AOC's campaign office was vandalized with red paint early Monday on Herschell Street in the Bronx, police say.
  • Tempus Fugit@midwest.socialEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Here we go not letting perfect be the enemy of good. Fucking morons, you get what you deserve. We’re so cooked it’s not even funny.

    • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
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      8 days ago

      We’re so cooked it’s not even funny.

      We’ve been through worse than this. You’re not wrong, but also, this is not the end of the story, never has been.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Could very easily be a false-flag. AIPAC is no friend of AOC and it would hardly be the first time they tried to ratfuck a politician like this. Karl Rove and Roger Stone loved the “wedge issue” as a political strategy and would routinely work with their media proxies to play up even the slightest discontent within the liberal coalition until it was all anyone on TV talked about for months.

      That said, there’s also a fair number of people who are sick to death of AOC’s own triangulating on Israel. She’s been hemming and hawing since the Biden Admin on a whole host of issues. And there’s good reason to believe the Pelosi wing of the party has been dragging her around by the nose into one disastrous compromise after another, with the bait of committee assignments and chairmanships that never materialize. So, we’re far shy of “good” when it comes to her voting record, and there’s plenty of issues to be legitimately upset over.

      Fucking morons, you get what you deserve.

      Get Thee Behind Me, Hakeem Jefferies

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Could very easily be a false-flag.

        I love how every partisan hack always pulls out “false flag” the instant anything paints their side in a bad light. 🤣

      • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
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        8 days ago

        So, we’re far shy of “good” when it comes to her voting record, and there’s plenty of issues to be legitimately upset over.

        Can you name two or three, without changing the subject and getting all aggressive and pivoting to some other argument instead?

        (Not this vote, this is horseshit as I’ve explained elsewhere in the comments.)

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Can you name two or three

          Ocasio-Cortez publicly castigated the railway companies and demanded better conditions for workers — then voted to forbid them from striking.

          During the 2021 American Rescue Plan COVID relief bill, she advocated in favor of raising the minimum wage as part of the legislation. Ocasio-Cortez was quoted as saying. “If we as a party decide to stand down on our promise of elevating the minimum wage, I think that’s extraordinarily spurious and it’s something that as a party we could have a further conversation about how to fight for it.” With her Squad caucus - and Republican intransigence - they had the ability to hold the bill hostage until minimum wage was included. But she caved and supported the bill anyway.

          And she voted for the CHIPS Act without including language to curb climate emissions from data centers, and now we’ve got a flood of new data centers that are polluting at an unprecedented rate.

          (Not this vote, this is horseshit as I’ve explained elsewhere in the comments.)

          It was “horseshit” that seemed to win support from Al Green and Ilhan Omar. Perhaps AOC simply had too much beef with MTG to stomach a vote. But it’s a bad look to her constituents, regardless.

  • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
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    8 days ago

    You fucking morons

    This is never going to die, is it

    For the uninitiated: MTG’s amendment left intact the funding for offensive weapons, but cut the funding for defensive weapons for Israel. So there is literally no way AOC could win. Leaving aside the fact that it was a kooky MTG amendment that was never going to pass in the first place… If she voted for the amendment, then everyone who is currently screaming that she’s a fake leftist who supports genocide could say “See? SHE VOTED FOR KEEPING ISRAEL’S FUNDING INTACT, SHE SUPPORTS GENOCIDE!” Since she voted against it, they are currently screaming “See? SHE VOTED AGAINST DEFUNDING ISRAEL, SHE SUPPORTS GENOCIDE!”

    It’s just more can’t-win, let’s-eat-the-leftest-person-because-we’re-super-leftist-I-promise horseshit.

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      As always, bills are packed full of shit so trying to catch a win in one aspect is always tied to agreeing with something else entirely against your ideology. Fuck this ferrying, coat-tail tugging, crosslinked system.