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Ocasio-Cortez: I give 'zero' f---s about pushback from other Democrats
The Hill ^ | 01/22/2019 | Aris Folley

Posted on 01/22/2019 8:12:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) in an interview late Monday said she gives "zero" f---s about criticism she’s received from members of her own party.

“Now, congresswoman, for you and other freshmen members of Congress, you're getting a fair amount of pushback from even members of your own party saying ‘wait your turn, go slow, don't ask for so much so fast right now, you're new, wait your turn for everything and don't make waves,'" late-night host Stephen Colbert said to the rising progressive star on CBS's "The Late Show."

“I want to ask this question in a respectful manner, knowing also that you're from Queens, so you will understand this question,” he continued.

“And the BX,” Ocasio-Cortez, who is also from the Bronx, laughingly injected.

“On a scale from zero to some, how many f---s do you give?”

After taking a moment to deliberate, Ocasio-Cortez reached into her side and pulled out her hand to make a circle, saying: “I think it’s zero.”

“That’s my thought!” Colbert exclaimed.

When pressed further about her response to lawmakers who say her actions show a “divided front” for the Democratic Party, Ocasio-Cortez responded: “It’s how we choose to interpret items and how we choose to interpret events and things like activism and advocacy.”

“If you think activism is inherently divisive — I mean, today is Martin Luther King Day,” she continued. “People called Martin Luther King divisive in his time. We forget he was wildly unpopular when advocating for the Civil Rights Act. I think that what we really need to realize is that social movements are the moral compass and should be the moral compass for our politics.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; democrats; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; mediawingofthednc; newyork; ocasiocortez; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; stephencolbert; vermont
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To: unixfox
Such language from this holier than thou.


Colbert?  You should have seen him on
Strangers With Candy.



61 posted on 01/22/2019 8:56:07 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Red Badger

Sutton’s Law will apply to the wealthy sooner or later.


62 posted on 01/22/2019 8:58:00 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“..Ah well, like all good leftists, she couldn’t exist, couldn’t prop up her belief system without rampant double-standards and hypocrisy. ....”

Like all leftists, she couldn’t exist without a Capitalist society providing opportunities for her to BE as stupid as she is and still succeed...


63 posted on 01/22/2019 8:58:01 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SeekAndFind
So literate.
64 posted on 01/22/2019 8:58:19 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: SeekAndFind

I like her! She should run for VP on a ticket with Pelosi! How long before the MSM realizes that keeping her in the national spotlight is a boon for Trump supporters?


65 posted on 01/22/2019 8:59:37 AM PST by Spok
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To: Red Badger

Sad but true prediction, AOC will a uniparty presidential nominee once/if she meets the age requirement.


66 posted on 01/22/2019 8:59:43 AM PST by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems to be the case all right. And not one single female in the spotlight considers it filth..shows you what kind of people they are. Not that we needed any reminders. I’ve lived to make it to my ‘80’s and never before have I seen it this bad and before now, it was always confined to “males” usually with the caveat, “Well, it comes from being in the military.”

My husband and I went to see “American Sniper” some years back and coming out of the theater, I said I had never seen a script so full of obscenities and profanities as uttered by the female lead in that movie. My husband (former military) said he had to agree. I have had many disagreements with others over that movie but I won’t change my mind about it. Some say, “What about GI Jane?” So I ask if that was a true story?

Others said, “well, his wife really didn’t talk that way. Hollywood just had license to cast her character that way.” Sure - and she had nothing to say about how she was portrayed? If I recall, it began in the first 5 minutes of the movie. When it comes on TV and my husband turns it on, I leave the room.

Think about it and also read “The Paradigm” - making everything that used to be “moral” - “immoral”...all part of the plan to destroy our society.


67 posted on 01/22/2019 8:59:52 AM PST by Thank You Rush ("")
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To: SeekAndFind

She is as eloquent as joe pesci.


68 posted on 01/22/2019 8:59:57 AM PST by pfflier
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To: sparklite2

Yes, it was him who cursed. And now that he has, it’ll be easier the next time and then the next, and it will be as natural as “How ya doin’?” And so for his viewers. Sad.


69 posted on 01/22/2019 9:00:46 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: SeekAndFind

She is so full of herself it can’t be much longer until she bursts.


70 posted on 01/22/2019 9:02:38 AM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: gloryblaze

First time I ever heard the word on network TV was during a singing performance by Gilda Radner on SNL in the early seventies. Never heard such after that.

Culturally, something happened to the US in the seventies. I immigrated to Canada at a time when men just did not curse around women. When coming back to the States eight years later, I was shocked to hear young women cursing in public without a hint of self-consciousness. Maybe it was the gas shortages...


71 posted on 01/22/2019 9:07:37 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It appears the ‘RATS at the DNC now have their own Fidel Castro on their hands. Well, Nasty Nan said those “sparkling” Hispanic faces were the future of the party. LOL. Have fun ‘RATS! I see a Jeff Flake elevator moment with some weird Mexican ladies in Pelosi’s future.


72 posted on 01/22/2019 9:08:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Spok

Plus, she is media-starving young Democrats who want enough recognition to be presidential material, or even just to get on the empty bench. She is nothing but good for us.


73 posted on 01/22/2019 9:09:42 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I give her 6 months before she has a ‘Fort Macy Park’ incident.....


74 posted on 01/22/2019 9:14:09 AM PST by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Kalamata

Exactly. They love this stuff, more of their idea of “speaking truth to power”, because they, like her, wouldn’t know a cogent or profound thought if it bit them in the azz. We live in soundbite, slogan world now, and no wit required-she fits the bill, being loud, obnoxious, and witless.


75 posted on 01/22/2019 9:14:56 AM PST by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If God gave Trump a vision, the devil gave Ocasio-Cortez a vision. The Dem party will grumble and fumble but it will go along because it has no rival power.

The spiritual nature of what’s going on in modern America is going to become very, very plain.


76 posted on 01/22/2019 9:15:08 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Democrats hate too much

She is definitely in the danger zone.

77 posted on 01/22/2019 9:15:35 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Envisioning
I give her 6 months before she has a ‘Fort Macy Park’ incident.....

Which will be blamed on right-wingers.

78 posted on 01/22/2019 9:15:44 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mewzilla

From Wiki:

The law is named after the bank robber Willie Sutton, who reputedly replied to a reporter’s inquiry as to why he robbed banks by saying “because that’s where the money is.” In Sutton’s 1976 book Where the Money Was, Sutton denies having said this.


79 posted on 01/22/2019 9:15:47 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: butlerweave
Is she wearing boots or are her calves really that big

She's going to have a serious weight problem at some point.

80 posted on 01/22/2019 9:16:25 AM PST by Boomer ( Leftism is toxic poison to a free society.)
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