Yeah. The article is unfair as it holds AOC to a set of standards much, much higher than any politician in the last 20 years.
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I mean she is a woman, and they have to be perfect.
They are threatened by her.
Let them feel threatened. They should. She's unbought and unbossed.
Especially because this is a touchy policy issue on which the US is deliberately vague. The US intentionally avoids answering questions on the topic of military intervention in Taiwan to keep China guessing as to what its response would be to an attack. No one would've been able to give a satisfying answer.
It's not about making china guess, it's about not making a stance. Stances you can react to, ambiguity you can only prepare for.
We're saying the same thing. "Keep them guessing" is a colloquialism meaning something like "to foment doubt". Not literally to initiate an infinite loop of guessing.
Also she was extremely well spoken and made great points in all the clips I saw from that event.
In posts like this, I'll always point people towards "How the liberal media helped fascism win" by Behind the Bastards podcast. It's a fantastic 2 part episode that explains exactly what's happening again today in the 2020s.
Will have to have a listen. Is it talking about today, the rise of it in the 1920s and 30s, or both?
Blackshirts and Reds by Parenti is one of books I recommend people to read today to understand how liberals turn to fascist aliances. So much parallel between the past and today.
Yep the focus is the 1930s, but as you can imagine there are lots of tie-ins today's media.
I knew a teacher who would have English students read Trump speeches in class just to see if they could find complete sentences.
That's both hilarious and oddly educational.
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right — who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
And to think his brain has collapsed even more since this infamous quote.
"the weave" 😂
dude this cant be real
It's the classic example from his first term
Doesn't he also say it "nucular", on top of everything else?
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Who knew that all media all the time would be the most complicit in the downfall of western society? Or is it just that we like scintillating, scandalous, less than positive entertainment? In either case we must bring back the old teachings of how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Compared to.... https://www.rev.com/transcripts/air-force-one-press-gaggle-2-16-26
I guess it's harder when you're working with truth instead of just stream of consciousness bullshit that's unrelated to any reality whatsoever.
Racist and xenophobic stream of consciousness! And that’s just the first few parts I looked through.
