There’s no such thing as “free healthcare for all.” People are talking about healthcare that’s free at the point of service. Just like there are no “free” roads or schools or parks. Calling it “free healthcare for all” is a tactic to make it sound like an unrealistic socialist fairytale. It’s entirely practical.

First: Yes, I’ll grant she probably is inexperienced. But if the right can have a reality show conman for their candidate, I can get behind a passionate newcomer who has some more to learn.

Savannah Guthrie asked Nancy Pelosi why she wouldn’t compromise with Trump, and didn’t that make the shut down her fault.

You’ll need those guns. And those abortions. Because the Thunderdome has a strictly one child per slave-unit policy. And that’s where we’re all headed if you “but muh taxes!” assholes have your way in the face of irrefutable evidence that we’re dooming ourselves as a species.

The military isn’t spending money so much as it is burning it in giant piles.

This is dumb. You complain that a new green deal is sooooooo costly. Well yeah, it’s not going to be free or even cheap.

They need to sell it that way.
“Why spend $10k in premiums each year when we can just tax you $5k?”
Employers should be jumping at the opportunity as well, it’s extremely time consuming and expensive to administer a health insurance program for employees.

Cooper’s statement was accurate, so far as it went. But that was also the problem: the media measures “radical” in comparison to “the way politics [is] done now”, rather than whether or not it is “radical” in comparison to the scope of the problems we face. And AOC is exactly correct to reset the meter on that…

You’re talking about landing a man on the moon within ten years?

1. There are plenty of rich people- there are more than 235,000 households that earn over a million dollars a year. More than a million people make more than $500,000 a year. That’s an enormous amount of wealth that is not being fairly taxed.
2. Of course closing loopholes is part of a new tax code that taxes the rich.
3…

It’s the same grade-A bullshit the GOP has been selling since the 80s: pass huge tax cuts based on supply-side economic doctrine, despite that this has never, in any economy anywhere in the last century, led to broadly shared, sustained prosperity or concomitant revenue increases; then, when deficits explode like they…

She’s a young latina women who has strong ideas about socialism. she is literally the stuff of Republican nightmares.

First, the rich definitely aren’t paying their fair share. Billionaires should be taxed at about 50%, given that they are the biggest polluters and benefit greatly from public infrastructure. But if you’re dead set against taxing billionaires, the money could be found by dramatically lowering our bloated military…

Politics as they’re done now involves shitting all over everyone and everything who isn’t insanely rich and reducing hope that the country and the world will survive into the next century. Trying to prop up those who need help and working on keeping the planet around for a while are truly radical notions compared to…

I don’t believe that AOC needs a softball interview. She’s a politician, she should be able to defend her positions. But I do think a challenging interview can be accomplished without condescension, and given the condescension she’s been hammered with since she rose in prominence... maybe it’s just Anderson, or maybe…

Bingo! And despite what this article says, these ARE “radical” ideas when you consider our default in this country (and probably human nature too) is to do nothing that costs us money and instead protect short term gains. Cognitive dissonance. Stick our heads in the sand until the noise is so loud, we can’t ignore it.…

This woman will go far. She has decades in front of her. Decades.

“What you are talking about, just big picture, is a radical agenda compared to the way politics is done now.”

I really fucking hate the coverage AOC gets. It’s just sexist/ageist/racist bullshit.

COOPER: Do you call yourself a radical?