Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Enjoying The Victory

 Uh-huh.

Wearing a pressed button-down white shirt and slacks, a Haitian boy showed up at a routine immigration appointment in downtown San Diego. Moments later, the neatly dressed 8-year-old was being led away by three immigration officers.
Explain that, asshole. Like 8 year old boys going to court for their immigration hearing? AOC puts it in a rather large nutshell:
Reporter: Tomorrow’s Veterans Day. What are your thoughts on the Taking Care of America’s Veterans Act, which is going to take benefits away from veterans? They’re wanting to put that on the floor for a vote on Veterans Day. What are your thoughts about doing that?

AOC: You know, one thing that we see from this Republican majority and this administration, and I’ve said this over and over again, is they say one thing and they do another.

And they will say that this is good for veterans while gutting the entire infrastructure for veterans’ care.

And they do this over and over again.

They want to privatize the VA. They want it all to go out to contractors. They attack our public infrastructure on veterans’ care as the rationale for further defunding it, instead of actually giving it the appropriate resources, investment, and attention that we actually need.

And so it is insulting.

And what I am glad and happy about is that people are finally catching on to their grift.

Because it is very challenging when they put forward legislation and they say, “This is good for veterans,” and then you’re kind of expecting people to play lawyer and dig through all the lines themselves.

So I’m very grateful that people are at this moment where they’re actually seeing what these Republicans are doing, because their goal—I think that a lot of what they do is sabotaging the VA as opposed to supporting it and making the investments necessary.
"They say one thing, and do another.” A euphemistic way of saying, they are liars, not to be relied on, certainly not to be trusted. Alternatively: how many people on traditional Medicare want to give it up and return to private insurance? And private insurance premiums. Because my Medicare premiums are not $1200 per month.
El-Sayed: What you call it is secondary. What it does in your life is the whole point. None of us ran to name things except for Donald Trump. Most of us ran to actually solve problems in people's lives

Collins: You need Trump’s signature, but to get it passed, you need Democrats to lead on that. Do you think that your party can lead on that?

El-Sayed: I bet if the president came out and said, you know, “I’m gonna sign this if you call it Trumpcare for All,” I think—we might be able to do it.

I’ve been working on this question for my entire career.

But I do think that this is a moment right now where the public really is demanding some real answers to their problems. We saw that in an electoral outcome. And what better way to answer the mandate that the American public gave Democrats than to say, “Hey, look, we can finally, once and for all, solve the challenge of American health care in this country. We can undo medical debt. We can address the challenges that people have so often when it comes to just simply getting sick and being able to see a doctor.”
Carpe that old diem.
El-Sayed: You know, the question of whether or not cabinet members are doing their job well is a secondary question to how do we address the crisis in folks's life.

People are really struggling to be able to afford a tank of gas. They're really struggling at the grocery store. They're struggling to see a doctor.

A lot of that goes back to policies that have been perpetrated by folks like Pete Hegseth or RFK Jr.. But if everything we're doing does not actually address the problem in people's life, I think we're missing the mandate.

So it's really important for us as we investigate, to make sure that every investigation that we pursue actually ties back to the goal of making somebody's life a little bit easier.
And be glad we elected people like this.👆 And this👇:
COATES: One Fox News host called you a bigger threat to the GOP in 2028 than AOC

COLOM: I'm not trying to be a threat to anybody. I'm trying to focus on delivering for Mississippi. I'm not trying to get into national punditry, where we try to figure out, you know, who's this or who's that… I think we got too much celebrity in our politics. We got to get back to leadership that's rooted in serving people.
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