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RUSH: Yes, my friends, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rebuffed all of the fact-checkers out there. She came out, as you might remember, and compared climate change to World War II. (summarized) “We only have 12 years to stop Hitler! We only have 12 years to stop the Nazis from taking over the world!” In this case, climate change is Hitler (aside from Trump), and the Nazis are all of the things that we are doing to destroy the planet. Twelove years. We had 12 years. Well, the fact-checkers got in gear. (Not the liberal fact-checkers. The Drive-By Media dutifully reported it...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Everyone is talking about lunatic congressional freshmen women today, and none of it is good. That’s really nothing all that new, but when Democrats have reached the point where their members of congress are even being slammed on CNN of all places, you know they have a problem. Watch this clip: Embedded video Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra CNN's John King slams Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) anti-Semitic remarks on the Holocaust: "Palestinian leaders at the time sided with Hitler" In addition to their exploding antisemitism problem personified by Tlaib and Ilhan...

Bill Nye wants to remind you of the seriousness of global warming and he's not mincing words. The well known science commentator appeared on "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on Sunday and put things bluntly while talking about the Green New Deal, introduced by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey. Nye wants you to know, "The planet's on [expletive] fire." "By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees," Nye said. "What I'm saying is the planet's on [expletive] fire. There are a lot...

Full title: Ocasio-Cortez Rebuffs ‘Fact-Checkers,’ Says The World Ending In 12 Years Was ‘Dry Humor’ Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained Sunday that GOP fact-checkers were taking her “dry humor” literally. “This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it,” she tweeted. “Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from ‘The Office’ so who knows.” (AOC tweet) And when Ocasio-Cortez first made the claim, she certainly appeared to...

An “Impeach Trump” rally was held in D.C., but only two Democrat members of the House showed up. The Hill reported that two House Democrats joined a coalition of liberal advocacy groups on Thursday to deliver a petition with more than 10 million signatures urging Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Reps. Al Green (Texas) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), the most vocal advocates for impeachment among House Democrats, joined with groups including Need to Impeach, Free Speech For People, CREDO, MoveOn, Democracy for America, Women’s March, Courage Campaign and By the People in a rally in front of...

In an upside down world we now have “Fake” News, “UN-News as dictated by the Harvard Library and Poynter Institute Conservative hit lists and the “Not” News presented by FoxNews. One man, supposedly a supporter of both President Donald Trump and Democrat NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and what she “presumed to be his teenage son,” left a small sign on the wall outside the office of publicity hound AOC—and this is news?! Not only is this NOT NEWS, it’s being paraded as front page news on Fox. It’s now Anything Goes for ‘News’ delivered over the Information Highway on an...

The first-term Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ambitiously socialist Green New Deal to decarbonize the U.S. economy and create jobs isn't a metaphor for money — although it will require all of yours and much more just to attempt her utopian vision of a carbon-free world in which everyone is staked with a home, food, transportation, higher education, and health care. Despite (or maybe because of) a degree in international relations and economics from Boston University, Ocasio-Cortez suffers from a core economic misunderstanding. In a phrase, it is her belief that the rich have money the poor would otherwise have. So she...

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was left stunned on Friday after a man left a sign outside her office expressing support for both her and President Trump. The socialist congresswoman was reportedly left “pretty astonished" by the concept.

TODAY, THE INTERCEPT launches “A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a seven-minute film narrated by the congresswoman and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of decades from now, it’s a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a forgone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves?

It is one of modern history’s more famous quotes: “If a man is not a socialist at 20, he has no heart. If he remains one at age 40, he has no head.” These words (and variations thereof) have been attributed to everyone from Disraeli to Clemenceau to Churchill. Whatever the true source, they convey a wisdom that frequently is going unheeded in America. And we risk becoming an ever more controlled and corrupt society. Consider recent survey data.This January, the public relations firm Axios released the results of a SurveyMonkey online poll of nearly 2,800 U.S. adults. Respondents were asked...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez named two senators who could get her endorsement in the 2020 Democratic primary: Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The New York Democrat said Thursday she would like to see a presidential candidate who has “a coherent world view and logic from which all these policy proposals are coming forward. I think Sen. Sanders has that. I also think Sen. Warren has that.”

Nevermind what they were discussing, but this hug had people cringing into next Tuesday. This is the most fake and awkward hug of all time. It wasn't even a full hug! I guess socialists hate each other too!

Famous Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is calling a new government-controlled socialist banking system in the United States.Twitter celebrity AOC suggested that the failing US Postal Service could be used as a model for her govt-run bank idea.

It seemed to be more "Do as I say, not as I do" leadership from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. On Wednesday, the New York Democrat enthusiastically threw in her support for Uber and Lyft drivers ahead of a worldwide strike, but campaign finance records indicate her team has spent nearly $2,000 on ride-hailing services this year alone. The boycott was organized in response to Uber’s anticipated initial public offering this Friday for more than $90 billion – a figure drivers say comes at the cost of reduced wages and job security.THE BIGGEST WINNERS FROM UBER'S IMPENDING IPOIn a Wednesday afternoon tweet,...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in hot water this week over a “disturbing” tweet that she sent about abortion. In response to Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signing legislation known as the “heartbeat bill,” which bans abortions in the state when the unborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, Ocasio-Cortez proved she knows absolutely nothing with her response. “‘6 weeks pregnant’ = 2 weeks late on your period. Most of the men writing these bills don’t know the first thing about a woman’s body outside of the things they want from it. It’s relatively common for a woman to have a late...

We’re seeing a number of tweets reporting anti-Semitic attacks throughout New York City and for some reason, the media is silent on them. Police are searching for these suspects in the beating of a Hasidic father and son in Williamsburgh:

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce legislation to create a national cap on interest rates for credit cards. The Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez legislation would limit credit card annual percentage rates to 15%. Current credit card annual percentage interest rates typically range from the mid-teens to high 20s, depending on a person’s credit score. “Every major religion on Earth ... has condemned usury because it is really disgusting,” said Sanders, a Vermont independent senator who is also a leading candidate in the Democratic presidential primary. “What Alexandria and I are proposing in this legislation is not complicated ... Bringing back the concept...

Recent news is riddled with proof that America's soi-disant elites are the most venal, self-absorbed, sybaritic and utterly tone-deaf group since the French nobility of the 18th century. And the comparison is not idly made.We start with the Met Gala, for which movie stars, musicians, athletes and fashionistas paid upwards of $35,000 a ticket ($200,000 to $300,000 per table) to show up and show off in the most outrageous (and outrageously expensive) clothing and costumes imaginable. It is meaningless, over-the-top indulgence, par excellence.Perhaps because I was already peeved by the photos of the Met Gala's vulgar display that were plastered...

"I am told this is a Constitution. I've never seen it before. It is terrifying. I don't know what it's for, or what is purpose is. Is it for protecting something called 'rights' or something? But like, is this good for the environment?"