It’s just a red herring fallacy, and lazy.
Ensuring Republicans will still have her to kick around:
AOC 66%
Crowley got 75% in 2016 and 83% in 2012. Why’s it keep going down?
It also struck me as a surprising low share. Not sure about the norms or what candidates ran this year
That is what you are describing.
I don’t know. If it drops a lot lower than the current 2:1 Democrats should worry.
Mr. Market wins:
According to the head of Goya, after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) (D-NY) called for people to boycott the company, it had the opposite effect: sales spiked.
In fact, CEO Bob Unanue says AOC’s efforts caused Goya sales to go up by 1000%.
Unanue, a self-made Latino entrepreneur, had made positive remarks about President Trump, drawing the ire of the far left and other Trump opponents.
But the campaign against Unanue, Goya, and its products backfired and resulted in stunning sales figures.
For that reason, Unanue says the company actually named AOC its "employee of the month."
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Ah, The Atlantic comes down on the side of big Democrat.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-language-game-are-the-defunders-playing/ar-BB1bOlAC
In other words, the squad’s response was absurd and had no connection to any commonly agreed upon standard of reality. No one on Earth can possibly believe that Barack Obama doesn’t care about gun violence, racism, or human suffering. What the fight was really about—as both Pressley and AOC observed—was language. Obama was questioning the political expediency of theirs, and they were policing his. He was interested in rhetoric; they were interested in mounting the “You can’t say that” defense.
It’s no fun when then woke spotlight shines on thee, eh Democrats?
Enjoy your do nothing Congress. Just keep the money press going and hope Biden doesn’t die or get 25ed.
I agree with exactly 0% of her fiscal policy ideas but I agree with this.
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Is “fiery” a euphemism for batshit crazy?
Anyway, thanks for the Amazon warehouse. A lot of people out of work due to covid now how jobs upstate that her constituents could have had downstate. But she wants them to sell their asses. Nice. Nice girl.
“The federal gov has done almost nothing to help people in months,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “We must pass stimulus checks, UI, small biz relief, hospital funding, etc.”
Big business tried to help. So, Pence got a vaccine shot on live TV, so AOC should…
The fun battels are on the left and AOC, despite the press, doesn’t get that much done. I suppose that’s what happens when Bernie Sanders is your mentor but she’s on a subcommittee in Oversight and not much else and doesn’t appear to want to push for much outside of social media likes.
If she really wants progressive policy to be considered, she could easily hold up support for Nancy Pelosi and push a compromise but nothing happens.
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Amazing how Republicans bitching about “Amazon seeking public subsidies via crony capitalism” managed to turn on a dime and use it to cry about AOC when she came out in opposition.
And not a word about Taiwan’s own Foxconn.
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This gaslight looks like a Frankenstein’s monster of 1+x=banana.
Only if you believe the shit premises mike’s ahem thought process puts forward.
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For those who forget: Amazon announced it was building a second headquarters somewhere and started a public bidding process- for subsidies, tax breaks, public-funded infrastructure. True conservatives were shocked that such a wealthy company was demanding public money; the rest (most) pretended to be shocked because Amazon made occasional statements about hiring minorities, had a Human Resources office, and it sometimes had a float in Gay Pride parades, so it was responsible for the destruction of America (still opposed unions, privacy, and environmental laws).
Some unions and residents opposed its proposed opening in NYC because of opposition to congestion, its anti-union stance, and that the world’s richest corporation was demanding huge public subsidies, which they felt was money that could be better spent on needed transit, schools, hospitals, water, and other infrastructure. AOC came down against it, while other New York politicians like Blasio and Cuomo favored it (Cuomo, Blasio, and jdsmith- the old gang’s back together!)
When AOC opposed it, Republicans- showing their ability to turn on a dime and give you nine cents change- came out in support of it. They’d always been in favor of stuffing public money into corporate pockets (see: sports stadiums, Foxconn), they just thought Amazon was a bunch of liberal hippies.
All’s well as ends well- the second headquarters was built in Arlington Virgina, a nice Democratic city, and the citizens who didn’t get Amazon nonetheless reelected AOC comfortably in 2020.
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Cool story @MikeN1 except the truth is much simpler, for what it’s worth I don’t dislike AOC, might be some issues I agree with her on. But this…
The money didn’t exist, they asked for a tax break to offset their investment costs. Which means all the people they would be hiring to build the compound still pay taxes, the people they hire pay taxes and money they all spend will all get taxed, local businesses would benefit and they too can spend money which too gets taxed.
Instead of trying to privately negotiate AOC went on a very public shaming campaign and Amazon said “fuck this, we don’t need this shit” and pulled out. Not too smart, but she is young and time to learn.
Amazon will build warehouses where and when they need them, based on need, not tax breaks. The debate re: aoc and amazon was hq2. And AOC was probably right - Amazon has continued to expand in NYC (because Amazon has enough money to build where and when they need to, based on need, not pork). After the controversy, amazon announced plans and hiring for a hudson yard location (of more employees than currently hired for the (closed) va hq2 location) and new warehouse space in queens (ie that upstate facility had zero to do with queens, and didn’t take away any jobs from queens).
Edit: in addition to hudson yards, they bought the 660k ft2 lord and taylor building on 5th ave this year. Seems like they’re essentially doing hq2 in nyc anyway.
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She’s a clown:
Hahaha!
Just to compare, Bernie’s sweatshirt is only $45 (a steal in my opinion).
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