Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.
Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.
Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.
Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.
There is one group of people who both share the ire of most people and deserve it: The ultra rich.
I’ve had rednecks tell me they disagreed with Bernie on a lot but they liked how he hated billionaires. Ben Shapiro’s gaggle of yes-men gave him grief for criticizing Luigi.
If votes count for anything anymore a smart, effective political party would be able to capitalize on this universal hatred.
Sadly, we have the Democrats.
I mean, that’s a large part of Trump’s original appeal, right? So many people on both sides agree there’s rampant corruption in the government and politicians and billionaires getting too rich off it - and Trump promised an answer. And why his current wreckage of government still has many conservatives approving: they believe he is answering, kind of.
Now, if you could get Sanders and AOC to start a new party…
Now, if only we can get them to see that he’s got people in his orbit at billionaire techbros who think they’re all going to be John Galt, and that the “capitalist utopia” he builds in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” is what they’re trying to build and it won’t be good for them. They think they’re all going to live in their own Galt’s Gulch when it’s going to be more like Andrew Ryan’s Rapture.