As a guy who is dating someone who ran for Congress, I can tell you the reason we're not married: It's none of your fucking business! Eat shit! Go fuck yourself!
I would just assume that things like running for congress keep one very busy and leave hardly any time for, say, wedding planning
that might not be your reason, which is indeed none of my business, but like if I had to state a guess it seems way more reasonable than "secret billionaire plotting"
Republicans need to take their noses out of other peoples’ relationships and try figuring out why there’s such a high rate of infidelity and abuse in their own “Christian unions”.
The chuds could argue that AOC (or you) should be married for the tax benefits but they’re too fucking stupid to even attempt to frame the argument as a financial optimization problem
oh yeah absolutely. The right is still obsessed with dowries even if they don’t realize it or talk about it explicitly in those terms. The layers of disingenuous argument are rich: “hiding finances” is a convenient cover for “she’s too woke and her husband should own her like property”
It's also hilarious that they claim anyone would care about his stock trades....how many politicians are already using insider information as their personal tip jar?
The people vocally supporting pedophiles don't get to say anything. Not a damn thing. About ANYTHING.
Support a pedophile? No one ever has to, or will want, to hear anything else you ever say. Period.
I married my GF after 11 years together. When family members and the like used to ask me when I was gonna propose, I always said “well, every time anyone asks me, I push it back by a year”
From Timothy Synder's On Tyranny:
(Yes, I also believe that a great deal of what happens on BlueSky, etc., even in my own social media spaces, is a kind of tabloid hyper-reality that sucks in the alienated masses and confuses their priorities.)
Why in this day in age does everyone insist on a single last name for a couple? It’s my name and it doesn’t need to be shared or changed to make a marriage certificate legit.
The real reason I wouldn't do this is because I am formally against alphabetical order-based line skipping. I legit knew a couple of kids in high school who had late-in-the-alphabet last names and became hyphenates because they read a study somewhere.
I like the Spanish surname system. Marrieds don't change names. Kids get two last names, one from each parent. Then they pass one of their last names (usually father's, not required) on to their kids. In casual usage, use whichever last name is more distinguishable or famous.
In this case, Onion.
also, getting your name changed is a giant pain in the ass. I never begrudged my wife not changing hers (and she didn't want to move later in the alphabet haha)
And there are (democratic) countries in the world where keeping original surname or taking wife’s is everyone fucking business and can hugely break entite family. I applaud Tim for this comment. Been there, done that with my wife and it was wild post-wedding family debrief.
Haha oh shit. Most of my oldest hs friends became such because we were all in the same homerooms- the end of the alphabet kids lol. And my husbands last name is super close to mine so I didn’t bother changing it
But shouldn't you be allowing right wing podcasters to dig through your personal information, including all financial records, so they can report it to their employer, The Kremlin? I thought that was patriotic, at least MAGA patriotic.
He’s worth maybe $1.5m?
So he has equity in a house and a healthy 401k. And a car.
And a savings account for health emergencies.
Shock Horror!
He’s not exactly Rockefeller is he?
That's not even a lot given the ridiculousness of being able to buy a house in the DMV area. That's just being upper middle class in most big US cities.
They use stock trades as the bad?
Now you know they have nada!
Republicans all are prolific traders! Make more $ on trades than 95% of the USA!
All legal?
She wants to make it illegal!
If you want to serve you do not trade.
"As long as they remain legally unmarried,"
No wonder America's proxy in the Middle East is a mediaeval death cult
Because that is where the USA has regressed to
So... they're in favor of her skillful use of tax and finance law, right? In the exact same way they're in favor of Trump's "skillful use of tax and finance law" to hide his own money and profit from government?
Right?
Is Mike Pence still claiming he has no bank accounts? Has Trump released his tax returns, and stopped suing anyone who tries to get access to them?
Let's question who is hiding their finances with a broad review of every government representative.
No she cannot + will not
She is not who we need or want.
She hasn't even passed any legislation in the House yet
She has no experience w the military or foreign countries
We need someone the world will respect. Someone w a lot of government experience to repair what trump destroyed
Someone who can rebuild the existing treasonous military, DOJ, etc.
That's a huge job because a hell a lot of people must be arrested + removed from office
No. AOC is far from the candidate we require right now.
Get serious. We do not need foolish suggestions
Funny how they are now concerned about “stock trades” when there’s a literal President profiting billions off manipulating the market for his stock trades.
Where’s this “stock trading” outrage when it comes to the Orange Pedophile?
As with every time they speak, the accusation is a confession. They presume a president will trade stock nefariously and manipulate markets. Wonder why…
Maybe when marriage stops being a literal scam some of us will be more interested. If she WAS getting married soon it would be a scandal over how much it cost and whatever else.
At the moment it seems like a lot of money to spend for a party to celebrate being someone's legal/financial burden.
This from the guy whose president has sued to keep every financial element of his life secret, and just mistakenly exposed 300+ bank acts shutdown for money laundering
Trump is Married. Does Mr Chud get to see Melania's stock trades? Does Mr Chud get to see Trumps stock trades?
That's a big load of STFU going on right there.
As for AOC doing something dodgy.
Unlike Mr Chud she is intelligent enough to either do or not do so since she is AOC she does not.
She is unrealistic and not qualified to be President although she is energetic and articulate; and cares. Needs law school, jobs other than bartender and organizer to center her life experience. Also voice training to lower the high pitched “little girl” tone. Jus’ sayin’…🕊️🇺🇸
AOC i think would be the first presidential candidate liberals would have as an option since bernie sanders that ppl were actually excited to vote for. Not just another "not republican" vote
I was excited to vote for Biden bc he wasn’t Trump, but a decent, experienced man with solid policy positions.
I was also excited to vote for Kamala Harris.
“Not Trump” aka “not maga” aka “not fascist” is a perfectly valid decision.
I will be very excited to vote for any Dem that is nominated.
She should run for Senate. She would be better there. There is no way in hell she would get to Prez. Same for Newsom of CA. Baby steps. Senate = Prez...down the road.
When they denounce the crook in the white house then maybe I'll consider listening to them. Maybe.
Until then, and likely after, they can go fuck themselves.
(and I say this in a clinical, non-creepy way as much as that’s possible) that they’d never get to date a woman like her.
(Sorry, but that’s part of this)
Don Jr & Kimberly Gargoyle were engaged from 2021 to 2024 when he tired of her and had Daddy ship her off to Greece so he could marry up without Daddy having to attend.
I don't even know who this chud is, but a cursory Google search comes up with several Andrew Kerrs and nary a one is this fucking idiot. Did he simply purchase a blue ✔️?
Spare me. One thing DJT has done is show how unimportant ethics are for Republicans.
Concerned about stock earnings of her partner??? No no no, not until We The People see how much the Trump family made.
After seeing how well she connected with conservative voters in rural Georgia when she went down to talk about what data centers are doing to them I am convinced that the more she speaks to them the better chance she does have of winning. She connected with them well by listening to their concerns.
She doesn’t have a “chance”, she would win period full stop and I think we should save that weapon. Shes a nuclear bomb. We got it. No need to shoot it right away
I go back and forth on this very issue. I think wait until their are more progressives in congress to work with. At the same time you don't want to be voted off the island the an immunity idol in your pocket. Hmmm.
I would like to see her rule over the Senate for awhile, seems more good could come from this than being President and begging Congress to pass your signature laws.
An older person, that has been Governor. I like Pritzker and a couple others.
But we gotta keep the younger politicians around and in play for at least another decade.
She connects because shes an explainer that keeps it simple.
Obama was overrated as a communicator, his flair and meandering method of drawing out every point is great for people who love words, but looking at US literacy rates, thats not a lot of people.
That's what a lot of Democrats still fail to understand. If they go and talk to these people they will listen. They need to listen to them too and not dismiss them as backwards yokels. Yeah some of them are but a lot of them are just people trying to survive and clutching to any hope offered.
Democrats ceded large swaths of the country to Republicans decades ago and since then have allowed Republican propaganda to be showered on them largely unopposed. A mistake they still pay for.
It's like playing "Barbie Dolls", isn't it?
Sit around the bedroom & fabricate little stories about someone else like they're real stories & one story leads to another. Then post them on social media like they're true.
Why hasn't AOC married her boyfriend?
I know the answer.
It's nobody's business
All while they support corruption, rapists, racists, wife and child beaters, sex traffickers, and her choice is NONE of YOUR business. But the Epstein files are.
Lol them caring about someone's finances is the ultimate hypocrisy. I don't think Dems should lower to their standards but the GOP chuds have nothing they can say on that side.
I despise every person who brings up her "lack of experience" as if she hasn't been in office for 10 years and as if presidents don't have an entire administration of professionals to lean.
By 2028 a lot of even those chuds will be so desperate for change they’ll secretly pull the lever for her…bitching all the while, cuz being lil bitches is really their best thing.
(The person in question had been a Major General in the Union Army who served nine terms in the House before becoming President. And he did not intend to run for the office. Instead, he was selected at his party's convention after something like twenty failed votes by the delegates.)
If she's unmarried w/o children, they can declare her not a full-grown adult & without a "stake in the future."
If married w/ children, a bad parent & distracted elected official for a her split focus
If married w/o children, a ticking baby bomb
If unmarried w/ children, a [insert insult here]
One might think the only undefeatable status would be post-menopausal married mother, but then she would either have not earned enough qualifications because she had been busy parenting, or had been so busy earning qualifications that she was a bad mother.
Kamala Harris is married, post-menopausal, and a step mother to very thoroughly parented young adults, so of course the right wing was forced to regard her family life and sexual history with nothing but respect and defence to her privacy.
Im for speaker of the house AOC. Lasting structural change starts in the house. Idk why everyone wants her to immediately be president. Shes in the legislature, and is good at it, thats where her experience shines.
Okay, first up their party's own president won't release HIS finances! Kinda takes that issue off the table.
And second, of course, just a matter of time before they start beating the morality drum. "Living in sin." "Doesn't believe in marriage." "Rejects the American family." Blah, blah, blah...
They always projecting their own crimes... If that's such a concern, how come the GOP refused to vote yes on a bill that stops members of Congress from trading stocks? They need to STFU less they are willing to vote for regulation of stock trading in Congress
I guess to a thief, everyone is a thief. So just because he thinks something is wrong, it’s okay to blurt it out as if that somehow makes it true. 🤷♂️
So many levels beyond beliefs.
Beyond parody.
Beyond grotesque.
A convicted felon and rapist in charge and minions debating why an elected official is not married.
The land of the free.
🍌 Republic
as a faraway foreigner, I first took notice of AOC several years ago, and I wished she could be your president there and then. Since then I've been cheering for her from the cellar they keep me in. Every candle I lite I make the same wish.
Also, them not realizing the hypocrisy of trying to make her look corrupt during the most corrupt administration in history, is only going to work in her favor.
they’re making up lies about AIC secretly trading stocks
while the mango mofo made thousands of stock trades in the past year?!?
magat logic - that tracks
“Chuds started realizing she can win the 2028 election this weekend.”
Ah, yes, experience. The kind of experience that gives you the political savvy that put Trump into office twice by slim margins. Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, paragons of big experience.
ykno it made a little bit of sense when people were saying that like a decade ago, but then ykno, she spent 10 uninterrupted years doing politics and getting experience, and now im just curious as to how much experience will be enough? what would make u personally say shes "ready" at this point?
It’s actually comical that they’re going this route at the same time they’re actively shielding the entire trump family from IRS investigations or penalties
Maybe - MAYBE - she and he take marriage a bit more seriously than the botoxed, silicone injected, MAGA who treat it as a sport.
Also definitely - DEFINITELY - none of MAGA’s fucking business what her personal life is lime, since she keeps it private.
It's kind of rich they're talking about their supposed stock trades while the continued firehose of trump's Wall Street stocks manipulation and the entire Senate's self-serving stock activities goes on in broad daylight.
Long engagements are more popular these days because of the political atmosphere. My kid's been engaged for 3 years. What's the hurry? Why get married at all, unless it's for Healthcare benefits.
FFS, are they really talking about hiding finances the same month that we're learning three major banks de-banked Trump and Family for money laundering?
I'm not the biggest AOC fan, but I would love to watch her debate Trump.
How many people even know who AOC is involved with? Or even care?
The outrage machine flails and looks ridiculous when there’s nothing there. It’s like Obama and the tan suit.
These are the same types of chuds who thought it was very suspicious Barack & Michelle Obama had a net worth of around 2 million in 2008 even though Obama had 2 international best selling books, had been a senator for years & they'd had high paying jobs for years before he ran & owned a nice home.
Stalin´s time returns¡
If you do something it is a crime, if you do not do this, too.
Long term and honest service men are suddenly prosecuted cause a baseless rumor, it does not matter that you fought in the hard times, your good results, experience, any fault, etc ... Faucci is guilty