Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I find it interesting that the White Right hates hard work, study, intelligence, making money, and taking responsibility for yourself. All these things are characteristics that AOC has. And the White Right hates her for them.

See, that's the difference between a conservative and a MAGAhat. A conservative credits AOC for all these things, and then moves on to discuss her ideas, and whether they're right or wrong for the country.

A MAGAhat, being stupid and terrified, vilifies her for the same things they praise in white men.

And they wonder why they're perceived as racist and misogynistic.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
I find it interesting that the White Right hates hard work, study, intelligence, making money, and taking responsibility for yourself. All these things are characteristics that AOC has. And the White Right hates her for them.
See, that's the difference between a conservative and a MAGAhat. A conservative credits AOC for all these things, and then moves on to discuss her ideas, and whether they're right or wrong for the country.
A MAGAhat, being stupid and terrified, vilifies her for the same things they praise in white men.
And they wonder why they're perceived as racist and misogynistic.
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But she makes it so easy to target

House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates

House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge.
In a closed-door session, a frustrated Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lashed out at about two dozen moderates and pressured them to get on board. “We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision,” Pelosi said, according to two people present but not authorized to discuss the remarks publicly.
But Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the unquestioned media superstar of the freshman class, upped the ante, admonishing the moderates and indicating she would help liberal activists unseat them in the 2020 election.
Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, said she told her colleagues that Democrats who side with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.”
“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Triggering the blowup were Wednesday’s votes on a bill to expand federal background checks for gun purchases. Twenty-six moderate Democrats joined Republicans in amending the legislation, adding a provision requiring that ICE be notified if an illegal immigrant seeks to purchase a gun.
That infuriated liberals who have railed against ICE’s role in conducting mass deportations and embarrassed Democratic leaders who couldn’t keep their members in line on a high-profile bill.
The Democratic infighting reflects a fractured caucus and diverse freshman class, with dozens of moderates elected in districts that President Trump won in 2016 at odds with hard-charging liberals. The split has exposed divisions among Pelosi and her top lieutenants, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) and Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.), over the party strategy to keep its newfound majority.
Republicans have capitalized on the divide, using legislative tactics to split politically vulnerable moderates from the party leadership. In the coming months, votes on health care, the environment and spending bills could cause more extreme breaks in the Democratic ranks.
While the party’s left wing has gotten outsize attention for its aggressive moves to push Democrats in their direction, the splinter faction is made up of the party’s moderates — many of them freshmen taking their first congressional votes.
They insist they are not going to be dissuaded from voting with their districts, and many are warning that majority control is at stake.
“It’s this class of members that got elected that are the reason we have the majority,” said Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a co-chairman of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition. “Many of them come from these [moderate] districts, and their promise to their constituents was that they were going to put people over politics.”
Inside the Democratic meeting, one of those freshmen — Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (N.M.) — reacted sharply to Ocasio-Cortez’s comments and rose to urge her colleagues to respect the political reality of representing a swing district, according to multiple people present. A spokesman for Torres Small did not respond to a request for comment.
Several are also pushing to reform or eliminate the procedural tactic that has prompted the uproar — the “motion to recommit,” which essentially gives the minority party one final opportunity to amend a bill moments before it comes up for a final vote.
Pelosi trained much of her closed-door frustrations on veteran lawmakers, noting that some held seats on coveted committees. “What is this?” she asked, according to the aides.
Later, when one lawmaker talked about the peril of persistently voting with party leaders on these motions, Pelosi responded that the party stood ready to help team players: “We have a massive MASH operation and, frankly, it should be there for those who have the courage to take the vote.”
Publicly and privately, Pelosi has urged members to treat the Republican motions as procedural feints that should be routinely ignored. “Vote no — just vote no,” she told reporters Thursday, “because the fact is, a vote yes is to give leverage to the other side.” But Hoyer and Clyburn believe that is untenable when Republicans stand ready to use those votes as political cudgels against vulnerable Democrats.
Republicans, during their past eight-year majority, maintained remarkable discipline on these procedural votes. Democrats did not manage to pass a single one from 2011 through 2018. But Democrats have already lost two this year, and during their previous majority from 2007 through 2010, they lost roughly one in every five.
“The fact of the matter is, it didn’t affect our ability to pass substantive legislation that was very positive and had a positive effect on the American people,” Hoyer said, recalling the last Democratic majority and playing down the importance of those votes...…..more to read
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Ms Cortez makes too easy a target for the nattys.

She's a non white woman.

slam dunk.


I loved her questioning of Cohen. The only thing she wanted to know was whether Trump lied about taxes and the names of the people who knew he was lying about taxes.

She's new, but she knows exactly what she's doing.

Trump is absolutely right that could shoot someone in broad daylight and the white nattys wouldn't care - in fact they would cheer.

But popularity has nothing to do with taxes.

I don't care who you are in America - you cheat on your taxes you pay.
 
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Hoid said:
Ms Cortez makes too easy a target for the nattys.
She's a non white woman.
slam dunk.
I loved her questioning of Cohen. The only thing she wanted to know was whether Trump lied about taxes and the names of the people who knew he was lying about taxes.
She's new, but she knows exactly what she's doing.
Trump is absolutely right that could shoot someone in broad daylight and the white nattys wouldn't care - in fact they would cheer.
But popularity has nothing to do with taxes.
I don't care who you are in America - you cheat on your taxes you pay.
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What's her color have to do with anything that spews from her mouth, what is her color by the way? She's Metis isn't she?
 
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Twin_Moose said:
But she makes it so easy to target
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Libs, Democrats, and White Knights cannot see beyond their own rosy view of themselves. To think that she is being singled out for anything beyond her views just shows how enamored they are by her.



Meanwhile it's the Democrat politicians and leaders are the ones getting caught in black face, KKK outfits, getting caught dropping the "N" word, and passing out cotton to African-American teens, and assaulting women. GTFO
 
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Twin_Moose said:
Not agreeing I admire here energy, her hypocrisy and BS that spews from her is what I ridicule
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They know. But as long as they have people who disagree with her having to defend themselves from false accusations and not debating the issues they will keep up the same ol' BS.


Seriously how else can they defend "The reason why unemployment is so low is because people are working two or three jobs."? They can't... so they'll simply call you a racist, or say that you are petrified of her.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Yes. All so-called "Hispanics" and "Latinx" are. Hybrid European and American.
And there are still plenty of people who hate her for that alone.
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There's about a half billion people in this hemisphere who are like that.

You gotta really hate hard.
 
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