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AOC is mulling a run for the Presidency. She says she is not interested in being Speaker of the House. AOC is young, she is beautiful, she is charming and she is smart. She will make a formidable contender if she decides to do this.

AOC was the youngest woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Today she is trying to duplicate this feat by becoming the first and youngest female elected as President of the United States.

AOC has developed into such a beautiful woman inside and out. She is a pioneer of the DSA movement that opened peoples' eyes to the injustices of a system that rewards the rich and squeezes the poor. You see it around you everyday. A friend on Medicare said he just recieved a letter that his copay for medicines will go up this year from $1.65 to $14.50 for every prescription. This might not sound like a lot of money but for seniors it's the difference between three meals a day and two meals a day. Another female senior with diabetes, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis in her arms, recieved a letter telling her she will be dropped from the SNAP rolls unless she works a minimum of 20 hrs a week. Billioneers and millioneers get a free pass on their taxes and use the extra cash to buy $500 million super yachts and spend $millions on weddings. No big deal. AOC was one of the first persons to sound the alarm on these nefarious practices of this government. Then came Mamdani, and Ossoff, Bernie, El-Sayed, and Talarico. These people didn't care that they were branded as commies and socialists by Republicans. They stuck to their guns and created a blue Tsnunami that finally swept away the people responsible for these injustices. Today is a new day. AOC does not want to be Speaker. She is looking at the Presidency. This is not a far-fetched idea. When she entered government as the youngest House member, some looked at her as an ingenue of the House. She soon proved them wrong. We will have to wait and see.

Bernie is right on this one. I was thinking Schumer should be given a chance to prove himself but he has had a lot of time to do this without any success. And people are crying out for change. The status quo will not work. Appointing Schumer to leader of the Senate is like trying the same tactics over and over without success and praying for a miracle. Senator Chris Van Hollen is the man to replace Schumer. long before Democrats secured a tremendous midterm victory, long before people started calling for change, Senator Chris Van Hollen boarded a plane and travelled to El Salvador to fight for the release of one of his constituents , Abrego Garcia, who had been wrongly deported to that country. Senator Van Hollen did not have to do this, it would not bring him fame or fortune, he did it out of the goodness of his heart to help one of his constituents. This is the kind of leader we need in the Senate at this particular time when people are struggling to survive amid the chaos.

Jim Jordan is a joke. These Republicans are not serious. They are losing their minds after the shellacking they recieved on Nov. 3rd. All Jordan has ever done in the House is investigate. The joke is that Jordan investigates the investigators who dared to investigate Republican wrong doing. He became the investigator in chief of the House. That's all he ever did; grandstanding and creating a circus-like atmosphere in the House. Now he is being promoted to minority leader of the House. This is tantamount to Stephen Miller who is the chief architect of ICE , that caused the collapse of the Republicans in the midterms, being promoted to Chief of Staff in the Oval Office. If this trend continues, watch for Hegseth being promoted to Senate Minority Leader.

You are absolutely right. Students are the backbone of a nation. They are the future builders and caretakers of our nation. Why are we charging them taxes while they are studying, working part-time and doing volunteer work on a back-breaking schedule? We should actually be subsidizing these students on the condition that they remain in the country and commit to working at least 10 years in a job that will uplift others and is beneficial to the nation. This is what other countries do when they send their students here on full scholarships. They do this on the condition that these students return home and contribute to the progress of their home countries. Why can't we do the same here? Jeff Bezos asked the same question on a podcast recently. Why should a nurse doing backbreaking work assisting fellow citizens be taxed $1000.00 a month? Let us hope that this new crop of lawmakers coming to Washington in January change the way we did things under a Republican administrations.

Wow! Well said. Today people are struggling and sometimes the only way to survive temporarily is to visit pawn brokers, Title Loan companies, or a loan shark. Any of these places will throw you into perennial poverty. Their interest rates are astronomical, and it's extremely difficult to pay these loans off entirely and avoid interest rates. The only thing people with a strong mindset can do, is to resolve to find a way to make enough money, much more than they are currently earning, to erase their debts and to live free of predatory lenders. We do not have a choice. Most of us are living behind locked doors. We must find the key to these doors or spend the rest of our lives in penury.

These are the things our new leaders like Hinajosa, Mamdani , Talarico, El-Sayed and Issoff should be concentrating on now. The people have thrown their lot behind them and they must now deliver on their promises. They must move quickly; there is no time to waste on petty grievances, people are suffering.

Sometimes when people have inflated images of themselves, it blurs their vision and impedes them from seeing the reality of things. It also stifles their humanity and prevents them from feeling the pain ordinary people who struggle to survive, feel. This is why it is important to recruit someone like Mayor Mamdani who has mastered the art of stroking someone's ego; be it the President or the richest man in the world.

Picture of a young Palestinian child that was pulled from the rubble of an apartment building in Gaza that was bombed .

Talarico says one in five Texas children lives in poverty and he cannot understand why Musk would be against righting this injustice. He could go one step further and say that the " One Big Beautiful Bill" passed by Republicans and endorsed by Musk, has caused 262,000 Texas kids to go to bed hungry at night. Over 559,000 Texans lost SNAP benefits last year, with 53.5% of them being children. Musk has fathered 14 children reportedly and seems to interact with them frequently, so he should know that children will cry when they are hungry. He should be supporting Talarico but is not. But as Machiavelli says, " This is what rich and powerful people do. "

The Blue Tsnunami has done its job. In Texas Democrats have made history, by winning tbe senate race and the race for Governor. Both Talarico and Hinajosa have won big. The first Latina to be elected Governor is Gina Hinajosa.

History will show that when our nation was falling apart under the weight of fascism, high prices, low wages, high rent, unaffordable healthcare, dilapidated hospitals and schools, it was the youth, especially college students, who came out in huge numbers, that saved this nation from collapse and put it back on the right path. The Democratic Party can build on this support from young people. A strong youth division of tbe party must now be established, and youth leaders appointed who will have direct access to senior leaders. Older leaders who have done their part must now be encouraged to resign after they have reached a certain age to make way for younger leaders coming up in the ranks of the party. These changes must be instituted now to build on this momentum that the Democratic Party now enjoys in the wake of their huge victories in the midterms.