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Ocasio-Cortez: State Of America Is 'Garbage,' Reagan Pitted Whites Against Minorities
Daily Wire ^ | 03/09/19 | Ryan Saavedra

Posted on 03/10/2019 9:17:53 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested during a talk on Saturday that America is "garbage" and that former President Ronald Reagan presented a "racist" vision of the country that "pitted" white working class people against minorities in order "to screw over all working-class Americans."

Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks while speaking at the left-leaning South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas.

"One perfect example, I think a perfect example of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans in order to just screw over all working-class Americans, is Reaganism in the '80s when he started talking about welfare queens," Ocaiso-Cortez said. "So you think about this image of welfare queens and what he was really trying to talk about was ... this like really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were 'sucks' on our country."

"And it's this whole tragedy of the commons type of thinking where it's like because these one, this one specific group of people, that you are already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason that's not explicit racism but still rooted in a racist caricature," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "It gives people a logical reason, a 'logical' reason to say, 'oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net.'"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: again; america; anotheraocthread; chat; education; garbage; hate; notanotheraocthread; notnews; ocasiocortez; reagan; socialism; society
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To: leaning conservative

I was going to say, she has the intelligence of a house plant and the personality of a dial tone.
I didn’t want to upset our dog owner’s.


81 posted on 03/10/2019 12:16:57 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Enlightened1

There’s the door, hon. Use it.


82 posted on 03/10/2019 12:20:56 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: Keyhopper

; )


83 posted on 03/10/2019 12:22:00 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: All
AOC is 29 years old. Ronald Reagan's Presidency ended in 1989, 30 years ago. Ergo she has no first hand knowledge and only what she has been taught in our wonderful pitiful public school system.
84 posted on 03/10/2019 12:24:28 PM PDT by ImpBill (A Party-less little "L" libertarian. Republicrats/Democans-A pox on both Party's!)
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To: Enlightened1

From wikipedia:

“’Welfare queen’ is a derogatory term used in the United States to refer to women who allegedly misuse or collect excessive welfare payments through fraud, child endangerment, or manipulation. Reporting on welfare fraud began during the early 1960s, appearing in general-interest magazines such as Readers Digest. The term ‘welfare queen’ originates from media reporting in 1974.”

It comes from an entitlement system that encourages young minority women to pursue a livelihood by having children out of wedlock. This Democrat-created system has destroyed black families in ways second only to American slavery in its destructiveness.

And many of us have been in line at the grocery checkout at some point in which a well-dressed woman of color with poorly dressed children pays for groceries we can’t afford using food stamps or the equivalent. This does not mean every black woman who receives government subsidies is abusing them, but there is a stereotype for a reason. I’ve seen white and other ethnic women who also appeared to be “welfare queens.”

Leftists are obsessed with identity politics in which identity is always about gender, race, sexual proclivities, and nationality (when it suits their purpose). Conservatives generally are not all that concerned with these as they are non-issues when compared with actual behavior and the way it reflects character.


85 posted on 03/10/2019 1:22:33 PM PDT by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: Enlightened1
This comment by AOC:

"And it's this whole tragedy of the commons type of thinking where it's like because these one, this one specific group of people, that you are already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason that's not explicit racism but still rooted in a racist caricature," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "It gives people a logical reason, a 'logical' reason to say, 'oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net.'"

What in the Hell did she just say????

It is like she is just saying a bunch of jargon trying to sound smart.

Milliberals (Millennial Liberals) resort to this all of the time. They sound like a bad Junior High debate team.

I guess being fed a diet of rap music and slam poetry does this to one's linguistic capability.

Honestly, I could put together a better extemporaneous political statement when I was in high school than AOC can do at almost age 30.

It represents a staggering ignorance brought about by a staggering arrogance: a fervent belief she knows it all, and what she knows is incontrovertibly right.

Ilhan Omar does the exact same thing.

AOC and Ilhan Omar both think they are always the smartest person in the room.

86 posted on 03/10/2019 1:33:24 PM PDT by magellan
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To: magellan; All

This is why. After watching this it will all make sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=1h5iv6sECGU


87 posted on 03/10/2019 1:59:10 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Caipirabob

“Yeah, she has an economics degree, but who were her professors? The “underwear gnomes”?!?”

They were academics. “The keepers of pure knowledge” Pure because it is untainted by any real world experience.


88 posted on 03/10/2019 2:02:42 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: Enlightened1

If she keeps turning out rediculous crap like this, her fame will die fast and she will become the ‘Bernie Sanders’ of the House of Representatives. She took herself down a few pegs while picking on Reagan.


89 posted on 03/10/2019 3:57:54 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (I)
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To: rstark56
There is no way she passed any of those classes unless they gave her the grades.


90 posted on 03/10/2019 6:37:02 PM PDT by poconopundit
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To: COUNTrecount; V K Lee

This is a darn good video “The Brains Behind AoC”. I listened for a full 15 minutes before it got repetitive.

Every FReeper deserves to hear this guy.


91 posted on 03/10/2019 6:44:32 PM PDT by poconopundit
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To: poconopundit

Must be fact I’ve more time on my hands as it took 22+ minutes before this was switched off. The strategy presented is certainly new, but feasible. Agree that the names of the troupe are such that the pronunciation is a challenge. Noticed this myself, attempting to understand why names such as Bob, Jack, Dick, Sue were absent in this program. That the USA can be so easily taken down from within is not such a far fetched idea. When younger, we watched TV shows with the same plots and ideas. We then found ourselves unable to peacefully sleep that night.

Thanks PP, the fog begins to clear.


92 posted on 03/11/2019 1:47:39 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: V K Lee

Bkmrk.


93 posted on 03/11/2019 2:48:35 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.com)
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To: Enlightened1

GFY sounds like an excuse to me.


94 posted on 03/11/2019 2:50:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: V K Lee
Glad you got something out of it. You made a good observation about the lack of any Bobs, Dicks, Sues or Jacks in this group of America usurpers.

When you are not born into American customs, you miss certain things in your education. You don't have American veterans in your larger family. And there are many things missing in teaching American attitudes and an appreciation for individual rights and responsibilities.

Also, our education system rewards diverrrrrrrsity. It's gone off the deep end. Yes, we should respect other cultures, but not idolize them. Young people are highly impressionable. Look at the ones born in the West who joined ISIS.

It's one reason why TurningPoint US is a great organization. I treasure Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens.

95 posted on 03/11/2019 5:29:34 AM PDT by poconopundit
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To: COUNTrecount

This video should be posted to EVERY Cortez thread on FR...along with high-view threads like the Daily Trump Train...


96 posted on 03/11/2019 12:09:35 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.com)
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To: who knows what evil?

Will do!


97 posted on 03/11/2019 1:06:57 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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