AOC slams Republican Sen. over mockery of her bartending work: ‘Makes me 1000x more qualified to govern on behalf of working people’
Kennedy made the swipe at the Democratic lawmaker during an interview with Fox News, saying she is "kind of like Vice President Kamala Harris, but with more bartending experience." He went on to say that she has "never been accused of being a policy maven."
AOC reacted on social media, saying "my having been a waitress makes me 1000x more qualified to govern on behalf of working people than whatever lifelong politician nonsense you've swung from your whole career."
"Why should working people vote for you if this is what you think of them?," she added.
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Trump "worked" at a McD, lol
Didn't even last a day
Did he last an hour even? I thought he handed out a couple drivethrough orders to Trump donors and then marveled at the fryolator.
It was probably just that he was having a dementia episode at the time, but he seemed genuinely happier than I've ever seen him before when he was working that drive thru.
It was all the attention he was getting for doing so. You can bet they curated those coming through who were MAGA.
Yeah but someone mentioned it was Kamala Harris' birthday and he had nothing disparaging to say. Just wished her a happy birthday. Again, likely the dementia flared up and he couldn't remember who Kamala Harris was.
They’re scared of her and the younger, more progressive wing because they’re generally a LOT harder to win against than the typical milquetoast establishment/status-quo boomer Democratic candidates, by simple virtue of the fact that they tend to be way better at their jobs, and way more responsive to their constituents.
Yeah, truth nuke
AOC lives rent free in these people's heads.
... And their AI-generated fantasies. Eww....
Um, that costs money
Well now the Pentagon has something to spend that $500 billion on 🫠
Ben Shapiro has spent at least $1,000 generating AOC foot porn.
That's what they need all those data centers for
I mean, she's almost tailor-made to make them practically short out.
One, she's obviously a smoke-show and we might as well acknowledge that fact. Add to that, she is obviously very smart and a great speaker, and not afraid to speak up. Being a woman and a POC compounds their feels. She's also often aligned with the likes of Bernie on many issues.
Add all this up, and it's no wonder most Republicans behave like confused middle-school boys and don't know what to do with their conflicted feelings and end up saying/doing things that more or less boil down to the equivalent of pulling her hair and snapping her bra.
It usually comes out so incoherent and cringe - I seem to remember some winger(s) saying something about how she was a "hypocrite" for dating a white guy?
I'm more than happy not to charge her rent.
…that sounds creepy, but I just mean I'm glad she's in politics fighting the progressive fight, and I support her. lol
They are making fun of a normies citizen what became a representative of the people. Do they not realize that?
Rich folks should be banned from being in politics, honestly.
Rich people should just be banned
If we were to take the top 1% of peoples wealth in the US alone and redistribute it to everyone in the US. Everyone would receive enough to buy a house outright. So we either have a few rich parasites that control everything and ruin peoples lives for numbers on a spreadsheet, or everyone gets a house.
Just for numbers sake, "Accommodation and food services" (which would include bartenders) is the third largest US workforce at ~8%.
CongressThe US House of Representatives has 435 members, so at least 35 or so should have a background in bartending or similar work if we really are having a representative government.Sounds like we need more AOCs.
Sorry, best I can do is a bunch geriatric members of congress, political dynasties, and life long politicians.
You said the same thing three times…
There’s nothing wrong with life-long politicians, but we need more variety and less concern for getting reelected over doing what’s right.
Congress has 535 members, you’re off by 100. It should be 43 members with food service experience.
Whoops, I said Congress, but meant the US House of Representatives (since that is what AOC is).
The Senate has an even 100, so plus another 8 on their side.
I don’t know much about AOC beyond the occasional headline, but I do know that every time a right winger complains about her to me like “Look! See, she’s absolutely crazy!” it’s because she’s doing or saying something that is common sense.
That’s probably a good sign.
or "look at this commoner trying to be a politician, she even had a real job once.. what a loser!"
I love the fact that he's making fun of her for NOT having an elitist background. What trash.
Whenever I'm arguing with someone about TACO I just point out that what we really needed was another rich, old, white man. That'll fix our problems.
Not just rich, born rich.
If someone worked themselves to death 80hrs/week to build a fortune, forgoing family or personal development. That might not be "healthy" but at least we could all point at their work ethic and tenacity as something worthwhile.
But this fuck was just born into it. Never had to work a day in his life, just living off daddies dime.
I don’t want anyone in any political office who didn’t work at least six continuous months in a food service job.
Imagine not being a wealthy nepobaby
congressperson used to work a shitty job
Republicans: "Unqualified"
congressperson come from rich family
Republicans: "OMG ITS THE ELITES, dRaIn tHe sWaMp!"
🙄
I don't even know how they thought this was a dunk. Did they really expect us to say something like "I can't believe AOC worked as a bartender one point in her life! I would never elect a bartender!"
They really think that the country is THAT STUPID. Which is just sad since they'll probably be half right. Everyday I become more and more ashamed of my country so we'll see...
Give it a couple of months. They'll be dunking on AOC for not being a pedophile next. How can you be qualified for public office if you never went to the island? To a fascist, anything which denotes "them" is an acceptable insult.
People still mock her for her bartending work?
Yup, pedophiles trying to distract how corrupt and demonic they are.
Every time they mock her for having had a working class job they just prove they think they’re elite.
She is correct.
Look at Trump, he has never really worked a day of his life. He is basically detached from the reality of 99% of us.
How much could one banana cost?
He's right. I'd rather vote for some PedoCon to represent me, than a smart, moral person who has actually held a real job. /S
GTF Outta here with that shit.
Responding to the fascists seems to me a lot like trying to have a meaningful conversation with one of those inflatable dancing tube men things. You’re well within your rights, but you’re trying to have a conversation with nothing more than a bag of wind that always goes limp the moment someone pulls its cord.
I take it as her response is for people, not for him. Sometimes people need someone to spell out things. Like the representative thing, so they can understand billionaires might not have their best interest at heart over someone that actually has gone through the same struggles they are under.
Yeah, although sometimes ya do gotta let off a little steam… but you are right.
That is true, I agree about letting off some steam.
Does he think harris was that bad. I had no issue with harris which is why I voted for her. I mean satan, it would be hard to have an issue with someone as bad as the battrump crazy that is republicans now.
I'm going to stop you there. :)
I bet he feels slammed
The hours are brutal. Working 12+ hour shifts with the bulk of the labor happening at the tail end.
Then you're dealing with other people's droll and piss and blood. Managing angry drunks, happy drunks, and piss drunks. Tracking orders, periodically against people who want to cheat or rob you. Scouting for underaged drinkers, dealing with sex pests, and still politely catering to the whims of the bulk of your clientele.
I don't envy bar work even slightly. Crazy to think it's "easy", unless you're already four drinks in. At which point, you're one of the people making the job more difficult.
It is ridiculous.
It shows the elitism of those politicians. A representatives supposed represent us but they are multimillionaires and even billionaires.
According to stupid right wing narratives and framing, being a centimillionaire or a billionaire is not elitist, but knowing stuff, having an education and qualifications and experience is "elitist".
So, a scientist, still paying off student loans decades later (but when they talk about their subject matter, they make a winger feel talked down to) - elitist.
Scumbag parasitic idle rich jackass born with a silver spoon in their mouth, never worked a day in their lives, and accrued billions - NOT elitist.
Since the cons have so distorted the concept of elitist to mean only someone that's educated, smart, etc., and has no money/power component to it, I'm kind of glad that people have started talking about the Epstein Class. Because when we talk about elitist jackasses, I have the feeling that we are talking about money/power and the base of the Republican Party think "poindexters that went to college".
So billionaires are, by definition, stupid and proud of it.
Nope, brilliant businessmen who possess street smarts and acumen.
Obviously we should cut their taxes and deregulate them a little more.
And even the ones who are not are almost all beholden to our oligarchs and serve at their pleasure.
Pedofilelitism
TBH I don't think any republican anywhere is qualified for any sort of leadership role of any kind.
many behaviors, traits, characteristics that lead them to ’conservativism’ should preclude them from being public servants
I would celebrate so much if she became president one day. Those old white men would be so pissed off.
I hope she runs for NY governor or something soon. I'd like to see her as president, but I don't think her campaign would have much success if her only political experience is as a congresswoman. Historically, it's hard for a presidential candidate to succeed without first having some experience in an executive role (like governor, or as a general). Plus, imagine how much she and Mandami could get done together if he were running NYC and she were the governor.
I mean; she can't possibly have less experience than the current president
And look how that has worked out.
I think the party has already made a deal with her: if she agrees to not run for President in 2028, they will clear the field for her to take Chuck's Senate seat instead.
I think she could do better than that.
The Senate is a good gig, it can be a lot easier to get foreign policy experience there than as a Governor.
Sure, but not executive experience.
If you look at most successful candidates for president they were either governors or generals (or lately CEOs). You can guess what the attacks against AOC are going to be. One will certainly be that she doesn't have the experience, especially as a key decision maker. Personally, I think she'd be a fine president right now. But, to convince enough other people I think she'll need to prove to them that she knows what she's doing at the "big desk".
Obama was never a Governor. JFK was never a Governor. It is very possible to win the Presidency as a sitting Senator.
I think she would make a fine President now, but a better one with two Senate terms under her belt.
Those are 2 exceptions out of how many?
All she needs is heavy, HEAVY use of the words "prosecute" and "list" and she's got my full support.
Is She being Discriminated against because she comes from a lower socio economic environment or just because she was a bar tender?
Yes
Maybe the most appropriate use of "slams".
Agreed. That retort was spot on.
Nepo baby say "what", Bob?
Cook that fraud AOC.
FoH staff don't work
Closers and openers can complain about each other, FoH and BoH can banter, at the end of the day they're all on the same team. Fuck off, service work is work.
And some of the hardest, lowest paid jobs I've ever worked.
Seriously, commerical kitchens can suck.
As a hard working BoH worker, fuck off with this.
They love the bartending story, it makes her sound like she's I r of us. They love leaving out she was also an intern for Ted Kennedy and groomed by 2 Israeli zionists.