I dunno - that air of childishness does give La Macarena a certain je ne sais quoi.

I'm starting to wonder if the people in her district elected her as a joke or if they are all as ignorant as her.


Democratic Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez misquoted the U.S. Constitution while threatening to run for president on Thursday.

According to a recap in Politico’s Playbook, Ocasio-Cortez was doing a Politico photoshoot at Harvard University when she and a photographer joked about a potential presidential run.

“You can’t even run for president for another six years,” the photographer said, pointing out that Ocasio-Cortez just turned 29 years old.

Ocasio-Cortez then claimed that the Constitution only places a presidential age limit on men and threatened to run for president if Republicans don’t pass the Equal Rights Amendment.


“No, not for a long time. Thank God,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Although we’ve been joking that because the Equal Rights Amendment hasn’t been passed yet, the Constitution technically says he cannot run unless he’s 35. … So what we’ll do is we’ll force the Republican Party to pass the Equal Rights Amendment by threatening to run for president.”

“That is awesome,” the photographer reportedly replied. “All the people who say a literal interpretation of the Constitution is the only thing you should be paying attention to.”

“I will keep vigilance,” Ocasio-Cortez promised.

As Playbook notes, the Constitution does not say “he” cannot run — it says “any person.”

The relevant clause of the Constitution, Article II Section I, reads as follows:

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

Ocasio-Cortez has become infamous for her many gaffes about government and politics. On Friday, there were calls for a House Ethics investigation after the congresswoman-elect threatened to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. over a meme mocking socialism.

In November, Ocasio-Cortez mixed up the three branches of government, asserting that, “If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress, uh, rather, all three chambers of government — the presidency, the Senate and the House — in 2020.”

The congresswoman-elect accused conservatives at the time of “drooling” over footage of her “waiting to chop up word slips.”


https://dailycaller.com/2018/1...stitution-president/

I am sure I’m not the only one who is looking forward to hearing Occluded Cortex’s ‘very, very large brain’ ideas.

To answer olfuzzy's question: I think her constituents are mostly all as ignorant as she is.

flashguy

So how did this utterly unspectacular creature, who previously worked as a bartender and a waitress in a taqueria, win a seat in Congress at the tender age of 28? A lot can be construed from census data on New York’s 14th congressional district, which she clutched away from a veteran Democratic congressman.

The facts:

Nearly half the people living in the district are Hispanic. The next nearest demographic is whites, who comprise 24% of the population.
Forty-seven percent of the residents are foreign-born, with 56% — including Ocasio-Cortez’s mother — having emigrated from Latin America.
Sixty-seven percent speak a language other than English at home with 46% speaking Spanish.
When it comes to education, 53% have either a high school diploma or no “degree” at all. Only 17% have a bachelor’s degree from college.
At $58,331, the median household income falls just shy of the median for the United States, which is $60,336.
Finally, according to Ballotpedia, the district leans heavily Democratic. In the 2016 election, 82.9% of voters voted for the Democratic incumbent, Joe Crowley, whereas 17.1% voted for his Republican challenger, Frank Spotorno.

What this all boils down to is a perfect storm of support for a young Democrat who identifies with the community ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and ideologically. It is almost surprising that Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Crowley with 57.5% of the vote to his 42.5% didn’t beat him by a wider margin.


https://libertyunyielding.com/...z-heres-your-answer/

http://thefederalist.com/2018/...y/#.XAyHRqE-yQA.link

Quick read and scary

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
So how did this utterly unspectacular creature, who previously worked as a bartender and a waitress in a taqueria, win a seat in Congress at the tender age of 28?

She promised lots and lots of free stuff to poor people, and they voted her in. Medicare for all, free college tuition, etc.

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Originally posted by FrankMoses:
http://thefederalist.com/2018/...y/#.XAyHRqE-yQA.link

Quick read and scary

That was a stretch, to put it mildly.

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Originally posted by Jimineer:

quote:

Originally posted by FrankMoses:
http://thefederalist.com/2018/...y/#.XAyHRqE-yQA.link

Quick read and scary

That was a stretch, to put it mildly.

Please elaborate on how that article is a stretch.

There are many Americans who would love to absolve themselves of all their responsibilities so they do whatever stupid people do in their spare time. She appeals to them and she knows how to promise the moon and she's being trained by her fellow communists in the excuses when those promises aren't fulfilled.

What is more scary are the people who voted her in. They are willing to blindly walk into socialism with having no real concept or historical understanding of what it is capable of.

The really scary part is that it is entirely possible that a majority of voters across the country are willing to take that first step and vote for a candidate that is openly socialist. This is why I think O'Rourke is likely to climb to the top of the heap for 2020. They are already grooming him as they did with Obama.

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Originally posted by tigereye313:
What is more scary are the people who voted her in. They are willing to blindly walk into socialism with having no real concept or historical understanding of what it is capable of.

The really scary part is that it is entirely possible that a majority of voters across the country are willing to take that first step and vote for a candidate that is openly socialist. This is why I think O'Rourke is likely to climb to the top of the heap for 2020. They are already grooming him as they did with Obama.

If bernie hadn't accepted the bribe from the hag he would have given President Trump a run for his money.

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Originally posted by roberth:


If bernie hadn't accepted the bribe from the hag he would have given President Trump a run for his money.

Agree.

I think O'Rourke will appeal to many more people than Bernie, especially the millennials. The fact that he lost by only 2.6% in Texas is a sign of how much progress the Dems have made. :/

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Originally posted by tigereye313:
What is more scary are the people who voted her in. They are willing to blindly walk into socialism with having no real concept or historical understanding of what it is capable of.

Not really. It’s all about the demographics of her little district in New York. It’s been well covered - household income, education (or lack of), prior congressman who took his constituents for granted, etc. They were always on one side of the spectrum and that will not change. I say don’t be too hard on her. Let her speak and tweet. I don’t want her to stop. She’s her own worse enemy.

Kamala and Corey have nasty mouths. If and when they decide to run the years of video records will kill ‘em. Pochantas is too vulnerable. I worry about Joe Biden. He shares Trump’s style and he is already doing well in polls.

My point is that they will pull the lever for the Dems without realizing the significance of the fact that they are voting for socialism.

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Originally posted by tigereye313:
My point is that they will pull the lever for the Dems without realizing the significance of the fact that they are voting for socialism.

Her constituents want all the free shit she is promising; education, housing, medical, government jobs, base income, etc. They know they took a hard turn to the left. They are not the Sig forum demographic. Voters will flirt with socialism in 2020 like they never have before.

Hell, nobody can even remember the Democrat she beat in the primary.

She has millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram. That’s the new “information highway” for most young idiots.
She will spawn more like her.

I am truly curious how entrenched democrats see people like Occasion Cortex taking over the party given her ignorance for government structure, history, due process, etc., etc., etc.

It will get really interesting when her dumb ass gets up to speak in front of the House. I hope she gets eviscerated by people that actually know stuff.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
I am truly curious how entrenched democrats see people like Occasion Cortex taking over the party given her ignorance for government structure, history, due process, etc., etc., etc.

It will get really interesting when her dumb ass gets up to speak in front of the House. I hope she gets eviscerated by people that actually know stuff.

I'm afraid that very soon there won't be any of those left.

flashguy

It didn't help that her opponent was an ossified dinosaur of a career Democratic machine politicritter who hadn't faced any opposition since 2004. It was probably his time to go anyway. He'll now be making bank as a lobbyist.

Functionally, this will be a non-event as far as legislation is concerned. She's a first term back bencher, who'll have to do what the party leaders tell her. Her votes will likely be no different than Crowley's would have been. In point of fact, the voters in her district basically screwed themselves, because, at least in the house, Crowley, with his seniority and position, would have had a lot more power than she will.

quote:

Originally posted by olfuzzy:
So how did this utterly unspectacular creature, who previously worked as a bartender and a waitress in a taqueria, win a seat in Congress at the tender age of 28? A lot can be construed from census data on New York’s 14th congressional district, which she clutched away from a veteran Democratic congressman.

The facts:

Nearly half the people living in the district are Hispanic. The next nearest demographic is whites, who comprise 24% of the population.
Forty-seven percent of the residents are foreign-born, with 56% — including Ocasio-Cortez’s mother — having emigrated from Latin America.
Sixty-seven percent speak a language other than English at home with 46% speaking Spanish.
When it comes to education, 53% have either a high school diploma or no “degree” at all. Only 17% have a bachelor’s degree from college.
At $58,331, the median household income falls just shy of the median for the United States, which is $60,336.
Finally, according to Ballotpedia, the district leans heavily Democratic. In the 2016 election, 82.9% of voters voted for the Democratic incumbent, Joe Crowley, whereas 17.1% voted for his Republican challenger, Frank Spotorno.

What this all boils down to is a perfect storm of support for a young Democrat who identifies with the community ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and ideologically. It is almost surprising that Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Crowley with 57.5% of the vote to his 42.5% didn’t beat him by a wider margin.


https://libertyunyielding.com/...z-heres-your-answer/

Ah, you guys don't understand. Which is understandable, given that it doesn't make sense. But ever since O rocketed to the top of the Democratic pops, people like Cortez and Kamala Harris have just plain expected to get fast-tracked. Throw in the fact that white old birds like Pelosi and Schumer have been sucking wind for the past few years, and the sense of entitlement must be overwhelming.