Good For Thee, But Not For Me...

[Tenzing_Norgay]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poli ... nt-complex

Poor People Not Allowed in AOC's Luxury Apartment Complex
by Alana Goodman

February 19, 2019 02:43 PM

Washington Examiner

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently moved into a luxury apartment complex in Washington, D.C. that does not offer the affordable housing units that were a key plank in the New York congresswoman’s campaign platform.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who said in November that she was concerned about being able to afford rent in D.C., now earns a $174,000 annual salary and is living in a newly built high-rise in the city’s Navy Yard area, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week.

The freshman congresswoman, a self-described socialist, campaigned on a platform to expand affordable housing, and her controversial Green New Deal proposal promises “Safe, affordable, adequate housing” for all.

But Ocasio-Cortez’s new building — built by leading D.C. developer WC Smith — is part of a luxury complex whose owners specifically do not offer affordable units under Washington, D.C.’s Affordable Dwelling Units program. The Washington Examiner is not naming the building or complex.

In 2018, a civil rights attorney sued the Washington, D.C. government for allegedly discriminatory gentrification policies, claiming that development in Navy Yard area and other parts of southeast D.C. encouraged an influx of affluent “millennial creatives” who displaced minority residents.

Ocasio-Cortez, commonly referred to as "AOC," repeatedly criticized luxury real estate developers during her campaign, claiming that their buildings hiked up rent prices and pushed low-income residents out of their neighborhoods.

“We need to kick luxury real estate lobbyists to the curb and defend working people’s way of life,” Ocasio-Cortez said last March. “Skyrocketing cost of living is a national crisis that CAN be addressed. It’s not just an NYC issue - it’s happening in every US metro area.”

Ocasio-Cortez also promised not to take campaign contributions from luxury developers during her campaign. “It’s time we stand up to the luxury developer lobby,” she said in a speech last April. “Every official is too scared to do it - except me.”

Her new apartment complex — which boasts on its website that it vows to take "luxury apartment living" to a higher level — offers over 100,000 square feet of amenities for its residents.

These include: two private massage rooms with state-of-the-art hydrotherapy beds; men’s and women’s saunas; a full-scale demonstration kitchen with wood-fired pizza oven; a 25-meter indoor lap pool; a rooftop infinity pool with panoramic views of the Capitol; a Peloton cycling studio with over a dozen bikes; and a fireside lounge featuring a Steinway & Sons player piano.

Also included is a PGA-grade golf simulation lounge with a wrap-around screen and viewing bar that allows residents to play virtually at dozens of the world’s most exclusive golf courses with the touch of a button. Last week, Democrats mocked President Trump for installing a new golf simulator at the White House — updating with his own money one originally installed by former President Barack Obama.

Apartments in the building currently start at $1,840 per month for a 440 square foot studio, and range up to $5,200 for a three-bedroom. The average rent in Washington D.C. is $1,340 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,550 for a two-bedroom, according to the most recent data from Apartment List.

W. Christopher Smith, 66, the Annapolis-based CEO of WC Smith, is a Democratic donor who contributed to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and the Senate campaigns of Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-M.D., Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA., and Jane Raybould, who lost a 2018 Senate race in Nebraska.

Smith donated to Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., in 2017, and 11 employees of WC Smith gave $6,900 to the campaign of Muriel Bower, the Democratic mayor of D.C. In 2018, WC Smith's vice-president of communications Ann-Marie Bairstow gave over $1300 to Act Blue earmarked in small amounts — $100 or less — for various candidates, including $50 to Ocasio-Cortez.

[Tenzing_Norgay]

I wouldn't vote for her (but perhaps I would in a wet T-shirt contest!):

[dammitgriff]

AOC can KMA.
Every single one of those parasitic congress people suffer from cognitive dissonance.
$174K a year, huh? Why do we pay them at all, especially since they refuse to cut spending to reduce our debt?

[Chigger]

And the Bern owns 3 houses and worth millions.
Their supporters have no idea of their Animal Farm mentality.

All animals are equal except some are more equal than others.

Stupid shit socialists.

[TC6969]

That bish is so stupid that she ran Amazons new HQ out of new York because she thought that the $3 Billion in tax credits that was offered was actually 3 billion that she would then be able to spend!

She actually went looking for the money so she could buy some anal corks for cows or something!

What a LOON!

[Firemedic2000]

Did you guys truely expect that any of these new green deal law ideas would apply to them. Of coarse not. They are for the pheasants. They must have the finer things in life such as meat, cars that run on gas, jets, steaks everything they want to deny us.

It's just like the AHA if it was great why did not all the fools that lied about it when the shoved it down out throats put in the law that everyone including them must go on it also.

That's the problem with the new DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY. None of their laws they want to pass are meant for them and their SOCIALIST ELITE GROUPS.

But then again isn't that how Socialism works. It's meant to control the people not the government. Hence the government get's the lion's share and lives in luxury while the people live pretty much in poverty. Look at history. This has alway how its been. This physio bitch that's promoting SOCIALISM is a PRIME example of this.

Definition of socialism

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property

b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

[rentprop1]

I think she once said , that she " left her solar panel on "

[dammitgriff]

The United States has been said to have become something akin to both socialist and fascist states, sharing attributes of both ideologies. I’m not sure where I first saw the term in print, but the writer called it ‘Fascialism’. I believe this term to be quite accurate in describing the disUnited States, where our Constitution has failed to limit the size and scope of our government.

Let’s Face It: The U.S. Constitution Has Failed
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb19/co ... d2-19.html

10 Common-Sense Amendments to the U.S. Constitution:
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb19/co ... s2-19.html

[Firemedic2000]

The United States has been said to have become something akin to both socialist and fascist states, sharing attributes of both ideologies. I’m not sure where I first saw the term in print, but the writer called it ‘Fascialism’. I believe this term to be quite accurate in describing the disUnited States, where our Constitution has failed to limit the size and scope of our government.

Let’s Face It: The U.S. Constitution Has Failed
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb19/co ... d2-19.html

10 Common-Sense Amendments to the U.S. Constitution:
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb19/co ... s2-19.html

Pretty much. Mussolini's fascism and Hitler's Socialist. Hitler was a hugh fan of Mussolini and early on consulted with Mussolini often. You might say Hitler had a man crush on Mussolini lol.

Which is kinda strange considering Mussolini hated SOCIALIST. Mussolini used to say Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.


If you listen to the things that the new DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY say, you'd swear they read Hitler's Mein Kampf and quotes from Mussolini, Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

When you listen to the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST now talking of taking over or denying corporate AMERICA. That government can run businesses better than individual Americans Mussolini use to say Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

But if you read and then listen to what Hitler said and how he applied his strategies from his book. It's a reading the strategic syllabus of the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
This one is in reference to aborting children even after birth that the DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL LEADERS deem defective

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Hate is more lasting than dislike.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
Sound familiar, the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY preach VIOLENCE against CONSERVATIVE AMERICANS simply for voting against

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

This is the exact tactics being applied by America's Democratic Socialist Party. What's even more disturbing is that these tactics are taken right from the master of SOCIALISM, Hitler.

You can see everyone one of those tactics above being used by the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY.

[Flame Red]

AOC can KMA.
Every single one of those parasitic congress people suffer from cognitive dissonance.
$174K a year, huh? Why do we pay them at all, especially since they refuse to cut spending to reduce our debt?

+1 - 99% of them are corrupt thieves.

But here is a thought. There has always been a push for term limits to throw out the old guard. If term limits were put in place and these old f*cks were tossed out on their a$$es, think how many openings would be made for the new guard commie bastards to take their places!