AOC cooking in a Tax The Rich sweatshirt, breaking down the COVID economic relief bill

[Autumn]

This really is the best. And something I have never seen or heard a politician do in my life.

Link to tweet

[Upthevibe]

1. Yes! This! To say she's "a breath of fresh air"

is major understatement.

[Autumn]

3. This is what she cooked.

I bought salmon fillets at King Soopers today, I'm going to do that tomorrow.

Link to tweet

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[lapucelle]

18. Is that puppy in the picture the purebred French bulldog that PETA was upset about?

A0C’s Purebred Puppy Purchase Prompts PETA Pushback

New York – After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced her new purebred French bulldog puppy on social media, PETA sent the lawmaker a letter urging her to visit a New York City animal shelter to see the scores of wonderful dogs there who desperately need homes. The group also urged her to pledge to adopt her next animal companion (or to adopt a second one now so that the two can keep each other company while she’s busy on Capitol Hill) and to ask her followers to do the same and save a life.

“A0C had a chance to set a compassionate, responsible example in the face of the homeless-animal crisis, but instead, she apparently inadvertently contributed to the problem,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA is urging her supporters not to follow her lead in this case and to stick up for the underdog by choosing to give a lovable mutt a new lease on life.”

snip=============================================================================================

From PETA's letter to A0C:

French bulldogs are inbred in order to produce “breed-specific traits,” which cause health problems that many people who will be influenced by your purchase won’t be able to afford to address. They are particularly at risk because their “cute” features plague them with a lifetime of breathing problems (you may have seen the media uproar this week after a disturbing photo of a pug’s MRI went viral), ear and eye infections, skin irritation, a weak stomach, and other issues—all “man-made.”

https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/aocs-purebred-puppy-purchase-prompts-peta-pushback/

[Autumn]

19. Yes. PETA is often upset about something, a mixed bag. The best 800 dollars I ever

spent was for my Papillon, from a reputable breeder. I'm sure she was smart enough to check out whoever she bought it from.

[lapucelle]

21. The PETA letter to A0C was not about dog breeders. It was about passing up shelter pets

to buy expensive purebred-inbred dogs.

$50+ sweatshirts and $500+ puppies are things many working folks would probably roll their eyes at as they struggle to put food on their tables.

[Autumn]

28. The heart wants what the heart wants. You don't want to buy from a breeder? Don't.

You think she's the only person that buys things while people are struggling? A dog or a $200 dollar hair cut? I remember that one well, as always the pukes had a lot of fun complaining about that too. Like all elected Dems she took an oath of office, not a vow of poverty. Now about that stimulus? Who is to blame for that? AOC? Did you notice she bought salmon??

People are going to complain about her no matter what. Dems. OMG she bought a dog! Pukes. OMG she bought an expensive used outfit and borrowed another for a photo shoot!

[R B Garr]

34. Wait, so only what AOC complains about is valid?

How does this work?

[Autumn]

35. Said no one ever

Example
one that serves as a pattern to be imitated or not to be imitated a good example.

one that is representative of all of a group or type.

[R B Garr]

36. Then she'll be sure to put aside her judgments

of how others with means spend their money.

[cwydro]

52. I've got the money to buy those kinds of dogs, but every animal I've ever had is a rescue.

I find that very disappointing.

[George II]

23. Any pets we've had over the years we got from shelters. There are too many unwanted cats and dogs...

....to warrant breeding and selling them for profit.

For years my parents contributed to the North Shore Animal League, and my sister worked there (volunteer, no pay) on weekends several years. A great organization.

[lapucelle]

27. My dog is from the North Shore Animal League. He's the best dog ever.

North Shore generally has a glut of puppies in January after people have tired of taking care of the purebred pets they bought for Christmas or on a whim.

[AmericanCanuck]

2. I'm still waiting for the "Tax The Rich" waders

[Autumn]

6. Usually when one wants waders they are fly fishing or wading through bullshit.

I'm curious AmericanCanuck, this is no stream or a river, or an OP about fly fishing, a most enjoyable sport. It's a clip of AOC talking about inequality. Is that your under handed way of saying her talk is bullshit?

I ask that because I'm aware of the sayings about waders, like the "bullshit is getting deep in here I better put on my waders" when the exaggerations of fish size starts. Just a sporting little way of saying one is lying. As an aside, fly fishing is a passion I have long enjoyed so I've fished most gold medal rivers in my state and a couple of surrounding states and I would so buy Tax the Rich waders to go with my sweatshirt just to have them.

[AmericanCanuck]

7. You explain things so well

However, I'm not a fisherman of any kind

[Autumn]

8. Yep

Nice touch

[AmericanCanuck]

9. Thank you

[cilla4progress]

4. Love this.

Love AOC. Smart important voice.

People caricature her.

[Lucinda]

5. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[lapucelle]

10. Is that the $68 sweatshirt?

It's exempt from NYS sales tax, same as the $12 Old Navy zippered sweatsuit jackets that working folks buy to keep their kids warm.

Cooking videos are effective messaging tools. I loved Kamala Harris's cooking videos during the campaign.

[Autumn]

11. Yes it's the one from her site, as complained about on Fox news and elsewhere. .

[lapucelle]

16. I wonder why they didn't mirror the webcam so the message on the $68 sweatshirt (untaxed in NYS)

didn't read backwards.

[Autumn]

17. It's $58. Untaxed in NYS. I wonder if she charged $110 for it would I have had to pay taxes for mine

But then the uproar would be epic.

[lapucelle]

20. Well at least there's a sales tax on specially bred designer dogs in NYS.

Shelter animals are free.

Do people who own $̶6̶8̶ $58 sweatshirts actually cook in them?

I never cook while wearing expensive clothing, but I would imagine "expensive" is a relative term, and for people of means $50+ sweatsuiting is probably a bargain.

[Autumn]

22. I'll cook in mine. You you know what helps loneliness? A dog. Look at it like this, she rescued

the pup from a breeder. At this time, in this pandemic when we are being responsible and keeping away from our vulnerable loved ones a dog makes sense for companionship. Next?

[George II]

24. If people would stop buying expensive animals from breeders they'd stop breeding them.

It's not a laughing matter.

[lapucelle]

26. The PETA press release is from January 2020, so A0C bought the purebred-inbred before the pandemic.

I would never assume that someone I don't know purchased a designer pet because they were lonely or isolated.

Nor would I try to assuage someone's conscience by rationalizing that participating (as a customer) in a practice that exploits animals is actually a means of rescuing those animals.

[Autumn]

30. Doesn't matter when she bought it. She bought it because she wanted it. Don't like it

change it. Maybe PETA should concentrate on working to get legislation to do away with dog breeders instard of what they are doing. I get it, you don't like her sweatshirt, you think it's over prived and are upset that it's not taxed, like any other clothing in NYS under $110, you don't like her buying a dog and I'm sure there's more about her you don't like but that conversation would take all day and I've wasted enough time this morning. You have a nice day.

http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/11/26/heres-10-outrageously-problematic-things-peta-has-done-and-why-you-shouldnt-support-them/

1. PETA kills tens of thousands of pets and domestic animals

Despite advocating for the rights of animals, PETA has one of the largest kill shelters in America. In 2016, 71.9% of cats and dogs taken in by PETA were euthanized, and only 2.9% were adopted. Additionally, from 2003 to 2013, a total of 29,426 domestic animals such as dogs, cats and rabbits were killed by PETA. Not to mention that various instances have come to light where pets were forcibly taken and euthanized without their owner’s consent. This certainly is a disgustingly high amount of domestic animals being killed for an organisation who claims to not only be in support of animal rights, but whose primary mission with their animal shelters is to find a permanent home for pets.

[lapucelle]

32. The issue is probably more nuanced than the teens at Affinity Magazine seem to realize.

PETA puts a high proportion of animals down, Nachminovitch explains, because it ministers to those that many other shelters turn away, often because of the shelters’ ”no kill” policies.

“There’s a certain plausibility to the line they’re taking,” said Waldau. “If you take the very worst problems that others can’t solve, your rate of putting dogs down is going to be much higher than anybody’s who has taken on the simple problems, the easy ones, the golden retrievers of life.”

A spokesman at the Humane Society of the United States, the largest animal welfare group in the nation, said it would not comment on PETA’s euthanasia rate or the bill in the Virginia Legislature. The Humane Society’s statement on euthanasia supports the practice as a last resort.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/at-petas-shelter-most-animals-are-put-down-peta-calls-them-mercy-killings/2015/03/12/e84e9af2-c8fa-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html

As for your source...

Caveat Lector

Why You Shouldn’t Donate To The Red Cross To Help Hurricane Victims

http://archive.is/55UVg#selection-423.1-423.69

Is the Red Cross Charging Victims of Hurricane Harvey for Disaster Relief Services?
Rumors that the Red Cross is charging victims of Hurricane Harvey conflate past controversies with current events.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/red-cross-charging-victims-hurricane-harvey-disaster-relief-services/

In review, Affinity Magazine has a left leaning bias in reporting with most articles favoring issues that are affiliated with the left. There is moderate use of loaded words especially when reporting on Donald Trump. Affinity Magazine is sourced to credible media outlets that are typically factual.

A factual search reveals that Affinity Magazine has failed a fact check by an IFCN fact checker. They also did not correct the article after the fact.

Overall, we rate them Left-Center biased based on story selection and Mixed for factual reporting due to a failed fact check without proper correction. (D. Van Zandt 8/19/2017) Updated (8/21/2018)

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/affinity-magazine/

[Autumn]

33. Posting an article about the Red Cross doesn't show them wrong on PETA. 1 for 1 eom

[lapucelle]

40. Affinity has a mixed fact check rating due to its unwillingness to correct a disproved,

inflammatory, click bait headline and update the appended story to align with the actual facts.

A factual search reveals that Affinity Magazine has failed a fact check by an IFCN fact checker. They also did not correct the article after the fact.

It's probably best to be wary of such sources of information on any and all topics, whether or not they affirm biases.

How a teen magazine botched a North Korea tweet and set the internet ablaze
This is what happens when you conflate racial bias, victim blaming, and the mistreatment of Otto Warmbier.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/affinity-magazine-north-korea-otto-warmbier/

It's hard to find a whole lot of information about the online publication, but the founder/editor in chief tweets under the handle "Corsetta Scott King".

[George II]

25. I wondered that myself. I'm not even "social media savvy", but when I participate ZOOM meetings...

....I mirror my webcam so I'm not doing everything backwards.

It's a simple mouse click or tap on a phone.

[George II]

12. In the first one, "Kamala Harris stirring the pot!" I died when I heard that, well done!

[Kid Berwyn]

13. The rich are lucky.

It could say, “Eat the Rich.”

[Buckeyeblue]

14. The irony is that Moscow Mitch represents one of the poorest states

Yet continues to demonstrate through policies and actions that he hates the poor.

But Bubba hates Democrats so much that he'd rather be damned to a life of poverty than vote for someone who is for basic human rights.

I've known and know some Bubbas. They have their charm. But at the end of the day their ignorance outshines their down-home charm. And I don't particularly like them very much. Honestly.

[Autumn]

15. You nailed that to the wall. I agree with everything you said. I loath every Republican

in office and have cut ties with people in my family who support and vote for the sole reason to keep Dems out of power.

[Alex4Martinez]

29. Thanks, Autumn!

I'm always encouraged to hear her speak, I am impressed by this brilliant stateswoman and don't understand others' apparent disdain for her.

I hope I live long enough to see her go straight to the top and lead the country from the white house.

[Autumn]

31. Me too and this should make your day and give you hope. It made mine

From the article in the OP. All the angst about her makes sense now.

The US constitution stipules that the president must be at least 35 years old. Ocasio-Cortez turns 35 less than a month before the next election. She is already campaigning from her kitchen without knowing it.

I'm on board.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016279706

[Dem4Life1102]

37. Wouldn't be amazing if

people actually discussed the issue she is talking about instead of engaging in all the silly stuff.

[Autumn]

38. The mere mention of her name triggers people and not only Republicans . I think it's out of fear.

[Bettie]

41. I find it weird that a number of Democrats

right here seem to dislike her far more than they do any Republican.

Just her name will bring them out of the woodwork to complain about her very existence.

[Autumn]

42. The love for Republicans and contempt for her is insane.

[Dem4Life1102]

46. We tend to assume that only republicans

are threatened and triggered by an intelligent woman of color.

[Autumn]

48. As a woman of color I learned long ago that while people will say they have my back, their actions

prove otherwise when their feet hit the pavement. It's a case of trust but verify.

[Autumn]

56. It doesn't even have to be a woman of color. Any woman who goes against what they

believe is a target. And you are so right, it's not just Republicans.

[lapucelle]

43. People everywhere in the country are talking about the stalled relief package.

Just because they're not doing it in videos that prominently feature merchandise for sale doesn't mean they're not doing it.

[Dem4Life1102]

44. I was talking about this thread

[lapucelle]

45. The thread is about a tweet about a politician cooking in a sweatshirt

while talking about an issue in the news. The OP mentions never having seen the "educate while cooking" approach before.

The tweeter mentions how "few congressmembers" she has heard talking about bread and butter issues from a working class perspective before.

Both perspectives are about the politician herself and messaging rather than about the covid relief package.

[Dem4Life1102]

47. Yet not about the actual issue she is talking about

But thanks for proving my point.

[Autumn]

49. The talk all over TV is how the stimulus bill is stalled because the Dems can't reach an agreement.

Very little talk as to why it's stalled, the fact that Mitch won't allow an agreement is overlooked. Very little talk about the facts that the Republicans don't care that people are hurting and why. AOC is one of a couple covering that very well. Seems to be a messaging problem on someones behalf.

[lapucelle]

51. It's pretty obvious that neither the tweet nor the OP is about an issue as much as about a person.

I'm not sure why anyone would need that to be proven.

[Dem4Life1102]

53. Thanks again for proving my point

[lapucelle]

54. Glad I could clarify the distinction between posting about a politician and posting about an issue.

To review: When the OP/tweet is about a politician, the discussion focuses on the politician. When the OP/tweet is about an issue, people discuss the issue.

[Dem4Life1102]

55. Thanks for proving my point

[jalan48]

39. Some Democrats are fine with Identity Politics but when someone mentions Class Politics they

get nervous and tell us to be quiet because it might alienate voters (donors?).

[Autumn]

50. True, and yes, it's the donors and greedy comfortable people who are in the I got mine class.