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Do any of you remember the meteoric rise of actress Pia Zadora in the early 1980s? She was on every magazine cover and TV show. In fact, I recall watching a 1980s "NIGHT OF 1,000 STARS" on ABC-TV, and one of the famous actors said something to the effect of: "If this place goes down with all of us inside of it, then Pia Zadora has her big break!" But, what goes up must come down. I see so many similarities between AOC's meteoric rise and Zadora's. Interesting and intriguing, yet empty inside. Zadora's career tanked in the late 80s,...

Full title: Dozens of Dems vote 95 percent of time with AOC despite Pelosi's claim that bloc is 'like five people'Nearly 70 Democrats have been voting in tandem with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s scoffing that the far-left Democratic wing was only “like five people.” Pelosi downplayed the influence of the new-wave progressives, particularly Ocasio-Cortez, who pushed the party leftwards, during an interview with CBS News' Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes,” saying that despite the noise, the party is still largely centrist and rejects socialism “as an economic system.” “You have these wings, AOC and her group...

In 1992, Ilhan Omar came to this country from a refugee camp in East Africa. Three years later, she and her family applied for, and received, refugee status in the United States. Five years after that, she became a U.S. citizen. She’s been attacking the United States as a racist hellhole pretty much ever since. According to Omar, there’s barely a difference between this country and terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. In a 2013 interview, Omar complained that people seem to think there’s a big difference between America and Al Qaeda. "When I was in college, I took a terrorism...

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being an authoritarian, 'Trump-like figure' while suggesting that US military and economic aid to Israel should be cut. The Representative for New York, a rising star in her party, has insisted that the idea of cutting aid to Israel should 'definitely be on the table'. The 29-year-old has been criticised by the Jewish Democratic Council of America for the comments, with the organisation saying that US-Israel ties 'must supersede politics'.

Pelosi appears to take new jab at Ocasio-Cortez, says ‘a glass of water’ with a ‘D’ could win their districts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Monday made a point to heap more praise on Democrats who flipped Republican seats in the 2018 midterms and downplayed representatives like herself and freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who carried districts where a "glass of water" with a "D" next to it could win. “When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s,” Pelosi said. “[S]he’s a wonderful member of Congress as I think all of our colleagues will...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes the US should consider cutting military and economic aid to Israel — and Jewish Democrats are blasting her for it. “I think it’s something that can be discussed,” she said Sunday on Yahoo’s “Skullduggery” podcast, adding that the idea should “certainly” be on the table. “I think these are part of conversations we are having in our caucus,” the congresswoman added. “I hope to play a facilitating role in this conversation and a supportive role in this conversation. But I also know that there have been people leading on this for a long time, like Congresswoman...

The Afternoon Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) As Notre Dame Cathedral burns to the ground, the Democrat Party leadership threatens to join it. – Nancy Pelosi was featured in a puff piece interview with reliable Democrat activist Leslie Stahl on CBS’ “60 Minutes” fake news program Sunday evening. At one point, Stahl pointed out the different groups within the House Democratic caucus. “You have these wings — AOC and her group on one side,” Stahl said. “That’s like five people,” Pelosi smirked. Stahl responded by correcting the Speaker, saying that the “progressive group is more than five.” “Well,...

Democratic rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has not revealed who she will endorse as her party’s 2020 presidential candidate but said Sunday that hopes it’s not former Vice President Joe Biden.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she is on board with trying to impeach President Trump, a position at odds with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “I think you could reach in a bag and pull so many things out that are impeachable of this president. I support impeaching this president,” the freshman lawmaker told Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast Sunday evening. Ocasio-Cortez said she is likely to sign a resolution introduced last month by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) that calls for Congress to launch investigations into whether Trump has committed offenses that would lead to impeachment. “We hadn’t signed on when it was...

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<p>Pelosi rips AOC, says her posse in Congress is ‘like five people’</p> <p>WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just sent some more shade to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.</p> <p>In a “60 Minutes” interview, correspondent Lesley Stahl pointed out the different groups within the House Democratic caucus. “You have these wings — AOC and her group on one side,” Stahl said.</p>

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was on “60 Minutes” on Sunday and she took a shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s support in Congress: Lesley Stahl: “You have these wings– AOC, and her group on one side” Pelosi: “That’s like five people” (snip) Reily Connaughton @ReilySeanConn “I do reject socialism as an economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party.” -@SpeakerPelosi on @60Minutes 8:06 PM - Apr 14, 2019 Waleed Shahid, a former AOC staffer, was not happy with the remarks: Waleed Shahid ✔@_waleedshahid That's quite a way to...

After a major flap for driving Amazon out of New York City, something even socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed her for, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is targeting another New York City business - the New York Post. She's joining hands with a leftist newsstand seller group calling on all newsstand owners to quit selling the paper because she didn't like its cover story reminding New Yorkers that her congressional gal pal, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was trivializing the worst terrorist attack on American soil -- which triggered its greatest damage in New York. Here's a good writeup incorporating assorted sources at Blabberbuzz News:...

Chiquita Khrushchev, a splendid nickname looking for a meme.  And now, thanks to a cool high-res pic of Nikita Khrushchev in a wheat field, it's here. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the biggest laugh since Jonathan Winters. They say Helen of Troy's face launched a thousand ships.  Well, AOC's crazy ideas have launch a million memes, stories, and YouTubes.  This bimbo con-artist is a walking poster for what's wrong with the Democrat party — and laughing at her idiotic ideas and exposing her frauds is absolutely our ticket to 2020. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.  It is not only...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) applauded the boycott of The New York Post being organized by corner stores in the city following the tabloid’s front page cover calling out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her comments about 9/11. Omar has faced criticism this week for comments she made at a speech in March, notably from colleague Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and President Donald Trump. “CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” she said, in comments that her critics said minimized the...

'I stand undeterred': Ilhan Omar lashes out at Trump and says she 'did not run for Congress to be silent' after Trump's 9/11 tweet aimed at her sparked a furious backlash from AOC and other Democrats AOC tweeted in defense of Omar using Martin Niemöller's famous poem 'First they came…' to condemn the president after he tweeted Friday nightTrump tweeted 'WE WILL NEVER FORGET' with a video that showed Omar's 'some people did something' 9/11 speech intersected with video of the disasterThe video didn't show Omar's speech in full and Ocasio-Cortez was quick to clap-back at the president's outburst, calling it...

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has triggered the “worst humanitarian crisis in the history of the Americas” with the help of Cuba, Russia, China, and terrorist groups, the executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC) told Breitbart News Friday. The deteriorating security, political, and humanitarian conditions in Venezuela are comparable to those in war-ravaged Syria, Juan Antonio Blanco, the director, wrote in a report he co-authored with other Cuban and Venezuelan experts. In the report issued Friday, FHRC declared: Citizen insecurity, added to political repression, has left more than 24,000 violent deaths [in Venezuela] in 2018,...

On Friday night, Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminated her relative lack of knowledge regarding world history once again by invoking the Holocaust in her defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar from what she says is an "explicit attack" from President Donald J. Trump. The commander-in-chief shared a video yesterday evening reminding Rep. Omar and her allies about the tragedy that occurred on 9/11 resulting in nearly 3,000 dead Americans. Rep. Omar has previously diminished the terror attack by Al-Qaeda as "some people" doing "something," which was included in the video.  Conservative commentators and pundits across Twitter reminded Rep. Ocasio-Cortez her...

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has sparked outrage online after she used a poem written about the victims of the Holocaust to defend fellow colleague Ilhan Omar, in response to a 'dangerous' tweet from the president. Omar was once again the subject of controversial debate this week, after remarks she made last month in reference to the 9/11 terror attacks as ‘some people did something’, resurfaced. An outraged Donald Trump tweeted ‘WE WILL NEVER FORGET’ on Friday night, accompanied by a 43 second video that showed Omar’s comment during a speech to the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), interspersed with footage...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continues to ignite outrage while defending freshman colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, this time by using a poem about the Holocaust to defend the Minnesota Democrat. [cut] She also shared an image of the words of "First they came ... ," the famous poem by German theologian Martin Niemöller that was inspired by the tragedies of the Holocaust. (The words are mounted on a wall at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.) The poem reads: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. "Then they...