Posted on 03/12/2019 4:20:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Sunday, shared a video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at SXSW, talking about about President Reagan's legacy and how he "pitted" whites against browns and blacks.
"And one perfect example – a perfect example – of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working class Americans against brown and black working Americans in order to just screw over all working class Americans is Reaganism in the '80s when you started talking about 'welfare queens,'" Ocasio-Cortez said during an interview at the conference. "So you think about this image, 'welfare queens,' and what he [Reagan] was really trying to talk about was – he was painting this photo, he's like painting this really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were sucks on our country, right? And it's the whole tragedy of these comments type thinking where it's like because these one specific group of people that you were already kind of subconsciously prime to resent, you give them a different reason, that's not explicit racism, but still rooted in racist caricature, it gives people a logical, a "logical" reason to say, 'Oh, yeah, no. Toss out the whole safety net.'"
New York Times best selling author Craig Shirley has written numerous books on President Ronald Reagan and his presidency. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Reagan Ranch and is considered one of the best Reagan historians out there. Shirley decided to challenge Ocasio-Cortez on her statements about the Gipper by providing facts about Reagan and his presidency:
THREAD: There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know Reagan favored statehood for Puerto Rico. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019
There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know Reagan appointed more African Americans to government positions as governor of California than any other executive of the state. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019
There is no evidence of @AOC ever picked up a book on President Reagan. so she would not know he was the president who signed the order creating the Dr. Martin Luther King national holiday. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019
There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Reagan, so she would not know he received over 43 percent of the Hispanic vote in 1980. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019
There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know the @washingtonpost and the @NYT wrote lengthy articles exposing the massive corruption of the Welfare Queen of Chicago, Linda Taylor, to whom Reagan was referring.— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019
There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan. so she would not know that Reagan’s economic policies did more for African Americans and Hispanics than any other president in US history. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019
There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know he created over 18 million jobs during his eight years in office and kicked off a 26 year run of economic growth. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg— Craig Shirley (@CraigSBPA) March 11, 2019
AOC replied to Shirley but her response was a bit of a head scratcher. Apparently "reading different" books means knowing absolutely no history on a president and making blanket statements about the guy and his impact on America.
Ok great, now talk about Reagan and:
- Iran-Contra +
- The gutting of our mental health system +
- The explosion of homelessness under his watch +
- The crack epidemic
Maybe instead of insinuating I’ve never read a book, be open to the idea that we’ve read different ones. https://t.co/aP96oCCBwm— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 11, 2019
- HIV/AIDS crisis and demonization of LGBT+ community
- Union-busting
- Ending the Fairness Doctrine, which launched the polarized media environment we’re suffering from today
Why are we not supposed to talk about these things?— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 11, 2019
AOC is focusing too much on the actual word "book" in this instance. Shirley isn't talking about just books. He's referring to news articles as well. He's saying that if she wants to make these kind of statements about a president – especially ones that are extremely divisive – they would be rooted in fact.
Before you try to pit all of America's problems on one man, please, AOC, do your research. It would do you and your progressive followers some good.
....an FEC complaint was filed against AOC alleging her COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, created multiple private
companies-—LLCs—— to siphon off campaign contributions from her various PACs for her personal use......
BTW, besides socialism (gag)....Bernie and AOC have a lot in common.
AOC’s COS used to be Bernie’s....wait for it.....”Director of Organizing Technology.”
AND THIS—Saikat Chakrabarti, is a proven tech expert.
(A) He co-founded a web design tool,
(B) He built up the product team at the payment processor “Stripe”.........
(C) He then came to the Sanders campaign after (cough) growing disillusioned with the tech world.
Saikat Chakrabarti was Bernie’s Director of Organizing Technology. Even old man Bernie knew enough to hire a tech expert.
So, I guess (smirk) Chakrabarti’s tech skills musta come in mighty handy when donations to Bernie were wire-transferred to the DNC
and ended up in Hillary’s account. Debbie W/S headed the DNC at the time and was ousted b/c of her bias for Hillary.
Course, none of us heard about any of this, but.....
<><> Chakrabarti-the-tech-whiz did find out about the DNC theft, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did speak to D/W/S about it, or to Debbie’s tech expert, Imran Awan, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did tell Bernie he was fleeced, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti WAS working for Bernie, wasnt he?
Now the details about that FEC complaint:
The FEC complaint asserts that AOC’s COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, early on established two PACs that raised big bucks for AOC’s campaign:
<><> the Brand New Congress PAC, and,
<><> Justice Democrats PAC (see post above).
After the money was raised, Chakrabarti systematically transferred $885,000+ in PAC contributions to his private companies with similar names:
<><> the Brand New Campaign LLC, and,
<><> the Brand New Congress LLC.
Saikat Chakrabarti’s private companies, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures.
Keep in mind it is a much-used criminal act to open bank accounts using similarly named entities as Chakrabarti did.
It’s easy to siphon off money for oneself by putting checks into the new accounts with similar names, depositing checks that were made out to the original entity.
Even your bank will advise you that if the check-writer “mis-spelled” your name.....to just endorse the check with the correct name.
AND PRESTO: a check made out to Brand New Congress PAC, is deposited in the Brand New Congress LLC account.
Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication “there’s something amiss.” They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning (A) the donations could have been pocketed, or, (B) used by the LLC’s to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.-—SNIP-—SOURCED FROM FR.
Maybe we should ask Bernie (/s)?
Maybe so, but IMO, Occasional-Kotex is the gift that keeps on giving!
Has she uttered one intelligent, insightful thing? Anything? At this point if she could relate a new tasty drink mix she came up with as a bartender that would be her crowning achievement to date. I don't count graduating since the standards at Boston U. are evidently non-existent.
To everyone who voted for her: great job, really impressive work folks. While we appreciate the entertainment value of the court jester you sent to DC, she *is* wasting our time and money. Well, maybe her one redeeming quality is that she is exposing just how radical the left's agenda for the US really is.
So now RR is responsible for the AIDS epidemic?
She is an idiot. Oh, and she is a snot.
I get it.
You know, we are a citizenry of reporters and truth tellers.
Only way to save the republic.
Ummm...
she is a front man for a consortium which includes the Social Democrats of America, the Brand New Congress LLC, as well as the Justice Democrats (all of which are funded by Soros and other Leftie financial sources).
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All of what you say can be concurrently true.
true, puppets do not learn
The truth will always have a following.
Its amazing what people have fallen for in the last decade. The stuttering imbecilic rants of the occasional kotex comes to mind.
Some people have even suggested that AOC is wearing an ear piece so her puppet masters can feed her talking points and responses in real time.
Whatever they are doing, she is getting better with practice.
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She is overtly sexual and her masters have her known as AOC instead of her name. They have been branding her and we all suck it up.
[[[[Maybe instead of insinuating I’ve never read a book, be open to the idea that we’ve read different ones. https://t.co/aP96oCCBwm—; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 11, 2019]]]]
This is called ignorant arrogance. This generation of hers is overflowing with it.
The truth will always have a following.
Its amazing what people have fallen for in the last decade. The stuttering imbecilic rants of the occasional kotex comes to mind.
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but often not much of one...
That’s a pancake wearing bunny slippers!
Leftists I know will dismiss utterly any information that does not come from the right source. There is an old saying...need a photo or it didn’t happen. Well, if their favorite news channel or website does not mention it, it didn’t happen.
The people that indoctrinated the people that voted for her are the ones we need to send to Gitmo.
APC is an ignorant twit. I think the only elected official even dumber is Silly Gilly Kristen Gillibrand.
She’s a PERFECT example of:
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
-Ronald Reagan
Cortez didn’t write that response.
It was written for her.
She does not have the education, experience, or intelligence to even know what some of those topics were - Iran Contra?
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