Posted on 02/18/2019 5:58:21 PM PST by Hojczyk
Er suuuuure it is. The only way anyone could assert this with a straight face, let alone with the smug dismissal Ocasio-Cortez displays here, is to be entirely ignorant of the post-war history of Berlin, Germany, and the deep desire to flee the communist system in both. A quick search on Berlin Wall history for the woefully uneducated would land on this entry in Encylopaedia Britannica:
In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West Germany, including steadily rising numbers of skilled workers, professionals, and intellectuals. Their loss threatened to destroy the economic viability of the East German state. In response, East Germany built a barrier to close off East Germans access to West Berlin and hence West Germany. That barrier, the Berlin Wall, was first erected on the night of August 1213, 1961, as the result of a decree passed on August 12 by the East German Volkskammer (Peoples Chamber).
The Berlin Walls moral abomination came from its intent to trap people inside a communist system when they wanted to flee at which it largely succeeded for its 28-year lifespan. East Germany arrested more than 5,000 people attempting to cross over it into West Berlin and freedom, and they shot and killed at least 191 people in the attempt. Only 5,000 crossed over into freedom during its three-decade abomination. They didnt care a whit if anyone wanted to enter East Berlin.
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Secular leftists like her have a way of declaring things they dislike immoral based on their own authority, rather than the teachings of scripture or long established custom. Even the Muslims don’t make up their own rules and overthrow ancient customs, such as gender differences, as they go.
That wall was to keep people imprisoned.. anyone trying to get over that wall was shot.
That socialist ought to know the difference...but she is too far out there for any sense. She continues to be loudly dumb, and she continues to get a pass..
I hope she keeps on talking in public.
Please.
Is she afraid she won’t be able to leave this country? We’ll all gladly let her leave. :)
Someone who was immoral...
My wife grew up in Berlin, less than a mile from the wall. She had family on both sides, and well recalls going through the checkpoints to visit her grandmother. Her father would carry little bottles of booze to give the guards, while her mother walked through with food and gifts stuffed under her jacket.
AO-C has gotten a little too far out over the democRATic party's ski tips in her enthusiasm to prove herself. Instead of proof, she's making a fool of herself.
She's telling everyone who will listen she's a democratic SOCIALIST and many others in the party have have stop forward and embraced that moniker. For the time being, the democRAT party wanted publicly to be to the right of outright socialism. She blew that one for them.
Then taking partial credit for killing the Amazon deal in NYC and waving goodbye to 25,000 well-paying jobs, has tossed her into the clown's tent. She really is an idiot if she thinks some her constituents wouldn't have loved to snag a few of those jobs.
And of course, she stumbled right out of the chute with her rollout of the Green New Deal. It exposed the true nature of the proposal as being more of a socialist revolution manifesto and little to do with saving the planet in 12 years. Her socialist/commie bonafides where in tack but her inexperience in the ways of the world as a former barmaid, floated to the surface quickly.
I predict she crashes and burns before her term is up.
I *knew* it was only a matter of time one of these idiot libs would compare “Trump’s Wall” to the Berlin Wall. It figures the first one of ‘em to blurt this out is Alexandria Occasional-Cortex.
MABA... love it! :-D
Perhaps somebody should tell the IDIOT that the Berlin Wall was built to keep people IN the lawless government side, our border wall will be built to keep the lawless government types OUT of our country.
My thought is that we SHOULD.
Oh, yeah, exactly alike except one was to keep people in and one is to keep people out.
Dude shes waaaaay hotter
She could say anything and Id say. Ok baby
Laz ?
Every time she speaks I think my car door is open because I hear “ding” “dong”, “ding” “dong”.
Humor of the day, was Tucker wondering if someone would ask Occasional Cortex what city was divided by the Berlin Wall. LOL!!
...only if you think the southern wall is designed to keep Americans in.
How is Bernie Sanders not face palming every time she speaks?
Is AOC ever known to ride the subway in NYC ?
Degree in International Relations with an Econ. Minor.
Even shittier...
yep, the berlin wall kept folks in
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