The AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) thread

I can confirm this. Macro 101.

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This is interesting. Getting lots of attention, too. :smiley:

According to Javers, the former anchor said “this is a winnable race” for her.
Not, “This will be a challenging race against an incumbent”?
Not, “I have to win the race against a strong candidate.”?
Bwahaha

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Nice…

What a shock? Who could have imagined this was fake?? Well, anyone who took more than two seconds to check

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Seems like a clear case of AOCDS (my, these initials are getting long enough to rival LGBTTTQQIAA).
https://ok2bme.ca/resources/kids-teens/what-does-lgbtq-mean/

Reposted by Rush Limbaugh and James Wood, among people eager to be duped.

AOC eats Ted Yoho’s lunch calling out out his goonish behavior:

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Wow, this thread is pretty quiet. This incident is all over the news. Are people discussing is in another thread that I missed?

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I think the usual suspects have learned to try to find an easier target- AOC bites back.

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While Ocasio-Cortez stayed up all night studying for the test like a good student, most of the other people at CVS said they hadn’t studied at all. Ocasio-Cortez explained that most of the people at the pharmacy seemed to be conservatives, so it’s no wonder they didn’t study. “What we’re seeing here is a complete lack of effort from conservatives, and it’s embarrassing,” she explained.

“I’ve been up all night,” the freshman congresswoman tweeted at 5 a.m. “And I now know more about the Coronavirus than probably anyone on the planet. Did you know Covid-19 is literally the most dangerous disease of our time? Another fun fact: you don’t actually catch it from drinking Corona. I know. I tested it.”

https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-pulls-an-all-nighter-studying-for-covid-test

There’s always the world of satire to live out your dreams. Babylon Bee is pretty bad it it though.

The AOC phenomena is fascinating. The fear of her, and the hate and attention that fear produces, only serves as nitrous oxide for her political career. Watching people try to bully her and fail over and over is great.

Poor Ted Yoho, another victim of cancel culture. I guess he got tricked into thinking he was working with some fake Christians? What happened to the days when you could act like a total twat and get away with it? :sweat_smile:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/25/politics/ted-yoho-resigns-christian-organization-aoc/index.html

Washington, DC (CNN)Florida GOP Rep. Ted Yoho has resigned from the board of a Christian organization that works to fight hunger following his tense exchange with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Chris Ford, the deputy director for strategic communications and campaigns of Bread for the World, on Saturday evening confirmed Yoho’s resignation to CNN. The Florida congressman resigned on Friday during a meeting with the organization board, according to a statement from Bread for the World.

“We believe that Rep. Ted Yoho’s recent actions and words as reported in the media are not reflective of the ethical standards expected of members of our Board of Directors,” the organization wrote in a statement.

“…[B]read sought his resignation as an action that reaffirms our commitment to coming alongside women and people of color, nationally and globally, as they continue to lead us to a more racially inclusive and equitable world.”

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AOC and her fellow team are necessary, without them pushing their ideology the MSM and the rest of the Democrats would be calling everyone else describing what they see from the far left as pushing imaginary conspiracy theories.

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If NYC continues to decline, it will be interesting to learn about the evolution of the opinion of city residents regarding the lost 25k Amazon jobs that AOC managed. Got a feeling this won’t be seen there as a wise decision in 2030 or so.

You could put a hatstand as a Democrat and it would get elected. You’re dreaming. She’s there for life.

In her Congressional district, for sure (NY14). That’s why she primaried the Dem incumbent: the Dem primary is the election.

Agree she could have it for life, but my guess is she’ll move on to the US Senate (or elsewhere in government) as she ages. Takes 1/3 the energy to campaign for a Senate seat.

Why not president? FDR, JFK, LBJ, AOC- has a nice ring to it.

Must be a Canadian thing. Y’all do have a cute if skewed perspective of what works down south, in real America. :grin:

I have her down as a Dennis Skinner. Wins an incredibly safe seat (or whatever term you chaps use) and holds it for life. The Party would prefer she hadn’t won, but has to deal with it. I doubt she’ll go any further, but will have a good career.

Could well happen.

POTUS is, I think, out of reach until she denounces her membership in the Democratic Socialists of America.

And that’s something she needs to do quickly if she has prez aspirations. The Bern quietly “stopped” being a socialist years ago, to no avail. Has now been kneecapped hard twice, both times by the DNC and thus before the GOP could even weigh in. The longer she stays in the DSA the longer she stays on the wrong side of US history.

Anyway, I do think she could likely make the House a career, and because it’s NY14 she could probably enjoy lots of out-of-district financing and the nice lifestyle that would bring her. New York might also make room for her to represent them in the Senate, just as they did for Hillary!.