Ocasio-Cortez backs campaigns to replace Dem incumbents with progressives

[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...s-to-replace-dem-incumbents-with-progressives

Ocasio-Cortez backs campaigns to replace Dem incumbents with progressives
BY JOHN BOWDEN - 11/17/18 10:28 PM EST 548
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Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), implored more than 700 attendees of a Justice Democrats strategy call to run for office against incumbent Democrats as well as Republicans in their home districts.

During the video call with supporters Saturday evening, Ocasio-Cortez remarked that her own journey to the House began on the other end of a Justice Democrats strategy call while calling on supporters to mount similar bids in their own districts around the country.

"Long story short, I need you to run for office," she said on the call. "All I’m asking you to do is throw your hat in the ring, say 'what the heck.' ”

Ocasio-Cortez was elected Tuesday after running a successful primary against Rep. Joseph Crowley, who was House Democratic Caucus Chairman.

The incoming lawmaker added that she and other members of the Justice Democrats, a group of progressives seeking to shift the Democratic Party left, would support challenges to incumbent Democrats they view as insufficiently aligned with the views of progressives in the party, particularly on the issue of corporate campaign donations.

"All Americans know money in politics is a huge problem, but unfortunately the way that we fix it is by demanding that our incumbents give it up or by running fierce campaigns ourselves," she said.

“I don't think people who are taking money from pharmaceutical companies should be drafting health-care legislation. I don't think people who are taking money from oil and gas companies should be drafting climate legislation,” she added.

Ocasio-Cortez made headlines this week when a reporter from the Washington Examiner, a right-leaning newspaper, appeared to question her claims of financial struggles in a tweet stating that her "jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles."

"If I walked into Congress wearing a sack, they would laugh & take a picture of my backside," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response. "If I walk in with my best sale-rack clothes, they laugh & take a picture of my backside."

"Dark hates light - that’s why you tune it out. Shine bright & keep it pushing."

 

[Chuck_Luck]

This country is becoming two divided' you have the Democrats who are becoming too liberal on one side and you have the Republicans who are becoming far too conservative. Their constituents don't even know which way to go .

 

[code_pirahna]

This country is becoming two divided' you have the Democrats who are becoming too liberal on one side and you have the Republicans who are becoming far too conservative. Their constituents don't even know which way to go .

This

 

[code_pirahna]

New York Liberals....smh.

 

[Gazoo]

She will be the subject of a movie someday. Bartender early in the year. Now headed to Congress. Too broke to move to DC. Waiting for that first check.

Not hard to look at either.

Politics are a little too left for me.

 

[respiration]

This country is becoming two divided' you have the Democrats who are becoming too liberal on one side and you have the Republicans who are becoming far too conservative. Their constituents don't even know which way to go .

This

New York Liberals....smh.

She will be the subject of a movie someday. Bartender early in the year. Now headed to Congress. Too broke to move to DC. Waiting for that first check.

Not hard to look at either.

Politics are a little too left for me.

https://www.justicedemocrats.com/issues

Which of the issues in their platform in that link do you disagree with? Which do you agree with?

 

[code_pirahna]

https://www.justicedemocrats.com/issues
How many of the issues in that link do you disagree with?

I don t agree with much of the liberal left.....I ve been a moderate dem my entire life

 

[respiration]

I don t agree with much of the liberal left.....I ve been a moderate dem my entire life

I understand.

I phrased the question not so well.

If you would care to share, which of the the items in the platform in the link are you in disagreement with?

 

[code_pirahna]

I understand.

I phrased the question not so well.

If you would care to share, which of the the items in the platform in the link are you in disagreement with?

Oh trust me I will definitely answer the specifics tomorrow after work.....but off the rift the federal jobs bullshit.....the healthcare as a right bullshit....the free public school tuitition bullshit......

I guess these folks who work in these fields should work for free?

Where da fuck is all this money going to come from......oh let me rephrase it since you like rephrasing....which of these programs are actually realistic? There is no free lunch.

 

[respiration]

Oh trust me I will definitely answer the specifics tomorrow after work.....but off the rift the federal jobs bullshit.....the healthcare as a right bullshit....the free public school tuitition bullshit......

I guess these folks who work in these fields should work for free?

Where da fuck is all this money going to come from......oh let me rephrase it since you like rephrasing....which of these programs are actually realistic? There is no free lunch.

Thanks. I appreciate your having broken your viewpoint down. Perhaps we can dialogue on it later as you said. Peace

 

[God-Of-War-420]

This chick doesn’t have the first idea about how our goverment or country works. She has been shown to not be able to answer the most basic of questions on how our goverment works. We need new blood as in qualified applicants not just some rando who’s pretty and doesn’t know up from down.

 

[forcesteeler]

I’m a moderate. I understand these liberals want all these government programs like free college and healthcare, etc but this country is a capitalist country and the free market. The problem with all these programs is where are you going to get money to pay for all this shit.?

Also as I got older understand that having all these government programs make people lazy and more entitled. It’s never enough

 

[geechiedan]

Oh trust me I will definitely answer the specifics tomorrow after work.....but off the rift the federal jobs bullshit.....the healthcare as a right bullshit....the free public school tuitition bullshit......

I guess these folks who work in these fields should work for free?

Where da fuck is all this money going to come from......oh let me rephrase it since you like rephrasing....which of these programs are actually realistic? There is no free lunch.

theres plenty of free lunches...where the fuck do you think the budget comes from for the military?

people crack me up with this....fuck healthcare...fuck education...fuck raising minimum wage....WHERE THE MONEY COMING FROM!!!

But when it comes out that the military is paying 2000 dollars for hammers and doorknobs its from those same people...

 

[Thrill3Seeker]

Raw

 

[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

https://www.justicedemocrats.com/issues

Which of the issues in their platform in that link do you disagree with? Which do you agree with?

They are a group of communist in far leftist disguise.

Where is the money coming from?

The Washington swamp will chew them up and spit them out if they try to really enact these things by overthrowing the old democratic guard.

But if the so-called dems want to fight among themselves, I don't care!

 

[geechiedan]

They are a group of communist in far leftist disguise.

Where is the money coming from?

The Washington swamp will chew them up and spit them out if they try to really enact these things by overthrowing the old democratic guard.

But if the so-called dems want to fight among themselves, I don't care!

see the above post

$1.6B Of Bank Bailout Went To Execs


Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.

The rewards came even at banks where poor results last year foretold the economic crisis that sent them to Washington for a government rescue. Some trimmed their executive compensation due to lagging bank performance, but still forked over multimillion-dollar executive pay packages.

Benefits included cash bonuses, stock options, personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships and professional money management, the AP review of federal securities documents found.

The total amount given to nearly 600 executives would cover bailout costs for many of the 116 banks that have so far accepted tax dollars to boost their bottom lines.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/16b-of-bank-bailout-went-to-execs/


WHERE THAT MONEY COMING FROM...OH FORGOT..YOU!!!

you know who took to the streets on that shit?? the so-called communists and socialists who said that shit was WRONG...you know who laughed at them CONSERVATIVES who constantly scream how govt is too big and how lazy minorities always want a free ride..

ita all a joke!

 

[LordSinister]

Oh trust me I will definitely answer the specifics tomorrow after work.....but off the rift the federal jobs bullshit.....the healthcare as a right bullshit....the free public school tuitition bullshit......

I guess these folks who work in these fields should work for free?

Where da fuck is all this money going to come from......oh let me rephrase it since you like rephrasing....which of these programs are actually realistic? There is no free lunch.

We could cut 40% off of the military budget and pay for all of this. Maybe if we invested in infrastructure we could have more jobs for working class people.

As long as the government has the right to draft me into war, I should have the right for free healthcare, but hey that's just me.

 

[ugk]

I really despise that dumb ass question "Where is the money coming from?" because it comes from a place of willful ignorance or just sheer stupidity.

Anytime these motherfuckers want to jack up the military budget to pay for wars and military hardware that don't benefit us at al, no one ever asks "Where is the money coming?"

 

[ugk]

I’m a moderate. I understand these liberals want all these government programs like free college and healthcare, etc but this country is a capitalist country and the free market.

The US hasn't been a capitalist economy in over 100 years, stop buying into the propaganda

The problem with all these programs is where are you going to get money to pay for all this shit.?

Easy, you slash military spending and tax the shit out of the uber rich.

 

[geechiedan]

We could cut 40% off of the military budget and pay for all of this. Maybe if we invested in infrastructure we could have more jobs for working class people.

As long as the government has the right to draft me into war, I should have the right for free healthcare, but hey that's just me.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT!! DON'T YOU KNOW REALLOCATING THAT MUCH TO SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO HELP AMERICANS WOULD WEAKEN OUR MILITARY AND THEN CHINA AND THE RUSSIANS CAN BITCH SLAP US WITH NO PROBLEM!!!

 

[gene cisco]

https://www.justicedemocrats.com/issues

Which of the issues in their platform in that link do you disagree with? Which do you agree with?

It's fucked up because the trade deal shit is what Trump and Sanders are on(see TPP). Stopping nation building is part of this anti-globalist shit Trump on(he's basically been telling other countries to fuck off). Notice how republicans are falling in line with it.

Now as soon as a democrat does the same shit they will say it's a bad idea. Democrats have to stand strong and not back down for once.

 

[geechiedan]

It's fucked up because the trade deal shit is what Trump and Sanders are on(see TPP). Stopping nation building is part of this anti-globalist shit Trump on(he's basically been telling other countries to fuck off). Notice how republicans are falling in line with it.

Now as soon as a democrat does the same shit they will say it's a bad idea. Democrats have to stand strong and not back down for once.

 

[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

We could cut 40% off of the military budget and pay for all of this. Maybe if we invested in infrastructure we could have more jobs for working class people.

As long as the government has the right to draft me into war, I should have the right for free healthcare, but hey that's just me.

As active military and as a veteran you are entitled to free healthcare.

The only way the military budget might be cut is if the military became all or mostly robotic.

But even then the argument would be for more:

• maintenance experts
• newer robotic model
• munitions
• of computer savvy people for building

So the budget may even increase. I don't see the Military budget decreasing ever again.

You talking about increasing the living standard for the population in general that is not something the system has a interest in at all. That point has no political party attachment.

Free anything comes with plenty of things you must do where you agree or disagree with them or not.

 

[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

The US hasn't been a capitalist economy in over 100 years, stop buying into the propaganda



Easy, you slash military spending and tax the shit out of the uber rich.

"Easy, you slash military spending and tax the shit out of the uber rich"

The rich and military industrial complex have a solid hold over the political structure via donations, intimidation and the possibility of removal from office.
Either peacefully or violently...see DALLAS, TX...NOVEMBER 22, 1963.

Your scenario is possible but I doubt it.

 

[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

I really despise that dumb ass question "Where is the money coming from?" because it comes from a place of willful ignorance or just sheer stupidity.

Anytime these motherfuckers want to jack up the military budget to pay for wars and military hardware that don't benefit us at al, no one ever asks "Where is the money coming?"

BROTHER,

You answered your own question.

Increasing the living standard of the population is not a priority. Any leaders around the world who have tried was overthrown or killed.

See General Ghaddffi, Mossadeghh (Iran) and others.

 

[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

see the above post

$1.6B Of Bank Bailout Went To Execs


Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.

The rewards came even at banks where poor results last year foretold the economic crisis that sent them to Washington for a government rescue. Some trimmed their executive compensation due to lagging bank performance, but still forked over multimillion-dollar executive pay packages.

Benefits included cash bonuses, stock options, personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships and professional money management, the AP review of federal securities documents found.

The total amount given to nearly 600 executives would cover bailout costs for many of the 116 banks that have so far accepted tax dollars to boost their bottom lines.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/16b-of-bank-bailout-went-to-execs/


WHERE THAT MONEY COMING FROM...OH FORGOT..YOU!!!

you know who took to the streets on that shit?? the so-called communists and socialists who said that shit was WRONG...you know who laughed at them CONSERVATIVES who constantly scream how govt is too big and how lazy minorities always want a free ride..

ita all a joke!

Okay let's both keep an eye on this and we will see what happens?

I guarantee you it don't work out like they hope or anything close.

I'm sure they will be:

• compromised,
• bought,
• embroiled in some scandal real or staged.

Or if they piss off the incumbent dems:

• they will run a heavily financed dem against them next go around....See Cynthia McKinney.

Let's come back to this in 1 years time.

 

[geechiedan]

Okay let's both keep an eye on this and we will see what happens?

I guarantee you it don't work out like they hope or anything close.

I'm sure they will be:

• compromised,
• bought,
• embroiled in some scandal real or staged.

Or if they piss off the incumbent dems:

• they will run a heavily financed dem against them next go around....See Cynthia McKinney.

Let's come back to this in 1 years time.

dude its not about scoring who's right points its about the hypocrisy of the two major parties argument for the status quo. when there's talk of social programs designed to HELP citizens everyone screams about where the money will come from and how those programs promote bad/lazy behavior yet the military and wall street get unlimited funding by comparison with NO oversight (there is oversight but its so disregarded it may as well not exist) and NO ONE in the two major parties takes to the streets about that shit at all. Your bullet points prove it. If Ocasio-Cortez and others are trying to inject some new blood and change in the system we SHOULD be supporting that not scoffing at them.

 

[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

dude its not about scoring who's right points its about the hypocrisy of the two major parties argument for the status quo. when there's talk of social programs designed to HELP citizens everyone screams about where the money will come from and how those programs promote bad/lazy behavior yet the military and wall street get unlimited funding by comparison with NO oversight (there is oversight but its so disregarded it may as well not exist) and NO ONE in the two major parties takes to the streets about that shit at all. Your bullet points prove it. If Ocasio-Cortez and others are trying to inject some new blood and change in the system we SHOULD be supporting that not scoffing at them.

I support new blood and new ideas. I want change!

But not Communism. And not socialisists, anarcharists, marxists, leninists, trotskyites or far leftists delivering a message of change disguised as progressive politics but in reality is communism. I'm not for it.

But you are definitely entitled to your opinions.

 

[ballscout1]

YOU CAN'T DO THAT!! DON'T YOU KNOW REALLOCATING THAT MUCH TO SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO HELP AMERICANS WOULD WEAKEN OUR MILITARY AND THEN CHINA AND THE RUSSIANS CAN BITCH SLAP US WITH NO PROBLEM!!!

That's bullshit though because there is so much waste and double dipping in military spending.

Half of military spending are entitlements for the industry.

They still but tanks that shit and rust because there is no use or want for them except to patronize their builders.

 

[Dirtylakerie]

I really despise that dumb ass question "Where is the money coming from?" because it comes from a place of willful ignorance or just sheer stupidity.

Anytime these motherfuckers want to jack up the military budget to pay for wars and military hardware that don't benefit us at al, no one ever asks "Where is the money coming?"

Also alot of that money goes missing. Every so often you'll hear, the government lost x amount of that money. They say the shit like it's normal. And no investigation is done. And people go about their day without skipping a beat.

 

[darth frosty]

 

[darth frosty]

 

[snark9]

This country is becoming two divided' you have the Democrats who are becoming too liberal on one side and you have the Republicans who are becoming far too conservative. Their constituents don't even know which way to go .

You're wrong. the 'overton window' has shifted further than you think:

the dems are becoming a new type of conservative, requiring complete cult-like adherance to the feminist orthodoxy, turning away from science [see: gender politics], corporatists with hawkish warmongering, and attacking progressives.

conservatives are becoming fascistic [trying to combine religion state and corporate power], anti-democracy [see gerrymandering, voter suppression in GA & FL, as well as the Wisconsin power grab], zenophobic, and interested in an ethno-state created by trading principles for a cult of personality, in the form of a 'strong-man' populist demagogue.

 

[Amajorfucup]

This chick doesn’t have the first idea about how our goverment or country works. She has been shown to not be able to answer the most basic of questions on how our goverment works. We need new blood as in qualified applicants not just some rando who’s pretty and doesn’t know up from down.

Knowledgeable about government like the old guard who got us into this mess?

If the POTUS can be an effective, unread, destructive moron then this chick not knowing every nuance of government structure should be the least of your worries.

 

[sharkbait28]

Lol... gotta give it up to corporations man, decades of crafting a narrative via paid-for representatives has the plebes arguing against ultra basic functions of government most first world countries take for granted. It's amazing watching folks argue against subsidized healthcare and education.

Also lol at any ire directed at AOC (before her first day haha)... as if there aren't more worthy targets of the fake outrage.