What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

nice to see

Related: Chelsea Manning has been trapped in solitary confinement for refusing to answer questions before a Grand Jury.

Solitary confinement is torture.

Chelsea is being tortured for whistleblowing, she should be released on bail, and we should ban extended solitary in the US. https://t.co/95ef4xYt3k

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 2, 2019

counterpoint: Martin Shkreli is also in there

So abolish solitary confinement and let those two share a cell.

what the fuck

we can throw unperson into a Midnight Express roleplay

So abolish solitary confinement and let those two share a cell.

― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haven't fp'd in a while. good to be back in the saddle

a few days ago I listened to that town hall AOC did with Chris Hayes and when she said the Republicans passed a constitutional amendment to stop FDR from being reelected I was like, "I hope nobody heard that."

Conservatives did.

xp she was right.

the amendment that capped presidents at two terms was proposed while FDR was in his second term but not passed until after he died. so it didn't stop him. but that was the intention.

i thought you guys were supposed to be smart.

dude the Republicans were in the minority in 1944. They passed the amendment in 1947 after winning majorities in house and senate.

yes, GOP regained Congress for the first time since the Hoover years. Truman was exempt from the amendment.

a few days ago I listened to that town hall AOC did with Chris Hayes and when she said the Republicans passed a constitutional amendment to stop FDR from being reelected I was like, "I hope nobody heard that."

the amendment that capped presidents at two terms was proposed while FDR was in his second term but not passed until after he died. so it didn't stop him. but that was the intention.

She misspoke. I have no doubt that she knows when FDR died and when the amendment was passed, just like I know 100% that Barack Obama doesn't think there really is 54 states.

But like Neil Armstrong forgetting the difference between "man" and "mankind," she misspoke. It's dumb of the right-wingers to run off with it, but let's not pretend that what she literally said was fact.

xxp it also specifically exempted the sitting president at the time of proposal or passage and applied only to future presidents. So she was right for the wrong reasons -- it was definitely a reaction to Roosevelt's third and fourth terms, but would not have stopped him from having them because he would have been grandfathered in.

xp. barack obama knew there were 54 muslim majority states Al-ḥamdu lil-lāh

(irony)

I once ordered the fisherman's special at Hardees and was shocked that I did not get a chicken sandwich. I have no clue what I was thinking.

Sir, this is an AOC thread.

Madam.

People aren’t walking wikipedias. The general point is that republicans moved to impose term limits as a reaction to FDR’s popularity

Trump doesn’t know what country his father was born in

The thing is, like most normal people, she accepts corrections or amends her statements. She doesn't double down and try to rewrite history.

except this time

I wasn’t there honestly

Maybe fdr served just two terms

did she double down? Is this the new thing people want to torch her with?

can AOC serve four term? If so, THEN she can talk.

I didn't even notice what the issue was with what she said.

yes, she doubled down

Hey Rep. Cheney,

I see from your dead people comment that you get your news from Facebook memes, but the National Constitution Center + Newsweek are just two of many places where you can clarify your misunderstanding of the history of the 22nd Amendment: https://t.co/Je6mHFJ687 https://t.co/np1XtgLpm1

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 1, 2019

She said they passed an amendment in 1944 when really they proposed it in 1944 and passed it in 1947.

xp

It’s an incredibly dumb controversy

well passing an Amendment in 1947 to stop FDR from being re-elected shows that they really hated that dude

she got it wrong, it's an understandable mistake, the 22nd was clearly targeted at FDR and his legacy, but insisting that she actually got it right based on a strained reading of history is not a great strategy

People believed in ghosts then

no it was better back then. Great in fact.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/3og0IF3qXWcQtNUsZq/giphy.gif

just wait until Professor Ocasio-Cortez sees my scathing course evaluation for her ConLaw class.

Yeah, I don't think that is doubling down. She's not wrong, her selection of words relative to the timing of how it played out is not great as shown in that newsweek article.

what an incredibly silly thing to devote any number of ilx posts to

vmic though

Also ILE board description.

Captain Kirk let Edith Keeler live, and FDR was overthrown by the Germans in 1943, I recall

xpost, yeah i feel stupid for defending something that doesn't need defending.

I just made the mistake of looking at my dad's fb to see if he has anything new public (because I haven't spoken to him in over 2 years and am not fb friends). Holy crap are there a lot of messy memes about AOC being stupid. Obsessed. (this fascination with Maxine Waters and Pelosi too).

I have to admit that I was taught that the Presidency is term-limited because it killed FDR and Congress didn’t want that to happen again.

if FDR had run for a fifth term, it might've cured his polio.

Winning a fifth term unlocks a new level in Democracy

Paul Ryan: AOC Wasn’t Too Interested in His Advice; Didn’t Listen ‘To a Thing I Said’ https://t.co/qtdC1lN013 pic.twitter.com/PUOkPYuAms

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) April 3, 2019

lmao

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, calls social media a ‘public health risk’

The New York Democrat said she stopped using her account personally, but her campaign still sponsors several active ads on Facebook.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/