Posted on 03/10/2019 4:21:28 AM PDT by Stravinsky
(FULL TITLE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uses her SXSW talk to label FDR's New Deal 'racist' compared to her 'Green New Deal' and protests minorities being treated like 'garbage' - as she draws a bigger audience than any Democrat 2020 hopeful)
She came. She saw. She conquered.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dominated the South by Southwest conference with her mere presence, bringing in a larger crowd than any of the 2020 presidential contenders, all of whom were asked about her or her Green New Deal in their own sessions at the popular event.
The 2,000 plus ballroom - one of the biggest in the Austin Convention Center - was packed, the overflow rooms were flooded with attendees and Bill Nye tweeted a photo of himself from the room waiting to hear the freshman Democrat from New York speak.
The crowd rose to its feet, whooping, cheering and hollering when Ocasio-Cortez entered, but, when she spoke, you could hear a pin drop.
Her one-hour talk was filled with economic policy, social policy and what she's learned in her two months as a member of Congress.
But her bigger message was one of hope, inclusion and equality, particularly for minorities.
She slammed the treatment of minorities throughout recent American history from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which she claimed was racist, to Ronald Reagan's treatment of minorities.
She decried the idea of incrementalism, a belief in change via small steps, and said it took big sweeping ideas to make a difference.
'This idea of like 10 percent better than garbage shouldn't be something we settle for,' she said.
The crowd cheered her on.
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This Marxist nitwit is really full of....herself. I can’t imagine how excruciatingly painful it would be to listen to her drone on and on in her childish diction for a full hour The indoctrination of millennials has been a smashing success.
Yeah, What I have already said, “AOC wins re-election in a landslide.”
Shudder. I always thought that AOC was only a costal threat. Austin is only 40 miles away. It’s hard to believe she could get this close.
New York is going to lose a congressional seat. It will probably be hers.
Look....we’re talking Austin!
That city hardly resembles most of Texas.......I actually have a relative who moved there years ago, married a liberal.....and now they’re both lost in Babylon
Sad!
That crowd hearing AOC ate it up!
They hate Donald Trump and they hate us.......but oh they love socialism.
Probably the best way the Dems could draw votes with Cortez in a Presidential election would be to run her as a VP candidate. Even so, I believe there are enough rational people to vote any Presidential ticket down that has Cortez on it.
A big weakness that the Dems have is that they believe their own hype and the fake news that had Hillary winning in a landslide - they believe NYC and LA are the USA.
And they vote.
Agreed.
But do me a favor and spread that word that we Staten Islanders don’t consider ourselves part of NYC :)
And the other four borough don’t either.
They just like our taxes to pay for the lazy slobs in the bronx.
The msm will push her as the second coming.
But she will lose at the presidential level and i would LOVE to see her in a debate with anyone with half a brain.
Blah, blah, blah. Planes and ships leave everyday. I care about minorities to the extent that they care about me.
That's interesting...I remember someone of Free Republic posting something to that effect about her a couple of months ago or so.
Agree.
Pelosi Galore is definitely *not* up to the task.
AOC (Sandy) is living by the mantra that any publicity is good publicity. She is just throwing crap out there and the media is lapping it up.
BTW, I was initially annoyed by Sandy and her cries for attention until I realized that she will be the biggest tool in getting President Trump re-elected in 2020. Keep it up Sandy.
There was no crowd at all.
she filled a convention center room
AOC is a truly dangerous movement leader. She and her followers would joyfully recreate the killing fields of Pol Pot. We would be marched to our deaths to serve her delusional beliefs for the “greater good” and to save the planet.
I think you are correct, unfortunately. Right after she was elected a lot of people didn’t think she would last 3 weeks. It is reminiscent of Hitler when he started out. A lot of the older population didn’t pay attention to him. He became more and more popular. What makes things even worse is the 2 freshmen Muslim women in the House. People this far left would not stand a chance of being elected even 10 years ago.
“Ocasio-Cortez is an airhead, but I think she’s a very dangerous airhead.”
Like it or not, she is the ONLY AMERICAN who can draw crowds as large as Trump draws.
We best not ignore her.
The age factor in the Democrat party today looks like the Soviet Union in the 1970's and 1980's. Eventually they will pay the price.
“I think the strategy now is to have someone ready in the spring of 2020 to campaign in AOC’s district and take her down in the primary.”
It may be, but they are DREAMING if they think they’ll defeat her. Even though ‘the Jew’ (as they see them) could raise lots of money to fund an opponent, AOC can likely top them simply by using her national stature.
She’ll leave Congress when she feels like it, or moves to higher office. The Dems simply have no control over her future.
I believe you, but the msm will convince folks it was in the tens of thousands
I just watched Fox report that Bill Nye The Science Guy is hopping on board the Green New Deal train. This grandstanding fool, whose TV show fame burned out like a tungsten light bulb, is trying to resurrect his fame and fortune days. The CO2 hysteria is a Marxist fraud to redistribute wealth.
It is ironic that the most essential component to make green plant life is CO2. When you “go Green,” you need CO2. With less CO2 you have less green. The same thing that creates the most CO2 is the same thing that caused life to form on the planet: volcanic emissions of CO2. What keeps the levels of CO2 in balance is the process of photosynthesis in plant life. It is through photosynthesis that all oxygen was created in the atmosphere. If we want to reduce the amount of excessive CO2 produced by man’s energy needs, we should think about restoring the plant loss from the large-scale deforestation happening in the tropics. This is the way we should “go Green.”
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