Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[untermensche]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

 

[poster]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

They're giving out Nobel Prizes for that now?

 

[untermensche]

Yeah.

I guess you were born last night.

 

[Derec]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

They're giving out Nobel Prizes for that now?

It's not technically the same as the other prizes, as it is not connected to Alfred Nobel's will, but it has been around since 1968.
So it depends on how many nits you want to split.
I think it is much more useful than the original prizes for literature or peace. Especially peace. They gave one to a terrorist and another one to a president who's just been elected and hadn't done anything.

 

[untermensche]

GW was such a horror and so hated in the world that they gave Obama the peace prize for just not being Bush.

 

[poster]

Yeah.

I guess you were born last night.

You didn't get it.

 

[untermensche]

Yeah.

I guess you were born last night.

You didn't get it.

What's to get?

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Had an AWESOME day talking about bravery, confidence, and skill-building with hundreds of young @GirlsWhoCode at the NY Hall of Science in Queens!… https://t.co/5ReGFrsA4o"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "“The Green New Deal agenda is both feasible and affordable.” -Jeffrey Sachs As conservatives wag their finger and call me dim on econ, a flood of economists have been verifying the #GreenNewDeal‘s sound policy credentials. The GOP talks about flatulence. https://t.co/cuALBdbLJU"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Yup. If you don’t like the #GreenNewDeal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis. Until then, we’re in charge - and you’re just shouting from the cheap seats.… https://t.co/DL23xNsQ5K"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Leadership starts with our choices. That’s why I decided that no one on my staff will make less than $52k/year. It’s likely one of the highest entry-level salaries on the Hill. We pinch pennies elsewhere, but it’s worth every dime to pay a living wage. https://t.co/IxfNH4632h"
A commendable ideal, but let's see how well she does with it. I hope that they do most of their pennypinching on status-symbol items, likebuying cheap furniture instead of expensive furniture, for instance.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "A lot of people commenting don’t know how Congressional salaries work. Each member is given a set amount that they disburse. GOP has refused to increase budgets in years to give hard-working staff a raise, which means people helping to run the country are getting paid $30k/year."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "It’s pretty sad that people think low Congressional staff pay is a good thing. Low pay a big reason why money in politics is a problem - you can make a lot more money becoming a lobbyist & setting up a relationship w/ one, since the actual job doesn’t pay enough. Domino effect."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Do you think the Mercers will eventually fund 8 JCN billboards, one for each of the 8 Bermuda offshore tax avoidance vehicles they’ve been linked to in the Paradise Papers? [url]https://t.co/nm2nrgVW51… https://t.co/dPv4GpzAE4"[/url]
Mercer revelation in Paradise Papers - Axios

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Some people are aghast that we‘ve connected dots between environmental, econ, social, + racial justice in the #GreenNewDeal. Despite Flint, Standing Rock, Puerto Rico, Katrina, & WV, people desperately want us blind to the injustices of frontline communities. Here’s another … https://t.co/wk3v93klei"

 

[Trausti]

 

[angelo]

Wrong.

It is nice to watch the bigots and hateful squirm.

And all it takes is a young woman with intelligence.

Watching them squirm because an intelligent black man was president was great too.

It made the bigots and hateful so crazy they elected Trump.

So 50% of Americans are crazy bigots? If you think Cortez is intelligent, then you have extremely low standards of what you think is intelligence! No wonder you think Chavez-Maduro are gods!

Who is this 50% of Americans?

Trump got fewer votes than Hillary. And only about 60% of the people voted.

Palin is a Rhodes scholar next to you.

Here e go again! The popular vote is not what wins US Presidential elections. College votes do, and Trump won those in a landslide! The fathers of the US constitution knew what they were doing. The idea was to stop the big states from dominating the smaller states. Killery received most of her votes from The Socialist Republics Of California and New York. Both of these watermelon states which are 80% Dems supporters proves the founding fathers of America knew exactly what they were doing!

 

[angelo]

No, I just follow their policies. They actually have some, which is more than can be said for the LNP, who in between attempts to cut services & corporate taxes while pushing coal and knifing their leaders, just screech about immigration and border security.

It didn't work in the recent Victorian state election, it seems unlikely to work in the federal election and it's certainly not delivering anything constructive for the country.

Obviously a hard leftist would follow a socialist ideology that has never worked, can never work and will never work unless forced upon the sheeple who would actually be stupid enough to vote for the watermelons.

You actually read like caricature.

Australian Labor are to the right of most governments in the Northern European countries - all of which score better on most economic and quality of life indicators than Australia. (Still I like the beach so not going to live there). Australian Labor is not socialist. If you don't understand that then you literally don't understand politics.

If you can point to anything positive and concrete that the LNP have achieved in the last 6 years go ahead. The party that you label 'socialist' has a better economic record on pretty much every measure than the conservatives as well.

On the flip side - the conservatives have; rolled back a functioning carbon price - ostensibly to lower power bills - which has had the opposite effect and power bill shave gone up significantly. Straight up lied about not cutting funding to the public broadcaster and schooling, wasted billions on an a moronic 'direct action' climate plan while 30% of the great barrier reef was destroyed, fucked up the national broadband network, doubled the deficit during an up economic cycle, tried to undercut the federal revenue base by cutting corporate taxes and failed even though they held a majority in parliament, failed to even pretend to deal with the housing bubble in Sydney and Melbourne that holds at least half a trillion distressed debt and rising as the bubble bursts and prices begin sliding, oversaw record low real wage growth and up to 23% decrease in private capital investments and have refused to deal with tax avoidance from large private and public multinationals. Oh yes - they also did everything they could to prevent the royal commission into banking sector that revealed billions of dollars worth of criminal activity by the major banks - at the expense of the people of Australia. Also unleashed environmental risks like approving oil exploration in the great Australian Bight - fully 1/3 deeper than the deepwater horizon well.

In addition to all this:

Knifed one leader and manufactured a double dissolution election that saw them drop their parliamentary majority to 1 seat with the most popular LNP leader since Howard the rat
Knifed that popular leader after he clawed the rightward lurching LNP back to with in margin of error against Labor because he wasn't conservative enough
Now at a 10% disadvantage going into the federal election and only raving about swarms of illegal immigrants can possibly save them from the same fate as the wipeout they suffered in Victoria few months ago

If you hate Australia, by all means vote for the LNP. They are social and environmental vandals. Their economic record can only be explained by either colossal incompetence or an active desire to concentrate wealth amongst a tiny proportion of the Australian population. Linking this back to AOC - you have to realise that there are growing sectors of the US and Aus populace that look at the records of conservative governments and justifiably call bullshit. They are rigging the game, and even with the help of conservative Murdoch loudspeaker media people are sick of their shit. Either way they don't give a fuck about you - so why are you going to bat for them?

P.S. Oh yeah - they also failed to deal with the fact that in 2021 when Australia overtakes Qatar as the largest natural gas exporter in the world - the Qataris will get almost $27 billion for their gas in royalties, Australians will get around $800 million. It's borderline treason to fail the country this badly.

A fundamental Laborite I see! You're no different to a Moron, or a JW, or even a Muslim fundamentalist! One cannot reason with them, the same as any other fundamentalist. You stick to your story, I'm sure your lord and masters Get Up and Backflip Bill will love you for it!

 

[angelo]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

Has the Nobel Prize still have any credibility after Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Obongo, and others were awarded it?

 

[untermensche]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

Has the Nobel Prize still have any credibility after Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Obongo, and others were awarded it?

In the adult world, yes.

 

[angelo]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

Has the Nobel Prize still have any credibility after Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Obongo, and others were awarded it?

In the fantasy world, yes.

Fixed it for you.

 

[untermensche]

Like a child.

We all thought like little children at one time.

And thought looking like an ignorant racist asshole might be fun.

 

[angelo]

Like a child.

We all thought like little children at one time.

And thought looking like an ignorant racist asshole might be fun.

Describes AOC to a tee!

 

[untermensche]

I hear you.

Your daddy beat you and your mom ran off with an aborigine.

Life sucks.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

Has the Nobel Prize still have any credibility after Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Obongo, and others were awarded it?

The problem here is that there are the scientific prizes that have been and remain a good thing and the non-scientific ones that are subjective and to a large degree garbage. The Peace prize is at the top of this list.

 

[Elixir]

You mean the Nobel Prize winning economist?

Has the Nobel Prize still have any credibility after Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Obongo, and others were awarded it?

The problem here is that there are the scientific prizes that have been and remain a good thing and the non-scientific ones that are subjective and to a large degree garbage. The Peace prize is at the top of this list.

Yabut surely Cheato would like "The Nobel Prize for Nuclear", about which he knows more than anyone. Or Maybe the Space Force will get him the Nobel Prize for Space. You can't say THOSE aren't sciencey!

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]