Yeah, for whatever reason, they didn’t really think so. The Hill: In a House Financial Services Committee hearing meant to assess preparedness since the crisis, [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez expressed “concerns about how much things have really changed” since the recession. She noted fines and penalties in the interim, such as Bank of America’s $16.5 billion settlement…
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AOC called it: the incumbent she defeated is now a lobbyist promoting Trump's trade deal
“It’s not so much left vs. right as it is top vs. bottom…” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joe Crowley was moving up the line to become Speaker, but he should never have been allowed to climb the party hierarchy to begin with. He was everything the Democratic Party should have been fighting against: a corporate elitist who always…
GOP candidate for NC-9 seat tries to Photoshop AOC, fails hilariously
Okay, so a bunch of candidates are stepping up to fill Mark Harris’ shady shoes in the North Carolina District 9 take-two election, and one, Matthew Ridenhour, is attempting to make his mark on social media. In a Facebook post on Friday, Ridenhour sent out a retouched photo of Democrat Dan McCready taking a selfie with…
GOP congressman says Green New Deal is 'tantamount to genocide'
Put this beside “Obamacare is … the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery” in the Big Book of Stupid Republican Quotes. (The collection of non-crazy Republican quotes is a Little Golden Book for children … or the intellectual equivalent thereof.) Axios: Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) said the ideas behind the progressive policy…
Wow. AOC Goin' Off in Austin. “We fix the pipes in Flint first.” Capitalism “Unsustainable”.
Express Digest “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dominated the South by Southwest conference with her mere presence, bringing in a larger crowd than any of the 2020 presidential contenders, all of whom were asked about her or her Green New Deal in their own sessions at the popular event… …The crowd rose to its feet, whooping, cheering…
Conservative columnist wants you to boycott Girl Scout cookies … because AOC was a Scout
Like most people, I like Girl Scout Cookies. I think my favorites are the Thin Mints, because they taste the most like socialism. On the other hand, the Tagalongs remind me too much of craven bipartisan compromise. And the Lemonades, of course, are far too evocative of Donald Trump’s stay at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. But that’s…
AOC: Trump is 'such a small, mediocre person'
Hoo-boy. Cue the McRib sauce spittle and/or barking-mad tweetering. In a recent interview with The New Yorker, the GOP’s bête noire du jour, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called out Donald Trump in a big way. Boom! Ocasio-Cortez says that she has tried to keep her focus partly by avoiding watching Trump on television: “He relies and thrives on…
Roseanne unleashes insane attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Roseanne Barr’s downward death spiral continues unabated. Not content to simply lose her show and her mind, she’s now vacuuming away every last scrap of dignity from her blotchy couch cushions. The latest? She’s decided to take on the Zen master of social media, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In a recent YouTube video — amidst a trenchant…
AOC just keeps deflecting bullets — this time they went after her boyfriend
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight, you don’t ask Donald Trump a question whose answer requires linear thought, and you don’t challenge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez via social media. These fools never learn. The latest? The same folks who conveniently ignore the fact that Jared Kushner (who will totally…
MA-Sen: DFA Continues To Help Build Support For AOC and Ed Markey's (D) Green New Deal Bill
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: Before she was walking the halls of Congress, throwing conservatives and Fox News into a tizzy, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez advocated for a Green New Deal to create more clean energy jobs, drastically cut carbon emissions, and do what it takes to avert the worst impacts of climate change. Today, just one…
MA-Sen: Ed Markey (D) Teams Up With AOC To Introduce Green New Deal Legislation
Sorry I’ve been out of it. Been pretty busy. Here’s some good news today: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) are reportedly planning to unveil legislation for a Green New Deal in the coming days. Markey's office confirmed to The Hill that the senator was working with the freshman New York representative on a plan, adding…
Howard Schultz wants us to have the same opportunities he had … when the top marginal rate was 70%
x People need real opportunities to help themselves, not unrealistic policies and promises. Genuine opportunities, like the ones I had, which helped me leave the housing projects of Brooklyn and realize my dreams. #ReimagineUS pic.twitter.com/oUBxTN57iW — Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 30, 2019 Let’s be clear … In 1953, the year billionaire Howard Schultz was born,…
ROTFLMAO. Matt Gaetz Aspires to Be “The Conservative AOC.” Twitter Larfs.
drumpf lick-spittle, professional impaired driver and Russian bot wrangler Matt Gaetz, like many in the GOP, has a love to hate relationship with the Democratic Representative for New York’s 14th district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and, apparently just wants to be just like her when he grows up…. just minus the progressive policies and infectious personality. The linked article explores the infatuations various…
The pure greed and idiocy behind Howard Schultz's independent presidential bid
This headline from The Daily Beast summarizes the pure greed and idiocy behind Howard Schultz’s planned independent presidential bid: x Howard Schultz blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his decision to run as Independent and it has to do with her plan to tax the rich https://t.co/OyWnMKDZGn— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2019 First off, the…
Once In A While M. Dowd Writes Something Good. – “Beware the Furies, President Trump”
Well, this happens about once every…. Photo by Derek Kind …but Mme. Dowd actually graced the pages of The NY Times yesterday. Beware the Furies, President Trump “WASHINGTON — After I’d been writing a column for a few years, a male boss gave me a T-shirt depicting the Furies swooping. He didn’t mean it as a compliment. The three…
AOC's 70 percent tax rate for millionaires more popular than GOP tax scam
Why did it take this long to have a substantive discussion about our country’s (notoriously poorly understood) marginal tax rates? And why did it take a 29-year-old political neophyte to shatter the Overton window when it comes to our plutocrat-friendly tax system? Something’s happening, folks, and it’s seismic. The political terra firma on this issue…
Kathy Griffin has the best response to Ocasio-Cortez DanceGate
If you want the background on this, take a look-see at Jessica Sutherland’s diary from earlier today. Long story short, some anonymous idiot on Twitter thought he’d shame “commie” (actually Democratic Socialist — think Sweden/Norway/Denmark, not the gulag) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because she was once filmed dancing with unbridled joie de vivre on a rooftop while in…
