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More than 8,000 people on Instagram watched Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live stream herself putting together IKEA furniture, drinking wine and talking about the GOP and climate change.
some important takeaways:
“it’s an allen-wrench-only situation so I’m in luck”
“In retrospect this is probably a horrible idea because if you try to multitask while building IKEA furniture … you look away one second and it assembles itself upside down.”
“this is about the messy transitions of human history”
*looking for a screw* “okay… the Long… boiiii”
“now is not the time to be moderate morally. I understand that some people are in a position where they need to be moderate politically, but not morally.” (my phone died here so this may not be the exact quote)
*when asked if she supports a female draft* “as long as we have a draft, i believe that all genders should be drafted. *eats a mouthful of popcorn* eQUALITY”
*on Puerto Rico* “whether as a commonwealth, whether as a US territory.. those are all code words for COLONY.” … “it is not up to the colonizer to impose a political status on the colony … because then you’re just perpetuating the colonization.” *after explaining the ways in which PR is exploited* “it’s about fighting for the binding self-determination of the Puerto Rican people”
“thumbs up if I should try and build this without a screwdriver”
“Okay let me lay out my givens and uh… have fruit snacks”
*what’s your opinion on capital punishment* *eating a fruit snack* “im aGAINST IT”
*asked how many years until the world ends again* We have 12 years to cut emissions by 50%, if not more. And for everyone that wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids will not. So understand that the internet documents everything. And for all those people… you know you wanna talk about looking backwards… you look back and you open history books on the civil rights movement and you see those folks who are protesting against the ability of African Americans and black Americans to have the right to vote and they would hold up these bigoted signs, and these signs that said things like what about white rights and all of this stuff in like the 1950′s and 1960′s. So just know that in the present day there are people who hide the fact that their families and their grandparents fought against equal rights in the United States, not 100 years ago, not even 80 years ago, but in this generation’s lifetime. So just know that while a lot of people can hide that their grandparents did that in the civil rights movement, you should also know that the internet documents everything and your grandchildren will not be able to hide the fact that you fought against acknowledging and taking bold actions against climate change. And for people who are trying to mock and delay this moment, I just feel bad for you I just pity you for your role in history right now.”
*when asked why the Republicans hate her so much* The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly on their lack of moral grounding on so many issues. And not just that, but the reason they’re so upset and they act like that girl in The Exorcist that’s like, vomiting pea soup—that’s like them and negativity—the reason that they do that is that they need to fiercely protect a paradigm and way of thinking that says short term gains are more important, no matter how marginal, than any long term loss and any long term cost … And I'm here to tell you that maybe Q2 profits are not more important than our grandchildren. That’s what I’m here to say. So you can do whatever you want. You can troll me in the short term, you can rake me over the coals, you can make me look like whatever, like a joke in front of all society, but just know that that’s a short term reality. Know that that’s a short term reality. And whether I’m here or whether im not here, the truth and the facts stay the same BROTHA. … It may take a generation, but truth will always rise. It will always rise. And so long as I can go home every single day and look at myself in the mirror and say ‘you did what you thought was right and you did not compromise people and their well being along the way’ as long as I can sleep at night, that’s all I care about. And I can sleep at night knowing that I did everything I could for all people. … I’m not in this for some like, long term political calculation. I’m here to do the most good each day. That’s what I’m here to do. So… das what it is.”
“Someone said happy hump day (in the comments) and I always laugh because I barely ever know what day of the week it is anymore”
*someone said ‘girl still didn’t get furniture’* “i kNOW!! my self-care is lacking”
*someone asked what she’s building* “I’m tryna make a desk but due to earlier voting, because I allowed DIRECT DEMOCRACY over my IKEA assembling, y’all voted for me to make this desk without screwdrivers!!!”
“did they… not give me table legs???” (they did)
“ruh-roh”