Posted on 02/18/2019 5:58:21 PM PST by Hojczyk
Er suuuuure it is. The only way anyone could assert this with a straight face, let alone with the smug dismissal Ocasio-Cortez displays here, is to be entirely ignorant of the post-war history of Berlin, Germany, and the deep desire to flee the communist system in both. A quick search on Berlin Wall history for the woefully uneducated would land on this entry in Encylopaedia Britannica:
In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West Germany, including steadily rising numbers of skilled workers, professionals, and intellectuals. Their loss threatened to destroy the economic viability of the East German state. In response, East Germany built a barrier to close off East Germans access to West Berlin and hence West Germany. That barrier, the Berlin Wall, was first erected on the night of August 1213, 1961, as the result of a decree passed on August 12 by the East German Volkskammer (Peoples Chamber).
The Berlin Walls moral abomination came from its intent to trap people inside a communist system when they wanted to flee at which it largely succeeded for its 28-year lifespan. East Germany arrested more than 5,000 people attempting to cross over it into West Berlin and freedom, and they shot and killed at least 191 people in the attempt. Only 5,000 crossed over into freedom during its three-decade abomination. They didnt care a whit if anyone wanted to enter East Berlin.
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I don’t believe she is stupid. I am convinced she thinks those who believe her are stupid, and those who don’t are even more stupid.
I nominate jussie fruit.
Nancy Pelosi needs to put a muzzle on this gal or she will sink the ship the democRATS have tied their wagons to....AO-C.
Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, declared AO-C was the future of the democRAT Party.
If the party doesn't tighten the leash on AO-C, they may regret they ever heard of her.
Uh....just no words. Where to begin??
Who built the Berlin Wall?
AOC wants to get rid of farting cows......she clearly means Sheila Jackson Lee.
Sheet...I have barbed wire fences surrounding my home...
I once got to see a section of the wall and no man’s land that divided the two Germanys. What occurred to me as I looked at it, that the wall wasn’t there to keep NATO out. It couldn’t. That wall was there to serve a different purpose: to keep East Germany’s citizens in.
Paging AOC: There are two kinds of walls, sweetie. Walls to keep people in. Walls to keep people out. Your leftist East German brethren had the former. Trump’s is the latter.
What would this idiot know about the Berlin Wall. It was gone when her mother spawned her. She needs to stop making a fool of herself. She knows nothing about American history or the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was put up to keep people in. Like a prison. Our wall is intended to keep unauthorized people out like the walls around all sporting and entertainment venues in the country. You can’t just walk into Disneyland or Yankee Stadium can you? What a moron. Get somebody to read you a book princess. You might learn something.
God damn it, I wish she would just STFU. I have never developed this much contempt for someone in such a short time. Why, it took months to despise Hillary. Boxcar Barbie the Bartending Bug-eyed Bolshevik Bitch has achieved that in weeks.
Or, as her friends call her, B6.
I’ll look it up. Sounds like fun.
CC
Jussie is a different story. He was soooo full of Trump hatred that he had to find a way to justify it in the face of all contrary evidence. He had to actually fabricate his own reason to continue hating Trump because the empirical real world evidence just wasn’t cutting it.
Shes a Right Wing plant...
I want her to keep on talking! She should be the face of the Democratic party!
The historically, economically, and morally illiterate Absent Cortex strikes again!
I would pay money to see if she could, without assistance, answer even a handful of questions about WWII or the Berlin Wall.
There is a bit of irony though. The Berlin Wall was built to protect Communist totalitarianism.
Our fancy fence, if ever built, is being built to protect us from becoming a brutal communist totalitarian pawn on the global socialist chess board.
The Berlin Wall was built keep free people and free market from imploding the grip of the communist totalitarians. Our glorified fence would have been constructed to keep the communist totalitarians from being able to take us over!
In our case, the enemy has long been within, but it could not neutralize the voters of America fast enough for the global socialist agenda. So they employed a strategy to weaponize illegal aliens, to neutralize the vote, and at taxpayer expense! A real army, (albeit a mostly unaware pawn army), being paid from the public treasury, by treasonous politicians seeking permanent totalitarian control of a once free society, to destroy the once free host nation.
How is this not fundamentally treason?
It really is all about the purpose of the wall, and representative governance vs. left-wing authoritarian/totalitarian governance.
In this case, it may well be too late. We may well have allowed enough illegals in, to neutralize our votes and bankrupt everything in the near future, which is the death of liberty and America as we know it. Weaponizing illegal immigration, was the real goal of Ted Kennedy and the DNC, all along, even though there were token soundbites and false/failed votes for constituency theater.
As far as the usefulness of walls, if they are always bad and dangerous, we should take down all the walls around every prison around the world. All the fences around daycare centers and schools, and swimming pools that have been mandated as well.
Yah, Absent Cortex, that’s the ticket!
So that this stupid communist can begin to understand:
If there is an analogy between erecting a wall along the southern border of the US and the Berlin wall, it is only from the perspective of those who approach it from the south.
The US border wall — to the socialist hellhole countries of Central and South America (economic and political systems that the A.O. Communist fully supports) — keeps the citizens from escaping those socialist hellhole countries...much as the Berlin wall kept people from fleeing the communist countries.
The Berlin wall to those on the ‘other’ side (that would be to the west for A.O. Communist) kept the freer side of Germany safe from the encroachment of the socialist hellhole to its east, much as the wall along the US southern border keeps America safe from the encroachment of the socialist hellhole to our south.
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