Posted on 02/07/2019 10:20:13 AM PST by jazusamo
New York 'it girl' and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has always carried one great big piece of political designer baggage with her: Socialism, with all its ghastly train of ruin, which she is trying to repackage as something fresh and new and fashionable. So all eyes were on her as she got a big condemnation of socialism right in her face from President Trump at his State of the Union speech the other night, with the president denouncing its horrors in Venezuela and declaring "America will never be a socialist country." Seventy-six percent of Americans approved of the speech.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews, hardly a hostile interviewer, asked her for a response and she came up with this whopper.
Here's the transcript from RealClearPolitics:
"What did you make...
~snip~
"Confuse the public"?
What is there to be confused about?
Venezuela's a disastrous failure under 20 years of socialism, with starvation, zero medical care, industrial collapse, sovereign default, massive inflation, and millions of Venezuelans fleeing for their lives. It's not Cuba they're fleeing to, either, it's any place their feet will reach that isn't socialist.
And her dismissal of the matter as an 'ad hominem attack' is nonsense - Trump brought up no person, which is where the 'hominem' comes fro, he brought up the results of her own beloved socialism.
What gets me about this is that Ocasio-Cortez is trying to pass off her socialism as something different, the argument that 'ours will be a really good socialism,' which dates back to what radicals in the 1960s argued as they pushed for socialism in places like Cambodia, something that led skull heaps with 3 million dead.
Tom Wolfe, who first observed this, noted that lefties have been pushing a Utopian vision of 'our socialism will be a very good socialism' for years.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What a dope.
But she makes up for it in disassociating her brain from her mouth.
She cannot simply because it is an impossibility.
But watching her mental gymnastics is interesting.
> Ocasio-Cortez, Chavez and Maduro are three peas in a pod.
Using AOC’s counting skills, that trio is actually 1 million peas in a pod.
Maybe she said “add homonym” instead of ‘ad hominem’. :-)
Maybe we should send her some books, like “Khmer Rouge for Dummies” and “Inside the Mind of Megalomaniacs: Pol Pot Edition”. Or just a DVD copy of The Killing Fields?
Just watched her disaster of a Green Dream press conference. reporter aksed he how she felt about pelosi dismissing it as a Green Dream....Shes crushed inside! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You can see her crushed inside thru the whole thing!
Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Great Idea! But.... Wouldn’t we need to hire someone to read them to her?
Hey AOC? If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?
even pelosi is smarter than AOC..
There’s got to be a photo of AOC wearing a Che or FALN shirt somewhere.
I presume Occas. Cortex has yet to submit a bill that forces Congress\D.C. to ‘show the way’ before pulling @ the fingers of the last of the Republic, hanging over the ledge (as if ANY shape/matter/form of Socialism is legal/Constitutional to begin...Not like there’s any push-back from the (R)N(C)\”leadership” in the matter)??
No more private flights\every weekend ‘back home’, no more chauffeurs\limos but car-pooling, maybe some dorms/barracks for those housed in D.C., all medical through VA..everything else = ILLEGAL.
IF not, WHY not??
She has the maturity of a middle schooler.
Bet the Dems regret her being elected.
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