What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

had a lock of Taylor's hair

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This was the back of my concert tee

I received a 2 day suspension for sporting Pushead/Metallica’s “Metal Up Your Ass” design.

Junior high geography teacher gave me a pass on my magic mushroom "fungi to be with" shirt because he didn't want to explain it to the administration.

Loool

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My girlfriend and I wore Dead Milkmen shirts for twin day during sprit week back in high school. But while hers read "Soul Rotation" on the back (from their previous album and tour), mine read "Dick Is Coming" (in honor of their upcoming album Not Richard, But Dick). I was no more than 5 steps into the school when the vice principal became aware. Fortunately, another part of our twin day costume was flannels tied around our waists, so we just moved them up to normal shirt position so I could cover up the offense.

I wore a Dead Milkmen shirt and a fellow student ran out crying because her dad was a milkman who was dead

lucky you had those flannels. when I was in 6th grade I went with a friend to see Janet Jackson on the janet. tour. My friend wore a t-shirt to school the next day that featured some variation of the album's cover art, and the vice principal made him wear a lab coat the whole day because that was all he had to cover (this was in June).

Two of my best friends, brothers, saw the Bell Biv and Devoe concert and came to school the next day in matching "Do Me" t-shirts. No repercussions, other than deep cred.

Another best friend of mine had an array of Amphetamine Reptile shirts that I have no doubt would have offended anyone that read them closely.

I don't even own a potentially offensive t-shirt.

AOC most likely does, but doesn't wear them in the Capitol Bldg.

I definitely got called into the principal in 5th grade for my Dead Kennedy's shirt, which just had the DK logo and the name on it. They were unhappy, but nothing ever happened and I wore it without problems until the end of the year.

I definitely own several offensive t-shirts lol.

i got in trouble for wearing an arrogant sons of bitches shirt, it really leaned into being offensive by displaying their name about 40 times across the front

their discography CD, which played religiously in my walkman, would now be worth $200 on discogs lmao

i can't believe how long kids were allowed to wear Big Johnson shirts in my middle school. they didn't get banned until the end of 8th grade year, and kids ahd been wearing them throughout my 3 years there.

those were *definitely* banned at my elementary and middle school.

I can't remember if Big Johnson shirts were ever banned at my school, but no one seemed to bat an eye at Coed Naked shirts.

i think my teachers were so Puritanical they legitimately didn't know what it meant.

just imagining that meeting

"OH, that golf club was supposed to be his PENIS"

You do all see how a single business getting behind or not paying its taxes is not the same as lacking the policy to even tax billionaires in the first place, right?

I expect to hear this stupidity from my boyfriend who reads the Daily Mail headlines, I expect more from even the most basic poster on here.

A-LAX-ON-TAX-ANDRIA OCASIO(nally pays taxes)CORTAX DRESS MESS

I don't see how there is ANY connection to be drawn between AOC's support for increasing taxes on the very wealthy and her wearing a gown designed by a person whose business is behind in its tax payments - especially 18 months into this pandemic, when businesses of all kinds have had their cash flow strangled. This is so far-fetched that only complete idiots, such as Daily Mail readers, could possibly swallow it.

I did mention the headline might be making something out late taxes rather than tax avoidment schemes but wasn't going to give them a click to investigate further. I posted this disclaimer straight after it! Tax The Rich, but don't be beastly to my very rich friends undermines the message somewhat and hanging out with rich motherfuckers is always going to undermine you when are supposedly a people's champion and a glowing tribune of the left and I'll never believe anything different.

Girls wearing Coed Naked Lacrosse shirts and flannel boxer shorts as regular shorts. Things we need to bring back after we tax the rich.

Please take WS of shame to the appropriate thread and/or share your personal fantasies about high school girls elsewhere.

AOC actively made the designer as a person and business owner part of her reason for wearing the dress. Makes her business practices fair game.

Her tax issues predate the pandemic so that’s a pretty dumb defense to offer up.

Absolutely no defense for a business owner withholding taxes from employees and then keeping them, that should get you thrown in the stocks.

that dress gig could have gone to talented fashion student graduate or someone who needed a foot up. Someone who's married to a fucking billionaire ... please!

Absolutely no defense for a business owner withholding taxes from employees and then keeping them

Right you are! Where has AOC been defending this?

Why would she need to when you’re freelancing? Oh those poor small businesses struggling with cash flow during the pandemic of, 2017.

Lol @ you guys winning a purity contest with AOC?

I thought you were better than that TH

what is purity? I mean a people's champion taking the decision to not hang out with rich arseholes who consistently are opposed to anything approaching socialism isn't any of purity, but it would be an improvement.

apologies for this unwelcome UK interloping I'm possessed by the spirit of Fred tonight!

Lol @ you guys winning a purity contest with AOC?

Well, she's already fatally compromised — I mean, an elected official? Who takes money? Uggghhh.

piss poor m8

Eyes on the prize, dudes. This is “supposedly leftie pol got an expensive haircut” territory

truffle fries for everyone

I don't think it's a purity issue to recognizing the humorous irony in a "tax the rich" dress made by a rich person who doesn't pay their taxes.

isn't the thing they were cited for not actually deducting taxes from employee paychecks?

there are also lots of gaps in the article that are never clarified, which was largely commissioned by the Post and Washington Examiner as a hit piece. Yeah, they provide links to the warrants, but not all, and the status of many of them they admit they cannot confirm. expert testimony is limited to a single quote.

not saying there's nothing to the allegations, but...in orbit otm.

As I read it, they were withholding and not remitting to the government.

Not withholding at all gets you more than a tax lien, that’s one of the things they’re using against Trump IIRC as tax evasion.

"I don't think it's a purity issue to recognizing the humorous irony in a "tax the rich" dress made by a rich person who doesn't pay their taxes."

Milo otm! And if you have to clarify the situation with a "well actually" followed by tax code mumbo jumbo (which is how it scans to Average Joe/Jolene), you've already lost.

the document the NY Post shared shows that the taxes owed are related to form 941, which is the quarterly reporting required for taxes withheld from employee paychecks. 941 tax liens can be for a variety of reasons, not necessarily withholding but not remitting taxes - it can also be for failing to file the quarterly form at all, or failing to withhold and remit any taxes. so I'm not sure how the Post knows that. the lien notice doesn't specify because all of that would have been laid out in the letters sent previous to this one, which either NY Post didn't make available, or doesn't have. and I don't see that anybody from the government commented (and they're never likely to).

these liens aren't exactly rare (a million of them get issued a year), and while they are serious and can level a small business, they aren't all willful flouting of the law. often they're a product of incompetence on behalf of the business. willfully doing it is a felony of course.

I mean I'm not saying there's not anything going on but there seem to be a lot of big assumptions made by the Post based on very little.

idk i'm a little more suspicious of taking a glorified tabloid (Post)'s analysis without question based on documents that don't say what the Post purports they do

so to then extrapolate this to a dunk on AOC, is, well...dumb

xxpost also nothing that specifies whehter the debt was paid after the lien was served, or whether the lien still exists. given how they can wreck a company, be surprised if it's not been satisfied