Posted on 06/18/2019 5:46:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
In case you missed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) latest hot take, the freshman lawmaker accused the Trump administration of running concentration camps on the U.S.-Mexico border, in reference to the detention facilities where asylum seekers are often held.
"And that the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing," she said in an Instagram Live video. "And we need to do something about it,"
Lawmakers and social media users chastised her for minimizing the cruelty of the Holocaust, but the backlash only emboldened her to double down on her egregious analogy.
Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this. https://t.co/NX5KPPb2Hl— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 18, 2019
Fox News anchors didn't hold back either. On "America's Newsroom" Tuesday morning, Bill Hemmer asked Ocasio-Cortez a series of questions to determine whether she had any authority to make such a comparison.
Bill Hemmer GOES OFF on AOC's "concentration camps" comment:
"She used the extermination of 6 million people... 'Never again' is the phrase that Jews use all over the world to make sure that the extermination between 1939 and 1945 never happens again." pic.twitter.com/LeiMrahO9v— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) June 18, 2019
"Has she ever been to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem?" Hemmer asked his guest, Art Del Cueto, the VP of the National Border Patrol Council, during a segment on her remarks. "Or Auschwitz, Birkenau, and southern Poland? Or Dakau in Germany?"
Hemmer had one final question:
"Does she not owe every Jew on the planet an apology?"
I had the honor of walking through the Yad Vashem museum during a trip abroad in 2016. I and several of the fellow tourists in my group failed to make it through the building dry-eyed. I'm sure countless others can report similar experiences, for the atrocities committed against the Jewish people are not to be compared.
I visited Dachau in 1963. I was 12 years old, and the memories are burned into my brain.
Father Andreas was always clear that Dachau was not a “death camp”, but a punishment camp. Conditions were bad enough that many prisoners died anyway. Father Andreas was chaplain to a group of Monks in eastern Germany who had engaged in anti-Nazi activities, including printing and distributing pamphlets. There was a special section of Dachau for dissent Roman Catholic priests.
My butcher, I think, arrived in Britain before the onset of hostilities. Then he was interned after the declaration of war. The Wansee Conference wasn’t held until 1942, the same year that the Struma was sunk, which emboldened the Nazis to finally think of organized genocide as doable. So as these things go, Dachau was not even in the same ball park as Treblinka or Auschwitz.
But there are lots of people, all gathered together—like, concentrated—in a camp. So, like, the comparison is true, like, um, you know./parody
Can’t the senior leadership just give her a good bitch slapping and tell her to shut up. It’s not like they’re going to win in 2020 or anything, and I doubt OAC even wants a second term, let alone has a chance of winning one. Just don’t fund her reelection campaign, and she’ll be another tweeting crackpot, probably back tending bar.
A short skirt, a tight blouse, and a double bourbon. That’a all I ask of her. And try not to smile. You can’t help yourself but to brush her mane and feed her a sugar cube. Poor girl.
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Video or pictures please.
She does have a good body. Too bad about the empty head.
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... one of three.
She really looks like Eeyore in that pic.
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Have you noticed the radicals never apologize, most moderate dems don’t either...
They’ll apologize for something they had nothing whatever to do with, like slavery and massacring all those Native Americans. But not for anything they actually do.
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