I would rather observe the reporters’ bias up-front, rather than having it slipped into an ostensibly “neutral” story. On the other hand, practicing responsible journalism might actually lead to some changes in outlook for some of them.

https://notthebee.com/article/la-times-editorial-board-brings-on-cnns-conservative-voice-scott-jennings

If the original No Labels group does not manage to surface enough dirty tricks to thwart the D party, perhaps someone on our side will need to create a faux 3rd party effort to help draw out those tricksters and hopefully slap them down (or into jail) with court cases and publicity. A lot will of course depend on how the media behaves or “reforms”.

However, that segues into another important part of the Vox post, which has interesting resonance this month.

At the end of the, the author offers an explanation of AOC’s win in 2018, which omits any kind of back-stage hanky-panky by opposing power-brokers, and might even be correct:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york

Ocasio-Cortez’s victory is a story of the complacent establishment taking voters for granted. It’s the story of how the Democratic Party is getting pulled to the left. It’s also about how it’s not just progressive policies that are reshaping the party, but also people of color.

I agree the complacent Democrat establishment took their voters for granted in 2018, as they have for decades; they kept doing that all the way to 2024.
And progressives, whether of color or not, have certainly reshaped the party, beginning with Obama.

However, if their voters got pulled to the Left in 2018 (and arguably 2020 & 2022), they were catapulted to the Right in 2024 — because the Democrats doubled down on ignoring their base voters in favor of their niche activists, instead of mending the fences that AOC and others stampeded through.

As we have mentioned many times here since November 5, they don’t seem to be interested in mending any fences now either.
Which is fine.

Gonna be hard for any Democrat to drop that agenda unless the entire Party links arms and puts the trans-activists outside the power loop.

https://notthebee.com/takes/welp-lib-journalist-aaron-rupar-helped-build-the-trans-monster-that-just-came-to-eat-him

“She is a lot smarter than the GOP makes her out to be. Heck, she beat some 10 term DEM in 2018/19 with grassroots and $83,000!?! She is a strong debater.”

I think she is smarter than Kamala; she is certainly more articulate.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-face-the-nation-full-transcript-09-24-2023/

However, I doubt that she won her first election on her own merits. I didn’t follow that event closely enough at the time, but I suspect there is an analogue to Obama’s mentors/handlers behind her career.

One fact check from 2018:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york
“She eventually fundraised about $600,000 through small-dollar donors.”

And note that she had some well-connected people in her corner, who might possibly have had either personal or ideological reasons to oust Crowley.

Rep. Joe Crowley, one of the top Democrats in the House of Representatives, lost his New York primary in a shocking upset on Tuesday night to community organizer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Crowley, having fundraised nearly $3 million for the race in New York’s 14th District, fell easily to a first-time candidate with a viral introduction video, a Democratic Socialists of America membership card, and a proudly leftist agenda. She ran on Medicare-for-all, a federal jobs guarantee, and getting tough on Wall Street.
…
Crowley, who has been in Congress since 1999, is the No. 4 Democrat in the House and was widely viewed as an eventual successor to minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Though he was a stalwart progressive on nearly every issue, he also had close ties to Wall Street. This made him a formidable fundraiser, something Ocasio-Cortez turned against Crowley in the primary.
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At 28, Ocasio-Cortez couldn’t be a bigger contrast from 56-year-old Crowley. She was born in the Bronx to working-class parents. Her mother is Puerto Rican. Her father is from the South Bronx. She’s a former staffer for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.

She’s certainly portrayed herself as a woman of the people, playing up her working-class roots in a viral introduction video, which shows Ocasio-Cortez riding the subway and doing community organizing work. It was created by Means of Production, a media production company run by DSA activists Naomi Burton and Nick Hayes.
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What was most exciting for progressives is the degree to which Ocasio-Cortez ran to Crowley’s left. As a member of the DSA, her website is a laundry list of every blue-sky progressive policy: Medicare-for-all, housing and jobs guarantees, gun control, ending private prisons, abolishing ICE, and investment in post-hurricane Puerto Rico.

She had some help from a major Crowley misstep — he sent a surrogate to a primary debate, which led to a scathing editorial from the New York Times. “This is the second primary debate in which Mr. Crowley was a no-show. A spokeswoman for Mr. Crowley said he had scheduling conflicts that wouldn’t allow him to attend the two debates, inevitably leaving voters to wonder — what are we, chopped liver?” the editorial read.

They did eventually meet in debate; I have listened and she comes across well.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2018/06/16/democratic-primary-debate–crowley-vs–ocasio-cortez–part-1

Since then, she has only had one debate, unless you count shouting matches with Marjorie Taylor-Green.
She only has one debate with another candidate that I could find, and it wasn’t in 2024.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/awol-aoc-refusing-to-debate-underdog-rival-thinks-she-s-above-democratic-process/ar-BB1mO6st
“The congresswoman did debate her then-primary opponent, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, in a feisty showdown on BronxNet before the 2020 primary.
She did not have a Democratic primary in 2022.”

I welcome more evidence either way.

Being ready to counter her as a candidate will take some preparation. She espouses dangerous ideological policies, she is popular, and she presents herself well enough to reassure anxious Democrats who don’t look very hard into her agenda.

The Vox post, and others from 2018, made it clear that she is a card-carrying Democrat Socialist, ran far to the left of Crowley, and AFAICT hasn’t changed much since then if at all.
She is dangerous.

https://notthebee.com/article/aoc-says-to-prepare-to-live-under-fascism

Like former Trump Treasury official Monica Crowley said: ‘However, just a word of warning to the Republicans, to my party: Do not underestimate AOC. She’s young, she’s vibrant, she’s attractive.‘

I could never stand her…then I admired her fight & courage even tho I couldn’t stand her. Then I started researching her after Kamala Harris became the DEM’s candidate, and clearly Michelle Obama didn’t want anything to do with the presidency…didn’t think much of her still, but she had stood in defense of American Jews (losing important support) – she had caught my attention, and not because of her looks.

Then The Hill article that neo linked to, which I had already seen, and that one article rapidly spread to many other articles about AOC may run in 2028. News that went around the world amazingly quick!?

Just posted – THIS after finalizing my research.

Well, I actually like her now. Just turned 35 – making her eligible for a shot at being president.

She is a lot smarter than the GOP makes her out to be. Heck, she beat some 10 term DEM in 2018/19 with grassroots and $83,000!?! She is a strong debater.

If she moves a little closer to center, drops the Child Butcher & Trans crap…

She is gonna be waiting for Trump & Vance to make a slip…

Kamala will likely run (as it looks from 2024), but I recall in 2019 she got nowhere, fast. When in a crowd of choices she does poorly, and if AOC is in the mix she gets the female voters. I believe that Kamala is history, politically speaking.

I don’t like saying this, but AOC could run and win, primary and general. As Art Deco points out, any Dem has a 45% base in the general. That’s where she starts. And she’s photogenic, power-hungry, and she has the fire (as in hate) in the belly that the modern left loves.

So, does she go for it? I think the tell will be if she gets some braces between now and 2026.

I thought him being born here, I found the whole birth certificate kerfluffle foolish and beside the point, (hillary couldn’t challenge him on the merits of his policies,)

I think any candidate from their whole perspective slate, whitmer pritzker and co would be laboring under an enormous weight, but in four years time perhaps not, with obama the fortuitous collapse of lehman brothers, cleared the path for him, that an mccains lackluster performance, a dozen years later another
deus ex machina, enabled the theft of the nation,