AOC says her office struggles to keep up with the 'astronomical' level of daily threats that she receives: NYT
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Since last year, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has spent over $120,000 on security protection, according to data examined by The New York Times.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said her congressional office struggles to keep pace with the "astronomical" level of threatening messages that she receives each day

    • LamontCranston [any]
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      2 years ago

      JFKs presidential election campaign in 1960 ran on a confrontational policy with the USSR. He claimed that a missle gap had been allowed to develop and promised steep increases in military spending to meet this, when the Corona spy satellites brought back photo reconnaissance showing that the USSR had just four ICBMs capable of hitting the continental United States this generated no change in policy at all, he authorized the Bay of Pigs Invasion, he was belligerent throughout the Cuban Missile Crisis refusing to remove Atlas missiles form Turkey in exchange for the USSR removing its missiles from Cuba even though they were obsolete and earmarked for retirement when the Polaris SSBN became operational because of the insistence on the right of America to place missiles anywhere it chose, he then authorized Operation Mongoose, he began the planning for the 1964 Brazilian coup, and of course he expanded assisting the friendly dictatorship in Vietnam into an all out war. The man was not looking for "peaceful co-existence" with the USSR except on Americas terms.

      • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah I really don't get that angle on JFK at all. The man was ready for hot war. Makes it all the more confusing to me why he was merked

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      No offense, but they literally assassinated JFK in broad daylight because he wanted a “peaceful co-existence” with Khrushchev’s USSR.

      That is true, but imo that was also 70 years ago, the USSR no longer exists, the US won and the point is that now they must maintain their legitimacy.

      Killing Bernie, then kill AOC, then someone kills Abe and suddenly people in the west may start having funny ideas that killing politicians is cool and good actualy.

      Besides what is likely to radicalize "far leftists" as they say? Seeing Bernie spend 4 years doing nothing or AOC doing some communist roleplay and getting dunked? Or seeing leftist in power getting murdered one by one.