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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1519 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

They are for profit.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

They are traded on Wall Street.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And what happens is that those companies and this system is that it does not accept anything but growth.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's not even good enough to be profitable.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's not even good enough to be profitable.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

You have to be more profitable and more profitable and more profitable.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's not enough to be a profitable business.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

You have to keep growing those profits.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And so once they've rounded up every person in this country, who do you think is next?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We weren't really a democracy until 1963, 1965.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

That's exactly right.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

You know, voting rights and civil rights.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We weren't, we were apartheid before then.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It is, and it's, I find, I don't know, I just find the dynamic of it so wild because in my job, I do, every once in a while, have the opportunity to look these folks in the eye.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

when you really look at someone in the eye, you can really see so much, including what they want to hide, about who they like really are on the inside.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And it's just like, you know,

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's people with a lot of power that are very often, I think, like just exacting their inner dramas.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

and making it all of our problem?