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Ocasio-Cortez blows roof off building with EPIC speech (Original Post) Quixote1818 May 2019 OP
Here is something I notice with her. Friends on Facebook who were never political before Quixote1818 May 2019 #1
That's good to hear. We need new blood MaryMagdaline May 2019 #2
YUP Skittles May 2019 #5
Exactly!! Bernie has the same effect in terms of bringin in new voters...why the divisive attacks InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #3
Agree. nt Quixote1818 May 2019 #4
Big Money doesn't want Bernie-that's the rub. jalan48 May 2019 #13
Yup, it's pretty obvious big money doesn't want Bernie, for reasons too many to count... InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #15
She points the out the big one in her speech: government handouts to them. JudyM May 2019 #22
AOC! rampartc May 2019 #6
Right! JudyM May 2019 #21
Democrats must be the barbarian hoard. Magoo48 May 2019 #30
I LOVE this woman Ruby the Liberal May 2019 #7
AOC freakin' ROCKS!! She IS awesone!! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #16
Truth to power! Duppers May 2019 #8
Exactly right!! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #20
The Democratic Party needs a whole bunch of AOCs. jalan48 May 2019 #9
Think of the progress we could make then!! No more incremental baby steps... InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #18
She's not corpo friendly enough for some. jalan48 May 2019 #23
MORE reason to love AOC!! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #24
Yep! jalan48 May 2019 #25
Her thirty-fifth birthday can not come soon enough for me. mahannah May 2019 #10
Yep. NT. warmfeet May 2019 #11
I agree. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #12
+35!! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #19
AOC is not only smarter than, and braver than 99% of the men and 100% of the GOP in... JoeOtterbein May 2019 #14
But then she goes on the Skullduggery podcast RandySF May 2019 #17
From the Youtube channel of a true renaissance man... lapucelle May 2019 #27
She is freaking awesome n/t lordsummerisle May 2019 #26
I hope I am alive when she is elected President. 3Hotdogs May 2019 #28
I hope I'm able to volunteer for her campaign! Blue_playwright May 2019 #29
Me too. zentrum May 2019 #33
She commands the language, and she knows the house is on fire. Magoo48 May 2019 #31
Love love love zentrum May 2019 #32

Quixote1818

(28,926 posts)
1. Here is something I notice with her. Friends on Facebook who were never political before
Sun May 19, 2019, 05:39 PM
May 2019

are posting her stuff. This is the stuff that brings new voters out.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
3. Exactly!! Bernie has the same effect in terms of bringin in new voters...why the divisive attacks
Sun May 19, 2019, 05:57 PM
May 2019

on Bernie serve to only help tRumpty Dumbty. Bout time we got wise to this!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
15. Yup, it's pretty obvious big money doesn't want Bernie, for reasons too many to count...
Sun May 19, 2019, 08:31 PM
May 2019

but, We The People's money sure do!! That should tell you something!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!

Magoo48

(4,701 posts)
30. Democrats must be the barbarian hoard.
Mon May 20, 2019, 09:09 AM
May 2019

We’re not lookin’ barbaric quite yet. 🤷🏼‍♂️

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
16. AOC freakin' ROCKS!! She IS awesone!!
Sun May 19, 2019, 08:34 PM
May 2019

You're lookin at a future Speaker of the House... that is, if she doesn't get elected President first!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
8. Truth to power!
Sun May 19, 2019, 07:54 PM
May 2019

They hate her because she's young, because she's a woman, because she "doesn't know her place."

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
18. Think of the progress we could make then!! No more incremental baby steps...
Sun May 19, 2019, 08:36 PM
May 2019

Now THERE'S a concept!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!

RandySF

(58,694 posts)
17. But then she goes on the Skullduggery podcast
Sun May 19, 2019, 08:35 PM
May 2019

and says that she'd be happy to fall short of the GNS and get clean water legislation.

lapucelle

(18,231 posts)
27. From the Youtube channel of a true renaissance man...
Sun May 19, 2019, 10:49 PM
May 2019

Brian Tyler Cohen, political writer, actor, and comedy sketch director.

And he double majored!

https://washingtonpress.com/author/bricohen12/

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