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Ocasio-Cortez raises eyebrows after citing national park as example of Democratic socialism
Fox News ^ | 8/21/18 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 08/21/2018 3:53:19 PM PDT by Libloather

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That mockery looked set to continue this week after she took a leisurely stroll through Maine’s Acadia National Park, and declared it -- along with other benign Sunday stops -- an example of democratic socialism.

She cited not only her visit to the park, but also eating a breakfast sandwich at a cafe co-op, and “supporting worker-owned businesses.” She also added as a “bonus” that she spotted a Planned Parenthood branch “helping people, per usual.”

She posted a number of accompanying pictures -- including her relaxing under a bridge, and another of her smiling outside the aforementioned Planned Parenthood center.

But while worker-owned businesses may have a ring of “Workers of the World, Unite!” to them, Ocasio-Cortez took heat for what critics described as the common mistake of equating some things government-run to socialism.

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KEYWORDS: cortez; democratic; park; socialism
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To: Libloather

ICE deports an actual Nazi from Ocasio-Cortez’s district.

Link: https://iotwreport.com/gop-chides-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-after-ice-the-agency-she-wants-to-abolish-deports-an-actual-nazi-in-her-district/


41 posted on 08/21/2018 5:11:44 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: frank ballenger
Yes, I recall history books stating Teddy Roosevelt got the movement going forward.

And his action in usurping the land for the government was totally unconstitutional. Check it out.

42 posted on 08/21/2018 5:12:07 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Don Corleone

unconstitutional


Oh, yeah. Forgot that important point. Thanks.

Poor old Constitution of the United States takes a beating, doesn’t it?
We have to take better care of it.


43 posted on 08/21/2018 5:17:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Somewhere a bar is missing a big-toothed, crazy-eyed, know-nothing bartender.

It was forced to shut down due to NYC's socialist policy of raising the minimum wage to $15 and having the domino affect of lease/rent rates being increased.

She apparently did go there on their last day open to rub their face in it.

Evil, stupid, and ignorant is a terrible way to go through life. She is all three.

44 posted on 08/21/2018 5:19:03 PM PDT by Boomer (Beware The Obsessed Leftist Pit Bull Haters on FR. Same as Gun Grabbers.)
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To: Boomer

I never called ANYONE a dumb broad,not once,but this girl is a dumb broad.

I’m especially fond of her healthcare related comment on the amount that will be saved on funerals.

.


45 posted on 08/21/2018 5:23:08 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

There is one, and only one thing the government does really, really well: take what you have. After that, it’s the most disorganized and inept collection of people there is. Any why not? There is no incentive to be organized and efficient other than for the purpose of taking your stuff. Those who put all their trust in it are idiots.


46 posted on 08/21/2018 5:23:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Libloather

But...you have to pay to get in. And...they have gift shops and other things that pay for operations...


47 posted on 08/21/2018 5:37:51 PM PDT by struggle
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To: TigersEye

Actually, most monasteries at first depended on the good will of the people. Then they grew into huge landholders, rivaling the barons and dukes. They relied on enfeoffed peasants, and later in the New World, Indian slaves. Only after the Reformation did some of them return to an independent monastic life.


48 posted on 08/21/2018 5:39:52 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: VanShuyten

I guess I should have been extremely specific about what era of monastic life I was referring to. /s


49 posted on 08/21/2018 5:47:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: donna
 
 
Yipes - saw that last night as a matter of fact on the Tucker Carlson show. Tami what's-her-name was doing a 'man on the street' interview bit and ran into at least one bonehead who thought that's what socialism is.
 
 

50 posted on 08/21/2018 5:58:30 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Libloather

I know Liberals who give our highways, our police and firefighters as examples of Socialism.


51 posted on 08/21/2018 5:59:22 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: DoughtyOne

raises eyebrows headline


By the way, were Ocasio’s eyebrows exhumed from Groucho Marx, of blessed memory? Take another look.

If Maxine can take James Brown’s hairpieces anything goes.


52 posted on 08/21/2018 6:11:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Pravious

and another of her smiling outside the aforementioned Planned Parenthood center.
= = =

Maybe PP could offer “Advance Abortions”, when a client is not pregnant, in case they might get pregnant.

Like remove all their eggs, or some such.

How’s that any different than the current process?


53 posted on 08/21/2018 6:19:30 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: Libloather

I am a bit confused. Why is a candidate running in the Bronx in Bar Harbor, Maine? Is she vacationing or campaigning? I dare say there would be very few people who could, let alone would vote for her on the island of Mount Desert where Acadia is located.

Living here in Maine, this is the first I have heard of this trip. Even our democratic socialist candidate for US Senate has not mention it on his Facebook page that I monitor for laughs.

And for the record, the Bushes were not part of the wealthy families that summered on Mount Desert. Walker’s Point in Kennebunkport was George H.W. Bush’s mother’s family home. Her family was more affluent then the Bush family


54 posted on 08/21/2018 7:01:15 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Telepathic Intruder

No one lives in a national park. Socialism works well in areas with no people.


55 posted on 08/21/2018 7:11:15 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

She has no “district” as she hasn’t been elected to any office yet, she merely won the Democratic Party primary for congress in that district.


56 posted on 08/21/2018 7:48:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Libloather
This lady couldn't win a debate with ConservaTeen, if ConservaTeen had a bottle of NyQuil before the debate...😋
57 posted on 08/21/2018 7:57:58 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Flick Lives

That’s funny...


58 posted on 08/21/2018 8:07:20 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Deplorable American1776; ConservaTeen
LOL no kidding. 😁
59 posted on 08/21/2018 9:30:50 PM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: frank ballenger

“:^)


60 posted on 08/21/2018 9:55:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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