Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.
Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.
Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.
Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.
I’m betting this is less of a “look at her integrity” and more of a “why would a woman have money” thing
Wait… Muskrat is accusing her of being rich?
It’s pretty absurd that y’all qaeda bitch about all the money that (insert lib politician) makes while throwing money or votes at billionaires who then turn around and accuse lib politicians like AOC or Sanders of being rich.
Her salary jumped to like 20x what it was before she became a politician so she’s well on her way to beating them all in a decade or so
Well on her way to beating who? Who is “them all”? Are you claiming she’s making enough to beat Musk, Bezos? Is she hawking golden sneakers and shilling bitcoin scams?
Lol, no it did not. 3-4 times maybe but she makes $174,000 a year as a member of the house. It’s unlikely she was making half the poverty level of NYC as a bartender.
Jesus why do we pay them so much
Bless your heart, it’s cute you think 174k is “so much”.
Damn living the lower middle class lifestyle in DC with that amount of cash!
You’re out of touch with poor people if you think having that much net worth isnt rich
First to reduce the risks of bribery in theory. Secondly It isn’t that much when you start looking at the expenses they have to have. Keeping an apartment and office in your home district and a home in DC is expensive. They are at minimum paying rent on three places. It is why most are wealthy before they ran. That is intentional.
We’re talking net worth, not income.
I’m not saying she should have less. I’m saying she isnt aware of her privilege if she doesn’t realize most people have wayy less than this. And that that makes her rich.
So you are going on the internet to prove you have no understanding of how things work?
I don’t think people realize how big the crossover is between AOC and Trump. A lot of centrists that flipped were Bernie bros. that tired of stuff like identity politics and the DNC backstabbing that shafted Bernie.
Absolutely no respect for the people, using the most obvious bullshit trolls now?
Please projrct all the corruption that exists because you were part of commiting it.
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wouldn’t mind if she moved to canada and ran here either. i adore her energy.
Naive of You thinking, there will be an election in2028.
Giving up is asking for it. We shouldn’t be giving up.
Oh, I’m not giving up. I’m not American. I’m just commenting on what I see from the outside.
There will be. It is just a question of how many presidents there are.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the internet manifest:
1- blame her for having millions due to kickbacks
2- when she proves that her net worth is less than 500K make fun of her for having too little money
Because it’s ONE SIDED around here, just like Reddit… if a Republican said this EXACT same thing, they’d be crucified.
There’s many things that expose the Right Wing Grift.
When AOC was first elected they mocked her for being a Bartender who “rose above her station”
What more proof do you need that the American Dream is bullshit
They call at that because you’d have to be asleep to believe it.
When it’s a teacher - she reminds me of that mean lady who failed me
When it’s a doctor - they’re pushing a vaxxer agenda
When it’s an engineer - he’ll be a bad negotiator
When it’s a scientist - we’ve gotta do what? No thanks.
When it’s a lawyer - ah perfect they make everything better
I mean if you take the internet as a monolith, you’ll find contradictions every where. Some people will hate A because of B, some people will hate A because of C, but either way A is getting hate for both B and C.
So either there are millions of people online with different opinions but the crowd looks the same, or there is one very, very busy troll who is running all the accounts.
~help I’m so tired they won’t give me a break to pee~
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One busy troll? What makes you think it is just one person? Maybe if it was the 1990’s you might have had a single troll per social platform but we are way past that point. A real troll would even be considered high quality with so many bot accounts nowadays.
The trolls are the people who watch cable news
She’s only 35, give it time
Literally the youngest a person is allowed to become president.
I think it was a joke about how old our last two presidents have been
I see that. And hope that’s the case =)
No, pelosi wasn’t worth 100 million when she was 35, it takes time
Man, if you don’t agree with her views, fine whatever. But for people to hate her so much to claim she’s corrupt when she’s clearly not is just silly.
We live in a stupid timeline. More politicians should be like her. We’d all be better off, regardless of which party they were from.
Man, if you don’t agree with her views, fine whatever. But for people to hate her so much to claim she’s corrupt when she’s clearly not is just silly.
Anyone who use meta and x in 2025 is full of shit. Anyone who side with the red and blue party after all they have done is scum.
If a republican said "I’m ONLY worth 500k…you’d all be sing a different tune…
No sorry, I would exactly be thinking “that seems like a reasonable amount of worth for a politician”.
You’re right. If someone who only cares about money and their own self interest comes out as having none, well that’s just embarrassing. Having sold your soul for something you have measurably none of? Disgusting.
Luckily AOC has never done conservative shit like that. lol
Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.
Lol, says the guy who’s currently at the top of corrupting world-politics…
AKA, every accusation is a confession
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I think regardless of whether you are Republican or a Democrat, AOC is probably the closest to what a representative should be. Now whether you agree with her or not is a different discussion entirely, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make. She’s just the only one that actually seems to give a shit about who she represents. Whereas both for Republicans and Democrats the vast majority of our “representation” are crotchety and corrupt old people that don’t give a shit anymore.
She’s just the only one that actually seems to give a shit about who she represents. Whereas both for Republicans and Democrats the vast majority of our “representation”
While I agree with almost everything you said, there’s really no good reason to make a statement like that and leave Bernie in with the “vast majority” group. 🙂
The man has walked the walk for a very long time. (Yes he’s too old to run for office now, but he deserves his due!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Political_activism
My bad. Wasn’t trying to throw Bernie aside. He’s fantastic as well.
All good, I wasn’t throwing shade on you just wanting to put in a word for the Bern. 🙂
I saw a recent interview Bernie did with AOC and I learned that she got into politics specifically because she was inspired by Bernie during his presidential run in 2016. Thats something I didn’t realize and it explains a lot why we feel a lot of the same energy from them.
That’s a pretty interesting thing to know, thanks for mentioning it!
I say run him anyways - he can be the token ‘old white dude’, with AOC as his vice. If he kicks the bucket or finds that he is breaking down, he can pass the baton. Otherwise, we get an extra four years of progress for each term he runs. If dementia is a concern, just write a public contract under what terms he is out of the running.
Something like “We know I am getting old. AOC has my right of attorney for determining my mental state.”
No argument from me, but I have a suspicion that being old is going to be a third rail politically during the next general election, assuming we get one and that it resembles being a free and valid election in any way.
Most Americans want progressive policies, they’re just convinced from Cold War propaganda that progressivism/socialism is always the opposite of good.
Bernie stopped running for president after the DNC told him to. He’s proven he doesn’t have what it takes to stand for his principles in a presidential run.
I loved Bernie, even donated to him twice, but he’s a coward and only does lip service these days.
Bernie stopped running for president after the DNC told him to.
What do you mean by this?
I suppose they are referring to 2016.
I mean that’s objective, observable reality. It’s history.
The DNC pressured him to drop out for Hillary in 2015 after they didn’t like the attention he was getting. The emails came out and the head of the DNC resigned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sanders-clinton.html
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
Everyone could clearly see the DNC rigged the primary against him, and then forced him to drop out when he started beating their neolib canidate despite running 7 other progressives against him in the primary. (This is how Elizabeth Warren became well known, the DNC pulled her into the primary to siphon votes from Bernie, the first progressive they ever let primary with them.)
His time has unfortunately passed to be president
Right, I’m aware of the general history and not debating any of it. What I meant was the democrat establishment back-stabbed his campaign both times, but it sounded like you were blaming him for it.
If it were me I would have posted the DNC’s emails on twitter (back when it was twitter) and used the momentum to take over the DNC and fuck up the oligarch controlled duopoly.
A progressive with balls would have done that. Instead they called him old and screamed about him getting Trump elected (he was elected anyway) and then Bernie said ok and dropped out.
I hear you, but Bernie was in what, his mid-70s, and had pretty much always played by the book as far as I know. Even though I was somewhat disappointed in him after having not only given money but also canvassed for him, several times, I didn’t really expect him to go scorched-earth.
Everybody should read Chaucer to improve their everyday vocabulary.
Him running as a real leftest canidate after they tried to suppress him would have been the right thing, and him not choosing that path set us down the path we’re on today.
There were a lot of Bernie voters who refused to vote for Hillary after that. The DNC lost the progressive vote for their actions in 2016.
The busker hoped that the people passing by would throw money, but they threw tomatoes instead, so he exchanged his hat for a juicer.
Yeah you’re right, he made the right choice bending the knee to the Neoliberals because then the Neoliberals wouldn’t have been able to beat Trump.
Because Hillary beat Trump after the Neoliberals suppressed the Progressives in 2016, right? I forgot, can you remind me who won?
It was the scarcity that fueled his creativity.
They’re so concerned about profittering they support a guy that was giving millions directly from China, took millions in goverment funds by making secret service stay in his hotels and charging them 1000x the rate of any other guest. This guy’s will pay their life down for the biggest kleptocrat in US history, but yeah AOC needs to be monitored.
Median property value in DC is $705,000.
She’s likely living paycheck to paycheck as a sitting member of Congress. I like it.
Finally, some actual representation.
Shes so goddamn normal it’s jarring
