Comments on: AOC as a presidential candidate

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:01:01 +0000

Burst on the scene. I see what you did there.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:55:17 +0000

The employment history and family life of both Mamdani and Wilson indicate arrested development. About Walz, a passable wager is that his issue is alcoholism. Newsom isn’t an arrested development case. He owned and operated real business, has been married for 20-odd years, and has several children. His issue is general intellectual deficits and a complete absence of a public spirit. Which does not set him apart from other Democratic pols.

By: M J R

M J R — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:11:45 +0000

FOAF (3:41 am) said: “I will acknowledge that she [AOC] is more attratctive than Rosa DeLauro and Rashida Tlaib.”

Welllll, FOAF, it’s a step in the right direction. A teeny weeny baby step.

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Art Deco (1:12 pm) said: “AOC is an arrested development case. That does not prevent you from being elected to high office in blue jurisdictions. See, for example, the current mayors of New York and Seattle.”

Mamdani (NYC) is utter slime, but I’m not sure his is a case of arrested development (but he sure as h#ll is a case of *something* malevolent). I’m not sufficiently acquainted with the Seattle mayor, but I will nominate, as alternate cases of arrested development, governors Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz (CA and MN).

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:38:53 +0000

AOC is no different from Biden; she would be President in name but she would not be in charge.
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AOC is not demented and she’s a head full of ideas (not informed by education or experience). She and Riley aren’t going to be lead around by White House staffers dressed as cartoon animals. (She may meet with a mess of noncompliance lower down. So did Trump and so did Obama when he wanted a plan to break up Citigroup drafted).

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:32:48 +0000

You have to ask what Democratic voters value. It is not what you value. Again, consider the 2020 nomination contest. You had four candidates who had founded and run prosperous businesses, you had two candidates who had experience as both business executives and public executives, and you had a state governor with a history of appealing to red state electorates. Their voters took a glance at Michael Bloomberg. The leading candidates for the nomination were Amy Klobberherworkers, Pete Buttbuddy, Princess Spreading Bull, an antique Trotskyist (who, unlike DJT, actually did dodge the draft), and Joe Biden. And they proceed to nominate the worst of the bunch – a thoroughly corrupt and mendacious hack who had no executive experience, had not had any private sector employment in nearly 50 years, and was disappearing into dementia. Now repair to 2016. All five announced candidates had been public executives at one time or another and three of them didn’t have any of the issues the two competitive candidates had; they were ignored. In 2008, only one candidate running had ever held an executive position (Bill Richardson); he was ignored. In 2004, you had two competitors (Gov Dean, Gen. Clark) with executive experience both of whom had prospered (to a degree) in trades outside politics; they trailed the likes of John Kerry and John Edwards. In 2000, their candidates were quite similar; they nominated the one who was implicated in the Lincoln Bedroom shenanigans. In 1992, they had in Bob Kerrey a candidate head and shoulders above almost anyone to seek the Democratic nomination in the last 60 years and they had in Jerry Brown an experienced executive who could think outside the box; the winner was Bilge Clinton.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:12:38 +0000

AOC is an arrested development case. That does not prevent you from being elected to high office in blue jurisdictions. See, for example, the current mayors of New York and Seattle.
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By: Nate Winchester

Nate Winchester — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:45:46 +0000

My neighbors really want our governor Bashir to be the nominee.

I think Neo does underestimate how good the information flow control can be nowadays. Several normies will probably vote for AOC because they’ll never know how crazy she is.

By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)

Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:59:45 +0000

Whatever physical attraction Mx. Ocasio-Cortez may possess, it goes out the window the instant she begins to speak. Her nasaly, girlish vocalizations are enough to deflate any real man’s tumescence. Or, should be at least.

By: BenDavid

BenDavid — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:26:34 +0000

1. Attractiveness kinda cancels out – the young men she might pull have made a hard shift to the right based on economics and first-hand experience of caustic identity politics she promotes.

2. It’s a new world, with new rules. Trump has changed the information environment, the definition of success is now jobs and growth, and to a certain extent the Overton window for socialist handouts has shifted. The identity politics used to shut down critics has been discredited. The cultural conversation is now about equality and opportunity. It’s hard to be a Debbie Downer amid patriotism and prosperity.

Even without the SAVE act there has been significant public exposure of corruption and action by the Executive to close the major taps funding the machine. Trump has made it clear that he is playing to win and has primaried Republican squishes. Monitoring, scrutiny, and messaging about the election fraud has already begun and will only increase.

3. The slow-building Preference Cascade is trending in MAGA’s direction.

Doubts about the Left’s racial narratives, evidence of its failures, and revulsion at its more extreme expressions (such as the transing and sexualization of children) – all these have been building since Obama, through Trump1 and Biden.

The Left has confirmed normie doubts by dropping its liberal mask and going all-out nihilist – both in social issues and willingness to win “by any means” – a slogan that appalls all but True Believers or political critters.

Trump’s re-election was like Yeltsin’s Glasnost – it showed many people that they were not the only ones thinking these things.

The years of Trump2 have continued to expose the Left – and given more and more voters *permission* to agree with MAGA.

Many fence-sitters have now seen Trump in action, and can mentally compare this administration to Biden, Newsom, Walz, Abrams… The local, state-level revelations of corruption are less easy for low-info voters to ignore – and the issue of election fraud is IMO more vexing to fair-minded normies.

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The hard-core Marxist dems are increasingly isolated within their own echo chambers while more and more of the silent majority make a mental shift to MAGA – a shift that will only be measurable after the election, but is most definitely gaining momentum.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:41:32 +0000

M J R: “But I do find her to be very physically attractive. Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks, eh?”

I will acknowledge that she is more attratctive than Rosa DeLauro and Rashida Tlaib.