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Ocasio-Cortez: Trump’s “Moral Abomination” Of A Border Wall Is Just Like The Berlin Wall
Hot Air ^ | Febuary 18,2019 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 02/18/2019 5:58:21 PM PST by Hojczyk

Er … suuuuure it is. The only way anyone could assert this with a straight face, let alone with the smug dismissal Ocasio-Cortez displays here, is to be entirely ignorant of the post-war history of Berlin, Germany, and the deep desire to flee the communist system in both. A quick search on “Berlin Wall history” for the woefully uneducated would land on this entry in Encylopaedia Britannica:

In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West Germany, including steadily rising numbers of skilled workers, professionals, and intellectuals. Their loss threatened to destroy the economic viability of the East German state. In response, East Germany built a barrier to close off East Germans’ access to West Berlin and hence West Germany. That barrier, the Berlin Wall, was first erected on the night of August 12–13, 1961, as the result of a decree passed on August 12 by the East German Volkskammer (“Peoples’ Chamber”).

The Berlin Wall’s “moral abomination” came from its intent to trap people inside a communist system when they wanted to flee — at which it largely succeeded for its 28-year lifespan. East Germany arrested more than 5,000 people attempting to cross over it into West Berlin and freedom, and they shot and killed at least 191 people in the attempt. Only 5,000 crossed over into freedom during its three-decade abomination. They didn’t care a whit if anyone wanted to enter East Berlin.

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To: CivilWarBrewing
I had no idea that we SHOOT anyone daring to enter our country illegally.

Right. And fer SHER, we never shoot 'em trying to leave. In the case of the southern border, we'd prolly stand by the Rio Grande with handkerchiefs, waving farewell.

21 posted on 02/18/2019 6:14:13 PM PST by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: All

I wonder if she knows what city it was in?


22 posted on 02/18/2019 6:15:24 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Hojczyk

Except one is to keep their citizens from escaping and the other is to protect its citizens from invading hoards.


23 posted on 02/18/2019 6:15:59 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: windsorknot

Who built the Berlin Wall?


24 posted on 02/18/2019 6:17:15 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Hojczyk

Came across a great simile on Twitter - comparing the Berlin Wall to a border wall is like comparing a fishtank to a submarine.


25 posted on 02/18/2019 6:18:07 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Hojczyk

What we desperately need is for a non-fake journalist to ask her for an explanation of what it is like to go through life as an absolute bimbo.


26 posted on 02/18/2019 6:19:23 PM PST by stevem
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To: Hojczyk

So, how clueless and out of touch do you actually have to be to be in Congress? Seriously.

More scary, is that many of these people are representative of how out of touch those who elected them are. This isn’t about people not being ‘bright’. It’s about absolute intellectual laziness. It’s easier to not think, and let social media and television just permeate your brain with pop culture drivel.


27 posted on 02/18/2019 6:19:51 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Hojczyk
Although I've never seen any of the walls/fences on our southern border (the closest I've ever been to the border is Dallas,Phoenix and Long Beach) I *have* seen the Berlin Wall...up close.

I clearly saw the guard tower on the East Berlin side with the machine guns also clearly visible.

I'd bet the clothes on my back that the two walls have absolutely *nothing* in common.

28 posted on 02/18/2019 6:21:18 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: blueplum

she has a degree in economics not history


29 posted on 02/18/2019 6:23:03 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Hojczyk
She is an idiot and every day spouts some nonsense. Is this truly this stupid or is it to divert us?

Berlin wall was to keep people from LEAVING. Our wall is meant for protection, to keep out undesirables and invaders. Anybody can leave the USA.

30 posted on 02/18/2019 6:24:03 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Hojczyk

Oh, the ponies are really flying off Alexandria’s merry go round, now.


31 posted on 02/18/2019 6:24:09 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Hojczyk

Good Lord, she’s an idiot!


32 posted on 02/18/2019 6:24:46 PM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: Hojczyk

Uh ... no ... it’s nothing like the Berlin Wall. Go back to school, freshman.


33 posted on 02/18/2019 6:25:49 PM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: Hojczyk

I was once represented by Ted Kennedy. I never imagined my fellow citizens would be represented by the likes of AOC, Tlaib, and Omar or whoever they are.


34 posted on 02/18/2019 6:26:15 PM PST by posterchild
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To: Hojczyk

AOC is a true ignoramus. Berlin wall was built to KEEP PEOPLE IN. Trump’s Wall is for making it difficult for illegals to simply walk in over the southern border.


35 posted on 02/18/2019 6:26:15 PM PST by entropy12 (Legal immigrants under chain migration not any better than illegal immigrants! Merit ONLY!!)
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Dems running scared........

Menendez threatens to call police on reporter asking about Green New Deal: report
Fox News ^ | February 13 2019 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
FR Posted on 2/14/2019 by knighthawk

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., had a fiery exchange with a reporter on Capitol Hill on Wednesday when asked to comment on the Green New Deal.
Henry Rodgers, the Daily Caller’s Capitol Hill reporter, approached the senator at a subway station and asked him if he supported Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s legislative proposal.

Menendez avoided the question and asked where Rodgers worked. Rodgers said that when he told Menendez he worked for the Daily Caller, the Democrat responded by saying he would not answer any questions. And intern who was with Rodgers asked a follow-up question, and tensions apparently rose.
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36 posted on 02/18/2019 6:26:24 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Hojczyk

Cerebral Kotex just blew a fuse in her few undamaged brain cells.

The Berlin Wall was a communist/socialist act of savagery to keep the poor people in East Germany from escaping to the west for freedom and liberty.

East Germans of all ages were killed or imprisoned for trying to escape the tyranny of East Berlin.


37 posted on 02/18/2019 6:26:58 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall: Illegal migration is leading to a wave of outbreaks!!!!)
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To: blueplum

Boston U
Tuition er year:
48,436 USD


38 posted on 02/18/2019 6:27:00 PM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: Hojczyk

Olive Oyl trusts Bluto to respect her boundaries.
39 posted on 02/18/2019 6:27:25 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: All

Thirty braindead Democraps sponsored Sen Markey's bill and assembled to support AOC's laughable rollout of the Green Dream.

Now Mitch McConnell is holding their feet to the fire....calling for a vote.

Prime sponsor, Sen Markey (at right in pic---and other Democrats?), are running for cover......
to avoid casting a vote on AOC’s creepy Green Deal....to turn America into another starving, Third-World socialist/fascist failed state.

Democrats manage to win by lying about their real beliefs and intentions. The gross Green Deal removes their masks, and it is an
incredibly ugly face that greets Americans.....the beginning of the end of the Democrats' savage quest to regain the levers of power.

40 posted on 02/18/2019 6:27:33 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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