Oh, come on. The resolution, while well-intentioned, is meaningless and hardly anyone understands it. And when I say hardly anyone, I mean hardly anyone. Even the sponsor of the legislation in the Senate couldn’t bring himself to vote for what he wrote? That’s embarassing.
McConnell outmaneuvered AOC like Steph Curry playing one-on-one against me. I can’t explain away being embarrassed like that by saying that my mom called and I had to go home early.
Yeah, you’d think…
Kinda speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
If I had an opportunity to ask President Trump a question, I sure as well wouldn’t waste it on a stupid one like this. AFAIK, Trump has never called AOC an “immigrant”. For that matter, I don’t know of any prominent Republicans that have suggested it. It certainly doesn’t seem to be a common sentiment among the Republicans I interact with. ISTM that it’s an idea that exists only in the fevered imaginations of WC and Chronos and a few others. She was born in the Bronx for fuck’s sake.
And Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, but that didn’t stop Orange Julius Caesar back in the day, now did it? :rolleyes:
The “Trump didn’t call AOC an immigrant, he called Obama an immigrant!” is an interesting defense, is it not?
This should be simple for you. If you believe there’s some merit to these assertions:
provide whatever evidence you have. So far, your side has none.
Impressive! With any luck, they’ll match the frequency Trump is mentioned here a day!
Showing results 1 to 94 of 94 (Since Yesterday)
Search took 5.12 seconds.
But nobody’s obsessed with Trump. Nah…
Malicious fuck-up of a President vs. a newbie congresscritter with no real power, and you want to compare the two? :rolleyes:
I think that the fact Trump is mentioned frequently on this board certainly proves that right wing media is not obsessed with AOC.
???
You’re right, I shouldn’t compare the two. One is coming from a pissant message board and the other is from the most-watched network on cable television. Still, 94 post a day on Trump. Most impressive indeed. Oh, 101 now. Oops.
Y’know, I wanted to step into this thread to head off a different version of this argument, i.e.
Someone is going to come in here and point out that Trump gets mentioned nearly constantly on MSNBC, therefore this is hardly out of the ordinary. That’s a bad argument, because Trump is the president and constantly doing things that are absolutely newsworthy, in the same way “man accidentally blows nose on Mona Lisa” would be newsworthy, whereas AOC is a junior representative with nowhere near the power nor the number of newsworthy events. It’s a silly comparison, and anyone making it should feel pretty silly.
…But I didn’t, because I worried I’d be fighting a straw man, that people wouldn’t make an argument that bad.
This is a considerably worse argument. How? Why?
If that’s your opinion on this message board, may I make a recommendation?
There’s a time, BPC, when you’re comparing apples to oranges and you realize… hey, they’re both fruits! So you throw out the apple, buy a diamond ring, and then compare the two.
Because that, apparently, made more sense to Ashtura than comparing AOC mentions to Trump mentions on the same medium(s).
“no real power”? She told Senate Dems to abstain from voting for her legislation and most of them complied. She’s bossing around senators. That’s “real power”.
Y’think it may have something to do with it being her legislation, and most of them agreeing with her reasoning, rather than any actual leverage or power she exerted over them?
Tim Pool claims to be a moderate democrat.
ISTM that this is more likely:
Sounds convincing. Do you know if he publishes a newsletter? I’m not a twitterer.
I think both sides, at least those that are aware of him, do not much like Tim Pool.
Psst, Puerto Rico is US territory. Even if she hadn’t been born in NYC, she wouldn’t be an immigrant.
Trump is the one who claimed that the “president of Puerto Rico” was corrupt.
Q.E.D.