1d ago

AOC says she's worth less than $500,000 after kickback claims — and seems to get kudos from Trump fans in response

www.businessinsider.com AOC says she's worth less than $500,000 after kickback claims — and seems to get kudos from Trump fans in response

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won plaudits from critics for saying her congressional salary is her only income and she doesn't trade stocks.

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1d ago

AOC says she's worth less than $500,000 after kickback claims — and seems to get kudos from Trump fans in response

www.businessinsider.com /aoc-net-worth-wealth-salary-congress-home-trump-ocasio-cortez-2025-2

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Why do we care what the MAGAts think? They're too stupid to see that billionaires don't have their best interest at heart.
- You should care. We should all care.
  The big problem we have in this country isn't just a radical right, it's extreme divisiveness. Foreign and corporate powers have done their best to divide the US populace and pit us against each other. Why? Because that makes us easier to control, easier to manipulate, easier to deceive, easier to advertise to. And one of the keys goals they have is a complete breakdown of communication. At this point we're essentially speaking two different languages and don't even understand each other any more. As soon as you stop talking to the other side, you're letting the corpos and the despots win, because that's what they want. If you don't even care what the other side thinks, you're essentially giving up on the whole idea of these "United" States (and you're wandering ever closer toward another civil war).
  
  Cause knowing how much they love trump and AOC feet pics is gonna help us somehow put our country back together, and transform it into something that isn't a horrifying mess like the last 200 years.
- Because like it or not, they'll keep on voting. Making a percentage of them realize they're being taken advantage of might make a pivotal difference in this country's future.
- because they voted for AOC down ballot.
  you should probably be extremely interested in that apparent discrepancy.
  
  It honestly could be that they think she's hot.
- Because beyond the racism, their issues are our issues. They're class issues.
  
  Fantastic. Now get them to realize that.
  
  Yeah I get that, but I don't like their hats!
  I know what you're saying is true, but it feels like we live on two different planets sometimes.
- Because they vote consistently no matter what. They don't have to be cajoled just to get them to the polls on election day. They understand that voting is literally the least you can do, not the most. That makes their opinion in a democracy extremely important despite their lunacy.

Why would they care when they voted for the biggest slimeball of all the billionaires?
- She isn't lockstep with Pelosi and company. They see her as still on the outside of the...deeply Washington peeps.
- they don't care at all. MAGA are just shit disturbers.

AOC lied there. Most senetors and politicians are rich millionares including AOC and Bernie Sanders simply because their salaries, packages, donations are $300k/yr minimum. but thats notjing compared to corrupt senetors whose net wealth in the hundrends of millions , or billionares like the president family
- Last I checked (just now), US representatives make $174K/year. They're not allowed to keep donations for themselves and I can't find mention of any additional pay packages.
  Can you show me where this additional $126K is coming from?
  
  The trick is if you lie enough people won't check you on it.
  
  You realize that having hundreds of thousands of dollars makes you rich, right?

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