Alexandria Ocasio Cortez - "Not All Dems Are The Same"

[storyteller]

Obama won elections he ran in

But he had WOAT results for 2010 and 2014

This is what frustrates me the most about the recent discussions about a goddamned slogan being to blame for downballot underperformance. The Dems underperforming isn't a new phenomenon or a one-off. The Dems had that blue wave success in 2018 (while there was already a robust progressive movement) and forgot that they had been bleeding seats for more than a decade.

To sum it up, the progressive movement popped while down ballot struggles already existed and the progressive didn't prohibit a blue wave in 2018. The narrative just doesn't add up as easily as these cats like to try to make it as long as you apply just a little bit of context.

 

[Lv99 Slacker]

She's the blueprint.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Billionaire Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, disagrees with AOC on whether his class is a 'policy failure.' He says you can't generalize and she says it's immoral.

Billionaire Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, disagrees with AOC on whether his class is a 'policy failure.' He says you can't generalize and she says it's immoral.
Dominic-Madori Davis
2 hours ago

Eric Schmidt , former chairman and CEO at Google, visits Fox Business Network Studios on April 16, 2019 in New York City.
John Lamparski/Getty Images

• In an interview with Time, the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, himself a billionaire, pushed back against the idea that "every billionaire is a policy failure."
• "We would probably all be better off spending more time understanding the contributions made by specific individuals and not making generalizations about anyone," Schmidt told Eben Shapiro, the deputy editor of Time, in an interview published Sunday.
• Schmidt highlighted accomplishments from his own career in the interview: the "democratization of phones and the access to information. I basically networked the world and got information in everyone's hands. I defy you to argue against making the average person smarter."
• The concept that "every billionaire is a policy failure" has been propagated by Dan Riffle, policy advisor to progressive New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
• Ocasio-Cortez herself has repeatedly questioned whether billionaires should exist and the morality of such wealth inequality. She also supports raising taxes on the wealthy, and is currently selling $58 sweaters inscribed with "Tax the Rich."
• In a lengthy Instagram story, posted on November 25, Ocasio-Cortez wrote: "The question of billionaires is less about being a 'good' or 'bad' individual and more about the immorality of a system and economy that not only allows abuse of everyday people but finally rewards the powerful."
• The Instagram story continued, saying billionaires "profit off not paying workers a living wage, keeping medicine expensive, profiting off incarnation and war, building unethical and unsustainable food systems or otherwise hoarding unthinkable levels of wealth of the every few by denying basic dignities of life for many."
• Last January, Ocasio-Cortez also said she doesn't think philanthropic billionaires such as Bill Gates or Warren Buffett are bad people, "but I do think a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health is wrong."
• Schmidt declined to comment when reached by Business Insider. A representative for Ocasio-Cortez referred Business Insider to her November 25 statement on Instagram and to a conversation she had regarding billionaires in January with author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Lv99 Slacker]

I'm with Saagar on being frustrated by the bulk of conversation about this nontroversy being pretty lowbrow in nature. Like, duh. Goods made from unionized workers in the US who are being paid, minimum, $15 per hour, are going to cost more than some shyt made in China or SE Asia. Nobody is obligated to buy merch from anyone. At least you're getting some swag in exchange for your political contribution. I've straight up donated to many political campaigns, just because I supported what the candidate stood for.

I have a few thoughts about "buying American" nowdays. Personally, I consider it a bonus whenever whatever I'm interested in buying is made in America. Manufacturing absolutely needs to make a comeback in the US, especially when it comes to PPE or anything that can help our country fight back against a pandemic. Federal min wage needs to be raised. Many people can't afford to buy American nowdays.

 

[Uno]

Would definitely buy the tax the rich sweater if it was in a different color

 

[FAH1223]

 

[EndDomination]

Billionaire Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, disagrees with AOC on whether his class is a 'policy failure.' He says you can't generalize and she says it's immoral.

Billionaire Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, disagrees with AOC on whether his class is a 'policy failure.' He says you can't generalize and she says it's immoral.
Dominic-Madori Davis
2 hours ago

Eric Schmidt , former chairman and CEO at Google, visits Fox Business Network Studios on April 16, 2019 in New York City.
John Lamparski/Getty Images

EVERY BILLIONAIRE IS A POLICY FAILURE.

Google should be nationalized and its profits distributed to the workers

 

[A.R.$]

I pointed this out a while ago and the centrist on here lost their minds
Pelosi is toxic yet most of the focus is still on AOC.

 

[bnew]

 

[God Almighty]

 

[lightskin jermaine]

I copped the drink water and dont be a racist shirt

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Smoking With Cigarettes]

Couple gems in this

So far, most Democrats have declined to weigh in on the race publicly for fear of drawing the ire of either Ocasio-Cortez or Rice. Some members privately worry about giving a more prominent platform to Ocasio-Cortez’s environmental plank — including her controversial “Green New Deal” — but don’t want to invite scrutiny from the New York Democrat and her nearly 11 million Twitter followers or potentially even draw a primary challenge.

Dems fear AOC's power and influence AOC is a twitter finger airhead and doesn't get shyt done. Media is gonna have to run with one narrative sooner or later because its hard to paint her as a dumb girl and a master plotter in the same stroke

Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) has talked to all the members who are interested, according to a person familiar with those conversations. Some senior Democrats on the committee privately would prefer that Steering does not offer the seat to Ocasio-Cortez, whose aggressive style of politics could complicate bipartisan work during the Biden era. Pallone declined to comment on her interest in the panel.

We still living in this fairy tale of Rethugs being willing to work with Biden when they won't even publicly admit he's president

Edit: The comments on that tweet are kinda comedy too. Even though Nadler endorsed AOC he still getting the lmao

 

[88m3]