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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been a key ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is now the undisputed Democratic frontrunner for president after his win in New Hampshire this week. Yet, there appears to be some friction between the two camps concerning the stump speeches AOC has been giving on behalf of Sanders. The Vermont democratic socialist was stuck in Washington for the Trump impeachment circus prior to the Iowa Caucus, which turned out to be a disaster regarding tallying the votes. It was a short three-day swing, but as Vanity Fair reported, it caused some friction between the two...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), along with Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) officially introduced a national fracking ban in the House. The bill, announced at the end of last month, serves as a companion bill to the Senate legislation proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), one that Ocasio-Cortez helped draft. Both bills would ban fracking across the nation by 2025. The laws would also prohibit fracking within 2,500 feet of homes and schools by February 2021. They also would provide a transition for working families in the fracking industry. “Fracking is destroying our land and our water,” Ocasio-Cortez...

On Saturday, a man in a van drove into a tent with Trump campaign volunteers in it who were registering people to vote. The incident took place in a Walmart parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida. Fortunately, the people in the tent were able to jump out of the way in time. But the man allegedly got out of the vehicle and gave the finger to the volunteers before he sped away and he videoed at least part of the incident. That last action seemed to make it very clear that it wasn’t an accident and that it was a targeted...

Imagine starting a business, risking everything and deciding to give it a go on your own. That entrepreneurial spirit is what sets the United States apart from most of the rest of the world; the American Spirit. Now imagine, after all that hard work and risk, some leftist decides they don’t like you or what you’re doing and sets out to ruin what you’ve built, to destroy you. It happens all the time, actually. The “cancel culture,” as it’s called, is just one of many tools in the progressive arsenal. And while stories like the attempted destruction of Gibson’s Bakery...

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About AOC's comment about the "Sacred Honor" of the Medal of Freedom, with specific regards to Rosa Parks: Check out one of her fellow recipients, along with Muhammad Ali, in 1986

Deep thoughts with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez… AOC speaks to Congress: “Ms. Hutchinson, I also want to thank you about bringing up the poverty draft and this idea of a bootstrap. You know, this idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because it’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke.” __________ 'It's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues everyone needs help to succeed The progressive lawmaker argued nobody succeeds alone, and some people have...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on an extended discussion about economics and John Maynard Keynes - where she referred to him as "Milton Keynes." The New York Democrat said that the "famed economist Milton Keynes predicted that by 2030, GDP and technology would have advanced so much that it would allow everyday people to work as little as 15 hours a week and provide for their families."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a stupid woman, despite all appearances to the contrary. She is a brilliant propagandist, for example, one of the most effective our country has seen in recent decades. She understands the importance of optics, for the most part, and she understands her core audience and how utterly malleable it is. So, she is not unintelligent, and is certainly a clever manipulator. But what so often gets her into trouble and gives her an image of stupidity is her magnificent, uncorrupted level of abject ignorance. Despite having somehow obtained a degree in economics from an accredited university,...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Boston University, had to correct herself Saturday evening after mixing up two "very different" economists during a lengthy Instagram discussion. "UGGGH TYPO,” the freshman congresswoman wrote after confusing John Maynard Keynes, an early 20th-century British economist who theorized that government spending was linked to economic growth, with Milton Friedman, a free-market American economist and 1976 Nobel Prize winner, according to The Washington Examiner. Ocasio-Cortez mistakenly combined their names into "Milton Keynes." “I was just reading today about how in 1930, famed economist Milton Keynes predicted that by 2030...

The freshman Queens socialist enlisted her man to talk about the issue of “combating racism as a white person.” “I think it’s helpful and important to talk to other white people about racism, and I think a lot of people, they don’t want to be racist,” Roberts, 30, offered as AOC sat beside him. “They don’t think that they’re racist, but they also don’t know some of the things they believe or say are and can be racist.”

... A bill sponsored by Sanders and socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would ban hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, by the year 2025. If Sanders becomes president, you can bet that he would work hard to turn this destructive legislation into the law of the land. Fracking is the key to the energy revolution that has turned America into an energy powerhouse and drastically reduced our need to import oil and natural gas from other countries. America gets half its oil and two-thirds of its natural gas from fracking. The abundance of our domestic energy – responsibly and safely...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Cuba) couldn’t be bothered to attend the 2020 State of the Union address, but she somehow managed to find the time to record a short message harshly criticizing President Trump’s decision to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh in the wake of Limbaugh’s recent announcement of having advanced lung cancer.   On Instagram live, @AOC hits Trump for awarding "virulent racist" Rush Limbaugh a medal of freedom #SOTU2020 pic.twitter.com/p8ZBGq02HC — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 5, 2020   Instagram video screen grab via Twitter She begins her video reaction to Rush Limbaugh receiving the...

At this moment there is a bill pending in Congress called the New Way Forward Act. It’s received almost no publicity, which is unfortunate as well as revealing. The legislation is sponsored by 44 House Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. At roughly 4,400 words, it’s almost exactly as long as the U.S. Constitution. Like the Constitution, this legislation is designed to create a whole new country. The bill would entirely remake our immigration system, with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move here, and settle here permanently, with...

The following is a Public Service Announcement for Democrats:But not soooo far left that you go off the road and into the weeds. If the trajectory is wrong you’ll be unsafe at any speed. “All the Democrats had to do was look normal, and they couldn't even do that.” – Megan FoxPosted from: MOTUS A.D.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee pushed back Wednesday on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for downplaying President Trump's honoring of conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh at Tuesday's State of the Union address. “First of all, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is an extraordinarily sacred award," Ocasio-Cortez said. "We’re talking about putting someone on the same level as Rosa Parks, for example, in terms of their contributions to American progress. Rush Limbaugh is a virulent racist.” “For her to complain about a person with State IV cancer who for longer than she has been alive has actually saved AM radio...

Shortly after Ocasio-Cortez's tweet, Representative Maxine Waters, 81, announced she would follow suit. 'To think that I would attend the #SOTU to hear the message of an IMPEACHED president is a thought that in no way would be consistent w/ my fight and struggle against this dishonorable president. I will certainly NOT be there!' Waters tweeted.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York congresswoman and high-profile surrogate to Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, thanked volunteers in Iowa and encouraged everyone to “breathe” as the entire country awaited official results from the first-in-the-nation caucus. In a message posted to her Twitter account on Tuesday afternoon, the 30-year-old Democrat reminded those anticipating the results to “take a moment” and “thank all the hardworking volunteers, canvassers, field staff, and folks who have worked so tirelessly on the ground.” “We will get [Iowa] results,” she added. “Let’s appreciate everyone who worked so hard & share a message of gratitude for them.” The...

Democrat women minus AOC plan to revive last year’s white dress code to make a statement at tonight’s State of the Union Address. Moments ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced she will become the 6th Democrat to boycott Trump’s State of the Union address. AOC tweeted: After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution. None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it. Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union. This is a deeply personal decision for...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said on Tuesday that she wouldn't attend President Trump's State of the Union address, indicating that doing so would legitimize what she saw as lawless conduct under his administration.