Posted on 02/16/2019 4:47:38 PM PST by upchuck
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the soul of the Democrat Party. By definition, she is crazy. Take her very seriously.
Jeff Bezos did not. He had, after all, bought off the equally crazy mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, to get the city to pay for a second Amazon "headquarters" there.
Now the deal has fallen through.
Fingers are pointed by the political and media class, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is spiking the ball.
She should.
She killed it.
New York City is a socialist mess with an underbrush of rules and taxes so thick that no one can navigate it without greasing palms.
Voila! That is why they have all those rules and taxes. Think of politician as trolls, and it all becomes clear.
But to sell all those rules and taxes on the people, politicians had to convince people that corporations are evil and the cause of all of New York City's problems.
And guess what? People believe what the trolls in politics said. Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a true believer.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos wanted to expand his political influence. He won Washington over by buying the local newspaper. As the New York Times already has a billionaire sugar daddy, Bezos went to Plan B. Hence, the Amazon second headquarters.
As he buys grease by the barrel, he had no problem getting his way. He cut a deal but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ruined it.
Holman W. Jenkins Jr., an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, applied reason to the situation. He sees the situation as splitting Democrats against one another.
"If there’s a downturn between now and 2020, who knows: The U.S. Congress might even have to do without Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now bragging about her success in killing Amazon jobs. How she became the representative of a community that needs opportunity and economic development more than it needs campus lefty attitudinizing was always a bit of a mystery. Except for her ethnic background, she doesn’t fit the district that propelled her to overnight stardom. I bet many of the district’s residents, as they assess what her latest coup has cost them, are starting to feel the same way," Jenkins wrote.
He is projecting his middle class values on Democrat voters.
They do not want jobs. They do not want to work. They want Amazon to suffer.
The welfare state did not go away. Instead, it continues to grow generation after generation. Far from being an outsider, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in tune with her constituency. Her Green New Deal promised "economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work."
Of course, we already have that thanks to the original New Deal. Under Obama, Social Security disability claims skyrocketed as young people opted out of working.
There is no split among Democrats. There are just a few old tired party hacks who do not realize their anti-capitalist rhetoric has indoctrinated the rank-and-file to accept communism.
The death of Amazon 2 in New York City can mean the end of political trolling because no matter how many unemployable nephews of politicians Jeff Bezos puts on his payroll, the politicians still cannot deliver.
The party does not want America to be great again. The party wants financial ruin and economic collapse because the party did so well during the Great Depression.
Bezos has not thought his liberalism through. He is courting people who hate him and want him to die a pauper. This is not a political difference of opinion. This is their core belief. Capitalism is evil. It must die.
Crazy. Be very careful when dealing with crazy.
I wonder whether the mafia in NYC will make a deal with her or go soprano on her?
No, it wasn’t insane Sandy, it was Prince Andrew and Czar Whilhem thuggiing Union Workers. Sandy had NO influence despite her wet dreams.
Guido.... please address the problem.
This meteoric rise by this simpleton is truly a black swan event, by my reckoning anyway. She literally came out from nowhere.
Still, my money is on Hillary. There is simply no way she is going to let this whipper-snapper steal her thunder this time around.
I’m sure the boys in Little Rock have been summoned already.
“He has to pay off both the Red Mayor andDislexandra Occasional Cortex. “
AOC is the useful idiot. She has no power if not for her backers.
Rethinking it a bit, the mafia was good with the deblowsio deal as the construction contract should have been pretty good for them. I think they would have cooled out the unions for now and agitated after the building and jobs were in place.
Under Obama, Social Security disability claims skyrocketed as young people opted out of working. There is no split among Democrats. There are just a few old tired party hacks who do not realize their anti-capitalist rhetoric has indoctrinated the rank-and-file to accept communism. The death of Amazon 2 in New York City can mean the end of political trolling because no matter how many unemployable nephews of politicians Jeff Bezos puts on his payroll, the politicians still cannot deliver. The party does not want America to be great again. The party wants financial ruin and economic collapse because the party did so well during the Great Depression.
Thanks upchuck.
Like Trump, who used Michael Cohen for some of that.
Oh, there is a split. Many Dems who have been doing the party dirty work and waiting in line are pissed.
But Bezos a Democrat. The CAN’T hate him can they?
Didn’t Bezos come from NY?
IMHO the Clinton’s are finished. They are old pols you pay homage to at convention time. Then do what you want.
The Democrat position would be something like: Who needs these jobs since we now have a $15 minimum wage.
Bezos isn’t losing any sleep. The Dems just handed him the potential for millions and millions. Border Technology. They begged for it.
http://fortune.com/2015/03/17/google-facenet-artificial-intelligence/
Jealousy
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