Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Follies
July 19th, 2022 at 2:30:08 PM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4236 |
The extremes in both parties tend to do this. Gaetz did the same thing to limit Trump's response to Iran. The extreme left and the extreme right are very much in favor of extreme oversight of foreign interventions which is highly problematic. This is one area that there is too much regulation. While Congress is needed to officially declare war, the President has (or should) a lot of options to do other military activities. AOC and Gaetz were wrong when they tried to stop Trump on Iran, and the are wrong now. |
July 19th, 2022 at 3:40:24 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
I like AOC a lot She is a star Just look at right wing news It's like EF Hutton AOC speaks, right wing news listens and reports Too me, she is just one vote and a house vote at that Really no power but right wing media hangs on her every word Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
July 19th, 2022 at 3:59:27 PM permalink | |
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3092 | She's an attention whore, but that is a bonafide occupational qualification for her ilk. Bah. |
July 19th, 2022 at 4:30:16 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
Because she knows right wing news is watching She is only a star because of right wing news They can't get enough of her The reality is editors and owners of right wing news absolutely adore her. She is very valuable. She brings in eyeballs. She is a huge monetary asset to right wing news. Just look at who started this thread, a righty:-) Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 3rd, 2023 at 11:30:00 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-were-right-aoc-takes-a-victory-lap-as-amazon-halts-its-second-headquarters-project-near-dc/ar-AA18bVqt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=bc2c98d47d4943c7804a02e82a5254b5&ei=30 But Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to a third term in 2022, has maintained that Amazon's "second headquarters" deal would have hurt Queens residents who were already struggling with the painful effects of gentrification. And now, she is taking a victory lap after reporting from Bloomberg News' Matt Day that Amazon was "pausing construction" on its "sprawling second headquarters" near Washington, D.C. at a time when the e-commerce giant is seeing its "deepest-ever jobs cuts." Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 3rd, 2023 at 11:46:11 AM permalink | |
Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 | She's not wrong, but she's also not right. AOC, "Not being wrong," about something is probably the best you'll ever get from me. The best way to tank rents in an area would be for the Workforce Participation Rate to be 0%. You could probably squat anywhere you wanted to if you were in an area with no jobs in any direction for 100 miles. So, yeah, a drastic increase in jobs in a particular area will, in fact, increase the market demand for residential in that area, which thereby would cause the rents to go up---one would assume. That's how supply and demand usually works, anyway. On the other hand, you're refusing jobs that seem to pay reasonably well as well as a potential influx of local and state taxes. So, it's kind of a pick your poison. My tendency is to think you take the jobs and just see what happens. If everywhere refused new businesses/business locations out of fear that it would increase the cost of residential, then we just wouldn't have any new businesses or locations anywhere. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
April 14th, 2023 at 6:20:36 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12419 | AOC is (rightfully) taking a victory lap tonight RE: Amazon HQ:
“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
April 15th, 2023 at 3:01:08 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Yes, you take the jobs. Really, what kind of person says, "we do not want a good economy because it makes prices go up!" Not wanting the extra traffic might be one thing. A place about 5 miles from my house was a finalist for that HQ. I felt mixed. On one hand, traffic. OTOH, the rent I could collect would have been very, very nice. But who just says "keep out new business!"?? Gentrification issues have their own thread here so I will not get too far down that road here. Except to say I see it as a mostly good thing. Instead of going out out and out to new suburbs the old neighborhoods come back. Instead of having government programs to fight blight we get people doing it on their own with both new businesses and fixing up the houses they buy. To want fewer businesses so the area stays poor and affordable? Well, that is the same mentality of people who do not want more hours at work because it "screws up" their EIC refund. The President is a fink. |
April 15th, 2023 at 5:25:59 AM permalink | |
DoubleGold Member since: Jan 26, 2023 Threads: 30 Posts: 2469 | I think she's mostly about the 99% versus the 1%. That can be scientifically proven. But if she bases her value on "green", she'll eventually lose because it opposes the 99%. The 1% is a major issue, even for conservatives like me. It's about 4,000,000 rich folks, that are a protected class. They control the politics and practically everything else. So the first thing is defining who they are and then going after "how" they got there (not the persons). In short, it's the bankers that are middlemen between the government and the people. They get a cut of every cross-currency transaction across the world that is bought or sold in dollars. The USA should get the cut, not the bankers. That cash could be used to bring the bottom up from poverty. So OC is right in principle, but just either doesn't understand the greater picture or is too scared to enter a war with them, etc. The money to help the poor is already there. |
April 15th, 2023 at 6:04:59 AM permalink | |
DoubleGold Member since: Jan 26, 2023 Threads: 30 Posts: 2469 | Here is a simple example how the bank scam works: When poor people enter our country illegally by crossing the border, they eventually get jobs so they can provide a livelihood. They get a few paychecks, then they want to send some money back to their native country, so they go to a local service. If they don't have a bank account, they'll pay about a 16% fee to transfer their dollars. If they have a bank account, it's less, but the bank will change a conversion fee on top of the bid and ask price difference. So the bank can make the market spread plus the fee on top. The USA can lower the fee and not only capture the spread. So naturally, a banker would want the borders open. But any policy that encourages cross-currency fees, like trade with China, is a banker scam. |