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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
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AOC hit with ethics violation after saying fiancé both is and isn’t her ‘spouse’ in government filings

House Ethics Committee says AOC was ‘seeking to take advantage of exceptions to the Gift Rule only applicable to spouses’
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Using our tax money to spend all this time going over bullshit...

When are they going to do something of substance?
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Yes, getting worked up over tiny things. That's what they did about Bill Clinton with Whitewater and other scandals, that's what they did about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi and her e-mails, that's what they did about Hunter Biden, ...
 
Chris Cuomo trolled for falling for AOC deepfake video about Sydney Sweeney - “Nothing about hamas or people burning jews cars. But sweeney jeans ad? Deserved time on floor of congress? What happd to this party? Fight for small business …not for small culture wars.”

But that video was watermarked as AI-generated and Congress was not in session. The AI fake AOC says in it
Sydney Sweeney looks like an Aryan goddess, and the American Eagle jeans campaign is blatant Nazi propaganda.

I mean, f***. Watching that sultry little temptress squeeze into a Canadian tuxedo three sizes too small with her bouncy little funbags on the screen staring at you, piercing through the core of your soul with those ocean-blue eyes that could resurrect the Fuhrer from his grave in Argentina, is something that should alarm every American citizen because in America, beauty is not defined by whiteness.

Oh no, it is defined by the number of victim groups of which you are a member, skinny, attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed cisgender women descended from the slave daddy oppressors of this nation. And any man who [masturbates] while thinking about a woman like this probably hates Black people, probably hates gay people, and they certainly hate the diversity of our great nation.

So I say, instead of simping for the Sidneys, we should be celebrating the Shaniquas. Instead of worshipping the hot, straight blonde, what about the obese alpha? People with blue hair. They need love too. And to all the haters who say companies that go woke go broke, I’d rather be poor than a f*****g Nazi.
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AOC responded Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on X: "@ChrisCuomo This is a deepfake dude. Please use your critical thinking skills. At this point you’re just reposting Facebook memes and calling it journalism" / X

Chris Cuomo then responded
Christopher C. Cuomo on X: "You are correct...that was a deepfake (but it really does sound like you). Thank you for correcting. But now to the central claim: show me you calling on hamas to surrender or addressing the bombing of a car in st louis belonging to the idf american soldier?...dude?" / X

AOC again:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on X: "I’m going to assume you were trying to reply to me and burped this tweet into the ether instead.
You seem to struggle with knowing how to write an apology.
Do you need help? Maybe you should call someone." / X
The anchor later addressed the controversy on his show, admitting his mistake while also doubling down on his attack on the congresswoman for supposedly ignoring issues in the Middle East and underachieving as a legislator.
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Piers Morgan on X: "🤣🤣🤣Oh dear @ChrisCuomo - perhaps spend less time bitching about me and more time trying to spot obvious fakes…" / X

Tim Miller of The Bulwark: Tim Miller on X: "It doesn’t auger well for our societal AI future if a professional news anchor gets tricked by a video that has a “100% parody” watermark." / X

Mike Isaacs, NYT tech reporter, rat king 🐀 on X: "watched the deepfake cuomo posted below that he believed was real and am increasingly convinced we need to administer the equivalent of drivers license tests for access to the internet every five years, forever" / X

Mehdi Hasan on X: "You should just apologize to @AOC, Chris." / X

Keith Olbermann on X: "It is a constant struggle to decide which is the dumber one, @andrewcuomo or @ChrisCuomo Might be a tie https://t.co/NA7hUPX4dK" / X
 
I'll have to watch all three of these videos to properly assess them.
Ocasio-Cortez Offers a Working-Class Vision in Munich, With Some Stumbles - The New York Times
But at two Friday panels, she tied worsening income inequality to the rise of authoritarianism, weaving her working-class worldview into a broader message about combating far-right populism and strengthening relationships with Western allies. Everyday people, she argued, were turning away from democracy because wealthy elites had failed to address their needs.

“Extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability,” she said, adding that it was an “urgent priority that we get our economic houses in order and deliver material gains for the working class, or else we will fall to a more isolated world governed by authoritarians that also do not deliver to working people.”
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Great message.
“So when you run for president, how are you going to impose a wealth tax?” asked Katrin Bennhold, a New York Times reporter who moderated one of the panels. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez laughed and shook her head.
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I saw a clip of that, and she said that we should do that no matter who is President, including her.
Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.
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Almost like her stumble over Israel-Palestine when she was interviewed in Firing Line not long after her first primary victory.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was quicker to respond to questions about other foreign policy matters, such as whether she would support military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — “There’s still so much runway, so much more we can do to avoid that scenario,” she said — and whether the U.S. should re-evaluate aid to Israel. Unconditional aid had “enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she replied.
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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez sounded strongest when drawing a direct contrast with Mr. Trump’s vision of the world.

“They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarians that can carve out a world where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber-rattle around Europe,” she said. She urged the United States to instead deepen its bonds with allies and recommit to global projects like the United States Agency for International Development, the aid agency Mr. Trump dismantled.

And she suggested that monopolistic corporations with huge market shares and wealth were also to blame, arguing that billionaires were “throwing their weight around in domestic politics and in global politics as well.”
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But Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was clearly the draw, with conference attendees buzzing about her presence. Audience members at the panel checked their phones at times when someone else was speaking, then perked up as she weighed in.

... At one point, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez sidestepped an opportunity to get tough on China, using the opportunity to instead critique the Trump administration’s positioning on the world stage.

“If you want to assert oneself as a global competitor, the kinds of things that one would do in order to really assert that position is investments in science and technology,” she said, criticizing Mr. Trump’s cuts to scientific research grants. And she noted that the United States had cut its investment in renewable energy, while China, which like the United States consumes a large amount of fossil fuels, “invested dramatically in wind and solar.”
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I think that she's right about that. China is moving forward on renewable energy while the Trump Admin is trying to move backward.
 
After Trip to Germany, AOC Expresses Frustrations - The New York Times - "The congresswoman argued in an interview that presidential speculation, which included scrutiny of her slip-ups, had overshadowed her anti-authoritarian message at the Munich Security Conference."
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had anticipated a potentially frosty reception to her anti-establishment arguments at the Munich Security Conference, a venue she called “an elite place of decision makers that, frankly, are not responsive to a class-based message.”

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“This reporter came up to me and was like, ‘Is Munich the new New Hampshire?’ And I cannot say enough how out of touch and missing the point, genuinely, that is,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview, referring to the state’s tradition of hosting early presidential primary contests. “Global democracies are on fire the world over, and established parties are falling to right-wing populist movements.”

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She added that she had gone to Munich “not because I’m running for president, not because I’ve made some kind of decision about a horse race or a candidacy, but because we need to sound the alarm bells that a lot of those folks in nicely pressed suits in that room will not be there much longer if we do not do something about the runaway inequality that is fueling far-right populist movements.”

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez argued that efforts to make clips of “any five-to-10-second thing” from her remarks go viral online, especially in the conservative ecosystem, had been done to “distract from the substance of what I am saying.”

On the ground in Germany, the reaction to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s visit seemed mostly positive, at a time when many of the United States’ traditional Western allies are alarmed by President Trump’s hostility and are eager for an alternate approach.
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I think that she's right about that. Running for President does not seem like a big priority for her, because of her lack of interest in visiting early-primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire. She visited both states to stump for Bernie Sanders for the 2020 election, but that's about it. She has also not done much visiting of upstate New York, what would be necessary for a Senate seat.
In addition to the answer on Taiwan, critics highlighted comments referring to the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (she clarified online that she meant Atlantic) and suggesting that Venezuela was below the Equator (the country lies just to the north).
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AOC met with various politicians in Germany.
At a news conference in Munich, she said that “we have tried everything that the conventional wisdom has said is best, and where we are today is record inequality.” She added that “we have no other choice — the only alternative is a world that is dominated by a handful of elites.”

In the interview, she said her meetings had dealt with questions like how to structure a global wealth or corporate tax. And she said she and the European leaders had also discussed how to rebut conservative arguments against renewable energy, for instance by highlighting the role of artificial intelligence data centers in driving up energy costs and framing renewable energy as a backstop to volatile fossil fuel prices.
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Weather is often more predictable than oil and natgas markets, it seems.
“Everyone’s got this story wrong, that this is about me running for president,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “I could give — whatever, about that, to be honest.” She added: “The story is less about the opponents being some hypothetical primary. To me, my opponents are the network that links Orban, Trump, Milei, Bolsonaro, all of these folks.”

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s frustration, she said, was that she felt there had been an effort “to shadow and obscure this all through the idea of a horse race. Like, ‘Her performance about this, or her performance about that. What does that mean about her as a candidate?’ That’s not what I went to Munich for.”

She added: “If I were running — if I had made a decision or anything about being president, or Senate, or anything like that — frankly, I say this all the time: Am I acting like someone who is trying to run? No! Because I’m there for a very different, specific purpose.”
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I think that she's right about that.

In Berlin, she talked about coalition building.
“We need to be able to be very angry at each other, and also know what the real enemy is,” she said. “We have to grow our ranks, and we have to persuade. If we go separately, we will lose it all.”

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“I think a lot about all of the heartburn that the Democratic Party has sometimes had in these internal conversations,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. In both countries, she added, if the center-left and those further on the left are unable to put their differences aside, “then the whole thing goes out the window.”
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