If you’re known by the company you attract and keep, then the relationship between Justine Medina and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez certainly tells us a lot.

Who is Justine Medina? She is a member of the “Executive Committee of the New York State Communist Party.” She loves some good old-fashioned class warfare, she loves a riot, and she doesn’t like her father. Oh, and she’s also a former aide to AOC. Quite the resume for someone who is only 33 years old.

Justine Medina, 33, spent a year employed by “The Squad” leader as a political organizer in 2020 and was paid more than $35,000 between February and November of that year, Federal Election Commission records show.”

Almost immediately after the election, Medina began working as a full-blown Marxist. In July 2021, she was identified as “co-chair of the New York Young Communist League” by the Communist Party newspaper People’s World. The same publication today identifies her as a member of the “Executive Committee of the New York State Communist Party.”

Medina was involved in successful efforts to unionize Amazon’s workforce, efforts she bragged about in an article for the Communist Party website, which identified her as a packer at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island. AOC has long been an Amazon antagonist. She played an integral role in killing a plan by the company to open a headquarters in New York City and has been a vocal supporter of Amazon unionization efforts — though some on the frontline note she has often failed to show up.”

Like any good organizer, Medina also has a long history of arrests. She was booked at least twice in June 2020 during Black Lives Matter riots which convulsed the city. In a tweet, she complained cops’ zip ties were too tight. She was also busted that year for attempting to deface a plaque honoring Fred Trump in Woodhaven, Queens, according to the New Yorker.”

Like many socialists, Medina is a child of privilege.”

She is the daughter of Cuban-American lawyer Omar Medina, a wealthy trial attorney out of Tampa with a checkered past. Omar Medina’s license was suspended for 30 days in 2013 after he made false statements on behalf of a client, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reported. That same year he was sued for wage theft — the case was settled. He lives in a five bedroom, six-bathroom, 5,316-square foot manse in Tampa worth more than $3 million. He has donated thousands of dollars to President Biden and Hillary Clinton, records show.”

“As for her allegiance to the Communist Party, I could not be further removed from that. It’s a big problem,” Omar Medina told The Post. “My family escaped communism, and my daughter is misguided as to the benefits that political system provides, it flat out doesn’t work.”

Justine Medina dismissed her father as a “rich anti-Castro … liberal,” who “just buy things.”

I wonder if Justine Medina has ever decided to visit Cuba herself – the real Cuba, not the Cuba that is shown to tourists. Probably not. After all, truth is inconvenient when it’s so much more profitable to be a communist in New York. And Stalin would approve of her dismissal of her father, who actually understands what communism is, instead of just cosplaying at it, and hosting a YouTube channel where she regurgitates her hot commie takes. If you have hours of your life to waste, you too can watch her “classes” on the history of the labor union movement. Fair warning, these videos have probably been declared a form of torture by the Geneva Convention.

So why does Justine Medina matter? Well, other than it being smart to know who the communist agitators are, it’s also important to know whom AOC associates with, and whom she has paid. And yes, Justine Medina addressed her connection to AOC – and why working for AOC was important.

Haha, well, I *am* a Communist, but work for AOC & helped start Queens DSA's Electoral WG, so I def see utility in working on the Dem ballot line! But yes we should run third party candidates where it makes sense! And IMPORTANTLY, channel ppl who join thru electoral elsewhere too

— Justine Medina (@jnmedina8989) October 7, 2020

AOC calls herself a “democratic socialist,” not a communist, but the reality is that she behaves quite a lot like a communist – and obviously, Justine Medina sees AOC as a fellow traveler. The entire ethics case against AOC regarding the taking of “gifts” for the Met Gala is because she acted like a executive level communist. Take all the labor of the little people, rub shoulders with the wealthy and the famous, and make your ass a billboard announcing your intentions to “tax the rich,” and then don’t pay the laborer a dime until they threaten to report you, and you have an ethics complaint lodged. Not only is that top shelf grifting, it’s exactly how you would expect a communist to behave. AOC doesn’t want to be called a communist, because that term still rightfully holds a stigma. That’s why she and her fellow Squaddies have either stuck with being Democrats or “democratic socialists.” AOC holds all the same beliefs as communists, but she doesn’t want that label, and she also likes making a buck off her grift. Calling herself a “democratic socialist” allows her to use capitalism to enrich herself, while at the same time crying about it.

Truly, we live in interesting times, when a congresswoman can employ an open communist, and no one really cares because we all know that she’s really a commie at heart herself.

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