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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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DGuller

What Democrats lack is people who can dish it out as hard as they take it.  She definitely fills that void.  Hopefully in time her political acumen will rise to the level of her quick wit, and she'll lose some of that unworkable Democratic socialism nonsense from her policy list.

The Larch

Quote from: garbon on December 17, 2018, 07:34:31 AMSorry but all of what you've just written is a mess. I supported Hillary who couldn't stop talking about what she wanted to do; policy wonk to a fault. Of course, she's also someone who had worked in politics before.

Ocasio-Cortez was a...community organizer?

Nope. She worked in education, owned (still owns?) a small business (a niche publishing house), interned for Ted Kennedy and worked for the Bernie Sanders campaign.

garbon

Quote from: The Larch on December 17, 2018, 08:52:51 AM
Quote from: garbon on December 17, 2018, 07:34:31 AMSorry but all of what you've just written is a mess. I supported Hillary who couldn't stop talking about what she wanted to do; policy wonk to a fault. Of course, she's also someone who had worked in politics before.

Ocasio-Cortez was a...community organizer?

Nope. She worked in education, owned (still owns?) a small business (a niche publishing house), interned for Ted Kennedy and worked for the Bernie Sanders campaign.

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Eddie Teach

2 of those things sound suspiciously like political experience.  ;)
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garbon

Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 17, 2018, 09:32:35 AM
2 of those things sound suspiciously like political experience.  ;)

And internship while in college and working as an organizer for the Sanders campaign?
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crazy canuck

Quote from: garbon on December 17, 2018, 07:34:31 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on December 17, 2018, 06:58:12 AM
Not so long ago American Languishites were complaining the Dems were not talking enough about what they wanted to do.  Is it perhaps more that you dislike what she is proposing?

Sorry but all of what you've just written is a mess. I supported Hillary who couldn't stop talking about what she wanted to do; policy wonk to a fault. Of course, she's also someone who had worked in politics before.

Ocasio-Cortez was a...community organizer?

I think I've also been clear that I don't like candidates (or newly elected not yet office holders) who promise the moon and the stars. Lies when you can't deliver.

Not sure what your support for Hillary has to do with what I said.  In any event it turns out its not that you mind her saying what she is going to do.  You have some preconception of what a person must have by way of background in order to succeed as a politician.   The UK is rubbing off on you  :P

Barrister

AOC's political resume is fine for a first-time congressperson.  The basic job doesn't really require any one particular set of skills.

What she isn't really qualified for, IMO, is some level of leadership within the party, or for this undue level of media attention.
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garbon

Quote from: Barrister on December 17, 2018, 05:07:19 PM
AOC's political resume is fine for a first-time congressperson.  The basic job doesn't really require any one particular set of skills.

What she isn't really qualified for, IMO, is some level of leadership within the party, or for this undue level of media attention.

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: Barrister on December 17, 2018, 05:07:19 PM
AOC's political resume is fine for a first-time congressperson.  The basic job doesn't really require any one particular set of skills.

What she isn't really qualified for, IMO, is some level of leadership within the party, or for this undue level of media attention.

She isn't a leader within the party and she gets media attention because she gets clicks. So does Kanye.
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viper37

Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 17, 2018, 06:18:07 PM
because she gets clicks.
most of these from Republicans looking for proofs the Democratic Party is about to overthrow the US government to form a communist regime. ;)
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Syt

I get some uncanny valley feels from the supposed humans in the picture.
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I have a better tuxedo than Trump does.  Like, way better, that I can tell you.
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