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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The latest on that impeachment tweet: 157.9K Retweets 739.6K Likes
I'm posting on that one because of all the attention that it has gotten.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them. More kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids. https://t.co/HhdMqc5zML" / Twitter noting Ivan Pierre Aguirre on Twitter: "Before @AOC hit the national stage & was just a fairly unknown House candidate frm NYC,she took time awy frm her campaign & came dwn to #Tornillo to protest the #tentcity housing migrant children.I made these previously unpublished fotos a yr ago today. #elpaso #aoc #onassignment https://t.co/SWyyI1XVt9" / Twitter - has some pictures of AOC at that concentration camp a year ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Reminder: Caging kids is a for-profit enterprise, & the people who profit off camps finance the political campaigns of those who legislate more caging. If you want to follow the money: GEO Group & CoreCivic are big ones. Look at the lenders & private equity grps they deal with. https://t.co/QjgZZVx4Nf" / Twitter noting Joyce Alene on Twitter: "$775 per day, per kid & it doesn’t even cover a toothbrush, soap, a bed. https://t.co/CGiRNBbWIC" / Twitter noting Trump admin's 'tent cities' cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents
She suspects crony capitalism there.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "It’s wild to think that Third Way has gotten along with its “sensible Dem” charade as long as it has. I’ve met Trump voters, Ind. voters, but I can’t recall a single voter I’ve met in the US that IDs as a “Third Way Voter.” Just admit you’re a Wall St advocacy group & move on. https://t.co/5VOFByEUhV" / Twitter noting Third Way on Twitter: "Free college for all IS regressive. Blanket debt forgiveness could actually increase inequality: https://t.co/YpT2D9kuJE" / Twitter
Very typical of the Right: pseudo-left-wing concern trolling.

I'm sure that she has a lot of experience from her door-to-door campaigning, though her district is mostly yellow-dog-Democrat.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Wayfair workers couldn’t stomach they were making beds to cage children. They asked the company to stop. CEO said no. Tomorrow, they‘re walking out. This is what solidarity looks like - a reminder that everyday people have real power, as long as we’re brave enough to use it. https://t.co/667abeLDTG" / Twitter noting wayfairwalkout on Twitter: "tl;dr - Wayfair sold beds to furnish border camps; 547 employees signed a petition to ask that we cease all business with border camps; CEO said no —>employees are walking out tmrw at 1:30pm. We ask that Wayfair donate all profits made from the sale to RAICES #WayfairWalkout" / Twitter

Dr. Kate Wright on Twitter: "I've studied humanitarian comms for a decade and I agree with @AOC on this. Reports are consistent: people are held in the US without trial, without adequate food or shelter, in conditions designed to humiliate, degrade and brutalise them. #DontLookAway https://t.co/pfu9WgFpQL" / Twitter noting Academics Rally Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Over Concentration Camp Comments: 'She Is Completely Historically Accurate'
 
AOC refuses to budge:
manny on Twitter: "People on both sides of the aisle are very mad at @AOC's use of the term "concentration camp." Here I explain why she's right, according to history: https://t.co/Z63n4moB2X" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "😎 https://t.co/p20O6WLNSe" / Twitter noting Jessica Blatt on Twitter: "@chrisychung @madinatoure @AOC A Jackson Heights voter (Latinx, maybe mid-60s) when she heard @CabanForQueens was endorsed by @AOC: “oh, that troublemaker. I like her. I like women who make trouble.”" / Twitter

After concentration camp comparison, photographer shares photos of Ocasio-Cortez at border | TheHill
“I cannot control what kind of right-wing garbage shows up on the bottom of the posts,” a spokesman from Ocasio-Cortez’s office told The Hill, adding that comments alleging the photos were fake or staged are “in no way related to reality or truth.”

... Despite criticism from Republican and some Democratic lawmakers, Ocasio-Cortez refused to walk back her comments, tweeting, “I will never apologize for calling these camps what they are. If that makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps - not the nomenclature.”
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That's how you do it.
 
(AOC standing by her use of "concentration camps")
Derec said:
Jesus. She is the one conflating these terms.
AOC is the shorter, left-wing version of Congressman Jonah Ryan.
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Who is Jonah Ryan?

Also, according to right-wing hero Ben Shapiro, "Facts don't care about your feelings". Including right-wingers' feelings.
 
Derec said:
blastula said:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqHgbC8-C0Y[/YOUTUBE]

That's how you do it.
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Jesus. She is the one conflating these terms.
AOC is the shorter, left-wing version of Congressman Jonah Ryan.
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And yet I could imagine you being in full agreement against "Islamic math"

Who is Jonah Ryan?
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Fictional character in the TV show Veep.
 
AOC supported Tiffany Cabán for District Attorney of Queens - she had been a public defender. TC just won the Democratic primary there.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I am so incredibly proud of @CabanForQueens - and EVERY single person who showed up for this election today. No matter how this ends, you all have stunned NY politics tonight. When people come together, we can beat big money in elections. People power is no fluke. https://t.co/hsJx7p3REN" / Twitter noting Daniel Altschuler 🦋 on Twitter: "It is absolutely electric at @CabanForQueens HQ right now, where she is up with 85% of precincts reporting. #QueensDA https://t.co/7XVpj4VOtG" / Twitter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "We meet a machine with a movement. 💪🏽💜 https://t.co/8Z19Ej7S8p" / Twitter noting Rob Smith on Twitter: "This is the most stunning win yet in the movement to elect decarceral prosecutors: Tiffany Caban (@CabanForQueens), a 31 year-old queer, Latina public defender will become the District Attorney of Queens, the 11th most populous county in America. That’s people power." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Today marks one year since I won my primary election. It has been a transformative year for myself, our community, and the overall progressive movement. As I reflect throughout the day, the main sentiment I want to share with you all is: Thank you. https://t.co/ZnejCFD3Mg" / Twitter
Her great triumph over Joe Crowley, her out-of-touch predecessor. It was a squeaker of a victory, but she was a total unknown who came from behind.
 
Public Citizen on Twitter: ".@AOC on Kellyanne Conway's Hatch Act violations: We're 20 years away from the Central Park 5, where the president demanded the death penalty for 5 black and brown boys. And here we have evidence of multiple violations of the same law, and he won’t even issue a slap on the wrist. https://t.co/SN8nkK0GZL" / Twitter

Manu Raju on Twitter: "“The president has already indicated he would veto the House version, which has far more humanitarian aid for these children, which I think indicates there is political intent behind the suffering of kids at our border,” @AOC told me when asked about border funding bill talks" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Last week, we called the concentration camps at the border for what they are. In the week since: - Acting director of Customs & Border Patrol resigned - Bank of America announced they will stop financing for-profit immigrant detention & private prisons. Words matter. https://t.co/xzBMotvTSB" / Twitter noting [https://twitter.com/MaketheRoadNY/status/1143962030954700802 Make the Road NY 🦋 on Twitter: "#BREAKING: Bank of America will stop financing private prison & immigrant detention companies! This follows huge grassroots pressure nationwide on banks to stop bankrolling the industry. The dominoes keep falling! #BackersofHate #FamiliesBelongTogether https://t.co/F3VkPw4si2" / Twitter]

Rep Ayanna Pressley on Twitter: ".@KellyannePolls ignored @US_OSC, ignored the #HatchAct, and is actively and ruthlessly ignoring congress. I've had enough with the blatant disrespect coming out of this Administration and fully support issuing a subpoena. https://t.co/RNOY0BLGjC" / Twitter - Kellyanne Conway prefers to appear before Fox and Friends than before Congress, so Rep. Pressley supports a motion to subpoena her.

Billy Freeland on Twitter: "One year ago today: @AOC shocked the political pundit class & won against all odds. She told us that night: “You have given this country hope.” She was right. Democrats retook the House. Ideas like Medicare for All & Green New Deal are on the rise. Hope is on the rise. https://t.co/pm5Kp8NtJA" / Twitter

madridstreetfilms on Twitter: "@policyjunkie @AOC Ascension by Joe Pisciotta a madridSTREETfilm [url]https://t.co/k1oERLu5KN VIDEO LICENSED UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGES LICENSED UNDER FAIR USE music by 13 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez https://t.co/iqEU66bXAe https://t.co/Ru9yMHmOc1" / Twitter[/url] - about AOC's campaign

Tiffany Cabán on Twitter: "This campaign started with just four women, sitting around a kitchen table, saying: we have to change the system. So I did what many thought was unthinkable for a 31-year-old Queer Latina public defender whose parents grew up in the Woodside Houses. I decided to run." / Twitter
 
Glenn Beck talking about self ignorance without a shred of self awareness or a sense of irony?

That is completely and utterly.......plausible. Yeah saw that a mile off.
 
Justice Democrats on Twitter: "“There would be no ‘green dream’ conversation [if we didn’t sit in]. There would be no comment to the press. There would be no attempts to tamp us down or marginalize us or make us seem smaller than we are if we didn’t do the big bold, scary things.” -@AOC https://t.co/SgoUy3SCEu" / Twitter noting 36 Hours With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Vogue - "America's freshman class president."

She was initially worried that she'd be a flash in the pan.
Even three months ago, she says, “I would have been terrified” of saying what she said about conditions at the border. She would have agonized over whether she had “compromised the movement.” Now, she trusts her instincts more. “It’s rooted in faith that if I vocalize what I think is the morally correct position, people will crop up and support it.” Her staff members do not control her personal accounts; they sometimes find out what she’s said by whether or not it’s trending on Twitter the next day.
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Her first three months in office were exhausting, like going 12 hours without eating. But she has learned to schedule rest time for herself, even if she felt guilty about resting. She has also mandated paper agendas for every meeting.
A week after she was officially elected, Ocasio-Cortez joined Sunrise protestors in a sit-in in Nancy Pelosi’s office last November. “I didn't know how that was going to play out,” she says. A few months later, Pelosi referred in an interview to the Green New Deal as “the green dream or whatever.” Did it make Ocasio-Cortez reconsider her approach? No, she says. “There would be no ‘green dream’ conversation [if we didn’t do that]. There would be no comment to the press. There would be no attempts to tamp us down or marginalize us or make us seem smaller than we are if we didn’t do the big bold, scary things.”
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She recognizes that in Congress's hierarchy, first-term members are low in the hierarchy, but she doesn't think that climate-change issues can wait for her to advance in seniority.

“It makes a very big difference once other people know your heart, and I’ve tried to make an effort to have conversations with lots of members so they understand where I’m coming from.” That might be the key to Ocasio-Cortez’s biggest staying power in Congress: she can express unlikable, uncomfortable ideas (this week, that conditions at the border are cruel and fascist, and have long been so) while somehow remaining likable herself.
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Her partner Riley Roberts is a software engineer who usually works at home and who sometimes walks her to work. He calls her Alex. She was known as Sandy in high school.
She is much less nervous than she used to be. “I do think that when I first got here, almost everyone thought I was a lightweight,” she says, waiting in the empty, very stately Rayburn Room. “Republicans really tried to fuck with me, for lack of a better term.” That included introducing a surprise faux “Green New Deal” amendment, so that she would be recorded voting the measure down. They constantly interrupted her. But they weren’t counting on Ocasio-Cortez shining so much in those five uninterrupted minutes she gets on the floor. “I let them have it, then it probably happened three or four times before they stopped interrupting me ever again,” she says. “Polling shows that affluent women don’t like that. I need to be a gentlelady, and, I mean, I can if I want to be. But I don’t want to be.”
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After some mention of socialism, something that I was not able to follow very well, she talked about how some fellow politicians feel that they must give up everything that they stand for just to win some guy in a diner, some slice of Trump voters.

When reporters reach her, they ask her about Iran and the continuing concentration-camps story. After listing some of the deaths and nasty conditions there, in the third day of the controversy over what she called them, she stated “We should be talking about conditions on our border every damn day. If I have to call it what it is for people to pay attention to it, so be it.” She later went to a bimonthly dinner with her team.

When I think about campaigning,” she says of facing a primary challenger in 2020, “I just bust my ass working for the community, and the community will be there.”

A candidate not consumed by reelection feels nearly scandalous. But I get it: Our generation has pretty much only a guaranteed present. “I don’t think too much about [the future]. I’d probably say the most in the future I think about has to do with personal stuff, like how I would handle having children,” she says. She does her best nasally media impression: “Where do you see yourself in five years? I just ask the question, how can I do the most good right now?”
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KeepTalking said:
Derec said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
This sounds like the 'There is no law that forces you to pay the IRS" argument.
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Sounds more like sloppy record keeping by some companies that buy up bad debt.
Note, not paying on your credit cards will definitely wreck your credit; his comment only applies to some company buying bad debt for pennies on the dollar actually trying to sue you for the balance.
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Right, so long as all you care about is not paying your bills, and not getting sued for it, take HL's advice. If you want to be able to get a non-predatory loan, hold a job that touches finances in any way, or otherwise care about your credit rating for any reason, you will want to pay your minimum balance and find a better method of climbing out of debt.
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He's at least somewhat right. When I was dealing with my mother's estate I was being hounded by debt collectors. None of them tried anything but phone calls. While I was actually on solid legal ground I don't think the companies doing it realized the situation even though I told them the facts and what they should do. (In many cases it was obvious the debt collector didn't believe me when I told them it was an estate case.) The ones that listened (and in every case it was done up front before it was ever turned over for collections) got 100%, the ones that didn't listen and turned it over to collections got 0%.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
angelo said:
Just another person's opinions, but very valid.

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Hahaha, these alleged concentration camps are nothing like Operation Jade Helm, where people actually died!

[/right-winger]
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That was a joke... right? That guy didn't say that? That I have to ask...

*sigh*
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This something that probably should be said. The reason to bring up Operation Jade Helm (or even Death Panels ala Sarah Palin), is that the same Reich wingers who are calling AOC a ditzy bimbo for calling detention centers "concentration camps" were calling Jade Helm the implementation of death camps. There wasn't even anything there, let alone people dying. Nothing there at all. And guess who led the charge? Glen Beck. Donald Trump. Yeah, those same righteous leaders. This is far more than Moore-Coulter.

To AOC's point about concentration camps, let's not forget an underlying reason those people are there, those kids are in cages is racism. I have to bring that up because when people are dying, when kids are dying, being concentrated in these camps with no soap, no blankets, no care for infants and DYING, then that's what they are--concentration camps. Sure, Hair Furor doesn't have a Master Plan of extermination, but that isn't a necessary element of calling something a concentration camp.

That a camp actually exists is a criterion, though!
 
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
That was a joke... right? That guy didn't say that? That I have to ask...

*sigh*
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This something that probably should be said. The reason to bring up Operation Jade Helm (or even Death Panels ala Sarah Palin), is that the same Reich wingers who are calling AOC a ditzy bimbo for calling detention centers "concentration camps" were calling Jade Helm the implementation of death camps. There wasn't even anything there, let alone people dying. Nothing there at all. And guess who led the charge? Glen Beck. Donald Trump. Yeah, those same righteous leaders. This is far more than Moore-Coulter.

To AOC's point about concentration camps, let's not forget an underlying reason those people are there, those kids are in cages is racism. I have to bring that up because when people are dying, when kids are dying, being concentrated in these camps with no soap, no blankets, no care for infants and DYING, then that's what they are--concentration camps. Sure, Hair Furor doesn't have a Master Plan of extermination, but that isn't a necessary element of calling something a concentration camp.

That a camp actually exists is a criterion, though!
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Good observation.
 
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