Running AOC thread (CURRENTLY: Trump's controversial tweets)

She is becoming the media’s new Lena Dunham.

The piece notes that some on the left Fear she is a liberal Trump - “tweetfirst, ask questions later.”

She's young and attractive.
Loves the spotlight.
Worked on Sanders campaign.
She's left of Sanders.
Unseated longtime Dem in primary.

For now.
The pace of her exposure seems to indicate a turn is coming at some point.
It always helps when you're good looking.

But Gabbard is beautiful and her exposure has taken a turn

Doesn't take any corporate money. 

Believes the top marginal tax rate should be returned to what it was under Reagan, which is being treated like she said she wants to enroll everyone at Hogwarts. When she said she wanted anything over $10 million in income taxed at a rate of 70 percent, a lot of people lied and said she wanted to take 70 percent of your income. When Steve Scalise told this lie, she was happy to say "You're minority whip, how do you not know how marginal tax rates work? Oh that's right, you work for corporations, not people." 

Is very good at social media, happy to crack back at anyone who comes at her. (see: above) When Joe Leiberman, of all people, said she was not the future of the Democratic party she quote tweeted him with the simple: "New party, who dis?" and it got (I believe) more RT that anything the President has tweeted this year. She's very 29, but she's also very good at this kind of thing. 

Family was poor when she was young, clawed its way into the middle class, then her dad died and they went back to being poor. 

Has kind of a squeaky voice. Not at all what I expected when I first saw her interviewed after only reading about her. 

Is quite refreshing in the way she's revealing what the norms of Congress are, where freshman get are asked to sit through seminars with lobbyists but nothing from, say, labor leaders. Just this week she was talking about being aghast at learning most Congressmen or women spend only "five hours a week in their offices" and the rest of the time making calls to raise money, which is one of those things that's treated as just the way things are by people who cover Washington regularly but is actually absurd when someone from the outside points it out. 

Is no further to the left than a lot of members of the GOP are to the right, but because you have to be a literal Nazi to be considered too conservative in the United States, but being a self-proclaimed socialist is treated in the media like you want the United States to become Venezuela, people are freaking out about this. Meanwhile Michelle Bachmann said Democratic presidents were causing swing flu outbreaks and HPV vaccines caused mental retardation in girls, and no one said "Whoa is Michelle Bachmann moving the party too far to the right?" (Don't get me started on lunatic dipshit Louie Gohmert.)

Did a Breakfast Club parody dance video when she was in college that was "leaked" by an anonymous Twitter account trying to shame her as "unserious." It backfired, then people accused her of leaking it herself. 

Come on, man ...

Is no further to the left than a lot of members of the GOP are to the right, but because you have to be a literal Nazi to be considered too conservative in the United States, but being a self-proclaimed socialist is treated in the media like you want the United States to become Venezuela, people are freaking out about this.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/sean-penn-supports-hugo-chavez-vigil-inspiration_n_2293072.html