Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

Smellyman

The Republican AND Democrat attacks on her sure seem to be working on everybody.

HughFreakingDillon

why do you say that? none of us can have our own opinions formed independently?

HughFreakingDillon

I really liked her in the beginning. now she's just becoming exhausting. 

mcgruff10

HughFreakingDillon said:

I really liked her in the beginning. now she's just becoming exhausting. 

Agree with your assessment on how people liked her in the beginning but now she is just exhausting.  I never liked her.  

dignin

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

HughFreakingDillon

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

she's idealistic, but also quite pompous. she's outraged over pretty much everything she comes across. people will become numb to it over time. 

I have been paying attention, thank you. 

dignin

mcgruff10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I really liked her in the beginning. now she's just becoming exhausting. 

Agree

You literally just said you've never been a fan a few comments up. 

dignin

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

she's idealistic, but also quite pompous. she's outraged over pretty much everything she comes across. people will become numb to it over time. 

I have been paying attention, thank you. 

Sounds like you are buying into the narrative by this comment. So I guess you are paying attention to something, but maybe the wrong something.

mcgruff10

dignin said:

mcgruff10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I really liked her in the beginning. now she's just becoming exhausting. 

Agree

You literally just said you've never been a fan a few comments up. 

Sorry for not clarifying more; I agree with his assessment on how people liked her at first but now she has become exhausting.  

HughFreakingDillon

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

she's idealistic, but also quite pompous. she's outraged over pretty much everything she comes across. people will become numb to it over time. 

I have been paying attention, thank you. 

Sounds like you are buying into the narrative by this comment. So I guess you are paying attention to something, but maybe the wrong something.

again with the "if you think differently than me you are being fooled" garbage. 

HughFreakingDillon

I'm not buying into any fucking narrative. I followed her on twitter for a while, but got tired of her. I read about her comments to the media, and she's snarky as fuck and I think it comes across as unprofessional. I don't give a shit if "that's how the other side does it". I don't agree with it when anyone does it, regardless of affiliation. 

she reminds me of friends of mine when they first got into law school. all of a sudden they proclaimed themselves the knowers of all information and they were going to save the world and everyone else was a fucking idiot. eventually they came around and went back to being normal people, but fuck if they weren't pompous assholes for a while. 

pjhawks

HughFreakingDillon said:

I'm not buying into any fucking narrative. I followed her on twitter for a while, but got tired of her. I read about her comments to the media, and she's snarky as fuck and I think it comes across as unprofessional. I don't give a shit if "that's how the other side does it". I don't agree with it when anyone does it, regardless of affiliation. 

she reminds me of friends of mine when they first got into law school. all of a sudden they proclaimed themselves the knowers of all information and they were going to save the world and everyone else was a fucking idiot. eventually they came around and went back to being normal people, but fuck if they weren't pompous assholes for a while. 

I pretty much agree with you here.  In general I like her and she is quite idealistic but I don't think she has any idea yet how to put her ideals into practice. i also get her attitude because many of us think we know it all when younger until we realize we were full of shit before we had experience(s). 

dignin

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

she's idealistic, but also quite pompous. she's outraged over pretty much everything she comes across. people will become numb to it over time. 

I have been paying attention, thank you. 

Sounds like you are buying into the narrative by this comment. So I guess you are paying attention to something, but maybe the wrong something.

again with the "if you think differently than me you are being fooled" garbage. 

Maybe you should preface your comments with "I think" then.

HughFreakingDillon

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

she's idealistic, but also quite pompous. she's outraged over pretty much everything she comes across. people will become numb to it over time. 

I have been paying attention, thank you. 

Sounds like you are buying into the narrative by this comment. So I guess you are paying attention to something, but maybe the wrong something.

again with the "if you think differently than me you are being fooled" garbage. 

Maybe you should preface your comments with "I think" then.

oh come on. it's pretty obvious it's an opinion. i have never once here proposed that I am 100% right in anything I'm saying. it's opinion. you must be thinking of another poster. 

if your default of everyone's post is "this is a fact" then maybe you need to rethink how you interpret online forum engagement. 

dignin

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

she's idealistic, but also quite pompous. she's outraged over pretty much everything she comes across. people will become numb to it over time. 

I have been paying attention, thank you. 

Sounds like you are buying into the narrative by this comment. So I guess you are paying attention to something, but maybe the wrong something.

again with the "if you think differently than me you are being fooled" garbage. 

Maybe you should preface your comments with "I think" then.

oh come on. it's pretty obvious it's an opinion. i have never once here proposed that I am 100% right in anything I'm saying. it's opinion. you must be thinking of another poster. 

if your default of everyone's post is "this is a fact" then maybe you need to rethink how you interpret online forum engagement. 

Then stop using the strawman defense "if you think differently than me you are being fooled" line.

Nobody says it but it's a nice deflection.

Regardless, it's no big deal. Time to move on, we differ on our assessment of AOC.

HughFreakingDillon

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

dignin said:

I still think she's great.

Happy to see a democrat with a spine.

there are plenty of democrats with a spine. she is just the Tasmanian devil, spinning around, grunting and screaming, with little to no effect so far. she's eager and full of energy and has a decent handle on the issues, but she's not going about it the right way. 

I disagree.

And if you think the democrats have been going about it the "right way" you haven't been paying attention for the past 20 plus years.

she's idealistic, but also quite pompous. she's outraged over pretty much everything she comes across. people will become numb to it over time. 

I have been paying attention, thank you. 

Sounds like you are buying into the narrative by this comment. So I guess you are paying attention to something, but maybe the wrong something.

again with the "if you think differently than me you are being fooled" garbage. 

Maybe you should preface your comments with "I think" then.

oh come on. it's pretty obvious it's an opinion. i have never once here proposed that I am 100% right in anything I'm saying. it's opinion. you must be thinking of another poster. 

if your default of everyone's post is "this is a fact" then maybe you need to rethink how you interpret online forum engagement. 

Then stop using the strawman defense "if you think differently than me you are being fooled" line.

Nobody says it but it's a nice deflection.

Regardless, it's no big deal. Time to move on, we differ on our assessment of AOC.

"sounds like you are buying into the narrative" = "if you think differently than me you are being fooled"

you have zero evidence that I have been buying into any narrative. stating such is nothing more than a dismissal of someone's opinion for no other reason than it differs from yours. that's not a strawman defense, BTW. a strawman defense is a deflection, as you stated, which is what you did, not me. 

Halifax2TheMax

AOC who? I forget about her and then this thread gets bumped so I check in and it’s much ado about a Twitter spat. Welcome to junior high. But the question is, is she representing her constituents and will she face a primary and get re-elected? 

tempo_n_groove

Halifax2TheMax said:

AOC who? I forget about her and then this thread gets bumped so I check in and it’s much ado about a Twitter spat. Welcome to junior high. But the question is, is she representing her constituents and will she face a primary and get re-elected? 

Name recognition and her name in the headlines will get her re-elected.

She won't accomplish anything but beat her chest come election time.

tempo_n_groove

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/14/rep_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_i_will_be_damned_to_see_middle_of_the_road_approach_to_climate_change.html

I do like her message but she does need to realize that people can choke if you keep ramming it down their throats.

bbiggs

Spiritual_Chaos said:

mrussel1 said:

When asked if Ocasio-Cortez wanted to comment on Biden's remarks, a spokesperson for her congressional office said, "Nah."

That response only makes her, and her team, more amazing.

Makes she and her team sound immature and unqualified. “No comment” would seem appropriate.