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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

poster said:
To be fair, unions were so racist it wasn't even funny.
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You mean when racial segregation was legal this spilled over into the unions?

How were they supposed to be immune?

Also racial segregation meant inferior schools.
 
poster said:
I mean the unions I was associated with and when I came up during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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I believe you.

Segregation was legal in the sixties.

And those unions were probably filled with racists.

That was a problem caused by a much bigger societal problem that effected a lot more than unions.

It is not a problem inherent to unions.
 
The Ugly Truth About Amazon’s $3 Billion Beauty Contest: It Was Never Going to Pay Off: "Massive bids to woo corporations — and jobs — to cities almost always fall short. A much better deal? Support the fast-growing startups."
noting
Amazon No Longer Loves N.Y. on Valentine's Day and Cancels Its HQ Plans | Inc.com: "Using subsidies to grow newer and younger businesses would probably serve everyone better."
From the second one, a picture of a protester's sign:
(1) Fund schools & infrastructure
(2) Pass small business protections
(3) Local businesses on Amazon campus
or STAY THE HELIPAD OUT!
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From the first one,
"We love New York, its incomparable dynamism, people, and culture,” the company said in a statement. So much so that there are 5,000 Amazon employees here, and the company says it will continue to grow here.

And that’s the point, according to Amazon’s very loud local critics, which include politicians in Long Island City, where Amazon was going to set up shop, and labor unions — Amazon is anti-union and wouldn’t agree to even stay neutral on the subject. How’s this for dynamism: You want a piece of us? Then pay for it. Other tech companies, particularly Google, have been expanding in New York without trying to hold jobs hostage to real estate deals.

The Amazon retreat, and perhaps one by Foxconn in Wisconsin, rekindles the national debate over corporate subsidies to land jobs from such beauty contests as the one that Amazon staged so expertly. Data from Brookings and other organizations that have studied economic development consistently show that the return on the investment nearly always comes up short. But state and local governments get sucked in again and again in the battle to “win” plants and headquarters that are essentially put up for bid.
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angelo said:
A little more spin on this idiot who's wooed most of the Dems who are left of Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot!

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/...io-cortez-showboating-fraud-daniel-greenfield
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Spewing incredibly ignorant rhetoric is not a position.

Stalin was a brutal dictator. Dictators are not on the left or right.

Right and left have lost all meaning when you have a dictatorship. They only have meaning in a democracy where ideas compete for supremacy.

Stalin talked about socialism and communism but he killed millions of his own and established a state of terror with him as dictator.

To see this young woman who just wants a clean environment for future generations as like Stalin takes an insanity I can't comprehend.
 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Not sure how many pundits talking about Amazon even read the deal or where it was going. $500+ million of the deal was *capital grants.* $2.5 billion in tax breaks. It’s fair to ask why we don’t invest the capital for public use, + why we don’t give working people a tax break.… https://t.co/TptpoRCYMb"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Frankly, the knee-jerk reaction assuming that I “don’t understand” how tax giveaways to corps work is disappointing. No, it’s not possible that I could come to a different conclusion. The debate *must* be over my intelligence & understanding, instead of the merits of the deal."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "There’s NO WAY that this deal - one of the biggest giveaways in state history - could possibly have been bad, right? Surely there can’t be anything wrong with suddenly announcing a massive restructuring & pricing out of a community without any advance notice or input from them."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "There’s no CHANCE that the speculative insider real-estate buys that were creating immediate spikes in rent in one of the most rent-burdened communities in NYC could have possibly been unpopular? https://t.co/wArbA7B1Q6"
noting Amazon employees reportedly already buying New York City apartments - Business Insider
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Or that a technology giant of big-brother-esque potential was selling (notoriously flawed & racially biased) facial recognition technology to ICE while trying to move into 1 of the most immigrant-dense areas of the world? No, it must be because I’m dumb. https://t.co/IoBixav34r"
noting a Washington Post story about a proposed facial-recognition system for ICE that could recognize immigrants.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "There was little in the fuzzy proposal that guaranteed jobs for actual NYers, yet lots of hard concessions from the public. Queens saw how the FoxConn/Wisconsin disaster is working out - a $4.5 billion nightmare - & asked Qs. The response? “This is above you, you won’t get it.”"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Folks handling the failed deal treated community w/condescension+disdain for their legitimate concerns. I warned early to any & all that surging NYC costs+failing subways are creating major political forces to be reckoned with. But I don’t know what I’m talking about, right?🤷🏽*♀️"

NowThis on Twitter: "’73% of cannabis executives in Colorado and Washington are male, 81% are white.’ — The legal cannabis industry is not righting the wrongs of the war on drugs and @AOC is on it… https://t.co/SKreGAIE8F"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Sorry, didn’t get the latest memo after 1,000 experienced + qualified journalists of all stripes were let go w/o warning a few weeks ago and still looking for work: are we still pretending that hires like these are evidence of a meritocracy?… https://t.co/vKhBtVwCoh"
responding to
Media Matters on Twitter: "CNN's new political editor is a former Trump official who has never worked in journalism (but who did pledge loyalty to Trump in the Oval Office) [url]https://t.co/iszEfpbPPa… https://t.co/PYnkZVaBmj"[/url]
The network’s new political editor is a former Trump official who has never worked in journalism.

Early on in the Trump administration, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions ran into a staffing problem as he took over the Department of Justice. According to The Washington Post, Sessions very much wanted to hire longtime Republican political operative Sarah Isgur as his chief spokeswoman, but she had “criticized [President Donald] Trump, repeatedly, during the 2016 Republican primaries,” and thus her “prospects for a Justice Department job stalled.” To break the logjam, the Post reported, Isgur paid Trump “a cordial visit during which she told the president she was on board with his agenda and would be honored to serve him.”

The incident was noteworthy when the Post reported it last April because it demonstrated both the president’s overriding need for loyalty and the willingness of Republican operatives to kiss Trump’s ring as a means of career advancement. The story has taken on new relevance now that the same Sarah Isgur who personally expressed her loyalty to the sitting president has reportedly been hired as a political editor at CNN.
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She has also called her future employer the "Clinton News Network".
 
The new Republican strategy:
A good-looking woman with a democratic message that resonates with the little guy...quick photoshop a picture of her in granny panties!
 
angelo said:
Angry Floof said:
Australia has a similar ideological infestation.
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Australia, if all the polling is correct, is about to take a sharp turn to the left come federal elections in May. To the detriment and well being of all Australians. But like many other Western democracies, political reality takes a back seat about every decade or so. It's extremely difficult for any political party to win more than two terms, which in Australia's case is only 6 years as we have 3 year terms of office.
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Lol. The current right wing government is economically, socially, environmentally and diplomatically incompetent. There are large swaths of the Australian population that will be better off once they are out of office.

The interesting thing about your comment is that you identify labor as left, I mean they are left of the conservatives, given their rightward lurch of late. But Labor is a centre right party economically.

Given the current clown show government's joke of a record it's so weird to see people think we'll be worse off without them.
 
From last summer: Chris Cuomo interviewed AOC, and here is her response to how to pay for what she wants. WATCH: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says 'When It Comes to Unlimited War We Seem to Be Able to Invent That Money Very Easily'
We write unlimited blank checks for war. We just wrote a $2 trillion check for that GOP tax cut and nobody asked those folks how they are going to pay for it…Why is it that our pockets are only empty when it comes to education and health care for our kids? Why are our pockets only empty when we talk about 100 percent renewable energy that is going to save this planet and allow our children to thrive?… We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do. When it comes to tax cuts for billionaires and when it comes to unlimited war, we seem to be able to invent that money very easily. To me, it belies a lack of moral priorities that people have right now, especially the Republican Party.
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