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demmiblue

(36,900 posts)
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:15 PM Jan 2019

Lol... AOC schools Scott Walker, far-right former Governor:

Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor:

Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because it’s only $10.

Then we taxed the billionaire in town because he’s making tons of money underpaying the townspeople.


Explaining tax rates before Reagan to 5th graders: “Imagine if you did chores for your grandma and she gave you $10. When you got home, your parents took $7 from you.” The students said: “That’s not fair!” Even 5th graders get it.




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Lol... AOC schools Scott Walker, far-right former Governor: (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2019 OP
Scott Wanker has lots of free time now that he's tossed Hassler Jan 2019 #1
Not only is he too dumb, but he also thinks he's always right! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2019 #2
is he another universal expert? Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #3
Everyone says nobody can spot a despicable idiot better than me. Everybody says so. Believe me. dmr Jan 2019 #12
I needed that laugh Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #14
Scott Walker is one of the "Dirty CONS"! calimary Jan 2019 #17
Why hasn't Rachel Maddow / Chris Hayes / MSNBC & Co. commented on this? And Stephen Colbert? Scotch-Irish Jan 2019 #22
Imagine you worked all day for your company, and you received $100 at the end of the day ProudLib72 Jan 2019 #4
That was absolutely perfect! AOC is rocking KPN Jan 2019 #5
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Art of the Clapback. demmiblue Jan 2019 #9
When she is at it is because someone went after her Perseus Jan 2019 #21
They should quit while their behind. Nice to see someone fighting back. Pepsidog Jan 2019 #6
Some DU'ers want AOC to tone it down Yosemito Jan 2019 #7
I had to use the search function to find that thread. demmiblue Jan 2019 #8
GOP deliberately lie about tax brackets IronLionZion Jan 2019 #10
Scott who? Still In Wisconsin Jan 2019 #11
Heh, no kidding. demmiblue Jan 2019 #13
Yeah... the Koch stuff hit our states almost simultaneously. Still In Wisconsin Jan 2019 #18
Sick. Burn. Go Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez! malchickiwick Jan 2019 #15
He has always been an idiot. Mickju Jan 2019 #16
That's the dead horse they've been beating to shit for 40 years maxrandb Jan 2019 #19
And that is one of the many things I love about her Perseus Jan 2019 #20

Hassler

(3,392 posts)
1. Scott Wanker has lots of free time now that he's tossed
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:20 PM
Jan 2019

Out of office. He could use his freetime to learn something, but he's too dumb to even think of it.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,727 posts)
2. Not only is he too dumb, but he also thinks he's always right!
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:29 PM
Jan 2019

No need to learn something if you're always right. BLEAH.

dmr

(28,349 posts)
12. Everyone says nobody can spot a despicable idiot better than me. Everybody says so. Believe me.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:13 PM
Jan 2019

I'm a stable genius. I've got the best brain.

And my head I'd be a scratchin'
While my thoughts are busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain

calimary

(81,527 posts)
17. Scott Walker is one of the "Dirty CONS"!
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 06:17 PM
Jan 2019
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211657130

Dirty CONS: McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and more. Ukrainian/Russian-owned. The research!

A little bit of digging that could pay off now - AND LATER, when certain republi-CONS might think they're presidential material:

A report about one Len Blavatnik, an individual with US and UK citizenship, Ukrainian (OF COURSE!!!)-born billionaire who's friends with Russian oligarchs close to Putin, Oleg Deripaska in particular. Doling out some "6.35 million dollars to republican candidates and incumbent senators, using two holding companies, Access Industries and A1 Altep Holdings."

If the above report is true, then ol' Mitchy-boy is bought and paid-for. Linked to Putin. ($3.5 million)

So is Lindsey Graham. ($800K)

So is Marco Rubio. (1.5 million)

So is John Kasich. ($250K)

So is Scott Walker. (1.1 million)

So was the now-deceased John McCain (the low-ball on the list, only $200K)

Here's a report from the Dallas Morning News - from August of 2017 (!!!!! - NOBODY's picked up on this!!!!) :

Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it's because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.
Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.
During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns

(more at link)
 

Scotch-Irish

(464 posts)
22. Why hasn't Rachel Maddow / Chris Hayes / MSNBC & Co. commented on this? And Stephen Colbert?
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 02:48 PM
Jan 2019

Colbert could do some fine work with this information!!!!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
4. Imagine you worked all day for your company, and you received $100 at the end of the day
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:38 PM
Jan 2019

As you are going home, the neighborhood bully insists you pay him $40 to keep the streets "safe" by building a wall around the block.

Meanwhile, the gazillionaires only have to pay $20 because they are the ones who keep the neighborhood bully in charge.

KPN

(15,665 posts)
5. That was absolutely perfect! AOC is rocking
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:20 PM
Jan 2019

Last edited Tue Jan 15, 2019, 09:39 PM - Edit history (1)

them and their BS big time. She may even make some penetration into and despite the dull receptors of deplorables’ brains.

demmiblue

(36,900 posts)
9. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Art of the Clapback.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:55 PM
Jan 2019
Update: This word was added in January 2019.

As more of life moves online, we've developed new vocabulary to refer to online interactions, good and bad. One word that's gaining traction is clapback.

What exactly is a clapback?

Not to be confused with a garden-variety diss, a clapback is deemed by most as a targeted, often viciously acute comeback intended to place someone in much-needed check. …The goal of the clapback is to 👏Shut. 👏It. 👏Down
— Aaron Edwards & Ira Madison III, BuzzFeed.com, 18 Feb. 2015


Clapbacks are now so much a part of our regular discourse online that even your humble dictionary has been accused of clapping back.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/clapback-meaning-origin





Some have criticized her for using her time to post on social media. It certainly is a wee portion of time compared to those who have scheduled call time (she doesn't court those types of donors):

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/call-time-congressional-fundraising_n_2427291.html

Pepsidog

(6,254 posts)
6. They should quit while their behind. Nice to see someone fighting back.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:25 PM
Jan 2019

Though the wall of stupidity is practically impenetrable.

 

Yosemito

(648 posts)
7. Some DU'ers want AOC to tone it down
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:33 PM
Jan 2019

In a separate thread, a couple of the US were upset that she fact-checked Walker, for some strange reason. They don’t want to many people learning that Walker is a liar.

demmiblue

(36,900 posts)
8. I had to use the search function to find that thread.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:43 PM
Jan 2019

I ignore people who spam their own tweets.

I only could see five responses...

IronLionZion

(45,554 posts)
10. GOP deliberately lie about tax brackets
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:00 PM
Jan 2019

if we got a 70% top tax bracket, it still would not change the taxes paid by people in the lower brackets. It only affects income above all those other brackets.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/07/how-tax-brackets-actually-work-simple-visual-guide/?utm_term=.8775ebffec6d

demmiblue

(36,900 posts)
13. Heh, no kidding.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:14 PM
Jan 2019

I am in Michigan, so I can appreciate that comment! Gov. Whitmer is a much needed breath of fresh air.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
18. Yeah... the Koch stuff hit our states almost simultaneously.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 06:23 PM
Jan 2019

Glad to see these guys being slowly but surely purged.

maxrandb

(15,364 posts)
19. That's the dead horse they've been beating to shit for 40 years
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 06:26 PM
Jan 2019

All to slam Democrats. Fucking Joe the Plumber fucksticks from Dumbfuckistan 'Murika actually believe that a 70% top marginal tax rate means if you make $50K a year the gubmint is going to take $35K of it

Why has it taken 40 years and a 29 year old freshman congresswoman to explain it so succinctly?

Get off the sidelines Democrats!

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
20. And that is one of the many things I love about her
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 07:10 PM
Jan 2019

She slams them right back and makes them look for what they are, fools!

In time, these fools will stop going after her knowing that she is going to take their masks off.

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