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Socialist Dem Ocasio-Cortez laments coffee shop's closure - over wage hikes that she supports
Fox News ^ | 8/22/18 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 08/22/2018 3:46:49 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: Trump20162020
Why does this one Democrat U.S. House nominee in a deep blue district warrant all this coverage again?

The leftists publicize everything about her because she's an excellent poster child for them. She's young, attractive, spews the socialist party line. They think she is helping them, and maybe she is among the shallow, economically ignorant demographic.

Conservatives, publicize her many of the same reasons - she's a poster child for the socialists. She's helping conservatives virtually every time she opens her mouth.

On at least one level I support her. I think government needs more "real" people and far fewer career politicians. The problem is, she is simply far too ignorant to be put in a position of power.

For any lib lurkers out there I can almost hear your feeble thought processes immediately click over to "Ah, there it is, he's a sexist, he doesn't think women belong in power, or because she has a Hispanic name and he's racist..." Nope, jump back from those conclusions and any others you've been conditioned to respond to.

I don't like Ocasio-Cortez simply because of what she says. She's a socialist. Socialism sucks, it has a 100% failure rate at creating happy prosperous societies. It does have a 100% success rate at creating misery. Socialism requires power, totalitarianism and/or fascism in order to impose it on people who only want freedom and liberty.

I don't like her, or any other socialists simply because we cannot afford to suffer her attempts to impose socialism on us while she learns some hard economic realities. The true value of an education is that it allows you to learn from the experiences - both mistakes and triumphs - of others without having to go through them yourself. She needs an education in economics, history, and political science. While the idea of an average working person representing us in government is appealing, the on-the-job training that must come along with it to dispel all the nice sounding but wildly impractical and dangerous ideas that come with it are not worth it.

The US was more socialist than ever before for 8 years under bammy. Look how we suffered economically. Thank {Diety} for President Trump. Not only is saving us economically, he has helped divert us away from some of the more horrible power and control elements that were coming - the police state that bammy hinted at. We were on the edge of a very real, very dark precipice.

21 posted on 08/22/2018 5:25:18 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

This goofball has a degree in economics.

She should have skipped college and spend 4 years in Venezuela. Would have gotten a much better education.


22 posted on 08/22/2018 5:29:29 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Libloather
She is adorable.Cute as a little bug

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23 posted on 08/22/2018 5:40:53 AM PDT by atc23
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To: Libloather

I still say she should hang out with the former employees. She can take a few tips from them.


24 posted on 08/22/2018 5:41:59 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Trump20162020

Because everyone wants to be the first to sleep with her! Thats all it is


25 posted on 08/22/2018 5:42:14 AM PDT by atc23
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To: SMARTY
Believe me-if she was not so photogenic

Photogenic? You my FRiend are evincing VERY low standards. To me she is baboon butt ugly with teeth that could eat an apple through a picket fence and eyes that bulge out like a frog.

26 posted on 08/22/2018 5:46:12 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

I agree, she ain’t MY idea of feminine and attractive... BUT tell that to the MSM that is kissing her a*&

Believe me-they’d fight each other to the death for her toenail clippings

She’s the new ‘cult’ that is replacing the “O” cult!


27 posted on 08/22/2018 5:59:45 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: SMARTY

Take away jobs for people’s own good and next starving them to death for the better larger good(see Ukraine 1930’s 16 million people dead).


28 posted on 08/22/2018 6:14:12 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: SMARTY
BUT tell that to the MSM that is kissing her a*&

True. I suspect that Zero never had to use toilet paper since the MSM were there to lick his a$$ clean 24 hours a day.

29 posted on 08/22/2018 6:22:43 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Trump20162020

I agree 100%. She’s a candidate for Congress. That’s it. Most of them get zero media coverage. But she’s a (sometimes) telegenic young Latina who says all the right Socialist / woke things and that makes her a Leftwing media star. And the Rightwing media is happy to play along because she makes a bunch of gaffes that they can play up and mock. I actually have some sympathy for her. She’s a young woman running for office who is going to have naive ideas and make mistakes. Left and Right media should dial down the coverage of her and let her run as a normal candidate without watching her every move.


30 posted on 08/22/2018 6:29:41 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Libloather

A coffee shop with 150 employees? That may have been part of the problem.


31 posted on 08/22/2018 6:51:05 AM PDT by keat
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To: Libloather

Bless her heart....


32 posted on 08/22/2018 6:55:36 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Trump20162020
To be honest, the obsession with her is bordering on creepy. Why does this one Democrat U.S. House nominee in a deep blue district warrant all this coverage again?

If you are the drive by media,and you have to pick a face for the Democrat Party, who would you pick? Mrs. Clinton? Pocahontas Warren? Mrs. Pelosi?

Dems do better when they can launch a new face (Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton) than when they trot out an old warhorse (Kerry, Mondale).

Plus, she's pliable!
33 posted on 08/22/2018 7:12:58 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Can you put that to music?

Stop! In the name of Mao!


34 posted on 08/22/2018 7:15:47 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t know, it seems to me that she’s a perfect foil for every idiotic democrat/socialist idea and the consequences of its implementation. I say keep following her, keep quoting her and keep showing what the actual effects of such policies are. Could even be a coloring book for kids!


35 posted on 08/22/2018 8:14:33 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: Libloather
"has campaigned on the issue of minimum wage, arguing for a $15 federal minimum wage, up from $7.25, insisting that it won’t have any negative consequences for businesses."

Another moron who refuses to learn from history.


36 posted on 08/22/2018 8:24:58 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Libloather

No owrries Cortez. If your dream socialism ever hits you’ll get something brown in a cup. And you’ll drink it because there’s nothing else and no where else to go.


37 posted on 08/22/2018 8:41:06 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: M-cubed

Change OF Hope (to Nothing....but don’t tell our conservative serfs that).


38 posted on 08/23/2018 6:35:41 AM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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