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Ocasio-Cortez flunks another intelligence test
By Thomas Lifson
The full twitters are in the link
Once again, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has revealed the depth of her ignorance, entirely missing the point of a criticism directed at her and falling on her face attempting to zing her critic. Her inch-deep understanding of the slogans she flings around with utter certainty is fully revealed.
Hank Berrien of the Daily Wire explains:
On Sunday, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) mocked the creators of the Green New Deal, among them Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), by likening her and her cohorts ideas to the dreams of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Ocasio-Cortez missed the joke, however, in the process displaying once again that she's not the most sophisticated thinker in the continental United States.
Ocasio-Cortez does not possess the high-school level reading ability necessary to grasp that Senator Cornyn was pointing out that the scope and complexity of her GND would require restricting the freedom of Americans and that fascist dictators understood the phenomenon very well, because they were undertaking equally ambitious plans to remake their own societies.
Instead, Ocasio-Cortez could respond with only a superficial reaction to a buzzword:
People with adult-level reading comprehension responded on Twitter:
Obviously, Ocasio-Cortez has no clue that Mussolini was a socialist through and through — nor that in German, "Nazi" is a contraction for "National Socialist." But even with the deficient yet expensive education she received at Boston University, she should have been able to comprehend that she was being mocked by comparison to a tyrant. She is unable to go beyond primary school–level understanding of a text.
Caricature by Donkey-Hotey.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/ocasiocortez_flunks_another_intelligence_test.html#ixzz5gekPM5nF
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redirect the dis to...disgrace...THAT he is
LOL...ok NOW my head is hurting
56 on the way to 66...fog and drizzle this morning...patchy rain all day...not bad really...in the 70's until Sat...then it cools down...could get our last freeze of the season Mon and Tuesday of next week
live streaming...
https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/videos/2228358440772243/?notif_id=1551197060642814¬if_t=live_video
Hahaha...I knew that's where she was...morning Gman
Not in my right head this morning...updated it...lol
LOL actually...bring her on...Mr T will trounce her...
Morning P_S_H
To da Moon Alice...
Looks like buyers like this news...woot woot...now if this one could do as well as a stock full of shit...EXAS...
Morning EZ...not doing well this morning...home sick...
Anti-Trump congressman comes out in support of president's emergency declaration
By Rick Moran
I watched him on the news yesterday...he is convinced
One of the more prominent anti-Trump Republicans on the Hill told Margaret Brennan of Face the Nation that he believes that the president's national emergency declaration is warranted.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, recently returned from deployment at the border with his Air National Guard unit, says that what he saw convinced him that the president is right to make the emergency declaration.
The Hill:
"I went down there kind of undecided," Kinzinger said on "Face the Nation" on CBS.
"I think if this was just an issue of immigration it wouldn't constitute a national emergency," he added. "But what I saw was really disturbing."
He recounted witnessing a woman "hunkered down in the desert" after the individuals who brought her across the border abandoned her, as well as another instance where his unit found 70 pounds of methamphetamine being transported into the country.
Kinzinger acknowledged that government statistics show border apprehensions are at the lowest levels in decades, but said what he saw firsthand showed drugs and human trafficking pose a significant problem.
As a result, Kinzinger said he won't vote to block President Trump's national emergency declaration to secure funds that have not been congressionally appropriated for his long-desired wall along the southern border.
"I wish this would've happened a different way," he said, but added that he believes Trump has the authority to declare an emergency.
"If this was just about immigration I would disagree," he said. "I do think this is a security threat. It's a security threat with the amount of drugs coming over the border and the human trafficking that I've seen."
Kinzinger refused to support Trump for president in 2016 and has been harshly critical of the president since then. He was primaried by the Club for Growth in 2018 but won with 78% of the vote. He is well respected on the Hill in military and national security matters, having served three tours in Iraq before entering Congress.
His words will not be heeded by Democrats. But there may be some Republican senators, thinking of opposing the president's declaration, who might be swayed by a member generally seen as knowledgeable and steady on security issues.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/antitrump_congressmen_comes_out_in_support_of_presidents_emergency_declaration.html#ixzz5gZfy5Jxv
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Ready for Hillary one more time?
By Monica Showalter
Well, well, well...what have we here? Another recrudescence of Hillary Clinton, still hankering for the presidency.
She's always looking for Just That Opportunity to slip herself into the national "conversation." Apparently, she sees an "in," according to her longtime surrogate, pollster Mark Penn, in an interview with Fox News.
The American Mirror reports:
Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn told Fox News this morning there are a number of scenarios that may lead to a third Hillary candidacy.
After defending Clinton's credentials as "one of the most experienced politicians around," Penn went on to say of the reported recent confabs between Hillary and declared candidates, "Those meetings are going to be somewhat awkward because she hasn't declared that she's not definitely running, and she, in fact, at the same time is looking over the field and I think will make a decision later in the year whether or not to run herself."
Penn said the chances of Hillary running depends on how the field shapes up.
"If the party looks too far to the left and there's no front runner, she'll get in," he said.
Again and again, she's let it slip out that she wants to run.
She's made campaign-style speeches at Wellesley University.
She's waxed fantastic about Winston Churchill and his political comeback.
She's had other surrogates say the chances of her running are "not zero."
She's looking at a crowded field, and she's got name recognition, fundraising muscle, and the media in her hip pocket.
And she can see that they've all swung left-wing, kind of leaving a moderate slot open.
Now she's playing Momma Clinton, warning all the young whippersnappers out there running for president not to make her come over there and run for president as that moderate because they can't stop trying to out-left-wing each other. Howie Schultz is not going to cut it as that figure, so that leaves her. A woman's work is never done.
The recrudescence of Hillary? Lucky Democrats. And she's not even a moderate; she's just cleverer about hiding her political proclivities, and she's got a curtain of sorts in that she's far more famous for her corruption.
As I wrote during her last go-round of weather balloons about her plan to run:
Does the public really want to hear her arrogant hectoring voice again, or to see her menagerie of yes-women such as Cheryl Mills or Huma Abedin cocooning around her and wielding great unaccountable power, or watch more Central Park pantsuit dances? Does the public really want more Obama Economy, single-payer health care, and leading from behind? Does the public actually want more of Chelsea Clinton and her nasty, unpleasant tweets (if not power) in front of us?
The mind boggles.
If she runs, she's quite likely to be defeated a second time, as President Trump trounces her on the strength of his economic revival. Yet the very idea of losing to President Trump as she did earlier must cheese her off daily, leaving her weeping and gnashing her teeth.
Her ego and delusions intact, she persists. I suspect President Trump will respond to such a scenario with: "Bring it on."
She's probably (finally) listening to Bill, which means she's desperate.
All the same, it's great that she's still the Democrats' problem. They've got no one to blame but themselves.
Image credit: Lee District Democratic Committee via Wikimedia Commons, with modification, CC BY SA 2.0.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/ready_for_hillary_one_more_time.html#ixzz5gZe6BXaM
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Sure would be great to get a good trade deal with China
Hate to say it but beautiful weather here but turning cloudy
50 on the way to 65...only 5 mph breeze...rain the next three days though
I heard you would get a bit windy...hope you and K keep your power on...
Great minds....morning P_S_H
WHAT???...could it be???...please please move
Morning AJ...as the commercial goes...the only thing worse in this universe is having no Aunt Jemima at all...LOL
WHAT???..Tony with no Dawn???
That's like Aunt Jemima Pancakes without the Syrup...
Morning EZ...was a great weekend...got a lot done around the casa...and lucky for us the wind was light.
And you get 101
Fingers crossed Romeo stays
LOL well done...it won't be as EZ for the Hoosiers this week with Sparty on Sat being the toughest
Morning EZ
Ocasio-Cortez: Probably time to stop having kids because ‘there’s scientific consensus that the lives of children will be very difficult’
By Thomas Lifson
Let's hope she follows her own advice...it would be very difficult being her kid
In a stream-of-consciousness livestream video yesterday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed a lot more than she intended about her life in the shallow end of the gene pool.
It’s pretty clear that she regards herself as a fount of insight and wisdom, apparently because her education at Boston University and 29 years of life experience have provided discernment superior to that available to the rest of us. So much so that her random thoughts while cooking are worthy of mass dissemination via livestream video.
She came up with some primo idiocy on the livestream, delivered while she endangered herself with careless knifework (see below) in her kitchen.
The most egregious pseudo-wisdom was her cogitation that maybe we shouldn’t be having kids because, “‘there’s scientific consensus that the lives of children will be very difficult.”
I particularly appreciated the low battery warning that popped up near the end. For someone who is telling us to prepare for the doom that awaits, she doesn’t seem to prepare for running out of electricity, something that will affect the entire nation if her Green New Deal ever becomes law.
It might seem unkind of me to notice that she is asking for a knife accident by cutting a squash with a knife too dull for the task, without first making a flat surface so the vegetable does not roll out of control while she exerts too much pressure on the knife. But if only for entertainment value, we need her on the political and media scene before Democratic Party elders act to get rid of her to end the embarrassment and disruption (see: Amazon HQ2 debacle in New York City).
Twitter user Gob Abierto collected a number of the random thoughts of Chairwoman Ocasio-Cortez, and Twitchy has them posted here. Her contention that Venezuela is not an example of failed socialism, but Zimbabwe is an example of failed capitalism is a strong number two to the lunacy of suggesting we all stop having kids.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/ocasiocortez_probably_time_to_stop_having_kids_because_theres_scientific_consensus_that_the_lives_of_children_will_be_very_difficult.html#ixzz5gXmugZ5T
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You Fuzzy and Fog all top dawgs this week...well done
Well done Vic...
cool you're on...
OK you take Kyle...I'll take Martin...spits in my hand and extends it for a shake...
excellent post...can't believe I just saw it.
Honestly I'm very grateful...that is something I seriously am...at the same time it is very frustrating waiting for the VISA.
Thanks for posting it Stuffie...a good reminder for me.
Trump was right: In Venezuela's wake, protests are breaking out in Cuba
By Monica Showalter
You don't often hear about protests in Cuba, despite the hellish conditions of that socialist dictatorship, but I suspect that's going to change, and maybe pretty fast.
Alberto de la Cruz at Babalu blog reports that protests are breaking out on the communist island dictatorship in the wake of Venezuela's popular fight for freedom:
Video from Cuba shows hundreds of Cubans marching on the streets of Havana this Saturday in protest of the communist Castro dictatorship. This rare show of massive dissent in Cuba comes on the eve of the Castro regime’s sham referendum vote to ratify a new communist constitution.
Translation: HAPPENING NOW – Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Havana, Cuba in protest against the Castro regime.
It has the look of a chain reaction, and for that reason, Marxist Nicaragua and Bolivia need to be watched closely, too. Here is the video from a source inside Cuba who witnessed the protest of hundreds:
President Trump, in his great speech in Miami a few days ago, knew it was going to happen, stating:
“The days of socialism and communism are numbered, not only in Venezuela, but in Nicaragua and Cuba as well," Trump told a crowd gathered in Miami.
And right on cue, the dominos started tottering. It sounds like the Cubans are taking courage from Venezuelans as they seek to "take back" their democracy and are deciding that that's a great project for themselves to pursue, too. What's more, the Venezuelans have arranged it so that they are winning - they are calling all the shots on how they take the democracy back, they have a built-in government waiting for the transition, and they are rallying the international community of nations behind them. They also mobilizing civil society for the great mission of distributing aid to the hungry and destitute ravaged by socialism, which is a great thing for the country's trashed social capital, and focusing on rebuilding the country. That frankly looks like a winning plan, and people recognize winners - and they follow.
One has to realize that Trump most likely had something to do with this, too. His stellar speech, noted here by Thomas Lifson, very likely was heard in Cuba, the same way Gulag prisoners heard President Reagan's great 'evil empire' speech and took heart from it.
Trump understood this. And now we see motion not just in Venezuela but also in Cuba. One can only hope that all three countries most plagued by socialism in the hemisphere go down together. The celebratory fireworks will be amazing.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/trump_was_right_in_venezuelas_wake_protests_are_breaking_out_in_cuba.html#ixzz5gUyxVfKh
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Ocasio-Cortez redistributes her staff’s incomes
By Thomas Lifson
A young woman with no real-world experience is about to learn the hard way that her ideology is impractical. I have to give Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez credit for sincerity in her announcement on Twitter that she plans to compress the pay scale of her staff, reallocating the budget she receives for staff, and cutting the pay at the top, while increasing the pay at the bottom. If she stays in office long enough, the consequences of implementing leftist cant will become clear to her (and us) over time, so it may be a teaching experience” (as former President Obama called it). Stephanie Aiken of Roll Call sympathetically reports:
Claudia Pagon Marchena, like so many Hill staffers, moonlighted at a Washington, D.C., eatery to pay her rent until she took a job with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She celebrated her last day at her coffee shop job that same week.
That’s because Ocasio-Cortez, who has called on fellow lawmakers to pay their staffs a “living wage,” is making an example out of her own office. The New York Democrat has introduced an unusual policy that no one on her staff will make less than $52,000 a year — an almost unheard of amount for many of the 20-somethings whose long hours make House and Senate offices run.
For Pagon Marchena, 22, the pay bump meant an end to a grueling, seven-day-a-week work schedule that was wearing down her resolve to stay in Washington, where rents average more than $2,000 a month.
Congress, which loves spending taxpayers’ money, already is “studying” giving better pay to lower level staff (meaning increasing their own allowances for staff), but Sandy O wants action now (even if impractical) because she’s the boss!
Aiken gently, and many paragraphs into the article, mentions some of the practical problems:
Ocasio-Cortez’s solution requires sacrifices for staffers at the top of the pay scale, potentially opening her to criticism from the right that her office policies, like her political identity as a Democratic socialist, call for a form of class warfare.
It could also pose challenges to attracting and retaining older employees who have obligations such as mortgages and child care — which in D.C. can cost $23,000 a year for a single child.
Salaries in Ocasio-Cortez’s office top out at $80,000, Trent said. That’s well below the median pay for Hill chiefs of staff at $154,634, according to the Legistorm analysis. And it’s a fraction of what experienced staffers could make in other jobs in Washington.
[Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director Corbin] Trent acknowledged that some people would have to take pay cuts to work in the office. He said that was a trade-off that employees had been willing to make: “I don’t think you always put the burden on the bottom.”
He included himself, noting that he has two children and makes $67,000 a year. “Is it easy? No,” he said. “But part of walking the walk is understanding that everyone is going to have a little bit of a struggle. You divide it up. You work together.”
Because Ocasio-Cortez has no real-world experience, she will not see the foreseeable consequences. For a while, she will retain senior staff at low pay because they are committed to the ideological goals they think that they share with her. They also will be benefitted by the prominence she enjoys, reaping personal visibility and attention from the media.
That will work for only as long as her prominence lasts, and as long as senior staff can continue to make personal sacrifices, (and persuade their spouses and kids that their sacrifices are worth it). Even more importantly, the logic of equality doesn’t stop with her own salary, which is set by law at $174,000. There are signs that she is enjoying this level of income, what with her moving to a luxury apartment complex and dressing in designer duds. But sooner or later, staff will begin to resent her luxuries compared to their own sacrifices.
Courtesy UK Daily Mail
They will “ask” for loans, gifts, and other financial help, and will discover that sauce for their goose is not the same thing as sauce for her gander.
The staff members who are perceived as capable will receive other offers, maybe from other progressive members of Congress, maybe from media, or maybe from lobbyists. They can’t spend the ideological satisfaction, prestige and prominence they receive in lieu of market-level salaries for their skills. Sooner or later, the ideological jollies wear thin, especially as other family members/lovers complain about the sacrifices thrust on them.
So, she will lose the services of the best of them, and there is always the danger that the accumulated resentment over their sacrifices in the name of her ideological purity will also have a high market price. Lower level staff always have been willing to work for low wages because they value the experience they accumulate. This is the underlying logic of an income pyramid. They can be overruled when wrong by more experienced staff who catch their mistakes. But now, she will be stocking up on low pay/low experience/low competence staff, and will have trouble retaining the good ones with the experience to do their jobs well.
There will definitely be a market for a tell-all tale or two of the chaos that inevitably follow an incompetent ideologue in charge of a serious operation.
Ocasio-Cortez has no concept of her ignorance. The only question I have is whether the harm she does in office will outweigh the mirth she generates for those of us watching her crash and burn.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/ocasiocortez_redistributes_her_staffs_incomes.html#ixzz5gUwaDYAb
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BWAhahaha...like that cough that just hangs on...
But will lose ground to you...great picking...you picked the right Busch...
LOL EZ of course...LOPL
Pffttt...kids...LOL
Nothing wrong with granddogs and grandcats though...lol
Looks like your move pai off...
I already had Martin and would have gone with Brad but he had been sick...go figure...what did they put in his injection??
Oh I knew it wasn't you...LOL
I was busy posting to the tater farmer and thought I was about out of posts and looked...no numbers...then saw the dollar sign...woot woot
Just a damn shame it wasn't big Al that was stranded.
Not sure when it happened or who did it but just noticed I'm gifted...again...Hmmmm
WTF???...just noticed someone has gifted me...Hmmm
NOW I wonder if it is our senior member???
Well...you have had the talk with her right??...I mean she knows how they get here...wait my head inury...she isn't married yet right??
Well...he is my elder too...hehehe