Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
“I don't even know how this is legal.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is questioning how lawmakers can disappear from Congress for months without public explanation after Sen. Mitch McConnell revealed previously undisclosed health issues that kept him away from the Capitol.
AOC says medical emergencies happen, but argues extended absences without transparency have “crossed” a line. @foxnewspolitics
AOC is right. A medical emergency is one thing, but they found a sitting congresswoman in a nursing home a while back. It’s getting ridiculous. We need term limits now.
Once again: it was state legislatures themselves that led the push to ratify the 17th Amendment, because legislatively appointing senators was such an utterly broken, corrupt, nonfunctional system that some states went without representation at all for years at a time.
I’m at that weird age where every younger person I meet makes me realize how much l've aged, and every older person I meet makes me realize I'm still a baby.
"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT"
WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.