Quote:Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., NY) suggested the current state of America is “garbage” and argued former president Ronald Reagan stirred up conflict between white Americans and minorities during an appearance at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas on Saturday.

Ocasio-Cortez referred to America’s current state as garbage while being asked about the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and a $15 minimum wage.

“I think the thing that is really hard for people to sometimes see is that when we are on this path of a slow erosion and a slow, slow, slow, just like move away from what we’ve always been, we’ll be a hundred miles, you’ll, you know you won’t even realize that you’ve drifted a hundred miles,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “So, when someone’s talking about our core, it’s like oh this is radical, but this isn’t radical, this is what we’ve always been.”

“It’s just that now we’ve strayed so far away from what has really made us powerful, and just, and good, and equitable, and productive, and so I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are but where we are is not a good thing,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And this idea of like 10% better from garbage, is, shouldn’t be what we settle for, it’s like this like it feels like moderate is not a stance it’s just an attitude toward life of like ‘hmmm.'”

Quote:U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed political moderates at the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, calling their views “misplaced” as she defended her progressive politics in a room full of supporters.

“Moderate is not a stance. It's just an attitude towards life of, like, ‘meh,’” the New York Democrat said Saturday during an interview with Briahna Gray, senior politics editor for the Intercept. “We’ve become so cynical, that we view ‘meh,’ or ‘eh’ — we view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude, and we view ambition as youthful naivete when ... the greatest things we have ever accomplished as a society have been ambitious acts of visions, and the ‘meh’ is just worshipped now, for what?”

The self-declared Democratic socialist also criticized the treatment of minorities throughout American history, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which she claimed was racist, to Ronald Reagan's policies, which she said "pitted" white working class people against minorities in order "to screw over all working-class Americans,” particularly African-Americans and Hispanics.

(03-10-2019 10:31 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I clicked on the first video link, and to put it in her words, I'd say her response was kind of meh. It reminds me of a high school or college student who didn't do their homework, and is basically trying to BS their way through a response for about 2 or 3 minutes. I just don't get all the excitement and hubbub about her, from either side of the spectrum. But the media and society in general is making too much out of people's responses (and this is true for Trump too I admit).

John Kasich (and Bernie Sanders, among others) was also at South by Southwest this weekend, and I read where he got into trouble for one of his quotes. Kasich was talking about being so far in the wings during the 2016 primary debates that he felt like a Ugandan swimmer at the Olympics. And some people criticized that response for being racist. Really???

(03-10-2019 10:31 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I clicked on the first video link, and to put it in her words, I'd say her response was kind of meh. It reminds me of a high school or college student who didn't do their homework, and is basically trying to BS their way through a response for about 2 or 3 minutes. I just don't get all the excitement and hubbub about her, from either side of the spectrum. But the media and society in general is making too much out of people's responses (and this is true for Trump too I admit).

(03-10-2019 10:31 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I clicked on the first video link, and to put it in her words, I'd say her response was kind of meh. It reminds me of a high school or college student who didn't do their homework, and is basically trying to BS their way through a response for about 2 or 3 minutes. I just don't get all the excitement and hubbub about her, from either side of the spectrum. But the media and society in general is making too much out of people's responses (and this is true for Trump too I admit).

John Kasich (and Bernie Sanders, among others) was also at South by Southwest this weekend, and I read where he got into trouble for one of his quotes. Kasich was talking about being so far in the wings during the 2016 primary debates that he felt like a Ugandan swimmer at the Olympics. And some people criticized that response for being racist. Really???

(03-10-2019 11:47 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(03-10-2019 10:31 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I clicked on the first video link, and to put it in her words, I'd say her response was kind of meh. It reminds me of a high school or college student who didn't do their homework, and is basically trying to BS their way through a response for about 2 or 3 minutes. I just don't get all the excitement and hubbub about her, from either side of the spectrum. But the media and society in general is making too much out of people's responses (and this is true for Trump too I admit).

It reminded me more of Karl Marx forgetting his homework and trying to BS his way through it.

Here is something I don’t understand. AOC and Bernie keep saying that we somehow lost what made us great. What they are proposing is not what made us great. What they are proposing is what we did not do is the things that they want to do, and not doing it is what made us great.

(03-10-2019 11:25 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-10-2019 10:31 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I clicked on the first video link, and to put it in her words, I'd say her response was kind of meh. It reminds me of a high school or college student who didn't do their homework, and is basically trying to BS their way through a response for about 2 or 3 minutes. I just don't get all the excitement and hubbub about her, from either side of the spectrum. But the media and society in general is making too much out of people's responses (and this is true for Trump too I admit).

John Kasich (and Bernie Sanders, among others) was also at South by Southwest this weekend, and I read where he got into trouble for one of his quotes. Kasich was talking about being so far in the wings during the 2016 primary debates that he felt like a Ugandan swimmer at the Olympics. And some people criticized that response for being racist. Really???

your crew should be embarrassed....

why do you think we're using her and alibaba as poster children....

those two are an amazing gift I never saw coming...

(03-10-2019 05:04 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  A lot of you are garbage.

(03-10-2019 05:16 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  Instead of trying to BREAK America, why doesn't she take her Brilliance and her Socialist Nirvana and move to Venezuela, there she can fix a broken nation and show use how socialism implemented "right" works better than capitalism.


AOC should press to move America back to Obama policies, she could trademark the campaign slogan, Make America Broke Again.

Quote:Capitalism is what makes the poorest Americans live better than 14th century aristocracy.

(03-10-2019 09:27 AM)usmbacker Wrote:  But Socialism Represents ‘Core American Values’





Word salad socialist queen.

Quote:Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., NY) suggested the current state of America is “garbage” and argued former president Ronald Reagan stirred up conflict between white Americans and minorities during an appearance at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas on Saturday.

Ocasio-Cortez referred to America’s current state as garbage while being asked about the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and a $15 minimum wage.

“I think the thing that is really hard for people to sometimes see is that when we are on this path of a slow erosion and a slow, slow, slow, just like move away from what we’ve always been, we’ll be a hundred miles, you’ll, you know you won’t even realize that you’ve drifted a hundred miles,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “So, when someone’s talking about our core, it’s like oh this is radical, but this isn’t radical, this is what we’ve always been.”

“It’s just that now we’ve strayed so far away from what has really made us powerful, and just, and good, and equitable, and productive, and so I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are but where we are is not a good thing,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And this idea of like 10% better from garbage, is, shouldn’t be what we settle for, it’s like this like it feels like moderate is not a stance it’s just an attitude toward life of like ‘hmmm.'”

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(03-10-2019 05:04 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  A lot of you are garbage.