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‘Pay Your Own Darn Bills’: AOC, Who Makes $174,000 Per Year, Blasted For Complaining About $17k In Student Loans
In response, Daily Wire commentator and bestselling children’s author Matt Walsh observed that student debt forgiveness is a glorified form of “welfare” for the affluent.
“She’s a perfect example of why we shouldn’t forgive student loans,” Walsh tweeted. “She makes $175,000 a year and wants the tax payer to assume her debts? No, pay your bills you deadbeat. Student loan forgiveness is upper class welfare.”
“Half of all student debt is held by people with graduate degrees,” he added. “The idea that this is some kind of persecuted class of people who deserve tax funded debt forgiveness is absurd.”
but she can afford that Tesla and a swanky DC Apt
In response, Daily Wire commentator and bestselling children’s author Matt Walsh observed that student debt forgiveness is a glorified form of “welfare” for the affluent.
“She’s a perfect example of why we shouldn’t forgive student loans,” Walsh tweeted. “She makes $175,000 a year and wants the tax payer to assume her debts? No, pay your bills you deadbeat. Student loan forgiveness is upper class welfare.”
“Half of all student debt is held by people with graduate degrees,” he added. “The idea that this is some kind of persecuted class of people who deserve tax funded debt forgiveness is absurd.”
but she can afford that Tesla and a swanky DC Apt
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Just sneakin' around....
Remember how she whined long and hard about how expensive it was to live in DC and she couldn't afford it?
AOC Discovers the Horrors of Civil Asset Forfeiture, Rails Against the Practice in Congressional Hearing
Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right about something. Yes, you read that correctly.
During a Wednesday House hearing, the New York congresswoman gave impassioned remarks railing against “civil asset forfeiture.” This refers to various federal and local law enforcement practices wherein private citizens’ assets — such as cash, cars, or homes — are confiscated due to the mere suspicion they’re associated with criminal activity. Often this occurs without much due process at all.
“This is an issue that so many people in this country cannot believe is real,” Ocasio-Cortez said . “Civil forfeiture means that the government, law enforcement, etc., is allowed to take away your property — often your car or even your home — without an arrest, without criminal charges, and without ever going to court. And then the police can sell your property and use the proceeds as revenue.”
Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right about something. Yes, you read that correctly.
During a Wednesday House hearing, the New York congresswoman gave impassioned remarks railing against “civil asset forfeiture.” This refers to various federal and local law enforcement practices wherein private citizens’ assets — such as cash, cars, or homes — are confiscated due to the mere suspicion they’re associated with criminal activity. Often this occurs without much due process at all.
“This is an issue that so many people in this country cannot believe is real,” Ocasio-Cortez said . “Civil forfeiture means that the government, law enforcement, etc., is allowed to take away your property — often your car or even your home — without an arrest, without criminal charges, and without ever going to court. And then the police can sell your property and use the proceeds as revenue.”
SamSpade
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I do know people who have had electronic devices such as computers and phones confiscated - and even after charges were dismissed - found it nigh impossible to get their property back again.
SamSpade
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It IS expensive to live in DC if:
- You also intend to maintain a residence OUTSIDE of DC and
- You actually intend to live somewhere in DC that isn't a sh*thole and has some reasonable level of security afforded a voting member of Congress.
While they're not royalty, you can't have influential members of Congress holed up in some of the nastier parts of the District without SOME level of security.
Admittedly, one of the reasons I live so damned far from the city is so I do NOT have to live in a human habitrail in a city environment.
Ocasio-Cortez Unloads On Democrat Leadership: ‘We Cannot Accept No For An Answer’
“People can be mad at Manchin all they want, but we knew he would do this months ago,” she said. “Where we need answers from are the leaders who promised a path on [Build Back Better] if [the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework] passed: Biden & Dem leaders. They chose to move BIF alone instead of w/ BBB, not Manchin. So they need to fix it.”
Manchin’s announcement dooms Democrats’ chances of passing the multi-trillion social spending bill, which experts say will add to the national debt, despite the Biden administration’s repeated claim that it would cost nothing.
“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there,” Manchin told Fox News anchor Bret Baier Sunday morning. “This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do. And the president has worked diligently. He’s been wonderful to work with. He knows I’ve had concerns and the problems I’ve had and, you know, the thing that we should all be directing our attention towards, the variant, a COVID that we have coming back at us in so many different aspects in different ways, it’s affecting our lives again.”
“People can be mad at Manchin all they want, but we knew he would do this months ago,” she said. “Where we need answers from are the leaders who promised a path on [Build Back Better] if [the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework] passed: Biden & Dem leaders. They chose to move BIF alone instead of w/ BBB, not Manchin. So they need to fix it.”
Manchin’s announcement dooms Democrats’ chances of passing the multi-trillion social spending bill, which experts say will add to the national debt, despite the Biden administration’s repeated claim that it would cost nothing.
“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there,” Manchin told Fox News anchor Bret Baier Sunday morning. “This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do. And the president has worked diligently. He’s been wonderful to work with. He knows I’ve had concerns and the problems I’ve had and, you know, the thing that we should all be directing our attention towards, the variant, a COVID that we have coming back at us in so many different aspects in different ways, it’s affecting our lives again.”
PJay
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Did you say something?
‘Republicans Are Mad They Can’t Date Me’
Ocasio-Cortez also lashed out at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ campaign, which tweeted at her last night.
“Welcome to Florida, AOC!” DeSantis’ campaign said. “We hope you’re enjoying a taste of freedom here in the Sunshine State thanks to @RonDeSantisFL’s leadership.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded by suggesting without evidence that DeSantis had “been inexplicably missing for like 2 weeks,” before saying that she wanted to “help with local organizing” in Florida.
Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to hang out in the red state of Florida amid the historic number of coronavirus cases in the city that she represents comes after she repeatedly attacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for flying to Cancun, Mexico, earlier this year as the state of Texas dealt with a storm crisis.
Ocasio-Cortez also lashed out at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ campaign, which tweeted at her last night.
“Welcome to Florida, AOC!” DeSantis’ campaign said. “We hope you’re enjoying a taste of freedom here in the Sunshine State thanks to @RonDeSantisFL’s leadership.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded by suggesting without evidence that DeSantis had “been inexplicably missing for like 2 weeks,” before saying that she wanted to “help with local organizing” in Florida.
Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to hang out in the red state of Florida amid the historic number of coronavirus cases in the city that she represents comes after she repeatedly attacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for flying to Cancun, Mexico, earlier this year as the state of Texas dealt with a storm crisis.
Ocasio-Cortez Blasted After Being Caught In Miami Beach As NYC Sets Pandemic Record: ‘AOC Loves DeSantis’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) faced backlash late on Thursday night after she was reportedly caught in Miami Beach as New York City was decimated by a record number of coronavirus cases. National Review reported that, according to photographs obtained by the publication, Ocasio-Cortez was...
Other notable responses to the photographs of Ocasio-Cortez spending time in Miami included:
- Stephen L. Miller, political commentator: “Could have gone to Hawaii or Puerto Rico to visit her abuela. She went to Florida. Lol.. she actually did that.”
- Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Governor Ron DeSantis: “Florida is so dangerous & scary that AOC decided to go on vacation in Miami this week. You know it’s a free state when even a Democrat can enjoy cocktails without being forced to show her papers or wear a mask.”
- Ian Miles Cheong, journalist: “AOC sipping drinks, maskless and open in the free state of Florida while New York City suffers from record high cases of COVID.”
- Rich Lowry, National Review: “Where else would a New York City socialist go to escape her city during a massive surge in covid cases but Ron DeSantis’ Florida?”
- Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA officer: “Like other communists, @AOC is a hypocrite and an all around turd.”
- Esteban Gerbasi: “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D., N.Y) dines out at Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach as New York sees record surge in Covid-19 cases. A Great Hypocrite.”
- Rob Schmitt, Newsmax: “AOC is in south beach for her vacation lol. Prob not good to talk sh!% about Florida all year then vacation there…”
- Tim Murtaugh, former Trump campaign spokesman: “But we have been reliably informed that Florida is dangerous and that the governor wants to kill people.”
‘Broke The Cringe Meter’
Notable responses to Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet included:
Notable responses to Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet included:
- Kurt Schlichter, columnist: “Well, this broke the cringe meter.”
- Dave Rubin, political commentator: “People are fixated with you for being an entitled, hypocritical, socialist, lockdown happy, vaccine mandate-ho while vacationing in the free state of Florida. You just suck as a person and as a public servant. That’s really the extent of it.”
- Amber Athey, journalist: “‘Saying you don’t want to date me proves you want to date me.’ This is peak cringe millennial womyn brain.”
- Brian Riedl, economist: “Ladies and gentlemen, your United States Congress.”
- Jennifer Van Laar, journalist: “Republican women are not sexually frustrated, ma’am. Perhaps your fixation on our sex lives is a bit of projection?”
- Jon Gabriel, editor: “Same. The only reason anyone disagrees with my articles is because I’m so hot.”
- Tim Carney, writer: “This is a very weird thought to make public.”
- Andrew Follett, writer: “Nobody on the right wants to date you. Nobody. We just think it’s hilarious that you fled to a free state just when your home state is going through a crisis. And that u use ur boyfriend to embezzle money from your donors.”
- Karol Markowicz, columnist: “Remember when AOC had someone really sharp tweeting for her and that person was king/queen of the clapback? She…should rehire them.”
- John Fund, political commentator: “I am beginning to think that AOC has been protected from herself until now by handlers. She may not be ready for prime time. Chuck Schumer just might breath a sigh of relief.”
- Noam Blum, editor: “There’s being defensive and then there’s this.”
- A.J. Delgado, political commentator: “You set women back with this ‘Y’all just criticize me bc you want me!’ takes. I don’t know if it’s deranged, childish, or what … but it’s CRINGE (and inaccurate). Same as your ‘Jan 6 folks wanted to rape me.’ (Huh??) Tucker was right.”
Hijinx
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It's one thing being a poor barmaid, and complaining about the rich.
It's another thing hitting the political Lotto gaining power and money, and trying to continue to complain while living in a good Apartment driving a $70,000 dollar electric car and going to the warm weather in a fist class seat on a polluting airplane.
Talking sh*t when you are poor is one thing, not taking advantage of wealth if you have it is another.
This is a pretty serious hit to her credibility. Yet it is understandable. Not one person in a hundred would not do the same thing.
It's another thing hitting the political Lotto gaining power and money, and trying to continue to complain while living in a good Apartment driving a $70,000 dollar electric car and going to the warm weather in a fist class seat on a polluting airplane.
Talking sh*t when you are poor is one thing, not taking advantage of wealth if you have it is another.
This is a pretty serious hit to her credibility. Yet it is understandable. Not one person in a hundred would not do the same thing.