Posted on 03/14/2019 5:36:36 PM PDT by simpson96
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez should get her own reality TV show. It would be a comedy, of course, with cameras following her around to record a typical day in the life of the face of the Democratic party.
Those cameras would record some of the most illogical, incoherent, idiotic, and just plain weird statements from a woman whose worldview has been shaped by socialism. That she's an ignoramus with a primary school understanding of most issues is a bonus.
Yesterday, Ocasio-Cortez "grilled" the chairman of Wells Fargo, Timothy Sloan, asking him a series of bizarre questions about "caging migrant children" and hypothetical leaks from the Dakota Access Pipeline. To his credit, Sloan maintained his cool, trying to bring Ocasio-Cortez back to reality.
Business Insider:
He was before the committee to answer questions about widespread fraudulent misconduct by Wells Fargo employees.
But Ocasio-Cortez asked why Wells Fargo had financed companies that built immigration detention centers in which children were separated from their parents. "Why was the bank involved in the caging of children and financing the caging of children to begin with?" the freshman representative from New York City fired off at the executive, who for a moment seemed nonplussed.
"I don't know how to answer that question, because we weren't," Sloan responded.
No sane person would know how to answer that question. But Sloan tried:
"For a period of time, we were involved in financing one of the firms," Sloan said. "We aren't anymore. I'm not familiar with the specific assertions that you're making, but we weren't directly involved in that."
Ocasio-Cortez got the idea for the question from a Guardian opinion piece that accused one company of building detention centers that put children in cages. The company denied the charge, saying they didn't detain any unaccompanied children at all.
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No, her staff got the idea. I noticed how she rarely asks any follow up questions, just reads form a list and moves on to the next question most of the time.
They also offered loans to people whose salary was put on hold during the government shutdown. People were lining up to secure that $3,000 who you knew had never been near a job in their lives.
Sandinista Barista
She is the poster child for the Dunning-Kruger effect; the less you know, the more you think you know.
btt
Never heard of it until you told me. Amazing how I learn something new every day on FR (I guess I didn't know everything---- until this morning.)
I think that is the term to apply to the people in the story The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth.
Due to low intelligence people having lots of offspring and high intelligence people marrying late and having 1 or 2 children tops, the people have become to stupid they need the intelligent ones to take care of them.
Example: cars have altered speedomoters to show high speeds so the dumb people will say "Wheeee! I'm really going fast now!" Actual speed is 15 mph or something.
Author Frederik Pohl said it was based on bad science. Not sure it isn't happening now.
correction: have become so stupid.... not to....Sorry.
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