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

I'm kind of getting to the point at which it's clear that those who don't/can't find a job aren't a bug ... they're a feature. Because then suddenly there'll be a huge clamor for not only a UBI, but a bigger UBI. And then ...

Yep, those crafty billionaires keep getting richer on the government teat. Sad.

John Boehner is out promoting his new book. 

He was on NPR yesterday, and the premise of the host's question with regards to AOC just blows me away. 

Are we really pretending that she's an earnest lawmaker, just trying to get things done, that some of us on the right might simply disagree with? 

INSKEEP: I get the impression, though, that you think that a lot of leading personalities in your party don't really stand for anything, don't really believe in anything.

BOEHNER: Well, listen; I've been around politics now for 40 years. I thought I knew something about politics, but clearly, today I don't know as much as I thought I knew about politics because, you know, I'm a Republican, actually. I'm a conservative Republican. But I'm not crazy. And then they've got - I don't know - these noisemakers, I'll call them. But Nancy Pelosi's got the same problem on her side of the aisle.

INSKEEP: When you talk about noisemakers, who do you mean? Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan?

BOEHNER: Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan. I can go down a long list of people who are more interested in making noise than they are in doing things on behalf of the country. Sometimes I get the idea that they'd rather tear the whole system down and start over because I've never seen anything that they were for. I know what they're against, but I've never really seen what they're for.

INSKEEP: I wonder if there actually is a difference between the hard-right and the hard-left in this respect. You mentioned progressives. You write about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example, a young member of the House from New York. But I wonder if there is a difference in that AOC may have ideas that you consider really unwise and unworkable, but she's actually grasping for ideas; she actually does want to do something.

BOEHNER: That could be a difference. But in terms of the way they act, they're frankly pretty much the same.

INSKEEP: There's a case to be made - and, in fact, even some conservatives make it - that the Republican Party today is abandoning the idea of democracy. So many people supported the effort to overturn the 2020 election. So many state lawmakers now are pushing for voting restrictions based on false claims about that election. What do you make of that argument?

BOEHNER: Well, listen; the election is over. I've listened to all that noise before the election, after the election. And, you know, there's always a few irregularities. But there's really been no - nothing of any significance that would have changed one state's election outcome - not one and nothing even close. And I just find what President Trump did before the election, especially what he did after the election - he really abused the loyalty and trust that his voters and supporters placed in him by continually telling them that the election was going to be stolen before the election and then, after the election, telling them that the election was stolen without providing any evidence, no facts.

And that's the part about this that really disturbs me the most. You know, people who were loyal to me, people who trusted me, I felt like I had a responsibility to be honest with them, straightforward with them. And to see this loyalty and trust be abused by President Trump was really kind of disheartening at best.

www.npr.org/transcripts/985722549

You reject that premise? We can quibble on how widespread it is, but are there no prominent Republicans who actively sought to undermine the democratic process?

Trains can work. There is a great system in Salt Lake City with commuter rail that extends 40 miles north and south of downtown. Easy to design, though, because the valley is relatively narrow. Denver's system is a little disjointed because the original line from downtown goes to near Littleton (but not close enough that people will ditch their cars).

As for LA, are the trains and subway crowded? You'll never replace cars, but rail can work to not make congestion worse.

Seth Moulton had a chance to really be something and instead he latched himself on to these whackos…..as a Mass resident, extremely disappointing