Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Memes/Humor/Satire

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On 2 April 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump referred to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a “young bartender” during a fundraising dinner for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Trump was, of course, hardly the first to paint Ocasio-Cortez as inexperienced or unqualified for her position in Congress. Ever since she became the youngest woman to be elected to that legislative body during the 2018 midterm elections, we’ve encountered dozens of posts about her résumé.

One of the biggest talking points among Ocasio-Cortez’s detractors is that she is uneducated. For example, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson labeled her a “moron” during a segment on his show, the Powerline blog published an article under the rhetorical title “HOW DUMB IS OCASIO-CORTEZ?” and numerous social media users have posted their own derogatory comments insulting the congresswoman’s intelligence.

This rhetoric likely helped sow the seeds of doubt over Ocasio-Cortez’s academic record. One email we received here at Snopes, for instance, questioned whether the congresswoman truly had an economics degree: “Much to do about AOC — Ocasio Cortez — of late and questions about her college degree? We read she actually did not get an econ degree, but an International Relations degree. If so, much of her credibility is in question. What is real here?”

The satirical Babylon Bee added a bit more confusion to the situation when they latched onto the criticism and published an article stating that the congresswoman’s economics degree had been revoked.

Here is the reality: Ocasio-Cortez truly graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011. In an article about distinguished alumni, the university wrote that “Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Boston University in 2011 with a BA in International Relations and Economics.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-resume/
Better?

 

Better. But it still doesn't explain why she's such an idiot when it comes to economics and politics. Maybe she should have stuck to microbiology.

 

Dunno, sometimes people engage tongue before brain , like Trump.

 

Not to feed fuel to the liberal fire, but you're assuming Trump ever engages his brain.

 

A very valid point.

 

Much of this is a perception perpetuated by memes that put words in her mouth that she never uttered. Yes, she does speak in extremes as they are perceived today but will likely one day be the norm, just like social security, income tax and men and women watching movies in the same theater together. It's a long way off but when negotiating you don't start with the acceptable but rather the dream. When I go into the open market and I ask a price and the vendor answers 50 when I know it's 30 I don't say 30 I say 15 and we eventually arrive at 30. When a general is making up his budget and he needs $50 billion he says he needs $70 billion knowing it's going to be cut.
From her perspective too many Democrats are leaning well right of center because they don't want to appear extreme and need to be pushed left.

 

Good explanation.

 

Except that she is very extreme and no one needs to be pushed that far left. Socialism is very unpopular in the US, but that's what she's selling.

A Monmouth University poll released on Monday showed that only ten percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...cans-oppose-socialism-just-ten-percent-favor/

 

If you don't care that America's largest companies are shafting you, your children and your grandchildren into paying their taxes I guess there's no convincing you.

 

The economy is not a zero sum game, nor is the US government's budget. Exxon getting a tax break doesn't increase anyone else's taxes one iota.

 

If you say so.

 

The Babylon Bee is satire. As for AOC, yes she graduated with honors and has an economics degree and she thinks she can pay for the New Green Deal by printing money. Apparently they didn't cover inflation in her economics study.

BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Babylon Bee Controversy.

What’s really going on is that Snopes is trying to engineer the deplatforming of the Bee from Facebook and Twitter — not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because popular and effective satire from the right cannot be tolerated.​

And Buzzfeed is trying to help them.

We all have about had it with the censorious bastards.

 

She is one person in a sea of how many? Even with her three colleagues they represent a tiny minority’s but a healthy one because they define a far left position it allows others to define more moderate stances

 

Then invest in an alternate platform

Easy

 

By following the tax rules.

 

So when the rules are disregarded for one or the other company you're down with that? Because it's all in the tax code or forgiven by the IRS.

 

Just think, if ALL corporations started paying the same for those paying the most now and carrying the load the top rate could go down and we could balance the budget.

 

If Exxon wrote down asset values, as an example, that can be offset against profits, thus showing a loss and thus no tax payable.

 

I seriously doubt she has a degree in Econ.

 

Why should they be able to claim losses in asset values when I can't? I lost my shirt (on paper) during the recession of 2008-2009 when my house lost half its value and stocks fell.

 

If you had sold, you could, at least partially.

 

And lost money in reality. Better to keep it on paper.