Posted on 12/11/2019 12:21:29 PM PST by Morgana
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared having children to breeding dogs in a bizarre pitch for longer paid maternity leave, claiming that society treats dogs and puppies better than human mothers and their babies.
Now, if she were speaking on the treatment of puppies versus unborn human babies who are systematically poisoned and dismembered in thousands of abortion clinics across the country, I’d be inclined to agree with her. But that’s not the point she was making – or was, at least, trying to.
“Do we know how long puppies are allowed to stay with their mothers after a dog has given birth? Eight weeks,” Ocasio-Cortez ranted during a congressional hearing Tuesday. “So, the market has decided that women and people who give birth deserve less time with their children than a dog. And I think that that, at its core, has shown that the market has failed to treat people with dignity and with basic respect.”
“And so when that happens, I think it’s our job as the public to redefine the rules of society and to peep, and to treat people who give birth with the dignity that they deserve,” she went on.
Over on Twitter, AOC followed up her weird analogy by saying that families should receive at least three months paid time off after having a baby, but would ideally get up to a year's worth of leave.
Except that puppies aren’t treated better than human babies. Not by a long shot. And this weird and far-fetched contrast is less like comparing apples to apples and more like comparing apples to spaceships.
For one thing, human babies aren’t kept with their mothers for eight weeks, only to then be ripped away and sold off to new owners. They also don’t develop at a pace that allows them to thrive on their own at two months old, nor are human mothers biologically pre-programmed to turn their young loose after only a few weeks postpartum.
Also of note is the simple fact that millions of dogs aren’t employed by small businesses or stores that can’t afford to give them a year’s worth of paid time off to spend with their babies without filling the position with someone else. Or the fact that human mothers are able to return to work while still coming home to their children, as opposed to the total separation of a dog from her pups.
But the fact that this has to be explained in basic terms to AOC and her lemmings only proves once again that the bar for elected officials has sunk into the proverbial mud, and that public discourse is now less about logic and sense and more about sensational sound bites to appease the ignorant.
In some places you abuse a dog you get a stiff penalty, you abuse a child? You get your kid taken away...maybe and even if you do you get the back and a lot of times the parents end up killing them #babiesforbenefits
AOC Compares Childbirth to Dog Breeding In a Bizarre Pitch For Paid Maternity Leave
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Yeah well. If she ever whelps a pup, then yeah. I could see the similarities.
She should quit her bitchin’
*must bite tongue... must bite tongue...*
B!tch looking in the mirror again.
Fixed.
Sounds stupid to you and me.
But the audience she’s pitching this to is absolutely going to lap it up.
“society treats dogs and puppies better than human mothers and their babies.” So she’s admitting that abortion is cruel to the baby. She obviously never meant to say that a baby has rights. The feminazis will be criticizing her!
Of all the moronic talking points libtards dream up, they give AOC this one.
Okay AOC, shoot out 8 puppies and you can have 8 weeks off.
Well, I have seen some of those dimocraps... Dog breeding wouldn't be too far of the mark...
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared having children to breeding dogs in a bizarre pitch for longer paid maternity leave, claiming that society treats dogs and puppies better than human mothers and their babies.”
Maybe she does have a point. At least as far as I remember, I never asked (or demanded) that my bitch go back to work after giving birth.
Can an individual get any more dumber?
It costs $500 to walk into the emergency pet clinic, and the price goes up from there.
Now places like Banfield are not that much if you have an appointment, but if you brought in a pregnant dog, had the vet deliver the pups, and boarded them all for 8 weeks, my goodness, it would be a fortune. As far as I know, you, not the taxpayers, would pay.
It looks like you have to jump through quite a few hoops to figure out what the rates actually are.
Interesting. What b-word is she calling her mother?
She is just parroting the European model, but doesn’t seem to realize it just doesn’t work. No matter what they dangle in front of young women in Europe, the countries still fall far short of replacing their populations.
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