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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Stephen Colbert: I Give ‘Zero’ F*cks
The freshman congresswoman compared her activism to Martin Luther King Jr., who was also called ‘divisive’ in his day.
Matt Wilstein
01.22.19 12:55 AM ET
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her late-night debut last June on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she was the last guest of the night following Michael Moore, comedian Eric Andre and a special appearance by Jon Stewart. Seven months later, the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives was the main event.
Thanks to President Trump, the Bronx-born congresswoman has yet to be in office with the government fully open, meaning that she and her fellow freshmen members “can’t start doing the work we’re elected to do,” she said. “So the downside is that we’re not able to get to work as much as we want to in the beginning, but the bright side is it gives us a lot more free time to make trouble.”
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That “trouble” has included her #WheresMitch social media campaign to track down Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and try to force him to call a vote to reopen the government. Now, Ocasio-Cortez has been tapped to teach some of the more seasoned Democrats how to better use platforms like Twitter and Instagram.
Ocasio-Cortez also revealed how she chooses who to respond to on Twitter, attempting to make sure she’s not giving the wrong people undue attention. She tends to fire back at “notable” people or “verified” users because she doesn’t “want to go after some innocent bystander.” She added, “If you have a blue check, if you’re in my mentions, if you’re being sassy in a way that I think is unjustified, and if I haven’t eaten in two to three hours,” then watch out.
Later, Colbert pressed her on some of the backlash she’s received from members of her own party who tell her to “wait your turn” and “don’t make waves.” The host said, “I want to ask this question in a respectful manner, knowing also that you’re from Queens, so you will understand this question. On a scale from zero to some, how many fucks do you give?”
After thinking for a second, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think it’s zero.”
In response to those who value party unity above all else, she added, “If you think activism is inherently divisive—I mean, today is Martin Luther King Day. And people called Martin Luther King divisive in his time. We forget he was wildly unpopular when advocating for the Civil Rights Act. I think that what we need to realize is that social movements should be the moral compass of our politics.”
Finally, Ocasio-Cortez assured a concerned Colbert that under her controversial 70 percent marginal tax rate, he would not have to surrender “all” of his money. “This is something we often see too, with Fox News,” she said. “It’s like, ‘They want to take all your money!’” She explained that in reality the tax is only on income made after $10 million in one year.
“At what level are we really just living in excess,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “and what kind of society do we want to live in?”
The Late Show audience cheered wildly with approval.
The freshman congresswoman compared her activism to Martin Luther King Jr., who was also called ‘divisive’ in his day.
Matt Wilstein
01.22.19 12:55 AM ET
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her late-night debut last June on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she was the last guest of the night following Michael Moore, comedian Eric Andre and a special appearance by Jon Stewart. Seven months later, the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives was the main event.
Thanks to President Trump, the Bronx-born congresswoman has yet to be in office with the government fully open, meaning that she and her fellow freshmen members “can’t start doing the work we’re elected to do,” she said. “So the downside is that we’re not able to get to work as much as we want to in the beginning, but the bright side is it gives us a lot more free time to make trouble.”
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That “trouble” has included her #WheresMitch social media campaign to track down Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and try to force him to call a vote to reopen the government. Now, Ocasio-Cortez has been tapped to teach some of the more seasoned Democrats how to better use platforms like Twitter and Instagram.
Ocasio-Cortez also revealed how she chooses who to respond to on Twitter, attempting to make sure she’s not giving the wrong people undue attention. She tends to fire back at “notable” people or “verified” users because she doesn’t “want to go after some innocent bystander.” She added, “If you have a blue check, if you’re in my mentions, if you’re being sassy in a way that I think is unjustified, and if I haven’t eaten in two to three hours,” then watch out.
Later, Colbert pressed her on some of the backlash she’s received from members of her own party who tell her to “wait your turn” and “don’t make waves.” The host said, “I want to ask this question in a respectful manner, knowing also that you’re from Queens, so you will understand this question. On a scale from zero to some, how many fucks do you give?”
After thinking for a second, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think it’s zero.”
In response to those who value party unity above all else, she added, “If you think activism is inherently divisive—I mean, today is Martin Luther King Day. And people called Martin Luther King divisive in his time. We forget he was wildly unpopular when advocating for the Civil Rights Act. I think that what we need to realize is that social movements should be the moral compass of our politics.”
Finally, Ocasio-Cortez assured a concerned Colbert that under her controversial 70 percent marginal tax rate, he would not have to surrender “all” of his money. “This is something we often see too, with Fox News,” she said. “It’s like, ‘They want to take all your money!’” She explained that in reality the tax is only on income made after $10 million in one year.
“At what level are we really just living in excess,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “and what kind of society do we want to live in?”
The Late Show audience cheered wildly with approval.
She's funny looking but sexy as hell. RAW for democracy
She probably going to backtrack on those fucks given justnliek she did when she voted for pelosi
thats not necessarily true
Bitch is wack. Yall are reaching.
I guess this is an example of her dog walking trump
Mystery solved: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez covers tracks in address debacle
By Max Jaeger and Bruce Golding
February 24, 2019 | 8:38pm | Updated
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Alexandria Ocasio-CortezDan Herrick
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scrambled Sunday to explain why neighbors at her listed Bronx address never saw her there — and ended up claiming she recently relocated to a larger place nearby.
The day after The Post reported that residents said they had never seen her around — and she ducked questions about it after an appearance — her spokesman said the Democratic freshman congresswoman now lives with her boyfriend in a two-bedroom apartment “a block and a half away.’’
The pair relocated there earlier this month, he said.
“She lives in the same neighborhood she’s lived in for years,” said the spokesman, Corbin Trent. “She is not living in the exact same condo.’’
The recent move still didn’t explain why residents at her previous digs — a one-bedroom Bronx condo owned by her mom — insisted they had never seen her there.
US representatives and senators are required to have a residence in their home districts.
Trent claimed that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, was at her new home Sunday afternoon, although he wouldn’t give the address.
Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender-turned-progressive pacesetter, ducked questions about her residence after an appearance Saturday in Queens. She told The Post to wait for her to pose for a photograph — then slipped out a back door and into a waiting SUV.
Ocasio-Cortez previously claimed that she has lived since 2011 in a mortgage-free, fourth-floor condo in Parkchester, which according to records was bought by her dad, Sergio Ocasio, who died in 2008.
After The Post reported a next-door neighbor and another fourth-floor resident saying they have never seen the self-proclaimed socialist living there, Trent denied the residents’ claims, saying her family’s apartment “was home, period, for her,’’ according to the Daily Mail.
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“That’s where she gets her energy, her drive. She not only lives there, that’s where her heart’s at, period,” Trent told the Mail, which added that he was talking about the family’s condo.
Yet even a third resident of the fourth floor there, who gave her name as Ms. Gonazales, told The Post on Sunday that she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez there.
Later in the day, Trent then claimed to The Post that the Mail got it wrong and that his comments to the site had been referring to the Bronx in general. Still, asked if he had been misquoted, Trent would only say the Mail might have been “mistaken.’’ He did not respond to a question about whether he would ask for a retraction.
Trent said he was “uncertain” if his boss has changed her address on her voter registration form.
Ocasio-Cortez made headlines in November when she claimed she couldn’t afford an apartment in Washington, DC, after her unexpected primary victory over 10-term incumbent Joseph Crowley because she wasn’t yet drawing her $174,000-a-year congressional salary.
Earlier this month, the Washington Free Beacon revealed that Ocasio -Cortez had moved into a luxury apartment building in DC’s Navy Yard neighborhood.
Trent said Ocasio-Cortez was no longer short of cash because “she has been paid now,” and that she and boyfriend Riley Roberts “are able to manage” the costs of maintaining two homes.
By Max Jaeger and Bruce Golding
February 24, 2019 | 8:38pm | Updated
Enlarge Image
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezDan Herrick
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scrambled Sunday to explain why neighbors at her listed Bronx address never saw her there — and ended up claiming she recently relocated to a larger place nearby.
The day after The Post reported that residents said they had never seen her around — and she ducked questions about it after an appearance — her spokesman said the Democratic freshman congresswoman now lives with her boyfriend in a two-bedroom apartment “a block and a half away.’’
The pair relocated there earlier this month, he said.
“She lives in the same neighborhood she’s lived in for years,” said the spokesman, Corbin Trent. “She is not living in the exact same condo.’’
The recent move still didn’t explain why residents at her previous digs — a one-bedroom Bronx condo owned by her mom — insisted they had never seen her there.
US representatives and senators are required to have a residence in their home districts.
Trent claimed that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, was at her new home Sunday afternoon, although he wouldn’t give the address.
Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender-turned-progressive pacesetter, ducked questions about her residence after an appearance Saturday in Queens. She told The Post to wait for her to pose for a photograph — then slipped out a back door and into a waiting SUV.
Ocasio-Cortez previously claimed that she has lived since 2011 in a mortgage-free, fourth-floor condo in Parkchester, which according to records was bought by her dad, Sergio Ocasio, who died in 2008.
After The Post reported a next-door neighbor and another fourth-floor resident saying they have never seen the self-proclaimed socialist living there, Trent denied the residents’ claims, saying her family’s apartment “was home, period, for her,’’ according to the Daily Mail.
SEE ALSO
Where in the world does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live?
“That’s where she gets her energy, her drive. She not only lives there, that’s where her heart’s at, period,” Trent told the Mail, which added that he was talking about the family’s condo.
Yet even a third resident of the fourth floor there, who gave her name as Ms. Gonazales, told The Post on Sunday that she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez there.
Later in the day, Trent then claimed to The Post that the Mail got it wrong and that his comments to the site had been referring to the Bronx in general. Still, asked if he had been misquoted, Trent would only say the Mail might have been “mistaken.’’ He did not respond to a question about whether he would ask for a retraction.
Trent said he was “uncertain” if his boss has changed her address on her voter registration form.
Ocasio-Cortez made headlines in November when she claimed she couldn’t afford an apartment in Washington, DC, after her unexpected primary victory over 10-term incumbent Joseph Crowley because she wasn’t yet drawing her $174,000-a-year congressional salary.
Earlier this month, the Washington Free Beacon revealed that Ocasio -Cortez had moved into a luxury apartment building in DC’s Navy Yard neighborhood.
Trent said Ocasio-Cortez was no longer short of cash because “she has been paid now,” and that she and boyfriend Riley Roberts “are able to manage” the costs of maintaining two homes.
olbert Just Did Something the Late Show Hasn’t Done in 25 Years
By Josef Adalian@tvmojoe
Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is ending the 2018–19 TV season more dominant than ever. With the official Nielsen-ratings measurement period ending Wednesday, the CBS late-night series will expand its total viewer lead over chief competitor The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and, for the first time in nearly 25 years, finish a season at number one in the all-important adults-under-50 demo. But there’s a warning light flashing for Colbert. After two years of growth, powered in no small part by an aggressive focus on President Trump’s travails, the Late Show gave back some of its recent gains this season, particularly among younger viewers. The good news for Colbert: His rivals suffered even steeper declines.
While final numbers won’t be out until next month, Nielsen data through last week has the Late Show averaging roughly 3.8 million viewers this season, about 1.4 million ahead of second-place Tonight (2.4 million) and nearly 1.8 million in front of third-place Jimmy Kimmel Live (2 million). Colbert ended the 2017–18 season with a 1.2-million-viewer lead over Fallon (and 1.6 million viewers ahead of Kimmel), so the Late Show’s margin of victory grew more impressive during the past nine months. Meanwhile, among adults under 50, the Late Show went from clearly losing the 2017–18 ratings period (a 0.59 rating vs. 0.65 for Tonight) to a narrow win (0.52 for Colbert, 0.51 for Fallon.) The Tonight camp can rightly note the weekly ratings race has tightened a bit during the last few months of the season, and that Fallon’s show outperforms the others in terms of social media and YouTube views. But the bottom line in the ratings war between Colbert and Fallon this season? More than ever, Colbert is the clear king of late night.
Still, it takes nothing away from the Late Show’s win to also take note of a cooling in its Nielsen momentum. For much of the first two years of Trump’s administration, the Late Show’s trajectory was one of virtually uninterrupted growth, both in overall audience and among younger viewers. Colbert’s audience grew by nearly 20 percent between mid-2017 and mid-2018, jumping from around 3.2 million viewers at the end of May 2017 to nearly 3.9 million a year later. By contrast, the Late Show looks likely to lose about 100,000 viewers this season. That’s a very tiny dip — around 2 percent — and the sort of Nielsen stability almost unheard of these days in primetime, where almost every established program now suffers far more significant year-to-year audience erosion. And it’s also a much smaller drop than the other 11:35 P.M. shows: Tonight lost 9 percent of its viewership this season, and Kimmel’s declined by 10 percent.
Colbert’s declines are a tad steeper in the adults-under-50 demo: The Late Show is currently on track to lose about 12 percent of its young adult audience this season. But again, the other shows are doing worse. Kimmellooks to end down around 18 percent, while Tonight nosedived 22 percent this season (in part because last season’s numbers may have been inflated by the halo from NBC’s broadcast of both the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl.) While the Late Show’s overall audience is still well ahead of where it was two or three years ago, its current demo average (0.52) is now below where it was at the end of the 2016–17 season (0.58).
Is this a sign younger audiences are growing tired of anti-Trump humor? Probably not. Fact is, younger viewers are fleeing network (and cable) TV at a far faster clip than audiences over 50, so it’s not surprising that Nielsen gravity has caught up to the Late Show. While it’s possible some percentage of younger viewers are watching Colbert less frequently since much of the mystery surrounding the Mueller report has faded, the basic stability in Colbert’s overall audience suggests he’s not suffering from his focus on Trump’s travails. A safer takeaway from the end-of-season numbers: Being the comedy face of the anti-Trump resistance is no longer enough to recruit new viewers to late night. Fortunately for Colbert, the 2020 election cycle is just months away from kicking into high gear.
By Josef Adalian@tvmojoe
Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is ending the 2018–19 TV season more dominant than ever. With the official Nielsen-ratings measurement period ending Wednesday, the CBS late-night series will expand its total viewer lead over chief competitor The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and, for the first time in nearly 25 years, finish a season at number one in the all-important adults-under-50 demo. But there’s a warning light flashing for Colbert. After two years of growth, powered in no small part by an aggressive focus on President Trump’s travails, the Late Show gave back some of its recent gains this season, particularly among younger viewers. The good news for Colbert: His rivals suffered even steeper declines.
While final numbers won’t be out until next month, Nielsen data through last week has the Late Show averaging roughly 3.8 million viewers this season, about 1.4 million ahead of second-place Tonight (2.4 million) and nearly 1.8 million in front of third-place Jimmy Kimmel Live (2 million). Colbert ended the 2017–18 season with a 1.2-million-viewer lead over Fallon (and 1.6 million viewers ahead of Kimmel), so the Late Show’s margin of victory grew more impressive during the past nine months. Meanwhile, among adults under 50, the Late Show went from clearly losing the 2017–18 ratings period (a 0.59 rating vs. 0.65 for Tonight) to a narrow win (0.52 for Colbert, 0.51 for Fallon.) The Tonight camp can rightly note the weekly ratings race has tightened a bit during the last few months of the season, and that Fallon’s show outperforms the others in terms of social media and YouTube views. But the bottom line in the ratings war between Colbert and Fallon this season? More than ever, Colbert is the clear king of late night.
Still, it takes nothing away from the Late Show’s win to also take note of a cooling in its Nielsen momentum. For much of the first two years of Trump’s administration, the Late Show’s trajectory was one of virtually uninterrupted growth, both in overall audience and among younger viewers. Colbert’s audience grew by nearly 20 percent between mid-2017 and mid-2018, jumping from around 3.2 million viewers at the end of May 2017 to nearly 3.9 million a year later. By contrast, the Late Show looks likely to lose about 100,000 viewers this season. That’s a very tiny dip — around 2 percent — and the sort of Nielsen stability almost unheard of these days in primetime, where almost every established program now suffers far more significant year-to-year audience erosion. And it’s also a much smaller drop than the other 11:35 P.M. shows: Tonight lost 9 percent of its viewership this season, and Kimmel’s declined by 10 percent.
Colbert’s declines are a tad steeper in the adults-under-50 demo: The Late Show is currently on track to lose about 12 percent of its young adult audience this season. But again, the other shows are doing worse. Kimmellooks to end down around 18 percent, while Tonight nosedived 22 percent this season (in part because last season’s numbers may have been inflated by the halo from NBC’s broadcast of both the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl.) While the Late Show’s overall audience is still well ahead of where it was two or three years ago, its current demo average (0.52) is now below where it was at the end of the 2016–17 season (0.58).
Is this a sign younger audiences are growing tired of anti-Trump humor? Probably not. Fact is, younger viewers are fleeing network (and cable) TV at a far faster clip than audiences over 50, so it’s not surprising that Nielsen gravity has caught up to the Late Show. While it’s possible some percentage of younger viewers are watching Colbert less frequently since much of the mystery surrounding the Mueller report has faded, the basic stability in Colbert’s overall audience suggests he’s not suffering from his focus on Trump’s travails. A safer takeaway from the end-of-season numbers: Being the comedy face of the anti-Trump resistance is no longer enough to recruit new viewers to late night. Fortunately for Colbert, the 2020 election cycle is just months away from kicking into high gear.
Mutha fucka don't......just don't...
I like this chick a lot and can't relate at all to her haters. Check out "Knock The House Down" on Netflix for a behind the scenes look at her and other progressive candidates during the midterms... she is likeable af and her heart is in the right place 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Trump in five-minute corruption game
they grooming this chick to b the 1st Minority Female President of the US... wait n see ... :yes: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wall-street-giants-donated-aoc-opponent-michelle-caruso-cabrera-2020-6-1029342965 https://www.instagram.com/aoc/
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I wanna nut in her. 
BAWSE!
There are a lot of people who don’t “know the rules”. Its specifically why we are in the situation we are in.
Raw diggity