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The Problem With Ocasio-Cortez’s Shameful Ignorance Of History
The Federalist ^ | 6/19/2019 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 06/22/2019 7:12:22 AM PDT by bitt

Most Nazi analogies are profoundly stupid, intellectually lazy, and diminish the suffering of millions. David Harsanyi By David Harsanyi JUNE 18, 2019 “The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border. That is what they are.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

In April 1944, two Slovakian Jews named Alfred Weczler and Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz, and provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the horrors of the European concentration camps. Both men had been rounded up with a group of their countrymen and sent to the Birkenau section of the camp in the spring of 1941, where they were immediately put to work as slave labor.

This was before the German regime had properly streamlined and industrialized efforts to destroy European Jewry. In the early days of the camp, any man incapable of labor was immediately executed. Those who survived were sent to do the grueling work of construction.

The men began their work at sunrise, and except for a half-hour break at noon, when the prisoners were fed cabbage and turnip soup, they worked until 6 p.m. For dinner, the men were given an ounce of moldy bread made from “ersatz flour and sawdust.” Lice and fleas tortured their emaciated bodies as they slept on wooden boards. “Rats were so bold they gnawed at the toes and fingers of sleepers and stole the crumbs they had left in their pockets,” wrote Robert Conot in his book “Justice at Nuremberg.”

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; bloggers; nazis; notnews
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1 posted on 06/22/2019 7:12:22 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/22/2019 7:12:37 AM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: bitt

The problem is not Ocasio-Cortez or her ignorance of history.
The problem is the idiots that put her in Congress. This is the problem. This is the problem the Republican Party should face. Instead they are in denial.


3 posted on 06/22/2019 7:18:48 AM PDT by sport
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Democrat Darlings of Diversity.

4 posted on 06/22/2019 7:19:01 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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How is it AOC was once slobbing up bar spills and is now in Congress and wearing a different $2000 outfit everyday?

BACKSTORY: “Justice Democrats” and “Brand New Congress” are a group of Bernie Sanders ex-staffers who decided 2018 midterms should be all about Bernie’s policies, finding 400 Bernie carbon copies to dump into races. They held auditions. AOC was hired to run in NY.

NOTE
<><> “Brand New Congress” mastermind is Saikat Chakrabarti
<><> “Justice Democrats” is Cenk Uygur, a Turkish-born Muslim.

Making a pile of money musta been a huge incentive. Read on.

FAST FORWARD TO TODAY.......an FEC complaint was filed alleging AOC’s COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, created multiple private companies—LLCs—to siphon off campaign contributions from her various PACs for personal use......

BTW, AOC has a lot more in common with Bernie than socialism. Besides socialism (gag)....
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 2016 candidate 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 stunning 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,
<><> the “Justice Democrats PAC.”

After mucho money was raised from the progressive suckers, 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.

NOTE WELL: it’s a much-used criminal act to enrich oneself, to open bank accounts using similarly named entities to siphon off money, to hide it from partners, associates, investors etc.

SIPHONINGS A CINCH 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 advises that if a 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.

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ANALYSIS -— Chakrabarti’s companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how AOC’s donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions, according to the FEC complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.

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.

JUST WONDERING .....does Chakrabarti have a reputation among Democraps for facilitating the conversion of campaign donations?

Maybe we should ask millionaire landowner Socialist Bernie (smirk)?

5 posted on 06/22/2019 7:19:49 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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She's such a frickin hypocrite-----never mentions how she manipulated policy in the US Congress to get her
boyfriend on the govt gravy train. Digging reveals suspicious payments to AOC’s boyfriend began early.

FACTS ON FILE
<><> Absent a waiver from House Ethics, family members have to be volunteers to get official house.gov email addresses,
<><> AOC's boyfriend got a govt email address immediately
<><> AOC doesn’t believe in having unpaid govt workers; according to her COS they have no office volunteers.
<><> So boyfriend Roberts is designated as staff but also isn’t "officislly" on AOC’s staff,
<><> yet Roberts showed up in the House directory as processing into AOC's personal office as a staffer.

That explains why AOC was so determined to pay "volunteers"---she and the b/f would richly benefit.

6 posted on 06/22/2019 7:20:25 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: bitt

The problem of her ignorance is that she is in a position to enact laws. She should be deprived of that privilege.


7 posted on 06/22/2019 7:20:28 AM PDT by Rapscallion (If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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To: Liz
Democrat Darlings of Diversity.

Partner, we love that cartoon pic that you posted. We thank ya.

I am of the opinion that AOC has "Giant Sixth Grade Brains!"

Yup, she almost sounds like our infantile MSM.

8 posted on 06/22/2019 7:26:28 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: bitt

She is a total fraud/ idiot as she has no idea of basic Econ 201 or any Econ subject. Whether MRP=s MRC, the most basic econ formula, to micro and macro theory -she is a total idiot.
Shew has no darn idea of what national income accounting is. She obviously knows zip about money and banking, econ geo, or urban geo. She thinks 70% tax on our wealthiest types is the answer. Trump has an Econ degree from Wharton.


9 posted on 06/22/2019 7:27:36 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
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To: bitt

Even idiots need representation. She represents her constituency very well.


10 posted on 06/22/2019 7:27:44 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: bitt; vette6387; ZULU; NFHale; Liz; LS

AOC is the perfect example of the byproduct of a public school education taught by brainwashed Liberal teachers and Marxist college professors. Our public schools have been graduating dumbed down children for decades; on purpose and by design. In AOC’s case, she’s as arrogant as she is dumb. No doubt, her arrogance pumped up by her mentor George Soros and his goon organizations. No amount of education would help her just like far too many Liberals who are beyond changing their arrogance and hatred that’s been bred into them. Their religion is their Liberalism.


11 posted on 06/22/2019 7:30:04 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: bitt

Cortez is a garden-variety words-mean-whatever-I-say-they-mean Marxist, or rather her handlers are. If real concentration camps ever do turn up in the United States she’ll be running them. And calling them something else.


12 posted on 06/22/2019 7:32:50 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PGalt

good one.


13 posted on 06/22/2019 7:33:58 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
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To: bitt

14 posted on 06/22/2019 7:36:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Lumper20

Ocasio-Cortez supposedly has a degree in Economics from Boston University. Quite a contrast here.


15 posted on 06/22/2019 7:40:07 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Liz

Great Post! Please define “COS”.


16 posted on 06/22/2019 7:46:10 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Sadly, you are correct. Obama named a pedophile as education CZAR. We never used communist titles before that fake citizen.
I have two sisters and both were teachers. If you listened to either one-you’d conclude they think they know it all-much more then a man with an MBA. Obama’s NAMBLA punk set out to teach little boys to be gay. Our military is loaded with all of these idiots who refuse to accept what is between their legs. I could not lead these types period as I was throwing men out of the service in 73-74 for being what we called “queers”.


17 posted on 06/22/2019 7:48:43 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
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To: Liz

Bttt.

5.56mm


18 posted on 06/22/2019 7:50:48 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

International relations and other sites say a minor in Econ. She is a fool.


19 posted on 06/22/2019 7:51:04 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
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To: BenLurkin

great cartoon of AOC sleeping through the history of socialism.

Just one thing: the funniest part is assuming any history class in the public schools mentions the down side of socialism-—ever. Many areas of the country report schools have no requirements now to take American History or Civics.

Guess their two parent family at home can tell them about the Federalist debates, Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights and all that. Good luck on that.


20 posted on 06/22/2019 7:51:13 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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