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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 12, 2019, 06:00:14 pm
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AOC's chief of staff comments just killed the Green New Deal
by Philip Klein
| July 12, 2019 11:56 AM
In fairness, the Green New Deal always read like socialist fanfic, so it's hard to argue that a totally unrealistic idea with narrow support could actually be "killed." But whatever chance there was for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's big initiative to win over skeptics went poof when her chief of staff said the quiet part out loud: the Green New Deal is not primarily about addressing the climate crisis, but about replacing America's capitalist economy with a more socialist one.
A glowing Washington Post profile of Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti opens with a meeting that he had with Sam Ricketts, the climate director for Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, who launched a long-shot 2020 presidential bid centered around a sweeping climate change plan.
The article reports:
Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,†he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.†Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?†Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.â€
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/aocs-chief-of-staff-just-killed-the-green-new-deal (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/aocs-chief-of-staff-just-killed-the-green-new-deal)
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Give them enough rope and let them talk long enough and they will hand themselves every single time.
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He strikes me as the puppetmaster behind this nitwit, kind of like Valerie Jarrett is to Barry O.
Also a Nazi sympathizer?AOC chief of staff criticized for wearing shirt touting Nazi collaborator
by John Gage
| July 08, 2019 05:11 PM
Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, came under scrutiny for having worn a T-shirt that featured Nazi collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose.
In December 2018, following his boss's congressional victory, Chakrabarti did a video with NowThis News, titled "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Chief of Staff on Acting Fast in Congress," in which he wore a T-shirt with Bose's face.
Chakrabarti's choice of apparel is receiving a fresh round of criticism after Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, positively quoted Nazi sympathizer Eva Perón, the former first lady of Argentina. ...
Twitter users pointed out that Bose was a fascist who was friendly with Adolf Hitler. ...
More at Washington Examiner (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-chief-of-staff-criticized-for-wearing-shirt-touting-nazi-collaborator)
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He didn't kill the push for some GND, any more than Jonathon Gruber killed Obastardcare.
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He strikes me as the puppetmaster behind this nitwit, kind of like Valerie Jarrett is to Barry O.
Also a Nazi sympathizer?More at Washington Examiner (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/news/aoc-chief-of-staff-criticized-for-wearing-shirt-touting-nazi-collaborator)
Indeed he is. This whole "Justice Democrats" organization means to affect great harm on this nation.
**nononono*