[the OlLine Rebel]

"And one perfect example – a perfect example – of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working class Americans against brown and black working Americans in order to just screw over all working class Americans is Reaganism in the '80s when you started talking about 'welfare queens,'" Ocasio-Cortez said during an interview at the conference. "So you think about this image, 'welfare queens,' and what he [Reagan] was really trying to talk about was – he was painting this photo, he's like painting this really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were sucks on our country, right? And it's the whole tragedy of these comments type thinking where it's like because these one specific group of people that you were already kind of subconsciously prime to resent, you give them a different reason, that's not explicit racism, but still rooted in racist caricature, it gives people a logical, a "logical" reason to say, 'Oh, yeah, no. Toss out the whole safety net.'"

[Bender2]

Re: There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know Reagan favored statehood for Puerto Rico. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019

There is one absolute... in the above--

It is... There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book!

[Buckeye McFrog]

the @washingtonpost and the @NYT wrote lengthy articles exposing the massive corruption of the Welfare Queen of Chicago, Linda Taylor

BTW, the journalism profession has spent four decades in conferences and internal discussions offering endless mea culpas for this. They have concluded that their coverage of welfare fraud in the 70's is what got Reagan elected, causing the country to take an "ugly" rightward turn.

Sure does speak to their hubris.

[ThunderSleeps]

Just about every time AOC opens her mouth we are treated to a demonstration that she really knows nothing about almost any subject that comes up.

Has she uttered one intelligent, insightful thing? Anything? At this point if she could relate a new tasty drink mix she came up with as a bartender that would be her crowning achievement to date. I don't count graduating since the standards at Boston U. are evidently non-existent.

To everyone who voted for her: great job, really impressive work folks. While we appreciate the entertainment value of the court jester you sent to DC, she *is* wasting our time and money. Well, maybe her one redeeming quality is that she is exposing just how radical the left's agenda for the US really is.

[Gumdrop]

So now RR is responsible for the AIDS epidemic?

She is an idiot. Oh, and she is a snot.

[headstamp 2]

[[[[Maybe instead of insinuating I’ve never read a book, be open to the idea that we’ve read different ones. https://t.co/aP96oCCBwm—; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 11, 2019]]]]

This is called ignorant arrogance. This generation of hers is overflowing with it.

[1Old Pro]

APC is an ignorant twit. I think the only elected official even dumber is Silly Gilly Kristen Gillibrand.

[FrogMom]

She’s a PERFECT example of:

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

-Ronald Reagan

[oldbill]

Cortez didn’t write that response.
It was written for her.

She does not have the education, experience, or intelligence to even know what some of those topics were - Iran Contra?