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hueymahl

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66. You kids, Get off my Lawn!

Reply to crazycatlady (Reply #49)

Thu Jan 10, 2019, 10:25 PM

Jan 2019

I love that phrase. Every time I read a post complaining about her needing to “learn the job” that is what I hear.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Singlehandedly Shifting the Overton Window [View all] BluesRunTheGame Jan 2019 OP

Anderson Cooper is a good guy but when you look at his roots you understand why he thinks Autumn Jan 2019 #1

Anderson Cooper is the radical... time for him & his 1% pals to pay the fuck up!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #2

His net worth is $ 100 million. So yeah fair taxes to that bracket are radical. nt Autumn Jan 2019 #10

Supposedly Cooper gets none of the family fortune rurallib Jan 2019 #4

Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt ... aggiesal Jan 2019 #7

In case you don't know, Cooper is the only surviving child of Gloria Vanderbilt... hedda_foil Jan 2019 #23

Yeah I knew that but wanted to be careful how I phrased it. Autumn Jan 2019 #32

This is why AOC is so important. ZX86 Jan 2019 #3

BBBut didn't someone say she should sit down and learn at the feet Ford_Prefect Jan 2019 #5

The article doesn't give her accolades for disrespecting those who did the work... Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #9

If they have accomplished so much why do the wealthy have a lower tax rate than say a secretary? Autumn Jan 2019 #11

You've just seen why. There are consequences to losing elections. Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #20

And yet a WOC who won her election and is bringing the idea mainstream is Autumn Jan 2019 #34

I don't know how old you are... Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #36

I'm in my 60s and I well remember bills being passed that did not benefit American people. Autumn Jan 2019 #38

40 or 50 years ago, the wealthy tax rate was 90%. Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #45

In 1981 the tax rate was cut to 50% and it's gone down with just a Autumn Jan 2019 #46

No one ever paid 90%. shanny Jan 2019 #80

I didn't say "paid." I said the tax rate used to be 90%. Indeed it was. Over 90%, actually. Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #86

the top marginal rate shanny Jan 2019 #87

Wow, that was a whole bunch of condescension packed in there hueymahl Jan 2019 #39

⬆️ This. ⬆️ JudyM Jan 2019 #43

+1 crazycatlady Jan 2019 #49

You kids, Get off my Lawn! hueymahl Jan 2019 #66

I'm an 80s baby myself crazycatlady Jan 2019 #70

Google the repug party. That's why tax rates on the wealthy are so low. brush Jan 2019 #53

I don't have to google. Elections have consequences as has been pointed several times Autumn Jan 2019 #57

The title of your post seems to say something different. brush Jan 2019 #58

Then read past the title or ignore it. Autumn Jan 2019 #59

I read both title and article. If the title is not what you mean, change it. brush Jan 2019 #60

But she still has 1st amendment rights Trumpocalypse Jan 2019 #12

For now...n/t bluecollar2 Jan 2019 #31

"No one is all good or all bad" - I have to challenge you on this one - Trump is all bad womanofthehills Jan 2019 #13

She got elected and took down Crowley. Autumn Jan 2019 #47

I don't recall Rosa Parks ZX86 Jan 2019 #14

Very well said nt Trumpocalypse Jan 2019 #15

Oh, I see. This is a Pelosi vs. Cortez thing. Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #21

This right here Autumn Jan 2019 #48

Surely, you're not putting Ocasio-Cortez in the same category as or comparing her to Rosa Parks? EffieBlack Jan 2019 #52

Yes I am. ZX86 Jan 2019 #54

Wow. EffieBlack Jan 2019 #55

Enthusiastic support of Democrats surprises you? ZX86 Jan 2019 #56

No. EffieBlack Jan 2019 #61

Wow. ZX86 Jan 2019 #62

So you're diminishing Rosa Parks' importance because she wasn't a politician? ehrnst Jan 2019 #63

If only Mrs. Parks had lived up to the legacy of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez EffieBlack Jan 2019 #67

Someone also said that the AOCs of the world need to allow themselves to be mothered... SMC22307 Jan 2019 #16

Yup, yup... but that's usually the way WOC are disrespectful treated... InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #17

And she's outstanding at debunking their KPN Jan 2019 #6

You can say that again!! AOC is an absolute treasure!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #18

'xactly shanny Jan 2019 #78

I'd caution references to Overton Theory JHan Jan 2019 #8

Thanks for that information on where "Overton Window" originated. ehrnst Jan 2019 #24

Lol--The New Republic shanny Jan 2019 #81

If u have a problem with anything she said point it out JHan Jan 2019 #82

"elitist libertarian concept" shanny Jan 2019 #83

Again,, nothing u can point to JHan Jan 2019 #84

Disagree. Caliman73 Jan 2019 #19

Excellent post nt EffieBlack Jan 2019 #22

+1000. ehrnst Jan 2019 #25

+1 /nt LongtimeAZDem Jan 2019 #26

totally agree scarytomcat Jan 2019 #27

well said NewJeffCT Jan 2019 #29

agree with this as well, except about the silencing. its harder to put the cork back in nt JCanete Jan 2019 #37

Do you remember when Howard Dean was on his meteoric rise? Caliman73 Jan 2019 #42

The outburst of emotion was the night of the Iowa caucuses which he was expected to win karynnj Jan 2019 #73

Oh yeah, but that is a little different. That's intentionally making a candidate implode. JCanete Jan 2019 #79

Not to take anything away from AOC, but... Blue_Tires Jan 2019 #28

Every generation thinks they invented air EffieBlack Jan 2019 #30

The Republican con job about gov't, taxes and business good DeminPennswoods Jan 2019 #33

My point is EffieBlack Jan 2019 #35

People have been speaking about many things for years and no one listened hueymahl Jan 2019 #41

Exactly DeminPennswoods Jan 2019 #44

No one listened? EffieBlack Jan 2019 #50

Ok, if you want to play word games hueymahl Jan 2019 #65

But thank God, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez came along to sound the call for the world to hear EffieBlack Jan 2019 #68

You are hilarious hueymahl Jan 2019 #72

Whatever EffieBlack Jan 2019 #74

Ha! Exactly. betsuni Jan 2019 #75

It's just funny, every post about her, there you are hueymahl Jan 2019 #76

Actually, I don't have time to respond to the hundreds and hundreds of posts about her EffieBlack Jan 2019 #77

I would say that the millenials stepping forward have learned an awful lot about our history hueymahl Jan 2019 #40

As I said, every generation thinks the previous one "royally screwed up" EffieBlack Jan 2019 #51

As a member of the previous generation hueymahl Jan 2019 #64

Sure. That's why the "Greatest Generation" got called that Mariana Jan 2019 #69

They weren't called that until several decades after EffieBlack Jan 2019 #71

in fact the young people back then were even more JI7 Jan 2019 #85