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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AOC is wrong about MLK being unpopular. I was old enough to remember him. He definitely was controversial but he was respected.
Smiley face needs some church going and a kick in the ass.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
O-C isn’t very good at history, apparently.
Still if I was a woman (I’m not, I’m a guy) I’d rather be beat than drowned, I suppose.
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.
She’s a 7. Come on. She ain’t ugly.
You go girl!
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.
6...that’s the best I can do!
The bass-like mouth & owl-like eyes do not do it for me!
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.
“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.
She’s got that Sade thing going on.
True... there’s Arkancide. Not even Barack Obama was this brazen on Capitol Hill.
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