{"id":112850,"date":"2019-01-05T21:24:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T01:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112850"},"modified":"2019-01-05T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T01:25:47","slug":"ocasio-tlaib-hardcore-cultural-marxists-enter-the-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112850","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez &#038; Tlaib: Hardcore Cultural Marxists Enter the House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ocasio-Cortez defends Rep. Tlaib&#8217;s profane impeachment comments<\/h1>\n<p>By Veronica Stracqualursi<br \/>\nCNN<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_112854\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190102193213-ocasio-cortez-dec-6-exlarge-169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112854\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190102193213-ocasio-cortez-dec-6-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190102193213-ocasio-cortez-dec-6-exlarge-169.jpg 780w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190102193213-ocasio-cortez-dec-6-exlarge-169-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190102193213-ocasio-cortez-dec-6-exlarge-169-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won her bid for a seat in the House of Representatives in New York&#8217;s 14th Congressional District, at the Kennedy School&#8217;s Institute of Politics at Harvard University, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. (AP Photo\/Charles Krupa)<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN)<\/cite>New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is defending her fellow new Democratic congresswoman, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, for using of profanity in referring to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Republican hypocrisy at its finest: saying that Trump admitting to sexual assault on tape is just &#8216;locker room talk,&#8217; but scandalizing themselves into faux-outrage when my sis says a curse word in a bar,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez wrote Saturday on Twitter, referring to Trump&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/07\/politics\/donald-trump-women-vulgar\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lewd comments on a 2005 &#8220;Access\u00a0<\/a>Hollywood&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/07\/politics\/donald-trump-women-vulgar\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0tape<\/a>\u00a0that surfaced during the 2016 campaign. &#8220;GOP lost entitlement to policing women&#8217;s behavior a long time ago. Next.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I got your back,&#8221; she added in a tweet to Tlaib, &#8220;the Bronx and Detroit ride together.&#8221;<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republican hypocrisy at its finest: saying that Trump admitting to sexual assault on tape is just \u201clocker room talk,\u201d but scandalizing themselves into faux-outrage when my sis says a curse word in a bar.<\/p>\n<p>GOP lost entitlement to policing women\u2019s behavior a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Next.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1081563638324969473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">At a progressive event hours after she was sworn in on Thursday, Tlaib\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/04\/politics\/rashida-tlaib-trump-impeachment-comments\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said of Trump<\/a>: &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna go in there and we&#8217;re going to impeach the motherf****r.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">After some in her party, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/04\/politics\/democratic-reaction-tlaib-impeachment\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,<\/a>\u00a0disapproved of her language, Tlaib did not apologize or back down from her comments.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/04\/politics\/democratic-reaction-tlaib-impeachment\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-medium-plus-169.jpg\" alt=\"Pelosi reacts to Tlaib&amp;#39;s impeachment comment: &amp;#39;Nothing worse than the President has said&amp;#39;\" data-src-mini=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-full-169.jpg\" data-src-mini1x1=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190103130643-01-rashida-tlaib-new-congress-0103-small-11.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781\" data-eq-state=\"mini xsmall\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img__preloader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/04\/politics\/democratic-reaction-tlaib-impeachment\/index.html\">Pelosi reacts to Tlaib&#8217;s impeachment comment: &#8216;Nothing worse than the President has said&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;I know that if I was a man it might have been differently,&#8221; she said Friday in an interview with CNN affiliate WDIV in Detroit. &#8220;I know that, for me, I&#8217;ve always been this way. I mean, I think no one expects me to be anything but myself, the girl from southwest Detroit with a little sass and attitude.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">She added, &#8220;I think, you know, President Trump has met his match.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">At a news conference Friday, Trump called Tlaib&#8217;s comments &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; and said she had &#8220;dishonored her family.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">During a town hall event hosted by MSNBC, Pelosi said she herself &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t use&#8221; Tlaib&#8217;s language but added, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s anything worse than anything &#8212; what the President has said.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t like that language. I wouldn&#8217;t use that language. I don&#8217;t establish any language standards for my colleagues,&#8221; she said in the town hall at Trinity Washington University.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">During her campaign, Tlaib made clear that if elected, she would push for Trump&#8217;s impeachment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Ocasio-Cortez told CNN on Friday that impeachment was &#8220;an issue that she&#8217;s passionate about,&#8221; referring to Tlaib.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;I certainly think it a valid question and it&#8217;s one that a lot of voters were interested in having in the run-up to the election,&#8221; Ocasio-Coretz said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a legitimate discussion to have.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph zn-body__footer\">CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju, Elizabeth Landers and Jeremy Herb contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/05\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rashida-tlaib-trump-impeachment-comments\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/05\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rashida-tlaib-trump-impeachment-comments\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocasio-Cortez defends Rep. Tlaib&#8217;s profane impeachment comments By Veronica Stracqualursi CNN Washington (CNN)New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is defending her fellow new Democratic congresswoman, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, for using of profanity in referring to President Donald Trump. &#8220;Republican hypocrisy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112850\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}