Did you just call me a nihilist, motherfucker!?

Boy, if I thought there was anyone on this board, myself included, with enough moral fortitude to firebomb an ICE facility, it would alter my posting persona significantly.

Pretty sure that's why LV hasn't been heard from in awhile. He's planning...something.

He's just having sex with his wife

I can't imagine ever finding any entertainment value in what the Burt account does. But I'm glad you guys are able to. I'm jealous (lol). And I really do appreciate your perspective on this. It'll definitely change/improve/adjust they way I choose to interact with that account going forward. So thanks for this, team. Appreciate y'all.

Was it hot?

Always

Just it flow over you like a warm rain, Joey, secure in the knowledge that when the revolution comes Burt's posts will not protect him.

“Did you see the reports mocking migrant children’s deaths?” she asked.

He did.

“Did you see the post planning physical harm to myself and Congresswoman Escobar​?” she continued.

McAleenan said he had seen that as well – and had promptly asked that it be investigated.

“Did you see the images of officers circulating Photoshopped images of my violent rape?” Ocasio-Cortez asked.

McAleenan said yes.

“Are those officers on the job today and responsible for the safety of migrant women and children?” ​she pressed.

The acting DHS head wasn’t sure.

“We’ve already put individuals on administrative duties, I don’t know which ones corresponded to which post​,” he said.​

“Do you think that the policy of child separation could have contributed to a dehumanizing culture within CBP that contributes and kind of spills over to other areas of conduct?” Ocasio-Cortez asked.

McAleenan said that there was not a “dehumanizing culture” at ​the agency.

“So you don’t think having 10,000 officers in a violent, racist group sharing rape memes of members of Congress points to any concern of a dehumanized culture?” ​she said.

Link me or at least describe it

She practices what Harvard's Cornell Brooks called "Politics as Protest", so she is more activist than politician. It's why she's been highly effective at garnering attention and condemning others behaviors, but ineffective as a legislator... she doesn't want to solve the problems, she wants to point to them and perform personal trauma. Contrast that with Warren or Harris who, ignoring whether you agree with or disagree with their positions, care about policy and applying reasoned and practical approached to addressing what they see as needed changes. I disagree with Warren and Harris frequently, but they are respectable leaders and not cry babies.

she doesn't want to solve the problems, she wants to point to them and perform personal trauma.

When you came to Congress, did you have a plan? What you wanted to push forward? How you wanted to communicate?

I think in some parts—how I wanted to communicate, yes. And I think for me, over all, the plan was to try to expand our national debate and reframe our understanding of issues, because I felt as though that was something that wasn’t being done enough, especially on the Democratic side, for Democrats.

We don’t know how to talk about our own issues in ways that I think are convincing, so we fall into Republican frames all the time. And we’re too often on the defense, we’re too often afraid of our own values and sticking up for them. And I feel like we run away from our convictions too much. And so one of the things that I wanted to do was to hold a strong line, and redefine our values, and remind people that I think what we need to be doing right now is coming home as a party. I don’t think we should be afraid of being the party of F.D.R. I don’t think we should be afraid of being the party of working people. And it feels to me that at some point we did start becoming afraid of those things.

I'd be curious about which other seven-month freshmen Congressmen have built up long legislative pedigrees.

Of course her primary tool thus far has been the bully pulpit; what else is it going to be? She's a freshman Congressman. But like her policies or hate them, she's a freshman Congressman that actually has gotten things to the point where presidential candidates are being asked to comment on policies she's proposed/supported (i.e. the Green New Deal). You can think she's a crybaby, but the impact she's had is far disproportionate to the power she actually wields right now; this doesn't really seem arguable.