United States Representatives are well-paid—they take in $174,000 a year. But the new class of congress members elected this week won’t get their first government payday until they’re sworn in in January, and until then it would probably raise some eyebrows if they earned money in the private sector. Three months without a salary may not be a problem for most representatives, who have a median net worth of $900,000. But for a young, working-class congressional rookie like New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, getting an apartment in Washington D.C. while technically jobless presents challenges.
She told The New York Times that the period until she’s sworn in will be “very unusual, because I can’t really take a salary.”
“I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real.” She said she saved money before leaving her job at the restaurant, and planned accordingly with her partner. “We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January.”
Naturally, the minds at Fox News find the idea of living on a limited income to be hilarious. Correspondent Ed Henry mocked Ocasio-Cortez for wearing “multi-thousand dollar outfits” in photo shoots during the campaign instead of saving for rent money. (Henry appears unfamiliar with the fact that people don’t get to keep the designer clothes they’re loaned for photo shoots.) Panel contributor Judy Miller called Ocasio-Cortez’s account of her financial struggles “a brilliant political” line, while conceding that D.C. is one of the most expensive cities in the nation.
Ocasio-Cortez clapped back on Twitter, noting that the housing crisis is very much real.
Like a pro, she also brought the issue back to her platform. Working-class people are underrepresented in U.S. politics, and while Ocasio-Cortez’s history-making status as the youngest woman ever elected to congress is amazing, her status as the rare working-class legislator is also hugely important.
*randomly materializes out of a murder of crows with a slurpee in my hand* hey guys what’s up?
*forty bats coalescing into an approximate human form, holding a gatorade* not much, how about you?
* 5 wolves make their presence known with a piercing how before joining in the circle. They clutter together, and take the form of a human with a iced coffee* ‘sup.
*emerges from the back exit of Dairy Queen to take out the garbage* uh.. uhhh.. m-my boss said y’all aren’t allowed to hang out back here…
Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
This is blatantly untrue
Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.
Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. That’s why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you don’t believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)
Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,
DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.
Please reblog this version of the post to stop the spread of misinformation.
So this exists?? I haven’t actually listened to any of the songs yet so can’t comment on quality, but yay! So glad I found this before Hanukkah was totally over.
a lot of people to this day think that a professional ice skater did those skating scenes from i, tonya (2017) but it was all margot robbie… she literally trained five days a week for five months and her skating coach was astonished with her progress AND SHE DIDNT EVEN GET NOMINATED FOR HER ROLE like her 3D head scans were taken and then were superimposed on her doubles’ faces when they skated close to the camera but for someone to train 5 times a week for 5 months… SHE HAS THE RANGEEEE
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