The dangerous dumpster fire that is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Of all the things that you can say about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), one of them isn’t that she’s stupid. Or is she?

Wait; I can hear you now: “Oh no BZ, how can you say that, you’ve previously stated her IQ is on par with a potted ficus!”

Well, yes it is. She is ill-educated, ignorant, unenlightened and, truly, a sad product of New York public schools that fail to teach anything of significance about history. That’s what I term “Historical Alzheimers.”

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana

Yet: she isn’t. Completely stupid, that is. Oh, wait.

She is, however, calculated and orchestrated. She is actually a puppet, but she doesn’t believe it. Back to that in a bit. The puppet aspect.

Roll with me here for a moment. She truly is a Democratic Socialist (one of the first two ever in Congress; the other is freshman Rashida Tlaib, Michigan) — she just has no idea what that really means or entails. To her, it’s just a cool word that rolls off the tongue with edgy intrigue.

Her deal is “climate change” or “Global Warming” or whatever phrase is most convenient at the time it’s spoken, in order to conform to the, well, seasons. (Strange notation: more scientists are indicating that weather is cyclical — imagine that — and that we’re heading towards cooling rather than more warming.) She is part of the Religious Left — where faith is required to believe the world is falling apart at our feet and in the skies. So let’s begin with her “we’re all going to die in 12 years” thingie.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants a 70% marginal tax rate on the rich.

Let’s talk about her “Green New Deal.” In truth, it was a green new abortion on toast when one began to actually read it.

Among the most prominent, the deal calls for “meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” The ultimate goal is to stop using fossil fuels entirely, Ocasio-Cortez’s office told NPR, as well as to transition away from nuclear energy.

And more. I mean, it was all so super-astounding and, like, totally rad that, like, her own team took down her original post. The very next day. Why is that? For one, part of the original language was this:

According to an initial outline of the measure, the freshman Democrat and Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said they “set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.”

Verbiage was subsequently shifted most rapidamento:

The language was later changed to “emissions from cows.”

You wouldn’t want to offend COWPAC 2019.

And all this in just three months.

But wait. What’s in the Green New Deal? What are the particulars?

The bill calls for a “10-year national mobilizations” toward accomplishing a series of goals that the resolution lays out.

Among the most prominent, the deal calls for “meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” The ultimate goal is to stop using fossil fuels entirely, Ocasio-Cortez’s office told NPR, as well as to transition away from nuclear energy.

She left just a few details out.

  • Ban affordable energy. GND calls for the elimination of all fossil fuel energy production, the lifeblood of American industry and life, which includes not only all oil but also natural gas — one of the cheapest sources of American energy, and one of the reasons the United States has been able to lead the world in carbon-emissions reduction.
  • Eliminate nuclear energy. The GND also calls for eliminating all nuclear power, one of the only productive and somewhat affordable “clean” energy sources available to us, in 11 years. This move would purge around 20 percent of American energy generation so you can rely on intermittent wind for your energy needs.
  • Eliminate 99 percent of cars. To be fair, under the GND, everyone will need to retrofit their cars with Flintstones-style foot holes or pedals for cycling. The authors state that the GND would like to replace every “combustion-engine vehicle” — trucks, airplanes, boats, and 99 percent of cars — within ten years. Charging stations for electric vehicles will be built “everywhere,” though how power plants will provide the energy needed to charge them is a mystery.
  • Gut and rebuild every building in America. Markey and Cortez want to “retrofit every building in America” with “state of the art energy efficiency.” I repeat, “every building in America.” That includes every home, factory, and apartment building, which will all need, for starters, to have their entire working heating and cooling systems ripped out and replaced with…well, with whatever technology Democrats are going invent in their committee hearings, I guess.
  • Eliminate air travel. GND calls for building out “high speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.” Good luck Hawaii. Or any other island. California’s high-speed boondoggle is already in $100 billion dollars of debt, and looks to be one of the state’s biggest fiscal disasters ever. Amtrak runs billions of dollars in the red (though, as we’ll see, trains that run on fossil fuels will also be phased out). Imagine growing that business model out to every state in America? Stop. Name me ONE passenger rail system on the planet that makes money. Not one? You would be correct. Even in Europe. All financed at a loss by governments.
  • A government-guaranteed job. The bill promises the United States government will provide every single American with a job that includes a “family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and a pension.” You can imagine that those left in the private sector would be funding these through some unspecified “massive” taxation. On the bright side, when you’re foraging for food, your savings will be worthless.
  • Free education for life. GND promises free college or trade schools for every American.
  • A salubrious diet. The GND promises the government will provide “healthy food” to every American (because there are no beans or lettuce in your local supermarket, I guess).
  • A house. The GND promises that the government will provide, “safe, affordable, adequate housing” for every American citizen. I call dibs on an affordable Adams Morgan townhouse. Thank you, Ocasio-Cortez.
  • Free money. The GND aims to provide, and I am not making this up, “economic security” for all who are “unable or unwilling” to work. Just to reiterate: if you’re unwilling to work, the rest of us will have your back.
  • Bonus insanity: Ban meat. Ocasio-Cortez admits that we can’t get zero emissions in 10 years “because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.” The only way to get rid of farting cows is to get rid of beef.

Ben Shapiro weighed in on the Green New Deal.

Remember: the spectacular Green New Deal is available in three easy payments of only $200,000, for each citizen of the United States. Come on. Chump change.

The sweeping “Green New Deal” proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., could cost as much as $93 trillion, or approximately $600,000 per household, according to a new study co-authored by the former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The sobering and staggering cost estimate came as Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris pointedly declined in an interview broadcast Sunday to put a price tag on the Green New Deal and “Medicare-for-all,” saying “it’s not about a cost,” but rather return on investment. The Green New Deal’s botched rollout included the release of an official document by Ocasio-Cortez’s office that promised economic security even for those “unwilling to work,” and called for the elimination of “farting cows” and air travel.

Tucker Carlson weighed in.

Here is the New Deal Resolution as submitted: the link is here.

Think about it. Who wouldn’t want a “Green New Deal”? Sounds great. Certainly everyone on today’s college campuses. Except: the devil is in the details, is it not?

Commensurate with her Demorat Socialist pap.  .  . well, wait a minute. What is Socialism? Why wouldn’t we want it?

As I was saying, commensurate with her Demorat Socialist pap, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez concurrently began to implode from a massive sense of, well, I can think of no other word than “entitlement.” And perhaps the phrase “working the system.” Two things she swore to never do — because I suppose she lacked the capability — but to which she can now, due to an open and easy access. You know. To Free Cheese.

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
-John Dalberg-Acton

First: her digs, because she complained of having no place to live. Wait. Do I detect an impending Hypocrisy Alert?

From CNBC.com:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress—she still can’t afford an apartment in D.C.

by Abigail Hess

One year ago, you could find Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez working behind the bar at Flats Fix, a small taqueria near Union Square. Come January, you will find her in Washington D.C., representing New York’s 14th District as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

But just because she is making history, doesn’t mean she is making money. Ocasio-Cortez recently revealed that she is currently unable to rent a D.C. apartment.

So sorry. You evidently didn’t understand the “you won’t be making bank until you’re actually sworn in” aspect.

By the way, did you know this, from the Washington Examiner.com?

Swamp’s gold: 6 of 10 richest counties in America are DC suburbs, 10 of the top 20

by Paul Bedard

The Washington, D.C. area, home to the federal government and noted for “double-dipping” salaries, is the wealthiest region in the country, according to new Census Bureau reporting.

In 2017, the top five richest counties were Washington suburbs and the top 10 list included a sixth Washington suburb, at the No. 10 bookend.

The No. 1 richest county in America is Loudoun County, Va., home to Dulles International Airport and hundreds of federal contractors and agencies. It is also the site of several mega data centers helped into the county by former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and current Gov. Ralph Northam.

Gosh. Wonder how that happened? But again, hold that thought and keep the Hypocrisy Alert at the ready; that bell is about to ding. Like right now.

Then she did it. Went out and acquired a luxury apartment. From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Poor people not allowed in AOC’s luxury apartment complex

by Alana Goodman

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently moved into a luxury apartment complex in Washington, D.C. that does not offer the affordable housing units that were a key plank in the New York congresswoman’s campaign platform.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who said in November that she was concerned about being able to afford rent in D.C., now earns a $174,000 annual salary and is living in a newly built high-rise in the city’s Navy Yard area, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week.

The freshman congresswoman, a self-described socialist, campaigned on a platform to expand affordable housing, and her controversial Green New Deal proposal promises “Safe, affordable, adequate housing” for all.

Ocasio-Cortez, commonly referred to as “AOC,” repeatedly criticized luxury real estate developers during her campaign, claiming that their buildings hiked up rent prices and pushed low-income residents out of their neighborhoods.

She said:

“We need to kick luxury real estate lobbyists to the curb and defend working people’s way of life,” Ocasio-Cortez said last March. “Skyrocketing cost of living is a national crisis that CAN be addressed. It’s not just an NYC issue – it’s happening in every US metro area.”

Yes, it’s Super AOC, a “woman of the people” living at 1221 Van Street SE, almost directly south of the US Capitol.

Apartments in the building currently start at $1,840 per month for a 440 square foot studio, and range up to $5,200 for a three-bedroom. The average rent in Washington D.C. is $1,340 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,550 for a two-bedroom, according to the most recent data from Apartment List.

A few points come to mind.

  1. When was the last time you made $174,000 a year?
  2. Am I staring to identify a trend here?

And isn’t another quote emerging from the brilliant book by Eric Arthur Blair, otherwise known as George Orwell?

Uh-oh. Temerity happened. Some people began to point out aforementioned hypocrisy. Damn their eyes! Must be #BecauseFoxNews!

And all this in just three months.

From the NYPost.com:

Ocasio-Cortez rips media for reporting on her new luxury high-rise

by Mark Moore and Nikki Schwab

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scolded media outlets for reporting that she lives in a luxury high-rise building in Washington, DC, around the time she and other high-profile Democrats appeared on a hit list compiled by a Maryland man arrested for allegedly planning a mass terror attack.

For her, that wasn’t the point. It was an excuse. She felt “doxxed” though she wasn’t. On the other hand, “doxxing” is a very important and salient tactic utilized by her ilk on the Left. It’s just nifty to reveal the address of Tucker Carlson. It’s BAD to reveal HER address. Or even hint that she lives in one of the more tony locations in DC, the Navy Yard.

It’s also worse to point out her hypocrisy. That’s the issue here.

The articles pointed out Ocasio-Cortez’s platform as a champion of the poor and took her to task for living in an upscale building that they claimed didn’t offer affordable housing.

But wait. Speaking of addresses, there seems to be another issue. Did she even live in her district? From the NYPost.com:

Mystery solved: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez covers tracks in address debacle

by Max Jaeger and Bruce Golding

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scrambled Sunday to explain why neighbors at her listed Bronx address never saw her there — and ended up claiming she recently relocated to a larger place nearby.

The day after The Post reported that residents said they had never seen her around — and she ducked questions about it after an appearance — her spokesman said the Democratic freshman congresswoman now lives with her boyfriend in a two-bedroom apartment “a block and a half away.’’

The recent move still didn’t explain why residents at her previous digs — a one-bedroom Bronx condo owned by her mom — insisted they had never seen her there.

Members of Congress are required to have a residence in the state they represent.

Hello? Trend? Pattern? Even Bueller?

Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender-turned-progressive pacesetter, ducked questions about her residence after an appearance Saturday in Queens. She told The Post to wait for her to pose for a photograph — then slipped out a back door and into a waiting SUV.

You mean an SUV the likes of which she proscribes for YOU but deems necessary for HER? No “fossil fuel gas guzzlers” for YOU but they’re just fine for HER?

The Green New Deal advocated for the entire elimination of internal combustion engines. And with the myriad of options available to her — including Toyota, Nissan, GM, Ford and Chrysler hybrids — she still chose a massive SUV with two people aboard? Her and the driver? At minimum? With at least SIX other seats available? Prove otherwise.

Yet she chose an SUV? Sure smacks of elitism and hypocrisy to me.

And all this in just three months.

On the heels of her stellar GND, she essentially came out and said that women who consider bringing children into “this world” are morons. Apocalypse Now. I can hear Dr Smith now: “oh the pain, the pain.”

“There’s something out there waiting for us. We’re all gonna die.”

Here is what she said as she sliced vegetables in her luxury kitchen.

She was also instrumental in making sure that New York City missed out on roughly 24,000 new jobs by ensuring that Amazon’s new headquarters was not located there.

Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren celebrate Amazon canceling New York headquarters amid backlash

by Liam Quinn

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking a victory lap after delivering the goods in her fight against Amazon.

The star freshman Democrat – along with other lawmakers – had strongly criticized the planned opening of Amazon’s second headquarters in New York.

So, after Jeff Bezos’ tech giant announced Thursday it was pulling the plug on its proposed Long Island City location, the Bronx native had something to celebrate.

Of course. The loss of what is estimated to be between 24,000 to 25,000 new jobs.

“Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world,” she tweeted.

It came after Amazon said in a statement that pushback from New York lawmakers was a key factor in the decision to cancel its plans.

“After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens,” the statement read.

“For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long-term.

Evil Amazon with its evil jobs and evil tax revenue!

Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez trashed the plan – which had promised to create 25,000 jobs and over $27.5 billion in tax revenue in 25 years – and called on “everyday people” to “effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the world’s biggest corporations.”

And all this in just three months.

Why stop there? AOC decided it was time to drop her snout into the trough of Free Cheese. Free Cheese for her and hers, though, not for you.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faces questions after her boyfriend gets congressional email account

by Lukas Mikelionis

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing ethics questions after revelations the freshman lawmaker’s office gave her boyfriend a congressional email account.

The democratic socialist waded into the issue in response to a tweet alleging boyfriend Riley Roberts had been put on staff. The tweet included a screenshot of an official House email address. Ocasio-Cortez insisted that he was only given the email account so he could access her calendar.

What’s wrong with that?

Asked about the arrangement, David O’Boyle, the spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, told Fox News: “From time to time, at the request of members, spouses and partners are provided House email accounts for the purposes of viewing the member’s calendar.”

But Jason Chaffetz, former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Ocasio-Cortez’ claims don’t stack up.

“It’s totally naïve and inappropriate – you wouldn’t allow it in most companies, let alone the House of Representatives. There should be real consequences,” Chaffetz told Fox News.

Considering his history and tenure, it would seem that Chaffetz might know a thing or three.

Chaffetz said that Roberts having email access could also create other security issues and the matter should be referred to the Capitol Police for further investigation.

“Being given a password to get into the House computer system has other potentially problematic issues,” he said.

Remember this line, though:

Saikat Chakrabarti, the congresswoman’s chief of staff, insisted that the boyfriend isn’t on the payroll and that he’s not doing any work related to the government.

The storm was beginning to brew. We started to see whitecaps. Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

Ocasio-Cortez Says White People Are Racist Because They All Inherit Houses From Their Parents

Ocasio-Cortez went on to argue that a lack of understanding of the policies behind white wealth helps promote racism against African-Americans and other minorities.

“When people are not educated about the tools and the systems that created racial wealth gap disparities or other wealth gap disparities … you create this gaping maw in which someone can tell a racist story that kind of tells people why a certain community is poor.”

“They’re poor because they’re lazy. They’re poor because they’re uneducated. They’re poor because this,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, mimicking a racist. “Where no ones say they’re poor because they’re redlining and everyone else inherited a house except for people of color.”

I got a free house. Didn’t you inherit one also? Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but everyone is automatically granted one free house from an inheritance.

You see, she doesn’t want you to know that her own mother left the state of New York for Florida because of the ridiculously-exorbitant taxes in New York. She also doesn’t want you do know that her actually living in New York — is in question.

Ocasio-Cortez previously claimed that she has lived since 2011 in a mortgage-free, fourth-floor condo in Parkchester, which according to records was bought by her dad, Sergio Ocasio, who died in 2008.

After The Post reported a next-door neighbor and another fourth-floor resident saying they have never seen the self-proclaimed socialist living there, Trent denied the residents’ claims, saying her family’s apartment “was home, period, for her,’’ according to the Daily Mail.

Read that again. If this isn’t an “inherited house,” then I don’t know what is:

Ocasio-Cortez previously claimed that she has lived since 2011 in a mortgage-free, fourth-floor condo in Parkchester, which according to records was bought by her dad, Sergio Ocasio, who died in 2008.

Yeah, it’s another Hypocrisy Alert. And all this in just three months.

The actual work is terrible! She had no idea this was going to be so much work! Egads! This was supposed to be easy! I was supposed to sweep in, say a few things, they’d happen, I’d be worshiped and adored for my striking jaw line, great skin and overall cuteness — then I could par-tay at the new digs!

She also thinks that displaying compassion just doesn’t cut it.

Ocasio-Cortez blasted for criticizing ‘thoughts & prayers’

by Lia Eustachewich

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting lambasted online for immediately condemning “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacre that left at least 49 worshipers dead.

Just after midnight Friday, the Democratic darling tweeted a clip of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying that her “thoughts” were with the victims and families of the shooting in Christchurch.

“At 1st I thought of saying, ‘Imagine being told your house of faith isn’t safe anymore.’ But I couldn’t say ‘imagine.’ Because of Charleston. Pittsburgh. Sutherland Springs,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don’t even keep the pews safe?”

Good to know you’re a typical Leftist, dear.

Of course, AOC took umbrage in the overall reaction to her questioning of Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan, which was an abortive word salad of non-sequiturish gurp in her attempt to make Wells Fargo responsible for, well, anything and everything she doesn’t like. She thinks it’s their job to care one tinker’s tit for “climate justice,” whatever the hell that may be.

Ocasio-Cortez Melts Down Amid Mockery Of Her Wells Fargo Questions

During a House Financial Services Committee meeting hosted by Chairwoman Maxine Waters on Tuesday, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) attempted to take down Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan on the issue of climate change — and ended up inspiring widespread backlash for her non sequitur questions. Amid the wave of criticism for her performance at the hearing, the freshman representative and former bartender issued a series of tweets pushing back against those poking holes in her global warming logic.

At the hearing, titled “Holding Megabanks Accountable: An Examination of Wells Fargo’s Pattern of Consumer Abuses,” Ocasio-Cortez launched into a series of causally problematic accusations, attempting to blame the bank for the “caging of children” at the border, hypothetical “spills,” and “when we have to reinvest in infrastructure building sea walls from the erosion of … infrastructure or cleanups, wildfires.”

Then shite started to get real. And we found out that, yeah, AOC got her beak wet early.

And all this in just three months.

But here’s what you’re not seeing and hearing. Remember that guy Saikat Chakrabarti?

From the NYPost.com:

Ocasio-Cortez aide accused of funneling $1M into private accounts

by Mark Moore

A conservative government watchdog group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide of funneling $1 million in donations into his private accounts in a possible violation of the law, according to a report.

The transfers were made by Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, and may have run afoul of the Federal Election Campaign Act that places a limit of $5,000 on contributions from political action committees to candidates, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.

The complaint, filed Monday by the National Legal and Policy Center, said the transfers violated the law because PACs must disclose what those funds were used for — such as advertisements, payments to vendors and donations to candidates.

Apparently that’s not a good thing.

Former FEC Commissioners Say Ocasio-Cortez Could Face Serious Prison Time For FEC Violation

by Carmine Sabia

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti could be facing prison time for a major campaign finance violation.

The two were running a PAC that supported her campaign in the 2018 election which is a major no no and now they could be forced to pay the consequences, The Daily Caller reported.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti obtained majority control of Justice Democrats PAC in December 2017, according to archived copies of the group’s website, and the two appear to retain their control of the group, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. If the Federal Election Commission (FEC) finds that the New York Democrat’s campaign operated in affiliation with the PAC, which had raised more than $1.8 million before her June 2018 primary, it would open them up to “massive reporting violations, probably at least some illegal contribution violations exceeding the lawful limits,” former FEC commissioner Brad Smith said.

Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the FEC that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled the PAC while it was simultaneously supporting her primary campaign, and former FEC commissioners say the arrangement could lead to multiple campaign finance violations. The group backed 12 Democrats during the 2018 midterms, but Ocasio-Cortez was the only one of those to win her general election.

Former FEC Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky told The Daily Caller News Foundation “If the facts as alleged are true, and a candidate had control over a PAC that was working to get that candidate elected, then that candidate is potentially in very big trouble and may have engaged in multiple violations of federal campaign finance law, including receiving excessive contributions.”

And another former commissioner of the FEC, Brad Smith, said if “a complaint were filed, I would think it would trigger a serious investigation.”

So yes, there was an FEC complaint, and this resulted on Tuesday, March 19th.

Ocasio-Cortez and top aide officially removed from board of Justice Democrats PAC after FEC complaint

Democratic Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and her top aide are no longer board members of the outside PAC credited with orchestrating her political rise, according to a corporate document filed Friday to a Washington, D.C. agency.

The New York Democrat and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, joined the board of Justice Democrats in December 2017, according to the political action committee’s website. It also said the two held “legal control over the entity” at the same time it was playing a key role in supporting Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign prior to her shock victory over incumbent Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in June 2018.

But wait; there’s more.

It’s unclear why it took Justice Democrats more than eight months to formally remove Ocasio-Cortez from its board. The PAC did not respond to a request for comment.

Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that she and Chakrabarti controlled Justice Democrats while it simultaneously supported her primary campaign.

It went from emails to outright fraud. And all this in just three months.

With some blowback as well, in just three months of her sweetness and innocent joy. Innocent joy in getting her beak wet early.

Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘unfavorable’ rating skyrockets, with most people viewing her negatively: poll

by Lukas Mikelionis

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s unfavorable rating has spiked after just months in Congress, with most of the public viewing her negatively rather than favorably, a new poll shows.

The New York Democrat shot to fame amid the party’s lurch to the left and embracement of socialist policies such as the Green New Deal, yet the more people learned about the 29-year-old freshman congresswoman, the more they were turned off by her.

Imagine that. This freshman Congresscritter that was embracing the most transparent House seat in the history of history (sound familiar?) is now attempting to be the one with the largest potential crash in history. And all this in just three months.

Gallup poll released Friday shows that Ocasio-Cortez’s unfavorable rating has risen by 15 points since last September, when she had yet to win the general election, increasing from 26 percent to 41 percent of the American adults polled.

But wait. It gets even stranger. Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nothing more than someone who answered a casting call for someone to play the part of a New York Congresscritter. This is documented by her as well as others on audio and video.

Wait again. The people who brought her in — the Justice Democrats — just kicked her out. From today:

Ocasio-Cortez de-listed from board of Justice Democrats after controversy

by Adam Shaw

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., reportedly has been de-listed from the board of left-wing activist group Justice Democrats, following legal and ethical questions about her affiliation with the group.

The Daily Caller reported that Ocasio-Cortez, along with chief of staff and former campaign chair Saikat Chakrabarti, have been removed from the board of the political action committee after previously holding “legal control over the entity” in late 2017 and early 2018.

You see how it fits together now?

And doesn’t it make you ask: is she anything more than a puppet? Are the Tweets really hers? Is the script really hers? Is she fed her opinions and speeches?

And all this in just three months.

BZ

 

To George Ciccariello-Maher, I say: you FIRST, sir

Does GCM want, at least, to have any kind of “discussion” about his puerile prattle? Of course not. His Twitter account is walled off like an elitist’s home.

GCM also indicates we have misrepresented him as “alt-left.”

Here we have his advertised “specialty” at Drexel (which, Mommy and Daddy, will empty your account to the tune of $34,000 per year):

It would appear not just by his Twitter account’s header but also by his self-bio above that GCM is enthralled with “la pelea” in Venezuela and that icon of South American success, Hugo Chavez — whose regime was not necessarily true Communist but some form of raggedy hybrid compendium of Socialism, capitalism, nationalism, redistribution and dictatorship. Chavez in fact encouraged the middle class to emigrate. Good decision.

The presidential replacement for Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, is not better but, unfortunately for he and Venezuela, presides over the now-current collapse of Venezuela on most every level imaginable. This is the nation possessing alternately the highest or one of the highest homicide rates in South America. Venezuela is also blessed with what is the highest “misery index” score on the entire globe in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Both Chavez and Maduro have made clear anti-gay statements. Drug money has fueled Maduro’s campaign. Venezuela’s current state of affairs is precisely because of its government.

This is the country and system that GCM so idolizes?

Let’s go further. Inflation is 370% or higher in Venezuela. Economic growth is at -10.1% for 2016. There is an estimated 80% scarcity in general products, massive corruption, leakage of public revenues. Oil production has dropped though Venezuela is oil-rich. It has mismanaged its currency and condoned three exchange rates which results in a massive black market of, well, everything. The government blames this on peoples’ hoarding. The massive spending programs of the 2000s did nothing to prepare anyone for the oil crunch. Electricity runs intermittently. Small riots are occurring when the basic necessities such as food and medicine cannot be found. There are two-day government workweeks. Rolling blackouts occur. Woman are having themselves sterilized as an answer to the country’s economic crisis: no children.

Perhaps that is what GCM ultimately seeks. The elimination of the human being from the planet.

Now there’s a Utopia.

Me? I think this is wonderful. GCM has provided me with the absolutely prototypical illustration of what I term a GOWP: Guilty Overeducated White Person. They are so ridiculous as to be parodies of themselves.

GCM stands up for what he now terms his “satirical” comments on Twitter. From the DailyCaller.com:

Drexel White Genocide Prof Won’t Apologize, Says ‘Violent Racists’ Smearing Him

by Blake Neff

A Drexel University professor who called for “white genocide” Christmas Eve isn’t apologizing, and instead says critics of his “satirical” remarks are “violent racists” who are apt to commit genocide themselves. Drexel is promising an investigation.

Ciccariello-Maher, meanwhile, isn’t apologizing, and is currently trying to protect himself by claiming the incident was an elaborate joke.

“On Christmas Eve, I sent a satirical tweet about an imaginary concept, ‘white genocide,’” he told Philly.com in an email. “For those who haven’t bothered to do their research, ‘white genocide’ is an idea invented by white supremacists and used to denounce everything from interracial relationships to multicultural policies … It is a figment of the racist imagination, it should be mocked, and I’m glad to have mocked it.”

The professor also denounced Drexel, saying the school was giving in to fascism by denouncing his advocacy of genocide.

Just a joke. Move on. It was funny as hell, right? Just as funny as black genocide, right?

An important question: Have we now gotten to the point as a culture where universities actually pay associate professors to advocate for genocide? Have we sunk that low?

Furthermore, why would anyone pay a piece of self-loathing hyphenate human flotsam/detritus like Drexel University’s “professor” Ciccariello-Maher a wage at all? You can read more insightful and scintillating material in any given 4th grade class.

Luckily Drexel University, itself a private institution, is not amused.

Back to GCM’s advocacy.

I say: you first, sir.

BZ

P.S.

Just had a thought: perhaps GCM is instead a young black man, in the sense that Rachel Dolezal is a young black woman, eh wot?

 

“Hate Speech” is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder is now your Federal Government

Free Speech - NoneProve you’re not insane.

Go ahead, prove it.  Organically and via whatever means testing is available, prove it.

Oh, and by the way, also prove you’re not a racist.

Prove anything involving a “not.”

The most difficult thing imaginable is to disprove a negative.

Yet, here we go again on the heels of “rampant racism” in America via Ferguson — the new “Hate Speech” buzzphrase meme.

From the WashingtonFreeBeacon.com:

Feds Creating Database to Track ‘Hate Speech’ on Twitter

$1 Million study focuses on internet memes, ‘misinformation’ in political campaigns

by Elizabeth Harrington

The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.

The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.

The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”

There you go.  Just what you need.  The federal government monitoring your writings and deciding, in the proverbial vacuum, just what is proper and just what isn’t.  In direct contravention of the First Amendment.  Please allow me to remind:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Frankly, this “hate speech” tracking sounds like Stalin to me, and Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.  Like some Third World tin-pot dictator.  Except that this is a LAW proposed in the United States of America.

Via now, Mr Barack Hussein Obama.  Another tin pot dictator who is clueless, rife with NPD, and unable to manage the most basic of businesses for a profit.  He would first classify profit as “evil.”  Then he would drive any and said business into the ground. I suspect he couldn’t run a lemonade stand for a profit, much less our country.

Remember when Mr Obama attempted to call out those sites that were deemed to be “fishy”?  From FoxNews.com:

Obamacare_Flag_Poster_telephoneWhite House Draws Fire for Requesting ‘Fishy’ Information From Supporters on Health Reform

by Molly Henneberg

The White House is under fire for a blog post asking supporters to send “fishy” information received through rumors, chain e-mails and casual conversations to a White House e-mail address, flag@whitehouse.gov.

Conservatives have pounced on the request, accusing the White House of acting Orwellian.

“If you get an e-mail from your neighbor and it doesn’t sound right, send it to the White House?”said Sen. John Barasso, R-Wyo. ” People, I think all across America are going to say is this 1984? What is happening here? Is big brother watching?”

“Social pollution.”  Really?  As if the meme of unhindered and unrestrained government handouts aren’t social pollution for the stupid amongst us?  As if there are no limits to the depth and breadth of government largesse?  Sustainability?  Societal lampreys?

Possible air strike in Syria?

Sorry.  Shouldn’t have mentioned that.

BZ 

Surrender Your Dignity, Forward

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is dead; what next?

Hugo ChavezFrom the UKDailyMailOnline:

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has died in hospital at the age of 58 after developing a severe respiratory infection during his battle with cancer.

The country’s vice president Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, made the announcement during a national television broadcast tonight.

He said that the long-standing president died at 4:25pm local time, using the broadcast to call for  ‘unity, tranquility and understanding’.

The death could trigger an election to determine who will replace the socialist leader, after his illness prevented him from taking the oath of office after being re-elected last year.

A government spokesman had earlier said that the far-left leader, who has held control in the country for 14 years, was in a ‘very delicate’ condition in hospital.

The news comes just hours after Mr Maduro announced that two U.S. Embassy officials were expelled for meeting with military officers and planning to destabilise the country.

But here comes the spin and attack on America:

Maduro also said there was ‘no doubt’ that Chavez’s cancer, which was first diagnosed in June 2011, was induced by foul play by ‘the historical enemies of our homeland’.

Cindy Sheehan, Harry Belafonte and Sean Penn are all bursting with tears today.

There’s the spin.  So what is the future of Venezuela?

Frankly, I have only one care or concern about Venezuela and it has to do with oil.

US Oil Sources

1. Canada
2. Mexico
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Venezuela
5. Nigeria
6. Angola
7. Iraq
8. Algeria
9. United Kingdom
10. Brazil

These are the top ten sources of foreign oil for the United States, listed in terms of amount, from greatest to least.

Venezuela was already a destabilized country in the southern hemisphere.  And our number four oil source.  Citgo in America is 50% owned by Venezuela.

I couldn’t care less about Chavez.  But my question: how will Venezuela go now?  Further left?  More anti-American?  And how will that affect oil production and therefore gas availability in the United States with gas prices already at major highs even before the annual “Summer price gouging”?

BZ