What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

like I said, it's actually to her benefit if the activist wing doesn't like her

idk maybe having a “foil” on the left helps w the caucus (but really?), but if she thinks it’s going to make her party the “sensible moderate alternative” for white Panera moms or even the mainstream media, I think she’s going to be extremely disappointed.

or not, bc again—not convinced she actually gaf about winning anything other than donors

Panera moms!

I hate to invoke it, but as long as the “O window” only moves right (aided and abetted by the Dem leadership), it’s going to this or worse forever.

to be*

I read that as Pantera moms.

lol yes what about the Pantera moms? sure, maybe their exes are mostly alt-right now. but they probably want universal healthcare, living wages and affordable childcare

^^Gun control too, because Dimebag...

I keep having to look up "Overton window." Is this really a thing people say in conversation? It sounds like early 20th century interior design.

It is probably spoken aloud and earnestly in hundreds of dorm rooms across the nation every week.

xp it is this side of the Atlantic! I read/hear that several times a week.

idk maybe having a “foil” on the left helps w the caucus (but really?), but if she thinks it’s going to make her party the “sensible moderate alternative” for white Panera moms or even the mainstream media,

these are not the same thing! maintaining control of the caucus means her ability to corral votes, and from her POV as the Speaker anything that helps her achieve this end is valuable. How it plays outside the chamber is not relevant/doesn't enter the calculus.

lads

Pelosi's primary job is to maintain control of the House, now and in the near future. She has little influence on Senate or presidential elections. She will cater more to members who have successfully held seats for a long time than to new members who have only won one or two elections. She will cater more to members who align with the preponderance of the caucus than those whose support is weak or equivocal. That's the system.

AOC and her cohort have to sow the seeds of their own success by bringing the caucus along to their positions. That's going to take time. Their best argument is to become acknowledged leaders regarding issues popular with voters, not just in their districts, but in the nation at large. They are already launched in that direction. We need to support them vocally to lend them the power they will need to change things.

for someone so talented there *must* be a better way to corral votes/ maintain your caucus than shitting on popular politicians from your party in the press?

unless your intended audience is actually pharma execs.

Her mistake was to go public; this was thoughtless. Otherwise Aimless and Shakey otm.

Her irritation is probably an indication of their challenging her more directly and persistently than she is used to. Their sense of independence and purpose is a problem for her, in that it makes her work harder corralling the fence-sitters who lean left and are getting worked on by the new guard from the other direction than Pelosi is fronting.

They know social media and she doesn't; it's gonna be a generational problem. I want AOC and the other freshman to keep pressing her.

she probably said 900,000 words in that interview about her process before she accurately said "they've four votes" in the context of talking about her process, and may or may not regret the latter being the sole pullquote.

xpost: I want AOC and the other freshman to keep pressing her.

yes, she is openly stating that her role is to represent the votes of her party's House representatives. if those votes change, she will not suddenly stop representing them.

well, yeah

DHS & ICE are flagrantly violating Congressional orders, just as we said they would.

Yet it was @IlhanMN, @AyannaPressley, @RashidaTlaib & I that were wrong to oppose throwing more money to abusive agencies, right? ⬇️ https://t.co/JExRxD1XDS

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 10, 2019

The Remnick interview.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-gop-challenger-scherie-murray-172333854.html

“She isn’t worried about us — she’s worried about being famous,” Murray wrote when announcing her campaign on Twitter on July 17. “She thinks public service is not about serving the public, but herself. If you think you deserve better, then you’re just like me.”

Um, you know who the President is, right?

I keep having to look up "Overton window." Is this really a thing people say in conversation? It sounds like early 20th century interior design.

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one of those terms like cuckold that i saw maybe 5 times my whole life and will now see every day for the rest of it

the overton window has shifted on the term "overton window"

We're through the Overton Window here people

defenestrated, even

feel like I've been seeing that term in online political discussions forever

yeah, the Glenn Beck novel came out in 2010 and him and O'Reilly (iirc) had been using it for a while

As the @dick_nixon Twitter account would say, this is a hell of a thing.

‘I don’t want to hear the question ‘is this president racist?’ anymore. He is.’ — @AOC held nothing back while condemning Trump for using the language of white supremacy pic.twitter.com/3rWCkdYq6n

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 6, 2019

Amazing.

rob at 1:14 18 Jul 19

yeah, the Glenn Beck novel came out in 2010 and him and O'Reilly (iirc) had been using it for a while

yeah those are two ppl I avoid like the plague so

Saw this at the comic book store today:

https://i.imgur.com/gW32Z9N.jpg

any publisher who does variant covers should be jailed, but What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

I’ve got that comic
And the Bernie one too

what do they do in them

Whatever it is, Archie's worried.

seize the means of production, one hopes xp

http://i.imgur.com/rFTgSKt.png

oh god

tremble at the power, bro

Wow

batshit leftwing comics 2k19

Devils Due are left wing now???!?

still not as bad as that one shot in endgame

I just assumed it was from the AOC comic upthread

Snaps her fingers for universal max diversity

I just assumed it was from the AOC comic upthread

the logo is right on the cover

all the gems on the inclusivity gauntlet are all the same colour, smdh

more like the white genocide gauntlet amirite

the gauntlet image is from a different book entirely; believe it or not, there was briefly enough AOC interest to spur not only left-wing hagiographic power fantasies but also right-wing talking-point parody as well.
https://www.devilsdue.net/
https://babylonbee.com/news/an-exclusive-look-at-the-new-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-comic-book
not seeing any evidence that "Golden Gulag" books actually published this thing though.

here's another winner from the former publisher:
http://i.imgur.com/skkjIFo.png