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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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She would probably have listened without the need of a protest that seems to have done nothing but reinforce the bullshit narrative that the Democratic Party is falling apart.
Ocasio-Cortez could have simply approached Pelosi like a damn professional. Instead, she had to pull this publicity stunt.
Edited by M84 on Nov 15th 2018 at 4:51:42 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedYeah. She does realize that she works for Congress now, right? She's allowed to talk to her colleagues about maybe sponsoring a bill, and doesn't have to sit outside the Speaker's office making a scene?
Unless this is about getting more attention on her and showing how the real progressives stand up to the Corporate Slave Democrats. But who would do such a thing?
It's been fun.
She led a sit-in and ditched it before arrests started happening.
And why am I not surprised that the Justice Democrats were part of this?
Between Sanders' recent "racists aren't really racist" gaffe, Odeja "former Trump voter, likely NRA shill, and economic anxiety believer" thinking he ought to be President, and this...I'm once again reminded of how some self-proclaimed progressives can be frustrating.
Edited by M84 on Nov 14th 2018 at 5:07:27 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised@M84: It's a foregone conclusion that the GOP congressmen won't listen to them about climate change, so the natural course of action is to put pressure on democratic leadership to tackle climate change once they're back in power.
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Or here's an idea. Wait until they are actually in power to do it. Getting a House majority was just one step. All it does is help make sure the GOP can't do more damage than they could before.
You want to show you care about climate change? Protest against the people who are actively preventing any progress from being made. Don't protest against the people who are your best chance of actually getting shit done!
Edited by M84 on Nov 14th 2018 at 5:48:31 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedWell, it's important to remember that for all her dynamism on the campaign trail, Ocasio-Cortez is still a know-nothing as far as bureaucracy goes. She's going to have to learn to be more collegial with her allies if she wants to accomplish anything in the House. Honestly, I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to this sit-in. She's just acting out for publicity because that's how things worked before. But when she's going back to her constituents empty-handed, it's not going to be a good look, so she'll have to learn, as all freshman Reps will.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Also there is some legitimacy is being annoyed at Democratic leadership for having climate change be such a low priority, it didn’t make the list of democratic priorities that was released and that’s something one can legitimately take issue with.
Now this is the wring way to go about the issues, but that’s kinda to be expected for freshman congressmen, hell as she’s yet to be sworn in Cortez presumably doesn’t have an office of her own yet from which to make calls.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran...y’know, I’m a bit frustrated at the apparent willingness to immediately fling a young, poor woman of color under the bus for not being sufficiently deferential to an old, rich white woman with tremendous political power.
Is Ocasio-Cortez a genius of tact and diplomacy? Well, no. She’s 29. She’s just been elected. And yeah, eventually she’ll probably ditch Justice Dems, given that she seems far smarter and more interested in being productive.
But I don’t see the harm in her trying her best to fight for what she believes, especially given the importance of addressing climate change, and I think the dismayed and condescending reaction here to a perhaps ill-thought out protest is excessive and rather insulting.
Like, almost no one commented on how concerning it is that centrist and left wing journalists were taking Tucker Carlson at his word WITHOUT CHECKING THE POLICE REPORT, but we’ve got almost a full page scolding Ocasio-Cortez for maybe annoying Pelosi by protesting wrong.
Edited by wisewillow on Nov 14th 2018 at 8:47:33 AM
It doesn't take much thought to realise that once elected, it's unproductive to protest against your own colleagues. One, it looks awful and anyone who's just been through an election has no excuse to not acknowledge media spin; two, it's unprofessional.
It doesn't matter who you're doing it against if your first action as an elected official is to protest your own party. You need to show some willingness to work with your colleagues in anything.
I'm not giving Ocasio-Cortez a pass for her behavior when we have scum like Seth Moulton (my own Representative) maneuvering to oust Pelosi. We just won the fucking House, let's show a united front. We always do this. We win and then we throw it away when grasping New Meat think they know everything.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Nov 14th 2018 at 8:56:08 AM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Honestly, I see the next two years as the Democratic Party building its platform and messaging for the 2020 race. We can't pass new legislation without Republican support, so it's more a question of establishing an identity. A healthy internal debate is important to this process.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I think it’s less that and more simply that a number of people are at the point where they automatically assume that anyone disagreeing with Pelosi is wrong and out to cause trouble. Due to the fact that the vast majority of people who disagree with Pelosi are fascists, Russian operatives, trolls, entitled twits or privilege-blind idiots the automatic assumption upon someone disagreeing with Pelosi has become that Pelosi is right and that the other person falls into one of the earlier categories.
I’d point out to people that Cortez isn’t a congresswomen yet, she doesn’t have the resources of a congressional office at her disposal to try and make contact, she won’t be sworn into office until January, she probably doesn’t even have a security pass yet.
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You’re assuming that Pelosi would take a call from a brand new congresswomen who hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
Edited by Silasw on Nov 14th 2018 at 2:01:28 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

I'd be taking her more seriously if she and the other protesters did so in front of the offices of politicians who are a lot more committed to ignoring and denying climate change than Pelosi. Like, say, damn near every GOP Congressmember.
As it is, this reeks of populist "anti-establishment" pandering bullshit.
In general I've become pretty biased against so-called "progressives" opposing Pelosi, given that the person they tried to put up to primary Pelosi was a racist sexist old jackass.
Edited by M84 on Nov 15th 2018 at 4:44:10 AM
Disgusted, but not surprised