Congressperson says US president and Marco Rubio are tearing apart transatlantic alliance
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe and of seeking to introduce an “age of authoritarianism”, as she condemned his administration’s foreign policy in front of its allies’ top policymakers at the Munich Security Conference.
Speaking at a panel on populism on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez outlined what she called an “alternative vision” for a leftwing US foreign policy, challenging the Trump administration’s shift to the right in front an audience of US allies who have grown increasingly wary of the US’s increasingly nationalist – and militaristic – global posture.
In her remarks, Ocasio-Cortez said Trump and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, were “looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarianism”, as they sought to “carve out a world where Donald Trump can command the western hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber rattle around Europe and try to bully our own allies there”.
She mispronounced Israel
“Accuses”? WTF! He’s completing the last 1/2 mile of the marathon and picking up speed.
The first “joke” I heard after the pedo took power was at work from my manager, “He saved us from having a woman president TWICE!” Then he smiled and laughed. Gross behavior in the workplace
While Kamala and Hillary both were shitty candidates for a variety of reason, there’s also so much ingrained misogyny. I think AOC could be a great candidate but even if our elections would be fair in 2 years, which they won’t, there’s still a significant portion of male Americans who just won’t vote for a woman president.
I am glad she is showing people, at least in Europe, that not all of our policymakers are working with this administration and do not wish for the Auth. American future we are sprinting towards. Fuck, this ended up being a /rant.
I do not think the USA is uniquely misogynist. It’s not like the USA is more misogynist than Mexico and they elected a woman as president. South Korea is at the forefront of misogyny; Andrew Tate is considered tame there, and they had a woman president.
I bet if your manager was presented with a woman president was promised universal healthcare would vote for her. The sentiment would likely be, “Yeah, I don’t like her attitude, but I’ll take the healthcare” or something along those lines.
Good policies will win over bigotry every single time. The USA, beacon of chattel slavery, elected a black man twice because he promised a better future.
I agree with that, I also don’t think the USA is unique in its misogyny. It definitely exists elsewhere in the world. It’s gross, to be very tame and systematically depraved to be more honest with how I feel. Honestly that one “joke” has permanently inspired me that we need more women leaders.
Also, he is from Canada and openly supports the Right and most things about the US right now. I think he is from Alberta, based on previous stories told but I havent asked him directly. So in his particular case, seems like a coin flip for good policy to move him.
I think youre right that good policies can convince people, but right now with how angry and generally polar everyone in the USA is at the working class level, nobody is listening to policy.
accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe
This is not merely an accusation, it’s a statement of fact.
She’s not wrong.
She rarely is
Sounds pretty Presidential to me
She’s running in 2028 for sure.
As much as I, a european, would absolutely love for USA to elect her, I don’t think there’s any way she wins.
Too many racist and mysogonist cunts around who can’t fathom a world where it isn’t some ancient white dude in power. Sure Obama won, and look at the regression the right wing (and also the dems for that matter) has seen because so many people had a fucking aneurysm over a black dude in a tan suit eating mustard.
Sadly, most men, despite their politics, will never vote for a woman.
Edit: Downvote reality all you want, the (almost) endless stream of white males elected president doesn’t care about your feelings.
They do in every other country. Heard the same about Mexico for years.
We just elected our firstwoman as governor in VA and she won by a larger margin than any other Democrat since the 70s
Sick of the whining that America won’t elect a woman when Clinton won the popular vote and Kamala replaced a guy with a 37% approval rating, yet ran on his platform anyway… and that was in the middle of massive inflation. Your sample size is 2.
Clinton would’ve been president if it weren’t for that dumbass James Comey
We just elected our first woman as governor in VA
Ah yes, the CIA Democrat that had no primary opponent.
It’s actually more than 2 on a historical scale. I’m not saying a woman cannot or should not be president, I’m saying that the odds aren’t in favor.
If you needed a lawyer for some reason, would you refuse to hire a woman because you thought your jury might have misogynists on it?
Apples and oranges.
I’d be willing to bet the problem has more to do with the shit sandwich of corporate-whore-elite neoliberal-lite than it has to do with sexism.
People all over the developed world are hungry for real change and leadership; most are just too ignorant and propagandized by an oligarch-controlled media to know what would improve their lives. All they know is that they don’t like the path the world is taking. The vast majority of people born in the last 50 years do not want more of the last 50 years.
I think the issue is that running this piss poor canidates doesn’t encourage the voter base to vote and there will always be a percentage of the population that will not vote for a woman.
When elections are decided by a couple of percentage points and you run a bad canidate then the sexists get to decide the outcome.
The elections would not be decided by a couple of percentage points if the Dems just ran with popular policies. Bernie Sanders has clearly shown time and time again that even people as far right as Fox News fans would support him because of his progressive policies. Zohran Mamdani won despite active hostility from Dem Leadership and his opponent getting billions of dollars of support because of his progressive polices.
What this tells me is that if the Dem party threw their weight behind progressive candidates, they would do FDR numbers. In fact, it seems obvious that FDR doing progressive politics is the reason FDR did FDR numbers.
The elections would not be decided by a couple of percentage points if the Dems just ran with popular policies.
Is this not the logical conclusion my comment?
I swear some people read comments only to try and manufacture an argument
Kamala and Hillary were bad candidates and not progressive. I still voted for them, but I’m sure a lot of people were turned off by their politics and/or gender.
Trying?
Oh honey please. Bless your heart.
Part of the civilizational life cycle. Unfortunately, we live in a world in decline and there are many signs. Trump has been one of them. However, he is among other puppets and chess pieces.
