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

Were you under the impression Sean Penn was a member of Congress? Just interested in seeing how much I want to engage here.

I was fully aware that running for re-election required a lot of time fundraising but I did not think that Congressman and women spent roughly 5 hours a week in their offices, nor I'm confident did you since you apparently thought Sean Penn was in there, like, reading lines or some shit for his El Chapo movie. 

AOC needs a chief of staff to run things past. Some social media depends on being spontaneous. Other (her confusion in thinking the Pentagon had an extra $21 trillion lying around) would be easy to get a handle on with a discussion or sounding board.

She’s going to be under that microscope, and as DD noted, Republicans are going to lie about what she’s saying. She can’t do them any favors.

What is the $21 trillion thing?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s $21 trillion mistake

“$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions ‘could not be traced, documented, or explained.’ $21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon.”

The figure she's citing is one economist's estimate of waste in the DoD. But as WaPo writes:

Regardless, in the situation Skidmore is describing, the $21 trillion is not one big pot of dormant money collecting dust somewhere. It’s the sum of all transactions — both inflows and outflows — for which the Defense Department did not have adequate documentation. “The same dollar could be accounted for many times,” as Philip Klein wrote in the Washington Examiner.

They gave her four Pinocchios for that one. She tried to stand by it. Then she went to the it illustrates my point anyway well.

It was an early misstep and one that won't sink her, but it was a misstep for sure.

Depends on how you define “the rich.” Top-most percentiles account for a substantially larger proportion of federal income tax receipts than they did in the 80s ...