Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Under Investigation By House Ethics Committee

By artappraiser on Wed, 12/07/2022 - 5:43pm |

#BREAKING: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is under investigation by House Ethics Committee
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— Forbes (@Forbes) December 7, 2022

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/12/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-under-investigation-by-house-ethics-committee/

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Over her dress at Met gala?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 12/08/2022 - 7:32am

Wonder why they're not saying why @AOC is under investigation with ethics committee? https://t.co/82GUsrFudc
— Diane (@POLICEINFLA) December 8, 2022

Could be the free ticket, which is worth $30,000, not the dress so much. Might also be something else.

Meanwhile, aside from ethics, I do find it incrediby hypocritical of supporters of AOC to bitch about of the right winger dress meme. After all, she was trolling with it! She was no innocent with that, rather, she was trolling for exactly that reaction. Borrowing a little bit of MTG-style antics (or Al D'Amato, for that matter), not the kind of thing I personally like to see my Congressperson do, I like to see grownups in the U.S. Congress. Which does she want to be, an immature celeb who trolls at parties and gossips with the gals on internet video chats, or a Congressperson?

by artappraiser on Thu, 12/08/2022 - 3:06pm

But her antics are kind of between her and her constituents - assuming u have a different rep for Queens? The other side spends quite enough time trolling, in much more caustic ways. And we're getting more and more verification of the illegal millions the Trump's took, who else? Matt Gaetz's partner in underage crime just got 10 years yet another immoral GrOPer gets to hang around avoiding jail. Dinesh D:Souza is a convicted felon yet thanks to Trump's pardon he pretends he's lily-white. Roger Stone? Busted - but again pardoned.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 12/08/2022 - 6:37pm

I'm in the Bronx. Ritchie Torres is my new Rep. with redistricting and I am quite pleased with him so far. My old Rep. was Espillat, a so-so machine Dem with Dominican heritage, so he consistenly got re-elected.

AOC was never my Rep. and I AM VERY GLAD FOR THAT. She's tried and true woke socialist (as in anti-capitalism), for chrissakes she's an official member of the DSA!!! Elite woke lefty wiith Paris Hilton ways. All the shit about her being raised poor or understanding the borough folks is made up crap narrative, she was not raised in the Bronx but in Yorktown Heights in a suburban home, her father was an architect, she went to B.U. out of state...etc.

Edit to add:the bar she worked in was in Manattan. Typical to make a shitload of money in those jobs (+ cash tips = paying virtually no taxes.)

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/09/2022 - 12:17am

Dayum, don't be dissing my gal Paris - I'll give u AOC & the Squad & whoevuhs, but leave the poor Hilton hair-est alone!

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/09/2022 - 2:01am

FYI - There's no evidence that the ethics investigation of AOC concerns the Met Gala.

It's the supposition of the Daily Mail from conservative orgs filing a complaint in Sept 2021, but no one knows what the Ethics Comm started investigating in June 2022 https://t.co/1cnYLb6atf
— Purity For Thee But Not For Me (@TheePurity) December 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/10/2022 - 5:34am

AOC & Elon:

You’re a public figure. An extremely controversial and powerful one.

I get feeling unsafe, but descending into abuse of power + erratically banning journalists only increases the intensity around you.

Take a beat and lay off the proto-fascism. Maybe try putting down your phone. https://t.co/BniyYUqWMY
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 16, 2022

You first lol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 3:13pm

Look, Elon has 50 million followers and about a trillion dollars in the bank.

AOC is a relative nobody. I don't get the point of all this - why does he have to act like such a retard all of a sudden? What's his endgame?

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/16/2022 - 7:38pm

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