Alexandria ocasio Cortez is a breath of fresh air

[Spurminator]

I realize this is absolutely the result of low expectations based on the bar he has set, but props to Cruz for his willingness to partner with the Great Liberal Boogeyman on something that we should all be able to agree on.

[RandomGuy]

Daniel Turner: Stealth AOC ‘Green New Deal’ now the law in New Mexico, voters be damned


https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dani...ters-be-damned

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets about the toll of receiving death threats against her and says she spends some mornings 'reviewing photos of the men who want to kill me'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against her critics in a series of tweets on Tuesday, in which she described being flooded with death threats and forced to review photos of "the men who want to kill me."

Her tweet came in response to a Memorial Day video, which was aired at a Fresno Grizzlies Minor League Baseball game on Monday. The video message compared the freshman congresswoman to authoritarian leaders, including North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Cuba's Fidel Castro.

"What people don't (maybe do) realize is when orgs air these hateful messages, my life changes bc of the flood of death threats they inspire," she wrote. "I've had mornings where I wake up & the 1st thing I do w/ my coffee is review photos of the men (it's always men) who want to kill me."

"I don't even get to see all of them," she added in a subsequent tweet. "Just the ones that have been flagged as particularly troubling."

The Fresno, California, sports team apologized on Tuesday for airing the video and said it didn't fully vet the message before broadcasting it at the stadium.

https://www.businessinsider.com/alex...threats-2019-5


Stay classy Chris.

[Chris]

The perpetual victim just wants to save the world because we only have 10 years to get it right. Nevermind, she was just joking.

[Winehole23]

AOC working with Luciferian Ted

sure, why not?

why can't unprincipled people agree intermittently to suit expedience and vote together?

[boutons_deux]

sure, why not?

why can't unprincipled people agree intermittently to suit expedience and vote together?

Because since Gingrich, the Repugs consider ALL opposition to be illegitimate and compromise/"across the aisle" to be unmanly

(Biden still thinks we are in the 1970s)

The oligarchy pays the lobbying and it will not be denied. iow, AOC/TC is tweety bull . Trash's Exec is putrid with lobbyists

[RandomGuy]

sure, why not?

why can't unprincipled people agree intermittently to suit expedience and vote together?

As shocked as I was about Ted MF Cruz showing a shred of decency, it was nice to see. I am somewhat skeptical that he won't find some excuse to back out of it.

[boutons_deux]

The oligarchy owns Congress, will block any restrictions on lobbying and the "swinging door"

The edness is truly hopeless.

[boutons_deux]

Congressional candidates run for office to become (more) wealthy, that includes being showered with stuff from lobbyists, then, after leaving Congress, becoming even better paid as a lobbyist or rewarded as corporate do-nothing employee.

The corruption is deep, wide, resistant to all corrective attempts.

=======

Get elected, serve a couple terms, and you're set for life

What health and retirement benefits do Members of Congress get?

https://blog.popvox.com/2017/05/08/what-health-and-retirement-benefits-do-members-of-congress-get/

[Chris]

[Pavlov]

Isn't one often working to pay someone else's mortgage if one rents, Qhris?

[Chris]

One works to provide a roof over one's head whether leased or owned. The burden does not lie with your neighbor to do the work for you.

[Pavlov]

One works to provide a roof over one's head whether leased or owned. The burden does not lie with your neighbor to do the work for you.

You didn't answer the question, Qhris.

[Chris]

You didn't like the answer.

[Pavlov]

You didn't like the answer.

It wasn't an answer.

[Chris]

[RandomGuy]

Ocasio-Cortez fights against solitary confinement for Paul Manafort
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...nafort-1353641

Paul Manafort is being sent to solitary confinement in my district - Rikers Island.

A prison sentence is not a license for gov torture and human rights violations. That‘s what solitary confinement is.

Manafort should be released, along with all people being held in solitary.

[Winehole23]

While I agree with what AOC said, it's annoying that suddenly Riker's is too cruel and too inhumane now that a rich white guy has to do time there.

[boutons_deux]

While I agree with what AOC said, it's annoying that suddenly Riker's is too cruel and too inhumane now that a rich white guy has to do time there.

And torture from solitary confinement, so maybe it will damage him like it damages everybody.

[Winehole23]

And torture from solitary confinement, so maybe it will damage him like it damages everybody.

I'm anti-torture. It degrades everyone involved, while doing nothing to improve public safety.

For you I guess it's context dependent -- so long as someone you dislike is getting tortured, it's all good.

[boutons_deux]

AOC: "Manafort should be released" what?

I have no say in whether Manafort is tortured or not, but if infamous political operator white guy exits obviously damaged by solitary, then maybe that could make a case for inhumane, brutalizing America The Ugly to make solitary confinement illegal for everybody.

Obviously, self-righteous, God-loving America doesn't GAF happens after you're imprisoned. The brutal American gulag is one of the reasons vengeful American civilization is ty.

[Winehole23]

So, you won't denounce abusive detention if you dislike the victim. Telling.

[boutons_deux]

So, you won't denounce abusive detention if you dislike the victim. Telling.

I didn't say that. That's Whine Hole giving a pfarten ed up take.

My position is that isolation is torture, and I'm against torture.

[Will Hunting]

While I agree with what AOC said, it's annoying that suddenly Riker's is too cruel and too inhumane now that a rich white guy has to do time there.

This x1000. Rikers Island has operated like a 3rd world prison for years now, the guards arranging and gambling on fights between inmates is that you’d expect to see in Honduras.

[Chris]

Rikers Island has operated like a 3rd world prison for years now, the guards arranging and gambling on fights between inmates is that you’d expect to see in Honduras.

Typical blue state tbh

[Will Hunting]

Typical blue state tbh

Still nothing compared to how prisons in places like Louisiana or Alabama operate.

Id take Rikers Island over Angola any day of the week.