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Ocasio-Cortez: Trump’s “Moral Abomination” Of A Border Wall Is Just Like The Berlin Wall
Hot Air ^ | Febuary 18,2019 | ED MORRISSEY

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 12–13, 1961, as the result of a decree passed on August 12 by the East German Volkskammer (“Peoples’ Chamber”).

The Berlin Wall’s “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 didn’t care a whit if anyone wanted to enter East Berlin.

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To: Hojczyk

Secular leftists like her have a way of declaring things they dislike immoral based on their own authority, rather than the teachings of scripture or long established custom. Even the Muslims don’t make up their own rules and overthrow ancient customs, such as gender differences, as they go.


81 posted on 02/18/2019 8:16:11 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Hojczyk

That wall was to keep people imprisoned.. anyone trying to get over that wall was shot.

That socialist ought to know the difference...but she is too far out there for any sense. She continues to be loudly dumb, and she continues to get a pass..


82 posted on 02/18/2019 8:19:50 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Hojczyk

I hope she keeps on talking in public.

Please.


83 posted on 02/18/2019 8:25:46 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: dirtboy

Is she afraid she won’t be able to leave this country? We’ll all gladly let her leave. :)


84 posted on 02/18/2019 8:45:11 PM PST by RightLady (Save Western Civilization.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Someone who was immoral...


85 posted on 02/18/2019 8:53:29 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Bonemaker

My wife grew up in Berlin, less than a mile from the wall. She had family on both sides, and well recalls going through the checkpoints to visit her grandmother. Her father would carry little bottles of booze to give the guards, while her mother walked through with food and gifts stuffed under her jacket.


86 posted on 02/18/2019 8:53:35 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: adorno
I agree.

AO-C has gotten a little too far out over the democRATic party's ski tips in her enthusiasm to prove herself. Instead of proof, she's making a fool of herself.

She's telling everyone who will listen she's a democratic SOCIALIST and many others in the party have have stop forward and embraced that moniker. For the time being, the democRAT party wanted publicly to be to the right of outright socialism. She blew that one for them.

Then taking partial credit for killing the Amazon deal in NYC and waving goodbye to 25,000 well-paying jobs, has tossed her into the clown's tent. She really is an idiot if she thinks some her constituents wouldn't have loved to snag a few of those jobs.

And of course, she stumbled right out of the chute with her rollout of the Green New Deal. It exposed the true nature of the proposal as being more of a socialist revolution manifesto and little to do with saving the planet in 12 years. Her socialist/commie bonafides where in tack but her inexperience in the ways of the world as a former barmaid, floated to the surface quickly.

I predict she crashes and burns before her term is up.


87 posted on 02/18/2019 8:57:52 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: Hojczyk

I *knew* it was only a matter of time one of these idiot libs would compare “Trump’s Wall” to the Berlin Wall. It figures the first one of ‘em to blurt this out is Alexandria Occasional-Cortex.


88 posted on 02/18/2019 9:00:37 PM PST by nutmeg (democRATs: The party of Infanticide, Open Borders, Crime, High Taxes and "Free" Sh*t)
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To: HotHunt

MABA... love it! :-D


89 posted on 02/18/2019 9:01:10 PM PST by nutmeg (democRATs: The party of Infanticide, Open Borders, Crime, High Taxes and "Free" Sh*t)
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To: Hojczyk

Perhaps somebody should tell the IDIOT that the Berlin Wall was built to keep people IN the lawless government side, our border wall will be built to keep the lawless government types OUT of our country.


90 posted on 02/18/2019 9:07:05 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

My thought is that we SHOULD.


91 posted on 02/18/2019 9:10:32 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Oh, yeah, exactly alike except one was to keep people in and one is to keep people out.


92 posted on 02/18/2019 9:23:49 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: salmon76

Dude she’s waaaaay hotter
She could say anything and I’d say. Ok baby
Laz ?


93 posted on 02/18/2019 9:55:53 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Hojczyk

Every time she speaks I think my car door is open because I hear “ding” “dong”, “ding” “dong”.


94 posted on 02/18/2019 9:58:06 PM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: Hojczyk

Humor of the day, was Tucker wondering if someone would ask Occasional Cortex what city was divided by the Berlin Wall. LOL!!


95 posted on 02/18/2019 10:21:06 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Hojczyk
Ocasio-Cortez: Trump’s “Moral Abomination” Of A Border Wall Is Just Like The Berlin Wall

...only if you think the southern wall is designed to keep Americans in.

96 posted on 02/18/2019 11:04:17 PM PST by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: Hojczyk

How is Bernie Sanders not face palming every time she speaks?


97 posted on 02/18/2019 11:13:38 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Hojczyk

Is AOC ever known to ride the subway in NYC ?


98 posted on 02/19/2019 12:25:07 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: JerryBlackwell

Degree in International Relations with an Econ. Minor.
Even shittier...


99 posted on 02/19/2019 2:12:25 AM PST by EEGator
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To: windsorknot

yep, the berlin wall kept folks in


100 posted on 02/19/2019 2:28:48 AM PST by aces
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