What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

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

It's almost as if the centrist and center-right democrats noticed what happened to centrist and center-right republicans when the hard right started to primary them out of existence and they see AOC as the first harbinger of a similar dynamic in the Democratic Party that will eventually kick them out of their cushy jobs. For reps like that, AOC is not a smart, talented, likeable woman who can take the party to new popularity and the nation to a better more equable future, but America's Most Dangerous Woman who'll take away their perks and paychecks.

god willing.

Who?

MIKE JONES

JASON DERULO

The least surprising news so far is that one of them stole AOC's shoes.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) January 11, 2021

Pretty sure a fake tweet is what started this.

ben give back AOC’s shoes

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) January 11, 2021

unfortunately this is just what happens when you're online enough

First occurrence of this joke as far as I can tell:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/kuccfo/aoc_lets_us_in_on_one_of_the_more_bizarre_crimes/

Someone is walking a mile in them as we speak.

is it ben shapiro? i keep hearing rumors

Where are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flats?

worth your time

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ-OkgNAO1N/

62 minutes of my time?

of any politician i can think of, she probably is

i said through gritted teeth bc i reflexively hate all politicians

62 minutes of my time?

I'm only halfway through at the moment but imo: yes

I'd prefer to hear 20 different podcasts excerpt and analyze it for me

if it helps she wraps up her "rant" (her term) at 40mins and starts taking questions

There goes my presidetn:

Thank you to @AOC for showing up at the #HuntsPointStrike to show us that solidarity is a verb. @nycDSA will be there until @TeamstersJC16 Local 202 wins their demand for a fair wage! pic.twitter.com/D8H1duqP86

— Honda Wang 🌹 (@HondaWang) January 21, 2021

OH MY GOD pic.twitter.com/HeldBn7hf6

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 28, 2021

the fact that she's willing to be this accusatory publicly makes me wonder a couple things

"I had a pretty traumatizing event happen to me," Ocasio-Cortez explained. "And I do not know if I can even disclose the full details of that event due to security concerns but I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/politics/ocasio-cortez-ted-cruz-capitol-attack/index.html

being around Ted Cruz would make me want to die

GOD i hope they're gonna be able to indict the fuckers that clearly aided and abetted the capital coup

ha!

the fact that she's willing to be this accusatory publicly makes me wonder a couple things

yeah, i remember dark tweets a week or two ago suggesting there was a lot of unsettling stuff to come out from the insurgency at the Capitol, I wonder when it will surface?

Nothing is going to happen to any sitting member of congress. Several of them openly committed "insider" trading this time last year and nothing came of it (though one lost an election partially because of it).

I find it a little weird that she is being so vague about something so serious, especially given how angry she remains. If Cruz or someone else truly, directly put her life at risk, then why not say exactly how? Did he tell people where her office is? Did he tell people to go there? It's unclear to me why an ongoing investigation would prevent her from making a specific accusation. If he's a danger, or did something criminal, what is she waiting for?

I think she said in one of her streams she'd been advised/requested to keep information back for security reasons.

she says that right in Leee's post upthread too

reading the tea leaves here I would guess that a sitting member of Congress did inform one of the attackers where her office was. 2 weeks ago there some chatter about who gave tours of the Capitol the day before the attack and I think it was implied that a Republican, who is probably under an active investigation right now, pointed out to some of them where exactly their targets could be found

I don't think this was Cruz, but he was spreading all the voter fraud BS and directly encouraging people to "stand up and fight"

xpost I know what she was advised, I just don't see why she would necessarily decide to take that advice. Let's say someone specifically did send people after AOC. Let's say that person is under investigation. How would accusing that person of doing such a thing affect the investigation? Is the worry it could scare off others (non congress) involved? Are they waiting for more communications between parties under investigation? I guess these things are all possible, it's just weird that AOC would say anything at all, more than once, but not say anything more than that.

...and also tell ted cruz he tried to get her killed, which is pretty specific, but not be more specific about whatever’s *out there*

i'm guessing the FBI told her to stay quiet while they're investigating members of Congress to not move the needle / embolden others to try again, but she's legit pissed off and had to slip something

lol what the fuck is this

INBOX: Rep. Chip Roy letter to Pelosi on AOC accusing Sen. Cruz of attempted murder: “If Representative Ocasio-Cortez does not apologize immediately, we will be forced to find alternative means to condemn this regrettable statement...” pic.twitter.com/YIHNrZBYRS

— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) January 29, 2021

could Republicans spare an ounce of this anger for the insurrectionists who literally tried to murder the VP