Irony or hypocrisy? AOC calls out Pelosi for supporting Cuellar.

By HSG on Wed, 05/25/2022 - 3:49pm |

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It is true, whether one likes it or not.

I have seen much evidence in recent days of A.O.C., The Squad and DSA types loudly and proudly complaining about the Democratic party "leadership", and it is implied that there are two Democratic parties, one the hidebound and lobbyist-influenced "establishment" and the other is them, the new thinkers.

Unity no more seems to be the new paradigm.

Not to mention they often treat Bernie as their eminence grise leader. No surprise that he still serves as a Senator without Democratic party affiliation but as an Independent. People forget that, that there actually are not 50 Democratic Senators but only 48. Bernie Sanders and Angus King are Independents who caucus with the Democrats

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/25/2022 - 7:34pm

Hal, clean the damn tracker stuff iff your URLs (stuff after "?" like ?fbclid - don't want to see where you've been, ick, ew...)

As for the Tweet, do you think AOC should've done more (or even something) to support Amazon unionizing next door, instead she was AWOL?

And do you think you can be successful supporting no one in Congress, and condemning any coalitions? Does purity have any drawbacks?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 12:55am

Or course she should have. That's why I titled this hypocrisy or irony. AOC's always got Pelosi's back when taking her on could make a difference.

by HSG on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 8:55am

Edit to add: When I reread this newspost by me, I'm horrified by how unclear it is. I have only myself to blame of course. I was asking whether AOC (not Pelosi) was being hypocritical or ironic when she called out Pelosi for supporting Cuellar. Of course, AOC did much to keep Pelosi in power by protecting her from progressive ire and refusing to support "Force the Vote" back in January 2021. Also, thanks PP for taking out the tracking code in the OP.

by HSG on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 9:19am

At the end of the day, the listless and inert Dem leaders and the progressive twitter activists who have the outrage dial set to 11-out-of-10 on seventeen different issues are both suffering from the same inability to set priorities and develop coherent plans.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 26, 2022

more here.lots more. he keeps writing on it.

Rinse and repeat, over and over and over and over. Or you could finally switch to a system with like 4 parties, or at least a third party for the silent majority like Andrew Yang is trying to do, one that actually dislikes ideologues.

(There's a dagblog version: Hillary would have solved all our problems. No Bernie. No Hillary. No Bernie. No Hillary. No Bernie. No Hillary....Truth is they both are/were so old and experienced that they would have dropped whatever ideological nonsense they used for the campaign and would have been pretty much like Biden as president. And I'm so old that I remember conventional wisdom used to be that voters actually liked the gridlock; I suspect that's fading. I think the majority just wants the federal government to DO STUFF that THE MAJORITY AGREES is all right AND FUCKING FORGET ALL THAT OTHER culture and class war and ideological bullshit.)

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 8:26pm

there's the imaginary electorate in the fervent dreams of Social Justice warriors and then there's the real electorate and this is a democracy, just sayin'

From what I understand about #TX28 one of the bigger dividing issues between Cuellar and Cisneros was the border. The district is moving right, was +4 Biden. Cisneros adopted positions closer to districts AOC or Cori Bush represent.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 25, 2022

It's hard for a candidate who has all left wing or all right wing positions to succeed in a swing House district. Usually successful candidates in those districts have a mix of views.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 25, 2022

San Antonio section of the district probably does align with politics of NYC. But further south than that it would be closer to a typical swing district.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 2:16am

then here's another example. cynically, background checks on all gun sales and a ban on assault rifles is ripe and willing to be picked

Kerr is accurate when he mentions 90% of Americans favor criminal background checks on all gun sales. Here is the data from a 2019 FOX News poll. It also found 67% of Americans favor a ban on assault rifles. https://t.co/sq5WQ3Mf9U pic.twitter.com/r3uXOm0uvV
— (@JFRANCHIREPORTS) May 25, 2022

just like Biden among others always wanted. And what are a lot of Social Justice warriors promoting instead? The once dead hashtag #Defund Police was trending again on Twitter all day. Just the politically smart thing to do NOT. SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP instead. Enough of your counterproductivity in 2020. (Helped get us to a real bad place as far as I am concerned.)

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 2:31am

the nonpartisan Cook Political Report

By running more aggressively against his party's far left, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D) appears to have amped up turnout & expanded his margins among Hispanic Dems along the border. It's paying off tonight. #TX28
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) May 25, 2022

seems almost like "Latinx" Dems around those parts don't like the Social Justice Dems, huh?

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 5:16pm

Looks to me lately like she's planning to help the Dems lose control of Congress

Rep. @AOC: “It’s just really wild to be a person that works in a corrupt institution, which is what Congress is, and to try and be a normal person surrounded by so much decay and moral emptiness, that frankly transcends party, is very difficult.” pic.twitter.com/x9hqvvpq8Y
— The Hill (@thehill) June 4, 2022

“Language is fluid”: @AOC says people need to stop getting mad at the term “Latinx.” pic.twitter.com/nynUqHUBkt
— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) June 6, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/07/2022 - 12:30am

Fatality https://t.co/sau5ltCUe8
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 6, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/07/2022 - 12:33am

@AOC blames our current political and economic problems on the country's "Protestant work ethic." pic.twitter.com/nonUrAEsRz
— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) June 22, 2022

I've heard the protestant work ethic explanation for lower US adoption of welfare states than Europe before, but I don't think it explains it. US and Europe didn't diverge a lot on welfare until really latter part of 20th century. https://t.co/10kSsubQyj https://t.co/UMdUebSAg5
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 23, 2022

Actually it was right around post WW1 period pic.twitter.com/jsNw0d2wxu
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 23, 2022

I don't know if work ethic even has a relationship to political support for welfare states. Some countries with very industrious work ethic have expansive welfare spending and vice versa.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 23, 2022

There's some evidence on the ethnic heterogeneity being a factor but if you look across countries, there are definitely homogenous states that have low welfare spending and diverse ones with higher spending. Probably not as determinative as argued.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 23, 2022

For instance Omar Wasow research showed that the civil rights movement was actually politically potent in the South, contrary to some conventional wisdom. The instability and violence in late 60s and then 70s probably did more to reduce support for welfare spending.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 23, 2022

Is cultural diversity the explanation for levels of welfare spending in global South? Doubtful if you simply expand your analysis beyond America and Europe. pic.twitter.com/dzQWmv3ceV
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 11:14pm

Begs the question "what does culturally diverse mean?"

From a dumb Southern boy perspective, India doesn't feel that diverse compared to the US, but i guess if you're Indian you appreciate whatever racial and linguistic and cultural differences that look much the same to me.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/23/2022 - 1:32am

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