Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez moves into a luxury apartment complex

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I googled the Rep that was just on CNN and his wiki made me think of this thread.

"Congressman Clay Higgins was sworn into the House of Representatives on January 3, 2017.

He has said that he sleeps on an air mattress on the floor of his Capitol Hill office. He works out and showers in the House gymnasium in the early morning. In the evenings, he spends more time at his desk to prepare for expected House votes the next day."

Why is that a good thing? That means we are paying for what he should be paying on rent and utilities.

Yeah, I thought that was illegal.

[Anonymous]

Distracting with stuff like where AOC is living when we have a budding authoritarian in the White House is such a crock. Please stop with the faux outrage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I googled the Rep that was just on CNN and his wiki made me think of this thread.

"Congressman Clay Higgins was sworn into the House of Representatives on January 3, 2017.

He has said that he sleeps on an air mattress on the floor of his Capitol Hill office. He works out and showers in the House gymnasium in the early morning. In the evenings, he spends more time at his desk to prepare for expected House votes the next day."

Why is that a good thing? That means we are paying for what he should be paying on rent and utilities.

Yeah, I thought that was illegal.

I don't think Members of Congress get anything extra for living expenses. They just get their salary like anyone else, and how they spend it is up to them just like anyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know any of that but neither do you.

I'm not the one make allegations about things that I admittedly know nothing about. Maybe you shouldn't pull statements out of your you-know-what.

So we know she pushed Amazon out of NYC, but shops at WF.

Why? It’s convenient. You know what else is convenient? 25,000 jobs in Queens.

Pretty sure those Whole Foods stores didn’t get hundreds of millions in tax breaks to get built. Pretty sure Navy Yard didn’t have to compete in a DC-wide competition where each neighborhood had to submit reams of data about itself in order to “win” a Whole Foods. One can be against the use of tax incentives to lure businesses like Amazon HQ and be pro-WF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6722955/amp/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-moves-luxury-apartment-complex-NO-affordable-housing-units.html

Ocasio-Cortez makes $174,000 annually with her congressional salary and has used the funds to move into the posh Navy Yard neighborhood in Washington D.C. that, ironically, is also a favorite of President Donald Trump's staffers.

My mother was a socialist when I was growing up and lived at home. She still is. She painted a picture of socialism that sounded good. I definitely was a lefty in college. Extreme.

But stuff like this is why I cannot take socialism seriously. The minute AOC gets to DC, it’s luxury for her.

If she truly was a working class champion, she’d live somewhere less expensive and donate or help the poor and downtrodden.

That’s supposed to be the difference between people like her and the rich baddies. But it seems all people want is to feed voters a line, get in office, and then, good times.

A cashier at Whole Foods was shot in the face there this past fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know any of that but neither do you.

I'm not the one make allegations about things that I admittedly know nothing about. Maybe you shouldn't pull statements out of your you-know-what.

So we know she pushed Amazon out of NYC, but shops at WF.

Why? It’s convenient. You know what else is convenient? 25,000 jobs in Queens.

Pretty sure those Whole Foods stores didn’t get hundreds of millions in tax breaks to get built. Pretty sure Navy Yard didn’t have to compete in a DC-wide competition where each neighborhood had to submit reams of data about itself in order to “win” a Whole Foods. One can be against the use of tax incentives to lure businesses like Amazon HQ and be pro-WF.

How is everyone leaping to the conclusion that she shops at Whole Foods just because there happens to be one in Navy Yard? There's also a Harris Teeter, and a number of other options nearby. Those are close to me as well but a lot of the time we go to the Trader Joe's in Eastern Market which is a little farther away. Not valid to make these automatic conclusions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know any of that but neither do you.

I'm not the one make allegations about things that I admittedly know nothing about. Maybe you shouldn't pull statements out of your you-know-what.

So we know she pushed Amazon out of NYC, but shops at WF.

Why? It’s convenient. You know what else is convenient? 25,000 jobs in Queens.

Pretty sure those Whole Foods stores didn’t get hundreds of millions in tax breaks to get built. Pretty sure Navy Yard didn’t have to compete in a DC-wide competition where each neighborhood had to submit reams of data about itself in order to “win” a Whole Foods. One can be against the use of tax incentives to lure businesses like Amazon HQ and be pro-WF.

How is everyone leaping to the conclusion that she shops at Whole Foods just because there happens to be one in Navy Yard? There's also a Harris Teeter, and a number of other options nearby. Those are close to me as well but a lot of the time we go to the Trader Joe's in Eastern Market which is a little farther away. Not valid to make these automatic conclusions.

Are whole food where a person wash shot in the face less than 6 mons ago. Also where cars are still regularly broken into. aghast! She can also walk to work help save the environment by not using some sort of fuel . Why do people hate on her so much? Is it because you are old? Just asking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I googled the Rep that was just on CNN and his wiki made me think of this thread.

"Congressman Clay Higgins was sworn into the House of Representatives on January 3, 2017.

He has said that he sleeps on an air mattress on the floor of his Capitol Hill office. He works out and showers in the House gymnasium in the early morning. In the evenings, he spends more time at his desk to prepare for expected House votes the next day."

Why is that a good thing? That means we are paying for what he should be paying on rent and utilities.

Yeah, I thought that was illegal.

I don't think Members of Congress get anything extra for living expenses. They just get their salary like anyone else, and how they spend it is up to them just like anyone else.

They don’t. I’ve known a couple of members who really suffer. If you are’t rich, it sucks. You have two households to take care of. That’s why people like us aren’t in Congress. It’s too expensive. Most members are rich.

[Anonymous]

My pal lived there years ago and said walking to and from work would be a chore - and a "hazard" at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know any of that but neither do you.

I'm not the one make allegations about things that I admittedly know nothing about. Maybe you shouldn't pull statements out of your you-know-what.

So we know she pushed Amazon out of NYC, but shops at WF.

Why? It’s convenient. You know what else is convenient? 25,000 jobs in Queens.

Pretty sure those Whole Foods stores didn’t get hundreds of millions in tax breaks to get built. Pretty sure Navy Yard didn’t have to compete in a DC-wide competition where each neighborhood had to submit reams of data about itself in order to “win” a Whole Foods. One can be against the use of tax incentives to lure businesses like Amazon HQ and be pro-WF.

How is everyone leaping to the conclusion that she shops at Whole Foods just because there happens to be one in Navy Yard? There's also a Harris Teeter, and a number of other options nearby. Those are close to me as well but a lot of the time we go to the Trader Joe's in Eastern Market which is a little farther away. Not valid to make these automatic conclusions.

Are whole food where a person wash shot in the face less than 6 mons ago. Also where cars are still regularly broken into. aghast! She can also walk to work help save the environment by not using some sort of fuel . Why do people hate on her so much? Is it because you are old? Just asking.

I really don’t care where she lives, but it is certainly hypocritical to rail against gentrification and then move to a gentrified neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

The real question is why are so many people threatened by AOC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The real question is why are so many people threatened by AOC?

The real question is why are so many people threatened by AOC being challenged?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The real question is why are so many people threatened by AOC?

And why obsess over insignificant things like which apartment building she picks?

These morons have no sense of what’s important.

[Anonymous]

As a democrat, you can dislike AOC vehemently without being "threatened" by her. If you are not in her district, it doesn't matter. Trust that there are many non-millennials who loathe her from afar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

There are lots and lots of places to live in DC--she could do the "English basement" experience so many of us did coming up, or live in a "transitional" neighborhood in a less than luxury flat like so many teachers and first responders. Hard to take her seriously, for sure.

She's a Congresswoman. She's not "coming up." She's arrived.

Good to know she is now "above" those she advocates so "tirelessly" for

So now Congress can't advocate for the suffering? Because they got elected? Nonsense.