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Ocasio-Cortez: I give 'zero' f---s about pushback from other Democrats
The Hill ^ | 01/22/2019 | Aris Folley

Posted on 01/22/2019 8:12:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) in an interview late Monday said she gives "zero" f---s about criticism she’s received from members of her own party.

“Now, congresswoman, for you and other freshmen members of Congress, you're getting a fair amount of pushback from even members of your own party saying ‘wait your turn, go slow, don't ask for so much so fast right now, you're new, wait your turn for everything and don't make waves,'" late-night host Stephen Colbert said to the rising progressive star on CBS's "The Late Show."

“I want to ask this question in a respectful manner, knowing also that you're from Queens, so you will understand this question,” he continued.

“And the BX,” Ocasio-Cortez, who is also from the Bronx, laughingly injected.

“On a scale from zero to some, how many f---s do you give?”

After taking a moment to deliberate, Ocasio-Cortez reached into her side and pulled out her hand to make a circle, saying: “I think it’s zero.”

“That’s my thought!” Colbert exclaimed.

When pressed further about her response to lawmakers who say her actions show a “divided front” for the Democratic Party, Ocasio-Cortez responded: “It’s how we choose to interpret items and how we choose to interpret events and things like activism and advocacy.”

“If you think activism is inherently divisive — I mean, today is Martin Luther King Day,” she continued. “People called Martin Luther King divisive in his time. We forget he was wildly unpopular when advocating for the Civil Rights Act. I think that what we really need to realize is that social movements are the moral compass and should be the moral compass for our politics.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; democrats; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; mediawingofthednc; newyork; ocasiocortez; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; stephencolbert; vermont
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To: SeekAndFind

AOC is wrong about MLK being unpopular. I was old enough to remember him. He definitely was controversial but he was respected.


81 posted on 01/22/2019 9:19:18 AM PST by erkelly
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To: SeekAndFind

Smiley face needs some church going and a kick in the ass.


82 posted on 01/22/2019 9:19:19 AM PST by jetson
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To: Kalamata
And when you think of all the bartenders out there, who really do have wit and some depth of philosophical thought, having heard it all in their line of work-out of all of those bartenders, this was the best the left could come up with? She makes Archie Bunker look like Aristotle.
83 posted on 01/22/2019 9:19:59 AM PST by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Jean2
Well all I can say is if she does not care about what other dems say; then she better not plan on having a long career in politics.

That's pretty much what I was thinking. If she stays with that attitude she will find herself alone and isolated in congress without any friends except maybe the MF'ing muzzie and I wouldn't count on her being there long either. Neither of the female muzzies for that matter.

84 posted on 01/22/2019 9:20:07 AM PST by Boomer ( Leftism is toxic poison to a free society.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She is a gift, if she throws her hat in the ring I will send money. Every time she opens her mouth, Schumer and Nancy share a migraine.


85 posted on 01/22/2019 9:20:28 AM PST by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: Boomer

It would be a boon to America to lose her and some of the other worst wackies from the Democrat party. Let us pray it happens. However this is a more and more spiritual age.


86 posted on 01/22/2019 9:22:27 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: erkelly

If all the dirt on him had been known, he wouldn’t have been, at least not back then. He was a womaniser and a woman beater. Even the Kennedys were just whoremongers, they didn’t beat women.


87 posted on 01/22/2019 9:22:48 AM PST by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

That would put her above a 5 on the Hot Axis.
Hmm....I dunno?....that’s a stretch!
She’s definitely a 7-10 on the Crazy Axis, no doubt about that!


88 posted on 01/22/2019 9:22:49 AM PST by Reily
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To: mrsmel

O-C isn’t very good at history, apparently.


89 posted on 01/22/2019 9:24:01 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: mrsmel

Still if I was a woman (I’m not, I’m a guy) I’d rather be beat than drowned, I suppose.


90 posted on 01/22/2019 9:24:50 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: SeekAndFind
diitdeocrats

91 posted on 01/22/2019 9:26:46 AM PST by timestax (https://www.flickr.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind

don’t underestimate this woman. there are millions of people out there who fawn all over everything she says or does. stephen colbert is one.


92 posted on 01/22/2019 9:28:47 AM PST by 1956tbyrd
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To: Reily

She’s a 7. Come on. She ain’t ugly.


93 posted on 01/22/2019 9:29:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: SeekAndFind

You go girl!


94 posted on 01/22/2019 9:32:01 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Good point, I’d forgotten about Swimmer Kennedy. Hell for him should be eternally going through every minute of agony that Mary Jo Kopechne went through while being stuck in that car, waiting to drown. He should have to experience that over and over, eternally.


95 posted on 01/22/2019 9:32:52 AM PST by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

6...that’s the best I can do!

The bass-like mouth & owl-like eyes do not do it for me!


96 posted on 01/22/2019 9:32:56 AM PST by Reily
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To: SeekAndFind

I hate this hypocritical,sanctimonious and narcissistic a-hole. The sad part is that she has millions who will follow her lead. This is what Obama did creating brain dead sheep.


97 posted on 01/22/2019 9:34:34 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: dinodino

“Every time this woman opens her mouth, I cringe.”

Why?!?

This woman feels like an operative. She feels like someone trained for years in some conservative bunker somewhere to infiltrate and discredit the left.

Nobody who is actually paying for any of these programs buys any of this. If she is not co-opted, and she’s not afraid of eating a bullet from HRC, then she’s going to do what Bernie could not - break the D machine from within.

Even the women’s march this year devolved into three armed camps. Nobody saw that coming /sarcasm.


98 posted on 01/22/2019 9:34:37 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Reily

She’s got that Sade thing going on.


99 posted on 01/22/2019 9:34:59 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: RinaseaofDs

True... there’s Arkancide. Not even Barack Obama was this brazen on Capitol Hill.


100 posted on 01/22/2019 9:37:22 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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