We need a thread highlighting young, upcoming, rock star, Conservatives. I can't take any more AOCs. It's really disheartening.

Double post chellim.....

Is there any chance her victory in the primary could cost the Dems the seat? Or is the an inner city seat that's absolutely untouchable by the Republicans? I'm assuming the latter.

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^^^ Right, so the 'progressives' see an opportunity to push Democrats who are even more radical, more socialist/Marxist. Instead of realizing the failure, the people double down.

Right... absolutely untouchable by the Republicans

and tlaib beat her challenger...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/p...-rematch-11596561803

Well, shit.


Stuck here in stupid Michigan

The Dems have made their picks and they're going for Left of Left. These are the same idiots that repeatedly voted for Clay merely because his father warmed the same seat. Is there a GOP challenger for this position?

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Is there a GOP challenger for this position?

Anthony Rogers....



I am not taking donations, but thank you for the many offers. Candidates and elected officials should be able to do their job without panhandling for spare change and dollars.
https://www.anthonyrogers2020.com/

Mark Dice analyzes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-Macarena-Hey-Macarena (I still love that). Turns out, she’s one of the greatest comedians of our time. Her comedy is so sophisticated that, I must admit, I missed it. So have the members of her own political party.

AOC-backed socialists have a plan to take over New York City

https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/...-over-new-york-city/



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic socialists brigade wants to turn New York City far-left — from the ground up.

The Democratic Socialists of America-NYC is pushing to put up or back a slate of City Council candidates who, if elected, would create a “socialist caucus.”

The overwhelmingly Democratic council is vulnerable next year to the left-of-left push with 35 out of 51 council seats up for grabs due to term limits. Only 16 council members can run for re-election.

The strategy is detailed in a 13-page “tasks and perspectives” strategic planning document that will be reviewed by DSA members this week.

A litmus test for candidates to obtain the DSA endorsement is a pledge to “defund” the NYPD — slashing the police budget by $3 billion or 50 percent.

“This campaign will be a key issue in the 2021 election cycle. NYC-DSA has already committed to making the call to defund [the NYPD] a central matter in its City Council endorsements and the socialist caucus it aims to build in advance of the 2022 budget,” the DSA steering committee plan says.

The DSA document complains that the already liberal council and mayor this year “merely moved [NYPD] money around” when they adopted the current budget following protests over the deaths of unarmed black men during interactions with police, including George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The savings from the police cuts could be used to prevent the layoffs of teachers, EMTs and firefighters or fund youth and social service programs to attack the root causes of crime, the DSA said.

DSA member AOC has become the face of the Democratic socialist movement in Congress and a national voice on the far left in American politics following her stunning victory over veteran Congressman Joe Crowley in 2018. Her upset also forced Crowley to resign as chairman of the Queens Democratic Party.

The DSA said it intends to exploit the misery triggered by the coronavirus pandemic to woo support for other aspects of its agenda:

Confront Gov. Andrew Cuomo and push the state Legislature to tax the rich to help fund the Green New Deal and New York Health Act, legislation that would create a government-run, single-payer health insurance system and to prevent state cuts in public services. “In the face of an austerity budget, many of our campaigns will lend their weight to a demand on the state government to tax the rich, putting us directly in the cross hairs of Andrew Cuomo. We welcome his hatred. Remaining resolute now is the time to expand the public sector, to provide social housing, public power [energy/utility supplier] …,” the plan says.

Use the COVID-related housing crisis to “cancel” rent, thus squeezing landlords of revenue and forcing them to give up their properties and “exit the market” — and have the state acquire the properties and convert them to public housing. Its housing agenda also includes “undermining” the real estate industry’s already diminished clout in the Democrat-run state Legislature.

DSA-backed candidates won five Democratic primaries for state legislative seats in June, with four of its insurgents ousting incumbents. The document says incumbents’ “fear of being primaried” should make them more “accountable” or amenable to backing DSA priorities.

Increase the DSA presence in three of the city’s largest public employee unions — District Council 37, the United Federation of Teachers and the NYS Nurses’ Association.
Establish deeper ties to the city’s working-class, minority neighborhoods.

Meanwhile, other leftist groups and unions are joining forces to try to flex influence in the City Council.

Politico reported that the powerful SEIU 1199 health care workers union has formed an alliance with the political wings of activist groups Make the Road New York and Community Voices Heard to endorse a slate of council candidates. It is unclear whether DSA and the triumvirate will back the same candidates in the council Democratic primaries that will be held in June 2021.

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Well, shit.


Stuck here in stupid Michigan

We’re stuck with Romney. He’s like the last pick for the team.

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Well, shit.


Stuck here in stupid Michigan

We’re stuck with Romney. He’s like the last pick for the team.

I will raise you a Harris and Feinstein

When I read the article above posted by wcb6092 it reminded me of Johannesburg, South Africa. Joberg used to be the financial hub of the southern half of the continent. After apartide ended (which was a good thing) the socialists were elected and they proceed to take over all the farms, and the financial center.

Eventually the top businesses moved out of Joberg and they all set up shop in the town of Sandton. Joberg is a slum now and most of it is not safe even during the daytime.

The same could soon be true of New York.

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Use the COVID-related housing crisis to “cancel” rent, thus squeezing landlords of revenue and forcing them to give up their properties and “exit the market” — and have the state acquire the properties and convert them to public housing. Its housing agenda also includes “undermining” the real estate industry’s already diminished clout in the Democrat-run state Legislature.

That's a very real strategy that current (far-left/Green Party) politicians of prosperous cities like LA, San Francisco, Seattle which have a dramatic imbalance of have's/have not's; create conditions so bad that property owners flee the area thus city gov goes into the home owning business. The reality is, they'll instead look more like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, St.Louis...endless stretches of run-down areas, very little service businesses, resulting in the people they're trying to attract, fleeing like those before them.

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When I read the article above posted by wcb6092 it reminded me of Johannesburg, South Africa. Joberg used to be the financial hub of the southern half of the continent. After apartide ended (which was a good thing) the socialists were elected and they proceed to take over all the farms, and the financial center.

Eventually the top businesses moved out of Joberg and they all set up shop in the town of Sandton. Joberg is a slum now and most of it is not safe even during the daytime.

The same could soon be true of New York.

South Africa is also prime example of what happens when police are demonized, have a dramatic departure of institutional knowledge or, outright abolished. Private security become the trusted service and the norm.
South Africa and Brazil Show What Defunding the Police Means

AOC and her merry band of retards want to take over NYC do they. By next year, it doesn't appear there will be much left to take over.

He stated that the number of city employees was 800 for New York City. NYPD and FDNY aren't considered city employees?

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Use the COVID-related housing crisis to “cancel” rent, thus squeezing landlords of revenue and forcing them to give up their properties and “exit the market” — and have the state acquire the properties and convert them to public housing. Its housing agenda also includes “undermining” the real estate industry’s already diminished clout in the Democrat-run state Legislature.

That's a very real strategy that current (far-left/Green Party) politicians of prosperous cities like LA, San Francisco, Seattle which have a dramatic imbalance of have's/have not's; create conditions so bad that property owners flee the area thus city gov goes into the home owning business. The reality is, they'll instead look more like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, St.Louis...endless stretches of run-down areas, very little service businesses, resulting in the people they're trying to attract, fleeing like those before them.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
When I read the article above posted by wcb6092 it reminded me of Johannesburg, South Africa. Joberg used to be the financial hub of the southern half of the continent. After apartide ended (which was a good thing) the socialists were elected and they proceed to take over all the farms, and the financial center.

Eventually the top businesses moved out of Joberg and they all set up shop in the town of Sandton. Joberg is a slum now and most of it is not safe even during the daytime.

The same could soon be true of New York.

South Africa is also prime example of what happens when police are demonized, have a dramatic departure of institutional knowledge or, outright abolished. Private security become the trusted service and the norm.
South Africa and Brazil Show What Defunding the Police Means

Yep!
Every home in middle to upper class neighborhoods had 10 foot walls with razor wire on top and signs at the main gate that said something like...

NO TRESPASSING
DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED

Very sad.

AOC baffles Jewish community by refusing to meet with leaders

https://nypost.com/2020/10/02/...ing-to-meet-leaders/



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rebuffed requests to meet with New York’s prominent Jewish leaders.

The heads of both the Jewish Community Relations Council and the New York Board of Rabbis said they’ve sought sit downs with the first-term “democratic socialist” congresswoman — to no avail.

“I requested a meeting with her and it has not come to fruition,” JCRC executive director Michael Miller told The Post.

“A meeting has been requested on more than one occasion. It hasn’t happened. I’m still interested in meeting with her.”

Miller said he’s had no problem communicating with other members of New York’s congressional delegation.

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive VP of the New York Board of Rabbis, also said the congresswoman has been elusive.

Potasnik said he’s run into AOC at events and requested to meet.

“The first response was, ‘Yes, we will.’ We’re still waiting,” Potasnik said.

Both organizations are supportive of Israel.

Ocasio-Cortez has been a leading critic of Israel, particularly opposing the Jewish State’s threats and move to annex disputed territories in the West Bank. She said Israel risked being vilified for becoming an “apartheid state.”

Supporters of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel are boosters of AOC.
see also

AOC: Israel may become 'apartheid state' after annexing West Bank

“It’s easy to sit down with those you agree with. It’s also imperative to sit down with people with whom you disagree,” Potasnik said.

“My door is open.”

Potasnik also said there’s been major developments in the Middle East, with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalizing relations with Israel in deals announced by President Trump.

“That takes the ‘B’ out of the BDS movement. Arab countries are not advocating boycotting Israel,” he said.

Miller stressed that Ocasio-Cortez “hasn’t completely distanced herself” from the Jewish community, praising her for participating in the January march over the Brooklyn Bridge to protest anti-semitism.

The Jewish Insider first reported that Jewish leaders were baffled that AOC has shied away from interacting with them.

Eyebrows were raised again last week when the congresswoman withdrew from attending an Americans for Peace Now event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who was assassinated in 1995 for his attempts to broker peace with the Palestinians, JI reported.

Ocasio-Cortez, who represents portions of The Bronx and Queens, had no immediate comment.

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AOC baffles Jewish community by refusing to meet with leaders

Yeah, it's a puzzler, ain't it?

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The Jewish Insider first reported that Jewish leaders were baffled that AOC has shied away from interacting with them.

Why should she, they are going to vote for her "as a group" anyway is her mindset...