Posted on 10/08/2019 1:17:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
It’s getting harder and harder to take Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seriously. She may be extremely popular on social media to radical progressives, keyboard social justice warriors, and left-wing bot accounts, but she’s losing her edge when it comes to promoting extreme ideas. Other radicals have been stealing her thunder, so her natural response is one of the most predictable we’ve seen in DC in recent years. She doubled down on crazy ideas.
Her latest scheme was to attempt to make a logical argument for “abolishing prisons” by highlighting anecdotal incidents that represent a tiny portion of the prison population. Then, she went further to essentially say she’s owning the conservatives by getting them talking about her crazy ideas. This is not a serious person, let alone a serious politician. That’s not to say she’s not good at politics; her Justice Democrats handlers have coached her well. But she’s letting her ego get the best of her as she promotes ideas that even many radicals will deem incoherent at best.
Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery.
To end it, we have to change.
That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country. https://t.co/9E9NTAmBNi
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
Yesterday morning I spoke with a woman who was thrown in Rikers as a teenager. Put in solitary confinement for MONTHS, aka torture. Force-fed pills.
The conditions were so bad, she too had drank out of toilets.
A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
First of all, many people in jailed or in prison don’t belong there at all.
Whether it’s punitive sentencing for marijuana possession or jailing people for their poverty & letting the rich free through systems like cash bail, we wrongly incarcerate far, far too many people.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
Lastly, people tend to say “what do you do with all the violent people?” as a defense for incarcerating millions.
Our lawmaking process means we come to solutions together, &either way we should work to an end where our prison system is dramatically smaller than it is today.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
After this, she apparently got a call from her handlers telling her to tone it down because she instantly changed subjects to the Democrats’ rallying cry, “Get Trump!”
Call me lazy, but I’m not even going to attempt to tackle her Tweets detail-by-detail to debunk her thinking and sink what she’s proposing. It’s just too easy and I’m sure our readers are well aware how ludicrous she really is. We’ll leave it to Twitter reactions to express how everyone should feel about her concepts on criminal justice reform:
"Also, we need to make it a federal felony to own the most commonly sold rifle in the country, to own a gun without a license, and to let your friend borrow your shotgun for hunting without going through a background check." https://t.co/5SzNn587Rq
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) October 7, 2019
Democrats want more victims, more crime, more suffering. It's what they depend on. https://t.co/ORjDvxj4t6
— Langdale.ca (@laangled) October 7, 2019
But you’ll incarcerate millions of gun owners because of their lawfully-owned firearms. https://t.co/owjHDLdNkX
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 7, 2019
She's just trolling, right?
She couldn't… I mean she doesn't actually… No sane person would call for…
Wow. She's not trolling. She's serious.
The only "serious talk" that should come from this is how quickly her district can say, "bye!" https://t.co/M3cqCi8nym
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) October 8, 2019
…what. https://t.co/w3SJ71JQlU
— Christopher Bedford (@CBedfordDC) October 7, 2019
Abolish jails!!
Also: Make straws, cigarettes, vaping, hate speech, owning a gun, eating meat, donating to a political campaign, school choice, religious freedom ILLEGAL!! https://t.co/4SulQFyq4V
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) October 7, 2019
Abolish prison? You're insane. https://t.co/TbBSjnqQ70
— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) October 7, 2019
You want to abolish prisons? Wise idea. We could have the rapists and murderers and thieves and child molesters come live with you. https://t.co/Jzo8TegvwY
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) October 7, 2019
This isn’t a joke. She’s dead serious. This is what the radical progressive left wants for America. Some are calling it anarchy, but that’s only partially true. They want to use chaos to force their ultimate goal of authoritarian rule.
“Feed ‘em to the hogs!” - Brick Top
You didn't get the memo Carl? AOComedy and any CONgre$$ that enables her is a JOKE.
I’ll bet it’s full concentration camps.
remove her tongue
She’s hoping Warren picks her as her running mate?
Maybe we should start eating the prisoners and get a two-fer — no incarceration AND helping solve the climate crisis!
Test it out Toots! Declare your district a socialist experiment of utopian wet dreams.
Reminds me of a story Paul Harvey once told.
A lady had a garden and planted zucchini one spring.
She didn’t know it was so prolific a vegetable!
She soon had zucchini filling her freezer and refrigerator.
Finally she put out a sign by the road, FREE ZUCCHINI!
She was out in the garden when a car came by, and voice from inside the car yelled, “Hang the SOB!” .................
She’s gone well beyond stupid putting that out there.
CHILDISH ignorance.
I agree. Immediately kill any prisoner convicted of violent crime, or crime of moral turpitude (perjury, theft, fraud, etc). Fill the prison with debtors and child support absconders. Let them work off their debt by building the wall and roads.
Her opponent is taking notes....................
Why? Then we couldn’t benefit from her immense amount of vocal wisdom!...................
ROFL!!
Finally.
I’ve been getting the same helicopter WOP WOP WOP joke on here for 2 years!!
Finally a different one :)
You can’t fix stupidity.
See my tagline......................
Closing the jails is anti-woman. Dumping a million or more criminal men on the street will make every woman unsafe.
This isn’t even her idea. This is as old as the Campus Radicals of the 1960s. The difference is nobody is laughing at the idea anymore because now you have government officials believing this garbage.
Put her in a prison with all those men and see (if she survives) how they treat her.
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