A day before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was officially sworn-in, near decade-old footage of the congresswoman dancing as a student at Boston University re-emerged on Twitter, apparently in an effort to embarrass her....The attacks are so stupid I wonder if they're false flag, but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid.
"Here is America's favourite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is," one right-wing Twitter account, @AnonymousQ1776, wrote as they shared the clip. The account, which appears to reference the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory, has since been removed.
"After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is forced out of office after one term she can go dance on a stage that has a pole," said another.
January 4, 2019
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Congresswoman attacked for dancing."
BBC reports.
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Notice it's an anonymous account?
Most of the people I follow on the right have said it's cute. She's cute.
They're trying to take some random person and pretend like the right is attacking her.
Which makes me think it's all a set up.
Agreed. Her past dancing is a big nothing. So what? You go grrl!
It's what she says and thinks NOW that is so frightfully embarrassing.
The attacks are so stupid I wonder if they're false flag, but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid.
Writes the woman who believed Christine Blasey Ford.
"Attacked".
Trump was (and still is) "attacked" for having short fingers, for being orange, for having bad hair, and for wearing long ties.
Citizens making fun of politicians is a good thing.
Talk to Steve Scalise and Rand Paul about being attacked. This is mild criticism and mockery.
The attacks are so stupid
Oh. I don't know. Any less stupid than the attacks on teen-aged Brett Kavanaugh about the drinking age when he was 18 or his liking of beer or ...or...or... .
Romney's dog on the roof. Rumors of hair cutting.
When you are young, you do stupid shit. Then (hopefully) you grow up.
Like DB@H says....it is what she does NOW that counts.
It's what she says and thinks NOW that is so frightfully embarrassing.
Exactly. It's her policies what are The Elaine Dance.
Attacked? Will she be ok?
This is nothing compared to what any Republican woman gets.
That was a nice video of her, but it would have been nicer had she been naked.
Would've been better with a bag over her head.
Hope it gets some folks to discover The Breakfast Club.
It's either a false flag or some idiot outlier. Either way, it doesn't represent anything meaningful.
After watching the video I can't believe anyone would think it reflects on her poorly. False flag.
Here's a cribsheet. Ilhan Omar: she's the woman who married her brother as part of an immigration fraud scheme, and who thinks Jews have hypnotic powers. Rashida Tlaib is the "impeach the motherfucker" gal. AOC is the one who makes cute videos, either dancing around with her friends or making mac n'cheese.
How is this even news? Out of the millions that tweet there a going to be some puerile idiots - on both sides. Why focus on that?
I've noticed that a lot of journalists have gotten very lazy in recent years. They search for some colorful or provocative tweets and present it as the pulse of what's going on.
"AllenS said...
That was a nice video of her, but it would have been nicer had she been naked."
True.
The only question I have is if she is wearing tassels, in which case I will look it up.
Otherwise this is a nothing burger. Just the Left trying to make the Right look like narrow minded prudes over dancing, while the Left tries to destroy the Rule of Law, due process, free speech, gun rights and western civilization.
But yeah, being against dancing is a problem.
It's a setup. The Most Woke Person I Know on Facebook broke his months-long hiatus of posting on political matters yesterday afternoon to post an entry saying 'Republicans are making fun of Congressperson Ocasio-Cortez's youthful dance video [and other silly things]. They must think it's better to nominate a man accused of sexual assault to the Supreme Court!'
Battlespace prep.
The point of women's fashion is to make it look as if they'd look better naked.
Being naked has the opposite effect.
Exactly, DBQ - Any R or conservative can be viciously attacked with LIES (#Too-Afraid-to-fly-Blasey-Ford) going all the way back to an un-provable allegation during highschool in the 1980's.
But don't you dare mock a precious and holy socialist.
Another Kavanaugh accuser admits to fabricating rape story
Also, the fabrication that the Parkland shooter was a Trump supporter. That entire deal was fabricated by a leftist liar with a covered face in a maga hat - and the account was created after the shooting. Leftists lie.
Which is why it's a mistake for a mainstream actress to go naked.
Oh, and the anonymous person who posted the initial criticism?
They deleted their Twitter account.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if it belonged to an AOC staffer.
Apparently the dancing video has inspired Fed Chair to say he would defy Trump request to resign.
one right-wing Twitter account, @AnonymousQ1776, wrote as they shared the clip. The account, which appears to reference the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory
This conclusion appears to be supported by diversity or color judgment, which is a well established religious principle of left-wing "secular" factions.
Blogger Amexpat said...
How is this even news? Out of the millions that tweet there a going to be some puerile idiots - on both sides. Why focus on that?
I've noticed that a lot of journalists have gotten very lazy in recent years. They search for some colorful or provocative tweets and present it as the pulse of what's going on.
Here's how this becomes news. Exposed during the last election cycle by WikiLeaks showing us Hillary's emails.
Step 1 - A staffer finds a cute video of you from your college days. You all laugh and joke about how much the evil Republicans would just hate it.
Step 2 - Since you k ow the evil Republicans would hate it so much, might as well create a fake evil Republican account and post the video online, mocking it, as evil Republicans would.
Step 3 - Contact a friendly media source appalled, appalled!! At how the evil Republicans are mocking the cute, sweet, dancing, AOC.
Step 4 - Positive news cycle.
gee, now can someone do that for impeach the mother~`{}[]<>^%?
Liberals do not have a monopoly on stupidity, just a thriving franchise. People on the right can be stupid, too.
" but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid. "
But none of them can compete with the stupidity that regularly comes out of AOC's mouth.
Cortez is Maduro in red lipstick.
Star of the Day = Boston University's Extremely Embarrassment Department of Economics
Dear old Auntie Beeb--the Prioress of the Priory of the Perpetually Outraged Over Trivia.
Auntie and the rest of the lefty snowflakes need to get a life. And no, I didn't look at the video, nor did I read the tweet. I had better things to do like clean the grout in the tiled shower.
Reread that first sentence Auntie Bee is the Prioress of POOT.
Hatred? No.
The ideas she espouses are shopworn cliches that lead to death and deprivation.
Mainly I think she is wrong.
Imagine if they just played that video in the situation room before the budget pow wow.
The attacks are so stupid I wonder if they're false flag, but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid.
No woman must be made to feel bad about, or responsible for, anything, ever.
(If she's a Leftwinger)
Althouse's beloved Sullivan said much worse about Palin, and I don't recall any condemnation.
BBC found something dumb on twitter. Wow, deep reporting there. Maybe they should take a look at 4chan.
Standard Cuckservative response: It's all about me me me my struggle against the onslaught of the Democrat machine.
It is stupid to think this is an effective tactic. However, I am more interested in why the account was taken down. Did Twitter take the account down because it criticizes the Congresswoman? If so, then that is far worse behavior than the account owner's, regardless of that person's political purpose in posting it.
Typical Howard response. Call your opponents names, because you lack the intelligence to formulate a response.
The account, which appears to reference the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory, has since been removed.
It's nice that the account has been passively removed by unknown agents so we won't be exposed to unauthorized dancing videos.
The attacks are so stupid I wonder if they're false flag, but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid.
There's "anonymous tweeter" stupid, and then there's "big-swinging-dick-major-global-news-organization po-facedly covering catty anonymous-tweets" stupid.
If you want to argue that it's stupid because slagging off Occasional-Cortex will backfire on her enemies, you could be right, in the ADD short-term of contemporary public life. But if this now counts for "news" with the BBC (and we know it does), then everything has already become way too stupid for ordinary rules of don't-be-stupid to apply.
Nobody can predict the medium- and long-term effects of such tactics and counter-tactics in Mega-Stupid World.
Are Twitter "attacks" legitimate news stories?
Each news outlet gets to choose from a near-endless supply of daily "attacks" and pick which ones it will highlight. BBC and every major outlet knows this. What they choose to highlight is a form of 21st century editorializing.
In 2028, when she is a candidate for president (she'll be old enough then, right?) someone will do a deep investigation of each guy in that video to reveal she hung out with sexual harassers in college and did nothing. Nothing!
The attacks are so stupid I wonder if they're false flag, but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid.
This reminds me of the Birther news stories. At some point, the story was no longer being driven by conservatives, so liberal outlets kept it going. By the last few years of its life, references to birtherism would be coming from the Left by a 10:1 ratio.
She's very cute and looks like she's having fun. Why wouldn't she want to put this out there?
And if she did want to put it out there, what would be a good way to do it and kill 2 birds with one stone?
Definitely a false flag:
AOC Twitter
@ Brian
Judging by the song she selected there, I assume she supports Trump's Syria pullout.
Pelosi lectured us this morning that one Democrat congress womans obscene comments only relfect on her, not the party, and she is free to express herself. This video is one person and represents nothing.(less than nothing as compared to a person that has stood for election)
This is obviously a video her supporters wanted out there.
Rep. AOC should not be criticized for her dance video; she should be criticized for being a moron.
apparently in an effort to embarrass her....
I haven't seen the video, but it seems that statement indicates the writer at the BBC finds the video is embarrassing.
After all how can a non-embarrassing video be used to embarrass someone?
This seems like something AOC would put up herself. She's been a good self promoter up to this point. She is the type that would point the media to it, and ask that they write about it.
We know from the DNC e mails that the media outlets all had reporters that would attach their by-line to content created by the DNC or Clinton's wife's campaign. This the most interesting reveal in the leaked e mails, and something that the right never mentions for some reason.
Pelosi lectured us this morning that one Democrat congress womans obscene comments only relfect on her
Unless it's a commonly held principle, then she's right. Otherwise, it's diversity or color judgment, which is notoriously low information.
She was almost young enough to go with the Clinton's on the Orgy Express.
AOC probably thought of this when the video of Hillary dancing in India came out last week.
The center-right/libertarian groups I see all think the attack is ludicrously stupid and the video is neutral-to-positive for her.
Pretty much just one dude on Twitter attacking her for dancing, as far as I can tell. Perhaps a handful of idiots piling on because, well, idiots.
(CJinPA has it right - "twitter attacks" are "news" of a very useful sort - you can find someone notionally on side X attacking anything. Present that as "news" and you've created a convenient appearance of "side X is attacking Y for Z!"
Even if it's just one or two people on Twitter.
That's BS, no matter which direction it's aimed, though naturally from the BBC or the Times the direction will be uniform.)
it seems that statement indicates the writer at the BBC finds the video is embarrassing
They are known to project. It may well be that they're embarrassed for her.
"Right wing Twitter account" should be the red (or false) flag here.
The Republic is set up to deal with idiots getting elected. AOC isn't the first and won't be the last. I hope she manages to grow into the position, but past performance makes that look unlikely.
[Trump haters insert comment here]
Female politicians are just actresses.
Actresses are cast based on the audience wanting to fuck them.
"Dancing" is a stand in for fucking.
Thus, more men will want to vote for her after this.
And who wants to hear what the women you just fucked thinks about the US needing socialism?
Same thing.
Remember, Trump's real crime against the media is that he's incapable of being suitably embarrassed.
The real goal of impeachment isn't to remove him from office, it's to permanently stain his record and make everyone agree his Presidency was a failure.
They can't even conceive it would do no such thing.
I don't think her garbage policy will sell
but then again
nobody ever lost shorting the foolishness of the
American public
She can at least do incremental damage by moving the focus of the public from winning to
reparations, green new deals, income inequality
and other sure fire losers
Isn't this the most boring post of the day?
Some unknown and anonymous person posted something on Twitter and then deleted it. Big whoop.
"The real goal of impeachment isn't to remove him from office, it's to permanently stain his record and make everyone agree his Presidency was a failure."
And to make an example of him for any other outsiders who might want to drain the swamp.
Blogger eric said...
Notice it's an anonymous account?
Most of the people I follow on the right have said it's cute. She's cute.
Pretty much exactly what my 19 year old son said this morning telling me about it. Said lefties were claiming right wingers we're outraged by it, but he and his friends said it made her appear almost human and fun to be with.
Republicans hate dancing. Democrats love dancing.
Vote for more dancing!
Socialist Waitress of Color Attacked! (by anonymous twitter troll) - News at 11:00
"but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid"
The problem is that us white men haven't coordinated our strategy of woman-of-color-subjugation when it comes to AOC specifically. She's a special case, unfortunately.
I'll bring up the issue at the bonfire next Tuesday night.
She looked like she was having fun. Big deal. She's still a mal-educated twit espousing a socialist ideology that history has shown not to be about sharing, caring and being fair but to assuredly lead to misery, poverty and death.
No matter your political opinion, there are morons and lunatics with similar opinions (though usually for different reasons; they're morons and/or lunatics: "Chemtrails, man, that's why we need means-testing for Medicaid").
There are also the types who actually do this kind of thing as a false flag, too.
Very difficult to tell apart, often.
Who dreamed the vast right wing conspiracy would be brought down by Jenny from the block?
"a socialist ideology that history has shown not to be about sharing, caring and being fair but to assuredly lead to misery, poverty and death."
And most importantly, great wealth for AOC. The woman likes expensive clothing.
Well, Alexandria Occasionally Coherent is like a J Lo movie.
Heck, considering the stupid things she says, does and stands for, it makes sense that she is a barista who somehow, by statistical fluke, got catapulted way beyond their pay grade.
And unlike Hollywood, when we've run into those people in real life, we cringe.
Because she is, compared to most Dem politicians, actually presentable and borderline cute, she is trading on her 'blonde privilege' (I'm too hot to need to be coherent)
Except she isn't except for the fanboys in the media
She's a consistently dumb little shit and I would not call these attacks Althouse.
Watching this video, we learn she was a member of the "brat pack" and went by "Sandy Ocasio-Cortez."
Cute, upbeat college video. Wouldn't exactly call her presidential or even congressional material. But, here we are...
Bob from Alhambra
Is it like elaine dancing bad or Katie Couric dancing bad.
This will end well:
https://www.weaselzippers.us/407469-new-democratic-congresswoman-hangs-transgender-flag-outside-her-office/
Gotta wonder if the BBC was notified, and if so, by whom.
> it made her appear almost human and fun to be with.
Beto and Bush too.
All our representatives should give regular instagram videos drinking beer like us average jackoffs.
Women can drink straight from the bottle. Suck it!
AOC is recommending a 70% tax on the "super wealthy" to "combat carbon emissions". Wonder who qualifies as "super wealthy" in her mind and what exactly "combating carbon emissions" would entail?
> false flag
a victim is the most power position one can attain
especially based on gender and race
She's our new girlfriend
giving us a shit test.
People have joked that AOC wants the USA to become the new Venezuela, but clearly she really, really does. She may be one of the biggest idiots in congress, and that's a pretty high bar to clear considering we have a Congress person who has expressed concern about Guam tipping over because there's too many people on it.
Bitch just promised to raise my taxes to 70%. Right now, I feel like dancing on her grave.
Been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Eight hours for what?
Oh, tell me what I got
I've got this feeling
That time's just holding me down
I'll hit the ceiling
Or else I'll tear up this town
Now I gotta cut loose
Footloose, kick off the Sunday shoes
You're playing so cool, obeying every rule
Deep way down in your heart
You're burning, yearning for the some-somebody to tell you
That life ain't passing you by
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try
You'll get by if you'd only cut loose
This kind of sustained attention is very dangerous for someone of her age and experience. Very few 29-year olds (outside of music, sports, mathematics) have enough to say to be worth listening to for very long. I agree that the video is cute, attractive. But it has amplified her 70% tax rate comments. So, while the reason for promoting this is likely stupid, the video may harm her in the long run.
From Page Six:
Most of the staff at Flats Fix, the East 16th Street taco and tequila bar, say nice things about Sandy, as they knew her for the four years she worked there, until she quit six months ago to run for Congress.
But one waitress has a bad memory of working with Ocasio-Cortez, 28, as Ocasio-Cortez tended bar during the very busy Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2017.
At the end of the night, when it came time to split the $560 in tips she had gotten at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the waitress only $50. After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100, a source said.
“It says so much about her character,” said my source. “From that point on, I wouldn’t talk to her. I couldn’t look at her.”
Ocasio-Cortez couldn’t be reached for comment..
So now we know that "Sandy O-C" also cheats fellow workers. "Once a crook . . ."
Cute, happy, bubbly Sandy adopts an obnoxious, anti-establishment persona so the cool kids will like her. And now we even have a soundtrack and choreography. We're living in a bad remake of Grease.
I had to laugh at the irony when I recognized the song and realized one of the lines is "...not easily offended..."
AOC is recommending a 70% tax on the "super wealthy"
Is that instead of my current 50%+ tax burden, or in addition to?
Who F'ing Cares?
... and really, Professor? You've "seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid"? Like what exactly? And who are these "AOC Haters"? some random (now conveniently deleted) twitter account?
Nothing like painting a whole bunch of people with a broad brush....
I guess some people prefer warped, dried-up, and decayed monsters such as Lindsay Graham, Jeff Sessions, Mitch McConnell, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, etc.
Standard Cuckservative response
Once again, Howard using words he doesn't understand.
@Robert Cook:
I guess some people prefer warped, dried-up, and decayed monsters such as Lindsay Graham, Jeff Sessions, Mitch McConnell, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, etc.
I support term limits for the House though not for the Senate. I disagree with a lot of Ocasio-cortez's politics but do admire a more energetic and honest approach. The new crop of left-wing Democrats are preferable to the centrist moderates that have dominated the party since the Clinton presidency.
"'AOC is recommending a 70% tax on the "super wealthy"'
"Is that instead of my current 50%+ tax burden, or in addition to?"
How are you paying a tax burden greater than the maximum tax rate (35%)?
"The attacks are so stupid I wonder if they're false flag, but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid."
On the Stupid Scale, are the AOC haters (a) more stupid or (b) less stupid than AOC herself? It's difficult to believe anyone could be (a). AOC pretty much sets the bar for stupidity.
Trump enjoys hammering people (see, Bush, Jeb in primaries).
The Left enjoys hammering Trump (see, new Arab terrorist congresswoman gonna impeach that motherfucker).
And, admittedly, we like hammering the Left.
Ideally, and I say this aspirationally, it would be nice to not hammer Ms. AOC, but to allow her a fair forum to air her views and debate her policy prescriptions.
For example: If she truly wants to raise taxes on rich New Yorkers up to 70%, well, that's an idea I would humbly suggest is bad for New York. These rich liberals will flee to Florida and low tax states, and the New York tax base will slowly dry up, causing some major problems.
"Attacked"!!
Prayers and Godspeed for a quick recovery, that poor, poor woman ... attacked.
How are you paying a tax burden greater than the maximum tax rate (35%)?
@Cookie, ever hear of local taxes? The Republican “tax cuts for the rich” hit the people who could write of their property taxes on their federal income taxes good and hard in the wallet.
"The attacks are so stupid"
What "attacks"?
"I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters"
Who they? Of course, we righties think she is a ridiculous nitwit -- does that make us "haters"?
Not watching it. Don't care. AOC has said many things to criticize but why pick on a video from years ago that she dances in (with clothes on)? False Flag or some idiot posting and then maybe some other fringe idiots commenting on it. Read Imgur or FunnyJunk or 4chan and THEN you'll see some comments to criticize. That our hostess seems to be defending AOC by painting with that broad one-size-fit-all right-wingers brush, she is to be laughed at. Again.
THEOLDMAN
"@Cookie, ever hear of local taxes? The Republican “tax cuts for the rich” hit the people who could write of their property taxes on their federal income taxes good and hard in the wallet."
Yes, well...that's what tax cuts for the rich generally do...bite everyone else in the wallet, and create deficits.
You broke my heart
'Cause I couldn't dance
You didn't even want me around
And now I'm back
To let you know
I can really shake 'em down
Do you love me?
(I can really move)
Do you love me?
(I'm in the groove)
Ah, do you love?
(Do you love me)
Now that I can dance
Read more: The Contours - Do You Love Me Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Has she been on Ellen yet?
Wasteful government spending creates deficits.
Period.
Lumping corrupt money grubbing crook Hillary Clinton in with Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham - is lazy.
She's her own island of corruption and money grubbing.
Maybe she was being targeted for shaming by a radical fringe group of Church of Christ-ers, who just don't cotton much to anyone dancin'.
Why doesn't the Church of Christ believe in sex standing up?
Might lead to dancing.
AOC gonna cut the deficit and the rug
She needs to create an iconic dance move..something illustrating picking pockets or a toddler-like "Gimmeee!" gesture.
No children in politics tag.
@Cookie, Trump’s tax cuts are the first to actually raise taxes on you and your fellow limousine liberals. Hooray for Trump and down with limousine liberals and country club Republicans.
Why is the BBC reporting on the comments of small time twitter trolls?
At the end of the night, when it came time to split the $560 in tips she had gotten at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the waitress only $50. After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100, a source said.
Let's see her tax returns.
BuckIV said...
"Attacked"!!
Prayers and Godspeed for a quick recovery, that poor, poor woman ... attacked.
I hope the poor thing's recovery goes better and faster than Rand Paul's.
Increased levels of money have been flowing into the treasury. After the tax cuts.
That fact will never convince the "punitive taxation works!" crowd that we must tax rape everyone and drive America into a socialist ditch.
How are you paying a tax burden greater than the maximum tax rate (35%)?
Don't embarrass yourself Cookie. You are way better than this comment shows. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you claim you just responded too quickly without thinking it through.
Sales taxes, state taxes, county taxes, city taxes, motor vehicle taxes, gas taxes and real estate taxes, capital gains, etc.
walter said...
Has she been on Ellen yet?
Which got me thinking, is anyone fucking her? What is her sexuality? Would she like to get on Ellen? I need some answers!
> I guess some people prefer warped, dried-up, and decayed monsters such as Lindsay Graham, Jeff Sessions, Mitch McConnell, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, etc.
Right!
I prefer Congress be JUST LIKE HIGH SCHOOL
Chick in dancing meme videos, selfies, instragram talks
Mocking the out crowd
Using cool in-talk like "hate me cause you ain't me"
And efforts to fiat utopian visions like socialized medicine and zero non-renewable energy paid for by 70% tax brackets
Has she been on Ellen yet?
She will be when the people who sign Ellen's paycheck say so.
How are you paying a tax burden greater than the maximum tax rate (35%)?
LOL.
There must be a lot of people who believe that The Rich are the little Monopoly man with the top hat and the dollar sign on his vest, rather than the tech zillionaire in a tee-shirt or Beto's father-in-law, or Barbra Streisand.
I'm at a loss to understand our hostess's affinity for, and defenses of,AOC? It's like a mother protecting her special needs child from neighborhood bullies.
The Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., hired "many" undocumented immigrants, according to a new report outlining a claim that could create political problems for President Trump given his push to curb illegal immigration.
The New York Times reported Thursday that among the illegal immigrants hired there were Victorina Morales of Guatemala and Sandra Diaz of Costa Rica. Housekeepers at the golf resort, the women said that many other housekeeping, maintenance, and landscaping employees are also undocumented immigrants
Well gee, I guess we just throw up our hands then! The fight is over! Let’s all vote for Romney who doesn’t give a flying fuck about the issue! I will stick with the reformed sinner. Your jibe just proves my point that we need effective federal action on this issue.
Trump golf club question:
Are these undocumented women working within the work visa program?
If this is a problem, and they are here illegally, then yes - they should be made to leave and the Trump corporation should pay fines.
right?
The difference between you and Trump, Chuck, is that you are quite happy with the situation and hope it doesn’t change.
Those Republicans can't stop hating on her!
Everyone protect the woman...
Heroines need an arc - evil orc repubs hate dancing and free health care!
How are you paying a tax burden greater than the maximum tax rate (35%)?
To be fair to Cookie there is a difference between the political scheduled tax rate and effective tax rates, that net economic 'burden'. Speaking of the former and of the rate OCC speaks, add up federal, state, local, property, excise and for many people in many parts of the country a 50% rate shows up quickly.
To be fair to everyone else, Cookie's statement that's what tax cuts for the rich generally do...bite everyone else in the wallet, and create deficits. has no basis in fact when considering anything but a yet to be implemented tax scheme.
Heavy on typos but..
https://heavy.com/news/2018/12/riley-roberts-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-boyfriend/
Irina Alexander of Vogue wrote of Roberts, “When I first met him backstage at The Daily Show, he was casually citing tax rates in the 1950s.”
According to TEDxBU, Roberts gave a TED Talk on April 24, 2010. Though his actual talk is not available, the theme of the evening was “To Epiphany & Beyond,” and Roberts’ bio read, “Riley is a sophomore duel-degree student studying Sociology and Finance.
Brits colluding with the DNC, again, to manipulate American politics?
I wonder if Roberts is the guy in the AOC dancing video with the curly hair and the Boston hockey jersey. The guy I mean is the first person to appear in the video.
I thought the coolness in politics was gone when Obama left?
tim in vermont;
Neither I nor Mitt Romney are for "open borders." It is thoroughly untrue that Mitt Romney "doesn't care" about the issue. You don't have a single quote, not a shred of evidence, to back yourself up on that.
For my part, I have repeatedly said that as a member of Congress I would happily vote for an array of immigration reforms that would put me into the "immigration hawk" wing of the Republican Party. I'd like to see an end to birthright citizenship for children born to illegals. I'd like to see a boost in enforcement of e-verify measures. I'd be happy to see an increase in general border security measures (staffing, technology, etc). I see no place in our federal system for any "sanctuary" cities or states. I'd vote for legislation to address that federally. I would not favor any deals, including any DACA deals, that create amnesty or a pathway to citizenship for illegals.
Some of those views of mine are farther to the anti-immigrant right than Donald Trump is.
I just don't like "the Wall" as a sop to Trump's stupid campaign promise about "a great wall, that Mexico will pay for." Which was not just a lie, but a stupid lie.
Blogger AllenS said...
walter said...
Has she been on Ellen yet?
Which got me thinking, is anyone fucking her? What is her sexuality? Would she like to get on Ellen? I need some answers!
Well, there's Kyrsten Sinema who is apparently bi, sooooooo . . . . . .lawdy, I'd pay good money for that.
Oh, now I see why the voters couldn't find a more qualified bartender for the congress in that whole district.
Yes but they dont want any of that, a border wall is the easiest kind of objective, labour admitted how they needed unlimited immigration to transform the electorate so as to prevent another Thatcher from rising so this is where we find ourself.
> Kyrsten Sinema
Her win should be a clue that very few people posting here understand what is going on.
Yes they harvested enough votes to steal the election, along with media malpractice.
Off topic: Ms Althouse, a link to this analysis might provide fodder for interesting comments by your loyal readers https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/marc-thiessen-trump-did-many-positive-things-in-2018-here-are-the-10-worst-things-he-did
> > Kyrsten Sinema
> Yes they harvested enough votes to steal the election, along with media malpractice.
Her opponent ran as a "Jeb!"
I suppose to the public any change is welcome,
even a change to commie chicks
"Attacked" ... "for dancing"
It's jsut an DNC-Media headline
Evil R's hate dancing! Evil R's attack.
> Evil R's hate dancing! Evil R's attack.
leading conservatives @QAnonymous1776 and @QAnonymous17763 have spoken!
She looked pretty damn good in that vid.
AOC is a two legged cat video.
We can't get enough of her.
"Bitch just promised to raise my taxes to 70%. Right now, I feel like dancing on her grave."
Are you "super wealthy?" If so, how do you have the time to loiter around here?
"Wasteful government spending creates deficits.
"Period."
Spending in excess of tax revenues creates deficits. It needn't be "wasteful" spending. Tax cuts result in reduced tax revenues.
But, since you mention wasteful spending, the War Department and the Secret Police agencies need to have their budgets slashed by at least 80+% (and their black budgets killed entirely) to bring their expenditures below the threshold of "wasteful."
A couple of nobodies said something mean about Ocasio-Cortes on twitter. CONSERVATIVES ARE GOING NUTS!!!!!
Stupid non-story.
This is big news for the BBC. Usually they just report on lost pets and car accidents in London.
She has virtually zero knowledge on any discernable matter of public policy, but pulling up a video of her dancing in college and then acting like that is somehow bad and relevant is just ridiculous.
Twitter is just a sewer. Sane people need to ignore this kind of stuff. On all sides.
But I'm not holding my breath.
It doesn't matter, It's just stupid Twitter.
When I was in grammar school, the Old Man used to tell me, "If you spent as much time on your math as you do with that crap"--"that crap" being whatever I read or watched that I enjoyed--"you'd be better off, mister." I enjoyed the dance video--I thought she looked cute--but if she spent as much time reading economics* as she did practicing her dance moves, the tax-payers would be better off. (Yes, I know she majored in economics in college. As someone wrote about AOC's economics degree, "If she'd gone to medical school she's be a three-pack-a-day smoker."
*I recommend ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMICS by Faustino Ballve.
At least when she's dancing, AOC is not giving us her usual Crazy Eye Death Stare.
Althouse swung and missed on this one.
Anonymous negative twitter comments aren't "attacks." They are simply par for the course these days.
This was a feeble attempt to play the victim card by the BBC. Sorry, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
FullMoon said...She looked pretty damn good in that vid.
I had to double check; apparently she was 18 or 19 when it was shot. So, you know, no reason to not fully agree!
Yes, well...that's what tax cuts for the rich generally do...bite everyone else in the wallet, and create deficits.
Actually, going back at least as far as Reagan, tax cuts actually increase the amount of money collected by the government. The eternal problem is that spending goes up faster.
Also a false flag, the idea that conservatives have an issue with dancing. Wait until AOC sees this.
AOC has really, really bad ideas. If adopted, they wreck countries, communities and people's lives.
As a person, sure, seems nice, mildly attractive. I'd sleep with her. Dance away!
yes, this would be like auditions for fame, (boy am I dating myself) I mean glee, the bbc is punching down, in a nearly relotious way, the story is real the context is not,
meanwhile the son of abu hamza, the hookhanded Egyptian mullah, who has been receiving 200K pounds from the british government since he was deported 5 years ago, went on a bit of a stabbing spree,
Crazy Eye Death Stare
It's the Oh-My-God-why-is-everyone-else-so-stupid look.......or is it the OMG-why-has-no-one-thought-of-this-before look?
It was bad taste when people wanted to hate rape Palin. Sexualizing this woman is equally bad.
they will likely be banned in due course, unlike violent incitement to murder the former, which apparently remained in place for years,
"Attacked"!!
Prayers and Godspeed for a quick recovery, that poor, poor woman ... attacked.
Fear not for the damsel! She is no longer attacked! The BBC now claims:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Lawmaker mocks college dance critics
The word "attack" no longer appears - she has been saved!
...oh oh... and if you google-search the headline, with quotes (=string is required), the page of results shows "attacked", but none of news results at the links in the results have the string, and so far all the 'Cached' results were 404s. Pretty cool!
I'm going to go out on a limb - regardless of how early it is - and predict that her political career is going to crash and burn. My reasons are as follows:
- She's a walking-talking gaffe machine, on a scale I don't think we've seen yet
- Rumor has it there's lots of compromising stuff out there, just waiting for the right time to be released if you know what I mean. This is a consequence of the new-fangled-curated-life these millennials lead
- I'm dubious that she has any real loyalties, or understands what that really means. I.E. She'll turn on her friends at some point. She bounces off the walls, and people who support her aren't going to be able to catch her or simply won't
- Most of her success thus far quite frankly has been two factors. 1) luck and 2) media-puffing. 1) Is unlikely to happen again and 2) is growing less efficacious even to the Dems base
- Related to the gaffe-machine but different, her shoot from the hip mentality is going to get her in some kind of ethics violation. She'll end up doing something embarrassing or plain illegal
- Lastly, she's seems completely unable to take no for an answer
I foresee that she'll always be with us, I just think that will end up being as a cable news pundit or long-term DNC stooge.
“...but I've seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid.”
Indeed they are. Or maybe they have AOC Derangement Syndrome.
The best dancing post on your blog was back in 2011. I remembered it, went back and found it. Still entertaining.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/09/very-entertaining-dance.html
Tim
The new rules are that Stephen Millers 2nd grade teacher and libtard Uncle get to write front page editorials.
What’s good for the goose.........
I suppose it is possible that it was an AOC hater that posted it. We have the following complications with that theory:
1. The poster is anonymous.
2. The poster has a ridiculous user name. Either the user has no self-awareness or the user is parodying a "conservative" user name.
3. The poster apparently no longer exists. It was there for the post, then gone again.
4. This video is nothing new. It's been seen before. Apparently, someone decided this was a big deal for... reasons?
There is also the matter that we keep hearing accusations that conservatives are using the video to shame AOC, except we get basically no examples of that whatsoever other than an anonymous Twitter user and perhaps a handful of nobodies.
This is not fake news, but it is certainly manufactured news with a side of narrative.
Lying about stupid shit is how you get more Trump. Occasional Cortex will not even be a footnote in history.
Like if she breaks the law she's going to face consequences. Have we learned nothing from the last few years about accountability and Democrat politicians?
Methinks Ace of Spades has the best blog column if this nontroversy.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379013
The best dancing post on your blog was back in 2011. I remembered it, went back and found it. Still entertaining.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/09/very-entertaining-dance.html
Interesting!
Was 2011 the year Inga proposed a threesome with Ritmo,AKa PPPT in another comment thread?
She's tedious and I'm already sick of her. AND IT'S ONLY HER FIRST DAY ON A JOB SHE WILL PROBABLY HAVE FOR THE NEXT 40 YEARS. YIKES!!
(full disclosure: I'm a BU grad)
Yep. 2011 was the year Shouting Thomas and Ritmo were both seeking Inga (Allie Oop) affection.
So sweet !
I see Inga's fake Russian account spoofers are at it again!
So far we have, literally, not a single actual conservative or republican "attacking" AOC over this.
Naturally, according to Inga (nd no doubt LLR Chuck), somehow all conservatives are guilty of this thing no conservative did.
Remember, Inga is the dolt who remains completely convinced the hoax/Hillary fake dossier is totally legit.
Totally.
LOL
This has all the aroma of a fake "Russian accounts support Roy Moore!!" Ploy by the lefties.
Otherwise, there would be at least one named republican who "attacked" AOC over this.
But there isnt.
I wouldn't be surprised if this were done by an idiot. On the other hand, last night I watched the episode of Schitt's Creek where the matriarch of the family is desperately looking on the internet for some nude photos she had taken many years before, probably to "leak" them during her campaign for city council, so I can imagine this being a false flag too.
Heroines need an arc - evil orc repubs hate dancing and free health care!
Let me know it you can find any country that has single player and does not ration healthcare by age. As a septuagenarian I find that objectionable.
Right-wing, nasty trolls are not unique to the Althouse blog. Attacking someone for bad dancing is a new low for them. "Singin' in the Rain" Gene Kelly is surely turning over in his grave.
Tax cuts have not increased the deficit in Trump's term. So that's a lie. Revenues are up.
THEOLDMAN
Stop the spending!
I would have done her back in the day (of the video). Not now though. Too old for me and those tiddies have sag written all over them. The bra does the heavy lifting.
THEOLDMAN
MS said: It was bad taste when people wanted to hate rape Palin. Sexualizing this woman is equally bad.
There is a vast difference between hate raping and sexualizing someone. Please. The former is just evil, the latter in bad taste.
I don't mention things that are in bad taste while in polite company. Althouse Blog is not polite company.
THEOLDMAN
Shelf Life:
When will she run out of "look at me" stuff people bother with?
Madonna has fame whored us for decades...
Queue The Eagles:
Eagles / New kid in town (Live 1977)
Attacked by whom?
Can anybody name any of these attackers?
Honestly, I have taken to dislike using the term "attacked" for "criticized." I've never really liked it, but accepted it as a bit political color. But, since, you know, we've actually had Republican Congressmen attacked and -- what is it now, two failed assassination attempts on Trump (yes, they were disastrously failed, like, whipping a gun out in a crowd of Secret Service inept, but, still).
Not only that, but we've actually had political speakers attacked with actual rocks and things to silence them. Maybe, until casual and routine violence against certain political groups is ended, we should save the descriptor "attacked" for actual attacks.
To tie this in: AOC has no maturity. She has no gravitas. She has very little sense and seemingly no education.
This does not seem to bother her core voters. She is young, perky, and with sufficient photoshop, photogenic. That is enough.
So the big problem isn't her dancing. It is how does Pelosi ride as Chaperone to the rowdy, drunken, belligerent frat girls she has filling her quorum? How much time is she going to waste covering for 'Motherfucker' Tlaib, Occasionally Coherent, or the other ridiculous women who got in because #MeToo was all about scuttling male candidates?
How much time is she going to waste trying to negotiate with her own party who want 'universal healthcare, 70% tax on the rich people like you...and a pony. I luvs the pony!'
Occasionally Coherent seems to be gunning for Pelosi, and frankly, even though one is a 5 and the other is a 90, that is one catfight I won't mind seeing.
Attack her? I think I speak for all of us when I say Let’s take a closer look at those breasts.
“Not only that, but we've actually had political speakers attacked with actual rocks and things to silence them. Maybe, until casual and routine violence against certain political groups is ended, we should save the descriptor "attacked" for actual attacks.”
Heather Heyer was murdered, for being a counter protestor at a Nazi/ Unite the Right gathering. I’d call that an attack.
> When will she run out of "look at me" stuff people bother with?
The Kardashians of Congress
try dancing around this !
providing $1.3 billion for border fencing ....“We’re not doing a wall. It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with a wall is an immorality between countries.
So,
Steel Fence => FINE!
Concrete Wall => immoral!
I'm So Confused! my mind is spinning around like a whirling dervish dancing!
Doesn't that just support my point Inga? If you're going to make it seem like this is an "attack," it kind of makes out right murder, attempted murder and assault kind of not that big of a deal.
“Doesn't that just support my point Inga? If you're going to make it seem like this is an "attack," it kind of makes out right murder, attempted murder and assault kind of not that big of a deal.”
It would’ve proven your point if you had meant left wing protestors and left wing people are also under attack, but that’s not what you meant. You folks always seem to gloss over these attacks on the left and even frame them in a way that makes it seem the attack was deserved. How many times have we heard that Heyer died of a “heart attack”, or that the group Heyer was with attacked the murderer somehow first. The jury didn’t buy that baloney and found him guilty of 1st degree murder.
Inga: "Heather Heyer was murdered, for being a counter protestor at a Nazi/ Unite the Right gathering."
Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens were murdered by Inga's and Nancy Pelosi's "spark of divinity" MS13 illegal alien gang-bangers.
With machetes. Carved up.
Simply because Inga and LLR Chuck and the dems want the votes.
Inga never mentions their names.
Ever.
For any reason.
Because those are quite acceptable deaths.
"Spark of divinity murders", one might say.
You have to remember, it took Inga a full year, literally, before she was sufficiently shamed to say that perhaps republicans shouldnt be shot at baseball practice.
Of course, if we called that attack a "spark of divinity" attack, who knows where our Hoax Dossier gal would come down.
"I would have done her back in the day (of the video)."
Thanks for sharing. Have you no sense of decency?
"So,
Steel Fence => FINE!
Concrete Wall => immoral!
I'm So Confused! my mind is spinning
around like a whirling dervish dancing!"
We should just call it a "spark of divinity Wall".
That usually works on the lefties.
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