I remember when she singlehandedly killed off over 10k Amazon jobs for her district. @goat probably thought that was a genius move.
She’s smarter in terms of raw intellectual horsepower than at least 50% of Congress, although that’s not saying as much as I’d like.@goat yeah I’ve not seen that at all. Bank leaders. Border. On and on. She has a superficial virtue signaling response and gets shredded bc she doesn’t understand the depth. And again. Common sense. If she was smart she wouldn’t advocate the shit she does. She doesn’t understand.
One of the worst habits you have is assuming someone who is wrong must be stupid. Smart people can come to different conclusions.
But she has intellectual blinders on due to her ideology that limits her understanding of important areas I think a President should be conversant-to-expert in. She also has very little life experience—no kids, no marriage, no prior career. I think she’s an unserious person and candidate.
@mcm666 Unfortunately, we have 3 elections in a row that prove that what you just typed doesn't really matter.
I hope she isn't the nominee. I hope one of the more moderate names end up running, and emerging. Shapiro, Beshear, Moore, Kelly, even Whitmer...and even Newsome, would be a better choice. Per my original post, I'd prefer someone that has extensive international, if not specific military experience, to be the next POTUS. If I could just pick the person, I'd figure out who the best General or Admiral is, between 50 and 65 years old, and just make them take the job... regardless of political affiliation.
AOC as the Dem nominee doesn't move the entire country forward, how it needs to. Just like Trump's Presidencies haven't, and won't, move the entire country forward.
Let the healing begin.
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1969067979280150766?t=NbXLv7GDAkgV2RANGElHyA&s=19
It very well won't matter who the Dems nominate.
https://twitter.com/OpenSourceZone/status/1969076557160304919?t=1SSasx-c4wocUJSRbs5RGg&s=19
@goat yeah I’ve not seen that at all. Bank leaders. Border. On and on. She has a superficial virtue signaling response and gets shredded bc she doesn’t understand the depth. And again. Common sense. If she was smart she wouldn’t advocate the shit she does. She doesn’t understand.
She's advocating for what liberals want. The biggest problem with this board is they're older and think the younger generation is like them. Marv and Lars are still socialists in my opinion (still love you guys), but they're Ayn Rand compared to liberals under 40. AOC leans slightly to the left in the party if you remove everyone over the age of 60. The media will do their glow up of her and she will walk back some of her craziest shit prior to the election and be called a centrist in the summer leading up to the election.
@snarlcakes oh yeah no matter how radical her ideas mainstream media will dub her a centrist.
He's running and so is she.
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1969120531916935631?t=ZcFhZ6lHwufoeY4puhCu4w&s=19
She’s smarter in terms of raw intellectual horsepower than at least 50% of Congress, although that’s not saying as much as I’d like.@goat yeah I’ve not seen that at all. Bank leaders. Border. On and on. She has a superficial virtue signaling response and gets shredded bc she doesn’t understand the depth. And again. Common sense. If she was smart she wouldn’t advocate the shit she does. She doesn’t understand.
One of the worst habits you have is assuming someone who is wrong must be stupid. Smart people can come to different conclusions.
But she has intellectual blinders on due to her ideology that limits her understanding of important areas I think a President should be conversant-to-expert in. She also has very little life experience—no kids, no marriage, no prior career. I think she’s an unserious person and candidate.
She's certainly not my choice. But I've seen her perform. She's got a sharp mind and a quick wit. She's not stupid. But she is a very bad candidate.
Garfield was the last person to go from The House to White House. That is a hard trip to make. She could run against Schumer, a hard fight, then the presidency. But that is 3 elections in 4 years, awful hard on the fundraising.
But I think she is why Schumer isn't likely to surrender on this budget bill. To fight off her challenge he will have to show a willingness to go to the mat he didn't show in the spring. Mind you, I think he had a good point. But AOC Democrats want someone who will fight for them tooth and nail.
I've seen some bad clips in Congress. She's a very good politician, though. Which in today's world, if we cared, should be disqualifying.She’s smarter in terms of raw intellectual horsepower than at least 50% of Congress, although that’s not saying as much as I’d like.@goat yeah I’ve not seen that at all. Bank leaders. Border. On and on. She has a superficial virtue signaling response and gets shredded bc she doesn’t understand the depth. And again. Common sense. If she was smart she wouldn’t advocate the shit she does. She doesn’t understand.
One of the worst habits you have is assuming someone who is wrong must be stupid. Smart people can come to different conclusions.
But she has intellectual blinders on due to her ideology that limits her understanding of important areas I think a President should be conversant-to-expert in. She also has very little life experience—no kids, no marriage, no prior career. I think she’s an unserious person and candidate.
She's certainly not my choice. But I've seen her perform. She's got a sharp mind and a quick wit. She's not stupid. But she is a very bad candidate.
1. I want an elite intellect and achiever to be President.no prior career
Also, you guys need to stop being so elitist. She had a career.
2. What was her career prior to getting into politics? Part-time bartender and waitress? She graduated college in 2011.
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an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx and took a job as a bartender and waitress to help her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fight foreclosure of their home.[37][38] She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that portrayed the Bronx in a positive light.[39][40] Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.[27][41][42]
During the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.[43] After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places such as Flint, Michigan, and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, and speaking to people affected by the Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline.[44] In an interview she recalled her December 2016 visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that, she had believed that the only way to run for office effectively was to have access to wealth, social influence, and power. But her visit to North Dakota, where she saw others "putting their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the protection of their community", inspired her to begin to work for her own community.[45] One day after she visited North Dakota, she got a phone call from Brand New Congress, which was recruiting progressive candidates (her brother had nominated her soon after Election Day 2016).[46] Ocasio-Cortez said she was first exposed to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) when a friend brought her to a local meeting in Washington Heights. She has credited Jabari Brisport's unsuccessful City Council campaign with restoring her belief in electoral politics, in running as a socialist candidate, and in the DSA as an organization.[47]
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Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April 2017[8] while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a taqueria in New York City's Union Square.[49] "For 80 percent of this campaign, I operated out of a paper grocery bag hidden behind that bar," she told Bon Appétit.[50]