David Hogg co-founded a political org called Leaders We Deserve PAC. He tweeted that he wants people to give it $10 a month - if they are able. (hexbear.net)

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I don't know what his short term political aspirations are but he's 23 and the minimum age to be a US representative is 25.

Gen Zers are running for office and this new PAC wants to back them : NPR

[Hogg] is launching Leaders We Deserve, a hybrid political action committee backing candidates under 35 years old running for federal office and under 30 years old running for state office.

Ninja edit: He's already talking and acting like a typical pol. He wasted my time with a deceptive tweet. It made me think his his PAC went live yesterday but it was created in August. I deleted the tweet and I put in the NPR link.

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Leaders We Deserve

you see, the problem is we have the wrong people charge of the orphan crushing machine

[-] manuallybreathing@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

they say the next orphans will be crushed by a school shooting survivor

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

In the near future I can imagine this...

"Look, when I was young - I mean younger I was very unrealistically idealistic and very idealistically unrealistic as I like to say. Now that I'm Representative Hogg I'm ready to get down to the hard business of getting things done for the American people. To that end - we, that is to say the bipartisan YoungCaucus - all one word for easy googling - have created a committee to study how we in the House can create a more efficient and cheaper orphan crushing machine."

"Of course - I'm kidding. I'm a kidder. It will be less efficient and cost will increase by a minimum of four fold. Hey, I've got pork to spread around in my district where I'm based in Podunk, Colorado. I want to stress that I certainly didn't choose lovely Podunk because it was easiest to win an election and I lied about my residency and I said I live in condo owned by my brother-in-law. I've actually been there four times. Or was it three? Anyway - close enough..."

[-] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

boss hogg! not representative, boss.

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

easy googling

Please no...I don't want Google to still be around in the near future

[-] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

Hogg posting

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Goin' Hogg wild

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Awwww little bootlicker grifter is grifting up.

[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Grift.

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

This time we will change the system from the inside guys! I promise!

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

The only question I have is - when he runs for something does he lie and say he's a "progressive" or does he run as a run-of-the-mill lib?

My hunch is that he's Fetterman Jr. Same shit but a much smaller size.

[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just the name alone: "Leaders We Deserve" is sus. Whenever I hear generic platitudes like that my bullshit detector goes off. If it's a phrase I can imagine Mayo Pete saying, it ain't good.