AOC votes to avoid railroad strike after telling workers to 'stay strong'
www.newsweek.com
President Joe Biden had warned a rail strike could spur a "crippling" national shutdown.

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the majority of lawmakers who backed passing the legislation that notably did not include provisions for paid sick leave. A separate measure that also passed the House Wednesday, however, did include such provisions by giving rail workers seven paid days of sick leave each year.

"If Congress intervenes, it should be to have workers' backs and secure their demands in legislation," she tweeted. In another tweet responding to a union that thanked her for backing rail workers' pleas for paid sick leave provisions, Ocasio-Cortez wrote "Stay strong" and "we've got your back."

A lot of media outlets are wrongfully saying that AOC voted against the back to work bill, but if you check the House Clerk website it's clear that she voted "Yea".

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022490

  • bubbalu [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    An updated version of Left Right and Center. Can't believe I was enough of a dork to listen to that.

    • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I listened to it until they talked about Oprah running for president. Both the insane rightoid and the liberal thought it was a very terrible idea and Josh Barro was like "WTF? She's awesome you guys, she will unite this country, she has the power to create a bipartisan consensus by getting people to talk to each other" and I literally stopped the podcast that instant and unsubscribed from the feed.

      • bubbalu [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Good for you! I wish I had a moment of grand revelation. Or at least decide if I am being inconsistent for liking TrueAnon despite Brace's misogynistic language.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        it's definitely a terrible idea, but you gotta admit: she's famous enough to win it if she went for it.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      We all have our peccadillos. I was a liberal until I became a socialist around mid 2017 just before Charlottesville. Even after my move to the left - I would listen to Shields and Brooks...

      Mark Shields

      Shields provided weekly political analysis and commentary for the PBS NewsHour from 1988 to 2020. His on-screen counterpart from 2001 to 2020 was David Brooks of The New York Times.

      I guess it was liberal "muscle memory" that kept me watching that crap. What a fucking waste of time. Every show was the same - the dipshit centrist who represents the democrats and "the left" has oh-so polite disagreements with a dipshit who pretends to be center right but is actually right-wing. Yet somehow they were never actually that far apart!

      The very last show I ever watched - I stopped halfway through. They were debating - if you can call it that - the GOP's absolutely vile ghoul "healthcare" plan to steal healthcare from the poor, convert it to money, and give it to the rich.

      • bubbalu [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Forgot that word for a second and tried to pronounce it as spanish @.@