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Ocasio-Cortez, Cornyn feud over Mussolini tweet
thehill.com ^ | 2/26/19 | Chris Mills Rodrigo

Posted on 02/26/2019 10:35:07 AM PST by a little elbow grease

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-Texas) on Tuesday for quoting Benito Mussolini in a tweet.

Ocasio-Cortez criticized the former Senate GOP whip for linking fascism to socialism with the tweet, saying it was part and parcel for a party that she said called paying a living wage "socialism."

"In case you missed it, while the GOP is calling paying a living wage 'socialism,' a Republican Senator full-on quoted National Fascist Party leader and Hitler ally Benito Mussolini like it’s a Hallmark card," the first-year lawmaker tweeted.

Cornyn on Sunday had tweeted a quotation from the Italian fascist dictator.

“We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aoc; ignorant; learnhowtopost; mussolini
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1 posted on 02/26/2019 10:35:07 AM PST by a little elbow grease
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To: a little elbow grease

I hate to break it to AOC, but Mussolini was an orthodox Marxist at the time that he formulated the concept of national socialism.


2 posted on 02/26/2019 10:38:24 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: a little elbow grease
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-Texas)

She not only moved out of the Bronx, but she switched party too?

3 posted on 02/26/2019 10:39:24 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: a little elbow grease

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-Texas) on Tuesday for quoting Benito Mussolini in a tweet.”

Wut??


4 posted on 02/26/2019 10:39:40 AM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Cornyn asked for this. If you quote Mussolini, never leave it up as an exercise to the reader to guess why you did it.


5 posted on 02/26/2019 10:39:43 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-Texas)??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


6 posted on 02/26/2019 10:40:25 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: a little elbow grease

‘Cherry-picking’ historic quotes??

Maybe they’ll someday realize that’s NOT the same as actually reading original texts and getting themselves educated and informed.

There is an enormous practical and intellectual difference there.


7 posted on 02/26/2019 10:40:30 AM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Army Air Corps

He did spend the next decade or so murdering all Communists though. There was a bit of a break between the two ideologies.


8 posted on 02/26/2019 10:43:13 AM PST by babble-on
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To: a little elbow grease

it took one read of Cornyn’s quote and I got it with no explanation needed. She’s really a piece of work.


9 posted on 02/26/2019 10:44:46 AM PST by Frapster (Trump 2020)
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To: Army Air Corps
"I hate to break it to AOC, but Mussolini was an orthodox Marxist at the time that he formulated the concept of national socialism."

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From the article:

"Cornyn's tweet provoked some head-scratching online, but he responded that one reader had correctly interpreted the tweet as a warning against an overly powerful central government."

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AOC is too ignorant to understand the subtlety of Cornyn's remark.

Just yesterday the preening little puke lectured in her kitchen about the time we Americans stopped having children.

10 posted on 02/26/2019 10:44:53 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease

Living wage is socialism. The pay rate is set by the government not the market.

AOC is denying the obvious. She does that a lot.


11 posted on 02/26/2019 10:44:59 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: babble-on

Just part of a long, rich heritage of Marxists killing each other for political supremacy.


12 posted on 02/26/2019 10:45:01 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: a little elbow grease
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-Texas) on Tuesday for quoting Benito Mussolini in a tweet.

Poor job of cut and paste. First sentence reads:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) lashed out at Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Tuesday for quoting Benito Mussolini in a tweet.

13 posted on 02/26/2019 10:45:28 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: pepsi_junkie

he started a conversation... any informed person would know he didn’t suddenly become a proponent of Mussolini.


14 posted on 02/26/2019 10:46:01 AM PST by Frapster (Trump 2020)
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To: a little elbow grease

You may wish to have this thread pulled and try again.


15 posted on 02/26/2019 10:46:18 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: babble-on

The fascists viewed the communist more as competition that foes.


16 posted on 02/26/2019 10:46:48 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-Texas)"

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...... power to thehill.com.

17 posted on 02/26/2019 10:47:37 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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Oh yoo hoo Ms Cortez, the name of the socialist woman hanging next to Mussolini is Clara Petacci. You didn't know that did you miss Great Historian.


18 posted on 02/26/2019 10:47:52 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus" maneo)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Now that she’s a Republican, how will we be able to tell her apart from the other RINOs?


19 posted on 02/26/2019 10:48:13 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: a little elbow grease

This woman is a damn idiot.


20 posted on 02/26/2019 10:49:09 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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