[HotAir] Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars ‐ even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office.
She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.
In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals ‐ even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.
The campaign shelled out only $8,335.41 on 52 MetroCard transactions.
"Everyone ‐ top to bottom ‐ used the MetroCards," Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent told The Post. nomenklatura
"Pompous little twit. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the food into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass death."
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Addressing the nation, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned her fellow Americans that she has an extensive list of failed socialist policies she'll implement one at a time.
She waved the list around menacingly, frightening the nation in a video posted to her various social media accounts. The list reportedly contained hundreds of economic and social policies that would absolutely destroy the nation. From government takeovers of key industries to centralized planning of the economy, the list was absolutely packed with horrible ideas. Ocasio-Cortez warned the country that she would implement them if her demands are not met.
"I have here in my hand a list of 205 socioeconomic policies that failed every time they were implemented," she said threateningly, "and I swear to Karl, I will implement them if I have to."
"Listen, I already lost 25,000 jobs for my constituents---just imagine what I could do to the whole country," she concluded ominously.
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Hillary is fading away — all those health issues and a really strong need not to attract the attention of various authorities who mustn’t be disttracted from Orange Man Bad.
#6
Yes, the Cult of Personality is definitely a "there can be only one" proposition. I just don't think AOC can play the sort of hardball necessary to pull that off. Of course, Bernie, Spartacus, Kamela and the mid-America muzz sisters probably can't either.
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There's a active destruction of disagreement-space in the politics of narcissism aka marxism. In capitalism you can try your own thing and see if it works with your own money.
[Hot Air] If you’ve read the book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, you know that the whole narrative about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign to win the 2016 presidential election was cooked up by Team Hillary after her stunning defeat. Immediately after Hillary’s concession speech was delivered, her campaign staff set about concocting rumors to present to the media about Russian collusion being the reason for Trump’s unexpected victory. The point was to label Trump an illegitimate president. The Clinton campaign didn’t just pay for the phony Steele dossier, they built upon it and used Hillary’s base ‐ the media ‐ as their partners.
"Within 24 hours of her concession speech, [campaign chair John Podesta and manager Robby Mook] assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument."
The plan, according to the book, was to push journalists to cover how "Russian hacking was the major unreported story of the campaign," and it succeeded to a fare-thee-well. After the election, coverage of the Russian "collusion" story was relentless, and it helped pressure investigations and hearings on Capitol Hill and even the naming of a special counsel, which in turn has triggered virtually nonstop coverage.
Now that we are two years into the Mueller investigation, we know there most likely will be absolutely no collusion between Putin’s Russia and the Trump campaign to be reported. It’s true that some people within Trump’s universe have been indicted and found guilty of bad behavior and are now paying the price, President Trump himself has not been implicated in any wrongdoing. Mueller is going to be wrapping the investigation up soon and his report will probably be made public. Soon everyone will know more clearly what if anything, there is on Trump.
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Of course Hillary wants to keep the Mueller boondoggle going. It only benefits HRC and her minions.
From the gitgo, Strzok admitted "There's no there there" in an email to Page and yet a corrupted parrot media keeps the lie going day after day for two years.
[Breitbart] Over 100 Democrats introduced their “Medicare for All” proposal on Feb. 27.
But it won’t pass in the Senate, so they are just demonstrating their totalitarian impulses for the rubes.
The text of the bill has not yet been released — they learned from the disastrous Green New Deal launch — but a summary lists key provisions, such as:
1. It bans private health insurance, including employer-provided insurance plans. If you like your plan, you can’t keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can’t keep your doctor. (At least they’re honest about it this time.)
2. It will move everyone to Medicare within two years. Obamacare took over three years to launch. When it did, the website crashed. The government will move ten times as many people, in half the time, to Medicare. Somehow.
3. It’s “free”! No co-pays, no premiums, no deductibles. But the bill includes no price tag, or any plan to come up with the money. One estimate of a similar proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was $32 trillion over ten years.
4. It guarantees long-term care — without a plan to pay for it (or anything else). Long-term care includes costly services over years, even decades. Not even Bernie Sanders went that far in his own “Medicare for All” plan.
5. It eliminates the existing state and federal Obamacare exchanges. On the negative side, this means people will lose the insurance they currently have. On the positive side, they’ll finally repeal and replace Obamacare!
6. It will probably cover illegal aliens. It applies to all “residents” of the U.S., and the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide who qualifies as a “resident.” (The people who want this bill also want open borders.)
7. It covers abortion. The bill will change federal law that currently bans direct funding for abortion (which, to Democrats, includes during birth and possibly after). The bill also bars states from excluding abortion coverage.
8. It bans “experimental” drugs/treatments without special permission from the HHS Secretary. This rule, to keep costs down, could mean an end to the “Right to Try,” which President Donald Trump signed into law last year.
9. It eliminates for-profit medicine. Period. The authors of “Medicare for All” believe that profit is evil, though the prospect of profit is what motivates innovation, investment, and progress in medicine, as in every other field.
10. It bans hospitals and doctors from trying to increase revenue. (Not just profit.) Medicare payments cannot be used for the basic business of running a hospital, including marketing and “incentive payments or bonuses.”
11. It sets national fees — regardless of local factors like the availability of doctors. That is only one aspect of the program that is subject to central planning. Even building or renovating hospitals must be centrally approved.
12. It prohibits bonuses for the best doctors. The bill “prohibits bonuses, incentive payments, or compensation based on utilization of services or the financial results of any health care provider.” Success, like profit, is bad.
13. It punishes doctors for giving special help to individual patients. Doctors will be banned from the system for a year if they make “a private contract with an eligible individual” for services covered by “Medicare for All.”
The authors of the plan seem to have learned nothing from the failure of Obamacare. Rather than finding a way to provide for the small minority who still need health insurance, they want to overhaul the whole health system for everyone. They have not yet learned that people do not like their insurance taken away.
As for those over 65 who already depend on Medicare, they will have hope the system still works when they have to share it with everyone.
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Every member of Congress who votes for it should get mandatory VA medical coverage for themselves and their families. Consider it a step for equality and quality assurance.
*Snort* "1/1024th honest"
[Free Beacon] Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said she "can't go back"in an interview airing Saturday when asked if she made a mistake releasing a DNA test purporting to prove her longtime claims of Native American ancestry.
Warren sat down for an interview on CNN's "The Axe Files" with David Axelrod, a CNN analyst and former Obama White House adviser. During the interview, she was asked about the controversy that has plagued her political career since 2012.
"The question I have never understood is why. Why did you in 1986 fill out on your law license or something? Why did you check those boxes, because obviously that's a very small part of your lineage? 1/32nd or something, so why did you do it?" Axelrod asked.
Warren began by talking about her parents and how she learned about her family's history as a child along with her older siblings. She then said that since she loved her family, she "sometimes identified as Native American," adding that it had nothing to do with any of her jobs that she never got. No, it was about using unearned affirmative action to take a position from a real American Indian
"Even so, I shouldn't have done it. I'm not a person of color. I am not a citizen of a tribe, but what I try to do is to be a good friend to Native Americans and that's why for example, I have a housing bill that fully funds housing on tribal reservations," Warren said.
Asked if releasing a DNA test and slickly produced video last year to blunt President Donald Trump's "Pocahontas" attacks was a "mistake," Warren didn't directly answer.
"I can't go back," she said. "All I can do is look forward."
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her polling in adjacent New Hampshire sez: "Shut the hell up and go away"
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In a just world, the degrees and the income acquired after telling the lie would all be clawed back and she could get a job delivering mail on the rez...
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Only a psychopath would devise such a scheme where you are rewarded for lying about who you are.
And she's only the most high profile example, except for Rachel Dolezal and Talcum X. Oh and Ward Churchill if you want to go down memory lane. Academe and corporate space are full of 'em...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Hot Air] If you’ve read the book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, you know that the whole narrative about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign to win the 2016 presidential election was cooked up by Team Hillary after her stunning defeat. Immediately after Hillary’s concession speech was delivered, her campaign staff set about concocting rumors to present to the media about Russian collusion being the reason for Trump’s unexpected victory. The point was to label Trump an illegitimate president. The Clinton campaign didn’t just pay for the phony Steele dossier, they built upon it and used Hillary’s base ‐ the media ‐ as their partners.
[Breitbart] Over 100 Democrats introduced their “Medicare for All” proposal on Feb. 27.
