Slotkin addressed sweeping cuts by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and fears over what it could mean for Medicaid
  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    47•4 days ago

    “I get it that it makes people feel good to see people yelling,” Slotkin told the audience. “But not one of those words is stopping the actual things that Donald Trump is doing, and I am about action, not words, and I will stand by that as long as I live.”

    Ok, so let’s have them. What specific actions are you taking against this madness? We’ll wait.

  • partial_accumen
    68•4 days ago

    “I get it that it makes people feel good to see people yelling,” Slotkin told the audience. “But not one of those words is stopping the actual things that Donald Trump is doing, and I am about action, not words, and I will stand by that as long as I live.”

    Please, Senator, tell us about your actions that are stopping Donald Trump from doing what he’s doing. No need to be coy. Its what you “stand by as long as you live”. This should be an easy answer for you.

  • @BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
    75•4 days ago

    Sure, go ahead and demean one of the most popular and beloved politicians in office. That‘ll totally make people listen to you. AOC is the single best communicator the Democrats have on their bench. Other Democrats need to be learning from her and making more space for her style of leadership, not talking shit about her. That’s yet another thing they failed to learn from the 2024 election.

    I think it’s pretty telling that to much of the progressive and leftist base, Slotkin comes across as a Republican from the 1990’s (with all her Reagan-worship crap) and is generally not a particularly popular politician outside of neoliberal DC power circles. While on the other hand, AOC is incredibly popular across the nation, and is widely liked and respected not only because she comes across as a real genuine human being, but because her ideas and political approach appeal to almost everyone, including many Republicans. I heard some interviews with Trump voters where they were asked how they felt about AOC, and a surprising number of them said they agreed with a lot, but not all of her opinions, but they consistently said they respected her because they believed she meant what she said and that she seemed to genuinely care about the right groups of people.

    From the end of the article:

    Ocasio-Cortez “best reflects the core values” of the Democratic Party, a CNN poll of voters recently found.

    • @eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      43•4 days ago

      Ocasio-Cortez “best reflects the core values” of the Democratic Party, a CNN poll of voters recently found.

      – but not the core values of the democratic leadership, as evidenced by pelosi cockblocking aoc from the oversight committee; sanders cockblocked from the nomination in the last 2 presidential elections; and the palestinians blocked from speaking at the convention in the last election; among other examples.

      • @BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
        34•4 days ago

        100%

        That’s why it’s so dangerous for Democratic leadership to keep ignoring and actively pushing against AOC’s popularity. The ideological distance between Democratic leadership and the voters that put them in power is vast. That’s a serious problem that they don’t seem to be reckoning with.

        • @eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          13•4 days ago

          That’s a serious problem that they don’t seem to be reckoning with.

          and nor will they ever have to since they’re the only perceived alternative to the republicans and the surest sign of it is schumer getting re-lected next time around despite his support for the latest cr.

        • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3•3 days ago

          I do suspect it’s getting to the point where AOC and Sanders will either do their level best to somehow conduct a coup in DNC leadership… or, just say “fuck it” and actually make a real new party that actually does what Democrats have been saying they would do in campaign promises for decades. And, you know, give no quarter to fascists.

    • @VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
      4•3 days ago

      Liberals will always walk lockstep with fascists to prevent progressives from ever having a voice. Happened in Germany, happened in Turkey, most recently happened in France.

      Neo-liberals are the evil they claim to fight. Just with rainbow pins.

  • @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
    67•4 days ago

    Constituent Kristin Fellows, 62, asked the Democrats how they are pushing back against Musk and President Donald Trump.

    “We know that you are against these current awful happenings going on in the world, but it is simply not enough for you to repeatedly tell us that you are,” Fellows said, according to the Associated Press, and the question was met with a round of applause from the audience.

    “My job is to be more than just an activist. It is to answer the call when there’s an immigration raid and we need to figure out where our people are,” Slotkin said. “All of those things require me to be more than just an AOC.”

    Slotkin ought to know where “our people” are since she voted for legislation requiring any immigrant who’s baselessly charged with petty nonsense like shoplifting to be detained (archived).

    • @Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      22•4 days ago

      How incredibly inhumane. Immigrants built this country. If anyone here isn’t the descendant of an immigrant; they are an either an descendant of a native American to survived the genocide, or of a chattel slave who survived the anti-black violence that’s been prevalent in this country for over a hundred years.

      If the ideal version of America is supposed to be freedom and democracy where anyone looking to make a better life for themselves is welcome, then anti-immigrant sentiment is anti-american.

    • @futatorius@lemm.ee
      3•3 days ago

      but it is simply not enough for you to repeatedly tell us that you are

      How patronizing, coming from a do-nothing time-serving coward.

  • @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
    32•4 days ago

    “The senator noted that she also serves Trump voters of Michigan”

    There it is. As somebody who has an ®President, ®governor, ®Senator, ®Congressperson I can tell you that not a single one feels the need to represent my point of view or interests. This statement by Slotkin strikes me as nothing more than idealism that serves to only inhibit the party’s ability to pass meaningful legislation.