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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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1519 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

If you are a survivor of sexual abuse or assault, as I am, having been through that experience, you really feel actually how much it's about power.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And this need for power, it becomes like a sickness.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It becomes a compulsion.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's not for pleasure.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And then it just becomes more about what more...

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

or things that you can break.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's about who can break the law.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's about, yeah, those, like, ICE, they don't need the judicial warrant.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

How visible can you make this and get away with it?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

You can do the illegal things.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And by the way, they're not just, we know they're not going after immigrants.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Now, they're all putting on, it's not a coincidence, they're all putting on meta glasses.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And they're putting tons of money into Palantir contracts to create a national surveillance state so that if you go out and you want to protest, that they want to scan your face and put it in a system.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

This is about a compulsion.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

This is about also like, this is a system and there's a psychology of the people pulling the levers of this system.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And so that's like, okay, you know, doom, gloom,