You used to catch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predominantly flying American Airlines. She’s a Member of Congress and they operate a majority of the flights at DC’s close-in National airport. Often she’s seen in first class. These days, though, she flies private. And she’s taking a lot of heat for it.
BREAKING: AOC was caught flying in a private plane after claiming that shes never flown in one before and exclusively flies with American Airline only.
Here's a look at and inside the plane.
The biggest irony behind this whole ordeal? She's flying on this plane for the "Fight… pic.twitter.com/8UCuDcwovQ
— aka (@akafaceUS) April 22, 2025
Here's the video catching her in the act.pic.twitter.com/Nx9mVm0sXt
— aka (@akafaceUS) April 22, 2025
AOC lambasted Elon Musk for flying private. The context was she argued his government staff-trimming efforts put commercial passengers at risk while he flew in his own jet (as though commercial and private aviation used different airspace or different controllers).
Make Elon fly 100% commercial if he’s so confident https://t.co/Jmhxw3onre
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 18, 2025
When challenged, she insisted that she eschewed private aviation. Now she’s on her Fighting Oligarchy Tour traveling between stops on a private jet.
I do. I commute to DC on either rail or commercial flight. Believe it or not, not everyone wants to screw over the public for personal profit.
A bizarre idea to many these days.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 18, 2025
Betting markets currently give her roughly the same odds as Gavin Newsom at securing the Democratic nomination for President in 2028, ahead of Josh Shapiro, Pete Buttigieg, and Gretchen Whitmer. She’s already running. That’s what her rallies with Bernie Sanders and her record fundraising are both about.
Sanders is passing the torch of the party’s Left to her, after party primary and convention changes were implemented to block him. Ironically, though, he managed to push the party far enough left that it created the conditions for Trump’s second term. Party primaries select for activist-favored candidates who don’t reflect the broader electorate that comes out in November. If AOC had the principles of Jared Polis or Josh Shapiro she’d be a far more formidable general election candidate (or even, for that matter, Gretchen Whitmer before her Oval Office blue folder and inability to lambast President Trump on tariffs).
When she enters the race to become the next Democratic presidential candidate, she’s going to be flying private a lot. And she should! Nate Silver says that right now she’s the most likely candidate. And once that happens she’ll even get her own campaign plane.
- Socialism in our time doesn’t just happen on its own, it’s hard work, and she needs to maximize her labor value to the extent possible.
- Flying private isn’t inconsistent with her principles. Even North Korea’s Air Koryo has business class, and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping has his own Presidential planes.
Ironically, he uses Peoples Liberation Army Boeing 737s and an Air China 747 (plus Air China 747 cargo to transport limousines). A Democratic People’s Republic doesn’t, in fact, mean abolishing class. In socialist paradise “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
When Janet Yellen flew coach as Treasury Secretary that was performative and stupid. AOC should fly private. She’s using private donor dollars, not taxpayer funds. She just shouldn’t call out others for flying private, either.
For Sweden this is pretty bizarre whether you want to admit it or not. They don’t have a 2nd Amendment. You might want to quote their historical murder rate- before the influx.
Now that the comments on this post have made it to the second page, I just wanted to repeat how awesome I think it is that she is funding her own travel without having to use taxpayer funds. Like, that’s honorable, and regardless of whether you agree with her policies or like her personally, which I certainly do, it’s objectively fiscally responsible. Well done. We need more leaders like her.
Maybe mccain took a lot of connecting flights, but I’ve seen him on DCAPHX. In person, with my own eyes. First-hand experience.
@Construction — Thank you for adding that reference. Senator John McCain was a true patriot, an American war hero, and a great example of servant leadership that future generations should look up to. Regardless of my politics, I respect McCain. He was a good and decent man. I still remember in 2008 when that lady called #44 an ‘Arab,’ and his response was of the highest character possible: “No, ma’am,” he said. “He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that just I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what the campaign’s all about. He’s not [an Arab].” Anyway, I was recently at PHX, Terminal 3, named in his honor. It’s a beautiful terminal. Well-deserved.
Doesn’t bother me one bit.
Incels and he-men really have it out for her.
At least taxpayers aren’t footing the bill, and she’s not on the Supreme Court.
Right-wing Americans and the “don’t tax me” wealthy and prosperity gospel sellers/buyers don’t want Americans to wonder why the richest country in the world — that is the US — can’t have it as good for the general American public as Scandinavians have it for the general Scandinavian public. Once most people ask why, they too may seek answers; and then the general public realize it is possible in the US if we stop with giving massive waivers and favors for the wealthiest among us and for big companies.
cairns is as clueless as ever. Sweden is a much safer and healthier place for its residents than the US.
Sweden has plenty of gun owners. Most of my adult Swedish relatives and a bunch of my Swedish friends have legal gun ownership history in their households. Pass the hunting exams and have an organized life without being a criminal suspect in the country, and a gun license is easy enough to get unless you are a clueless or dangerous clown who can’t keep your life in order and have insufficient finances to follow the rules. Unfortunately, sometimes the police aren’t quick enough to grab guns from problem characters — and that is why Sweden earlier this year had its worst mass shooting in living memory, a mass shooting conducted by a Swedish white supremacist who hated immigrants, had issues with women in positions of authority and had legal ownership of multiple guns.
I view that interaction differently, 1990. McCain. Could have said “nothing about being a muslim makes you a bad person.” But he didn’t. He implied very strongly that being christian makes you good / correct.
I like you and all and I’m not trying g to start a fight but as a non-Christian, that interaction wasn’t the positive for me that I t was for you.
The correct answer was and always is: “religion ha SSA nothing to do with this”