Dems' long knives unsheathed on Ocasio-Cortez on Meet the Press (When you lost even Chuck Todd...)

American Thinker ^ | 02/18/2019 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

When a prominent Democrat has lost Chuck Todd, the handwriting is on the wall.

Three days ago, I predicted that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sealing her fate when she took (and probably deserved) credit for killing the deal that would have brought 25,000 high-paying Amazon jobs to New York City.  It's not that the young woman with boundless self-confidence in her views has no clue about how tax incentives work (though that is obviously true, since she crowed that the $3 billion in tax abatements could be spent on subways, schools, and the like).  Ignorance and simple-mindedness are no obstacles to a Democrat winning approval from party bosses.

No, Sandy O's real infraction was in exposing and opposing the sweetheart deals between Democrats and the tech oligarchy.  Both sides to the Grand Bargain see it as a key to their goals.  The Democrats want and need the tech titans' thumbs on the scale in digital discourse and campaign donations from them.  The new-age monopolists need antitrust protection for their market dominance, government contracts (see: Amazon's DOD cloud deal), and access so their concerns can be heard early, privately, and effectively, before the general public has a clue as to what is being protected, given away, or winked at.

Yesterday, we saw the first video fruits of Democrats' need to undermine and eventually unseat the Queens phenom on Meet the Press.  Both Mayor Bill de Blasio and host Chuck Todd impugned her intelligence.  Here is the full eight-minute segment:

The key moments making the same basic point I did in my blog three days ago, as summarized by Bruce Golding of The New York Post:

[Darteaus94025]

$3.7B of taxable income for the workers.

Plus: Income tax on the money the employees paid others: painting, gardening, dentist, doctor, auto repair, etc.

Plus: Sales tax on the money the employees would spend on goods: restaurants, gas, etc.

Plus: property tax on the buildings Amazon would occupy.

[HotHunt]

I agree. See my #38 just above your comment.

This gal could do some serious damage on any committee but the Toddler's Committee.

She needs to go back and do what she does best. Wait on tables in a bar.

She's not ready for prime time yet.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

There’s plenty of room to debate when/if tax abatements are good public policy for attracting or keeping businesses, but the crazy notion of AOC that there is some $3 billion pot of money now to be re-allocated to other uses is both hilarious and demented.

No, AOC, the govt does not HAVE all that money, there IS NO MONEY now that you drove Amazon away.

Silly, silly Sandy....

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

“Sandy” is the name she went by in school, before she decided to get all “ethnic” for politics....

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

I want a red “MASA” hat:

“MAKE AMERICA SANE AGAIN”

[morphing libertarian]

Because BETO was taken

[Alberta's Child]

She really exposed her abject stupidity when she complained that the city should be trying to bring "real jobs" to the area.

She represents a district where the median income is $47,000. 25,000 workers with an average salary of $150,000 ARE real jobs -- and a LOT of them.

This dipsh!t really believed that Amazon was going to open a giant warehouse and hire 25,000 sweatshop workers at minimum wage.

[blueplum]

you’d be surprised how many unskilled locals would be needed for the proposed facility. Janitors, er, environmental engineers, and an army of them - the vacuumers, the dusters, the guys who change lightbulbs, the guys who do only toilets, the guys who touch-up paint, the guys who water the plants, the guys who restock all the vending machines in all the break rooms, and on and on. Then the mailroom, another army. Add in typing, er, data input, clerks. And all of them qualifying for the education program and within-company advancement in 90 days or 120 days or whenever probation was ended.

As I’ve mentioned before, nobody has a squeak to say about the Amazon distribution center over in Staten. But non-warehouse jobs? real 9-4 jobs? the horror!

[Alberta's Child]

It’s ludicrous to say that the Amazon deal was a “waste of money,” but if Amazon generated $27 billion in tax revenue it might be the first time a company ever met its expectations under these NYS and NYC tax incentive programs.

[Billthedrill]

Well, you know, since it was a couple of white guys criticizing her it must be...

That's right, racism! Those guys are bigoted against the idiot race.

[Alberta's Child]

“Sandy” was short for Alexandria. She apparently pretended to be a WASP when she was going to school in New England.

[kearnyirish2]

Her own party has to deal with her - she is going to cost them.

[kearnyirish2]

Yes, there are plenty of support jobs within the company - and plenty in the surrounding area as well. Cities like Newark NJ will give deals to companies that will hire X% of their workforce locally - and many fill those positions described.

My main issue with the Amazon move (and I didn’t oppose it - I can just see both sides) is that a lot of people would have been pushed out to make way, and they probably wouldn’t be able to afford the new neighborhood created.

[Ahithophel]

The patriarchy wins again, this time by simply pointing out the obvious.

[Alberta's Child]

She’s a moron even by millennial standards.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Where do they get the nickname “Sandy:” for AOC?

That was her nickname in high school.

See here:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sandy-nickname-conservative-mocking.html

[Brilliant]

I think she’s toast in 2020. The chances of a Republican winning are small but the GOP should field a candidate anyway just in case she gets nominated.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I think she’s toast in 2020.

You give too much confidence in her constituents.

The problem is NOT only her, but those voters who would put her in office KNOWING what she openly said she stands for.

It would be easier to unseat De Blasio or Cuomo than AOC.

[nothingnew]

("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")

Love it. Great tag!

FMCDH(BITS)

[Brilliant]

I don’t know. She’s got to get past the primary. She’ll face a lot of Dems.