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Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that he doesn't believe freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) listened much to the advice he gave her about being one of the youngest members of the House.
In an interview Tuesday night at the annual dinner for Forward Jainesville, a community organization based in his hometown, Ryan quipped that he thought Ocasio-Cortez had ignored his advice while revealing that he had met the New York congresswoman after her election victory last year.
"I talked to her, AOC - everybody calls her AOC ... She's the youngest person now there. I gave her just a few little tips on just being a good member of Congress, new. I don't think she really listened to a thing I said," Ryan said, to laughter from the audience.
"Take it easy, just watch things for a while, don't ruffle any - see how it works first," he added of the advice he gave to Ocasio-Cortez.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/house/437205-paul-ryan-says-ocasio-cortez-didnt-really-listen-to-a-thing-i-said-when-he%3famp
itcfish
(1,828 posts)Sharp and does need advice from a hack like you!!!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)as an intellectual, apparently the closest thing the knuckdragging Republican caucus imagined it had.
He's always been an extremist dope. He couldn't be put down after the Kochs pushed him on Romney (no bright bulb himself), so had to be put away instead. Then a total failure, traitor, and coward as speaker on rising far above his level of competence and integrity. To our benefit, of course.
I wouldn't listen to him either. Seriously.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Ryan is an example of how NOT to represent most citizens.
maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)Eat shit and die, Ryan, you utter fraud.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Then she considered the source and wisely did just the opposite.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)"Double standards are Paul Ryan being elected at 28 and immediately being given the benefit of his ill-considered policies considered genius; and me winning a primary at 28 to immediately be treated with suspicion & scrutinized, down to my clothing, of being a fraud," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted last year.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,062 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,273 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Doubt that she wasn't listening, her actions to date clearly indicate she pays very close attention to many things.
She just took the advice for what it was worth and acted on her own better judgement.
JHB
(37,163 posts)...and she doesn't have the benefit of a mainstream media that is so desperate to portray a "serious policy-wonk" Republican that they'd celebrate any one who'd spout econo-babble at them. And did.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,878 posts)let along anything having to do with government.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Vinca
(50,313 posts)llmart
(15,556 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)lyin ryan (I haven't forgotten his damage)
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)So there is that.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)java108
(129 posts)AOC doesn't need your fucking advice.
kairos12
(12,877 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)you waste of good air? What have you EVER done that was for the good of someone else? And what makes you think you know how a good member of Congress comports him/herself?
ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)Shes doesnt need to listen to that asshole. She had plenty of decent people to listen to if she chooses
DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)Niagara
(7,682 posts)I see that your new gig isn't keeping you busy, I suppose that's a good thing.
Don't you have more lies to spread and poverty shaming to achieve now since your on the Board of Directors for Fox Corp.?
Anyone who has common decency would never take advice from a rotten hypocrite!
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)eShirl
(18,505 posts)Tanuki
(14,923 posts)Of course she wouldn't listen to you.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Freethinker65
(10,064 posts)Then she decided to do things her way.
Why would anyone want to take advice from and end up like Paul Ryan?
spanone
(135,891 posts)lame54
(35,328 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Yavin4
(35,446 posts)She wins every day.
LisaM
(27,842 posts)Using it as an anecdote on the speaking tour circuit is something else entirely; it shows he really wasn't giving advice at all.
Not that I'd ever accuse Paul Ryan of being well-intentioned.
dweller
(23,673 posts)such mysogynist comments
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ProfessorGAC
(65,227 posts)I'm glad she ignored advice from that Randian moron!!!
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)rurallib
(62,460 posts)malaise
(269,200 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,584 posts)Good for her!
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)I fail to see the problem here. Meanwhile, I see that he took half a million dollars from the Koch Brothers--after passing their version of the tax bill. Hmmmmmmm....