I'll just take this as a good omen for our future ...

[marble falls]

[Laffy Kat]

1. Well done. nt

[gristy]

2. wow

yes

[pazzyanne]

12. Absolutely wow! nt

[Budi]

3. Cripe. That's a good omen?

I fail to see anything positive or ominous.
What's the connection?

I'd hope our SC judges come with a law degree, preferably in Constitutional law.


Here's one that comes with years of relatable & credible skillset, one being discused that has a Harvard Law Degree...etc

To honor Justice Ginsburg's legacy, Biden should consider Michelle Obama
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/517211-to-honor-justice-ginsburgs-legacy-biden-should-consider-michelle-obama%3Famp

SNIP
She graduated from public schools and studied sociology and African American studies at Princeton University.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1988, she joined the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin, where she later met Barack Obama.
She went on to work as assistant commissioner of planning and development in City Hall and as executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program that prepares youth for public service.

In 1996, she joined the University of Chicago as associate dean of student services, and then as the vice president of community and external affairs for the UC Medical Center, all while balancing the demands of work and motherhood. In short, she is the real deal.

-------------

This is the base requirement for the work of a SC judge.

AOC isn't in the same league as an SC Judge.
Michele Obama's daughters are more qualified in law than AOC.

Sorry but that is just a fact.

[Thekaspervote]

5. I don't think the OP was saying AOC should become a SCJ

More that tough strong women are what’s needed for our time..and that is correct

[Budi]

15. God that pic is disgraceful to RBG.

I can name about 6 dozen women who stand far far ahead of AOC on respecting women & the fight for the ERA.

She has a long long way to go to be ever in that category of women of influence in the fight for women's rights.

Skin care videos on social media don't fit that role of the women who actually gave AOC the right to do so.

She needs to study & respect those who've gone before her.
I don't think she gets it.

Wow is right.

Trashing this thread ..

[Illumination]

29. Sorry you don't like AOC. Many people love her. She's a great communicator & for a newbie,

AOC is going a GREAT JOB!...

[Lonestarblue]

39. Agree. AOC is smart and motivational to young people.

Like RBG, she is not afraid to speak her mind. She is still learning the nuances of governing, but, again like RBG, she will be a force to reckon with in the future. That does not denigrate RBG. It honors her as a role model for the strong women, and men, we need to carry this nation forward.

[Illumination]

58. Thank you for also defending AOC! Actually SHE ROCKS!...

[forgotmylogin]

64. I don't think AOC as a political force would exist without the advances of RBG! n/t

[rateyes]

9. I think the OP is commenting on how much alike

the two look and think.

[flamin lib]

13. And their strength! nt

[Budi]

14. AOC is nothing like RBG. No one nears her status as a professional nor her life's work

Please...🙄

[flamin lib]

18. AOC is just beginning, give her time to grow.

She is also taking no crap from the powers that be, much like RBG did all her life. You can't demand the same from a 15 year old single malt scotch and a green bourbon . . .

So I beg to differ.

[malaise]

25. Ditto

Thank you

[Alpeduez21]

26. We get it you're a moderate and hate progressives

message received and understood.

However, RBG was a rebel and progressive before her icon status became entrenched. AOC could become an icon, if biases against her because she's not RBG could be overcome.

Well-behaved women rarely make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

[CaptYossarian]

33. You just said what I was thinking.

But were more polite about it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. Well said.

[Gothmog]

57. I am confused also

I do not see any basis for this comparison

[PatSeg]

61. I agree

They are very different women in very different worlds. Ruth Bader Ginsburg really was not very political. She was devoted to the law and actually was considered rather conservative when she was nominated. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a dynamic progressive politician, who probably has a promising future ahead of her, but they are not in the same league. I don't see any similarities at all, other than they are successful women.

[Thekaspervote]

4. In the past I have NOT been an AOC fan, but since the death of RBG she has shown her spine

Her caring, devotion to democracy and willingness to back Joe Biden

Thank you AOC!!

[Mr.Bill]

11. I think she's growing into her job in Congress very nicely.

Like any politician, I don't agree with 100% of what she says and does, but I think she has a bright future ahead of her in politics.

[George II]

6. I don't think so. But perhaps Jahana Hayes?

[sheshe2]

43. Did you see the news.

Jahana just tested positive for COVID.

[George II]

45. Yes. This is the second time for her, and now she's in quarantine again. But she's a trouper...

....and other than not being able to meet with people in person this hasn't slowed her down one bit. A low key, but very effective Congresswoman.

I wish I could move a few miles west of here, she'd be my Congresswoman. But Larson isn't chopped liver, either!

[sheshe2]

48. I did not know this was her second time.

Kudos to her.

Makes you wonder about the tests, I am talking about the swabs here, not the WH 'insta-tests'...a positive can be negative and a negative can be positive. Scary times.

[George II]

52. Thankfully a positive test doesn't necessarily mean a person has the debilitating disease....

Here's today's CNN article:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/20/politics/jahana-hayes-coronavirus/index.html

[sheshe2]

54. I have to add a but here...

We still know very little about the disease. The long tern effects are only now being noted.

CDC is actively working to learn more about the whole range of short- and long-term health effects associated with COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolds, we are learning that many organs besides the lungs are affected by COVID-19 and there are many ways the infection can affect someone’s health.

One of the health effects that CDC is closely watching and working to understand relates to COVID-19 and the heart. Heart conditions associated with COVID-19 include inflammation and damage to the heart muscle itself, known as myocarditis, or inflammation of the covering of the heart, known as pericarditis. These conditions can occur by themselves or in combination. Heart damage may be an important part of severe disease and death from COVID-19, especially in older people with underlying illness. Heart damage like this might also explain some frequently reported long-term symptoms like shortness of breath, chest pain, and heart palpitations.

The risk of heart damage may not be limited to older and middle-aged adults. For example, young adults with COVID-19, including athletes, can also suffer from myocarditis. Severe heart damage has occurred in young, healthy people, but is rare. There may be more cases of mild effects of COVID-19 on the heart that can be diagnosed with special imaging tests, including in younger people with mild or minimal symptoms; however, the long-term significance of these mild effects on the heart are unknown. CDC will continue to assess and provide updates as new data emerge.

The best strategies for preventing COVID-19 infection in youth and adults are to wear a mask in public places, stay at least 6 feet away from other people, frequently wash your hands, and avoid crowds and confined or poorly ventilated spaces.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects.html

[iluvtennis]

7. Wow. Nice! nt

[sandensea]

8. Just the kind of women Repugs hate

Resolute.

[sheshe2]

46. "Not WASPy"

I suggest you edit your post. I am a WASP, white, Protestant and have some Anglo Saxon ancestry, minus the money. A mutt actually.

If a woman's ethnic in any way, she'd better be weak - or act like it - as far as they're concerned

That term is offensive. Your whole post is offensive

Please delete.

[sandensea]

47. Done

[sheshe2]

49. I thank you, sandensea.

I do.

[sandensea]

50. You're very welcome

I meant to underscore the way Republicans typically feel about women, and what they believe is acceptable in a woman or not.

That's precisely one of the things that I dislike the most about them.

[sheshe2]

53. I here ya.

[murielm99]

10. I see little comparison between a rookie Congress person

and an established, iconic legal scholar and judge.

RBG broke important ground. AOC should be thankful for RBG's pioneering life. I doubt she would have her position without RBG and a few other women like her.

AOC has no law degree. She has a lot to prove before she deserves anything approaching the respect RBG earned at the same age.

It is premature and it dishonors RBG's memory to make any comparisons.

[sheshe2]

16. Thank you.

[NurseJackie]

17. This. Thank you.

[marble falls]

19. Nobody is comparing anybody to anybody. What I was comenting on is a continuation ...

of strength, determination, intelligence, integrity from two women who work/worked for us.

I found their similarity striking and a source of calm facing into what we have to do and what we have to prevent during this next four months. I don't expect any quarter from the RW and I just hope I have temperament, and strength of conviction both Justice Ginsberg or Rep AOC are both noted for.

[marble falls]

22. How do you know AOC's mind so specifically? I don't beleve your claim for a moment. Her voters ...

like her well enough. She's doing just fine in Congress.

[Gothmog]

59. I do not see any basis for such of a comparison in the real world

By the time, RBG was AOC's current age she has a ton of accomplishments in the real world. I personally find this comparison to be wrong

[marble falls]

60. They aren't on a balance Goth, they're on a continum. I think the attempts to bicker this ...

or cut AOC not something Justice Ginsburg would do and doesn't do a thing to honor her.

[Gothmog]

62. I simply disagree strongly

At the same age, RBG was a law professor and has already argued some significant cases. I simply do not see the comparison

[marble falls]

63. This is no comparison past detemined, qualified, good hearted, smart, honest, public spirited ...

young women at the start of their careers in public service. I offered a snap shot of the two of women at their beginnings.

Making anything more of it is an attempt at ginning up a controversy that just is not there.

AOC isn't another Ginsburg, she is an all origional AOC. But they both came out of the same place: working honestly for us.

[Cha]

34. Exactly. Thank you!

[George II]

42. I just look at what each did with their lives after earning their Bachelor's Degrees.

[Gothmog]

56. As a member of the bar I agree

I do not see the comparison

[PatrickforO]

20. AOC is growing into her position. I like this post. I do not feel it disgraces RBG.

I think our party needs EVEN MORE strong women like AOC, Katie Porter, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar. It does.

I'm glad Biden picked Harris, and I'm happy for what Stacey Abrams is doing down in GA. These are good things.

[Upthevibe]

23. marble falls.....

Excellent post. Thank you....

[marble falls]

28. Thank you. I thought very highly of Justice Ginsburg, I love what I see as her grit ...

reflected in AOC's face. AOC may or may not be on a level of the Justice someday, but she shows the determination to do the people's work - the same way Justice Ginsburg did so well. I've been through two major cancer surgeries in the last three years. And five minor cancer surgeries in the since 2008. I have a pretty good idea the grit she had to do stay on the courts and do her work for us as well as she did is something that 20 years younger I know I couldn't do it. Plus my cancers do not respond to radiation or chemo so add the burden to her challenge.

I don't think AOC will be another Ginsburg, but I do believe she's got long career working for us and she'll an AOC to respect and remember.

[rateyes]

38. Thank you for this post. AOC isn't the next Ginsburg.

She’s the first AOC, and for my thinking, that’s damned good enough!!

[Butterflylady]

24. That's amazing.!!!!!

Well, they say, we all have a twin.

[Alpeduez21]

27. YESSS!!

Thank you for this.

[BainsBane]

30. They both have their hair pulled back

so there's that. They don't look alike at all.

[cwydro]

36. Thank you.

Not a bit.

[sheshe2]

51. ;)

[appalachiablue]

31. Similarities in strength, intelligence and

the photo portraits show similarities in age, coloring and the powerful expression of the eyes.




Look at those peeps, one happy, bright- eyed child.

https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-died-2019-8

[onecent]

69. What a gorgeous women.....I wish she could have stayed alive

before the voting.......

RIP!!!

[mountain grammy]

32. Yes, a good omen.

I like that. Comforting thought.

Thank you. Life goes on and AOC is our future. More like her, please.

[Sloumeau]

35. One of our soldiers has fallen.

She was one of our best soldiers. She fought so hard, and she fought for so long. And now, we are so sad.
So we will pause here and rest a while, and we will remember all that she was. We will tell stories of all that she did.
Then, when we have rested a bit, when we have recovered some of our strength, when we are ready, we shall press on.

Because the fight still goes on, and there are many battles to be won, and she would not have wanted us to stop for too long.
So we fight on. We fight on for the soldier that we just lost, and we fight on for all of the others that we lost.
We also fight for all of the soldiers that still live and need to be protected, as well as for their children.
We fight for all that is good and right and beautiful and glorious.
We will remember all that she was, and we will fight on.

[earth2jim]

40. They both deserve our profound and humble respect

For their dedication to us all. We don't need to attempt to honor one by belittling another. Neither would approve and thank you for the great pictures.

[warmfeet]

41. Nice to see the way forward.

Thank you Ruth, Thank you Alexandria. I will vote accordingly.

Just a subtle hint,

AOC should be POTUS

[Lucinda]

44. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Blue Owl]

55. K&R

[MyMission]

65. Both are NYC tough, stalwart, strong women

Comparing apples and oranges= They're both fruit, and grow on trees, and are sweet, and full of good nutrients. That's a lot in common.

Comparing RBG and AOC = One's a lawyer, one's a politician; both are champions of human rights, women's rights. One's Jewish, one's Hispanic, both understand prejudice, and the need for equality and equity. That's a lot in common.

Those who are upset by these comparisons, get over it!

We need more like both if them in our government.

[dsharp88]

66. They are both smart, fiercely determined, and known by three initials.

Obviously, AOC has a long way to go to become an American legend like RGB.

First, John Lewis, and now RGB. 2020 sucks.

[Layzeebeaver]

67. Excellent!

Perhaps the photo of AOC should also be B&W?

[burrowowl]

68. Both strong women!

[NurseJackie]

70. It's an odd comparison. I think RBG's CV and educational achievements are FAR more impressive....

It's an odd comparison. I think RBG's CV and educational achievements are FAR more impressive... Cornell, Harvard, Columbia... even when RBG was the same age, she had done much more. At age 30, she was a law professor at Rutgers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg#Early_career

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez#Early_career

So... I think it's fair to say that based on my observations... other than their hairstyle, dark eyes, arched eyebrows and oval face, I'm not seeing any substantive similarities between the two.

[marble falls]

71. Not comparing them. I don't know of very many who compare to Justice Ginsburg.

[George II]

72. And RBG did all that in her 20s after becoming a mother at 22.