Posted on 07/01/2018 2:00:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
“My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here”
Unsure if she’s saying her mom was a maid, or what. Wonder if she’s angry or resentful about it?
There’s nothing wrong with working for a living, including ‘cleaning toilets’; however, she ran on a platform of giving people free stuff - which tells me she might believe people shouldn’t have to ‘clean toilets’.
Lol, the woman is a puzzle, especially just what has she been doing the past four or more years. But I did read she'd been tending bar in a relatives establishment for four years. Sounds like she was just taking it easy and mixing a few drinks, and then decided to run for congress. I guess we'll learn more soon.
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/ocasio-cortezs-israel-views-seen-as-troubling/
Being against Jews and Israel doesn’t seem like a winning theme in New York City? Or, is that a DNC platform idea?
Lol...the guy she’s fighting with on twitter is ex-NYPD who worked out of a Bronx precinct.
““I went to BU (Boston University),” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Try Google.””
We paid through the nose (and are still paying fifteen years later) for having sent our youngest daughter to BU. BU or Brown, is a distinction without a difference. Four years at BU cost us something like $200,000! Two hundred grand to a Boston primo $hithole school! If she went there, she must have had a scholarship, because $200k is a lot of toilets being scrubbed. BU puts the “touch” on white people who appear to have the wherewithal to send their child there. Her freshman year she lived in a BU dorm (it’s mandatory) and everyone there with “skin pigmentation” was going there for free.
Cooking her Communist credentials, perhaps, while earning a living as part of a comfortably-well-off family, waiting for a political opportunity.
“Being against Jews and Israel doesn’t seem like a winning theme in New York City? Or, is that a DNC platform idea?”
Why? 90% of the NYC Jews hate Israel, and hate the fact that they are Jewish!
This is the guy that was standing directly behind her and was high fiving her when they wasted the Mick that was #4 in the House “Leadership”
“Two years ago, Thomas Lopez-Pierre promised uptown Manhattan’s political insiders that he was going to quit being so outrageously offensive.
The longtime gadfly, who once called a New York State Assemblywoman a “$20 political slut,” was convincing enough in his vow to reform that he drew a donation from a prominent uptown Democrat who had once called him out for his “sexist, homophobic and racist comments.”
Now, thanks in part to his promises of moderation, Lopez-Pierre is on the brink of gaining access to tens of thousands of dollars in public matching funds.
He’s also back to blaming the displacement of Harlem’s black and Hispanic residents on “greedy Jewish landlords,” in comments that have gained national attention in recent days.
“Harlem was 90% black and Latino,” Lopez-Pierre told the Forward. “And now it is 65% black and Latino. So what we’ve seen is black and Latino people be forced out of their apartments by greedy landlords. Eighty percent of the landlords are Jewish in Harlem.”
City political activists are piling on with condemnations of Lopez-Pierre. Obie Bing, a prominent uptown Democratic activist who sits on a local community board that overlaps with part of Lopez-Pierre’s district, said that Lopez-Pierre’s anti-Semitic rhetoric “really doesn’t play up here.”
Yet some say Lopez-Pierre’s pitch has reached some receptive ears in fast-gentrifying Harlem and upper Manhattan, where he is running to unseat incumbent City Councilmember Mark Levine.
Lopez-Pierre has vowed to ride the controversy to a win in the Democratic primary in September.
“What do they think is going to happen when I run in the black and Latino community?” he said. “I’m going to be unstoppable. Because my message is powerful.”
Levine, the incumbent, acknowledges that bad landlords are a problem. He says he’s been active on the issue, helping pass legislation to provide lawyers for tenants facing eviction in housing court.
But he said that Lopez-Pierre’s remarks are classic anti-Semitism.
“It’s a centuries-old tactic of, where a community is struggling, demagogues find a scapegoat to blame it on,” he said. “Far too often that’s been Jews. Particularly the narrative of Jews controlling things. That’s exactly the playbook he’s following here.”
It’s true that Jews historically have owned plenty of real estate in Harlem. It’s also true that many of the city’s worst landlords, to judge from lists published annually by the city’s Public Advocate, have been Jewish. But observers say that Lopez-Pierre’s language is blatantly anti-Semitic.
“What [Lopez-Pierre] is saying is that these landlords are greedy because they’re Jewish,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of the rabbinical human rights group T’ruah, who has written about the Jewish community’s obligation to confront Jewish slumlords. “That’s classic anti-Semitism, and it’s not true. That’s very different than saying there happen to be some landlords in our community, and some are behaving badly.”
Lopez-Pierre’s bizarrely insulting rhetoric has kept him on the sidelines of political life in Harlem and the Upper West Side. Yet in 2015, after dropping out of a City Council race and losing two races for low-level Democratic Party offices, he insisted he was starting fresh.
Good one
Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright was anti-Semitic also...
How much square footage?
That’s right, the American people don’t mind lying so long as it reinforces their own preconceived notions.
Someone on NRO posted, “Her eyes say, ‘Firing squads.’ “
Didn't this one also claim it was from "The Hood"?
The communist anti-semites are taking over the the “Democrat” party.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
Bernie, Nancy, Wassermann, Schumer, Shrillary, etc, are up the brown creek without even a tiny paddle.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOOLOOLLOOLOLOLOOOL.
YEAH, LETS HEAR IT!!!
“My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here”
So do my wife and I about every week or so.
"After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx where she worked two jobs, as a bartender and as a waitress in a taqueria, to help support her mother in her battle to fight foreclosure of their home after her father died of cancer. She was also employed as an educator at the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute."
The community organizer is all I needed to see.
As someone early mentioned, this is someone with no brains being groomed as another Obongo. But she is starting out badly with fringe notions which will never fly in Omaha. She may be a darling of the left for now but I see her flame burning out quickly with these ideas.
Did you come here to troll for this commie? What appeal? Did you see the turn out numbers for the primary? Pfft insignificant gnat.
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