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Republican or Democrat, this is worth retweeting because we are all #Americans

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1093601038622281728

Unfortunately, this brilliant cross examination by the Congresswoman from NYC is presented completely out of context here. What is this committee? Who arranged this?

What are they looking into? You may LOVE the Congresswoman and be a huge fan. In the era of pseudo-events however, it’s a good idea to provide more context.

If this was just a nice speech, it was absolutely perfect. It was a great way to visualize for the layman the absolute insanity and utter corruption of our political process. But it’s hard to tell that.

Is it staged? Who are these guys? They are obviously sitting in Congress, or a room that looks like Congress. They are on C-SPAN. (Thank God for C-SPAN)!

c-span.org/video/?457611-…

You want to jump up with joy that this is being discussed and has been laid bare and deconstructed in this way. Here are the pieces of the puzzle,
1. you can be totally funded by dark money...

2. you can totally write legislation in favor of what funded you,
3. you can be invested in what funded you, and..

4. you can pass legislation increasing the value of your investment in what funded you.

It’s all perfectly legal, it’s all speech. Putting these acts under the umbrella of speech is diabolical. Scalia was depraved.

And If you were the president, you could do even worse. Not sure what worse really is, but then again, it’s still only 2019.

Ocasio-Cortez @AOC is inspirational. We need to avoid turning her into a celebrity and need to keep her as a politician and keep ourselves as objective citizens.

With our skepticism and vigilance, we honor what, it seems, she is trying to be all about.

Let’s look for what this was all about at every step of the way so it’s not just about what she said, but where and to whom she said it and when and what came of it.

Let’s follow up on this and see where it leads.

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