Key point. Today’s schism isn’t between the Right and the Left; it’s between the Crazies and the Sane.
I have little confidence in PoliticalCompass but their chart showing Obama and Romney as very close ideologically makes a related point.
Rational thinkers of the world, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your … [dependence on Xanax?]
Ben Shapiro [‘host of "The Ben Shapiro Show” podcast and syndicated radio, “The Ben Shapiro Election Special” on Fox News, NRO, Newsweek, NYT bestseller’] on Twitter:
Twitter response:
So many triggered snowflakes.
That was my first thought as well. How sad, pathetic, and disconnected from reality does a person have to be to think this video is even slightly unbecoming?
“LOOK, SHE’S DANCING! YOU HATE THAT!” perfectly sums up this thread.
Nah, we’re just amused at the large number of conservative heads that AOC seems to be living rent-free in. 
If you think that’s funny, you could get an absolute roaring fit of laughter out of the large(r) number of liberal heads that President Trump seems to be living rent-free in.
lol
Seems like a made up controversy to me.
A few grumps complain that AOC likes to dance. There’s always a few people that will complain about anything.
Who knows if these people are even political?
But it gets attributed to Conservatives.
FWIW it’s pretty cool seeing AOC enjoying herself. It shows that she doesn’t always take herself too seriously.
I WISH trump was only living in my head, and not in the white house.
This. AOC is one Representative out of 435, and it will be years before she so much as chairs a Congressional committee. She has very little actual power, and nobody really has to pay attention to her.
Trump, OTOH, is President of the United States. In that capacity, he has a great deal of power. He can have babies separated from their parents and locked up in cages, or he can institute a foreign policy that kisses up to a hostile power while undermining our longstanding alliances. In 2017, he came within one vote of dismantling the Affordable Care Act. Hell, he could start a nuclear war if the mood were to strike him. He is powerful, he is dangerous. Failing to pay attention to him is not really an option.
The fact that conservatives are paying one-tenth the attention to AOC that liberals pay to Trump is one hell of a win for AOC.
Of course nobody has to, but as long as she keeps making statements like this:
she’ll probably keep getting attention.
Congresscritters say outrageous and ridiculous things all the time, many of which leave that one in the shade. And 99% of them pass with barely any public notice, beyond a brief mention in a paper somewhere.
AOC’s remarks keep getting attention because conservative media and conservative pundits keep giving her lots of attention. Not that I object, mind you, but she gets attention because she’s living rent-free in conservatives’ heads.
Doesn’t AOC interest in facts remind you of Trump?
They both just say whatever they want. Someone challenges them with the facts and they shrug it off as being overly critical. It’s the message they care about and they find it inconvenient when their vision isn’t supported by reality.
AOC is only a freshman House member. Hopefully she’ll learn as the years go by.
60 Minutes, that bastion of conservatism :rolleyes:
And The Atlantic.
All part of the right-wing smear machine, and its dastardly plan of destroying liberals by putting them into prime-time.
Regards,
Shodan
Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?
The new AOC outrage: She used to go by the name Sandy.
It’s almost as if people deliberately want to ignore the context…
Which seems to be… a reasonable response. But yet, people seem to want to deliberately chop off the last part of it to make a very different portrayal than what AOC meant.
Yeah, fuck those evil bastards running “60 Minutes” twitter account. :rolleyes:
60 Minutes wants to get clicks. What’s your excuse?