What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

FUCK YEAH

was yoho in the room?

AOC: "I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter, and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men.. What Mr Yoho did was give permission to other men, to do that, to his daughters."

— Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) July 23, 2020

I can't imagine him being there

doubt it. most congressional sessions take place in empty rooms

Fitting for a bunch of empty suits.

flawless

One of AOC's flaws is that she flat-out vaporizes fools when she should slit their throats and leave their gagging bodies behind as a warning to others who might be feeling themselves

They have been pretty empty for a while, but extra empty nowadays because of COVID stuff.

Video/audio is pumped into congressmembers' offices and they each have a light in their office that alerts them when they need to get to the chamber for something.

Bravo, AOC.

the bravery and poise in that speech is truly breathtaking. I don’t understand how she even does that. I cried about 5 times watching that

It was pretty incredible. Did I detect her voice quivering a little?

saw more of the speech tonight, parts that I didn't see this afternoon, the whole thing was amazing

maybe being too obvi here since this thread title comes from the obama thread of the same structure, but her command of The Stage is p obamaish only she's, you know, better

The whole thing is worth the watch

ICYMI - WATCH: @RepAOC @AOC remarks responding to Rep. Ted Yoho. pic.twitter.com/0e5EjrXdEJ

— CSPAN (@cspan) July 24, 2020

mostly impressed that she didn't call him out in the congressional record as a bitch-ass motherfucker too pussy to say shit to her face

probably just as well i'm not in politics

"let the minutes acknowledge the lady has referred to the gentleman as 'bitch ass motherfucker'"

let the minutes acknowledge the hyphen as well

maybe being too obvi here since this thread title comes from the obama thread of the same structure, but her command of The Stage is p obamaish only she's, you know, better

this is so heartening about her, yeah - Obama was a very good public speaker and marketing guy, she is a very good public speaker and extemporiser AND a very good digital communicator AND her politics are admirable as well

i think she makes republicans mad bc (1) they convinced themselves for decades that someone with her politics would never go anywhere and she's probably the best known member of congress outside pelosi, schumer, and mcconnell right? and (2) she's young and latina and theyre used to condescending to women like her but...she's smarter and savvier than they are, so when they trip over their dicks in their frustration, she can make a 1-minute internet video-ready speech like "look at how these guys keep tripping on their dicks" and the ownage just piles on.

she's never gonna make the red states blue state 04 speech, but for this political moment she really gets where politics is going (esp for the under 40 set) and is able to bridge the gap between sanders youths and neoliberal "lets have a woman commander in chief to show that we can do it (it=commit war crimes!!)" dems who see her as a boon to meritocrat underdogs. she should absolutely primary schumer in a few years (or threaten it and see if he retires on his own).

more 2 than 1 i would say

oh definitely

One of AOC's flaws is that she flat-out vaporizes fools when she should slit their throats and leave their gagging bodies behind as a warning to others who might be feeling themselves

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Every word of this is true, including "of" and "the" and "and."

AOC 2020: Fuck Around and Find Out

I think some of it is jealousy as well - she's young, good looking, smart, and likeable, everything the Republican party ain't

never forget

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/9ae/615/334ede6460683266f247f75c16d138c8bf-2----.2x.rvertical.w330.jpg

a very serious and principled deficit hawk breathing new life into the Grand Ol Party I tell you what

would Ezra Klein steer us wrong?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has just one minute to give her DNC speech. ⁦@TinaSfon⁩ ‘s Insider debut. https://t.co/aefzHeRUrL

— Elvina Nawaguna (@elvina_nawaguna) August 12, 2020

well that sucks. think of it as like an extra-long elevator speech

you have got to be kidding me

Kasich better get 15 seconds

ffs

how long is Jill Biden getting?

look at the plus side of Kasich's involvement: it means we won't have to see watch him run for president in 2024 (or at least i assume)

Why not? Democrats are going to need someone after Joe.

eh, yeah i think that's going a little overboard

Lucy holding a football telling you that progressives will have strong influence with Biden.

They gave Ocasio-Cortez a minute to speak because she is a better speaker than all of them. She’s an ally to their cause rather than a soldier, and isn’t afraid to push them; ten minutes and she’d be even more a national figure than now.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) August 13, 2020

phony Nixon has a point. AOC's ability to strike quickly to the heart of the matter in a way that connects with her audience is amazing. it's a bad idea to let her outshine the top of the ticket, whose speeches will be full of stale bromides and irrelevant personal narrative to prove their 'authenticity'.

good for party, bad for country

Good evening, ​bienvenidos​, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world.

In fidelity and gratitude to a mass people's movement working to establish 21st century social, economic, and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States; a movement striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia, and to propose and build reimagined systems of immigration and foreign policy that turn away from the violence and xenophobia of our past; a movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few at the expense of long-term stability for the many, and who organized an historic, grassroots campaign to reclaim our democracy.

In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crises of mass evictions, unemployment, and lack of health care, and ​espíritu del pueblo​ and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America.

i'm kind of simultaneously disappointed and impressed that someone working on the green new deal didn't even mention sustainability or consumption or climate change or critical resource depletion in their definition of the mass people's movement. she's thinking about a lot of shit, though!

as I said elsewhere, I didn't doubt she'd make the most of her time. fuck the DNC

the way the media has covered the AOC thing so far seems to be lacking in explanation of why she was nominating Sanders. i guess it's an obvious thing to many readers, but i would guess that a substantial amount of people don't know that sanders officially received delegate votes tonight, that he had to be officially nominated, etc. instead, most of the accounts i've read so far have been vague about that.

i suppose that's just as well. the speech was meant to highlight the people's movement. sanders is a part of that movement, but he is not the source or sustainer of it(unlike the obama "movement" that fell apart after he stopped actively leading it). that's what her speech was about, to me at least.

lol, on the other hand, just after posting that i saw this twitter-generated summary of her statement, and it makes it very clear what the official purpose was:

https://i.imgur.com/Y918DlE.png

that's helpful, i wasn't clear why she was suddenly trending for doing that.

stuff like this didn't help

Editor's note and clarification (1/2):

This tweet should have included more detail on the nominating process.

We have deleted the tweet to prevent its further spread, but it can be seen here for the record. pic.twitter.com/txXo4CCMOt

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 19, 2020

jfc, at first glance that original tweet appears to be the work of a dolt, but on second look there's nothing false or untrue about it, it's just a clearly biased emphasis on technically true-but-misleading facts

yeah it's the old "every major media headline about bernie sanders during the 2016 and 2020 primaries" routine

sanders is a part of that movement, but he is not the source or sustainer of it

Exactly, that's why they should have let the most important figure for the future of that movement give a regular speech, not a procedural thing, and explain why that friends of that movement ought to be working to get Joe Biden elected president! It seems completely clear that's what Ocasio-Cortez believes and they should have let her say so. I don't get it.

needed more time to fit in Colin Powell