Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
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Youngest female ever elected to congress ever.
She can't afford rent in DC so she started a Go Fund Me account?
I don't think it's really her but we should discuss her anyways.
She labeled herself a "Democratic Socialist".
She can't afford rent in DC so she started a Go Fund Me account?
I don't think it's really her but we should discuss her anyways.
She labeled herself a "Democratic Socialist".
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She appears to have labeled herself pretty accurately.
Honestly - this does kinda show what has become of congress. People should be able to serve regardless of their bank account. I would think it would be smart to have a stipend of some kind for senators below a certain income bracket. Goes away obviously once paid in congress for a while.
I am not a huge fan at all, some good, some great, some bad, some awful. But good for her, let's see what she does with this position now.hippiemom = goodness0 -
outgoing speaker of the house sleeps in his fucking office. check that OUR office. rent fucking free.
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When it’s a pasty white guy, nobody cares. I mean just see all those threads about it and anti-$1.5 trillion tax cut threads. Corporate socialism great, people socialism bad, bad, bad.mickeyrat said:outgoing speaker of the house sleeps in his fucking office. check that OUR office. rent fucking free.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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What are you talking about? Who here said they would care if she slept in her office?Halifax2TheMax said:
When it’s a pasty white guy, nobody cares. I mean just see all those threads about it and anti-$1.5 trillion tax cut threads. Corporate socialism great, people socialism bad, bad, bad.mickeyrat said:outgoing speaker of the house sleeps in his fucking office. check that OUR office. rent fucking free.hippiemom = goodness0 -
Waiting for Unsung to join the thread."Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"0
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Still waiting for the meme to be posted on daily stormer before posting it hereSpiritual_Chaos said:Waiting for Unsung to join the thread.0 -
The high cost of real estate in DC and having to maintain a residence in your home district has been an issue for years. But certain posters only seem to point it out when a liberal, Hispanic woman mentions the challenge of it. And no, no one should be living out of their office.cincybearcat said:
What are you talking about? Who here said they would care if she slept in her office?Halifax2TheMax said:
When it’s a pasty white guy, nobody cares. I mean just see all those threads about it and anti-$1.5 trillion tax cut threads. Corporate socialism great, people socialism bad, bad, bad.mickeyrat said:outgoing speaker of the house sleeps in his fucking office. check that OUR office. rent fucking free.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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F5:ing Tenclub-ticket-sale-classic styleBentleyspop said:
Still waiting for the meme to be posted on daily stormer before posting it hereSpiritual_Chaos said:Waiting for Unsung to join the thread."Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"0 -
Huh?!?Halifax2TheMax said:
The high cost of real estate in DC and having to maintain a residence in your home district has been an issue for years. But certain posters only seem to point it out when a liberal, Hispanic woman mentions the challenge of it. And no, no one should be living out of their office.cincybearcat said:
What are you talking about? Who here said they would care if she slept in her office?Halifax2TheMax said:
When it’s a pasty white guy, nobody cares. I mean just see all those threads about it and anti-$1.5 trillion tax cut threads. Corporate socialism great, people socialism bad, bad, bad.mickeyrat said:outgoing speaker of the house sleeps in his fucking office. check that OUR office. rent fucking free.0 -
Lots of people take jobs and struggle to make down payments on rent and such in new surroundings. Not sure what makes her unique other than with no experience she lucked into a $174k a year job. Pretty selfish of her considering her stances not to buck up and point to others who deal with a lot worse. Another liberal talking the talk but can’t walk the walk. Gimme gimme gimme. Look at poor me. With a pending $174K salary. Lol. She’s already out of touch with her constituents.
And Joe Biden commuted from home daily via train. Northeast regional goes right from her home to DC union station. You don’t have to have places in both locations. Crash with a friend. How many rookie baseball players do that?
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Yea because Baltimore to DC is equidistant as NYC to DC. Have you ever ridden AMTRAK? About as reliable as electricity in Iraq.EdsonNascimento said:Lots of people take jobs and struggle to make down payments on rent and such in new surroundings. Not sure what makes her unique other than with no experience she lucked into a $174k a year job. Pretty selfish of her considering her stances not to buck up and point to others who deal with a lot worse. Another liberal talking the talk but can’t walk the walk. Gimme gimme gimme. Look at poor me. With a pending $174K salary. Lol. She’s already out of touch with her constituents.
And Joe Biden commuted from home daily via train. Northeast regional goes right from her home to DC union station. You don’t have to have places in both locations. Crash with a friend. How many rookie baseball players do that?09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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Baltimore is in Maryland not Delaware. I knew what Northeast regional is, so what do you think? And that wasn’t the only suggestion. I always find it amusing what people focus on in responses.Halifax2TheMax said:
Yea because Baltimore to DC is equidistant as NYC to DC. Have you ever ridden AMTRAK? About as reliable as electricity in Iraq.EdsonNascimento said:Lots of people take jobs and struggle to make down payments on rent and such in new surroundings. Not sure what makes her unique other than with no experience she lucked into a $174k a year job. Pretty selfish of her considering her stances not to buck up and point to others who deal with a lot worse. Another liberal talking the talk but can’t walk the walk. Gimme gimme gimme. Look at poor me. With a pending $174K salary. Lol. She’s already out of touch with her constituents.
And Joe Biden commuted from home daily via train. Northeast regional goes right from her home to DC union station. You don’t have to have places in both locations. Crash with a friend. How many rookie baseball players do that?Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.0 -
EdsonNascimento said:Lots of people take jobs and struggle to make down payments on rent and such in new surroundings. Not sure what makes her unique other than with no experience she lucked into a $174k a year job. Pretty selfish of her considering her stances not to buck up and point to others who deal with a lot worse. Another liberal talking the talk but can’t walk the walk. Gimme gimme gimme. Look at poor me. With a pending $174K salary. Lol. She’s already out of touch with her constituents.
And Joe Biden commuted from home daily via train. Northeast regional goes right from her home to DC union station. You don’t have to have places in both locations. Crash with a friend. How many rookie baseball players do that?
Because she knocked on thousands of doors and impressed her community and is acutually representative of the people that elected her, and not a shill for corporate interests? Isn’t that how The House of REPRESENTATIVES is supposed to work?
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maybe you read a different interview than I did :EdsonNascimento said:Lots of people take jobs and struggle to make down payments on rent and such in new surroundings. Not sure what makes her unique other than with no experience she lucked into a $174k a year job. Pretty selfish of her considering her stances not to buck up and point to others who deal with a lot worse. Another liberal talking the talk but can’t walk the walk. Gimme gimme gimme. Look at poor me. With a pending $174K salary. Lol. She’s already out of touch with her constituents.
And Joe Biden commuted from home daily via train. Northeast regional goes right from her home to DC union station. You don’t have to have places in both locations. Crash with a friend. How many rookie baseball players do that?
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said the transition period will be “very unusual, because I can’t really take a salary. I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real.” She said she saved money before leaving her job at the restaurant, and planned accordingly with her partner. “We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-congress-washington.htmlThursday, she pointed to her lack of income as a reason why some people are not able to work in politics.
"There are many little ways in which our electoral system isn’t even designed (nor prepared) for working-class people to lead," she said.
She said she hopes she can change that.
....but hey, don't let a little thing like reality get in the way of you putting the young hispanic woman in her place....
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Yup, she’s right about this and it’s something I never thought about before. As I said above, this needs changing. Cause we want people like her (take her politics out of it) in Congresshippiemom = goodness0
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I know where Baltimore is and thought I heard that was where he commuted from? Maybe it was Wilmington? Either way, not even close to making that grind from NYC. Then she’d be criticized for missing votes. Just more faux outrage when the real outrage is in the Oval, with the walls closing in.EdsonNascimento said:
Baltimore is in Maryland not Delaware. I knew what Northeast regional is, so what do you think? And that wasn’t the only suggestion. I always find it amusing what people focus on in responses.Halifax2TheMax said:
Yea because Baltimore to DC is equidistant as NYC to DC. Have you ever ridden AMTRAK? About as reliable as electricity in Iraq.EdsonNascimento said:Lots of people take jobs and struggle to make down payments on rent and such in new surroundings. Not sure what makes her unique other than with no experience she lucked into a $174k a year job. Pretty selfish of her considering her stances not to buck up and point to others who deal with a lot worse. Another liberal talking the talk but can’t walk the walk. Gimme gimme gimme. Look at poor me. With a pending $174K salary. Lol. She’s already out of touch with her constituents.
And Joe Biden commuted from home daily via train. Northeast regional goes right from her home to DC union station. You don’t have to have places in both locations. Crash with a friend. How many rookie baseball players do that?
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I was being a bit glib, but the point is, once her job starts, she will have plenty of money to get a place. Yes, prior to and just shortly after she will have to improvise just as millions of people do. And I am sure she will not be the first or last Rep to face this. Difference is they just deal with it. The House was meant to be this way, The Senate is a whole other story. That would be atypical.
Good for her winning. That’s the easy part. Now for the real world.Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.0 -
So why don’t we wait till she starts her job before criticizing her why jump on her before she has casted a vote ..EdsonNascimento said:I was being a bit glib, but the point is, once her job starts, she will have plenty of money to get a place. Yes, prior to and just shortly after she will have to improvise just as millions of people do. And I am sure she will not be the first or last Rep to face this. Difference is they just deal with it. The House was meant to be this way, The Senate is a whole other story. That would be atypical.
Good for her winning. That’s the easy part. Now for the real world.jesus greets me looks just like me ....0 -
I started this thread because of the GoFundMe page. There were others that got shut down because they most likely weren't her. This current one most likely isn't her either.
I don't think that Ms Ocasio-Cortez would start a GoFundMe page for an apartment for how it would look, I could be wrong, we will find out soon enough.
There was also no pages on her which I thought was interesting. She does deserve her own page.
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this makes me wonder if campaign funds could be used until sworn in
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