There is a good reason Republicans hate AOC.

[shockey80]

She is very smart and she is kicking ass. She is also an American who believes in helping the American people. She believes in fairness and she is a believer in the FDR New Deal way of doing things. Republicans hate that.

[H2O Man]

1. Yes, but

she danced in college. How can we trust her?

Recommended.

[In It to Win It]

3. We can't because dancing is socialism!

[H2O Man]

4. Exactly!

Thousands of tiny unrequited republican erections causing trouble throughout the land.

[ck4829]

15. Well, I can't get that out of my brain, thanks

[KPN]

28. Lol.

[ut oh]

8. This made me think of

Kevin Bacon...


John Lithgow's character is the embodiment of the GOP.... Now they just need to start poo poo'ing rock & roll.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. That harlot!

Republicans only like dignified and modest ladies, like the ones who flash their panties on FOX News.

[forklift]

2. For republicans , she is also useful

to divide Democrats just like some POTUS contenders.


My memory is sharp.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. This

[melman]

7. Hating someone doesn't make mean they're divisive

It just means you hate them.

[rgbecker]

40. This.

Thanks for bringing needed clarity.

[watoos]

13. Only Democrats can divide ourselves.

Who gives a shit what Republicans say?

I have held back a little bit on AOC, but what some people call divisiveness I call robust debate.

Saying that AOC or Bernie are far to the left also makes me laugh. Look at their policies, they are all popular with working Americans. AOC and Bernie aren't leftists, they are centrists. Or is the rest of the civilized world wrong?

[PatrickforO]

20. No, a majority of Americans really want the people we elect

to make these things happen. Healthcare, expanded Social Security, a Green New Deal...

Nixon tried to get national healthcare and said we are all Keynesians.

Eisenhower railed against the MIC and spoke of compassion toward the poor.

Jefferson railed against banks and against allowing bankers to run the Central Bank.

Teddy Roosevelt gave us the Square Deal and was the father of National Parks.

[HopeAgain]

49. Thank you

Lots of self dividing has been going on here as well.

[certainot]

50. imo- it matters the last 30 years because they can lie repeatedly on 1500 radio stations

this country has been moved right 15 points just because the cons have the talk radio advantage that dems continue to ignore

everything changed 30 years ago and this is not like watergate - it's an order of magnitude worse and yet the republicons may as well be sucking trump's dick. that's not because they're scared of trump, they're scared of the guys that motivate and point the spittle-flecked base in their direction in trump's defense - limbaugh and the few hundred liars that have to follow him to keep their jobs, who might as well be getting calls from russian trolls

dems collectively cannot say they're getting "got AOC's back", and it matters - like limbaugh calling christine blasey ford a liar and dem operative for 3 weeks straight with no response from the left - just like anita hill

here’s limbaugh on 1/22/19, while calling AOC a dunce, upstart little crumb-cruncher, commie, babe, marxist, etc., created a silly premise — that Democratic leaders would get media to “take her out” — just so he could repeat “take her out” over and over…..

— transcribed at Sonix.ai:

so the day is going to come where she's gonna make somebody (Dems) mad or she's going to be too successful and will legitimately challenge somebody that has more power than she has. And they're not going to be interested in working with her and welcoming her in because they're not going to trust her so they're gonna take her out. This happens. I mean Soviet leaders were routinely targeted for assassination. They tried to kill Gorbachev during perestroika and glasnost.

[Voltaire2]

59. Ah that is a great insight.

We should just look and see who Republicans are attacking and use that information to guide us in choosing our candidates.

Brilliant!

[JaneQPublic]

9. GOPers would kill to have their version of AOC.

They may hate her but they envy her more.

"Young" on the R side was Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and their other Young Guns.

But in terms of smart young women like the Dems have in AOC and others? The R's got nothin'.

[Mr.Bill]

16. Closest thing they had was Sarah Palin, except

she was an idiot.

[KPN]

31. That's rich ... and spot on.

[bdamomma]

73. Aren't they all idiots???

they don't have anybody.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

55. No one compares to AOC... she rocks!!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[appleannie1943]

10. And when she questions someone she does not sip the gravy, she goes for the meat.

And they can't scare her into sitting down and shutting up.

[shockey80]

12. Exactly.

She is also proud of the fact that she knows that American socialism is something that works very well. It is not evil and it is not anti-capitalism.

[Hortensis]

11. They love to hate her. We're ALL dangerous socialists, as she "proves."

After all, she's now the voice of the Democratic Party. They say so.

[watoos]

14. She better walk the straight and narrow,

they would love to Franken her. She is a rare talent that can change the right wing narratives.

I love it that Speaker Pelosi has taken her under her wing, it prevents right wing Democrats from bashing her, not that they would. To clarify, united we stand, divided we fall.

[NBachers]

17. Maybe they'd like her better if she grabbed a Barbarella ray gun and stood naked on an airplane wing

[AdamGG]

18. Her views are the same as Bernie's, so why are they insanely obsessed with her?

There's a number of progressive Democrats with the same constellation of positions as AOC. IMO, a big part of their fixating on her for demonization is that she's a young latina woman (and young and attractive and boldly able to take them on).

Even if AOC was off base (which she isn't), she's a freshman Congress member who has been in office for 2 months. The GOP has had countless batshit insane members (Bob Dornan, Louis Gomert) and the left didn't fixate continuously on one ridiculous Congress person.

The right wing media machine's standard operating procedure is to pick one person to demonize and then to relentlessly stay on message. It allows their undereducated, dopey followers to have a simplistic narrative to latch onto with well defined villains. It's like professional wrestling.

[Liberalhammer]

44. She is an attractive women

I think its part of it. Thet hate her for her rejection of them but are obessed with her strength and want to dominate her.

[pangaia]

45. "a young latina woman," who is a passionate 'A-type" and,

threatening the most, with a mouth attached to her brain !!!

[Midnight Writer]

47. Because she has charisma, the most valued trait in politics.

I have said it here before to great criticism, and I say it again.

Voting is an emotion driven decision, not a logical one.

[GemDigger]

64. I think it is her age because they know they will be dealing with her for a long long time.

She will outlast all the Republicans if she doesn't run for prez. If she runs for prez they (R's) will go into immediate apoplexy.

[McKim]

19. They are Not Used to Being Talked to Like That

People have been so cowed by years of Right Wing bullying that they don’t talk straight anymore. She does. We need to talk straight and stop being afraid of these bullies. Whatever they don’t like will be pushed through the echo chamber of “news” shows, so WHAT!!!

[watoos]

22. You are getting at what I am trying to say.

The M$M is complicit with right wing politicians which makes it harder for Democrats to get their messages(talking points) across. AOC has that rare ability to change the right wing narratives and that is why the right fears her so much.

[griloco]

21. I like to think of her A'OCking their FOWPTAs.

Glossary
TA: tired ass
FOWP: frightened old white people
A'OCk: (best defined visually)

[pangaia]

46. Just brilliant.. I used to watch that all them time as a kid.

Thanks for posting it.....

[Awsi Dooger]

23. They gained more than 40 years

Substituting Ocasio-Cortez for Hillary as the symbol of misogynistic fear.

Don't underestimate the value of that, from their perspective. The transition was almost immediate late last fall. I saw it on all the sports sites I frequent. The posters who always ridiculed Hillary suddenly were mocking Ocasio-Cortez.

[Mr.Bill]

32. It's taken heat off of Pelosi, too.

Which is fine with me.

[Mariana]

61. If it hadn't been her, it would have been someone else.

It's not as if the posters on all the sports boards you frequent were ever going to decide to just stop mocking well-known Democratic women.

[rampartc]

77. maxine waters had a turn

[yaesu]

24. Republicans generally hate anything good, love everything that is evil, Satan's spawn. nt

[Adrahil]

25. I like her, but she needs to keep fire directed at the GOP.

No primarying Democrats. That is a terrible plan, and disrespectful to boot. Keep focused on your own district and national issues. Let Pelosi and the Whipe deal with those not supporting the party position. That's what they are there for.

[Iggo]

26. She's brown. She's a woman. She's a Democrat.

That's why they hate her.

They only fear her because not enough people hate her.

[lutherj]

27. And she's future presidential material. Like with Hillary and Franken, they're being proactive. N/t

[Iggo]

29. I kinda see her as Nancy Pelosi Jr right now.

The President is a uniter. But a Speaker of the House is an ass-kicker.

[onecaliberal]

30. They're giving her the Hilary treatment so that when she is able to run for POTUS they will have

Damaged her greatly.

[WhoaDude]

33. She has a proper focus

She doesn't fixate on republicans. She focuses on justly serving citizens interests. There's a lesson in there for all elected officials & us too!

[Eliot Rosewater]

65. This is the perfect time to call out imperfect Democrats, primary them and risk GOP taking

the office

S I G H





Ignore me, seriously...people ignored us in the past, which is how we got HERE...people are gonna do what they are gonna do and I finally realized NOTHING i say here or almost anywhere will make a difference.

[melman]

66. Maybe people just disagree with you

Ever consider that?

[Trumpocalypse]

34. They are threatened by her. Nt

[Horizens]

35. Someone, Enlighten Me

In what way is AOC "kicking ass". Just what has she accomplished?

[Trumpocalypse]

48. Ok

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11874627

[Horizens]

63. Enlighten Me

The article doesn't answer my question so I'll ask again. What has AOC accomplished?

[Trumpocalypse]

67. Re-read the article nt

[Horizens]

68. I'd already read the article before you posted it and reread once you did. So enlighten me

what has AOC accomplished?

[Trumpocalypse]

69. Her questioning opened up

several new lines of investigation for the committee.

[Horizens]

71. Not So

No it didn't. Alleged insurance fraud long ago exposed in the press.

https://apnews.com/1fefeef4a4e84fa4af6441f4b6d221f0

That, and the alleged bank fraud has been written about before and is being investigated by the SDNY.

[Trumpocalypse]

74. I guess

the New York Times got it wrong

[TheBlackAdder]

36. The main reason: She's a Latina!

[FreepFryer]

56. In Congress, much less! :)

[MadDAsHell]

37. Actually, with gaffes like the "unwilling to work" disaster, my guess is they love her.

Her issue stances are amazing, but cmon, you can't fk up and give cons ammo like that.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

38. Here's an excellent article on this topic....

Ocasio-Cortez outrages Republicans by refusing to respect their ignorance
Arwa Mahdawi

The young congresswoman has turned the tables on the Wall Street Journal after it accused her of taking ‘pride in ignorance’

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-republicans-ignorance

(snips)

AOC is ignorant, ungrateful and coming for your meat

Large swaths of America appear to be suffering from a debilitating condition known as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome (AOCDS). Symptoms include bouts of extreme condescension, an inability to stop sputtering the word “socialist”, and overwhelming anger that a young woman of colour is unapologetically succeeding.
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On Tuesday Turner ranted in the Wall Street Journal that Ocasio-Cortez “has little regard for the system that made it possible for her to be elected to Congress”. Turner also lamented that the congresswoman “leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance – of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom – and still succeed”.

As you can imagine, the congresswoman had a few words to say in response to this, tweeting on Thursday that: “I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families.”

Ocasio-Cortez hit the bigoted nail on the head with that. After all, what Turner was essentially saying in her op-ed was that minorities should respect a system that doesn’t respect them. That Ocasio-Cortez, who “doesn’t come from a rich and powerful family”, doesn’t have an Ivy League education, and has Puerto Rican heritage, should be grateful she is allowed to exist in America, let alone succeed. And that AOC certainly shouldn’t mess with the laws of nature and history that mean rich white men, and a few rich white women, are our leaders and superiors. Turner, and conservatives like her, are terrified by Ocasio-Cortez because she symbolizes a new generation who aren’t going to shut up and be grateful, but are intent on changing an unequal system.

If you need any more evidence of how panicked conservatives are about the young congresswoman, just take a look at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which features heavy doses of Ocasio-Cortez scaremongering. Perhaps the most ridiculous examples of this was Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump official, announcing to the crowd that democratic socialists like Ocasio-Cortez “want to rebuild your home … [and] take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.” Republican men are clearly terrified AOC is coming for their meat.

..............

[Xolodno]

39. They hate her because they know people like her will eventually replace them.

There way of thinking, culture, way of life, etc. is going to go away....and they don't like it, at all. They can't defend their lifestyle so they resort to name calling, hoping it pushes off others from "joining" Congress. But they know its only a matter of time, so they are trying to make sure their privileged lifestyle's stay while they are alive.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

53. Time is running out on these assholes... tick tock!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[FreepFryer]

41. FDR: "The Republicans are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred!" (n/t)

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She’s in good company.

https://m.

[colsohlibgal]

42. She Is Sharp As A Tack

Medicare is Socialism, our Interstate Highway System was built, by a Republican, Eisenhower, using funds acquired by top marginal tax rates of 80 percent or so. The Right depends on the stupidity of it’s base, depends on the bulk of them voting against their own financial interests.

Republicans are counting on people not realizing any of this in other words.

BTW AOC’s questioning of Cohen was brilliant

Her future is so bright she will have my vote when/if I get the chance.

[AwakeAtLast]

43. Strong, intelligent women are scary

and should be shunned.


Just in case

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

52. And the GrOPers know AOC likely will be President one day... trying to take her down won't work tho.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

54. And because the media covers her.

She can't be ignored.

[Nitram]

57. They also hate her because she is a woman, and she is black.

[SilasSouleII]

60. Black?

I think "Hispanic" or "Latina" would be a better descriptor.

[Nitram]

70. According to Wikipedia, Ocasio-Cortez is describes her Puerto Rican community as an amalgamation:

"We are black; we are indigenous; we are Spanish; we are European." Perhaps "Person of color" is a better term than the one I used. The Caribbean is the ultimate melting pot.

[BeckyDem]

58. She is the future of the Democratic Party.

Too bad the Republicans have no one like her, the country needs it immediately. CLIMATE CHANGE, for one!

[VOX]

62. She's got their number, and they know it. So they flood that zone with meaningless noise.

AOC is a firebrand, and she has the GOP completely figured out. With that knowledge, she has the power to communicate TRUTHFULLY and effectively.

I love the fact that she’s grown so rapidly in her post. She’s a force to be reckoned with.

[bdamomma]

72. She's smart

and those old white men hate her for it.

[Horizens]

76. They Don't Hate Her

They see her as a gift to republicans.

[mitch96]

78. "a gift to republicans."

How so?? A new target?
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