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.

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BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Tuesday, 2-12-19 with guest DAVE MILNER

Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursday nights, thanks to my shameless contract — as well as appear on the Sack Heads: Against Tyranny Show every Wednesday night.

On January 17th, it was the second anniversary of BZ broadcasting on the SHR Media NetworkBZ has held his show, the Berserk Bobcat Saloon, on SHR continuously since January 17th of 2017. BZ is forever in debt to the co-owners of SHR, Sack Heads SHAUN and Sack Heads CLINT for believing in me and providing me with air time, a studio and unparalleled support. God bless them for that. I had a message, and they allowed me to become something of a messenger.

Hour 1BZ began the show with the shrewd and percipient DAVE MILNER, the Unpleasant Blind Guy who is, yeah, blind — but he’s not unpleasant in the slightest. He and I talked about the UK, the EU, and the political chaos that is swarming about Europe. What can we learn from this? Who knows? Our country his a vast past of embracing what I call Historical Alzheimers.

Hour 2: BZ covered the waterfront and proffered some important news stories, then slewed into more Happy Stories. A bunch of Happy Stories. Then, alas, some AOC Socialism. But wait. There’s more. Listen to discover what that may be.

This is a unique week for two reasons. It was ten years ago on February 11th that my Dad passed away in 2009, at the age of 88. He was a member of The Greatest Generation, flew in WWII, served his country, and I miss him every bit as much now as then.

This Thursday, February 14th — Valentine’s Day — is also the anniversary of Mr and Mrs BZ. I won’t be broadcasting on Thursday because we’ll be experiencing various hotels in various locales on various days. But I ask: is she not cute as a button and massively much more than I deserve in my wobbling, infirm, geriatric status? The easy answer is: yes.

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Ignorant American vs former Russian citizen

On Socialism.

Attempt to pin these morons down — the bulk of them Caucasoids — and they rapidly reveal their lack of anything remotely resembling an education and/or an appreciation or knowledge of history.

You now know why Antifa, Leftists, Socialists, “Occupiers,” Progressives, et al, insist on operating in safe spaces, don’t want anyone else around, stop people from filming or recording them. They cannot compete in arguments because they have none, and they cannot compete against facts because they know no facts.

You want to listen to a great show? Click here to listen to my two-hour interview with Lily Tang Williams, a Communist China survivor who has a critically-important cautionary tale to tell all United States of America citizens.

She fears: the US is starting to collapse and become the same thing from which she fled.

BZ

 

Millennials, Communism and freedom

First, from the WashingtonTimes.com:

Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism: Poll

by Bradford Richardson

‘This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society’

The majority of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist, communist or fascist nation rather than a capitalistic one, according to a new poll.

In the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism,” 58 percent of the up-and-coming generation opted for one of the three systems, compared to 42 percent who said they were in favor of capitalism.

The most popular socioeconomic order was socialism, with 44 percent support. Communism and fascism received 7 percent support each.

Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, said the report shows millennials are “increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative.”

Thank you very much, American “educators” (I bandy that term quite very loosely), Leftists, Demorats and, naturally, the American Media Maggots for doing such a spectacular job of disseminating your staggeringly-slanted, agendized bias. Your lies are working on the mush-minds of our youth.

“This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society regarding socialism and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago,” Mr. Smith said in a statement.

This very interesting point:

Millennials were the only age group more likely to say America’s economic system “works against me” rather than “works for me.” Gen Z had the most positive impression of the economy, with 66 percent saying it “works for me,” although many of them have yet to enter the workforce.

On that note, we recently noted 100 years of Communism. From WSJ.com:

100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead

by David Satter

The Bolshevik plague that began in Russia was the greatest catastrophe in human history.

Armed Bolsheviks seized the Winter Palace in Petrograd—now St. Petersburg—100 years ago this week and arrested ministers of Russia’s provisional government. They set in motion a chain of events that would kill millions and inflict a near-fatal wound on Western civilization.

The revolutionaries’ capture of train stations, post offices and telegraphs took place as the city slept and resembled a changing of the guard. But when residents of the Russian capital awoke, they found they were living in a different universe.

And then all the buttery political fun began.

Although the Bolsheviks called for the abolition of private property, their real goal was spiritual: to translate Marxist- Lenin ist ideology into reality. For the first time, a state was created that was based explicitly on atheism and claimed infallibility. This was totally incompatible with Western civilization, which presumes the existence of a higher power over and above society and the state.

Now you begin to see the clouds parting, yes? Western civilization, i.e. more and more citizens in the United States, eschew the existence of a higher power like some tin idol named “godd” or “Bill” or “Berford.” As far as they are concerned, all good things come from The State in terms of our government with one major, vitally-important exception: those damned pesky papers called our “foundational documents” like the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

They are, like, so totally uncool, dude.

The Bolshevik coup had two consequences. In countries where communism came to hold sway, it hollowed out society’s moral core, degrading the individual and turning him into a cog in the machinery of the state. Communists committed murder on such a scale as to all but eliminate the value of life and to destroy the individual conscience in survivors.

Note this:

In a 1920 speech to the Komsomol, Lenin said that communists subordinate morality to the class struggle. Good was anything that destroyed “the old exploiting society” and helped to build a “new communist society.”

Starting to sound a bit familiar?

This approach separated guilt from responsibility. Martyn Latsis, an official of the Cheka, Lenin’s secret police, in a 1918 instruction to interrogators, wrote: “We are not waging war against individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. . . . Do not look for evidence that the accused acted in word or deed against Soviet power. The first question should be to what class does he belong. . . . It is this that should determine his fate.”

Then there’s this disturbing part that today’s educators and students miss entirely — perhaps the most disturbing.

Such convictions set the stage for decades of murder on an industrial scale. In total, no fewer than 20 million Soviet citizens were put to death by the regime or died as a direct result of its repressive policies. This does not include the millions who died in the wars, epidemics and famines that were predictable consequences of Bolshevik policies, if not directly caused by them.

The victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the Gulag, labor colonies and special settlements.

To this list should be added nearly a million Gulag prisoners released during World War II into Red Army penal battalions, where they faced almost certain death; the partisans and civilians killed in the postwar revolts against Soviet rule in Ukraine and the Baltics; and dying Gulag inmates freed so that their deaths would not count in official statistics.

If we add to this list the deaths caused by communist regimes that the Soviet Union created and supported—including those in Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia—the total number of victims is closer to 100 million.

Then this fact — not a suggestion, but a fact:

That makes communism the greatest catastrophe in human history.

Yay Communism.

What is it I’ve said for years? “Everybody always thinks they can do Socialism/Communism better than the last guy.” Except: it never works.

Also this, ripped from today’s screaming headlines about the opinions regarding “freedom” (hok-putui, such a nasty word) on today’s university campuses, from of all places the WashingtonPost.com:

A chilling study shows how hostile college students are toward free speech

by Catherine Rampell

Here’s the problem with suggesting that upsetting speech warrants “safe spaces,” or otherwise conflating mere words with physical assault: If speech is violence, then violence becomes a justifiable response to speech.

Just ask college students. A fifth of undergrads now say it’s acceptable to use physical force to silence a speaker who makes “offensive and hurtful statements.”

That’s one finding from a disturbing new survey of students conducted by John Villasenor, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and University of California at Los Angeles professor.

We already know about speech being the “same” as violence according to Leftists.

In August, motivated by concerns about the “narrowing window of permissible topics” for discussion on campuses, Villasenor conducted a nationwide survey of 1,500 undergraduate students at four-year colleges. Financial support for the survey was provided by the Charles Koch Foundation, which Villasenor said had no involvement in designing, administering or analyzing the questionnaire; as of this writing, the foundation had also not seen his results.

Many of Villasenor’s questions were designed to gauge students’ understanding of the First Amendment. Colleges, after all, pay a lot of lip service to “freedom of speech,” despite high-profile examples of civil-liberty-squelching on campus. The survey suggests that this might not be due to hypocrisy so much as a misunderstanding of what the First Amendment actually entails.

The most shocking?

For example, when students were asked whether the First Amendment protects “hate speech,” 4 in 10 said no. This is, of course, incorrect. Speech promoting hatred — or at least, speech perceived as promoting hatred — may be abhorrent, but it is nonetheless constitutionally protected.

Freedom of speech “important”? Nah.

Since were on the subject of polls, another poll no one else will reveal to you, from my blog post via JihadWatch.org:

51% of U.S. Muslims want Sharia; 60% of young Muslims more loyal to Islam than to U.S.

by Robert Spencer

Really, what did you expect? A considerable portion of U.S. domestic and foreign policy is based on the assumption that Islam in the U.S. will be different: that Muslims here believe differently from those elsewhere, and do not accept the doctrines of violence against and subjugation of unbelievers that have characterized Islam throughout its history. But on what is that assumption based? Nothing but wishful thinking. And future generations of non-Muslims will pay the price.

51% of Muslims living in the U.S. just this June (2015) told Polling Co. they preferred having “the choice of being governed according to Shariah,” or Islamic law. Or the 60% of Muslim-Americans under 30 who told Pew Research they’re more loyal to Islam than America.

These are all clues. These are all indicators of America in the desperate grip of those who wish to tear this country apart from within. Presently there is an active attempt to install mob rule in the United States utilizing not just overt violence, but a highly-funded, organized and systematic undermining, overtaking, eliminating and rewriting of our fundamental founding documents, our history in written form, in oral form, in photographic form and in physical form.

Universities, once admirable towers of higher learning and critical thought now tolerate none of it. The past two generations are shockingly willing to relinquish almost every freedom they possess — to have the government, when it deigns so, to sell those freedoms back. More and more the government is disinterested in such a sale. It simply wants to acquire and keep the power and control.

Is it for this that 500,000 Americans died in the Civil War — so we can become slaves of the government? Do the 1.5 million American deaths during service in war time mean nothing? Must we do it all over again? Historical Alzheimers? Must we go out of our way to prove George Santayana correct anew?

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

Communism and Socialism have been tried numerous times in numerous — dozens — of countries in the past two centuries. It always fails. And every new dictator thinks that, in the past, it simply wasn’t “done right.” As I wrote, they believe they are the ones who can “do it right” this time. Then they fail and kill hundreds if not thousands if not millions of their own countrymen.

If there is one lesson the communist century should have taught, it is that the independent authority of universal moral principles cannot be an afterthought, since it is the conviction on which all of civilization depends.

Is the US condemned?

BZ