Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.

Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.

Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.

Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I think if we don’t start WW3 and nuke the planet she’s gonna be the first woman president in the US

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      Unless the republicans field a multiple rapist convict again. Then it’s a tossup and a guaranteed L, if there’s a war somewhere the genocide people can get behind.

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      The DNC would murder her if she broke through their primary defenses and got close enough.

      They’re fine with losing, the pendulum is part of the grift, what they aren’t fine with is losing their half of that bipartisan oligarch gravy train. Our capitalists don’t bribe both parties to have those parties stand against economic metastasis at all human cost.

      We can have affirmation ribbons and be sucked dry by the oligarchs, or we can have scapegoating and be sucked dry by the oligarchs, that is the extent of our “freedom.” Reagan and Kemp saw to that by getting their former opposition on the take.

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        Serious talk. When are people going to start calling them DINOs. Democrats In Name Only from the Jurassic period.

        You think Trump took over the RNC because the old guard liked him?? No he built on the backs of the tea party.

        Bernie and the squad were the lefts tea party. What they need now is a charismatic leader to build on it and kick the DINOs out by force.

        The DNC is not that powerful. We outnumber them. Stop forgetting we outnumber them.

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        Now would be a great time to just put the democratic party out of its misery. Looking around the party, we can be comforted that at least it will go peacefully, in its sleep. Let’s at least see if we can get a fresh new party out of all this shit.

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          That would be the golden lining from this whole damn mess - political reforms that make the spirit of the Constitution have genuine power, and a rebalancing of the scales. People like Musk should be extinguished, never to return from that dark cesspit known as capitalism.

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          Good thing I don’t have that.

          If I did, I’d help protect the system when the molitovs start flying at it like a good house slave, I hope to assist when it isn’t just me, as that would just be suicide by cop.

          This isn’t class war, this is 50 years of class occupation and counting. Peaceful positive change has been made impossible here on multiple levels by the owners. I put my hope in the other thing, as that’s the only rational place left to put it.