US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isn’t fazed by Congress’ failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.

“There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday.

“There are going to be many, many, many investigations,” she added. “I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.”

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    You think donald trump is a tankie?

    Let’s see, hmm, is President Krasnov – who has business in Russia, who helps Putin at every turn, having secret meetings with him and overturning established sanctions on Russia and low-key betraying Ukraine as much as possible while trying to appear as though he is not, who even has a fucking Russian operative code name – is he, could he possibly be, a tankie?

    My god man. We will never know. It is a mystery of the goddamn universe.

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      16 hours ago

      Oh my god thank you lol, saved my fingies a lot of typing. The only thing I’d change is this part tho:

      low-key betraying Ukraine as much as possible while trying to appear as though he is not

      I don’t think there’s been a single time in either Trump presidency where it felt like he and his regime’s cronies were anything but absolutely highkey, straightforward enemies of Ukraine.

      I mean fucking Vance quite literally brought Zelenskyy into the oval office to get some viral clips of him while his citizens are getting purposefully targeted by fucking missiles. Republicans as a whole have no, zero, argument for being anything but fascist, authoritarian, rapist, racist scumbags.

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        16 hours ago

        Your point is valid and well-taken; the only reason I did not go as far as that is because while Trump has absolutely done as much as he can personally, via the executive, to fuck Ukraine in the ass, he has also hidden behind others – like Musk cutting off the military arm of Starlink – and been restrained from the worst of his excesses by the Republicans that still very much support Ukraine. So I could write it and be technically correct, but I would not readily be able to source it as fact. You know, and I know, but sourcing it would be a prolonged undertaking.

        Also, keep in mind that as an older American, every time I type the name of that great country Ukraine, I am reminded of how Ukraine would not even been in this position had they not traded their nukes for American assurances, among others (including Putin himself on behalf of Russia) that if Ukraine were attacked we would readily defend them.

        Ukraine had gained independence, and to be a good world neighbor they willingly disarmed. Here we are, twenty-two years later, and of all the signatories and supporters of the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 and its terms – Ukraine, Russia, the United States, the UK, France, and China – one of them is the primary aggressor and the rest have all fucked right off or are providing only minimal support. It is deeply, deeply shaming to me as an American citizen that we have not supported Ukraine with all our might.

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      16 hours ago

      Yeah thats russia, a capitalist nation since 1994? Do you read the news? it was quite a big event.

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          Have you been living under a rock for the last 33 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

          In September and October 1993, following the increasingly visible tensions after December 1992, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country’s parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and instituting a presidential rule by decree system. The crisis ended with Yeltsin using military force to attack Moscow’s House of Soviets and arrest the lawmakers.

          In the wake of the events, Yeltsin consolidated his position, further expanded the powers of the executive, and pushed through the adoption of the 1993 constitution of the Russian Federation.

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          Russia is literally just a shitty oligarch ridden country, it is not in any way communist. This is not a conversation, it’s just recorded fact.

          We are not arguing, I’m telling you what reality is, and you are telling me donald trump is a tankie and russia is the soviet union still. This is silly, please see sense.