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AOC Claims That Felons Not Being Allowed To Vote Is ‘Legacy’ Of Slavery
SWP ^ | August 22,2020 | Jack Hadfield

Posted on 08/22/2020 8:48:30 AM PDT by yoe

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has claimed that the prevention of felons being able to vote is a “legacy” of slavery in America.

AOC Talks Nonsense About Felon Voting

Ocasio-Cortez believes that felon disenfranchisement, a system perpetuated by 48 states that prevents convicted felons from having the right to vote, is grossly unjust. On an Instagram livestream, the freshman congresswoman rattled off a number of reasons why someone may not be eligible to vote in national elections in the United States.

[snip] Whilst this may sound like complete crazy talk to ordinary citizens, it is not only Ocasio-Cortez who is in favor of convicted, violent felons being given the chance to decide who runs this beautiful country. Only last year, both Senator Bernie Sanders and Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris said that they were open to allowing the Boston marathon bomber the chance to vote in prison!

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aoc; felons; slavery; voting
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To: yoe

It’s..it’s...it’s....

RRRRAAAAACCIISSSSMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!


21 posted on 08/22/2020 9:19:42 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: yoe

She’s really saying blacks are a bunch of criminals.


22 posted on 08/22/2020 9:22:28 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: yoe

AOC is a slave to stupidity.................


23 posted on 08/22/2020 9:23:07 AM PDT by chopperk (L)
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To: PGalt
There is no depth of EVIL that the HORSE-TOOTHED PSYCHOPATH won’t stoop to.

The problem isn't what AOC says, per se, but that people actually listen to her and act on the idiocy she spews.

24 posted on 08/22/2020 9:29:45 AM PDT by Dahoser (Not separation of church and state, but of media and state.)
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To: yoe

Is there any Democrat who isn’t racist with regards to how they view black people?

They’re living proof of the old adage “when you point a finger at someone else, you have three fingers pointing back at you”.


25 posted on 08/22/2020 9:29:54 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: yoe

How anybody takes her seriously is beyond me. Most people would kaugh at her stupid comments but the democrats applaud her. Very sad.


26 posted on 08/22/2020 9:33:28 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: algore

“...But not while you are a ward of the state.”


Many states locate their prisons in rural areas. Letting prisoners vote would allow the prison population dominate local politics—elections of prosecutors and sheriffs and the like.


27 posted on 08/22/2020 9:34:55 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: yoe

Is there any chance she will fade away from the public eye? From congress? From being in charge?


28 posted on 08/22/2020 9:35:23 AM PDT by stanne
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To: yoe

“Up With Felons!”


29 posted on 08/22/2020 9:39:31 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: algore

>>But not while you are a ward of the state.

Indiana doesn’t let welfare addicts vote? I did not know that...


30 posted on 08/22/2020 9:40:26 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Da Coyote

At least she’s never known the pain of an ice cream headache


31 posted on 08/22/2020 9:44:40 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: yoe

No, it’s not a legacy of slavery. It’s a legacy of their criminal behavior.


32 posted on 08/22/2020 9:51:27 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: yoe

Take this moron to one of the many maximum security prisons and Rikers among barbarians who will shred a women and have her sit in a court room where a felon sits as the family of a victim who was brutally raped and beaten watches. She wouldn’t even have a chance in her own Queens/Bronx and DC ghetto neighborhood at night when the freaks come out. She lives in a cocoon.


33 posted on 08/22/2020 10:01:01 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: yoe

How about her legacy of stupidity?


34 posted on 08/22/2020 10:07:27 AM PDT by cp124 (Mask protection=Dust through a chain link fence.)
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To: yoe
And yet she has no problem with convicted felons being denied access to firearms...for life (a policy that I happen to support).

When you commit certain crimes there are consequences.No voting...and no firearms...for convicted felons seems just about right to me!

35 posted on 08/22/2020 10:08:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: yoe

disenfranchised?

like voters across America who will have their votes stolen this upcoming election by AOC’s kind.. or better yet, tossed in the trash along with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.


36 posted on 08/22/2020 10:20:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: yoe

Like just about everybody I believe ex felons
deserve a second chance. I also believe gay
people should be treated fairly in the workplace.
But, I’ll be damned if I will ever pretend that
anyone’s personal minority status earns them the
hero status the left insists we bestow,


37 posted on 08/22/2020 10:31:20 AM PDT by Sivad (Socialism: Vote your way in, shoot your way out.)
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To: yoe

BananaGobbler should gobble bananas and not try to speak.

It never works out.


38 posted on 08/22/2020 10:32:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: yoe

She probably never read the 13th Amendment:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime...”


39 posted on 08/22/2020 10:39:50 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: yoe

Like just about everybody I believe ex felons
deserve a second chance. I also believe gay
people should be treated fairly in the workplace.
But, I’ll be damned if I will ever pretend that
anyone’s personal minority status earns them the
hero status the left insists we bestow,


40 posted on 08/22/2020 10:48:17 AM PDT by Sivad (Socialism: Vote your way in, shoot your way out.)
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