ElementalWizard 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Mar 22, 2025
Bellison22

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Via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too)."

Mar 22, 2025 at 1:57amMastodon for Android
Show threadMsMeropeMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22
gotta boost these
cuz MSM won't cover it
Show threadJoe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦Mar 22, 2025
@MsMerope @Bellison22
It was on MSNBC All afternoon.
Show threadBruce MirkenMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 Whether you like #BernieSanders or not (and I get it that some people don't and never will), he and #AOC have tapped into an urgent, grassroots energy here, an energy that #Democrats desperately need and that #ChuckSchumer, #HakeemJeffries and all their consultants have no clue about.
Show threadBellison22Mar 22, 2025
@BruceMirken agree with all.
Show threadpbharristooMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 excellent.
Show threadbouriquetMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 These two are the key to our survival in the future.
Show threadDying World 🔥🌎🔥Mar 22, 2025
@bouriquet @Bellison22 They are only delivering the message. It's up to the American people to stand behind them for there to be any hope of real change
Show threadbouriquetMar 22, 2025
@DyingWorld @Bellison22 That’s difficult for so many because the conservatives have put labels on both of them.
Labels we were indoctrinated in school to fear like socialist.
But they are the only way out because they have been speaking the truth.
The rest of the democrats have caved in fear.
Will we survive for history to record the truth?
Show threadDying World 🔥🌎🔥Mar 22, 2025

@bouriquet @Bellison22 Ultimately it's up to each individual to decide if this is worth the risk to them --and I understand that risk could be imprisonment or worse.

I feel that the chances of a better outcome increase, the sooner people start taking action

Show threadBellison22Mar 22, 2025
@DyingWorld @bouriquet yes
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Mar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 AOC for America 2028. #ShesMyPresident
Show threadTaylorOnoMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 does the count include the hundreds of people who were still in a line wrapped around the city council building when they stopped letting people into the park?
Show threadsomtwoMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 a boost, a fav, and a comment from me!
Show threadstevenrayMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 @cynblogger I feel like Bernie had several rallies in 2016 that were bigger than 34,000 people. Right? I mean, some of them were… YUGE.
Show threadJoe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦Mar 22, 2025
@Bellison22
Imagine where we’d be today if Bernie had been elected president in 2016.
Show threadPassengerMar 22, 2025

@Joe_Hill @Bellison22

My guess is, there'd have been a Business Plot 2.0 pretty quickly, and the Tea Party would have resorted to violence even more quickly.

One of the things we're seeing in the modern day is that the fascism exists to protect the bigotry and inequality. It became stronger in an attempt to prevent a better world from happening. If there were a better world being imposed from above, the fascists - including those in nice suits and those in uniforms - would absolutely have responded.

Show threadDitterwitMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 any suggestions on how others can contribute remotely?
Show threadskryMar 23, 2025

@Ditterwit @Bellison22

What we can do is donate and/or spread their actual words around (videos)

Bernie and AOC are fundraising through ActBlue on both their accounts:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-email-20250313

Spread the word
https://berniesanders.com/
https://www.tiktok.com/@aoc
https://www.youtube.com/@AOC/videos

Denver yesterday: https://www.tiktok.com/@aoc/video/7484773712604974366
#uspol

Show threadBellison22Mar 23, 2025
@skry @Ditterwit 🎯🎯🎯
Show threadjules / cowbell as fuckMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 is she old enough to run for president in 2028?
Show threadAnnieMar 22, 2025
@catsrule0000 @Bellison22 yes
Show threadBobDevneyMar 22, 2025

@catsrule0000 @Bellison22 @anne

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez turned 35 this year — the minimum age eligible to become President of the United States.

(Apparently you could run at age 34, but must be age 35 by inauguration day. Youngest so far was Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded the assassinated McKinley in the office at age 42. Second was John F. Kennedy, who was elected and assumed office at age 43.)

I'm just saying ...

#Politics #AOC #Leadership

Show threadsandywb14Mar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 ❤️
Show threadJamison AlexanderMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 wow this is the kind of crowd sizes we need to show strength in the movement! Hope this continues into summer!
Show threadRenéMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 #americans should fill the streets everyday like #georgia the state, #serbia #hungary #turkey
Show threadkaeptnMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22
34.000 people in the "land of the free" and they are calling it "the largest political gathering"...
and vance has the nerve to criticize europes democracys?
when will the us-citizens wake up and take the streets? whole democratic world is waiting
Show threadFrancis CookMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 and that small number is an indication of the problem. How many voters of the total does this represent? It might, repeat, might be a start but frankly this is an acknowledgment that this is a niche interest. It’s got to get to a much bigger number. Much bigger.
Show threadGraeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 Where, you have to wonder, was Obama, Harris and Biden? Very quiet, those guys.
Show threadMatv1Mar 22, 2025

@Bellison22 it is a promising start but the only way #usa is going to change the course of the country, is by putting 10 milion protesters on the ground in DC.

Good luck!

Show threadSunflower Björnskalle 🌻Mar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 Yet somehow the DNC will find a way to fuck them anyway and keep the overclqss loyalists in charge.
Show threadRuud SteltenpoolMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 bigger than DNC … how many candidates that were popular were considered too much actually different from GOP by DNC ?
Show threadtivasykMar 22, 2025
i'm used to major political events' attendance in #ukraine which is usually way different: not every gathering is a maidan of course, but it's a much smaller nation too. so i needed to backdrop this «largest political gathering in denver since…» with some usa-related context; after all, it's the geopolitical leader of the world sliding into authoritarianism, serious historical event.

so i compared this to 2024 #nfl attendance:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/attendance

oh, look, there's even #denver here. oh…

bottom line: the nearest future of the world looks grim.
2024 NFL Football Attendance - National Football League - ESPN

Find out the 2024 attendance numbers for every NFL football team

ESPN.com
Show threadFreediverXMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22
And unlike Obama, Bernie would actually fight for the working class instead of the billionaires. A Sanders presidency would have handled the 2008 financial crisis differently, helping victims and prosecuting the criminals responsible instead of the other way around.
Show threadHenwhenMar 22, 2025
@Bellison22 Wow!
Show threadWinter TrabexMar 22, 2025

@Bellison22

Biggest mistake the Democratic Party ever made was shutting out Bernie Sanders in 2016 in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Show threadkatzenberger 🇺🇦Mar 22, 2025

@Bellison22

  • People gathering, to listen to politicians.
  • Politicians delivering speeches.
  • Politicians telling people to vote for Democrats, in 2026.

    • That's it.

    That's the plan "to take on billionaires and win our country back", while some 80 #DOGE crooks with laptops continue with dismantling the US, this very moment, day by day.

    #USpol #elections #Sanders #AOC

    Show threadBellison22Mar 23, 2025

    @katzenberger I find this pretty over simplified and personally, I'd absolutely much rather see leaders reaching out and talking to thousands of people than hiding from American people and even avoiding town halls
    If you read the global responses and see what other countries feel about it, it may (or may not) change your perspective.

    I don't profess to know the answers but I sure as hell support anyone working for solutions....but I do see your use of tags to make your thoughts known.