{"id":141409,"date":"2023-05-16T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141409"},"modified":"2023-05-15T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T20:53:25","slug":"tuesday-short-takes-aoc-aide-comes-out-biden-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141409","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Short Takes &#8211; AOC Aide comes out, Biden award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-141410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/medina-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/medina-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/medina-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/medina.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not\u00a0 huge shock, now. Justine Medina, a senior aide to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC, aka Occasional Cortex), has made it official that she is not just A Communist, but one of New York&#8217;s THE Communists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWell, I <em>am<\/em> a Communist, but work for AOC,\u201d she said proudly in a tweet from October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true the path there will be unkind to those who block progress, but Communism is good and should not scare you,\u201d she noted darkly in the same posting.<\/p>\n<p>In AOC\u2019s campaign, Medina was responsible for \u201corganizing &amp; writing policy language with Anti-War Veterans &amp; the Peace Movement,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wip\/xfouP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she noted<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, she was identified as \u201cco-chair of the New York Young Communist League\u201d by the Communist Party newspaper People\u2019s World. The same publication today identifies her as a member of the \u201cExecutive Committee of the New York State Communist Party.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/13\/ex-aoc-aide-justine-medina-now-new-york-communist-party-boss\/\"> NY Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So nice to see young people progressing in their chosen field &#8211; in her case, making threats and promoting insurrection. It should be noted that she is another rich kid from well-to-do Cuban immigrant (supposedly anti-Communist but contributors to the Clintons &#8211; you decide) parents. (Doesn&#8217;t that nose ring make you want to run a rope through it??&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138022 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/joe-biden-chinese-knock-off-1677943371.4502-236x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/joe-biden-chinese-knock-off-1677943371.4502-236x300.jpeg 236w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/joe-biden-chinese-knock-off-1677943371.4502.jpeg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moving on &#8211; President Joe Biden received an honorary doctorate Saturday from Howard University.\u00a0 President Biden was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Howard University on Saturday for his &#8220;analytical intellect&#8221; and &#8220;popularity on both sides&#8221;.\u00a0 Ya just can&#8217;t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"caas-body\">\n<p>Dr. Wayne Frederick, the president of Howard University, introduced Biden with high praise at the school&#8217;s 155th commencement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Admired for your sound analytical intellect and open embrace for all, your popularity on both sides of the aisle of the United States led to your illustrious reputation and outstanding service of 36 years as a Democratic senator from Delaware beginning at a tender age of 29,&#8221; Frederick said of Biden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An April poll in Gallup showed Biden&#8217;s approval rating at an all-time low of 37%. An ABC News\/Washington Post poll released last Sunday found that 63% of American adults do not think Biden, 80, has the &#8220;mental sharpness&#8221; it takes to serve effectively as president.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/howard-universitys-criteria-bidens-honorary-205335711.html\">Fox<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has anyone at Howard considered a Golden Flow for President Frederick? Or is whacky tobaccy legal in DC now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Not\u00a0 huge shock, now. Justine Medina, a senior aide to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC, aka Occasional &hellip; <a title=\"Tuesday Short Takes &#8211; AOC Aide comes out, Biden award\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141409\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday Short Takes &#8211; AOC Aide comes out, Biden award<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141411,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141409\/revisions\/141411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}