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flockofseagulls104 wrote: "Make America Venezuela!"

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silverscreenselect wrote:


flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Trump is the republican version of Ocasio-Cortez, but at least he is not a socialist.




Sounds like Ocasio-Cortez has gotten Republicans uncomfortable...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-f ... ortez-trap



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Over the weekend, the self-described “conservative” writer [WSJ reporter Virginia] Kruta attended a rally in St. Louis at which Ocasio-Cortez stumped for Cori Bush, the woman who aims this week to unseat seven-term incumbent William “Lacy” Clay Jr. in a Democratic primary for Missouri’s 1st congressional district.

Kruta told the Fox & Friends hosts that she went to the rally to “see what the fuss was about” and “why the message was resonating.” Asked why voters might be drawn to a Democratic Socialist message, she added, “They talk about things that everybody wants, especially if you’re a parent. They talk about education for your kids, health care for your kids, the things that you want.” In her article for The Daily Caller, she wrote that she could see “how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends meet, to accept the idea that a ‘living wage’ was a human right.”

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt wanted to know how this made Kruta feel, “as a conservative,” asking, “Were you angry? Were you more drawn to that?”

“I was mostly uncomfortable, because I was surrounded by a group of people who were talking about how they had gotten involved because they were tired of being angry all the time. It seems like so much effort to be angry about everything, instead of to focus on what you could do to change it.”




She sounds smart enough to get the best of a Wall Street Journal reporter. You may disagree with her platform, but she's outlined a pretty comprehensive list of proposals that obviously are resonating with a lot of people who are tired of Republican guff. She may not be an accomplished public speaker, but she's also a 28-year-old who was working at Trader Joe's a year ago, and smoothness will come with more experience at public speaking.

You have complained time and time again that Democrats don't stand for anything except being anti-Trump (which isn't true), and now when someone does come forward with a platform that's a lot more comprehensive that anything Trump's said in his two years in office, you can't stand that either.




She is clueless about the world. She is a product of liberal indoctrination. "Make America Venezuela!"

flockofseagulls104 wrote: Here is the original source for that quote

It’s a bizarre dynamic because the people attacking Ocasio-Cortez recognize that her platform does have political appeal (the supposedly “radical” planks, like Medicare-for-all and a federal jobs guarantee, actually poll decently well). But they keep on posting clips of her saying popular things, and then they just call her a “socialist” or grimly wonder who will pay for these plans to educate children and keep them healthy.

This is a product of the suffocating ideological bubble conservative media exist in and help to maintain. People like Stuart Varney and the editorial staff at the Daily Caller are communicating with an audience that, they assume, will understand implicitly that a video clip of Ocasio-Cortez preaching for a living wage and the dignity of everyday life is a damaging, scandalous indictment of her politics. It’s “socialism,” that catch-all epithet that conservative media have spent decades applying to everyone to the left of Mitt Romney, and it merits only mockery and casual dismissal. Sure, they say, what she’s arguing for sounds nice, but it’s ridiculous and disqualifying because … uh … roll that tape again.

Pastor Fireball wrote:It has been confirmed that Lamb lives in Mt. Lebanon, which is in the new 17th District. Regardless of the recount results, Lamb has already stated that he is petitioning to run against Rothfus in November.

jarnon wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:40 pm

Lamb, who was reelected in November 2018, is going to vote for impeachment.

flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 6:13 pm

jarnon wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:40 pm

Lamb, who was reelected in November 2018, is going to vote for impeachment.

Bi surprise

Estonut wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 8:15 pm

flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 6:13 pm

jarnon wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:40 pm

Lamb, who was reelected in November 2018, is going to vote for impeachment.

Bi surprise

Why bring his sexuality into it?