A.O.C.

[Pauls' Revere]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/airhead-alert-ocasio-cortez-declares-194112011.html

By CCN.com: Newbie congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is causing waves within her own political caucus by declaring war on moderate Democrats who refuse to go along with her desire to move the party to the far-left.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Blacklist Reasonable Democrats

Ocasio-Cortez — a self-declared socialist — threatened to put moderate Democrats on a hit list of people she’ll target to unseat at the next election, the Washington Post reported.

AOC Champions Open Borders and Socialism

AOC and other far-left members of the splintered Democrat Party were furious this week after 24 moderate Democrats sided with Republicans on a bill that would expand background checks for gun purchases.

Ocasio-Cortez’s rep said she told her colleagues that moderate Democrats who side with Republicans on this issue “are putting themselves on a [hit] list.”

While Democrats want restrictions on the Second Amendment, AOC and her motley crew of open-borders leftists were outraged that a provision requires ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to be notified if illegal immigrants try to buy guns.

This goes against the leftist orthodoxy of rabidly promoting illegal immigration — regardless of the heavy financial burden and social costs to Americans.

I think the 2020 election will be bloody, fertile ground for those agitators and agent provocateurs.

[Anti Globalist]

Looks like the power is getting to her head.

[Swordsmyth]

Looks like the power is getting to her head.
Or like she is a "suicide bomber" sent to destroy the Demoncrat party.

[Pauls' Revere]

Or like she is a "suicide bomber" sent to destroy the Demoncrat party.

Or, she's gonna carry momentum for Bernie.

[Pauls' Revere]

Or like she is a "suicide bomber" sent to destroy the Demoncrat party.

By whom? the GOP? wouldn't that be hilarious.

[Swordsmyth]

By whom? the GOP? wouldn't that be hilarious.
I lack the knowledge to speculate but others have suggested Trump.

[Mach]

She's skipping the Socialism and jumping right on into the Dictatorship.

[Swordsmyth]

She's skipping the Socialism and jumping right on into the Dictatorship.
Genocide will not be far behind.

[Mach]

The first 5 minutes covers the far Left ganging up on the "regulars."



https://youtu.be/OrBKKJj8cto

[Brian4Liberty]

She's skipping the Socialism and jumping right on into the Dictatorship.

Exactly. It will be surprising how fast the transformation takes, once the Marxists reach critical mass. They will turn on their own first, before the real carnage starts. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Min, Castro, who’s next?

[oyarde]

The simple answer is for them to leave the party .

[oyarde]

Personally , I have not observed " reasonable democrats " but if there are some who would like to be thought of as such , step forward .

[fedupinmo]

Looks like the power is getting to her head.

Can't imagine what the party will do when NY loses a seat after the 2020 census... ;)

[timosman]

Exactly. It will be surprising how fast the transformation takes, once the Marxists reach critical mass. They will turn on their own first, before the real carnage starts. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Min, Castro, who’s next?


Mensheviks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Mensheviks )


It emerged in 1912 as the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was divided into two, the other group being the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks).

However, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks had existed as factions of the original party since 1903.

Kronstadt rebellion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_rebellion


After years of economic crises caused by World War I and the Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik economy started to collapse.[5] Industrial output had fallen dramatically. It is estimated that the total output of mines and factories in 1921 was 20 percent of the pre-World War I level, with many crucial items suffering an even more drastic decline. Production of cotton, for example, had fallen to 5 percent and iron to 2 percent of the pre-war level, and this coincided with droughts in 1920 and 1921 and the Russian famine of 1921.[6] Discontent grew among the Russian populace, particularly the peasantry, who felt disadvantaged by Communist grain requisitioning (prodrazvyorstka, forced seizure of large portions of the peasants' grain crop used to feed urban dwellers). They resisted by refusing to till their land. In February 1921, more than 100 peasant uprisings took place. The workers in Petrograd were also involved in a series of strikes, caused by the reduction of bread rations by one third over a ten-day period.



New Economic Policy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy


NEP was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin in 1921 as a temporary expedient. Lenin characterized the NEP in 1922 as an economic system that would include "a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control", while socialized state enterprises would operate on "a profit basis"

[kcchiefs6465]

Genocide will not be far behind.
And Trump possibly put her there?

Or what?

[Swordsmyth]

And Trump possibly put her there?

Or what?
If she openly advocates for genocide that won't do the Demoncrats any good and I am not committed to any theories about who she works for.

[timosman]

I lack the knowledge to speculate but others have suggested Trump.

She won a NY district. :D

[Swordsmyth]

She won a NY district. :D
:D

[Pauls' Revere]

[QUOTE=timosman;6760225]Mensheviks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Mensheviks )


the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was forced to operate underground in the Soviet Russia and Soviet Union and openly only in exile in Europe and North America. The Foreign Delegation of the party had been established in 1920 and was at first located in Berlin (until 1933), then shifted to Paris and in 1940 moved to New York City.[4] In exile, the party consisted of small groups in Geneva, Liège, Berlin, Paris, Bern and New York City.[1] Martov and Abramovich chaired the Foreign Delegation until 1923, when it was chaired by Fyodor Dan and Abramovich. Aron Jugov was the secretary of the Foreign Delegation.[1]

Wonder what the history of this group is in NYC.

[Pauls' Revere]

[QUOTE=timosman;6760225]Mensheviks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Mensheviks )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensheviks

Menshevism was finally made illegal after the Kronstadt uprising of 1921. A number of prominent Mensheviks emigrated thereafter. Martov went to Germany, where he established the paper Socialist Messenger. He died in 1923.

In 1931, the Menshevik Trial was conducted by Stalin, an early part of the Great Purge.

The Messenger moved with the Menshevik center from Berlin to Paris in 1933 and then in 1939 to New York City, where it was published until 1965.[16]

[kahless]

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[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbtcgiH6MnQ

[AngryCanadian]

Looks like the power is getting to her head.

A.O.C needs a reality check. I hope the brainless voters of her NY district must be very proud of electing insane politician.

[Anti Globalist]

Or, she's gonna carry momentum for Bernie.
Didn't see come out and say recently shes not endorsing Bernie?

[RJB]

I read a quotation somewhere that said the difference between Nazis and Communists is no one says, "Well real Nazism has never been tried."

[Swordsmyth]

Didn't see come out and say recently shes not endorsing Bernie?
Yes.

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQDrUnbgrE


Mar 1, 2019
AOC’s meteoric rise has always puzzled me. Until now. It all makes sense about how she has risen to become a member of Congress.

LINKS REFERRED TO IN VIDEO:

AOC Answers Casting Call
https://youtu.be/wbtcgiH6MnQ

Justice Democrats site
https://www.justicedemocrats.com/

Nomination info
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10rxLBisP6kE8bWM-47_y-G7frgLPYU66BuMI9LmZgm0/

To nominate (and also a list of those “justice” Democrats who are already in the House)
https://www.justicedemocrats.com/nominate/

Wikileaks article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Democrats

[Pauls' Revere]

Didn't see come out and say recently shes not endorsing Bernie?

She did, but I just don't see how she won't? Especially when Bernie catches on fire and can lift her message.

[Anti Federalist]

Exactly. It will be surprising how fast the transformation takes, once the Marxists reach critical mass. They will turn on their own first, before the real carnage starts. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Min, Castro, who’s next?

Yup, this...we can't foster a legitimate revolution.

But the idiot, bloodthirsty left, oh yeah...there are tens of millions of them just itching to get their kill on, to purge and wipe clean from their glorious utopia the racist, homophobic, cisgender, patriarchal, bitter, clinging shitlords that think they know everything.

That's all of us...in case anybody was wondering.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTSwPobmKp4

[Swordsmyth]

Yup, this...we can't foster a legitimate revolution.

But the idiot, bloodthirsty left, oh yeah...there are tens of millions of them just itching to get their kill on, to purge and wipe clean from their glorious utopia the racist, homophobic, cisgender, patriarchal, bitter, clinging $#@!lords that think they know everything.

That's all of us...in case anybody was wondering.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTSwPobmKp4
The sane people will react and we will have a fighting chance, every communist revolution has sparked a counter-revolution.

[Brian4Liberty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbtcgiH6MnQ

And the pieces fall into place...


Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are emblematic of a midterm election in which more women, more people of color and more progressives were elected than ever before. All four also happen to be Justice Democrats, a group that’s quickly gained currency under the leadership of a handful of determined alumni from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign.
...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/who-are-justice-democrats-758447/

[Schifference]

Hmm seems like they are doing exactly what I have said needs to be done to take the country back. Infiltrate the Congress and Senate with like minded people. If Justice Democrats can do it with Radicals I would think sane, rational, charismatic, intellects could get elected.

[Superfluous Man]

If Justice Democrats can do it with Radicals I would think sane, rational, charismatic, intellects could get elected.

I would say that the fact that "Justice Democrats" can do it is evidence that the deck is stacked against sane, rational, charismatic intellects.

[Schifference]

I would say that the fact that "Justice Democrats" can do it is evidence that the deck is stacked against sane, rational, charismatic intellects.

Naturally stacked. Idiots always scream the loudest and talk non-stop about issues they are dead wrong on. Those idiots are representatives to many other idiots that utilize them as their mouth piece. I remember hearing long ago it takes competence to recognize competence. So I agree a sane, rational, person would have an uphill battle because they are working to convince the sane, rational, people. People like AOC and Obama have instant followers and die hard fans that are ready to go to war over something they are clueless about.

[Superfluous Man]

Naturally stacked. Idiots always scream the loudest and talk non-stop about issues they are dead wrong on. Those idiots are representatives to many other idiots that utilize them as their mouth piece. I remember hearing long ago it takes competence to recognize competence. So I agree a sane, rational, person would have an uphill battle because they are working to convince the sane, rational, people. People like AOC and Obama have instant followers and die hard fans that are ready to go to war over something they are clueless about.

Or, as H. L. Mencken put it:

All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admire men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own. But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. … All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21831908/hl_mencken_article_26_jul_1920_the/

[Cleaner44]

Hmm seems like they are doing exactly what I have said needs to be done to take the country back. Infiltrate the Congress and Senate with like minded people. If Justice Democrats can do it with Radicals I would think sane, rational, charismatic, intellects could get elected.

The key is the message. AOC and friends sell a message of free stuff which always attracts customers/voters. A libertarian type candidate needs a better sales pitch than no free stuff and freedom. Humans crave safety over freedom, comfort over responsibility, easy lies over hard truths. The case for liberty must be sold in a simple and easy way that seems more attarctive than the promise of safety and security supplied by taxing the rich. Apparently nobody has developed that massage yet.

[Schifference]

The key is the message. AOC and friends sell a message of free stuff which always attracts customers/voters. A libertarian type candidate needs a better sales pitch than no free stuff and freedom. Humans crave safety over freedom, comfort over responsibility, easy lies over hard truths. The case for liberty must be sold in a simple and easy way that seems more attarctive than the promise of safety and security supplied by taxing the rich. Apparently nobody has developed that massage yet.

Maybe the problem is that the only candidates with integrity are Libertarian. None of these people deliver on their promises yet their constituents still love them. So the secret is to tell them whatever they need to hear to elect you.

[shakey1]

The key is the message. AOC and friends sell a message of free stuff which always attracts customers/voters. A libertarian type candidate needs a better sales pitch than no free stuff and freedom. Humans crave safety over freedom, comfort over responsibility, easy lies over hard truths. The case for liberty must be sold in a simple and easy way that seems more attarctive than the promise of safety and security supplied by taxing the rich. Apparently nobody has developed that massage yet.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcqoo0Jn18A

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU

[Anti Globalist]

Wouldn't it be great if we had a 29 year old girl in Congress like AOC but she was the exact opposite of her and actually believed in liberty and freedom?

[acptulsa]

Wouldn't it be great if we had a 29 year old girl in Congress like AOC but she was the exact opposite of her and actually believed in liberty and freedom?

Julie Borowski would do just fine. Where do we get the money, and how do we get the MSM to advertise her 24/7?

You know She Must Not Be Named.

The GOP needs her worse than the DNC needs what's her name. But that won't even get a libertartarian on Fox News Sunday. Not even once.

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSmokR0Enk

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GnEU4sDA0

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-SE5eNt04

[AZJoe]

Naturally stacked.

"Naturally stacked". I think that is it. There are plenty of politicians selling the message of "free stuff." They're a dime a dozen.
"Naturally stacked" seems to have been what made the difference.

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51907603_1262948160511104_2522763390514888704_n.jp g?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=d62f424244a6dbf982134dfcaa52c9b9&oe=5D4A0851

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-3_FGyhg4k

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev2euepnyfQ

[AZJoe]

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/52333407_1033440953528606_3176493142799024128_o.jp g?_nc_cat=100&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=ae1532f594b73852a022e8cb4bd30239&oe=5D4FD971

[Pauls' Revere]

Didn't see come out and say recently shes not endorsing Bernie?

weird, considering she worked on his campaign right?

[Swordsmyth]

Lot's of good info on AOC: http://mileswmathis.com/aoc.pdf

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/NinerFanNapa/status/1110262079988994048

1110262079988994048


‘Her heart is not in the Bronx’: Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents turn against her https://nypost.com/2019/03/30/her-heart-is-not-in-the-bronx-aocs-own-district-turns-against-congresswoman/

[timosman]

Apr 4, 2019
In her latest Instagram live, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes questions from followers while assembling furniture in her chair-less Washington DC apartment. Covering topics from popcorn flavours to staying focused on the issues that matter, Ocasio-Cortez demonstates her ability to use social media in an authentic way that engages potential young voters


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQd62qQ-Q5w

[Anti Federalist]

AOC Is a Fool, But Her Politics Are Here to Stay

https://amgreatness.com/2019/04/08/aoc-is-a-fool-but-her-politics-are-here-to-stay/

By Callicles - April 8th, 2019

SPEAK, MEMORY—

Of the once cunning heroine, the whimperer, blown off course since the State of the Union, after she plundered Shapiro’s sacred facts. Speak of all the cities in which she could not afford to live, the minds she failed to grasp, the suffering deep in her heart (and brain) at sea, as she struggled to survive and bring hope to the American people, but could not save them, hard as she tried. The fools—destroyed by their own recklessness when they ate the farting oxen of McDonald the Clown, and that God snuffed out their tax returns. Of these things, speak, Immortal One, and tell the tale once more in our time.

Beginning in the mode of epic poetry is made necessary to match the epic, and tragic, self-regard of this its subject, one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Queen of the Vandals, the on-staff Boyfriend, and the Lost Boys, Protector of the 14th district, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Growers, Lady of the Bronx, Breaker of Brains, and Mother of Dragon Spirits.

Or, at least, I assume that’s how she styles herself, but one can never be sure.

Let me say at the outset that I regret the necessity of this column. Not so long ago, in the early days of 2019, I was persuaded that we were witnessing the rise of a Donald Trump-level media manipulator in Ocasio-Cortez. Her savvy focus on the conflict between generations and classes, rather than the conflict between races, sexes, or identity groups, effectively uniting one of the largest generations in American history against another (receding) one, suggested an extraordinary, even visionary ability to sift the signal from the noise and spot the actual conflict—Boomers versus Millennials—that underlies so much of the modern “culture war.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s apparent grasp of lesser-known, even wonky doctrines like Modern Monetary Theory, spoke of a deeper, and far more comprehensive, level of policy-savvy than her consumer friendly mode of speech suggested. Not to mention, she was both dazzlingly pretty and (more importantly) sparklingly, unflappably happy in a way that few political warriors manage to be in modern times.

And, of course, it was more than a little pleasurable to watch this young woman fend off the most cringeworthy, basic, boring members of the conservative media establishment with such mocking, self-assured aplomb, while they came at her with a punditry as panting as Dom Claude Frollo, as pedantic as Sheldon Cooper, and as pathetic as Milhouse. Indeed, I would say that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez still ends up blessed in her enemies a good deal.

It was more than a little rich, for instance, to watch Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) correctly and wittily excoriate Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” as a purely aesthetic totem of wokeness, only then to turn around and suggest that the cure for climate change was (wait for it) babies. What was that you were saying about unserious aesthetic signaling to your political base, Mike?

Nevertheless, when it comes to AOC, the worm has turned. And just to minimize confusion, when I say “worm,” I don’t mean the Speaker of the House, though that person’s opinion of her junior colleague from New York has probably “turned” as well.

Ocasio-Cortez may once have been a rising star, and perhaps she still sees herself as a shooting star, or, failing that, a meteor destined to crash into the D.C. ecosystem and purge the dinosaurs nesting there. But even if it is the freshman Democrat’s goal to rid us of the Trumpceratopses, the Feinsteinosauri, and the Aeropla—er, Aerodactyls—the fact is, she has been reduced to nothing but a molten, seething, scarred rock and, apparently, has the IQ to match.

Whence Comes the Fall?

Where to trace this sudden fall from grace? Perhaps we could start with Ocasio-Cortez’s disastrous friendship with Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)—two women so blatant and shameless in their support for a hostile foreign ideology that even Henry Wallace would blush to see it.

Perhaps we could point to her fatal decision to stake her political career on the so-called Green New Deal, an alleged “policy document” that would be so utterly corrosive to the American economy and body politic that it may as well be called the Gangrene New Deal.

Or, perhaps, we should start with her semi-Trumpian proclamation that moral correctness is more important than factual correctness shortly after informing the world that the U.S. Defense Department budget contained enough money to begin construction on several Imperial Star Destroyers.

But, I think, all of these criticisms miss the mark. The true moment when the game was up and Ocasio-Cortez was reduced to a footnote in history came silently. Ironically, the woman didn’t have to utter a word.

The fatal blow came during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union, a moment that has proved a make-or-break outing for many politicians. Specifically, it occurred when President Trump, in one of the more unifying rhetorical moments of the night, called for Washington to “embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good.” Even Pelosi had to stand up and clap, albeit half sarcastically.

But when the cameras cut to AOC, it was like watching a sped-up timelapse of a rose withering. I do not say that AOC withered before our eyes because she failed to smile or present herself as a nice, non-threatening girl. The vapid smile of a frightened young thing trying to placate her boss would have been equally pathetic. But smiles are not always flashed to show acquiescence: sometimes they are an excuse to bare one’s teeth.

It is not just that AOC did not smile prettily. Neither did she sneer, or smirk—both of which would’ve been even more aggressive reactions. The problem was that she gave no evidence of the unruffled defiance that had characterized her persona up to that point. All the sassy, irrepressible, happy warrior routine of the previous few months had dissipated. In their place crouched the persona of a sullen, hostile, and flustered teenager—made all the more absurd by the none-too-subtle Superhero-style cape that she had worn for the occasion. Before our eyes, Supergirl transformed into a low budget Supergirl cosplayer still trying, absurdly, to glare daggers at Lex Luthor.

Still, there is power in malevolence, even impotent malevolence. Had Ocasio-Cortez stayed like that all night, she might have retained some of her iconic status as a sort of Leftist Grim Reaper mentally sharpening her scythe for the president and his entire generation of politicians, even as the room applauded around her. But she couldn’t even get this right.

Instead, when President Trump applauded the number of women who had gained seats in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez jumped to the feet with the rest of her white-clad sisters, laughing and clapping like the snarkiest trained seal. Anyone watching could have read the message implicitly: when Trump promoted something that was good for the country, but not good for AOC’s brand, she sulked in her chair. When Trump gave her attention, she applauded. There are few things a politician cannot spin effectively: one of them is the message that she thinks this is all about her. And that was exactly what Ocasio-Cortez’s behavior showed. She couldn’t have self-destructed more perfectly if Clarence Darrow had put her on the stand.

What’s more, in looking so sullen and downcast, Ocasio-Cortez took away the aura of invincibility she had shown to that point. Politicians may rage, or sulk, and stew in their own resentment in private—they are human, after all—but to do it in public is deadly. In her sour, slumped over silence, it is hard to imagine a single fair-minded viewer (which is to say, not one of AOC’s diehard fans) not wondering if Trump had gotten to her: if he had pierced that impregnable aura of Bronxian self-assurance and made her bleed.

Sealing Her Fate

Ocasio-Cortez might have recovered, had she had her office issue the usual anti-Trump talking points, and then remained silent, letting the public guess as to her innermost reactions. Instead, she chose to open her mouth and remove all doubt that Trump had rattled her.

Later that night, in her very first appearance on Rachel Maddow’s program on MSNBC, Ocasio-Cortez gave one of the more extraordinary and arguably damaging interviews of her career. In a two-minute rant, Ocasio-Cortez accused Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of human rights violations, such as keeping immigrants in ice boxes; argued that the agency should be defunded; tried to claim that President Trump was restricting all forms of legal immigration while citing only forms of legal immigration that favor liberal interests; accused Trump of being anti-American; and said that illegal immigrants were more American than Trump.

All bizarre stuff, but the really important point wasn’t what she said. It was how she said it.

She spoke so fast that her sentences tumbled from her mouth; the transition between her thoughts was halting and harassed. She was so angry she could barely get the words out properly; at times, she seemed on the verge of tears. Her fans declared it a passionate, authentic moment, and it was that. But what they failed to mention was that it also came off as helpless: like she had tried every argument she could think of to get her parents to let her stay out late, and was starting to cry from frustration and anger that nothing had worked. In one night, AOC the unflappable had become AOC the inconsolable. Anyone paying attention on the Right should’ve smelled blood.

Now She’s Just Weird

From there, the rest—her slide into the Tlaib and Omar caucus as one of the Weird Sisters of anti-Americanism, the degeneration of factual content in her communications, the troubling questions about corruption in her office, and the insane decision to stake her early career on promoting one of the most politically impossible documents ever to be written by a member of congress—were all inevitable.

And yet, despite executing a virtual bloodless coup over Democratic Party leadership and forcing them mostly to accept her sophomore year Model U.N.-level solution for climate change, Ocasio-Cortez’s every utterance stinks more and more of defensive desperation, of the refusal of self-criticism, of the unbearable insolence of proud, repeated error for the sake of protecting one’s ego.

Rather than airily and regally dismissing tired Boomer clichés about socialism and entitlement, she now finds herself dragged into squabbling over whether she wants to ban hamburgers, or airplanes, or cows that produce methane. The dignity of her office, and of her specifically, are in the toilet, along with her approval ratings.

For all of AOC’s Medea-esque descent into madness, it would be foolish to dismiss the ideology that she has, albeit shrilly and unpersuasively, attempted to introduce as the Democratic Party’s primary vision.

Which brings me to the Green New Deal, itself. Having read the document, I would say Mike Lee’s attack on it as an unserious aesthetic document doesn’t capture the problem at all. The Green New Deal resolution is not aesthetics masquerading as policy: it’s a panic attack disguised as a political program.

The messaging around the Green New Deal makes that as clear as anything. Everything that everyone who supports it says, from AOC on down, can be summarized by quoting Chicken Little. “Don’t just stand there, do something!” the armies of children reminiscent of Mao instruct us. “The sky is falling! The sea levels are rising! We’re going to live in a Mad Max hellscape if you don’t ground the planes, kill the cows, stop the boats, and rebuild all the buildings now! What price to stop the collapse of society into a Hobbesian bellum omnium contra omnes when our resources run dry?!”

On its own terms, this injunction is desperately persuasive. And what’s more, its vision of an alternative is far more interesting, and ominous, than all the sniggering about banning planes and farting cows would suggest. One of the more sinister elements of it, in fact, has nothing to do with banning anything: rather, it Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion—shared by many others on the Left— that we cannot have a green economy without redressing various issues of racial grievance. Broadly reports:

There is no justice and there is no combating climate change without addressing what has happened to indigenous communities,” [Ocasio-Cortez] told reporters. “That means that there is no fixing our economy without addressing the racial wealth gap.

This language is echoed in the actual legislation, as well:

It is the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal . . . to promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous communities, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth.

How does any of this cut down carbon emissions? If anything, according to the traditional Malthusian logic of environmentalism, poorer communities should have a lower carbon footprint, due to consuming fewer items that require carbon to produce or use. Poor people ride the bus. Rich people drive cars. Very rich people fly in private jets. Making poor communities richer would, therefore, seem to imply higher emissions—right?

But this is to miss the true vision underlying the Green New Deal, which is not a traditional document of Malthusian environmentalism, even if some of its wackier proposals owe a debt to that tradition. Rather, it is an intersectional vision, and a more authentic one than the visions of “intersectionality” held by people who claim to believe in the concept.

A New Old Religion

Everything in Ocasio-Cortez’s vision is totalizing, down to her reference to factory farming when pressed on the hamburgers point. Her understanding of a dirty economy is not merely one that produces carbon emissions: it is one that pollutes the lives of literally everyone in it. In this view, the polluters seek license not just to pollute the air and water for the sake of profit, but also to pollute the economy with artificial scarcity (one of AOC’s persistent bugaboos), to pollute the social fabric with bigotry, to be given the right to kill defenseless animals for food, to murder defenseless minorities for law and order, to kill factory workers before their time for profit, to keep children in bad schools so that they can one day fill prisons and become slave labor, to murder indigenous peoples for conquest, and so on.

A green economy, on the other hand, is one that denies scarcity, competition, conquest, church, tribe, and above all, one that rejects trade-offs.

As Whittaker Chambers once said of Communism, it is the second oldest faith in the world, first whispered to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: “Ye shall be as Gods.” And like Gods, ye shall have the right to punish those who blaspheme against you by shaming them on Twitter. Thus, this worldview is perfect atomization, reimagined as perfect liberation. For every man, woman, genderqueeer, intersex, transman, transwoman, two-spirit, and yellow-scaled dragonkin, a perfect, hermetically sealed safe space with all needs provided, and no necessity of engaging in the messy, imperfect, zero-sum world of human interaction.

C.S. Lewis may have described Hell as a Grey Town of perfectly alone, atomized human beings, yet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taken the same concept and renamed it the Green Economy. And what stops this infernal vision from being realized? Why, nothing less than the sum total of all economic, social, and political forces that have bent their will upon humanity throughout history, and all of which mercilessly, implacably intersect. The only way to fix the world where polluters can endlessly poison the weakest among us by forcing them to interact as flawed mortals, therefore, is to tear all of society up by the roots, so that the nonconfrontational, noncompetitive, non-scarce green utopia can come into being.

This poisonous utopian dream, which is a form of the greatest species of social pollution ever conceived, will find more adherents. It will be expressed by voices more successful because more careful and skillful than AOC’s. It will come from people much harder to confound and goad into incoherence. In this respect, Ocasio-Cortez is no visionary: she is merely the designated captain of a plague ship sent into the harbor of America by decades of subversive activism.

This captainess will go down with her ship, but the disease is on our shores one way or another. Curing it will take a lot more than just spanking a few children: it will take a serious, and no less comprehensive offer to multiple adrift younger generations that fits their needs more ably and more sensibly than this Green Fever Dream ever could. The task of constructing that alternative will take far abler minds than the Right presently has on offer, and the task of selling it will take far more than fucking up the career of a single woman, however fuckable she is.

[TheTexan]

Wouldn't it be great if we had a 29 year old girl in Congress like AOC but she was the exact opposite of her and actually believed in liberty and freedom?

She would have to be way hotter than AOC if you want her to get elected on a liberty platform.

[Swordsmyth]

She would have to be way hotter than AOC if you want her to get elected on a liberty platform.

And campaign in a bikini.

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1115747599972208640

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[AZJoe]

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/53636771_1607582466053259_6567301898083237888_o.jp g?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=b410fcedb555c4a22ca0eb4a4cc4e87b&oe=5D3359B6

[AZJoe]

Babylon Bee (parody)

Ocasio-Cortez Appears On 'The Price Is Right,' Guesses Everything Is FREE (https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-cortez-appears-on-price-is-right-guesses-everything-is-free)

https://babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-4014-2.jpg

[Danke]

6379

[ATruepatriot]

For folks with more than two brain cells to rub together she is the gift that keeps giving. Problem is there are far too few of these folks.

[timosman]

Nancy Pelosi says a glass of water with a 'D' next to it could have won Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district; reaction from New Jersey Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN2wdXKuQ9k

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1119569770549063681

1119569770549063681

[dannno]

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1119569770549063681

1119569770549063681

Oh man, you beat me..

[timosman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/


April 15, 2019

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pointed to negative health consequences as a reason to scale back on social media platforms

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose mastery of social media has helped drive the national conversation and shed light on the inner workings of congressional power, has given up on the most popular social network in the world.

In an interview Sunday with the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery,” the New York Democrat said she stopped using her Facebook account and was scaling back on all social media, which she described as a “public health risk” because it can lead to “increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.”

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who burst onto the national stage after defeating a high-ranking incumbent, said her departure from Facebook was a “big deal” because the platform had been crucial to her campaign. She still has accounts on the site, she said, and according to the company’s ad library, her official Facebook account has dozens of active advertisements sponsored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress. Among the ads are calls to support her signature Green New Deal, and fundraising pleas to support progressive legislation and to counteract a super PAC aligned against her.

“The congresswoman’s words speak for themselves,” said Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez joins other prominent users who have given up on the social network, including WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who sold his company to Facebook in 2014, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Both technologists parted ways with the social network amid a user boycott and as the company faced a congressional inquiry over the Cambridge Analytica controversy, when it was revealed that the political firm had improperly obtained personal information from millions of Facebook users.

Ocasio-Cortez’s disengagement from Facebook also tracks broad trends in social media use among young people. According to a 2018 Pew Research Center study, Facebook’s popularity among teens has plunged in recent years. Roughly half of the nation’s teenagers say they use Facebook, compared with 71 percent in 2015.

YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat have now overtaken Facebook as the most popular social media networks, the study found.

After a rolling series of scandals involving the misuse of personal data, hateful content and misinformation, many Facebook users have also changed the way they use the platform. A separate Pew Research survey found that 74 percent of U.S. adult Facebook users have done one of the following: changed their privacy settings, taken a break from the platform or deleted it.

Despite Facebook’s troubles, the social network has recently gained daily active users in the U.S. and Canada, according to the company’s most recent earnings report. Prior to the last quarter of 2018, Facebook’s user numbers in its most important market had flatlined, with most of its growth coming from countries outside of North America and Europe. Facebook counted 1.52 billion daily users, on average, an increase of 9 percent from the end of 2017.

The figures suggest that some of the people who abandoned the platform have returned and that the company is still attracting new users.

Though the company continues to post strong returns, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg continues to find himself under scrutiny. Last year, he was called to testify before Congress, enduring 10 hours of questioning tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And it’s currently negotiating a multibillion-dollar fine with the Federal Trade Commission to settle the agency’s investigation into its privacy practices.

Meanwhile, European regulators have criticized Zuckerberg’s new plan to merge the company’s messaging platforms — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger — citing antitrust concerns.

During her podcast interview, Ocasio-Cortez pointed to negative health consequences as a reason to scale back on social platforms.

“I actually think that social media poses a public health risk to everybody,” she said. “There are amplified impacts for young people, particularly children under the age of 3 with screen time. But I think it has a lot of effects on older people. I think it has effects on everybody. Increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who writes all of her own tweets and Instagram posts, said she’s trying to limit her consumption of social media to the workweek. “Like every once in a while, you’ll see me hop on Twitter on the weekends, but for the most part, I take consumption of content, when it comes to consumption and reading, I take the weekends off.”

[dannno]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/

She'll rejoin again in a few weeks.

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5DoTIzilNo

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wGZc8ZjFY4

[AZJoe]

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1119569770549063681

1119569770549063681

The kids nails it.

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/ChrisRowland9/status/1119292189786431488

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4iGT-3X4AUqhki.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4iaGTkXoAcml_1.jpg



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4jJITWUwAALKbq.jpg

[dannno]

1123581196703653889

[Anti Globalist]

AOC is the gift that keeps on giving. Sometimes I go back and forth on whether I want her to lose her reelection or not.

[Swordsmyth]

Twitter Blacklists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Parody Account (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/07/twitter-blacklists-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-parody-account/)

[Swordsmyth]

Twitter Blacklists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Parody Account (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/07/twitter-blacklists-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-parody-account/)



Twitter: parody account poking gentle fun at @AOC (https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) gets the account holder banned; vicious, vulgar, defamatory parody of @DevinNunes (https://twitter.com/DevinNunes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) by a person who advertises herself as smearing people for money, is ok. Different rules for different politics. Terms of Service are a joke.
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) May 7, 2019 (https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1125592545260494848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[Schifference]

Have Trump parody accounts been banned?

[dannno]

Who needs an AOC parody account?? She has actual twitter and social media accounts..


1125661872479453185

[Anti Globalist]

Tell me shes trolling. Nobody can be that stupid to not know what a garbage disposal is.

[timosman]

Tell me shes trolling. Nobody can be that stupid to not know what a garbage disposal is.

Why would she be trolling? :confused:

[dannno]

https://twitter.com/nitoTV/status/1127830341190684672

1127830341190684672

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q8s8Jf8CtU

[Schifference]

Last night I was looking up Best Netflix movies per Rotten Tomatoes and was sad to see Knock Down The House is #1 with a score of 100%.
KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (2019)
100%
#1
Critics Consensus: A galvanizing glimpse behind the scenes of a pivotal election, Knock Down the House should prove engrossing for viewers of all political persuasions.
Synopsis: When tragedy struck her family in the midst of the financial crisis, Bronx-born Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had to work double shifts... [More]
Starring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, Paula Jean Swearengin

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-netflix-movies-to-watch-right-now/

[Swordsmyth]

Last night I was looking up Best Netflix movies per Rotten Tomatoes and was sad to see Knock Down The House is #1 with a score of 100%.
KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (2019)
100%
#1
Critics Consensus: A galvanizing glimpse behind the scenes of a pivotal election, Knock Down the House should prove engrossing for viewers of all political persuasions.
Synopsis: When tragedy struck her family in the midst of the financial crisis, Bronx-born Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had to work double shifts... [More]
Starring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, Paula Jean Swearengin

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-netflix-movies-to-watch-right-now/
You don't think that wasn't manipulated, right?

[Danke]

Who needs an AOC parody account?? She has actual twitter and social media accounts..


1125661872479453185

Something is technically wrong.


Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.

[Schifference]

You don't think that wasn't manipulated, right?

I used to give validity to the Rotten Tomatoe score. Not any longer.

[nikcers]

I used to give validity to the Rotten Tomatoe score. Not any longer.

Fake reviews lol like how companies will make "review" websites to review other products so they can promote their brand. I've seen it even on cleaning supplies.

[nikcers]

I used to give validity to the Rotten Tomatoe score. Not any longer.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUI-RkwNNLw

[Swordsmyth]

The viral video machine that was Ava "Mini AOC" Martinez will no longer be making videos mocking socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), because reports are surfacing that supporters of Ocasio-Cortez have allegedly repeatedly harassed, doxxed and made "death threats" against the child and her family.
A Twitter account that is supposedly a family member of Martinez tweeted out that the family has deleted "all Mini AOC accounts" in order to attempt to preserve the safety of both the child and the family.

Here's that tweet, of which the only tweet available to view on an account with almost 91,000 followers is the aforementioned tweet posted Wednesday morning:
https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/images/MiniAOC1.png

A Twitter search for the official "Mini AOC" account reveals that MiniAOCofficial has been deleted:
https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/images/MiniAOCDeleted.png


Other verified Twitter accounts have reported the news as well:
https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/images/MiniAOC4.png


https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/images/MiniAOC5.png




https://www.mrctv.org/blog/breaking-mini-aoc-done-doing-videos-because-death-threats-lefts-harassment?fbclid=IwAR1d73VKqdr_SVnsC4-_DrXpj1RJIiO3yQb-3ogcqwRnMQdkHH7UPKd61IY

[dannno]

1146449518315102209

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/RealMiniAOC/status/1216420915631685633

1216420915631685633

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1225951770137907200

1225951770137907200