What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

crunch bird, my ass

-Jackson Browne

holy shit, that AOC glare

there's a non-zero chance that she's won multiple fights

she's too good for these chumps

i know it's not about celebs but it's nice to have a really gifted person on the left for once.

if looks could defund butts

defund is not enough, abolish joe's butt

"By defund Joe's butt, we don't mean take all of it away, we just mean parts of it would be better used for other things!"

i'm a very good judge of butts and i say it's all gotta go

New York Times covering the abolitionist movement in 1859: "They are as rancorous and abusive as if they were on the point of utter annihilation. Their speeches sound more like the ravings of Bedlamites than the utterances of men seeking the accomplishment of a practical object." pic.twitter.com/V0RHFA140O

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 12, 2020

Must have been the bad slogans.

Movements can succeed with bad slogans or fail with bad ones

https://media2.giphy.com/media/3ohzdDE5XOUmI6qnkY/source.gif

tell me more about these Bedlamites, and how i can join

Rancor and abuse IIRC

https://i.imgur.com/VOgiyTM.png

jules rules

streaming Among US again, with jagmeet Singh this time, starting in a few minutes

https://www.twitch.tv/aoc

Contrapoints too.

When is Bernie going to play Among Us?

canadian special

her flaws? doesn't respond when I ask how things are going in twitch chat... the nerve!

She's currently explaining League of Legends to Jagmeet Singh.

A Confederacy of Dunces https://t.co/zv1bJmKrZD

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 12, 2020

Allen Fuckin' West

When I want an expert opinion on constitutional law I always seek out the chair of the Texas Republican Party, because who could be better informed? Certainly not all nine justices of the US Supreme Court!

somehow I got a campaign text message from “Lt. Col Allen West” during the run up to the election (srsly, how??) and if my response didn’t put me on a watchlist then the FBI is slippin

“I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party … the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there's very little option for succession,” said Ocasio-Cortez, who is 31. “It's easy for someone to say, ‘Oh well, you know, why don't you run?’ but the House is extraordinarily complex, and I'm not ready. It can't be me. I know that I couldn't do that job."

“Even conservative members of the party who think Nancy Pelosi is far too liberal for them don't necessarily have any viable alternatives, which is why whenever there's a challenge, it kind of collapses,” she continued. “And that is, I think, the result of just many years of power being concentrated in leadership with lack of … real grooming of a next generation of leadership

Asked directly if Pelosi and Schumer “need to go,” Ocasio-Cortez replied: “I mean, I think so.”

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*I* think so
OR
I *think* so

Maybe it’s “i think, so...” and the author didnt continue with the quote

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/16/aoc-nancy-pelosi-needs-to-go-but-theres-nobody-to-replace-her-yet/

podcast in here

I do not know to what degree, if any, Pelosi made a conscious choice not to put other House Democrats in a strong position to challenge or replace her, but it is one of the tactics that naturally emerges among leadership groups. AOC is right that the position of Speaker is enormously complex and difficult and some period of apprenticeship is required to approach something like adequacy in that job. No one is likely to replace Pelosi that she hasn't already vetted and brought into a leadership role.

https://prospect.org/api/amp/politics/establishment-strikes-back-aoc-versus-centrist-democrats/

But at least evil Trump is gone

Progressives' loyalty to Biden will ensure them a "seat at the table" IIRC.

Disappointing.

If Biden has sense, he'll recall the old political wisdom that it's better to have the progressives "inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in". Based on the distribution of opinion on ilx, I'm pretty sure there are some who will prefer to remain outside pissing in, regardless.

you know Biden, he hates old political wisdom

can't wait for him to invite ilx to piss on his tent

He should do an AMA here.

He'd get a 7-day FP ban within 15 minutes.

https://prospect.org/api/amp/politics/establishment-strikes-back-aoc-versus-centrist-democrats🕸/

But at least evil Trump is gone

If Biden has sense, he'll recall the old political wisdom that it's better to have the progressives "inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in". Based on the distribution of opinion on ilx, I'm pretty sure there are some who will prefer to remain outside pissing in, regardless.

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 18 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Old timey political wisdom.

lol:

This link is broken...just like the neoliberal order

We are still hoping this has an easy fix.

Old-timey, as befits an old geezer.

Many of the representatives who came out most forcefully against Ocasio-Cortez have close ties to oil and gas, especially Cuellar. But perhaps more important was Cuellar’s personal opposition to AOC, as evidenced by his statement. Ocasio-Cortez backed Cuellar’s primary challenger, 27-year-old progressive Jessica Cisneros, in March’s primary. Cuellar won narrowly, with backing from the Koch political network and some last-minute campaigning from Speaker Pelosi herself, despite the fact that Cuellar regularly votes against the Democratic caucus and has routinely fundraised for Republicans.

Gotta keep room inside the tent for this guy pissing all over the sleeping bags and food.

“This link is broken...just like the neoliberal order

We are still hoping this has an easy fix.”

They updated the article to remove the implication that progressive Congresswoman Degette wrote a pro fracking book when instead it was a congressional report that emphasized its dangers.

stupid shit this party does rarely actually upsets me but actively, materially preventing this woman from gaining influence is so fucking infuriating

I really want the progressive caucus to start pissing on Pelosi, it’s overdue