The RI thread about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[elfismiles]

FWIW if anything ... DailyMail and who cares and all... I mean, $6K? Really? Wutevs.

Republican group files FEC complaint alleging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign team illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her boyfriend through an allied PAC
By Chauncey Alcorn For Dailymail.com
21:30 27 Feb 2019, updated 00:40 28 Feb 2019
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... d-PAC.html

[Belligerent Savant]

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It appears the continued theatrics surrounding Trump-related testimony has ensnared the rookie Rep. She'll need her people to be more diligent.

Observe, the THEATRE.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/cohen- ... 1551306276

[Belligerent Savant]

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On the other hand...

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/02/28/politi ... -congress/

*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: It's very rare in a House committee hearing for people to pay much attention to the least senior members on the panel. Usually, all the questions have already been asked and all the revelations have already been made by the time it gets to the 20th Democrat (or Republican) to ask questions.
But because AOC is, well, AOC, everyone was waiting to see how she handled her first major moment as a member of Congress. And man, did she nail it. While Ocasio-Cortez has faced criticism -- fairly, in my mind -- that she has said things without checking their veracity in her first few months in Congress, she was fact-based and incisive in her questions for Cohen on Wednesday. She zeroed in on the alleged "treasure trove" of "catch-and-kill" documents that AMI president David Pecker allegedly possesses and on the idea that Trump may have devalued his assets to pay less in taxes. Asked about her successful questioning, AOC attributed to her background as a waitress and bartender: "Forces you to get great at reading people + hones a razor-sharp BS detector.," she tweeted.

(I still maintain the Cohen hearings were largely a form of theatre, as these things tend to be)

[seemslikeadream]

CPAC: God's President And An AOC Obsession

AOC inspires TERROR!

She will take away your hamburgers just like Stalin dreamt about but never achieved


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOzkfiaViL8

This year's breakout CPAC 'star' is, of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

March 1, 2019, 6:51 AM CST
By Courtney Buble

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — There is an undisputed star at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference — one name popping up on stage and off at the nation's top gathering of movement conservatives, one politician whose big-policy push on the Hill has captured activists' imagination.

It isn't President Donald Trump and his border wall. It's Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her Green New Deal.

"With AOC we can't take her for granted. We can't think that the American people understand what Socialism is. We do have to go out and educate," Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said on Thursday.


Ocasio-Cortez "is the thought leader of the Democratic Party right now," insisted Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "She is setting the Democrats' foreign policy table" and the agenda for the party's 2020 presidential contenders.

Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal is "a watermelon," said former Trump White House aide Sebastian Gorka: "It's green on the outside, deep, deep red communist on the inside" and "what Stalin dreamt about, but never achieved."

"With this Green New Deal, they're trying to get rid of all the cows," the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., warned the crowd, to hearty boos — although, he assured them, the push means people will just eat more chicken and "Chick-fil-A stock will way go up!"

Describing top Democrats as closet socialists is a venerated CPAC tradition, with Ocasio-Cortez this year filling the perennial slot held in the recent past by figures such as former President Barack Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Unlike them, Ocasio-Cortez takes center stage despite holding no leadership role in the party or near-term presidential ambitions.

Another difference unsettling some speakers here: She doesn't dismiss the socialist label — she embraces it.

And so she was everywhere this week, featured in alarmist on-stage remarks and splashy video presentations, passionate off-stage discussions, and multiple breakout panels with titles such as "AOC's Green New Deal: Debunking the Climate Alarmism Behind Bringing Full Socialism to America" and "How the Left Does It: Money, People, Technology & How They Sell Socialism with a Smile."

One video screened for the crowd featured color-altered footage of the congresswoman dancing outside her Hill office, drawing a response from Ocasio-Cortez herself.

"GOP defensively say, 'we’re not scared of dancing women!' yet proceed to use footage of me dancing 'with the color drained to make it look more ominous,'" she tweeted, with a laughing emoji. "Spoiler: The GOP *is* scared of dancing women..."


But despite the current of conference concern over her rise, some rank-and-file conservatives on hand said they weren't worried about the New York lawmaker or her signature policy push.

Madeleine Hubbard, president of the University of Illinois chapter of Turning Point USA, said that unlike many fellow Republicans, she didn't see Ocasio-Cortez's package of proposed environmental policies as "an actual threat — it's really just an empty resolution."

CPAC attendee Bobby Walker agreed. "I think it's just a lot of crazy nonsense. I think she just kind of put it out there because it's just something to put out there," he said.

Some said Ocasio-Cortez was getting too much credit. Much of her agenda has "been around before her, it'll been around after her. I don't know why she's getting the total credit of it," said Vincent Mastantuno, a senior at Suffolk University in Massachusetts. "If anything, it's Jill Stein's movement."

Others offered disagreement mixed with grudging respect. The Green New Deal has become "a bit of a punching bag because it is so, I'd say, out there," said Adam Houser, national collegians director for Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which promotes conservative environmental policies. "I'll give AOC this, in that it's bold. I disagree with it, a lot, but it's bold, so I think it becomes a lightning rod."

Either way, they said, she wasn't likely to fade from the scene anytime soon — in part because conservatives weren't about to let that happen.

"She's becoming the wrong face of the Democratic Party," said Gina Roberts, vice chairperson of the Log Cabin Republicans of California and the first transgender delegate of the state's party. "I think it's a good face for us to be going up against."

Courtney Buble reports for NBC News from Washington.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... st-n977721

[Belligerent Savant]

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That Rolling Stones cover essentially sealed her status as a fully-fledged member of the status quo.

She -- and Omar -- will never step outside the boundaries laid out for them. Indeed, their role will be to provide the optics of 'maverick' status, and they'll be afforded latitude along those lines -- they already have -- but let us not fool ourselves into thinking this is anything other than controlled 'opposition'.

[seemslikeadream]

always a ray of sunshine

I am so glad we have AOC

but let us not fool ourselves

Women will take over the world someday


but women keep fighting after getting the vote a hundred years ago we are finally going to be guarantee equal rights in this country...we cooperate ......we fight on...WE WIN EVENTUALLY

It is hard work it takes a very long time we are patient

we fought for the right to control our bodies when men said we have no rights

the day we stop fighting and say all is lost...there is no hope ...we loose and men like the nazi Gorka take over the world

IT'S WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

FORTY YEARS ILLINOIS WOMEN AND THEIR MALE FRIENDS HAVE BEEN FIGHTING...WE NEVER GIVE UP...WE STICK TOGETHER NO ONE WILL EVER DIVIDE US


Illinois has ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, more than 40 years after an estimated 10,000 people marched on the Capitol building in Springfield, Ill., to urge approval.

[RocketMan]

No one said "there is no hope". Saying that the political establishment is degenerate, compromised and corrupt to the core is not saying "there is no hope". The only way you'd think that is if you identify with the establishment.

I like AOC and Ilhan Omar, but that Rolling Stone cover is disheartening. The way AOC's hand is posed deferentially hanging on to Pelosi is absolutely not an accident in this meticulously staged photo.

[seemslikeadream]

was that a joke?

you do understand how the U.S. congress works?

WOMEN need to stick together or they get nothing...we've known that for years WE WILL NOT BE DIVIDED BY MEN...we are not going backwards

[RocketMan]

was that a joke?

you do understand how the U.S. congress works?

WOMEN need to stick together or they get nothing...we've known that for years

Yeah, you can count down all the demographics I don't belong to and wave it around like it means something. Whee. BTW, I will be monitoring your comments on the developments in other countries than the US from here on.

[seemslikeadream]

and I would like to read yours also


because mine are all here to see for the last 14 years

monitoring your comments

wow

[JackRiddler]

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That Rolling Stones cover essentially sealed her status as a fully-fledged member of the status quo.

Come on. That's not how it works. Rolling Stone usually functions to start a cooptation attempt, it hardly represents a completion of it.

[RocketMan]

and I would like to read yours also


because mine are all here to see for the last 14 years

monitoring your comments

wow

Yeah, because we're not supposed to comment on issues other than concerning our countries of origin, amirite?

[seemslikeadream]

what do you think of Brexit

there's a whole thread about it...in case you didn't notice

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39811

[RocketMan]

what do you think of Brexit

there's a whole thread about it...in case you didn't notice

I don't see how you can comment on the functioning of British politics as AN AMERICAN. I mean, what do you care.

[seemslikeadream]

I have been following it I wonder why you don't or at least not here

I know you are a really big fan of American politics...as is your right...you seem well versed on the subject I read about it all the time here ...your views are very interesting


I just have not read your views on Brexit ...seems like an interesting big story to me