Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[Derec]

Nothing is fragile other than the pseudoarguments offered by the fans of the Red Army Squad.

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The people of Puerto Rico have spoken loudly and clearly for the world to hear.
We must stand with la isla. Rosselló must resign. https://t.co/X3hjnJBfA0" / Twitter noting
David Begnaud on Twitter: "500,000 people marched last night thru Old San Juan demanding that Puerto Rico’s Governor resign, according to an @ElNuevoDia estimate
660,510 people voted to put Rosselló in office; he got 41.80% of the vote
An overwhelming majority want him to resign https://t.co/NJNYaF4ACK" / Twitter

I cannot stomach this.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "There is something special and powerful happening in America.
From PR to Hawaii, people are coming together to protect their dignity, rights, + sacred land w massive, peaceful, collective action.
It is something to behold.
Hawaii Community Bail fund: [url]https://t.co/0mGRepaRR7 https://t.co/FFe0RuI41H" / Twitter[/url] noting
Kaniela Ing on Twitter: "A heavily armed police force arrested 33 Native Hawaiian elders who were peacefully protecting our most sacred mountain from desecration. Our kūpuna are literally laying down their bodies for our environment and culture—and they must not shoulder this burden alone. #WeAreMaunaKea https://t.co/4TufyNcILj" / Twitter
They seem to be objecting that the telescope is some colonialist usurpation of their sovereignty -- or something like that. Some golf course frequented by obnoxious rich people would be a far better target.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "We can no longer tolerate private equity groups taking over chain stores,stripping them for parts to close them.
These Wall St firms fire thousands of workers en masse, w/o severance, for a profit.
It’s wrong & it undermines basic dignity AND our economy.
Time to fight back https://t.co/5vaJuJTO4a" / Twitter noting
Bloomberg on Twitter: "Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are asking Shopko's owners what they’re doing about severance pay https://t.co/frtvmLtnwS" / Twitter
Private-equity corps present themselves as venture capitalists, but instead, they act like vulture capitalists, trying to make off with whatever they can.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This is what the climate crisis is doing, and will do, to American infrastructure.
This is why we need a #GreenNewDeal that invests in a solution on the scale of the problem - and can help our nation transition, adjust, and prevent further damage in the climate crisis. https://t.co/4LjwWtJjD6" / Twitter
noting
Spectrum News NY1 on Twitter: "Severe storms can be accompanied by flooding in the subway system, and this one is no different. @RoseMinutaglio took these two videos a short time ago at the Court Square subway station. https://t.co/CWwLSPMZha" / Twitter

Someone responded with a previous tweet of hers:

"Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal."

~AOC May 12, 2019

But many right-wingers' favorite argument seems to be how outraged they are.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

How in the world would that help?

If they get cooperation, rather than obstruction, from local law enforcement they can focus on making fewer mistakes.
The problem is that the Democrats (and you) don't want ICE to deport illegals in the first place. The "sometimes they make mistakes" is just a cudgel.

It's not that the Democrats don't want illegals deported. Rather, it's they don't want them deported because they had contact with the legal system. Deport when their sentence is done, fine, deport because they were the victim of a crime and the cops showed up, a big problem.

The problem is that you don't get representation in deportation proceedings

Do you really think illegals should get free lawyers?
In any case, if you have a valid visa or are a citizen that should be pretty easy to demonstrate, even without a lawyer.

And how do you prove you're a citizen while you're sitting in a jail cell? ICE isn't interested in letting you prove it. Do you have any document that you could obtain with a phone call that would prove you are a citizen? (And don't say "passport"--some of the people had passports when they were arrested and it was "lost".)

 

[lpetrich]

Green New Deal promises jobs for AOC's Bronx hometown | News | Al Jazeera - Back where she came from, residents hope to gain from new state climate policy backed by their prominent Congresswoman.

"I was the only one to give her a big hug when she visited here," says Marilyz Cabrera, who works for the handbag section at Macy's in the Parkchester area of the Bronx.

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a people person, and she doesn't mind getting her hands dirty," the 28-year-old Colombian immigrant explains, telling the story of the young legislator's neighborhood victory lap after she became a member of the United States Congress earlier the year.

Though the national Green New Deal remains stalled, some states, like New York State, have their own GND's, and AOC has endorse NY's version. Wind energy, solar energy, batteries, retrofitting old buildings, congestion pricing, ...

"Using green energy is good for the planet," says Cabrera. "There are so many ways we can spend money more sustainably, and be productive without polluting as much."

...
"We support her ideas. [Ocasio-Cortez] came to our community, so we voted for her," Shaibi added. "She spoke about immigration, improving roads and solar power."

...
"Not one person I've bumped into here has mentioned something negative about AOC," said David Negron, 56, a field representative for the Renaissance home health aide company recruiting new employees just across from the local Starbucks.

She has a residence in the Bronx for when she returns to her district.

 

[Elixir]

Nothing is fragile other than the pseudoarguments offered by the fans of the Red Army Squad.

Wut? Since when are the Trumputinistas the "Red Army Squad"?
But you're right - that cartoon is a terrible pseudoargument. Trump stinks.

 

[Elixir]

The REAL climate heroes are the Republicans who fight against regulations and advocate for MORE pollution!

Ironically some forms of pollution counteract warming by blocking sunlight.

But seriously, one can point to hypocrisy of people like Gore or AOC (main purpose of the GND is not green but red, so it should be called RND) without at the same time advocating climate denialism.

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[lpetrich]

Kyle Griffin on Twitter: ".@AOC: "It has taken us 240 years to have this unique composite of a Congress in this moment. And we will not go back ... We will not go back to the days of injustice ... We will not go back, we will go forward. But we sure as hell will not stand still." https://t.co/EbnDAkvNOk" / Twitter noting
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells packed rally: ‘We will not go back, we will go forward’ | The Independent

“It has taken us 240 years to have this unique composite in the congress, in this moment, and we will not go back,” she told more than 700 cheering Democrats at the Silver Spring Civic Centre.

“We will not go back to the days of injustice. We will not go back, we will go forward. But we sure as hell will not stand still.”

In a rally in a gathering for training Democratic activists, by Rep. Jamie Raskin. It got a lot of people when AOC decided to show up.

The Hill on Twitter: "Rep. @AOC: "We're here. They sent me back to Queens, and I'm happy to be here."
Person in crowd: "Welcome home!"
AOC: "Thank you!" https://t.co/KyoDBflGnQ" / Twitter
(She laughed very pleasantly in the first sentence)
Like Ilhan Omar, AOC got a hero's welcome.

“It has been a kind of crazy week, hasn’t it?” she said as she began her remarks.

“America has always been the story of those fighting to advance the rights of others,” she continued. “And some, clinging to the past, to preserve the rights of a few.”

... “She speaks very profoundly for the millennials my age coming from immigrant backgrounds,” said Samantha Labastida, 23, a child care provider from Wheaton. “She’s the voice we have been yearning for.”

... “She’s an outsider like Trump, but with her it’s a positive,” he said.

“She doesn’t have any money, she’s from the Bronx, and she canvassed in shoes that whittled to the sole. She’s genuine.”

More than some spoiled brat who has been bailed out all too many times.

Mr Raskin – who works with Ms Ocasio-Cortez as the chair and vice chair, respectively, of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties – predicted when he introduced her on Thursday night that she would be “one of the greatest members of the Congress of the 21st century”.

He described her victorious campaign as a “historic inspiration.”

When it was her turn, Ms Ocasio-Cortez returned the favour, saying Mr Raskin was the kind of lawmaker she was hoping to find when she reached Washington – “voraciously intellectual” and “able to quote Jefferson at the drop of a dime”.

She went on to describe the United States as rooted in dualities – “the good and bad, America is the hope and despair”.

After her remarks, she joined a chorus in singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land”, then elicited a few squeals from onlookers when she waved before slipping out a back door.

This land is your land and this land is my land
From the California to the New York island
From the Redwood Forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land - YouTube

 

[Half-Life]

If somebody hates America, isn't it common sense and reasonable to tell a person to leave?

Think about it logically. If you are at the mall and someone says, "I hate the mall!," wouldn't you go, "Ok, then leave the mall!"

If someone is at McDonald's and they say, "I hate McDonald's!, wouldn't you go, "OK, then leave McDonald's."

You see?

Ilhan Omar is treated far better in this country than she ever would've been in Somalia. Yet, for some reason, she screams her disdain for America. Is this logical? No. If she went to Somalia now and then came back she would be kissing the ground. She thinks people chanting "send her back" is too tough to deal with? If she went back to Somalia, she would be beheaded.

 

[Arctish]

If somebody hates America, isn't it common sense and reasonable to tell a person to leave?

Why does Trump hate America?

 

[Half-Life]

If somebody hates America, isn't it common sense and reasonable to tell a person to leave?

Why does Trump hate America?

He doesn't. Another lie is that he hates Mexicans. Guess what happened in Mexico because of Trump? Tons of new jobs are being created due to his policies. Nearly every store has a "now hiring" sign on it.

"Orange man racist!" indeed.

 

[abaddon]

If somebody hates America, isn't it common sense and reasonable to tell a person to leave?

Think about it logically. If you are at the mall and someone says, "I hate the mall!," wouldn't you go, "Ok, then leave the mall!"

If someone is at McDonald's and they say, "I hate McDonald's!, wouldn't you go, "OK, then leave McDonald's."

You see?

If I went to McDonald's and said "I hate the gunk they put on Big Macs!", anyone hitting me with "If you hate McDonald's then leave it" would be illogical and an idiot.

Also, I hate malls but will on occasion enter a mall. There's enough complexity in life that that's not necessarily a contradiction or hypocrisy. If you're not stupid, you won't need me to explain, you should be able to figure it out.

The love it or leave it fallacy is a good measure of person's intelligence. Because reducing a wide range of options to two exclusive options, 'it's either this or that", is very stupid. So Trump demonstrated (yet again) how very stupid he is by using this fallacy. So have his followers for following his example.

You see?

 

[abaddon]

If somebody hates America, isn't it common sense and reasonable to tell a person to leave?

Why does Trump hate America?

He doesn't. Another lie...

Where'd you get the notion that any of the congresswomen hate America?

Why do you have two different standards?

 

[Half-Life]

If I went to McDonald's and said "I hate the gunk they put on Big Macs!", anyone hitting me with "If you hate McDonald's then leave it" would be illogical and an idiot.

If you said that but still ordered 2 Big Macs, I would look at you funny.

 

[Ford]

He doesn't. Another lie...

Where'd you get the notion that any of the congresswomen hate America?

Why do you have two different standards?

This is quite simple. Brain dead right wingers think Trump IS America. He's the embodiment of everything America stands for in their addled minds, so anyone who criticizes him must therefore hate America!

 

[bilby]

If somebody hates America, isn't it common sense and reasonable to tell a person to leave?

Think about it logically. If you are at the mall and someone says, "I hate the mall!," wouldn't you go, "Ok, then leave the mall!"

If someone is at McDonald's and they say, "I hate McDonald's!, wouldn't you go, "OK, then leave McDonald's."

You see?

If I went to McDonald's and said "I hate the gunk they put on Big Macs!", anyone hitting me with "If you hate McDonald's then leave it" would be illogical and an idiot.

Also, I hate malls but will on occasion enter a mall. There's enough complexity in life that that's not necessarily a contradiction or hypocrisy. If you're not stupid, you won't need me to explain, you should be able to figure it out.

The love it or leave it fallacy is a good measure of person's intelligence. Because reducing a wide range of options to two exclusive options, 'it's either this or that", is very stupid. So Trump demonstrated (yet again) how very stupid he is by using this fallacy. So have his followers for following his example.

You see?

Simpletons gotta simplify.

 

[Patooka]

I just want to know where all these people were when Tea Party rallies were a thing.

 

[Derec]

Kyle Griffin on Twitter: ".@AOC: "It has taken us 240 years to have this unique composite of a Congress in this moment.

"Unique composite"? Something like concrete or carbon fiber? LMAO!

 

[Derec]

Even if the other guy isn't her brother, she was still married (legally) to him when she filed jointly with Hirsi, whom she only married under Islamic law, not US law. That's tax fraud.

By the way, her alleged brother husband referred to Ilhan Omar's daughter (who was born while the two were married, but he is not the baby daddy) as his "nieces". Curiouser and curiouser.

From here.

Also:
Address Records Show Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Still Lived With Her First Husband Throughout Marriage To Her Apparent Brother

Even if they are not siblings, there is definitely something rotten in the State of Minnesota and FBI should investigate.

 

[Derec]

It's not that the Democrats don't want illegals deported. Rather, it's they don't want them deported because they had contact with the legal system. Deport when their sentence is done, fine, deport because they were the victim of a crime and the cops showed up, a big problem.

Oh please! José Inez García Zárate had several felonies and yet San Francisco (governed by Democrats) went out of their way to make she he is released and not deported. He then went on to shoot and kill American citizen Kate Steinle of course.

And how do you prove you're a citizen while you're sitting in a jail cell? ICE isn't interested in letting you prove it. Do you have any document that you could obtain with a phone call that would prove you are a citizen? (And don't say "passport"--some of the people had passports when they were arrested and it was "lost".)

If that is going on, that should be where we start ICE reforms. Not making it more difficult to deport actual illegals.

 

[Patooka]

Yep, birthers have found their new conspiracy.