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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting tired of Nancy Pelosi telling her and women of color to shut up. |
The House Speaker is trying to silence women of color. Pelosi goes after four women of color who were sent to Congress on the grounds of being aggressive to Trump.
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party demands Trump gets impeached. They are demanding that Democrats get more tough on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). They are warning Pelosi that her gavel is on the line if she continues to knee-toe to Trump, Republicans and establishment Democrats.
Freshman lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) are getting tired of being told to shut up by Republicans and Democrats.
They are planning on recruiting candidates to primary Democratic establishment lawmakers.
Pelosi, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) are a problem within the Democratic Party. They are old, white, out-of-touch and not willing to accept change. We know the Republican Party isn't willing to accept change, but the Democrats are saying "Hey, we gonna change, but give us time!"
No there's no time for waiting. It's really time to get this shit together. We can't afford another election defeat.
The progressives are sick and tired of being marginalized by the far-white, agitators in the media, establishment lawmakers and candidates running for president.
Ocasio-Cortez is tired of the status quo in Washington, DC. Same here.
I am tired of these lawmakers calling Omar and Tlaib anti-Semitic for supporting the BDS Movement. They have the right to criticize Israel, their brutal treatment of Palestinian people, their foreign meddling and their attempts to drag the United States into war with Iran. That foolish far-white agitator Tucker Carlson continues to attack Omar because she said the truth about the United States. Omar dismissed his attacks. She also called out Pelosi for trying to cater to lobbyists who support Israeli causes.
Tlaib was right on the Democrats using people of color and women as bargaining chips to win elections. I've explained that in earlier postings. Tlaib said that Democratic leadership wants to keep women of color isolated from the public discussion.
I am tired of these lawmakers calling Ocasio-Cortez uneducated because she speaks out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She has been well-educated on issues against people of color to be told she doesn't know what she's talking about. To see folks like Tariq Nasheed running his mouth about her and a border agent drinking out of a toilet to prove a point is the reason to why she is tired of status quo theatrics.
"When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm's distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood," Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday.
"But the persistent singling out ... it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful ... the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color," Ocasio-Cortez added.
Ocasio-Cortez stood by her claim Thursday that Pelosi has been unfairly zeroing in on freshman women of color.
"It's really just pointing out the pattern, right? We're not talking about just progressives, it's signaling out four individuals," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN on Capitol Hill. "And knowing the media environment that we're operating in, knowing the amount of death threats that we get, knowing the amount of concentration detention, I think it's just worth asking why."
Asked if she thinks Pelosi has racial animus or is racist, Ocasio-Cortez said unequivocally, "No, no, absolutely not, absolutely not."
On Wednesday, Pelosi made an impassioned plea to her caucus for party unity as tensions among the progressive and moderate fractions have been at a high.
But in an interview with The New York Times posted Saturday, Pelosi knocked four liberal members of her caucus who had voted against the House border supplemental package before the July Fourth recess.
"All of these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world," Pelosi told the Times. "But they didn't have any following. They're four people and that's how many votes they got."
Ocasio-Cortez hit back on Twitter, arguing "That public 'whatever' is called public sentiment."
Pelosi has stood by her comments this week, saying she was simply stating that the four members voted against the bill. She also told reporters she does not have any regrets about her remarks.
And in the caucus meeting Wednesday, Pelosi told members: "You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just OK."
Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez have clashed over some of the more progressive policies and stances that the New York Democrat has pushed.
The House speaker made similar comments about Ocasio-Cortez in an April interview.
"While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what's important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House," Ocasio-Cortez told USA Today.
In February, Pelosi announced the Democratic members for her select panel on the climate crisis without Ocasio-Cortez included. Pelosi told reporters that Ocasio-Cortez had turned down her offer to sit on the committee, according to Politico.
She was asked by Politico about the "Green New Deal" and responded dismissively about the sweeping legislative proposal Ocasio-Cortez has championed that aims to combat climate change.
"It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive," Pelosi said, Politico reported.
"The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?"
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