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AOC Rationalizes Voting herself a raise: If we don’t, Congress will take bribes.

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This is the part where OP tells us he has no obsession with AOC.

Or, to paraphrase Gene Hackman, "She may not have a brain in her head, but she does know all the men in Congress wanna f*** her."
 
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Because making 250k a year would keep you from accepting 10m? Or 78m for your wife's business?

Laughable

I assume she will take that raise and distribute it among her employees?

Or is this like her stance on real estate developer being evil and ruining neighborhoods with high priced condos....until of course she has the money to buy one
 
Disagree with her here. There is no amount that you could pay them to prevent corruption. Trump and his cronies are extremely rich but also corrupt.

Don't get me wrong they deserve a salary, but they are already making more than they deserve. The cost of living needs to be allowed to catch up to what they make.
 
She is a wacko IMO. But the paranoia about her has virtually guaranteed her a lifetime as a rep. You know the people in her district are loving this. Call it the Steve King effect.
 
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Senators and Representatives have received $174,000 annually since 2010. I don't have a problem with a COLA adjustment.

That said, AOC's rationale is stupid.
 
Senators and Representatives have received $174,000 annually since 2010. I don't have a problem with a COLA adjustment.

That said, AOC's rationale is stupid.

I am a firm believer in giving our DC people whatever they need. Overpaying them is fine by me. There should be incentive for the best of the best to try and win those positions.
 
She is a wacko IMO. But the paranoia about her has virtually guaranteed her a lifetime as a rep. You know the people in her district are loving this. Call it the Steve King effect.

Name someone else proudly saying so many dumb things and I’ll put more focus on them.

Just like with Trump, her Tweet to Dumb Tweet ratio is pretty close to 1 to 1. Why should this Off Tooic message board be a place that ignores all of her dumb shit but no one else’s? Someone has to have the most. It just happens to be her.

Here’s what I can guarantee. If she stops saying dumb things I’ll stop posting about her. Same rule for everyone else.
 
I don't have a problem with a COLA adjustment.
I don't generally but until they get the budget and debt under control they shouldn't get jack squat for a raise. They can cry a river if they can't live off 174k a year. Heck at this point, I think they need to decrease the pay to 125k a year until they get the budget and debt in control.
 
LOL at trumpbaggers ragging on her for making stupid statements by making equally or more stupid statements. That being said, she is much brighter than they are so she should STFU.
 
That is one of the original reason for paying representatives.

AOC is a perfect example of being promoted to the level of incompetence.

Obviously she is a smart/educated person, but she's out of her league in a lot of areas she loves to speak out on.

I do like her tenacity when she questions witnesses at some of the congressional hearing.

She just needs to educate herself better on some of the issues she speaks out on.

Also, she trashes people's opinions/positions on twitter, and when those people want to debate her on the issues, it's always no, and usually accompanied with some type of personal attack. Followed by Omar tweeting "NO MEANS NO".
 
Name someone else proudly saying so many dumb things and I’ll put more focus on them.

Just like with Trump, her Tweet to Dumb Tweet ratio is pretty close to 1 to 1. Why should this Off Tooic message board be a place that ignores all of her dumb shit but no one else’s? Someone has to have the most. It just happens to be her.

Here’s what I can guarantee. If she stops saying dumb things I’ll stop posting about her. Same rule for everyone else.

I have no problem with you posting about her as anything to balance Trump threads is fine. My point is that the attention the fringier members get the more likely they are to be re elected.

Obviously not because of here but the news, FB, and Twitter attention helps keep people elected. The districts they serve has to love it.
 
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She is a wacko IMO. But the paranoia about her has virtually guaranteed her a lifetime as a rep. You know the people in her district are loving this. Call it the Steve King effect.
Just the opposite. Wondering where she's at. Not doing what she promised.
 
AOC is a perfect example of being promoted to the level of incompetence.

Obviously she is a smart/educated person, but she's out of her league in a lot of areas she loves to speak out on.

I do like her tenacity when she questions witnesses at some of the congressional hearing.

She just needs to educate herself better on some of the issues she speaks out on.

Also, she trashes people's opinions/positions on twitter, and when those people want to debate her on the issues, it's always no, and usually accompanied with some type of personal attack. Followed by Omar tweeting "NO MEANS NO".
You know more about her than I.
 
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She already has demonstrated she is corrupt

Now she is essentially saying she needs to be paid more or she will be more corrupt?

She is going to be primaried in the next election. Guaranteed.
 
She seems an awful lot like Trump, welcome to membership in the swamp AOC.

This is such a socialist thing to do.
 
AOC is a perfect example of being promoted to the level of incompetence.

Obviously she is a smart/educated person, but she's out of her league in a lot of areas she loves to speak out on.

I do like her tenacity when she questions witnesses at some of the congressional hearing.

She just needs to educate herself better on some of the issues she speaks out on.

Also, she trashes people's opinions/positions on twitter, and when those people want to debate her on the issues, it's always no, and usually accompanied with some type of personal attack. Followed by Omar tweeting "NO MEANS NO".

AOC is beyond the Peter Principle.

At what point will she say so many dumb things she will no longer be considered bright? She certainly isn't very thoughtful.
 
This is the part where OP tells us he has no obsession with AOC.

Or, to paraphrase Gene Hackman, "She may not have a brain in her head, but she does know all the men in Congress wanna f*** her."
Conservatives don't keep talking about AOC because they're obscessed. They do it because they want to make her the face of progressivism because her schtick is deeply unpopular with the vast swath of Americans that don't live in the political twitterverse.
 
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Everyone talks about AOC because she puts herself in the news, and the media loves it and pushes her out there.
 
If she truly believes they aren't already taking bribes she's nuts. Not to mention missing out on a boat load of cash. I would be really surprised if there are any career politicians that aren't getting kick backs from somewhere.
 
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If she truly believes they aren't already taking bribes she's nuts. Not to mention missing out on a boat load of cash. I would be really surprised if there are any career politicians that aren't getting kick backs from somewhere.

I think there is a better than average chance she is taking money. Look at how she handled her campaign money
 
I lean left, but can someone please explain to me what her fuggin appeal is? I have yet to see an example of it.
 
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