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Ocasio-Cortez Is Borrowing from the Trump Playbook
Townhall.com ^ | December 7, 2018 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 12/07/2018 2:54:39 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/07/2018 2:54:39 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

You need gravitas to make the Trump playbook work. She’ll never have that.


2 posted on 12/07/2018 3:08:12 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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Except one ran a multi billion dollar business with thousands of employees and one was a part time bartender before taking office...


3 posted on 12/07/2018 3:09:12 PM PST by 2banana (Were you)
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To: Kaslin

She’s a literal Stalinist.

Trump is the peace and freedom President. She is the candidate of hatred, oppression and Gulags !


4 posted on 12/07/2018 3:14:06 PM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President)
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To: Kaslin
In other words, AOC is quite brilliantly playing a lot of people for suckers. She already has more Twitter followers than the other 60 incoming freshman Democrats combined.

Maybe. I have my doubts that she is that deliberate about what she is doing.

But the author is correct that this is a new model in politics.

I don't think it works for AOC all that well, because she is in a safe district.

I do not see her as a serious national candidate.. but Idiocracy was not supposed to be a documentary.

This level of twitter followers allows national figures to avoid being controlled by the Media.

And that is a good thing.

5 posted on 12/07/2018 3:16:30 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Kaslin

Her knickname: Missy Bigmouth...


6 posted on 12/07/2018 3:18:30 PM PST by W. (I'm tired of cleaning up after autokorrect. Wish it would die!)
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To: marktwain

Idiocracy came 500 years early.


7 posted on 12/07/2018 3:24:25 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Kaslin

The proper response to her isn’t to give her the satisfaction of angrily railing about her, the way victims of TDS do, but just to point out the hilarious ignorance of her statements and laugh.

Her entire story - boneheaded but attractive radical leftist coffee shop waitress accidentally gets elected to Congress though a fluke (responsible adults assumed the 10-term incumbent was a shoo-in and didn’t bother to vote in the primary) — isn’t an inspiring story of a new political dynasty, it’s a comedy movie premise someone would’ve pitched to a young Sandra Bullock.


8 posted on 12/07/2018 4:06:48 PM PST by HHFi
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To: Kaslin

An empty headed fake waitress who steals from the tip jar, a perfect move into politics


9 posted on 12/07/2018 4:26:38 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

she’s playing everyone. Was it yesterday that she walked out of the (House) new member orientation to hold her own little protest that labor unions wern ‘t involved in government?

Wait til they chain her to a phone and tell her to start dialing for dollars - those should be a pretty good tantrum to watch


10 posted on 12/07/2018 4:30:24 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Kaslin

It’s been observed that Occasional Cortex has the IQ of a salamander.


11 posted on 12/07/2018 4:46:42 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: HHFi
... it’s a comedy movie premise someone would’ve pitched to a young Sandra Bullock.

Ever see the Peter Sellers movie "Being There"?

12 posted on 12/07/2018 5:29:33 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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To: Kaslin

Dunno who I have a lower opinion of- “Sandy” Ocasio-Cortez or Jonah Goldberg.

Well probably Jonah.


13 posted on 12/07/2018 5:38:45 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: WashingtonFire

You’re giving her too much credit. She’s a clown who knows enough to play the race & gender cards that she learned at college.


14 posted on 12/07/2018 5:47:00 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Kaslin

As she would undoubtedly say, “Isn’t this taken out of Cortext?”


15 posted on 12/07/2018 5:50:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: marktwain

“She already has more Twitter followers than the other 60 incoming freshman Democrats combined.”

Only an ass like Jonah would think that twitter followers equals brilliance.

She’s way more fun to mock than every other freshman Democrat combined and I follow her in order to play that game.


16 posted on 12/07/2018 5:52:16 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Salamander

ping...


17 posted on 12/07/2018 5:53:03 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: DoughtyOne; Kaslin; Salamander

‘alexandria ocasio cortez’
anagrams to
‘Ciao! So crazed relaxation.’


18 posted on 12/07/2018 6:01:32 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Smile, if nothing else the comic relief will be amazing.


19 posted on 12/07/2018 6:03:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Old Yeller
You need gravitas to make the Trump playbook work. She’ll never have that.

Well, she has "grab-me-that" in her communist playbook. She may be stupid but she figures she and her followers can steal plenty from the rest of us. Unfortunately she is getting lots of stupid followers.

20 posted on 12/07/2018 7:18:16 PM PST by roadcat
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