edgarblythe
 
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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This Harvard session has been going on for new Congressmembers since the 70s.

This year we heard things like “the $2T tax cut was great” and “$15 wage is a bad idea.”

No labor reps were there.

Was this a multi-decade, pro-corporate lobbyist project the entire time?Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez added,
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I got a copy of Harvard's 2014 orientation schedule, & it looks very similar

At least 8 lobbyists are listed as panelists, several listed w/o disclosing ties to lobbying firms…
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Lash
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2018 01:45 pm

Rep. Pramila Jayapal
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This is exactly why I chose not to attend this same orientation session when I came in as a new Member. I think I was in a tiny minority. It looked to me like it was alot of corporate brainwashing. Sorry,
@Ocasio2018
, I should have warned you.
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Whoah - looks like our Congressional orientation had a lot more lobbyists than we thought.

This is not okay. Lobbyists are not impartial - they are employed to influence legislation

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I feel hopeful to have these chicks reporting to us what’s been going on behind closed doors in our nation’s capital.😀
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2018 03:29 pm
@Lash,
I don't recall anybody prior to this trying to make us part of the process.
Lash
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2018 03:38 pm
@edgarblythe,
Looks good to me!

https://m.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2018/12/07/bernie-sanders-raises-nearly-1-million-in-under-six-weeks

Excerpt:

Bernie Sanders Raises Nearly $1 Million in Under Six Weeks
by Alicia Freese
December 07, 2018

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) reelection campaign raised more than $925,000 in fewer than six weeks, according to his latest filing with the Federal Election Commission. Sanders, who easily won a third Senate term in November and is contemplating a second presidential run in 2020, reported spending nearly $730,000 during the same period, from October 18 to November 26.

That leaves him with nearly $8.8 million, which could be transferred to a campaign for president, should he decide to run.

Sanders' expenses are consistent with those of a probable presidential candidate. They include about $113,000 on events; nearly $92,000 on salaries to 31 individuals; more than $64,000 on travel by car and plane; more than $60,000 on research, including $52,000 to the polling company Tulchin Research; and more than $37,000 on lodging.

His travel expenses also included a $6,800 payment to the private charter plane company Apollo Jets, as well as $5,000 in carbon offsets to Native Energy to compensate for his air travel. According to a previous FEC filing, Sanders spent nearly $300,000 on chartered planes earlier in the campaign season, as VTDigger.org reported last week.

On Monday, Sanders supporters formally launched a federal political action committee called Organizing for Bernie. Cofounder Rich Pelletier, who served as Sanders’ deputy presidential campaign manager in 2016, told Rolling Stone that the group has two goals: “One, we want to show the support is there. The second is to begin to do the organizing that is going to need to happen for him to hit the ground running, by the time he announces — if he announces.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2018 04:19 pm
He would definitely be hard to beat. He said at one point he would only run if nobody he could have confidence in would run
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Lash
 
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RevoltPolitic
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Only three members of Congress currently pay their interns a $15 wage: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democratic Sen. Doug Jones and Democratic Rep. Adam Smith.

Newly-elected Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to join them.

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She makes me happy.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2018 06:23 pm
@Lash,
When they gang up on her, I hope she grows, rather than becomes quiet.
coldjoint
 
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@edgarblythe,
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When they gang up on her,

They could lock her in a room and play "Baby, It's Cold Outside" for a couple of hours.
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edgarblythe
 
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Memo to humanity that NOT 👏🏽ONE 👏🏽DIME 👏🏽 should go towards funding the human rights abuses of this administration.

If anything, they need to fund healthcare for the children they have traumatized (w/ lifelong implications) after months of separation from their parents.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez added,
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Memo to Democrats: Not one vote for Trump’s $5 billion wall. Not one penny for Trump’s wall at all. Republicans still control both chambers of Congress. If Trump wants to shut down the government over his wall, that’s on him and the Republicans.


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Lash
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2018 09:50 pm
@edgarblythe,
It appears that she’s undaunted by criticism. I see her cutting butt on Twitter. Makes me smile. She’s no shrinking violet.💥💪🏻
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Sturgis
 
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Reply Sun 9 Dec, 2018 11:18 pm
In a similar vein to this thread, Armenia, in the midst of a Velvet Revolution has just elected Nikol Pashinyan. Perhaps the time for a forward change is sweeping the planet.

www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46502681

www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-12-09/armenians-cast-ballots-in-early-parliamentary-election
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 08:27 am
@Sturgis,
I am not certain what the first article means. I just woke up. I better come back to it later.
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coldjoint
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 03:28 pm
https://lidblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2omazf-1200x630.jpg
https://lidblog.com/please-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 04:20 pm
@coldjoint,
It's anti-Semitic to conflate Israel with Jews.

Don't be an anti-Semite.

Also, conversos did come to the New World as well as other areas of the world.

Your hate blogger is pretty ignorant himself.

Say NO to your hate sites.
coldjoint
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 04:27 pm
@InfraBlue,
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Your hate blogger is pretty ignorant himself.

That hate blogger is most likely a Jew.
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It's anti-Semitic to conflate Israel with Jews.

No it is not because you say it is. It is the way it is and impossible to dress it up, but nice try. Also Israel says it is a Jewish state, it is not conflation.
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 05:10 pm
@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:

Quote:
Your hate blogger is pretty ignorant himself.

That hate blogger is most likely a Jew.

It doesn't make him any less ignorant.
coldjoint wrote:
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It's anti-Semitic to conflate Israel with Jews.

No it is not because you say it is. It is the way it is and impossible to dress it up, but nice try. Also Israel says it is a Jewish state, it is not conflation.

Not all Jews support Israel. Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the group that your hate blogger points out is very critical of Israel. That Israel says it is a Jewish state does not negate the fact that it is anti-Semitic to conflate the two.
coldjoint
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 05:22 pm
@InfraBlue,
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Not all Jews support Israel.

I don't care. It has nothing to do with Israel being a Jewish state and the association you are trying to deny comes with it.
livinglava
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 05:27 pm
I just realized that the terms, 'progressive' and 'liberal' really mean two completely different things. Maybe it's time people started thinking more about what exactly they mean with a label instead of just using different labels interchangeably to refer to the same people.

Progressive refers to seeking change or progress. You could call Trump progressive in the sense that he seeks a certain kind of progress, although you might not consider his type of progress the same as yours, or you might even consider it regress not progress.

Progress can refer to social progress or sustainability progress or progress toward democracy, etc. Different types of progress often conflict with each other. Certainly the traditional meaning of progress as referring to industrial modernization conflicts with sustainability, unless you think of progress toward more sustainable technologies as a form of industrial modernization.

'Liberal,' on the other hand, refers to a certain kind of freedom, i.e. laissez faire type freedom. It is different from 'liberty,' where the idea is that free people constrain their choices to achieve moral/ethical responsibility. Socialism rejects moral constraint and economic liberalism rejects fiscal constraint.

Social liberalism and fiscal liberalism only converge in the Democratic party because they seek both the freedom to rock & roll, so to speak, as well as the financial/economic means to do so. Business/economic liberalism is also favored by many Republicans, who are not conservative in the sense of personally wanting to live in a more economically modest way in their private lives. Many only want tax cuts so they can invest and consume more liberally. Still, some are indeed conservative and seek to save money, invest cautiously/prudently, and are not bull investors seeking to rev up markets to cash in on them. I actually associate that kind of bull market behavior more with Democrats who aren't afraid to lose money on bad investments because they figure they can always fix it with bailouts, fiscal stimulus projects, and other safety nets.

Calling liberalism progressive is just an old fashioned idea based on the assumption that we are moving away from conservative traditionalism. In reality, it has been over a half a century since the New Deal, WWII, hippyism, the sexual revolution, etc. etc. so 'progress' in liberalism at this point is more like cementing/absolutification of the status quo than it is 'progress.'
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 05:47 pm
@coldjoint,
Yes, there is an association. The association is not absolute.
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Reply Mon 10 Dec, 2018 05:55 pm
@InfraBlue,
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The association is not absolute

Haven't I already played your word games?
 

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