Okay, almost all of this I understand. There are people who abuse children. There are people who protect people who abuse children. There are people who look the other way when others abuse children. There are people who make money off of abusers, whether directly (e.g. the creation of child porn) or indirectly (e.g.…

I even got the feeling that his skepticism was just put on for the sake of intentionally setting up a chance for her to discuss her positions in the form of directly answering common criticisms.

It’s much more reasonable to go out and say “We should cut spending on [whatever] . . .” because that can actually be accomplished. It’s easy to pull something apart.

She’s advocating for a new outlook on how we want this society to function.

I guess I’m the optimist that thinks those aren’t are only two choices and also expects someone to be able to express themselves clearly in an organized fashion rather than via context clues.

No, PAYGO does NOT stifle spending. It simply requires you to clearly spell out how that spending will be achieved.

Looking at the message of the green new deal, one thing that I never hear, and I wish people would start saying it more, we are going to need to sacrifice. All of us. I feel like AOC dodges that in the interview. I wish she, and everyone else supporting the GND (myself included) would say it. We are all going to need…

AOC only puts forth taxes on the rich. What she is suggesting will costs literal trillions of dollars. the rich aren’t paying for it, even if we confiscated everything.

It was never supposed to be about them, It was supposed to be about who Warren is and that Trump and his racist allies are WRONG to claim that Warren has no native ancestry. If you want to get angry, get angry at the racists in the GOP who are at this moment killing native peoples with a racist government shutdown.…

Anderson Cooper asks Ocasio-Cortez about the Green New Deal in a tone that lands somewhere between incredulous and pitying.

The question of serious or not has to include some measure of looking at realistic outcomes.

More money for cracked schemes that never work. More taxes on the dwindling middle class as the rich squirrel their money away and the meager are given handouts that disappear into fast food joints and new iPhones and the bloating bureaucracy lumbers on as the smiling self-righteous and the preening…

Some of it is.

I mean, a plan that requires something that’s politically impossible/unfeasible is no more possible than a plan that requires fairy dust.

I had a similar thought. The headline of this article makes it sound like AOC *has* to do these interviews at this point of her career. She doesn’t. Just because the media is into you, doesn’t mean you have to agree to interviews. Time will tell if AOC is going to be a work horse or a show horse in Congress, but…

I think it’s great when celebrities demonstrate good priorities.  I’m sure her fans will be there for her if/when she’s ready to return.

This is rough because they seem really close in a healthy way that other child stars don’t get to have very often.  Also, damn that girl looks like her mama.

What? Palin was brought down by her complete lack of knowledge on the issues, not comments about how she dressed or what have you. If you want to find someone who was unfairly criticized on the basis of their gender, Sarah Palin is one of the absolute worst choices you could have picked.

This was fine. Her response to the tax question was bad. You explain what a progressive tax system is? Like, how the tax system we have now works? 

I agree. Jesus, we’re talking about Anderson Cooper here, he’s not some Fox News interview and he’s obviously more liberal himself. He’s actually a good journalist with a good news program who should be asking the tough questions. Not sure why people have to keep putting the victim card on AOC.... there’s nothing…