Green the new Red, Again

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

There was a saying that if you scratched a Green Party person hard enough, you'd see Red Communist. That the communists used the Green parties as a way to weaken the West- while at the same time the Communists were not coming close to the Green concepts that they supported in the West. But it was a tool for the Russians to screw with our political and economic process. For some reason, the new Greens don't even understand their history- or worse they know that Green was a way to attack capitalism and have dropped the pretext that it was foreign driven and not good for us.

Just to unwrap the war on Billionaires. I almost wonder how much 'cash' people think billionaires have. I'm starting to think that the anti-B's think that they are fighting Scrooge McDuck and his pile of gold. I think the real 'brains' have figured out that the billionaires are a proxy for capital markets- which is true since the Billionaires money is tied up in investments. Taking away Billionaires money isn't really taking their money, it is taking away their ability to control their companies and to replace capitalism (private ownership of means of production/innovation) with command and control of the economy. (Also, if billionaires need to unwind their financial positions, the price of those assets will fall- and drive equities down- forcing another retirement crisis).

So, they aren't crazy. OK, AOC is super-silly, but the brains behind this stuff are really smart and really motivated and really dangerous.

[mack7.62]

Watermelons is the best way to describe them, green on the outside, red on the inside.

[Doc Safari]

I love watching Alexandria O-scary-o Cortez cause the traditional Dem establishment to crap little tiny rabbit turds. Ban air travel? High speed trains? Guaranteed income whether you want to work or not?

The ironic thing is that she'll probably be the only one to run against Hillary in 2020.

[Co-gnARR]

I love watching Alexandria O-scary-o Cortez cause the traditional Dem establishment to crap little tiny rabbit turds. Ban air travel? High speed trains? Guaranteed income whether you want to work or not?

The ironic thing is that she'll probably be the only one to run against Hillary in 2020.

She’s a useful idiot. Weaponize her, wind her up and set her loose tazmaniain devil style on the establishment dems. Watch the havoc from a safe distance and be ready to capitalize on the instability and chaos as the dems eat themselves. Of course the RINO’s will squander this opportunity.

[jmp45]

She’s a useful idiot. Weaponize her, wind her up and set her loose tazmaniain devil style on the establishment dems. Watch the havoc from a safe distance and be ready to capitalize on the instability and chaos as the dems eat themselves. Of course the RINO’s will squander this opportunity.

I agree, it's going to be a fun watch. The New Green Deal is incredibly well thought out, a masterpiece of idiocy. I want to see this deal pushed in great detail night and day on all msm outlets. It's getting traction and dems are signing on to this turd one after another, so fun. Science and reality be damned.

[flenna]

Don’t underestimate the Left, the idiots who vote for them and the impotence of the Republicans. Any crazy bill has the potential to get passed.

[tb-av]

She’s a useful idiot. Weaponize her, wind her up and set her loose tazmaniain devil style on the establishment dems. Watch the havoc from a safe distance and be ready to capitalize on the instability and chaos as the dems eat themselves. Of course the RINO’s will squander this opportunity.

Limbaugh was saying he has made a career of making fun of Dems like her but now the party has reached a point where there are voters that actually believe her nonsense. So yeah, it's crazy funny,,,, but!

She is one bizarre bird.

[Firefly]

You realize she is dog whistling and crypto-recruiting to turn America into a Western Native ethnostate and is based if you read between the lines.

I fully expect her to be the next Augusto Pinochet in 20 years and my only hope is to be part of her concubine.

Imagine Chile with hardcore deportations, nuclear weapons, and total undermining of Red China.

You may say that I am a dreamer...but this can happen any day now

[Co-gnARR]

You realize she is dog whistling and crypto-recruiting to turn America into a Western Native ethnostate and is based if you read between the lines.

I fully expect her to be the next Augusto Pinochet in 20 years and my only hope is to be part of her concubine.

Imagine Chile with hardcore deportations, nuclear weapons, and total undermining of Red China.

You may say that I am a dreamer...but this can happen any day now

Don’t get me wrong, I admire her tenacity and chutzpah. I’m happy she’s empowered and building up steam. Challenging the entrenched political machine is not for the faint of heart. And I know millennials are behind her 100%. I’m waiting to see what happens. One path leads us to your fantasy world, or least in that direction. The other leads to some nasty scandals (or worse) that leave AOC politically isolated, Anthony Weiner style. And, Firefly: imagine the sex tapes or dirty text messages someone is hiding until the right moment.
What I’m hoping for is AOC shakes up the Old Ones (DiFi, Pelosi, et al) so much that the dems are thrown off course and brought to heel, while AOC herself is more a phenomenon and not a lasting political fixture for the next 6 decades. That outcome is kinda mythic- she’s slays the beast only to become its replacement.
What I’d like to see AOC ride this wild rocket for a bit, scare the dems into bipartisanship lest they get AOC’d at the polls. AOC chills a bit, has her political career, but gets re-activated when people forget their place.
There may be other possible outcomes but I’m not thinking too hard about it.

[Grand58742]

Don’t get me wrong, I admire her tenacity and chutzpah. I’m happy she’s empowered and building up steam. Challenging the entrenched political machine is not for the faint of heart. And I know millennials are behind her 100%. I’m waiting to see what happens. One path leads us to your fantasy world, or least in that direction. The other leads to some nasty scandals (or worse) that leave AOC politically isolated, Anthony Weiner style. And, Firefly: imagine the sex tapes or dirty text messages someone is hiding until the right moment.
What I’m hoping for is AOC shakes up the Old Ones (DiFi, Pelosi, et al) so much that the dems are thrown off course and brought to heel, while AOC herself is more a phenomenon and not a lasting political fixture for the next 6 decades. That outcome is kinda mythic- she’s slays the beast only to become its replacement.
What I’d like to see AOC ride this wild rocket for a bit, scare the dems into bipartisanship lest they get AOC’d at the polls. AOC chills a bit, has her political career, but gets re-activated when people forget their place.
There may be other possible outcomes but I’m not thinking too hard about it.

There is a serious battle going on in the DNC at the moment. Nancy and the old guard are going to have to confront the upstarts like AOC more quickly than they imagined. I'd tend to think Nancy and the other bigwigs in the DNC treated AOC much like they did Trump in 2015 and 2016. Chuckled at his mannerisms and rhetoric behind closed doors, but got all kinds of shocked when he got elected.

I'd tend to think AOC gave them the same kind of chuckles in the beginning. She was "cute" to them when she won the primary, but now that she's become the media darling and they fawn over every word she says, they have to deal with her. Hence, the snarky comments made by Pelosi about the Green New Deal announcement. And the snarky comments made by AOC in regards to the old guard of the DNC having to "get out of the way" for the new generation.

There is a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party going on right now behind the scenes. When your "top" Presidential candidates for 2020 are already lining up behind that idiotic Green New Deal and praising it for its merits, you know there is a problem. Such a thing could rupture the entire DNC before 2020 if they don't get a handle on it.