What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

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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

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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.

even the career politicians did something before they were elected to public office

"Roosevelt held little passion for the practice of law and confided to friends that he planned to eventually enter politics" (wiki) HA!

the career politicians I am thinking about were the ones that were interning for other politicians out of college and got various jobs working for politicians.

if anyone's watching the Cohen hearing, she got him to implicate Trump in like 3 more felonies in a matter of about two minutes

not only did she get Cohen to name names but also provided groundwork to subpoena his tax returns

FUCK YOU MEADOWS

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

on the other end of this, i am soooooo beyond tired of multimillion dollar politicians. i don't know any of these people in real life, and the one that i do is a complete asshole who is so detached from reality that it's fascinating, in its own way. how absurd that the vast majority of the population is made up of people made up of people who will never get close to 6 digits in their bank accounts, represented by politicians who will never close to 5 digits

The Democrat appearing in CPAC videos and speeches the most, by far: @AOC. More than any 2020 Dem. An Oliver North-narrated NRA video just ended with the footage of her dancing outside her office, with the color drained to make it look more ominous.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 28, 2019

"more ominous"

Elie Mystal had a very nice take that the freshman dem congresswomen were magnitudes better than anyone else during the hearing(s) because they already know how to capture an audience whenever they want and they don't need tv to do it. Everyone else is making soliloquies and trying to manufacture their moment because they never get national attention.

so therefore they could take that time to actually work and govern.

I wonder if after yesterday’s hearing conservatives still think my staff is “overpaid.” 😉 https://t.co/us4I3BpobK

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 28, 2019

Also they are old establishment dorks that are actually good buddies with the other old jerks on the right

I really liked this quote from her interview - I'd never thought about it this way before

One of the things that I bring to the table is a visceral understanding that people under 40 have been shaped by an entirely different set of events. We’ve literally grown up in different Americas. They were shaped by a Cold War America, a post-World War II America; and we are an Iraq War America, a 9/11 America, a hyper-capitalism-has-never-worked-for-us, Great Recession America. People are used to talking about millennials as if we’re teenagers. We’re in our thirties now. We’re raising kids and getting married and having families, and we have mortgages and student-loan debt. It’s important that [Congress is] in touch. People tend to interpret this as me railing against older people and being ageist. But that’s not what this is about. It’s a problem of representation. We don’t have enough intergenerational representation. We largely have one generation. That’s not to say that one generation should be out of power, it’s that others should be here as well.

seems pertinent, especially given the fact that there are people being deployed to Afghanistan now who weren't even born when 9/11 happened

She’s wonderful.

A godsend. When I first heard of her victory—twentysomething dem socialist from the bronx—I was excited but I didn’t expect her to immediately be the most on point member of congress.

yeah, hopefully they raise the bar immediately, because the 3 of them in a row really showed up the entire committee. boom boom boom.

I didn't think Tlaib (sp?) and Omar made especially useful contributions. i think their affect was more appealing to me -- I empathized with the nature of their outrage. but I'm not sure what they got done. i recognize that getting something "done" can be interepreted a number of ways, and maybe Tlaib making Rep. Meadows sputter and gasp was itself some sort of small achievement. but the focus and organization that AOC brought to the hearing was something else.