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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 29, was elected to Congress, and is helping put marginal tax rates, access to health care, and a Green New Deal on the national agenda.

When Aaron Sorkin was 40, he was arrested at the Burbank airport trying to bring a bag of mushrooms to Vegas.
Rep. Lauren Underwood was a nurse, earned a Master of Health from Johns Hopkins, and was elected to Congress. She’s 32.
I’m closer to Sorkin’s age than theirs, but I’ll happily follow their lead. The polite politics of the older generation gave us Chuck Schumer handing judicial seats to bigots and religious fundamentalists while @senatemajldr broke the country.
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Kirk Rudell
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There was once a study that gathered a hundred or so people in an auditorium and asked each one to write on a piece of paper how much money they would need to earn in a year to feel financially secure.

Then they passed the piece of paper to the person on their right. 1/
The group had been selected to represent a wide socioeconomic range. So someone who currently earned a million dollars a year could be sitting next to someone making $30k. What was striking, though, was that everyone generally wrote down the same number. 2/
Roughly 50% more than they were currently making. 3/
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Kirk Rudell
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Siri, reconcile my preference for nonviolent mediation with my desire to curb stomp this entire administration.

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Kirk Rudell
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When I allow myself to think of the day we no longer have a treasonous, bigoted criminal in the Oval Office, I think about who will come next. I don’t mean Pence, that mumbling, powdery beta-bully who probably masturbates to Veggie Tales... 1/
I mean the correction: someone who represents progressive values – like Obama after Bush, only on steroids.

But when he was elected Obama said there would be no looking backwards – no trial/punishment for the crimes of the Bush years: Iraq, Wall St. deregulation, Katrina, etc 2/
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The “Green New Deal” is actually UN Agenda 2030.

It’s about destroying the economy and enabling a collapse that will lead to a New World Order.

Climate change is the Trojan Horse for the deployment of Communism.
This is about control!!!

The poor who live in rural areas will not be able to live a sustainable life once oil and natural gas are cut off.

It’s about getting those people out of the country and into mega cities where they can be indoctrinated by leftists
The left does not want coexistence. They want dominance. They disguise their supremacy under wishful platitudes such as saving the environment.

It’s about control! Forcing those who don’t agree with their dogmas to conform.

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#HowardSchultz is not a serious candidate for President. He has no real desire to run, never mind win. The Presidency is not his goal. His goal is to control policy in @TheDemocrats.
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Thread: What Does the Lunatic Left Think These Days?

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Women of color breaking so many ceilings:

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez youngest woman elected to Congress
- Ilhan Omar the first Somali American elected to Congress
- Ayanna Pressley the first Black congresswoman from Massachusetts
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Women of color breaking all the ceilings:

- Sharice Davids the first Native American woman elected to Congress
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Deb Haaland is one of the first Native women elected to Congress, following Sharice Davids' victory earlier tonight.
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1/Oh-Oh Ocasio - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Wondering what planet she came from and who sent her?
ss-Cortez win sends shockwaves through dem party
2/In the spring of 2017 Ocascio-Cortez was working as a bartender & waiting tables at Flats Fix, a taco & tequila bar in Manhattan, while pondering what to do next. --- "I was taking brunch orders, with the AC off, and people from progressive political groups were calling me"
3/'Girl from the Bronx' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat high-ranking DEM Joe Crowley, faces questions over her 'working class' background after it's revealed she grew up in a wealthy suburb north of NYC
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Rich Weinstein
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Follow up to yesterday's posts regarding Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats.

Some tweeters have brought up good points regarding yesterday's posts that I did not cover.

Here we go:

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First, here's a link to yesterday's post


Yesterday we established she’s result of the “Brand New Congress” and that she’s a “Justice Democrat"

Here's what appears to be Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez's image being used in a "Justice Democrat" study.

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So what exactly is the Justice Democrat’s game? Here’s the study.

futureoftheparty.com

They don’t care if they split the Dem party. They believe they can take over the party by mobilizing non-voters.

Read the study for yourself.

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