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Ocasio-Cortez adviser says Sunrise confrontation with 'old-timer' Feinstein 'sad'
The Hill ^ | February 25, 2019 | Julia Manchester

Posted on 02/25/2019 9:52:43 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Robert Hockett, who worked as an outside adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on the green new deal, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) viral exchange with young activists over the proposal was "unsurprising" and "sad."

Hockett described the 85-year-old Feinstein as "elderly" and an "old timer" in his comments to Hill.TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on "Rising," saying the young people who confronted the senator have much at stake in the battle over climate change.

"When we're younger we tend to have much bigger ideas as to what's possible. We're more energetic, we're less tired when we're younger, and that means we tend to view many more things as feasible than elderly folks do," said Hockett, a professor at Cornell University.

"When an old timer in the Congress sort of poo-poos them or dismisses them, and even is so cynical as to say well you can't vote for me anyway, so I don't care, it's in a certain sense unsurprising, and yet in another sense, very, very sad," he said.

Feinstein's encounter with children, teenagers and adults working with the Sunrise Movement went viral after clips appeared showing her appearing to dismiss the group. Feinstein said at various points of the discussion that she had worked hard on climate change in the past and had just won her election. She also said that the green new deal could not realistically pass Congress, a point that at least some other Democratic lawmakers also appear to share.

Hockett said the young people who had met with Feinstein have got "many more years ahead of them than do some of old-timers, especially like Senator Feinstein."

"I think for that very reason, they have a much greater sense of urgency on the one hand because they're going to have to live with the most profound effects of climate change in a way that old-timers in the Congress are not going to have to."


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1 posted on 02/25/2019 9:52:43 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Kill the unborn, kill the elderly. It’s the Democratic Party way.


2 posted on 02/25/2019 9:55:11 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: yesthatjallen

Occasional Cortex is going to find out how ruthless those old lefties can be.

I wouldn’t be surprised if right now there are RINO and dem senators and house members planning her political demise.

I PRAY for this green deal to be on the dem’s agenda in 2020.


3 posted on 02/25/2019 9:56:44 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: ETL

Ping.


4 posted on 02/25/2019 9:56:48 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: yesthatjallen

Wow... I am no fan of Feinswine, but Occassionally-Coherent is kicking a big hornet’s nest....


5 posted on 02/25/2019 9:58:18 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: yesthatjallen
AOC = the gift that keeps on giving.

That said, I predict it will be only a couple more weeks before she finds one of her pets dead with a DNC fundraising envelope jammed in its mouth.
6 posted on 02/25/2019 9:59:24 AM PST by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: yesthatjallen

What goes around comes around.


7 posted on 02/25/2019 10:00:07 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: yesthatjallen

Bigoted “progressive” Par for the course.


8 posted on 02/25/2019 10:00:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

AOC provides comic relief every week.


9 posted on 02/25/2019 10:00:18 AM PST by BipolarBob (GOVERNMENT: If you think the problems we create are bad, wait until you see our solutions.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Green New Deal?

For the 85 year old Feinstein it is the SOYLENT Green New Deal.

Cue the nature scene and music.


10 posted on 02/25/2019 10:00:25 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: yesthatjallen

Nancy will frag AOC, not for DiFi, but DiFi will still how Nan a solid.


11 posted on 02/25/2019 10:00:47 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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The 'Sunrise Movement' is closely allied with Ocasio-Cortez and the Justice Democrats....It was founded and run to recruit 'children' to carry their political message on climate change.. propped up by 'the Sierra Club'..Brainwashing children to advance a political agenda like how Hitler used children in the Nazi party or Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

They're using children as shields against any sort of criticism of the socialist sunrise movement.....these indoctrinated kids came in with words that someone else filled their young impressionable heads with. They came to harass.


12 posted on 02/25/2019 10:02:55 AM PST by caww
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Kill the unborn, kill the elderly. It’s the Democratic Party way

The Left is so full of hatred, it's what they do.

13 posted on 02/25/2019 10:03:04 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Antoninus
That said, I predict it will be only a couple more weeks before she finds one of her pets dead with a DNC fundraising envelope jammed in its mouth.

Yikes! What a way for her boyfriend to go!

14 posted on 02/25/2019 10:03:09 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh, please, more of this.

I had a feeling that 2020 is going to make 1968 look like a cakewalk.


15 posted on 02/25/2019 10:06:08 AM PST by struggle
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To: dp0622

I predict that “bug-eyed bitch,” as Roseanne called her, will have a RAT primary challenge in 2020.

Obnoxious Kotex has ruffled too many RAT feathers already.


16 posted on 02/25/2019 10:06:21 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump is right! The media IS the enemy of the people!)
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To: caww
Same group that pulled this stunt with Cortez


17 posted on 02/25/2019 10:06:24 AM PST by caww
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To: yesthatjallen

In two years AOC won’t be able to find employment as a dishwasher. She’s toast.


18 posted on 02/25/2019 10:06:31 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t take that kind of guff, Dianne!

Get out there and kick her scrawny ass!


19 posted on 02/25/2019 10:07:10 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: yesthatjallen

Feinstein is being Trotskied.


20 posted on 02/25/2019 10:07:21 AM PST by jimmygrace
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