When it comes to political comedy, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the gift that keeps on giving. Every week, the young Democratic superstar blesses the American public with displays of such astounding ignorance that people who are not on the left can’t help but marvel at how this woman was ever elected to higher office.
This week was no different. The fresh new face of the left accused President Ronald Reagan of fomenting racial tensions, inadvertently pointed out a flaw in affirmative action programs, and had her economic proposals roundly rejected by economists.
AOC Slams Reagan
During an interview at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, AOC decided to engage in a little bit of race-baiting. In this instance, she decided to go after former President Ronald Reagan:
“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.”
You read that right. AOC actually accused Reagan of being the one who caused racial tension between whites and minorities. While those on the far-left might be impressed that Ocasio-Cortez even knew who Ronald Reagan is, others might have raised an eyebrow in response to a well-known race baiter calling out a former president for causing racial division.
Economists Take Issue with AOC’s Policies
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business recently conducted a survey of 42 economists to get their opinions on an economic policy that Ocasio-Cortez has championed. The policy, known as modern monetary theory (MMT) is being touted as a way to fund the ridiculously far-left proposals outlined in the Green New Deal.
The poll revealed that none of the economists supported any part of the policy Ocasio-Cortez has promoted. Two Green New Deal policies stood out in particular: Countries that borrow in their own currency should not worry about government deficits because they can always create money to finance their debt. Countries that borrow in their own currency can finance as much real government spending as they want by creating money.
None of the individuals surveyed agreed with either of these statements. Oh well. AOC still has her Twitter followers!
AOC Accidentally Opposes Affirmative Action?
Earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez chimed in on the university bribery scandal, in which wealthy parents bribed college administration officials to make sure their children were accepted into their preferred institutions. Federal authorities arrested dozens of women who were involved in the scam, and it is expected that they will face harsh penalties.
On Twitter, AOC gave her opinion:
“I guess college admissions isn’t that different from elections, where lots of money can buy your spot too.
Also an enviro where those who make it despite the odds are suspected to not have ‘earned’ it, not truly belong, or assumed to not be able to perform at the same level.”
This just might be one of the most insightful statements the representative has made. Ever.
But isn’t this similar to the arguments that conservatives make about affirmative action programs? Doesn’t this same principle apply to minorities who benefit from these initiatives? The stigma that can be attached to minorities who are hired by a company can be quite demeaning, especially if they truly were hired because of their competence.
So far, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has provided the world with enough material to fill a novel. But Liberty Nation will be sure to package each silly statement and asinine argument given by the left’s new heroine into one article each week. Don’t miss the next installment of If I Only Had a Brain.
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13 Comments
disqus_7lLhvyEhVv
Don’t be fooled by AOC’s act. She is not dumber than a bag of 🔨 hammers as she would like us to believe. There’s a devious plan in place and so far going just fine for the socialist Dems. You will know this is true when she ends up on the Dem ticket for Vice President in 2020!
Diogenes
You may be right. She was smart enough to get elected. Stupid, crazy and ignorant are three very different things. She’s crazy like a fox. (Or should I say vixen?) She got incumbency guaranteed in her ethnic enclave congressional district.
But I don’t think that she’ll be on the 2020 ticket. She predicts that the sky will fall in 12 years. Why twelve years? Has anyone noticed that that coincides with election cycles?
lazarus
AOC is a poster child for imposing intelligence test requirements for everyone applying for candidacy in a public election. Weed these morons out BEFORE the election.
Orion
I still stand behind my belief, that the more attention we bring to ignorance, the more it grows. It worked that way in hollyweird, we gave them platforms upon which to speak, and they now believe they have some importance. It worked that way with politicians in our past. We give them some relevance, allow them to stand behind the podium and even amplify their voice, and they think that what they have to say is noteworthy. We even did it with the main stream media … remaining tuned in to their rants long enough, and buying the products they touted, that they are convinced they are all seeing. That is what we are doing with aoc. The more we acknowledge her, and pen even negative reactions to her idiotic rants … we are giving her legitimacy. We are telling the youth of today, who have been indoctrinated to love her ignorant concepts that she is real, possibly even an adult. We should take a lesson from the main stream media, and limit conversations about ignorance (which does in fact describe aoc) to a simple (so she might understand it) line or extremely simpleton based quote …. similar to the coverage the main stream media gives our President.
Diogenes
I disagree. In your own words you advocate limiting “conversations about ignorance”. Your position is one of assuming that bad behavior (or in this case misinformation and ignorance) will abate if it is ignored. It doesn’t. It actually gains legitimacy or becomes mainstream when there is no resistance voiced. Silence or lack of response amounts to tacit approval, or permissiveness. The more any misinformation, such as the Big Lie, is repeated without being challenged and exposed, the more it will gain traction and believability. This is the power of propaganda. Just look at the power of the Media. It’s all Leftist spin or editing only what they want us to hear on virtually every channel or venue. People hear it, they believe it and they are influenced by it. It is effective. When there is no opposition or rebuttal made, lies and ignorance become accepted as truth.
disqus_h8Ovfoqbdz
This is so easy people..all that has to be done is to shove this vacuous, arrogant little commie nitwit into one of the spaces of a revolving door…She’ll never find her way out again………………………Problem solved……………………..
Diogenes
I would suggest that you (and others) personally visit her congressional district in NYC, which is the South Bronx and a mostly Hispanic part of Queens. Also make sure that you visit during daylight hours, as your personal visit might be at risk after sundown. Then you might understand AOC better, and you might better understand why she is not to be taken lightly.
Of course, she didn’t grow up in the district she now represents, but she knew how and where she could be elected. And so she was. That part is now history.
disqus_7lLhvyEhVv
Probably not, if the door revolved to the right. She’d go insane and pull down the building, door and all!
mlopez
How did she get elected? Well just look at her constituents. AOC and her flip side, alter sex ego and culturally appropriating Beto ORourke remind me of two shimmering holograms. The two of them flexing and bending, twisting in some space time warp while being transmitted across galaxies and solar systems. Remember the old Superman comic books? Well there’s certainly something going on there with the hands, some sort of Mambo Italiano dance and courting ritual. It’s only a matter of time before they find each other. Newt Gingrich characterized AOC as a perfectly unexceptional graduate student who had perhaps gotten as far as reading one half of a book before abandoning her studies to enter politics. Compelling, if you’re a liberal, prog socialist, or even just some generic, lefty Democrat.
This twit of a girl, so insular in her arrogance and ignorance now claims her economic model will resemble Sweden and Norway and not Venezuela, or Cuba. Well of course she would say that, except it wouldn’t, won’t and doesn’t and even allowing for the ridiculously false comparison of such sophomoric thinking, her “New Green Deal” model is simply nonsensical and, on its face. Yet, she circulates freely, publicly, almost daily making claims, which are entertained by both the Democratic Party and their public relations arm, the main stream, news media as, if spitting out cherry pits on the back porch while still not dressed, totally relaxed on some warm, lost summer morning.
Not that it matters, her followers even more obtuse and ignorant than she and anyway, free stuff, special privilege, grievance, what’s not to like? Close enough for jazz, it all sounds good when you’ve been drinking, or abusing drugs. Go ahead, ask them. The fact that both Cortez and Beto are willing to confiscate that which belongs to others matters not. That’s always been the allure of socialism, the Marxist marriage between the monopoly on violence and state authorized compliance of the implementation and confiscation of private property while making empty promises of redistribution, or free stuff for the unprincipled and unworthy. Invariably, it ends in economic ruin, civil unrest and the resultant, predictable tyranny. Hello moto.
Don McCoy
She’s so dumb that…that…she’s so dumb. Period.
Diogenes
“Engage brain before putting mouth in gear.”
No brain activity, and Ms. Occasional Cortex’s abnormally large oral cavity is always in gear and running wild. Just as a runaway train, this Casey Jones had better watch her speed.
mlopez
Young, dumb and full of self absorption
Diogenes
No brain, but probably the biggest mouth ever seen on a woman – both literally and figuratively.