Posted on 04/13/2019 10:08:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Friday night, Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminated her relative lack of knowledge regarding world history once again by invoking the Holocaust in her defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar from what she says is an "explicit attack" from President Donald J. Trump. The commander-in-chief shared a video yesterday evening reminding Rep. Omar and her allies about the tragedy that occurred on 9/11 resulting in nearly 3,000 dead Americans. Rep. Omar has previously diminished the terror attack by Al-Qaeda as "some people" doing "something," which was included in the video. Conservative commentators and pundits across Twitter reminded Rep. Ocasio-Cortez her criticism of President Trump fell short on a number of reasons.
"Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress," Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
Her tweet went on to say, "We must speak out," and included a photo the famous poem by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller about the Holocaust and how dictator Adolf Hitler and Nazi targeted individual groups, eliminating them one by one. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tagged the Holocaust Memorial Museum in her tweet as well.
Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.
We must speak out.
“First they came...” pic.twitter.com/ygOX1vhE9j— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 12, 2019
Young America's Foundation speaker and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro pointed out it is both dumb to assert "speech is violence," while also defending a noted anti-semite like Rep. Omar by referencing the Holocaust.
And there’s something deeply disturbing about AOC making Holocaust references to defend an open and unrepentant anti-Semite who is merely being criticized— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 13, 2019
Erik Erikson commented that if simple criticism, pretty commonplace in American politics, is now tantamount to calling for violence, then the media is surely in need of a restraining order.
If criticizing an elected official is now incitement to violence, Donald Trump should get a permanent restraining order against the media.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 13, 2019
The Federalist's David Harsanyi said that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez managed to "belittle both the real victims of 9/11 and the Holocaust.
This is just a shameful attempt to chill speech. It belittles both the real victims of 9/11 and the Holocaust. https://t.co/RHkjQShk0c— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) April 13, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders also condemned President Trump for his tweet.
Sen. Warren said, "The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It's disgusting. It's shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it."
While Sen. Sanders added, "Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won't back down to Trump's racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end."
Here's the video. It features Rep. Omar's words in comparison to what actually happened.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET! pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
It’s all typical muslim speak.
Destroy islam before it destroys us.
Yes....and they ride the stallion of their own delusional thinking.
Our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump is playing them like a fiddle
The Alexandria Brat is so incredibly dumb and naïve and yet still full of vim and vigor that she continues to get out there and step in it day after day
I don’t think old Nancy can control her
Everyone in this nation knows that 9/11 was a game and life-changing world event that exposed IslamoNazism for what it is
You will notice that the firebrand leftist mouth is going crazy are all women by the way
So ingrained in their psyche that they are victims that they think they can say anything and get away with it particularly if they’re black
This new crop of far left wacko nut cake socialists is the best thing that ever happened to the spineless gutless grand old party
That and of course our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump
No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we didn’t put her into an oven, like the Nazis did the Jews...
Miss Ass On Call is a Bolshevik
we didn’t put her into an oven
It does appear as if she has burn burnt to a crisp tho
I see I don’t have to respond. My sentiments exactly.
is not aoc the racist for defending pro muslim terrorist 9/11 deniers? (somewhat confused)
I’ll tell ya exactly how Mullah Omar’s camp will try to spin the “some people did something” line:
“She was trying not to mention exactly who did what specifically to respect the dead and their families. What happened was a tragedy....”
Please don’t compare schizophrenia and schizophrenics with these evil people; most schizophrenics are simply trying to live normally as it is possible.
Cortez is the face of the New Jackass Party.
Keep talking, babe.
With 24,000 violent deaths in 2018, rampant starvation, disease, poverty and political repression, this genius might instead want to compare Venezuela to the Holocaust. But, of course that would require a basic understanding of what the Holocaust actually was. It’s not likely her puppet masters have told her the details.
These dummocraps sure remind me of a bunch of filthy squealing hogs barreling past in a malodorous passel, leaving their stinking manure behind as a souvenir.
i shouldh ave said ‘multiple personality’ instead, because she says one hting, then a totally opposite thing as htough she has two or more personalities- not skitzophrenia-
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