Holy crap. This made my ears bleed.
CLIP: Rep. @AOC on #GreenNewDeal: "I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives. That is too much for me."
Full remarks here: https://t.co/ibNT3CHYWA pic.twitter.com/O9yiXMhzhe
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 14, 2019
That voice though. It’s just the worst. And there are people who are suggesting that in that clip, she’s specifically throwing shade at Joe Biden.
By the way, AOC is putting a whole bunch of distance between herself and Joe Biden, who she clearly finds detestable.
According to the sourcelink, she was recently interviewed by New York Magazine and she was asked what sort of role she’d play in a hypothetical Biden administration.
She “groaned” and said, “Oh God. In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.”
And she talked about who she believes belongs in the Democrat party:
“For so long, when I first got in, people were like, ‘Oh, are you going to basically be a tea party of the left?’ And what people don’t realize is that there is a tea party of the left, but it’s on the right edges, the most conservative parts of the Democratic Party. So the Democratic Party has a role to play in this problem, and it’s like we’re not allowed to talk about it. We’re not allowed to talk about anything wrong the Democratic Party does. I think I have created more room for dissent, and we’re learning to stretch our wings a little bit on the left.”
And then for the kicker – she said, about the Pogressive Caucus, that they should “expel lawmakers without adequate liberal bona fides,” saying, “they let anybody who the cat dragged in call themselves a progressive. There’s no standard.”
She stated something similar about the Democrat party as a whole, describing it as having “too big of a tent.”
So you tell me who is the more tolerant side of the aisle, y’all. Because AOC is basically saying if you don’t think as she does, you’re not fit to be a Democrat, and you’re CERTAINLY not fit to be a progressive.
People LIKE this chick. I will never understand it.