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Ocasio-Cortez's Popularity Is Spooking Congress (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jan 2019 OP
Well she's not spooking me vlyons Jan 2019 #1
Young and enthusiastic, progressive energy, and the courage to make waves. Magoo48 Jan 2019 #2
Your first sentence is exactly why she's spooking Congress. Autumn Jan 2019 #7
I sure hope she has the depth and strength to hold onto that popularity. Kablooie Jan 2019 #3
Your concern is duly noted. whathehell Jan 2019 #4
Better one brief shining moment... Tribalceltic Jan 2019 #5
This is hilarious! betsuni Jan 2019 #6
Isn't she just the greatest? NurseJackie Jan 2019 #11
Head and shoulders above... tonedevil Jan 2019 #14
Oh yes. She's the greatest ever. NurseJackie Jan 2019 #15
I don't know of anyone... tonedevil Jan 2019 #16
Nobody is doing that. NurseJackie Jan 2019 #17
You are correct... tonedevil Jan 2019 #18
She can do no wrong. She's the best ever! NurseJackie Jan 2019 #19
Has anyone who isn't you... tonedevil Jan 2019 #20
Out with the old, in with the new! We need more like her! NurseJackie Jan 2019 #21
I believe you are sincere... tonedevil Jan 2019 #22
I'm sure you do. NurseJackie Jan 2019 #23
If she's spooking them duforsure Jan 2019 #8
The new members coming in are the way of the future. Establishment... WePurrsevere Jan 2019 #9
+1 ariadne0614 Jan 2019 #10
I was on a reddit thread, probably r/conspiracy... Ztolkins Jan 2019 #12
She is a breath of fresh air... yuiyoshida Jan 2019 #13

Magoo48

(4,705 posts)
2. Young and enthusiastic, progressive energy, and the courage to make waves.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 04:55 AM
Jan 2019

Congressional foot-dragging zombies beware!

Autumn

(45,056 posts)
7. Your first sentence is exactly why she's spooking Congress.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 09:14 AM
Jan 2019
She's a threat to the status quo. They don't want that catching on.

Kablooie

(18,625 posts)
3. I sure hope she has the depth and strength to hold onto that popularity.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 05:15 AM
Jan 2019

It would be disheartening to find she was just the bright sparkly thing of the month.

betsuni

(25,462 posts)
6. This is hilarious!
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:14 AM
Jan 2019

"For decades Democrats said 'We just can't get people to care about climate change.' She went out and got people to care about climate change."

"Congress is a place that is sort of out of time" and then footage of Debbie Wasserman Shultz. HILARIOUS.

"Pissing off a ton of people inside Congress *sniff*"

 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
16. I don't know of anyone...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:28 PM
Jan 2019

saying she is the greatest, if you have links to such I am always happy to be enlightened, but she is much better than the folks in the peanut gallery disparaging her every breath.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
17. Nobody is doing that.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:58 PM
Jan 2019
disparaging her every breath.
Nobody is doing that. But... if you have any links to demonstrate such, I am always happy to be enlightened.

She's totally a breath of fresh air, isn't she?
 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
18. You are correct...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:15 PM
Jan 2019

I am guilty of hyperbole since she won the primary she has probably taken hundreds of breaths that haven't been disparaged. She's not my rep and like the rest of the USA I'm only recently acquainted with her, but I like and respect her a lot more than I like or respect any of her detractors. Perhaps if someone comes up with legitimate criticism of what she is doing I will form a more negative opinion, for now I like her. The noted philosopher, Taylor Swift, put it best in her tome, Shake it Off; Haters are going to Hate Hate Hate.

 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
20. Has anyone who isn't you...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:41 PM
Jan 2019

ever said that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez can do no wrong? Or that she's the best ever? I know I haven't nor have I heard anyone else do so. I'm assuming you are doing this to mock me and those who view the Congresswoman positively. If that is so do you think you gain something with this 3rd grade level taunting?

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
8. If she's spooking them
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 09:19 AM
Jan 2019

She must be doing something pretty good then. I like her a lot, and she has more sense than trump does about things, and isn't intimidated by these old people there in Congress . She could have a very , very bright future. We need more women and minorities in Congress. That's what's spooking republicans, they hate women and minorities , and others not exactly like themselves.

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
9. The new members coming in are the way of the future. Establishment...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:25 AM
Jan 2019

type reps are all to often so caught up in procedure, ego, $$ and such that they lose track of what the people who voted for them truly want/need.

While the new members need to learn from the members who have been around for a while how to do their job, the older ones need to listen and learn from the new ones and put their egos, etc out to pasture.

Ztolkins

(429 posts)
12. I was on a reddit thread, probably r/conspiracy...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 03:45 PM
Jan 2019

That was talking about her....more than one redditor had literally, actually, for real, compared her to the Antichrist and part of some "cabal"

Right wing be tripping over this classy dame.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
13. She is a breath of fresh air...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 06:11 PM
Jan 2019

Something badly needed in a Congress with no windows to the outside... those smoke filled rooms are of the past, its time for a new generation to come in learn how things work, and carry that ball down the line for a few field goals, followed up by a few touchdowns for the American People!

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