Hoping to help lead a congressional panel that could be in a position to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable to the American public in the coming years, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday notified her colleagues that she is officially seeking the top Democratic seat on the House ...

Hoping to help lead a congressional panel that could be in a position to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable to the American public in the coming years, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday notified her colleagues that she is officially seeking the top Democratic seat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

  • Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org
    1024·
    20 days ago

    So she’s basically just going to be the one sitting there for 4 years just screaming to Trump and his cronies going “YOU CAN’T DO THAT!”. All the while they’ll just giggle like rich schoolgirls and proceed to carry on their day.

    Lady, you’re going to be against a piece of shit that has the record of two impeachments. And you’re going to think that with a Republican majority within the committee, that you’ll have sway. And you’ll also think that just wiggling your finger infront of them all to try to make guilt-less people feel guilty will do anything, is a waste of time.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          16·
          20 days ago

          Not denying, fighting against the reality. I dare say you haven’t seen any videos of her in committees asking the pointed questions that are normally glossed over. You can certainly argue about effectiveness, but if no one tries to make a difference, it will absolutely go the direction it’s going.

        • millifoo@lemmings.world
          13·
          20 days ago

          What do you suggest our represenatives do as an alternative? Give up? Say and do nothing for 4 years?

          As painful and exasperating of a job it’s going to be, we still need idealists like AOC to go and do their best, even while in the minority.

        • 4am@lemm.ee
          92·
          20 days ago

          Your right! Give up, try nothing.

          Jill Stein voter, perhaps?

    • veroxii@aussie.zone
      7·
      20 days ago

      You need someone who will at least try to get the truth in the public record. In case there ever is a reckoning one day.

    • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
      92·
      20 days ago

      It does mess up their storytelling time during trumped up investigations that rely on unhinged witnesses and made up evidence. Plus it wastes more of their time so they can’t do awful things quickly, always a good thing. Having to tolerate a non-submissive woman (moreso if she isn’t lily white) speaking and existing in their spaces as an equal annoys misogynists too.