Members of the famous Congressional &#8216;Squad&#8217; are set to announce their support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), selecting socialist bona fides over gender solidarity.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-omar-tlaib-reportedly-will-endorse-bernie-sanders">Fox News reports</a> that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will appear with Sanders Saturday at an event touting Sanders&#8217; return to the campaign trail following a heart attack, and that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), have signed on to issue their own official endorsements.
Omar&#8217;s endorsement was released Wednesday morning.
The Washington Post was the first to report that Omar and Tlaib would back the Vermont Senator over fellow female lawmaker, Elizabeth Warren, forgoing gender solidarity for a true commitment to socialist principles. Neither Washington Post, nor CNN, which reported the endorsements several hours later, were clear on whether Omar and Tlaib would appear with Sanders on Saturday alongside Ocasio-Cortez, however.
The Sanders campaign issued a statement early Wednesday touting Omar&#8217;s official seal of approval and quoting the Minnesota Representative at length.
&#8220;Bernie is leading a working class movement to defeat Donald Trump that transcends generation, ethnicity and geography,&#8221; Omar is quoted as saying, according to the Sanders campaign Twitter account. &#8220;I believe Bernie Sanders is the best candidate to take on Donald Trump in 2020.&#8221;
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IT&#39;S OFFICIAL: <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> has endorsed <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/b0MK2Dbygc">pic.twitter.com/b0MK2Dbygc</a>
&mdash; People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1184312134689120256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Omar&#8217;s endorsement is no surprise. Omar and Sanders share a commitment to providing many government services free of charge and cancelling most remaining student loan debt owed to the government &#8212; a costly endeavor that Omar claims could be &#8220;paid for with a small tax on Wall Street speculation,&#8221; though it is not clear how even a large tax would provide the $1.6 trillion necessary to wipe all loans off the books completely, particularly when Omar&#8217;s colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wants to tax the same group of people to pay for a $95 trillion Green New Deal.
Ocasio-Cortez has yet to formally endorse Bernie Sanders, but has tweeted approvingly of the Senators plans and defended Sanders against claims that his signature Medicare for All program might prove disasterous for Americans looking for improved health care options.
&#8220;Thank you!,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted to Sanders during Tuesday night&#8217;s debate. &#8220;There are too many plans out there that seem more interested in protecting corporate profits than protecting the lives of working Americans.&#8221;
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Thank you! There are too many plans out there that seem more interested in protecting corporate profits than protecting the lives of working Americans.
We need <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareForAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MedicareForAll</a>, and we need it now. <a href="https://t.co/Te8c8g0tJS">https://t.co/Te8c8g0tJS</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1184267586269265920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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She followed it up with a plea to &#8220;tax the rich&#8221; &#8212; something Sanders is keen on, even if he&#8217;s not clear about what might happen when the rich are no longer rich, or the rich move their money well out of reach of &#8220;President Sanders.&#8221;
The endorsements seem to fall in line with Sanders&#8217; latest campaign strategy: appealing to &#8220;true&#8221; progressives to back his campaign over Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s, under the theory that Warren is actually a capitalist in socialist clothing. Upon returning to the campaign trail this week, Sanders attacked Warren&#8217;s socialist bona fides, pointing to several interviews Warren did in the dawning days of her presidential campaign, calling herself a &#8220;capitalist at heart,&#8221; and proclaiming her love for capitalist systems.
By endorsing Sanders over Warren, the &#8220;Squad&#8221; is sending the message that progressives backing a &#8220;new generation&#8221; of leadership should take principles over electability, even if that means defining a &#8220;new generation&#8221; as falling behind an 80-year-old career politician.

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&#8216;Squad&#8217; Members Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar Set To Endorse Bernie Sanders

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Far-left Democrat Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), and Rashida Tlaib (MI) are reportedly going to endorse socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to be the Democrat nominee to face President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
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&#8220;Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, one of the most influential voices among young liberals and a rising Democratic star, plans to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president and appear with him at a rally on Saturday, according to two people with knowledge of her plans,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-presidential-hopeful-bernie-sanders-to-be-endorsed-by-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/2019/10/15/b2958f64-ef84-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The endorsement could be a blow for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who, like Sanders, is running on a platform of sweeping liberal change and who has emphasized her role as a female pioneer.&#8221;
In a statement circulated by the Sanders campaign, Omar wrote:
<blockquote>Bernie is leading a working-class movement to defeat Donald Trump that transcends generation, ethnicity, and geography. That is why he is fighting to cancel all student debt. That is why he is fighting to make all school meals universal. That is why he is fighting for a humane immigration policy that treats immigrants as human beings and not criminals. And it&#8217;s why Bernie is fighting to end our forever wars and truly prioritize human rights in our foreign policy &#8212; no matter who violates them. And it&#8217;s why I believe Bernie Sanders is the best candidate to take on Donald Trump in 2020.</blockquote>
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IT&#8217;S OFFICIAL: <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> has endorsed <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/b0MK2Dbygc">pic.twitter.com/b0MK2Dbygc</a>
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1184312134689120256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
CNN added that Tlaib would also endorse Sanders, as CNN Politics reporter Greg Krieg tweeted: &#8220;Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will also endorse Sanders, according to source.&#8221;
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New: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will also endorse Sanders, according to source. AOC will, as <a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@daveweigel</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/WaPoSean?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WaPoSean</a> first reported, will do the same on Saturday in NYC.
— Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/1184303508188794880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
The fact that the far-left trio of freshman congresswomen would endorse Sanders instead of Warren is a head-scratching decision, as Warren is considered by many to be a stronger candidate than Sanders.
Sanders, who is pushing 80-years-old, was just released from the hospital this month after suffering from a heart attack on the campaign trail. He is also the most openly socialist of the Democratic candidates.
&#8220;If Sanders were vying for a Cabinet post, he’d never pass an FBI background check. There’d be too many subversive red flags popping up in his file. He was a communist collaborator during the height of the Cold War,&#8221; The New York Post&#8217;s Paul Sperry <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/">wrote</a> during Sanders&#8217; 2016 campaign. &#8220;While attending the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.&#8221;
&#8220;After graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as &#8216;America’s greatest Marxist,'&#8221; Sperry continued. &#8220;In the early &#8217;70s, Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of all US banks and the public takeover of all private utility companies. Sanders took several &#8216;goodwill&#8217; trips not only to the USSR, but also to Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence in our hemisphere.&#8221; (Read the rest of Sperry&#8217;s article in The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/">here</a>.)
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-omar-tlaib-take-democrats-anti-ryan-saavedra">Far-Left Democrats Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib Are Normalizing Anti-Semitism In Democratic Party</a>
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Far-Left Trio Reveal Who They Are Endorsing For President: Report

On Monday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about AOC’s recent global warming speech in Copenhagen, in which she literally cries about the future. Video and partial transcript below: 
Much crazier in the world of rhetoric was AOC, who was giving a speech about global warming and decided to get misty-eyed ⁠— to start crying because she is convinced the world is about to end and she now feels that she can&#8217;t be a mother.
<blockquote>OCASIO-CORTEZ: I speak to you not as an elected official or public figure, but I speak to you as a human being — a woman whose dreams of motherhood now taste bitter-sweet because of what I know about our children&#8217;s future, and that our actions are responsible for bringing their most dire possibilities into focus. I speak to you as a daughter and descendant of colonized peoples who have already begun to suffer.</blockquote>
What is she suffering? Last I checked, she&#8217;s getting $300 haircuts and living in a posh apartment in Washington D.C., and going on television all the time. What did she suffer? She said I am suffering, I am a member of an indigenous peoples group that we are suffering.
What are you suffering? What are other people suffering? There is no evidence that the world is going to end in 12 years. There is none, not one little bit. That&#8217;s not scientific. It&#8217;s not even — I don&#8217;t even, to call it a religious view is not really supported by the evidence because most religious views have some logic to them. Some have a lot of logic to them; this has no logic, none whatsoever. 
The worst global warming predictions are that the Earth will warm about two degrees over a century. There is no evidence that this will pose any problems for humans, certainly will not pose any problems for Americans. Why is AOC worried about having children? Look, if AOC doesn&#8217;t have children, I&#8217;m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth exactly. But in the spirit of humanity, because I am human and nothing human is alien to me, I would like AOC to feel like she is free to have children. Why doesn&#8217;t she want our children now? Because she says we know that they will face the diarist of consequences. What&#8217;s the diarist of consequences? I guess death would be the direst of consequences. 
AOC thinks that because we drive automobiles, that in the next generation, all the children are gonna die. That&#8217;s the direst of consequences and therefore she&#8217;s crying on stage. Right now today, we kill 1 million babies a year in this country before they&#8217;re born. One million babies every single year. We know that they face the diarist of consequences. We know because it&#8217;s happening right now. We don&#8217;t know, that in 10 years, all the children are going to die. Actually, we know that they&#8217;re not going to because there&#8217;s no evidence of that whatsoever. Short of a comet, a meteor hitting the earth, that&#8217;s not going to happen. In 100 years based on all of the available evidence. All the children aren&#8217;t going to die. Right now today one million of them a year are dying. AOC doesn&#8217;t shed a tear for that AOC campaigns for it. This is either the product of a profound ignorance or insanity, and I&#8217;m actually going to give AOC the benefit of the doubt here. 
I&#8217;m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that it&#8217;s ignorance, because when I was a teenager I was pro-abortion. I didn&#8217;t understand the argument for pro-life, I didn&#8217;t get it. I just thought, Well they&#8217;re not babies. And I just didn&#8217;t think more about that because that&#8217;s what I was told by the media and by educational institutions and by politicians and by everyone around me in New York, but then once you see that you can&#8217;t unsee it, and it is a baby. We shouldn&#8217;t kill babies. I&#8217;m going to give AOC the benefit of the doubt.
A lot of pro-lifers have come up to me and said Mike, I just don&#8217;t understand how anyone could support abortion&#8230;Abby Johnson one of the greatest pro-life advocates worked at a Planned Parenthood because she obviously didn&#8217;t see the problem with abortion. Dr. Bernard Nathanson was one of the founders of the pro-abortion movement, he was the founder of NARAL, the Big Abortion Rights League, now he&#8217;s one of the biggest pro-life advocates. Jane Roe in Roe V. Wade is the reason why there is a so-called national right to abortion in America, she then became one of the biggest pro-life advocates in the country. 
Obviously, people can be fooled by the illogic of abortion and then come around and see reality. So I&#8217;m going to assume that AOC is just ignorant — ignorant on the climate, ignorant on life, ignorant on a whole lot of things. I mean she said in one of her first interviews that she&#8217;s not the expert&#8230;She was on that Firing Line with Margaret Hoover. 
That is a profound ignorance. It requires humility to fix that ignorance. Unfortunately, the Left doesn&#8217;t have that humility, and I think the way that we conservatives can reach them is by asking questions. Now, if you just go straight out and attack them all the time, if you&#8217;re constantly just beating that drum, you&#8217;re probably not going to change their minds. You might change other people&#8217;s minds in the audience, but you&#8217;re not going to change their minds because you&#8217;re playing into their pride — you&#8217;re giving their pride a reason to assert itself.
 If you ask with some humility these simple questions. Well what&#8217;s your evidence that the world&#8217;s going to end in twelve years? What&#8217;s your evidence [that] all the children are gonna die if you&#8217;re worried that all the children are dying? What about abortion? Just simple questions. I think there&#8217;s an easier way to reach them. 
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went after presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg on Monday after the South Bend mayor criticized his Democratic rivals over their small donor fundraising strategy and demand for federally-mandated gun confiscation.
&#8220;Small-dollar grassroots campaigns, aka what Buttigieg insults here as &#8216;pocket change,&#8217; out-fundraises him by millions,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;Our nation&#8217;s leaders should not be working to end the era of big money politics, not protect it.&#8221;
&#8220;[And] Beto&#8217;s gun policy isn&#8217;t &#8216;picking a fight,&#8217; it&#8217;s taking a stand,&#8221; she added.
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Small-dollar grassroots campaigns, aka what Buttegieg insults here as “pocket change,” out-fundraise him by millions.
Our nation’s leaders should be working to end the era of big money politics, not protect it.
&amp; Beto’s gun policy isn’t “picking a fight,” it’s taking a stand. <a href="https://t.co/a6k7rgXHiD">https://t.co/a6k7rgXHiD</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1183881130107428865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s comments come as O&#8217;Rourke has been facing widespread backlash from both sides of the aisle for demanding that the government seize millions of firearms from law-abiding American citizens.
While O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s declaration that &#8220;hell yes, we&#8217;re going to take away your AR-15 [and] your AK-47&#8221; has received massive applause from his left-wing supporters, many Democratic lawmakers have since been distancing themselves from the divisive rallying cries.
Democrats have long been defending their gun control agenda against claims that the party wants to take away Americans&#8217; firearms. Accordingly, Buttigieg slammed O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s proposal as playing directly into the hands of the Republican Party.
&#8220;Look, right now, we have an amazing moment right here on our hands,&#8221; Buttigieg said in September. &#8220;We have agreement among the American people for not just universal background checks but we have a majority in favor of red flag laws, high capacity magazines, banning the new sale of assault weapons. This is a golden moment to finally do something because we&#8217;ve been arguing about this for as long as I&#8217;ve been alive.&#8221;
O&#8217;Rourke has touted both Republican and Democratic disapproval of the program, contending that it means he is &#8220;doing something right.&#8221; However, he lashed out at Buttigieg over his condemnation, noting that he was especially &#8220;offended.&#8221;
The radical proposal was largely seen as a last-ditch attempt to bring new life to O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s presidential campaign. The former Texas congressman has been struggling to gain traction in the polls &#8212; he has not broken 5% support since April and is averaging at less than 2% support. After his third quarter fundraising fell far short of his Democratic primary challengers, he sounded the alarm on the need for a &#8220;breakthrough.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a policy disagreement and it is about governing,&#8221; Buttigieg later responded to O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s remarks. &#8220;I get it, I mean he needs to pick a fight in order to stay relevant, but this is about a difference of opinion on policy and my focus right now is getting something done.&#8221;
While Ocasio-Cortez has not clarified her stance on a government-run gun confiscation program, she has been <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-has-four-point-plan-solve-americas-gun-issues-1371990">vocal in her support</a> for various gun control measures such as universal background checks, banning magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, and implementing federally mandated safe storage requirements. She has also called for the U.S. government to ban all semi-automatic firearms, which accounts for the vast majority of guns in the country.
The New York congresswoman has yet to endorse a presidential candidate, but has voiced her praise for Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her progressive policies. Following the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) first primary debate, Ocasio-Cortez highlighted Warren&#8217;s performance, noting that she &#8220;really distinguished herself&#8221; and that she even &#8220;knocked it out of the park.&#8221;

Large Climate Demonstration Marks The End Of The C40 World Mayors Summit 2019 In Copenhagen

Ocasio-Cortez Defends Beto&#8217;s Gun Confiscation Plan: It&#8217;s &#8216;Taking A Stand&#8217;

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Mayors from 50 cities and officials from around the world all jetted to Denmark last week to figure out ways to address the “global climate emergency.”
Seriously.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has warned that airplanes and farting cows will cause the end of the world within a decade, was among the U.S. officials who joined the party, traveling by plane from Washington, D.C.
The Democratic socialist congresswoman also celebrated her birthday in Denmark on Sunday after attending the C40 World Mayors Summit, where she praised &#8220;social democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!🎈 Spending the day in Denmark after C40, enjoying this social democracy that treats healthcare &amp; education as rights, zero-carbon as priority, &amp; infrastructure as a key public good. Here’s to another year of fighting for our future.💜&#8221; the New York politician wrote on Twitter.
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Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!🎈
Spending the day in Denmark after C40, enjoying this social democracy that treats healthcare &amp; education as rights, zero-carbon as priority, &amp; infrastructure as a key public good.
Here’s to another year of fighting for our future.💜 <a href="https://t.co/t2jfzNZPTe">pic.twitter.com/t2jfzNZPTe</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1183401439546216449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
“I am inspired by this coalition and the commitments made for a global Green New Deal,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “If we work to join forces globally, we will be able to defeat our greatest threat and realize our greatest opportunity.”
“Federal govs are failing to act on the climate crisis,” she wrote later on Twitter. “We can’t wait for others to lead.&#8221;
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore also flew in for the summit, telling the group, “Because of what’s happened to our national governments, mayors are on the [climate change] front line now.&#8221;
“A lot of this is up to you; we need you, we need your help, the world needs your help, the next generation needs your help and the young people are saying in ever louder, more passionate terms that they depend on us to do the right thing,&#8221; Gore said.
Gore cautioned that mayors, “do not have the luxury of just going away and reading reports about what is going on. You run into your constituents every single day.”
Mayors from 14 of the world’s largest cities vowed to reduce the amount of meat served in schools, hospitals, and other public buildings. Ocasio-Cortez said during her speech at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen that her dreams of motherhood “taste bittersweet” because of climate change.
“The climate crisis is already here,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed. “On this note I speak to you not as an elected official or public figure, but I speak to you as a human being — a woman whose dreams of motherhood now taste bittersweet because of what I know about our children’s future, and that our actions are responsible for bringing their most dire possibilities into focus. I speak to you as a daughter and descendant of colonized peoples who have already begun to suffer.”
“It is not a coincidence that these disasters get relatively little media coverage, and that even less of the coverage dares to mention climate change,” she said.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Mayors Of 50 Cities &#8212; And Ocasio-Cortez &#8212; Fly To Denmark To Battle Climate Change

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cried on Friday during a climate alarmist speech in Copenhagen at the C40 World Mayors Summit where she claimed that her &#8220;dreams of motherhood now taste bittersweet because of what I know about our children’s future.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez began her alarmist speech by claiming that humanity was at a crossroads of &#8220;extinction or opportunity,&#8221; adding that there is &#8220;no middle road&#8221; on climate policy.
&#8220;The climate crisis is already here,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;On this note I speak to you not as an elected official or public figure, but I speak to you as a human being — a woman whose dreams of motherhood now taste bittersweet because of what I know about our children&#8217;s future, and that our actions are responsible for bringing their most dire possibilities into focus. I speak to you as a daughter and descendant of colonized peoples who have already begun to suffer.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not a coincidence that these disasters get relatively little media coverage, and that even less of the coverage dares to mention climate change,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. Media coverage of natural disasters often get significant coverage, with &#8220;climate change&#8221; being one of the <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/julia-seymour/2019/09/05/media-flood-hurricane-dorian-reporting-climate-alarmism">top points</a> parroted by the media.
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>, near tears: My dreams of motherhood &#8220;now tastes bittersweet&#8221; because of global warming <a href="https://t.co/hwNUSxtp3l">pic.twitter.com/hwNUSxtp3l</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1182692870010093569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;It is not a coincidence that the truth is controversial,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;None of this is a coincidence because climate change is not a coincidence or a scientific anomaly. Climate change is a consequence. It is a consequence of our unsustainable way of life.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez then suggested that capitalism promotes &#8220;lawbreaking pursuit of profit&#8221; and that capitalism only benefits “the very few,” despite the <a href="https://fee.org/articles/extreme-poverty-rates-plummet-under-capitalism/">fact</a> that capitalism has lifted more people out of extreme poverty than any other economic system.
Ocasio-Cortez then admitted that her far-left <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/green-new-deal-would-cost-93-trillion-or-600g-per-household-study-says">$93 trillion</a> plan is really about “chang[ing] society” and “winning” in politics, and that the desired outcomes are to fix “injustice” and promote &#8220;equality.&#8221;
This is similar to what Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former chief-of-staff Saikat Chakrabarti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aocs-chief-staff-admits-green-new-deal-about-ryan-saavedra">admitted</a> during an interview.
The Washington Post reports:
<blockquote>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.” [Sam Ricketts, climate director for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D)] 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.” [emphasis added]</blockquote>
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Socialist Ocasio-Cortez:
-Humanity facing “extinction” due to climate
-“No middle road” on climate policy
-Success of Green New Deal (GND) measured in “injustice &amp; equality”
-GND about “chang[ing] society”
-GND about “winning” politics
-Capitalism benefits “the very few” <a href="https://t.co/g1EURwJf1y">pic.twitter.com/g1EURwJf1y</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1183104443694252032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s speech comes a couple of weeks after far-left climate activist Greta Thunberg gave an even more extreme speech while speaking at the United Nations, a speech that was widely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-australian-pm-blasts-those-who-exploit-childrens-anxiety-on-climate-change">condemned</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/10/02/putin-belittles-greta-thunbergs-impassioned-un-speech-at-energy-forum/">criticized</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-greta-thunberg-over-mass-extinction-ryan-saavedra">mocked</a> by world leaders while simultaneously championed by most in the media.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” Thunberg began. “Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering; people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”
&#8220;How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions,&#8221; Thunberg continued. &#8220;There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you, and if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line. The world is waking up, and change is coming whether you like it or not.&#8221;
WATCH:
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This speech by far-left activist Greta Thunberg is absolute madness <a href="https://t.co/RFyIPZlajQ">pic.twitter.com/RFyIPZlajQ</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1176149492698992641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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AOC CRIES: Earth Facing ‘Extinction,’ ‘Dreams Of Motherhood Now Taste Bittersweet’

Global Warming

Green New Deal

Greta Thunberg

It&#8217;s not often a bipartisan coalition forms naturally around an issue, but the NBA&#8217;s unqualified capitulation to Chinese Communists has managed to bring together perhaps the most mis-matched group of legislators in a decade.
In this case, that shocking bi-partisan team involves Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Tom Cotton (R-AK), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) &#8212; not exactly a group that enjoys a robust friendship.
In a two-page letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, the group excoriates the league&#8217;s decision to issue an unqualified apology to Chinese officials after Houston Rockets manager, Daryl Morey, sent a single public Tweet expressing support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Over the weekend, both the NBA and Morey groveled at the feet of the Chinese Communists in order to save a business relationship between the league and the global superpower, and followed up its public capitulation with a series of bizarre antics, censoring fans who brought signs, wore tee shirts, or started chants supporting the Hong Kong demonstrators opposing Chinese incursion.
The group <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/bc420a63-b1e4-4fe5-bc9e-637d519cfbdb/sasse-nba-letter.pdf">pulled no punches</a>.
“It is outrageous that the Chinese Communist Party is using its economic power to suppress the speech of American inside the United States. It is also outrageous that the NBA has caved to Chinese government demands for contrition,” the group writes.
&#8220;Hundreds of millions of people within China will read your statements as an admission that their government’s propaganda is correct; millions of people in Hong Kong will be dispirited,” they continue. “That you have more potential fans in China than in Hong Kong is no excuse for being over backwards to express ‘sensitivity’ only to one side.”
The letter goes on to suggest that the NBA is hypocritical for its stance on Morey&#8217;s statements, since it has openly encouraged its players to express controversial opinions before &#8212; though largely on domestic issues, not foreign ones. Cracking down here, the group says, is an attack on &#8220;fundamental American values.&#8221;
When the league inked its deals with China, the group argues, they should have anticipated that some day China might be offended by something said by a player or administrator in the league, and pledged to defend their own, even if it meant losing cash in the process. Instead, the NBA has paved the way for the Chinese to use economic means to censor Americans&#8217; protected speech.
The Members of Congress make four demands on the NBA: that the NBA will reiterate its commitment to being &#8220;hands off&#8221; when it comes to the political beliefs of its players and administrators, that the NBA will cease doing business with the Chinese until the Chinese drop their boycott of NBA activities, that the NBA will re-evaluate its operations in China (including operating its training facility for Chinese players in Xianjiang, just a stone&#8217;s throw from where China is operating huge concentration camps for ethnic Chinese Muslims), and &#8220;clarify&#8221; that players and administrators are allowed to speak out on human rights abuses at home and abroad.
The NBA has yet to respond, probably because its still figuring out what to do about its lost Chinese connection. So far, China has dropped its commitment to host a handful of planned pre-season exhibition NBA games and says it will end NBA broadcasts in-country.
NBA players like Steph Curry, who refused to speak on the subject during an interview yesterday, also have multi-million dollar sponsorship contracts with corporations like Nike and Reebok, who sell billions of dollars worth of goods inside China and don&#8217;t want their own economic interests harmed.

A Chinese flag placed on NBA merchandise

Ted Cruz, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Join Forces To Criticize NBA&#8217;s China Cowardice

China

Ted Cruz

Back in April, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined several other lawmakers to blast President Trump for keeping U.S. troops in Syria.
&#8220;The 2015 introduction of U.S. military forces into hostilities in Syria was never approved by Congress, in violation of the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution of 1973,&#8221; says the letter, signed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Rand Paul and freshman Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar. &#8220;We believe that the stated intention of withdrawing our forces is appropriate, and we look forward to the orderly return of our service members from this theater of conflict.&#8221;
&#8220;It is long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization, and we look forward to pursuing this longstanding bipartisan objective with your Administration,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;Finally, we hope this will serve as a model for ending hostilities in the future — in particular, as you and your administration seek a political solution to our involvement in Afghanistan.&#8221;
So, fast forward to this week. The Trump Administration announces that American troops will begin a withdrawal from the Syrian border to make way for a Turkish incursion into the region.
Trump said Monday on Twitter: &#8220;The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so. They have been fighting Turkey for decades. I held off this fight for almost three years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home.&#8221;
And he went further on Wednesday, retweeting a post about the &#8220;endless quagmires in the Middle East.&#8221; &#8220;Should have never been there in the first place!&#8221; Trump wrote.
But NOW, Ocasio-Cortez thinks America ought to stay in Syria.
&#8220;Trump’s sudden withdrawal from northern Syria &amp; endorsement of Turkey’s actions could have catastrophic consequences &amp; risks laying the ground for immense violence and suffering,&#8221; she wrote Tuesday in Twitter.
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Trump’s sudden withdrawal from northern Syria &amp; endorsement of Turkey’s actions could have catastrophic consequences &amp; risks laying the ground for immense violence and suffering.
We can pursue a strategy to stop our endless wars without endangering the lives of innocent people. <a href="https://t.co/N2YWjEGveX">https://t.co/N2YWjEGveX</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1181655223921778689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
That stance is completely opposite of her long-held position that the U.S. must pull out of Syria.
When she was running for Congress in 2018, she vowed to work to end U.S. involvement in not just Syria, but across the Middle East.
&#8220;Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has entangled itself in war and occupation throughout the Middle East and North Africa. As of 2018, we are currently involved in military action in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia,&#8221; her campaign website says. &#8220;Hundreds of thousands of civilians in these countries have been killed either as collateral damage from American strikes or from the instability caused by U.S. interventions. Millions more have fled their broken countries, contributing to the global refugee crisis.&#8221;
<blockquote>America should not be in the business of destabilizing countries. While we may see ourselves as liberators, the world increasingly views us as occupiers and aggressors. Alexandria believes that we must end the &#8220;forever war&#8221; by bringing our troops home, and ending the air strikes that perpetuate the cycle of terrorism throughout the world.</blockquote>
She also wrote on Twitter in April 2018 that &#8220;A ‘mad king’ President, with majority disapproval of Americans, just decided to bomb a nation without the Constitutional requirement of Congressional approval.&#8221;
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Here is the profound danger of what we just did in Syria:
A ‘mad king’ President, with majority disapproval of Americans, just decided to bomb a nation without the Constitutional requirement of Congressional approval.
Democrats who take war money passed the laws allowing that.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/985195142645678080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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FLIP-FLOP: Ocasio-Cortez Was Against U.S. Involvement In Syria Before She Was For It

Syria

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said this week that it was time for the United States to have a serious conversation about &#8220;decarceration&#8221; and &#8220;prison abolition in this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Mass incarceration is our American reality,&#8221; the former bartender tweeted. &#8220;It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, &amp; slavery. To end it, we have to change. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration &amp; prison abolition in this country.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez continued, claiming without evidence: &#8220;Yesterday morning I spoke with a woman who was thrown in Rikers as a teenager. Put in solitary confinement for MONTHS, aka torture. Force-fed pills. The conditions were so bad, she too had drank out of toilets. A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.&#8221;
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Yesterday morning I spoke with a woman who was thrown in Rikers as a teenager. Put in solitary confinement for MONTHS, aka torture. Force-fed pills.
The conditions were so bad, she too had drank out of toilets.
A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1181198160045195269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez — who has spearheaded the &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; and &#8220;Abolish ICE&#8221; movements — made the radical remarks in response to a story about a man who was sentenced to 10 days in prison because he failed to appear in court for jury duty and the judge wanted to teach him &#8220;a lesson&#8221; about responsibility.
Ocasio-Cortez, who has repeatedly portrayed herself as a victim of the political right, continued: &#8220;I know the term &#8216;prison abolition&#8217; is breaking some people’s brains. The right is already freaking out. Yet the U.S. incarcerates more than anywhere in the world. We have more than enough room to close many of our prisons and explore just alternatives to incarceration.&#8221;
&#8220;First of all, many people in [jail] or in prison don’t belong there at all,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued, apparently unaware of how the criminal justice system works. &#8220;Whether it’s punitive sentencing for marijuana possession or jailing people for their poverty &amp; letting the rich free through systems like cash bail, we wrongly incarcerate far, far too many people.&#8221;
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First of all, many people in jailed or in prison don’t belong there at all.
Whether it’s punitive sentencing for marijuana possession or jailing people for their poverty &amp; letting the rich free through systems like cash bail, we wrongly incarcerate far, far too many people.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1181207074442825730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Secondly, our prison &amp; jail system is so large bc we use them as de facto mental hospitals, homeless shelters, &amp; detox centers instead of *actually* investing in &#8230; mental health, housing, edu, &amp; rehab. If we invested meaningfully, what do you think would happen to crime?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez concluded. &#8220;Lastly, people tend to say &#8216;what do you do with all the violent people?&#8217; as a defense for incarcerating millions. Our lawmaking process means we come to solutions together, &amp;either way we should work to an end where our prison system is dramatically smaller than it is today.&#8221;
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Lastly, people tend to say “what do you do with all the violent people?” as a defense for incarcerating millions.
Our lawmaking process means we come to solutions together, &amp;either way we should work to an end where our prison system is dramatically smaller than it is today.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1181207079190708224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/aoc-wants-to-abolish-prisons/">noted</a> that &#8220;less than 4% of state-level offenders, and less than 1% of federal offenders, are incarcerated for any kind of drug possession, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The share incarcerated for marijuana offenses is unknown, but almost certainly a fraction of this fraction.&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, 55% of all state-level offenders—who represent 88% of all incarcerates — are in prison for violent offenses,&#8221; The Free Beacon added. &#8220;Roughly half of federal offenders are incarcerated for drug offenses, but &#8220;more than 99%&#8221; were drug traffickers, according to the BJS.&#8221;

Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Abolishing Prisons In The United States

Democratic Socialism

Law Enforcement

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have once been the driving force behind an impeachment inquiry in the House, but just as Democrats are digging in on President Donald Trump, it seems the &#8220;squad&#8221; leader is losing interest.
It turns out she believes the time to impeach Trump has long passed (though she was supportive of the House&#8217;s efforts just last week), and she wants Democrats to move on to more important issues, like the massive omnibus &#8220;economic justice&#8221; bill she just introduced.
“I think the whole thing is boring,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez told constituents at a town hall event, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-already-bored-with-impeachment-im-over-it">according to the Washington Examiner</a>. &#8220;He should have been impeached a long time ago. I&#8217;m over it. And so that&#8217;s how I feel about it because we&#8217;ve got work to do.”
Ocasio-Cortez may be a little sore because, despite Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-NY) submission to the progressive &#8220;squad&#8217;s&#8221; agenda, not a single one of the female freshman legislators are officially involved in the initial inquiry, probably by design. Ocasio-Cortez is no longer the center of attention on the matter.
It&#8217;s also clear that an inquiry may not lead to actual impeachment proceedings, especially if the whistleblowers&#8217; claims don&#8217;t expose any actual quid-pro-quo agreement between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian officials with knowledge of former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s dealings in the eastern European country. No matter how desperately Ocasio-Cortez wants impeachment, it cannot be done without due process, per the edicts of the Constitution.
Instead, the freshman New York legislator has other progressive priorities on her mind. Last week, as the nation was preoccupied with Ukraine, she introduced a massive omnibus spending bill that she says will create a more &#8220;just society.&#8221;
Impeaching the president has no appeal, it seems, when she can spend more taxpayer money.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-unveils-bill-that-would-give-federal-benefits-to-illegal-aliens">As the Daily Wire</a> reported over the weekend, the bill package has six parts: a &#8220;place to prosper act&#8221; that would institute national rent control, an &#8220;uplift workers act&#8221; that would mandate a national $15 minimum wage along with other union-friendly protections, a &#8220;mercy in re-entry&#8221; act that would extend public benefits to people released from prison, an ambiguous &#8220;Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for All&#8221; act, a change in the Federal definition of &#8220;poverty&#8221; that could include those families making up to $40,000 per year, an an &#8220;embrace act&#8221; that would extend all Federal benefits to non-citizens.
In case it&#8217;s not clear, the bill defines &#8220;Federal benefits&#8221; rather broadly:
<blockquote>Any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license provided by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States; and … any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States.</blockquote>
If the package sounds like an extreme spending bill, that&#8217;s because it is. It comes with no price tag attached, only a guarantee that a tax hike on the wealthy will somehow pay for it all, even though those same wealthy would also be taxed for Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s other proposed programs, like the Green New Deal, which could cost taxpayers as much as $93 trillion over the first decade.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Now Bored With Impeachment: &#8216;I&#8217;m Over It&#8217;

Impeachment

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed on Monday that an inmate at the Rikers Island Prison Complex was once forced to drink from the toilet, echoing the unfounded claim she previously made about immigrant detention facilities.
&#8220;Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, [and] slavery,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;To end it, we have to change. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration [and] prison abolition in this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Yesterday morning I spoke with a woman who was thrown in Rikers as a teenager. Put in solitary confinement for MONTHS, aka torture. Force-fed pills,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The conditions were so bad, she too had drank out of toilets. A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don&#8217;t belong in them.&#8221;
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Yesterday morning I spoke with a woman who was thrown in Rikers as a teenager. Put in solitary confinement for MONTHS, aka torture. Force-fed pills.
The conditions were so bad, she too had drank out of toilets.
A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1181198160045195269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The remark hearkens back to a similar claim that the self-proclaimed &#8220;radical&#8221; congresswoman made over the summer after visiting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility near Texas&#8217; southern border. At the time, she contended that migrant detainees told her they were instructed by CBP agents to drink water out of toilets.
&#8220;When these women tell me that they were put into a cell and that their sink was not working — and we tested the sink ourselves and the sink was not working — and they were told to drink out of a toilet bowl, I believe them,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said during a House oversight committee hearing. &#8220;I believed these women. I believed the canker sores that I saw in their mouths because they were only allowed to be fed unnutritious food.&#8221;
The agency swiftly refuted the allegations and inconsistencies in her story soon began to emerge, reported <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/02/aoc-toilet-story-hits-inconsistencies/">The Daily Caller&#8217;s</a> Jason Hopkins. It was later clarified that the toilets in question were a hybrid-style where drinking water is dispensed from a fountain attached to the toilet as part of a single unit. The drinking fountain was clearly marked &#8220;potable water.&#8221;
A CBP officer who was reportedly at the facility during Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s tour criticized the freshman lawmaker for purposely mischaracterizing the situation.
&#8220;So, this is what happened with the migrant and drinking water from the toilet: She wanted water, didn&#8217;t know how to use the faucet in the cell, and drank from the toilet. She never told [Ocasio-Cortez] that we made her drink from the toilet. [Ocasio-Cortez], of course, changed it,&#8221; a CBP agent told <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-screamed-at-border-patrol-agents-in-threatening-manner-during-tour-witnesses">The Washington Examiner</a> in July on the condition of anonymity.
While there has been no evidence to corroborate Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim, she has since doubled down on the allegation.
The New York congresswoman announced her opposition only days earlier to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s plan to close Rikers Island and replace the notorious prison with four borough-based jails. Ocasio-Cortez, who recently met with the organization No New Jails NYC, argues that the plan does not include a legal guarantee that the Rikers Island facility will ever actually close.
&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t be building new jails,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram story. &#8220;This plan is presented as what&#8217;s necessary to #CloseRikers, but the plan itself doesn&#8217;t even include the closure of Rikers.&#8221;
Her office has not commented further on the issue.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Speaks To Reporters On Capitol Hill About Amazon&#8217;s Withdraw From NYC HQ Plan

Ocasio-Cortez Apparently Met Someone Else Who Was Forced To Drink From A Toilet &#8212; This Time In The Bronx

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) took a shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s (D-NY) signature Green New Deal proposal on Sunday, joking that the self-proclaimed &#8220;radical&#8221; congresswoman &#8220;gives us the best things to talk about.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a saying we have in the military, it&#8217;s &#8216;work smarter not harder.&#8217; That would have been some good advice on the Green New Deal,&#8221; Crenshaw told conservative commentator Candace Owens during an appearance on her podcast.
&#8220;We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that — how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It’s something we can get behind,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Young people especially — conservatives and liberals alike really want to hear that message.&#8221;
While Democrats have largely rallied in support of the Green New Deal, it has proven to be a wedge issue among voters due to its radical policy prescriptions. With a goal of moving toward net zero emissions over a 10-year period, the proposal calls to &#8220;totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, [and] build out high-speed rail at scale where air travel stops becoming necessary,&#8221; according to the now-deleted section of Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s website.
The expansive climate and economic justice package, however, has faced massive scrutiny and mockery for prescribing <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/ten-most-insane-requirements-green-new-deal/">unrealistic and vastly burdensome</a> requirements such as the banning of cow farts, the gutting and rebuilding of every building in the country, eliminating 99% of cars, and providing every American a house, a job, an education, and even free money. The Green New Deal notably failed to receive a single vote in the Senate when it was brought to the floor.
&#8220;The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too,&#8221; Crenshaw said. &#8220;Basically it&#8217;s just a wish list of socialist utopias, as was admitted by [Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti]. But fundamentally, it is a dogmatic approach to environmentalism, which is solar and wind.&#8221;
&#8220;Everything has to be solar and wind, there can&#8217;t be anything else, including nuclear,&#8221; Crenshaw continued. &#8220;When you start banning nuclear, that&#8217;s how you know they&#8217;re not serious about climate change.&#8221;
The Texas congressman noted that despite the absurdity of the Green New Deal, Republicans still have a duty to propose a response.
&#8220;Our approach has to be a common sense approach,&#8221; Crenshaw said. &#8220;It has to be developing newer, cleaner technology that helps our economy and also helps the world. This is the way that I like to phrase it: we want to focus on 100% of the problem, and you can only focus on 100% of global emissions if you have technology that is exportable, clean, reliable, and cheap.&#8221;
&#8220;If you want to just focus on 15% of the problem, which is what the U.S. emits as far as a global share of carbon emissions, then yeah, destroy our economy,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Destroy our economy and you&#8217;ll erase 15% of emissions and guess what? You&#8217;ll do nothing.&#8221;

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LISTEN: Dan Crenshaw Has Some Advice For Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Green New Deal

Dan Crenshaw

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has found yet another way to spend your money.
The 29-year-old former bartender has unveiled a new six-bill package of legislation titled &#8220;A Just Society.&#8221;
“A just society provides a living wage, safe working conditions, and healthcare. A just society acknowledges the value of immigrants to our communities. A just society guarantees safe, comfortable, and affordable housing,” says a page on her House website dedicated to the package. “By strengthening our social and economic foundations, we are preparing ourselves to embark on the journey to save our planet by rebuilding our economy and cultivate a just society.”
The package has six parts:
<ul>
<li>“The Place to Prosper Act” would prevent year-over-year rent increases of more than 3%.</li>
<li>&#8220;The Uplift Workers Act&#8221; would mandate that the Department of Labor to create a &#8220;worker-friendly score&#8221; considering factors such as paid-family leave, a $15 minimum wage and union membership.</li>
<li>“The Mercy in Re-entry Act” would grant public benefits to those convicted of criminal offenses.</li>
<li>The &#8220;Guarantees the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for All&#8221; Act does, well, just that.</li>
<li>&#8220;The Recognizing Poverty Act&#8221; orders the Department of Health and Human Services &#8220;to adjust the federal poverty line&#8221; based on location.</li>
<li>“The Embrace Act” would allow illegal aliens to claim the same welfare benefits as all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants.</li>
</ul>
&#8220;Our nation must recognize that our history &#8212; immigrants, enslaved peoples, and refugees built this country. We all do better when we create a just society that embraces our most vulnerable populations and paves a path to prosperity for all. This bill would ensure that all persons in need are eligible for the largest programs of the social safety net, regardless of their immigration status,&#8221; her website says.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law &#8230; an individual who is an alien (without regard to the immigration status of that alien) may not be denied any Federal public benefit solely on the basis of the individual’s immigration status,” the Embrace Act reads.
Ocasio-Cortez defines a federal public benefit as &#8220;any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license provided by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States; and &#8230; any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States.&#8221;
The Democratic socialist from New York acknowledges that the legislative package faces an uphill battle. &#8220;I don’t think there’s any shortage of obstacles that we have ahead of us, but I don’t think that we not do things just because they’re hard,&#8221; she told the New York Times last week. &#8220;In fact, sometimes the hard things to do are the most worthwhile.&#8221;
The package contains no cost estimates but another plan she put forward, the &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; has an estimated cost of $93 trillion over 10 years, according to the American Action Forum, which is run by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who directed the non-partisan Congressional Business Office from from 2003 to 2005.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unveils Bill That Would Give Federal Benefits To Illegal Aliens

President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was compelled to move forward with an impeachment inquiry because she is afraid of defying self-proclaimed &#8220;radical&#8221; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (AOC) and her so-called &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-aocs-squad-will-destroy-democrats-2020-josh-hammer">Squad</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;They all vote with AOC and plus three; Nancy Pelosi is petrified of them,&#8221; Trump told reporters outside the White House. &#8220;I mean, she&#8217;s afraid that she is going to lose her position. Nancy Pelosi will lose her speakership right after the election when the Republicans take over the House.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s remarks were in reference to the four progressive House Democrats, dubbed the &#8220;Squad,&#8221; who have been notoriously critical of the president and the Republican Party, as a whole. The Squad, consisting of Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), have been demanding Trump&#8217;s impeachment since any of the quartet were even in Congress.
Pelosi announced that House Democrats would be moving forward with an impeachment inquiry after a whistleblower&#8217;s complaint accused Trump of asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for using his position as vice president to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into his son&#8217;s business dealings there.
The reports were not confirmed at the time of Pelosi&#8217;s decision and her announcement failed to expressly articulate a single &#8220;high crime or misdemeanor&#8221; that the impeachment inquiry was based upon. It was not until a day later that the White House released a transcript of Trump&#8217;s exchange with Zelensky. After the transcript was made public, many have argued that it failed to show the direct quid pro quo that was initially alleged.
However, only days prior to kicking off the inquiry, Ocasio-Cortez notably blasted her own Democratic leadership for its refusal to impeach Trump over his &#8220;lawbreaking behavior&#8221; — which she claimed was a &#8220;national scandal.&#8221; At the time, the New York congresswoman did not provide any clarity on what crime Trump allegedly committed.
On Friday, Trump was questioned whether he believes he will ultimately be impeached by the Democrat-led House, but nonetheless felt confident that the Republican-backed Senate would acquit him.
&#8220;Well, I think &#8230; [w]e have a great relationship in the Senate,&#8221; Trump replied. &#8220;I have a 95% approval rating in the Republican Party. I believe the Senate, and I haven’t spoken to that many senators, but I believe the senators look at this as a hoax, it&#8217;s a witch hunt, it&#8217;s a disgrace.&#8221;
&#8220;It should have never happened. Just like Russian collusion delusion should have never happened — that was a witch hunt. And just like that, should have never happened,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So I think in the Senate, I think they feel that the Republican Party has been treated very very badly. Now, in the House, they have the majority.&#8221;
Democrats have been sidestepping the requirement to bring impeachment proceedings to a full vote on the House floor. More than 30 members of the House Democratic caucus represent congressional districts that voted for Trump during the 2016 election cycle. The Democratic Party largely gained its House majority after a wave of the party’s moderate candidates were elected in those purple districts during the 2018 election cycle.
With the 2020 election on the horizon, many of the more moderate House Democrats have feared that voters&#8217; distaste for impeachment could put the House majority back in the hands of the GOP.

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Trump Suggests Pelosi&#8217;s Fear Of The &#8216;Squad&#8217; Compelled The Impeachment Inquiry

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On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) demanded that American taxpayers foot the bill to bail out New York City&#8217;s taxi cab drivers who took out loans in order to pay for taxi medallion costs that were artificially inflated by the Democrat-led city government.
&#8220;These taxi drivers need a bailout because this is not just about predatory collection practices &#8230; this is manufactured financial indentured servitude and it is wrong,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez argued during a congressional hearing on lending. &#8220;We need to bailout these drivers, and I would like to invite my colleagues here on the federal level and our partners on the city level to make sure they get the job done.&#8221;
Taxi cab drivers in the Big Apple are required to obtain a medallion in order to operate in the city legally. Intending to prevent a surplus of cabs, the New York City government has been artificially limiting the number of medallions it will issue. Today, there are currently only 13,587 medallions issued. That is only two medallions more than when the program was first created in 1937, despite a population growth of more than 1 million.
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Taxi drivers in NYC are in crisis. They are trapped in a predatory lending scheme that steals their earnings and has led to a suicide crisis.
We must bail them out. Yesterday, we held a Congressional hearing to hear from drivers and advocates for reform ⬇ <a href="https://t.co/6qSG66pdFN">pic.twitter.com/6qSG66pdFN</a>
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As such, the artificial scarcity created by the Democrat-led New York City government has skyrocketed the cost to obtain a medallion — the price of a medallion soared to over $1 million prior to the bubble bursting in late 2014. Many taxi drivers were forced to take out loans with high fees or interest-only payments in order to continue to operate their cabs. Consequently, more than 950 drivers have since filed for bankruptcy, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/nyregion/AOC-taxi-medallion-bailout.html">The New York Times</a>.
Referring to government assistance as &#8220;a matter of life or death,&#8221; the self-proclaimed radical congresswoman cited a New York Times report detailing a black-car driver who complained on social media that the surge in ride sharing services caused him to work 100 hours a week in order to make a living. He subsequently drove to New York&#8217;s city hall and shot himself in front of the building.
&#8220;Regulatory agencies knew, the city knew, and these suicides are not just an indirect side effect, they are a direct consequence of the neglect of a vulnerable community in New York City,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;In fact, we have accounts reported right here by The New York Times: one of the drivers drove in front of city hall himself, wrote a note on Facebook saying he could not continue to live, and killed himself right in front of city hall. And we are ignoring this crisis.&#8221;
The New York congresswoman&#8217;s calls for the federal government to bailout the taxi cab drivers comes after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to do it because of the high cost to the city. The mayor&#8217;s office contends that a bailout could cost New Yorkers as much as $13 billion.
&#8220;This, I think, is a matter of financial malpractice and predatory behavior that I think in many ways should be a national scandal,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said during the hearing. &#8220;It is literally killing people.&#8221;

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WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez Demands American Taxpayers Bail Out NYC Taxi Drivers: This Is ‘Indentured Servitude’

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Yay, Al Gore&#8217;s won another award!
Wait, this one&#8217;s not so great.
The former vice president has been declared the winner of the top &#8220;Climate Hypocrite Award,&#8221; presented annually by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK).
Inhofe revealed his top five candidates in reverse order, so when he got to Gore, he said: “Last, but certainly not least, Al Gore has earned the grand prize of America’s greatest climate hypocrite. Whether it’s Gore’s chartered jets around the country or the fact his home uses up to 34 times more energy than the average American household, he’s never wavered in his calls for everyone else to ‘ … make [environmental] changes in their own lives.’ The actual ‘Inconvenient Truth’ is his hypocrisy — it is beyond absurd but typical of Hollywood elites.”
Inhofe linked to an article by the <a href="https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2017/08/01/al-gores-inconvenient-reality-the-former-vice-presidents-home-energy-use-surges-up-to-34-times-the-national-average-despite-costly-green-renovations-by-drew-johnso/">National Center for Public Policy Research</a> that listed off a bunch of Gore&#8217;s hypocrisies. Many dealt with Gore&#8217;s 10,070-square-foot Colonial-style home in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, the eighth-wealthiest neighborhood in the country.
<blockquote>In powering his home, Gore still greatly outpaces most Americans in energy consumption. The findings were shocking:
• The past year, Gore’s home energy use averaged 19,241 kilowatt hours (kWh) every month, compared to the U.S. household average of 901 kWh per month. 
• Gore guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years. 
• In September of 2016, Gore’s home consumed 30,993 kWh in just one month – as much energy as a typical American family burns in 34 months. 
• During the last 12 months, Gore devoured 66,159 kWh of electricity just heating his pool. That is enough energy to power six average U.S. households for a year. 
• From August 2016 through July 2017, Gore spent almost $22,000 on electricity bills. 
• Gore paid an estimated $60,000 to install 33 solar panels. Those solar panels produce an average of 1,092 kWh per month, only 5.7% of Gore’s typical monthly energy consumption.</blockquote>
Ouch.
The second-most hypocritical politician was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the former bartender turned expert climatologist.
“Today’s award goes to proud socialist and Democrat standard-bearer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is well known for bad ideas but also for climate hypocrisy. Despite <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez_the_world_is_going_to_end_in_12_years_if_we_dont_address_climate_change.html">claiming</a>, &#8216;the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,&#8217; she doesn’t seem to have any problem frequently utilizing rideshare apps or airfare over &#8216;eco-friendly&#8217; public transit and walking. Her radical Green New Deal would put countless Americans out of work — it would end America as we know it — but AOC doesn’t think twice about living lavishly in her luxury apartment building, taking a car one mile to work, and believing her $174,000 taxpayer-funded salary should be higher.”
AOC&#8217;s $93 trillion Green New Deal wants to get rid of farting cows, as well as planes and automobiles. But like any socialist, she doesn&#8217;t want any of that to apply to her. From April to late-June 2018, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign spent around $4,000 on 160 Uber rides in California alone. Her campaign also spent $2,500 on more than 90 rides on Juno, another ride-sharing option.
The New York Post did an expansive takeout on AOC&#8217;s Uber habit, and found this:
<blockquote>Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustion-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office. She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone. In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.</blockquote>
Climate Conference Attendees picked up the third-place award, and Barack Obama came in fourth.
&#8220;Despite stating ‘[r]ising sea levels threaten every coastline,’ that didn’t stop former President Obama from reportedly acquiring a 29 acre, $15 million ocean front estate on Martha’s Vineyard. His actions clearly show he doesn’t believe his own rhetoric, but this is all too common for elite, liberal climate doomsdayers who say one thing but do another.&#8221;
Rounding out the top 5 was Michael Mann. “To kick off Global Climate Week, it seems most fitting to first recognize Michael Mann, the architect of the <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/403256/global-warming-bombshell/">discredited</a> ‘Hockey Stick’ graph who tells people to believe the science but was implicated in manipulating data in Climategate and refuses to provide the data to back up his graph.”

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Al Gore Beats Out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez For Top Climate Hypocrite Award

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President Trump on Saturday ripped Democratic leaders, calling them “do nothings” and “savages.”
“Can you imagine if these Do Nothing Democrat Savages, people like Nadler, Schiff, AOC Plus 3, and many more, had a Republican Party who would have done to Obama what the Do Nothings are doing to me,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Oh well, maybe next time!”
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Can you imagine if these Do Nothing Democrat Savages, people like Nadler, Schiff, AOC Plus 3, and many more, had a Republican Party who would have done to Obama what the Do Nothings are doing to me. Oh well, maybe next time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1177919923885969408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
Trump was referring to Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), along with three of her colleagues who make up what they call &#8220;The Squad&#8221;: Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
Trump then hit the caps lock button to throw out three more tweets.
“PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!” he wrote.
&#8220;MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!&#8221; he added.
&#8220;KEEP AMERICA GREAT!&#8221; he finished.
Trump also retweeted a post from his son, Eric, who was touting a massive influx of money into Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign following the launch of an impeachment inquiry by Democrats.
&#8220;UPDATE: We have now raised almost $15 million in small dollar donations (including 50,000 NEW donors) since @SpeakerPelosi started this impeachment charade 72 hrs ago! Unbelievable numbers!! Keep it going — you and the dems are handing @realDonaldTrump the win in 2020!&#8221; Eric Trump wrote.
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UPDATE: We have now raised almost $15 million in small dollar donations (including 50,000 NEW donors) since <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> started this impeachment charade 72 hrs ago! Unbelievable numbers!! Keep it going — you and the dems are handing <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> the win in 2020! 🤛👍🇺🇸
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1177714227756314625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that the House would launch a formal impeachment inquiry against the president. Democrats accuse Trump of betraying his presidential oath of office by allegedly pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
In just 24 hours, Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee had hauled in $5 million, according to Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale.
Trump also changed the &#8220;pinned&#8221; tweet that tops his account, posting a new ad from his re-election campaign.
“Joe Biden promised Ukraine a billion dollars if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company,” a narrator says as the screen cuts to Biden discussing his push for the Ukrainian government to fire Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor who was looking into the business dealings of a company at which Hunter Biden was paid $50,000 a month.
“If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well son of a bitch, he got fired,” Biden says in the ad, beaming a broad smile.  The ad then cuts back to the narrator, who says, “But when President Trump asks Ukraine to investigate corruption, the Democrats want to impeach him. And their media lap dogs fall in line. They lost the [2016] election. Now, they want to steal this one. Don’t let them.”
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I AM DRAINING THE SWAMP! <a href="https://t.co/U7WxKrO6Kx">pic.twitter.com/U7WxKrO6Kx</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1177669563477118976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
For her part, Ocasio-Cortez, who has been positively giddy about impeachment, posted a mocking tweet. &#8220;To be honest, it should really be @AyannaPressley plus 3 since she is *easily* the best singer out of all of us. I’m just the one holding the wind fan,&#8221; she wrote.
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To be honest, it should really be <a href="https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AyannaPressley</a> plus 3 since she is *easily* the best singer out of all of us.
I’m just the one holding the wind fan 🌬 <a href="https://t.co/RZtZzS4OiK">https://t.co/RZtZzS4OiK</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1177979369937100801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2019</a></blockquote>

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Trump Blasts ‘Democrat Savages’ After Launch Of Impeachment Inquiry

Just days after telling reporters at the capitol that she had no intention of clearing the way for articles of impeachment to proceed against President Donald Trump, reports indicate that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is taking meetings on the issue with top Democrats and considering backing the effort.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-quietly-sounding-out-house-democrats-about-whether-to-impeach-trump-officials-say/2019/09/23/98a33fd8-de5f-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html">The Washington Post reports</a> that Pelosi will take part in a high-level meeting of her own caucus Tuesday at 4 pm Eastern time and impeachment is the top item on the agenda. The move comes the same day that WaPo published an op-ed from a bipartisan group of freshman lawmakers declaring their support for impeachment proceedings.
Pelosi, the WaPo says, has been &#8220;quietly sounding out&#8221; key legislators even as she&#8217;s been publicly condemning the idea of impeachment as too &#8220;divisive&#8221; ahead of a major election. On Sunday, Pelosi actually fired back at freshman member of Congress Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) after the latter took her to task over the issue, claiming Pelosi&#8217;s refusal to pursue impeachment was a worse scandal than anything the Trump White House has produced.
&#8220;Pelosi’s conversations — and reconsideration of her long-held position that impeachment is too divisive — come amid a growing clamor for impeachment that extends beyond the party’s liberal base and many Democratic presidential candidates to moderate lawmakers in competitive House seats,&#8221; WaPo reports.
The impetus for this sudden change of heart seems to be reports that the president pressured members of the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden — specifically whether Biden pressured prosecutors in Ukraine to avoid investigating a company with ties to his son, Hunter Biden. Over the weekend, the story caught fire among leftists, particularly those still angry that the Mueller Report produced no causes of action.
Tuesday, the issue became more serious, as President Trump confirmed in a speech to the United Nations that he halted military aid to Ukraine ahead of the now-notorious phone call, <a href="https://apnews.com/e5607bb2be55436f824515b35539a97e">according to the Associated Press</a>. Although the media immediately tried to move the narrative to Trump&#8217;s efforts against Biden, Trump explained in the same speech that he withheld the funds in order to encourage more European allies to back Ukraine in its territorial disputes with Russia.
“As far as withholding funds, those funds were paid,” Trump said in his remarks. “They were fully paid. But my complaint has always been, and I’d withhold again and I’ll continue to withhold until such time as Europe and other nations contribute to Ukraine.”
Some Democratic lawmakers maintain that the admission is proof that Trump used his office to unduly pressure Ukrainian authorities to turn over information on the Bidens&#8217; dealings, and for that, they want impeachment.
That may not be why Pelosi is suddenly considering impeaching the president, though. Throughout Trump&#8217;s first term, Pelosi has tolerated investigations but never impeachment, likely on the theory that impeachment would be unpopular and that the president would use Democratic attacks to his advantage, putting him in a plum position to recapture his key voter demographics in 2020.
Now, though, there&#8217;s some indication that while impeachment is unpopular overall, it&#8217;s popular in some districts where Democrats are facing competitive races — and especially in districts where Democrats are facing a challenge from the Left. In order to preserve her majority, Pelosi may have to rubber-stamp impeachment proceedings, risking the national election in order to preserve key statewide races.
That&#8217;s also Nancy&#8217;s problem: impeachment might satisfy progressives, but there&#8217;s little chance they weren&#8217;t turning out to the polls. It will definitely light a fire under Trump&#8217;s base, giving the president plenty of ammunition to attack any Democratic opponent in the 2020 race. And if that opponent happens to be Biden, the issue of improperly manipulating foreign governments now cuts both ways.

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TURNAROUND: Nancy Pelosi Now Considering Impeachment, Meeting With Top Dems

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Incumbent Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) challenged his Democratic primary opponents on Monday to participate in a climate change debate in lieu of the Democratic National Committee’s decision to forgo holding a climate change-specific debate for the presidential candidates.
&#8220;I was very disappointed at the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s refusal to hold a debate on climate change for our presidential candidates,&#8221; Markey said in a campaign video. &#8220;In Massachusetts, we should do better than that.&#8221;
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The Massachusetts senator called out three of his declared primary challengers — Brookline lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan, New Bedford businessman Steve Pemberton, and newly declared candidate Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) — to debate him on the issue &#8220;very soon.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m asking environmental groups in Massachusetts, who have shown the greatest commitment to fighting climate change, to sponsor this debate and to establish a format that will provide the best opportunity for voters to hear from all of the candidates,&#8221; Markey said. &#8220;For the next generation, we can&#8217;t wait, so we’re suggesting a debate the week of November 11, following Veterans Day and the municipal elections.&#8221;
Markey was first elected to Congress in 1976 and subsequently won his Senate seat during a special election in 2013. He is perhaps best known for co-authoring the &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; in 2019, along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
While Democrats have largely rallied in support of the Green New Deal, it has proven to be a wedge issue among voters due to its radical policy prescriptions. With a goal of moving toward net zero emissions over a 10-year period, the proposal calls to &#8220;totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, [and] build out high-speed rail at scale where air travel stops becoming necessary,&#8221; according to the now-deleted section of Ocasio-Cortez’s website.
The expansive climate and economic justice package notably failed to receive even a single vote in the Senate when it was brought to the floor. Ocasio-Cortez, however, endorsed Market’s re-election to his seat in 2020, referring to him as one of the Senate&#8217;s &#8220;strongest progressives.&#8221;
Markey&#8217;s challenge comes only two days after Kennedy officially launched his bid to unseat the 73-year-old senator. The race could be the toughest that Markey has faced thus far in his political career. Leaked polling from Kennedy&#8217;s campaign revealed that the 38-year-old congressman already has an edge over Markey — a sentiment with which many political analysts also seem to agree.
Kennedy is a member of the famed political dynasty — he is the grandson of the late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the son of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-MA). To date, no one in his family has lost an election in the Bay State.
Markey and Kennedy are largely aligned ideologically and the primary race has been portrayed as a referendum on age and personality over substance.
&#8220;I thank all of my opponents in advance, and all of the people of Massachusetts who show me every day how committed they are to fighting the climate crisis,&#8221; Markey said. &#8220;Together, we can save our planet.&#8221;

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WATCH: Dem Lawmaker Throws Down The Gauntlet And Challenges Senate Opponents To A Climate Change Debate

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Massachusetts

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared to re-ignite a smoldering civil war between the progressive Congressional &#8220;squad&#8221; and Democratic Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Saturday, lashing out at Democrats like Pelosi who are urging &#8220;caution&#8221; on impeaching President Donald Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the &#8220;squad&#8221; — Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) — have spent the week challenging mainstream Democrats on several issues, including impeaching the president, but also over impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and supporting Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) in his bid to unseat Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA).
A true civil war between Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi, who sets the priorities for the Democratic caucus and has largely locked Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive colleagues out of the Congressional agenda, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49278/fight-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-nancy-pelosi-emily-zanotti">threatened to explode over the summer,</a> as the two lawmakers traded barbs on Twitter over everything from impeachment to a spending bill designed to relieve the pressure on border patrol and fund efforts to house and feed asylum-seekers crowding border detention facilities.
More recently, though, the two have been collaborating or at least ignoring each other in a mutually agreed-upon detente &#8230; until Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decided to open a new front in the war Saturday night, calling Democrats&#8217; refusal to pursue impeachment against President Donald Trump a &#8220;bigger scandal&#8221; than any other currently brewing.
&#8220;At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior &#8211; it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, apparently referring to allegations that Trump communicated with Ukrainin officials seeking information as to whether former Vice President Joe Biden pressured prosecutors there to spare a corporation because his son Hunter sat on the company&#8217;s board.
It&#8217;s not entirely clear if Ocasio-Cortez was targeting Pelosi specifically or launching a widespread offensive against the leaders of her own party, but what was clear was that Ocasio-Cortez made other Democrats very angry by suggesting that their behavior was worse than Trump&#8217;s.
Even fellow progressives — including author and former aide to President Jimmy Carter, James Fallows — were shocked and fired back, telling Ocasio-Cortez to cool her heels.
“IMO, this is ‘false equivalence’ of its own sort,” Fallows wrote in response on Twitter. “What Trump is doing remains objectively the biggest threat, scandal, and problem.
“Second-ranking: the silent acquiescence of the GOP Senate,&#8221; he added. “Then: it’s time for the House to act.”
Ocasio-Cortez, not one to admit when she&#8217;s wrong, decided to go after Fallows, perhaps not realizing his position of influence within progressive circles.
“It is one thing for a sitting president to break the law,” she wrote. “It’s another to let him. The integrity of our democracy isn’t threatened when a president breaks the law. It’s threatened when we do nothing about it.&#8221;
“The GOP’s silence &amp; refusal to act shouldn’t be a surprise. Ours is,&#8221; she concluded.
Ocasio-Cortez probably won&#8217;t get what she wants out of Nancy Pelosi, even if she continues to strike out at Democratic leadership on social media. Early last week, Pelosi dismissed the idea of pursuing impeachment this close to an election, telling reporters that the issue was far too divisive, and impeachment itself was not guaranteed.
“Impeachment is a very divisive measure,” Pelosi said, “but if we have to go there, we have to go there and we can&#8217;t go there unless we have the facts. And we’ll follow the facts and follow the obstruction the president is making and make a decision when we’re ready.&#8221;
Pelosi&#8217;s opposition to impeachment proceedings is universal; she also shut down Rep. Pressley&#8217;s efforts to impeach now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh over a New York Times story accusing the Yale grad of dropping his pants at a party and enlisting his friends to help him sexually assault a female classmate. The story turned out to be thinly sourced (and previously investigated) and the woman at the center of the alleged incident denies it ever happened — something the NYT was eventually forced to admit in a correction.

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