AOC: Bartender to Congress via Casting Call

[Deleted member 9511]

I saw this link in the comments of another site

There are plenty of hits on this doing a web search. Would be interesting to investigate further.

The person who "won" the AOC seat is her Chief of Staff, Saikat Chakrabati. She is the figurehead, and the premise of much criticism of AOC along these lines is that when she goes off the scrip that Chakrabati provides her or when she is asked follow-up questions, she becomes incomprehensible and comes off as if she doesn't know what she's talking about.

 

[Niall]

Would be interesting to investigate further.

The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur declared upon Trump's election that he would launch a movement to take over the Democratic Party (with 'real leftist candidates'). They've had some success with that apparently!

I'm not surprised about the 'casting'. That's normal politics in the USA for you. As far back as Harry Truman in the 1950s, politicians have come through a selection process and been groomed to essentially speak lines given them by the real Party brains who 'cast' them.

If anything, this lot are less shady on that score because they don't accept (not officially anyway) corporate campaign donations. So yes, AOC and co were cast, but in an open manner. They're not hiding it, so there's nothing 'conspiratorial' about it.

Wikipedia on Justice Democrats

Justice Democrats is an American progressive political action committee founded on January 23, 2017, by Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, and former leadership from the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign... such as its Director of Organizing Technology, Saikat Chakrabarti, and MoveOn.org fundraiser Zack Exley

In the 2018 elections, 26 of the 79 candidates endorsed by Justice Democrats won their respective primary elections. Seven of these candidates won in the general election: Raúl Grijalva, Ro Khanna, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Pramila Jayapal.

According to the organization, they seek to create a left-wing populist movement to support alternative Democratic candidates beginning with the 2018 mid-term elections, in order to either defeat the incumbent Democrats or cause them to become accountable to their constituents. They require their candidates to take a pledge to refuse financial contributions from billionaires and corporations. In addition, they hope to rebuild the Democratic Party on a national level and to defeat President Trump if he runs for re-election in 2020.

 

[Ca.]

Bartender to Congress via Casting Call​

Update Mar 30, 2019.

Proud to partner with @NydiaVelazquez on this important bill. https://t.co/kIpcroyKwH

— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) October 30, 2020

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[Vulcan59]

Matt Taibbi has an article (behind paywall) out about AOC;

From the New York Times Sunday article, “As the Left Looks to 2028, It Waits on Ocasio-Cortez’s Big Decision.”

As Democrats find… their party’s popularity at a generational low, progressives are also staring down the prospect of a post-Bernie future… The 83-year-old Mr. Sanders has signaled that he does not intend to run for president again. The question now is who will lead the network he built from scratch into the next presidential election…

Virtually everyone interviewed said there was one clear leader for the job: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Hoo, boy. Making Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a.k.a. Vogue’s “Consummate Power Dresser”) the face of a left populist movement is the latest episode of the longest-running television show in history, How Will the American Left Screw Up This Time? It’s an instant entrant in the Hall of Fame of Bad Ideas, on par with a Hitler bobblehead day promotion or training orangutans to pack flatware. This will not end well:

The AOC Train Wreck is Coming, and it's Going to Be Spectacular

Nationwide rallies are spurring "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 2028" whispers, and it's already clear: the CIA couldn't do a better job of discrediting the American left

www.racket.news

 

[Voyageur]

Matt Taibbi has an article (behind paywall) out about AOC;

As Matt said, "This will not end well," no, truly it would not. Suppose, though, when peeps set out to tear down a country, they might want to ensure that they have installed the lowest common denominator in running it, at lest on the surface. Suppose, too, many people get what they deserve through their wishful thinking.