Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won plaudits from critics for saying her congressional salary is her only income and she doesn't trade stocks.

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.

  • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    You could steal the green party but it’s not going to get you anything. You’d have to do the exact same thing of building up the party from local, to state, to federal offices.

    Without the full might of the Democratic Party stopping you from winning primaries.

    You’d have to build up the green party and then take on both the Democrats and Republicans.

    As opposed to having no party and having to take on both Democrats and Republicans.

    Democrats can’t put their putrid ancient mummy thumbs on the scale for general elections, unlike primaries, if we ever have any of those ever again.

    • @candybrie
      0•1 month ago

      If you’re a third party in the general, the deck is stacked against you even stronger than a progressive in the primary.

        • @candybrie
          1•30 days ago

          How many progressives do we have in the house? How many green party members (or any independent/third party member who wasn’t initially elected as a Democrat/Republican)?

          • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
            1•30 days ago

            How many progressives do we have in the house?

            Too few. The party pulls out all the stops to block them and doesn’t protect progressive incumbents.

            • @candybrie
              0•26 days ago

              Yeah but there are 0 third party/independents who didn’t get elected as a Democrat/Republican.