What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

I like her response to the billboard, she turns it around quite nicely

Few things effectively communicate the power we’ve built in fighting dark money & anti-worker policies like billionaire-funded groups blowing tons of cash on wack billboards (this one is funded by the Mercers).

(PS fact that it’s in Times Sq tells you this isn’t for/by NYers.) https://t.co/B4QTPi1r2k

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 21, 2019

xp: what is the old use?

she spelled whoa wrong in a tweet. huge flaw.

xpost: appellation d'origine contrôlée
in france it's how they basically regulate what products get the geographical designation camembert de normandie, bresse chicken, chablis, bourgogne etcetc.

but i think it's an acronym for a lot of things.

AOC and Ilhan were on his list.

A @gwupoe scoop: A LT in the US Coast Guard was arrested this week for drug and gun charges. It looked like a run of the mill case until the detention memo filed yesterday. He had a hit list, contacts with white supremacists, guns, and, again, was an Coastie assigned to HQ.

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) February 20, 2019

I openly mused to my wife two weeks ago whether or not she was going to be an assassination target, simply because she reminds me of RFK in her charisma.

Americans are obsessed with the potential of everything. It's easy to fall in love with things that don't yet exist.

― Yerac, Wednesday, February 20, 2019 11:27 AM

yes that's why we can't tax the rich proportionally because when i win the lotto they ain't gonna take my money !

the temporarily embarrassed millionaire phenomenon is vastly overstated, I think. Has there ever been a time when taxing the rich wasn't polling well? That's why they always had to lie and pretend the estate taxes were going to soak you for selling your grandma's $85k house.

I know it's bad to make jokes about ass-assinations but someone on my fb was like "why was beto on that list? That's like wanting to ass-assinate the photocopy guy." LOL

the bigger question for me was Joe Scarborough but that made a lot more sense after remembering that Trump hates Morning Joe

stochastic terrorism in action

Scarborough has moved leftward in recent years, which for the rest of us who remember him in Congress means he's part of the loony center.

old now, but I liked this quick article
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-allies-supplanted-the-obama-generation

quick someone get the spray bottle pic.twitter.com/itdOYLM4CD

— KT Nelson (@KrangTNelson) February 20, 2019

omg at "<<Rosario Dawsson séxy>>"; what a creepazoid

lové the uséléss accénts

(i think he just means "she's puerto rican," right?)

likély

maybe he could just sasháy himself off the internet

Self-proclaimed sapiosexuals are the worst

https://pics.esmemes.com/danger-iam-sapiosexual-if-you-had-to-look-it-up-12157140.png

love to remove people's brains and climax as I stroke the bare, still-pulsing amygdala

Jesus

xp

Someone please tell these yahoos that our entire species is sapient. It is right there in our Linnaean name.

the most important video of the week is @AOC being attacked by a constituent's dog pic.twitter.com/QkqXdQEeCL

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) February 21, 2019

that poor woman. that looked to be a bulldog. they are notorious slobberers.

what are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's flaws? Well, she's definitely too nice to dogs.

https://splinternews.com/aoc-makes-her-first-grave-error-1832763255

haha

i lived in dc when navy yard was still building up. sounds like it sucks pretty hard now.

what is the "good" dc neighborhood she could have lived in, though? i used to love mine (bloomington/eckington) but from what i've heard it's also been completely gentrified now

bloomingdaaaale i meant

Congress heights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgYJgM9pFaA

petition to redo LeBron's barbershop show with AOC, Tlaib, and Omar.

Dog kiss attack is why dogs are better than cats.

My cats do this in their own way

Mindful that this edit is truncated, but that dog owner gives all dog owners a bad name. If you can't keep your dog from attacking or slobbering over strangers, then you don't need a dog too big to control.

This Rolling Stone interview is excellent.

You told Anderson Cooper you want people to underestimate you because that’s how you won your primary. When is it safe to let that go and unabashedly take charge?
People like to make these disparaging statements, like, “Oh, she’s good at Twitter. Is she gonna be an actual legislator?” I think it’s fine at the outset to be underestimated in that capacity. Where I do tell people to come correct is when they try to paint me as unintelligent, as unsubstantive. That’s when you see me fire back. When you call Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris “unlikable,” that’s an unsubstantial, unsubstantive, fluff, bullshit, misogynistic word to use. Unlikable? What is that? It’s not a policy critique. Paul Ryan was a con man for 10 years, and he was called a wunderkind for policies that were designed to just gut working families dry. But I’m the charlatan. So . . .

how dare you, AOC. paul ryan was the greatest policy genius of the last 80 years. he was a wonk! he was called a wonk! and so he was a wonk. he was a wonk because he got called a wonk, and if we turn back on that now, then what else was everyone lying about?

what is this feeling of not being disappointed in a politician

I am very interested in what people do (obviously) before they become politicians. It's so dramatic when someone actually wants to help. And not in the saving all the unborn/nonexistant babies type of way. Like it really weirds me out when pastors go into politics (I mean I get what they are after), but such a large amount of the people that go into politics it's either i)enrichment or ii) some kind of ennui with their current career choice iii) unfulfilled white man destiny.

tbrr, if you weren't broke or near broke at some point in your life, i don't want to hear shit from you about politics or ethics or morals or policing or economics

i have been near-broke for 2 years and will be for another 3-4, in grad school in economics lol

glad forks will listen to my opinions :)

like if you never had to check your balance before payday to make sure you can cover fast food dinner you can't fucking relate to normal people

xpost but instead of obtaining empathy from being poor, a lot of politicians choose to make it " bootstraps self mythologizing fuck those lazy poor people".

btw if anyone wants to read an 8000 word version of my MMT post up thread by a left-pugilist writer whose tweets morbs c/p’s into random politics threads i strongly recommend this post by Doug Henwood in new jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/modern-monetary-theory-isnt-helping

my dad was a teacher before he ran for public office and it always burned me tf up when people would claim he was some kind of fat cat. he was an english teacher.

ya it’s kind of a dumb rule. i mean as long as you make exceptions for ppl who really pull off the ‘traitor to their class’. FDR was a rich bitch iirc

I usually only look up GOP or really interesting dems. It's always a lot of lawyers, pastors, "businessmen", or career politicians.