Posted on 06/19/2019 11:34:06 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
COMMENTARY POLITICSCrenshaw Puts AOC on Blast After She Compares U.S. Migrant Facilities to Concentration Camps
Ethan Miller / Getty ImagesU.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, pictured in a file photo in April, had no problem Tuesday pointing out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ignorance when it comes to "concentration camps" and American immigration policy. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)
BY SHAUN HAIR PUBLISHED JUNE 19, 2019 AT 10:54AM
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bit off more than she can chew.
Note to self: If you are going to make completely dishonest and self-serving exaggerations that refer to the Holocaust, don’t do it where Rep. Dan Crenshaw can see it.
But AOC did exactly that in a Twitter post on Tuesday.
“This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying,” she AOC wrote. “This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysis.”
Her comparison of President Donald Trump’s efforts to deal with illegal migrants with the concentration camps of Hitler’s Nazi Germany did not go over well at all. (A tweet comparing Planned Parenthood to concentration camp operators, for instance, was priceless.)
So AOC did what AOC does.
She doubled down.
“And for the shrieking Republicans who don’t know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps,” AOC told her critics. “Concentration camps are considered by experts as ‘the mass detention of civilians without trial.’ And that’s exactly what this administration is doing.”
There’s only one problem. And it’s huge.
Crenshaw does know the difference.
“Clearly I need to explain that, in concentration camps, people are unjustly sought out and confined,” Crenshaw shot back in a Twitter post.
“This isn’t what is happening at the border. Migrants are illegally crossing our border. Most are asylum seekers, thus pending trial, so your expert definition doesn’t apply.”
But Crenshaw wasn’t finished.
“Your comments reveal total disregard for our sovereignty & a deep ignorance that belittles the horrors of the Holocaust,” Crenshaw wrote
And then Crenshaw gave AOC a little helpful advice:
“If you’re worried about conditions at the border, why don’t you do something about it & support @RepMikeRogersAL’s bill securing billions in humanitarian aid?” Crenshaw said in reference to a bill proposed by Rep. Mike Rogers from Alabama’s 3rd Congressional District.
Maybe she’s really just anti-Semitic.
There are liberals blasting her for this.
PIERS MORGAN: Shame on AOC for comparing Trump to Hitler and the Nazis - it’s a disgusting slur against the President AND repulsively insensitive to every Jew who endured the horrors of the real Holocaust
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-7155445/AOC-comparing-Trump-Hitler-slur-against-President-insensitive-Jew.html
She needs to wear it.
AOC’s district includes the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, where my grandparents lived. Still quite a few Jews in that area, but as Ed Koch once said, if Shitler ran for NYC mayor all he’d have to do is register as a Dem and he’d win with a 60% of the Jewish vote. Fortunately there is a #jexit movement, hopefully it will gain momentum, along with #blexit.
Piers Morgan is a gun grabbing hoplophobic wanker, but good for him for his support of President Trump and telling this screeching harridan about herself.
“The scariest thing about AOC is knowing there are millions of American voters just as dumb or dumber.”
+1
” I’d point out whoever writes AOCs stuff has to be at least
as dumb as she is, which makes for a poor conspiracy.”
I try not to underestimate opponents who are having success, but that’s just me.
They were smart enough to knock off an incumbent Pelosi ally and elect AOC. And they are rumored to have played a role in electing Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Their goal is take control of the Democratic Party and drag it harder Left. That makes them dangerous.
The current players are AOC’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, and Bernie organizer Zack Exley.
They worked with Kyle Kulinski and Cenk Uygur to create Justice Democrats.
Exactly
I wonder if she pronounced “hyperbole” as “hyper-bowl”.
Why the hell does ANYONE pay any attention to that nitwit?????
Who?
What?
Dontcha know? Trump is responsible for everything bad under the sun.
For my part, the dems are the gift that keeps giving.
If they want to spread the word to the *migrants* that they are going to be put in concentration camps when they get here, all the better. Shout if from the rooftops and tell the whole rest of the world.
Might make some of them think twice about coming.
We need to start advertising NOW that AOC is an anti-Semite.
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