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Originally posted by Hamden106:
The best solution to reduce global warming as it is stated by the "experts"......population reduction.

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I'm beginning to wonder if that Economics degree she claims to have is actually in Home Economics.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blesses New Push To Oust Incumbent Democrats In Primaries
Daniel Marans, Huffington Post, 11/18/2018

In a significant escalation of her activisim-driven approach to politics, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has urged other progressives to mount primary challenges against some of the more conservative Democratic members of Congress. Ocasio-Cortez delivered the appeal in a phone call on Saturday with some 700 progressive activists organized by Justice Democrats, the group of alumni of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential bid.

"Long story short, I need you to run for office," Ocasio-Cortez began her remarks. "We all need to run at all levels of government, but I really hope that many of you join me here in Congress."

Justice Democrats recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run and played a key role in her upset of Rep. Joe Crowley, a House power-broker, in New York's Democratic primary in June. Ocasio-Cortez then easily won the seat Crowley has held since 1999 in this month's general election. The group is calling its new campaign #OurTime. The initiative asks Justice Democrats' army of activists to help identify Democratic House incumbents who are "demographically and ideologically out-of-touch with their districts," and identify people who might make good primary challengers to them. Joining Ocasio-Cortez in backing the #OurTime initiative is Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)

Justice Democrats inclusion of demographic criteria likely means that even some reliably progressive white Democrats who represent more diverse districts won't be safe from such challenges in 2020. The group already showcased that approach with its support for Ayanna Presley, a black Boston city council member who unseated progressive Rep. Michael Capuana (D-Mass.) in a primary in September.

Ocasio-Cortez and leaders of the Justice Democrats way they are driven by a conviction that most current Democratic members of Congress are not up to the task of enacting the radical solutions to address the country's - and the planet's - most pressing problems. The most urgent of these crises, they said, include climate change, widening economic inequality and persistent racial injustice. "There are some good people who want to push for stuff, but they don't have the backup right now to do anything big," said Saikat Chakrabarti, a founder of Justice Democrats who is headed to Washington to serve as Ocasio-Cortez' chief of staff. "So we need new leaders, period. We've got to primary folks. If we don't have folks who are mission-focused, and laser-focused on solving these gigantic problems, we just aren't going to get them solved in time," he added.

It is highly unusual for a member of Congress to support a massive number of primary challenges targeting party colleagues. But over the course of last week's orientation on Capitol Hill for newly elected lawmakers, Ocasio-Cortez demonstrated she has little interest in adhering to traditional congressional norms of comity and deference. On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez attended the Sunrise Movement's sit-in at the office of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and endorsed the group's call for a select committee to address climate change that is comprised solely of members of Congress who have not received fossil fuel industry money. The committee envisioned by Ocasio-Cortez and the group would be charged with drafting a Marshall Plan-style "Green New Deal" to have the U.S. powered entirely by renewable energy in 2035.

The committee idea has gained support from a handful of sitting House Democrats and newly elected ones. But the proposal and Ocasio-Cortez' support for it also elicited some public opposition from veteran Democratic colleagues, many of whom have senior committee posts and claim that a new panel is unnecessary. The investigative news site Sludge subsequently reported that each of the Democrats quoted as criticizing Ocasio-Cortez had received massive donations during the 2018 campaign cycle from fossil-fuel industry and electric utility political action committees and employees.

To Ocasio-Cortez, the negative response to the idea of simply creating a committee tasked with drafting legislation only strengthens the case for more primary challenges to veteran incumbents. The resistance to the proposal "points to the role that fossil-fuel industry contributions play even within the Democratic Party," she said.

In another sign of her independence, Ocasio-Cortez has not yet joined the leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus - which she in joining - in endorsing Pelosi's bid for House Speaker. That gives Ocasio-Cortez some leverage in the bid to persuade Pelosi to establish the climate-change committee. The 29-year-old democratic socialist said she is aware she may already face political punishment for her participation in the sit-in at Pelosi's office. "If I made people mad, they could have put me on the dog-walking committee or whatever. They still might. But I knew it was worth it," she said.

In her remarks to the Justice Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez invited activists considering running for office to take a similar leap in the faith that history would be on their side. "Know that they will come after you and that that's OK because at the end of the day, when you are on the right side of that long arc of history that bends towards justice, we will be able to tell our grandchildren that we fought for what's right," she said.

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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:

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I'm beginning to wonder if that Economics degree she claims to have is actually in Home Economics.

In that case, woman, get me a sammich.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
The three: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Good Lord she is dumb.



I'm beginning to wonder if that Economics degree she claims to have is actually in Home Economics.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Instead of putting comments and memes about the “Hey Macarena” chica in the Trump link, we really should continue with the one that already exists on her.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Good Lord she is dumb.



I'm beginning to wonder if that Economics degree she claims to have is actually in Home Economics.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
I have to think someone of her age is somewhat social-media savvy. If she's taken her profiles down since she became famous, she at least has to do a lot of reading or lurking. People of her generation love to read validation of their beliefs and actions via social media. So I would love to know what she thinks of so many people believing her to be a complete idiot. I know we'll never know, but I wonder about it.