I presume your marriage proposal to this wide eyed wild socialist has been sent?
It's adorable that you think socialist is a bad word whilst living on a pension and receiving medical care for yourself and your spouse.
I presume your marriage proposal to this wide eyed wild socialist has been sent?
I presume your marriage proposal to this wide eyed wild socialist has been sent?
It's adorable that you think socialist is a bad word whilst living on a pension and receiving medical care for yourself and your spouse.
JC didn't take AOC's candidacy seriously until the last month or so of campaigning. He debated her twice, and was absent twice. In one absence, he sent a surrogate, a woman with "slight resemblance" to her.“I’ve attended hundreds of events in my district, hosted them, you know we do a lot of productive legislative work. And ultimately, I don’t believe that I’m entitled to just live in the House. I feel like I have to earn the right,” she said, adding she welcomed the primary challenge.
But she said she believes she still holds strong support in her district, two years after she unseated a member of the Democratic establishment’s leadership, Rep. Joe Crowley, who had served for decades.
For BS, she has gone twice to IA, once to NH, and once to CA and NV. In other trips, she has gone with a Congressional delegation to TX, to Copenhagen for COP25, and in vacations to upstate NY and across the nation to CA.Ms. Ocasio-Cortez appears to have learned from his mistakes, downplaying her own time away from her district and in the national spotlight with Mr. Sanders, saying she has traveled with the 2020 Democratic front-runner only three or four times in the past six months.
“They appreciate my honesty and they appreciate that — I work — I outwork everybody to make sure that they have everything that they can ask for,” she said of her voters.
AOC refuses to discuss her challengers.“Give her a chance! We knew who she was when we sent her, that she’d make a noise, and making a noise was why we sent her,” said local businessman Abdul Abbas.
“She’s done good things for the Bronx,” concurred Carol Heraldo. “I like how she presents herself as woman, that she’s firm, that she took what she believed and made it real. We don’t see a lot of young people accomplish a lot because they’re afraid – and she’s not afraid.”
About fundraising“I think everyone has a right [to run]. I of course won my seat with a primary,” she told the New York Post. “I would never begrudge anyone trying to run in a primary.”
I've checked on both AOC and her challengers over at fec.gov, and that is indeed the case for all of them with listed states of origin for campaign contributions.However, candidates on both sides will be looking to raise money from outside the relatively poor, racially diverse district. Ocasio-Cortez’s fame has long transcended the borders of her hardscrabble patch of the Bronx.
“AOC can raise an awful lot of money throughout the country from all sorts of people, but within the district there’s not an awful lot of money to raise,” said Sheinkopf.
I presume your marriage proposal to this wide eyed wild socialist has been sent?
It's adorable that you think socialist is a bad word whilst living on a pension and receiving medical care for yourself and your spouse.
The planet has been dragged, sometimes unwillingly out of poverty, to higher standards of living for most of the planets inhabitants, not by socialism, but by capitalism.
Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren have also criticized "Bernie Bros" for online bullying."The one thing that connects women on the left and women on the right, at least a lot of guest co-hosts, guests that come on, is the abuse that we have all been subjected to by the Bernie bros. It is by far the most violent, most misogynistic, the most sexist, the most harmful," McCain told AOC, adding that "it’s disgusting and vitriolic."
"How do you feel that he’s attached to this deeply misogynistic and I would go so far as to say violent sector of people?" she asked.
Ocasio-Cortez responded that internet culture can be very toxic and the activity online is "difficult to control."
"I think that to a certain extent we have to always reject hate, reject vitriol, and denounce that kind of behavior," she continued.
The top campaign surrogate for Sanders defended the Vermont senator's efforts to stop the online attacks, adding that Sanders "works very hard ... we send out messaging emails."
“The power of his money is not disconnected from his stances on stop and frisk,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Because when you have that much money and you purchase elections, you no longer have that sense of accountability to the people who voted for you.”
WG then mentioned Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi."I was very happy when you were elected because I thought it was a great step ... and then you lost me," Goldberg told Ocasio-Cortez, "because it felt like you were saying to people like me that I was too old and didn't do enough."
Ocasio-Cortez quickly jumped in to deny that, but Goldberg continued. "Well, that's what it sounded like and so that has bothered me because I feel like I love young people .. but you're on my shoulders."
"Absolutely," Ocasio-Cortez responded. Goldberg added: "And we have carried this fight."
This despite a certain favorite-son factor.After Donald Trump’s victory in November 2016, New York City was in a deep funk. The subway was full of people wincing at news alerts on their phones; coffee shops were full of depressed conversations about what had gone wrong and why they hadn’t seen it coming.
AOC is an activist at heart. Even at the present day, she intends her campaign offices to be available for activism when her re-election campaign ends.After meeting with local leaders in Flint, Alexandria and Maria were horrified. “I was really asking a lot of questions, trying to figure out, like, why did this breakdown happen? And where did it start? Were local politicians bought out? Was it the state? Is it a bureaucratic thing?” Alexandria told her Facebook Live audience, which had by then grown to a couple hundred viewers. “And it seems as though, like, when you connect some of these disparate thoughts, it all does come back down to the influence of money in politics.”
It reminded her of why they were doing this in the first place. “You’re always going to hear: ‘Protesters are rabble-rousers, they’re troublemakers, protest doesn’t do anything, it’s ineffective,’’ she said. “Protest galvanizes public sentiment, and when public sentiment is galvanized to a certain extent, then that turns into public pressure, and then when public pressure is applied to a certain extent, then we get policy change. That is how protest works.”
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs - Karl MarxOn the fourth day, they arrived at Standing Rock. It was dark when they got to camp. Somebody was playing the flute. Everybody made eye contact with them, and strangers gave them long hugs. It was the most intimate mass gathering that Alexandria and Maria had ever seen. They were given a tent and a wood-burning stove and zero-degree sleeping bags. The organizers thanked them for coming, and asked if they needed any clothes or food. There were boxes filled with donations: headlamps, portable batteries, and food all piled up together next to signs that said “Please Take Care of One Another” and “Take What You Need.” When Alexandria’s socks got soaked through, somebody offered her a fresh pair.
There was no money or trade or bartering, and the cell phone service was bad, which meant it was difficult for them to livestream from the camp itself. When they got a signal, Alexandria and Maria told their viewers the camp was totally clean, even though nobody was in charge of trash.
Dakota Access Pipeline protestsAlexandria’s journey to Standing Rock, she told me later, was the first time she realized just how much power was concentrated in the hands of fossil-fuel companies.
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“When you actually see an issue up close, it truly changes the urgency and the intensity with which you see that problem,” she said. “For some folks they may have a relative that got addicted to opioids; for other people it may be because their house got foreclosed on in 2008. And for me it was my experience at Standing Rock.”
The planet has been dragged, sometimes unwillingly out of poverty, to higher standards of living for most of the planets inhabitants, not by socialism, but by capitalism.
It's adorable that you are a cheerleader for capitalism when it has clearly been socialist policies like medicare and the pension that have given you the quality of life you enjoy today.
The same with Universal health and pension funds. But it's light years away from what the Bern and other extreme lefties in the Dem party like AOC are espousing. That type of socialism frightens the living beejesus out of ordinary, middle class people everywhere.
The same with Universal health and pension funds. But it's light years away from what the Bern and other extreme lefties in the Dem party like AOC are espousing. That type of socialism frightens the living beejesus out of ordinary, middle class people everywhere.
hehe, ok, so can you explain exactly how what Bernie and AOC is different from the health and pension systems seen in pretty much every European country? And back it up with actual supporting evidence?
this should be amusing if it isn't outright doged.
The same with Universal health and pension funds. But it's light years away from what the Bern and other extreme lefties in the Dem party like AOC are espousing. That type of socialism frightens the living beejesus out of ordinary, middle class people everywhere.
hehe, ok, so can you explain exactly how what Bernie and AOC is different from the health and pension systems seen in pretty much every European country? And back it up with actual supporting evidence?
this should be amusing if it isn't outright doged.
It's been asked before. I don't like your chances in getting a coherent answer.
I don't read his posts for information, but for the Oscar Wilde-esque wit and sarcasm.It's been asked before. I don't like your chances in getting a coherent answer.
Wasn't expecting one. Usually don't engage with those I don't expect any kind of real response from, but thought whatever tortured reasoning he came up with would be interesting, if it isn't a boring outright dodge.
In a time when ~60% of American workers make less than $40,000 a year, billionaires should not exist.
Also, billionaires don’t have a billion dollars because they “work” thousands of times harder than the teacher or the single mom.
They are billionaires because the stock market makes that money for them, which relies on profiteering off insulin, low wages, scrapped jobs, etc.
(& if not this way, acquiring a billion dollars can also happen via monopoly power, low wages, rent-seeking behavior, not paying fair share of taxes, etc)
We need worker-centered policies that reign in Wall Street and value work - including a TON of unvalued and undervalued work, like caregiving.
The cost of system that concentrates a billion dollars in the hands of few powerful people is massive, devastating income inequality.