Comrade AOC is enlisting the proletariat in the cause! Will you respond to her call and shell out money for… propaganda art???

Wait, what?

These posters push us to imagine our future with a Green New Deal in two of our beloved NY-14 parks: Pelham Bay & Flushing Meadows.

All our #GND posters are made in the US, union-printed & will be available for purchase soon, but available at organizing events now.

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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 30, 2019

Okay, let me try and wrap my mind around this.

First, we all know AOC loves making a quick buck off her support for the Green New Deal. So she’s giving away the first poster as a “limited edition release” of 250 prints, but then then rest are going to be “available for purchase” at “organizing events” (read: campaign events) later? Who gets the money? The congresswoman proudly touts the art as being created by “Team AOC” in a later tweet:

Our #GreenNewDeal posters are inspired by the original New Deal, updated for our future.

During the New Deal, FDR launched Federal One, a US project that employed 5,300 artists that created & taught art to envision America’s future.

Left, #TeamAOC; right, original US New Deal pic.twitter.com/l3PZzlEhzw

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 30, 2019

So, did AOC’s campaign or office hire a bunch of artists to create these posters in order to raise money for her campaign, under the guise of supporting the Green New Deal? When that poster is purchased, who gets the money? Conveniently, AOC doesn’t tell us where the money is going. Which means that the only person profiting from these posters is her. Everyone else signed up to draw pictures for “the cause,” and AOC, being more equal by virtue of her elected office, probably gets to pocket the profit.

Second, the congresswoman claims that the art is inspired by the “New Deal” art. You know what else it looks like?

Looks familiar. pic.twitter.com/bmQkkayS5W

— Liberty Never Sleeps (@realLibertyTom) August 30, 2019

I mean, come on. Does she have to make it so blantantly obvious? If the representative has to sell posters, can’t they at least look pretty, and not like she’s trying to support the Great Soviet Tree Planting of 2019? At least when Donald Trump sells hats and straws, they have a use. This? This is someone so pitifully ignorant of history that she’s happily repeating it because she thinks it looks cool. Or she’s doing it deliberately and trolling everyone. Take your pick.

After AOC lost her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, she stopped tweeting for a week and everyone assumed (probably not incorrectly) that he really was the brains behind the operation. Now she’s made her return to social media, telling us we’re all going to die, and has pretty posters to sell to willing suckers.

Is AOC the only member of “The Squad” who is going to keep merrily chugging along, with the Green New Deal powering her ambitions? Both Tlaib and Omar have been exposed as frauds in different ways, and Ayanna Pressley really doesn’t say much unless she’s with her other Squaddies. This isn’t to say that The Squad isn’t capable of doing a reunion tour and making another run at Nancy Pelosi, but for now, they’ve been brought to heel under Madam Speaker. That is, unless AOC manages to make a whole lot of filthy capitalist rubles from her posters. If she finds herself with surplus cash to blow on Justice Democrats and her own campaign, then all bets are off, comrade.

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