AOC says she's worth less than $500,000 after kickback claims — and seems to get kudos from Trump fans in response

I love AOC. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat in primary and general elections. Now, whether she makes it to the general depends on the DNC, and I have no faith that the political consultant/establishment class will let anything remotely progressive through. No money to be made.

I guess the only way forward would be to vote for her in the primaries to such a degree that the Dems have not choice but to confirm her through.

Comfortable but not extravagantly wealthy from bribes lobbying. I'm okay with this.

Fascinating how we've reached the point where "I'm not corrupt" is somehow praiseworthy. The bar is so low it's practically a tripping hazard.

Sure, let's applaud someone for doing the bare minimum of not being blatantly corrupt. Meanwhile, the real wealth transfer happens through perfectly legal channels while we debate someone's bank balance.

Pro tip: If you're impressed by a politician not being wealthy, you might want to recalibrate your standards for public servants. But hey, at least she's not day-trading classified information, right? slow clap

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the internet manifest:

1- blame her for having millions due to kickbacks

2- when she proves that her net worth is less than 500K make fun of her for having too little money

Median property value in DC is $705,000.

She's likely living paycheck to paycheck as a sitting member of Congress. I like it.

They're so concerned about profittering they support a guy that was giving millions directly from China, took millions in goverment funds by making secret service stay in his hotels and charging them 1000x the rate of any other guest. This guy's will pay their life down for the biggest kleptocrat in US history, but yeah AOC needs to be monitored.

That's because she's actually trying to help people, and you don't get rich helping people.

Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.

Lol, says the guy who's currently at the top of corrupting world-politics...

Can we all please notice how under capitalism, you can refer to people being 'worth' a dollar amount? Money is something you have, it says nothing about who you are. I'm fine with having an amount of wealth, but your worth is not measured in dollars, that's fucked

I don't think people realize how big the crossover is between AOC and Trump. A lot of centrists that flipped were Bernie bros. that tired of stuff like identity politics and the DNC backstabbing that shafted Bernie.

How is she so fucking corrupt already?! She claims she's not wealthy and then in the next sentence says she "only has hundreds of tbousands of dollars in the bank"

If you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, that makes you rich

Bitch is rich, Jesus I didn't realize she's also a plutocrat

I hope that AOC has a security detail, a go bag and plan, and an ideal state to reside in. It is my expectation for Yarvin's Cabel to try to capture or assasinate her at some point, since she is one of the few major lightning rods to be the president of a Free America. We will need great people to organize the defense of our people against the fascist agenda.

Bernie, AOC, others, stay safe and strong. 🖖

Wait.... Muskrat is accusing her of being rich?

I think if we don't start WW3 and nuke the planet she's gonna be the first woman president in the US

I think regardless of whether you are Republican or a Democrat, AOC is probably the closest to what a representative should be. Now whether you agree with her or not is a different discussion entirely, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. She's just the only one that actually seems to give a shit about who she represents. Whereas both for Republicans and Democrats the vast majority of our "representation" are crotchety and corrupt old people that don't give a shit anymore.

Man, if you don’t agree with her views, fine whatever. But for people to hate her so much to claim she’s corrupt when she’s clearly not is just silly.

We live in a stupid timeline. More politicians should be like her. We’d all be better off, regardless of which party they were from.

AOC 2028

I’m betting this is less of a “look at her integrity” and more of a “why would a woman have money” thing

She's only 35, give it time

Absolutely no respect for the people, using the most obvious bullshit trolls now?

Please projrct all the corruption that exists because you were part of commiting it.