The Ben Shapiro Show - December 21, 2020


LOL: AOC Gets Rejected By Her Own Party


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

213.0337

Word Count

316

Sentence Count

14

Misogynist Sentences

2


Summary

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez keeps saying that she s a very important legislator. It turns out, her own party is like, nope, we don t like you very much. And it turns out that the dislike for AOC spans the political aisle. According to Ryan Sevetter reporting over at Daily Wire, AOC was overwhelmingly rejected during a secret ballot vote on Friday in her bid to be seated on a powerful congressional committee. Democrats overwhelmingly voted to give the seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to Kathleen Rice, a more moderate Democrat who also happens to have spent her time instead of posting videos on Insta or Twitch actually working the Democrats in order to get that slot. According to Politico, Rice and AOC have been battling behind the scenes for weeks to secure one of the few open seats on the exclusive committee which oversees everything from health care policy to climate issues. Tensions spilled out into the open Thursday in a tense and awkward secret vote. One member of Congress told Axios the vote would have been very different if it wasn t secret, which suggests Democrats are afraid of AOC publicly, but secretly, they really don't like her at all, like, at all. Which suggests they really do not like AOC at all...like, at least not publicly. And they're like, screw you, you can say that you like her anonymously, which is a good thing, because they're not like her publicly at least. And they don't even have a clue who she is? and they don t even like her on social media, which means she's not just good enough to be seen as a threat to them. . You can say what you like, right? . . . and they really, really do like her, you don't have a problem with her? ? Thank you for listening to this episode of The FiveThirtyEight podcast? Please rate us on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe? Subscribe to our new podcast, rating and review us on Podchaser and subscribe to our podcast, and tell us what you think of it? , rating us a review on Apple Music, rating us on iTunes or whatever else you re listening to us on your favorite streaming platform? is a review we re listening about this podcast is a little bit like that? and we re going to be helping us out in the next episode of the podcast? Thanks for listening?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So, number one, I just have to note this because it's hilarious.
00:00:05.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she keeps saying that she's a very important legislator.
00:00:09.000 It turns out that her own party is like, nope, we don't like you very much.
00:00:12.000 It turns out that the dislike for AOC spans the political aisle.
00:00:16.000 According to Ryan Sevetter reporting over at Daily Wire, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez Ouch!
00:00:21.000 overwhelmingly rejected during a secret ballot vote on Friday in her bid to be seated on a powerful congressional committee. Democrats overwhelmingly voted to give the seat on House Energy and Commerce Committee to Representative Kathleen Rice, Democrat of New York, instead of AOC in what ended up being a 46 to 13 vote. Ouch! Kathleen Rice is a more moderate Democrat who also happens to have spent her time instead of posting videos on Instagram or on Twitch actually working the Democrats in order to get that slot.
00:00:49.000 According to Politico, Rice and Ocasio-Cortez have been battling behind the scenes for weeks to secure one of the few open seats on the exclusive committee which oversees everything from health care policy to climate issues.
00:00:58.000 Tension spilled out into the open Thursday in a private meeting of the Steering and Policy Committee, where Democrats were forced to choose between the two members in a tense and awkward secret ballot vote.
00:01:07.000 They still have secret ballots, so you can say that you don't like AOC anonymously.
00:01:10.000 Politico notes that Ocasio-Cortez was rejected because many in the party view her far-left policies as a threat, and also she's been backing all sorts of challenges to incumbents, and they're like, you know what, screw you.
00:01:20.000 One member of Congress told Axios the vote would have been very different if it wasn't secret, which suggests Democrats are afraid of AOC publicly.
00:01:26.000 But secretly, they really, really do not like her at all.
00:01:28.000 Like, at all.