Alexandria Ocasio-cortez

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    Most leftists don't believe anything is a problem when they do it.
     
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    In my somewhat limited opinion, there wouldn’t be any labels placed upon AOC if the real stupid person, Rep. Pappas, hadn’t been so lazy and presumptuous as to hand her the congressional office on a silver platter.
    She shouldn’t have had a chance to win if he would have simply run a legitimate campaign against her the same as he would have run against anyone else.
    He should have known or at least taken it into consideration that the underdog, though small in stature, less experience and capability, can bite too.
    There are very few people who will back someone who doesn’t even try to win.
     
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  3. Joy Martin

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    And You People on the Right never called Barack names????? And some of the stupid comics out there when he was our president, and they are still out there. I don't engage that much anymore.

    I don't know what my grandkids call the president, they are both in college and are getting an education on everything, politics included.
     
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    No on that count you are right I have called that fool names and at times LMAO at him.
     
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  5. Joy Martin

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    On this name calling, I was raised better. But if saying someone is an ego maniac, narcisstist (sp), bully, rude, --- then I'm guilty.
     
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    I don't know if this this lady will be re-elected or if she would ever make
    make a good congress woman or not but she said one thing I like and
    she's not the first to say it because i have said something similar for
    many years. She said, "If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would
    be like post offices." She's not far off with that statement.
     
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  7. Joy Martin

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    For sure, and if men got mamograms???!!! Good lord..those machines had to be invented by man, no woman would invent them to have breasts tortured...same with spike shoes...
     
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    We weren't the ones complaining about it. I couldn't think of anything nice to say about Obama. Other than, "Thank God, he's gone."
     
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    @Ken Anderson

    But he ain't gone: he lives on here as evidenced by this very thread.

    Frank
     
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    No, this thread is about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
     
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    I assume the Fresno Bee will continue to support the Grizzles who have lost some beer support because they misused a video that referenced AOC.
     
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    I received this e-mail today.


    Subject: Fwd: An articulate and logical 26 year old!

    This article was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. It's a short article but definitely worth a read.


    My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!


    I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.


    Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”


    Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.


    Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.


    Why? The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem.We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem,and it’s spreading like a plague."






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  13. Shirley Martin

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    Great post!
     
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    That should be sent to Candace Owens so she could read it in front of Congress!
     
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  15. Shirley Martin

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    And to Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez so that she can read it to herself.
     
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