Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[lpetrich]

Daniel W. Drezner on Twitter: "I believe it was @mattklewis who asked whether Americans should believe ICE sources or @AOC on the conditions at border facilities. It’s hard to look at these photos and not conclude in @AOC’s favor. https://t.co/VgCJgLq3Mw" / Twitter noting Photos Show Severe Overcrowding At Border Patrol Facilities In The Rio Grande Valley - "The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General published a report Tuesday on overcrowding at border facilities in the Rio Grande Valley."

"Senior managers at several facilities raised security concerns for their agents and the detainees,” the inspectors wrote. “For example, one called the situation a ‘ticking time bomb,’ and another said there was ‘fear of a revolt.’”

Complete with lots of pictures of the overcrowding.

Immigrant Children In Border Camps Locked In Dangerous Conditions, Inspectors Find - "Wet wipes used instead of showers, repeated bologna sandwiches causing constipation, and standing room only in cells were conditions described in a draft DHS report seen exclusively by BuzzFeed News."

When Department of Homeland Security inspectors visited several border facilities in the Rio Grande Valley earlier this month, they found adults and minors with no access to showers, many adults only fed bologna sandwiches, and detainees banging on cell windows — desperately pressing notes to the windows of their cells that detailed their time in custody.

The inspectors compiled a draft report, obtained by BuzzFeed News, that described the conditions as dangerous and prolonged. Some adults were held in standing room–only conditions for a week. There was little access to hot showers or hot food for families and children in some facilities. Some kids were being held in closed cells. There was severe overcrowding.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The right is responding to what’s been exposed at the border by denying it & saying I’m lying. Hard to assert when the details I shared are corroborated by other members of Congress, court documents, migrant testimony, and now photos released today by the Inspector General. https://t.co/1JR8oSkk9X" / Twitter noting Salvador Hernandez on Twitter: "Fox News has been having continuous guests attacking @aoc and saying her claim that immigrants drinking out of the toilet are false. Only thing is 2 more members of congress reported the same thing, and immigrants in court have made similar claim [url]https://t.co/Eyo852CNUz https://t.co/guHp4guzgR" / Twitter[/url]

AOC’s Detention-Camp Etiquette - "AOC Put a Spotlight on Migrant Detention Conditions. Conservative Media Focused on Her Manners." After noting the horrors in those camps,

Amid these accounts, there remains partisan disagreement over whether conditions at such facilities are indeed worthy of rebuke, and members of conservative media staked out their position by focusing on how Ocasio-Cortez behaved during her tour. The Washington Examiner’s Anna Giaritelli tweeted, “SCOOP: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., screamed at federal law enforcement agents ‘in a threatening manner’ during a visit to a U.S. Border Patrol facility in El Paso, Texas, Monday afternoon and refused to tour the facility, according to two people who witnessed it.”

... Yet accounts of Ocasio-Cortez losing her cool — false or devoid of context though they may be — are framed as scandalous and characterized as threats against the law officers who maintain those conditions. It is a familiar standard, echoing the same logic by which many critics oppose nonviolent protests against racist police violence: By objecting to the method of protest — blocking traffic, kneeling during the national anthem — they obscure the fact that it is the protest that actually bothers them.

 

[angelo]

93-year-old Holocaust survivor wants AOC out of congress, given 'Nobel Prize in stupidity' for concentration camp comments.


CALEB HOWE
While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her friends in the media, are quintupling down on comparing American detention facilities to concentration camps, a survivor of the real concentration camps in Nazi Germany is livid, and speaking out.

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Ed Mosberg is 93 years old, and is one of the few people still alive who survived the Nazi camps. He lives in Morris Plains, NJ, and he spoke to the New York Post about the freshman congresswoman's comments.

"She should be removed from Congress. She's spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity," he said to the paper. "The people on the border aren't forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care."

The thing this person who survived some horrific stuff doesn't understand is that the conditions these people are being subjected to would be against the Geneva Accords. These people are seeking asylum and the administration is quite fine with committing acts that dehumanize these people. Sure, the Trump Admin aren't Nazis, but once again, the US used "concentration camps" in WWI (Germans) and WWII (Japanese). And both of those (of those that also know of the prior) are considered ethically bankrupt actions by the Government.

No one should have to endure what the victims of the Holocaust endured. But nor should others have to endure what the Germans and Japanese did in the US in the first half of the 20th century. What the Nazis did isn't the basis for what is considered morally reprehensible.

These people came to the border on there own accord, many dragging their kids with them, can leave the " camps " at any time, and are fed not gassed or experimented on or killed because of their eccentricity as over 6 million Jews were. I agree 120% with her. AOC should be thrown out of Congress for her stupidity and such offensive comments!

 

[lpetrich]

Ayanna Pressley on Twitter: "What comes next after bearing witness to the violence and cruelty at the border? This comes next. Thank you Chairman @RepCummings for your partnership as we pursue justice for the mothers we held in our arms in El Paso #closethecamps https://t.co/tnL8pu4CN0" / Twitter noting Oversight Committee on Twitter: "BREAKING: Chairman @RepCummings announces full committee hearing next week w/ Acting #DHS and #CBP Heads on the inhumane separation and treatment of immigrant children at the #southernborder. Full Release [url]https://t.co/zFuwUQsilS https://t.co/Mpv6ajvvlu" / Twitter[/url] noting this official press release: Cummings Announces Hearing Next Week With Acting DHS and CBP Heads on Separation and Treatment of Immigrant Children | House Committee on Oversight and Reform

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The $4.6 billion wasn’t humanitarian at all. It had NO accountability measures for facilities that abuse children and families. It didn’t fix the problem, just funded abuse. I don’t believe in billion dollar blank checks for unethical, abusive administrations. Including yours. https://t.co/IzWJKWUxaN" / Twitter noting Kellyanne Conway on Twitter: "How many migrant women did @AOC help by voting AGAINST the $4.6 billion bipartisan humanitarian aid that is FOR THEM? (She even voted against the Democrat aid package). All talk, no dollars. https://t.co/kwNEFwSFNR" / Twitter
Responding to AOC asking how many refugees that KC has personally hugged and listened to and tried to comfort.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Are CBP officers waking up women in the middle of sleep a “funding” problem? Is calling migrants “filthy” “wh*res” a funding problem? Is threatening violence on members of Congress a “funding” problem? No, it’s not. It’s a far deeper, systemic, more violent problem than that." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Also @KellyannePolls, maybe you actually do your job and show up to a Congressional hearing next time you want to talk to me. After all you, you ran away and skipped out on Oversight committee last week, just to call into Fox and Friends instead. * https://t.co/IzWJKWUxaN" / Twitter with response Public Citizen on Twitter: "@AOC @KellyannePolls .@AOC: When [Kellyanne Conway] doesn’t show up to her own Congressional hearing, she’s not just disrespecting Democrats — she's disrespecting the entire body. https://t.co/E0oKMHdcYf" / Twitter
AOC also slammed the Administration for going against the rule of law by refusing to do anything about KC and her alleged violations of the Hatch Act.

 

[Harry Bosch]

93-year-old Holocaust survivor wants AOC out of congress, given 'Nobel Prize in stupidity' for concentration camp comments.


CALEB HOWE
While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her friends in the media, are quintupling down on comparing American detention facilities to concentration camps, a survivor of the real concentration camps in Nazi Germany is livid, and speaking out.

Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It's free!
Ed Mosberg is 93 years old, and is one of the few people still alive who survived the Nazi camps. He lives in Morris Plains, NJ, and he spoke to the New York Post about the freshman congresswoman's comments.

"She should be removed from Congress. She's spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity," he said to the paper. "The people on the border aren't forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care."

The thing this person who survived some horrific stuff doesn't understand is that the conditions these people are being subjected to would be against the Geneva Accords. These people are seeking asylum and the administration is quite fine with committing acts that dehumanize these people. Sure, the Trump Admin aren't Nazis, but once again, the US used "concentration camps" in WWI (Germans) and WWII (Japanese). And both of those (of those that also know of the prior) are considered ethically bankrupt actions by the Government.

No one should have to endure what the victims of the Holocaust endured. But nor should others have to endure what the Germans and Japanese did in the US in the first half of the 20th century. What the Nazis did isn't the basis for what is considered morally reprehensible.

These people came to the border on there own accord, many dragging their kids with them, can leave the " camps " at any time, and are fed not gassed or experimented on or killed because of their eccentricity as over 6 million Jews were. I agree 120% with her. AOC should be thrown out of Congress for her stupidity and such offensive comments!

I just can't imagine the desperation that women must feel when they decide to flee their homes to run through the desert with their children and face such dangers.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Fleeing their homes from forced prostitution, murder, and the drug lords?

Sounds like economic migrants!

 

[Derec]

Fleeing their homes from forced prostitution, murder, and the drug lords?

Sounds like economic migrants!

Oscar Martinez and his family were not fleeing from anything. Nevertheless, they were trying t get asylum. And despite being purely economic migrants, our leftist politicians are calling him a "refugee".

 

[Derec]

I just can't imagine the desperation that women must feel when they decide to flee their homes to run through the desert with their children and face such dangers.

Desire not to have to live in the same 2BR house with your MIL can cause you to take stupid risks I guess.

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "When you stand up to bullies once, it gets easier to do each following time. I am used to the right’s behavior towards me - but I will never get used to their heartless cruelty towards other human beings escaping violence & despair, nor their indifference to everyday Americans. https://t.co/TyiNZYqHG3" / Twitter noting Mother Jones on Twitter: "How the right turns the cruelty at the border into an AOC punching bag https://t.co/hoPVGWOhbw" / Twitter noting article How the Right Turns the Cruelty at the Border Into an Ocasio-Cortez Punching Bag – Mother Jones

Rush Limbaugh, speaking on his radio show in overtly sexist rhetoric, then alleged with no evidence that the “gaggle of hysterical” congresswoman had been lying for the sake of shock value. “Between this little AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and this gaggle of hysterical women that she takes down there with her to the border, lying their way through that border visit,” Limbaugh said on Tuesday. “After a while, your gig gets old, your schtick no longer shocks and so you have to keep crossing new lines.”

Seems like the right wing needs villains. They denounced Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as left-wing ogres even though they might have been good moderate Republicans half a century ago. But unlike BC and BO and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, AOC fights back.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The GOP’s grand plan to “Make America Great Again” is to hurt children, immigrants, refugees into thinking America isn’t great - that it’s cruel & inhumane - so people don’t come at all. But America isn’t America at all without immigrants. To turn them away is Un-American. https://t.co/bpYFCqOxXe" / Twitter noting Kyle Griffin on Twitter: "The American Academy of Pediatrics has provided NBC News with drawings that it says were made by children recently released from CBP custody. The children have drawn themselves in cages. https://t.co/XRhV3M5fK3" / Twitter
Even "Native Americans" are immigrants, but immigrants from some 10,000 years ago.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The cruelty is the goal. It’s called “deterrence” - a policy stance that if our country inflicts enough pain on refugees, they will think twice before believing America is worth their dreams & aspirations. Only policy change can end cruelty, not blank checks to the status quo. https://t.co/QSSCIo2rLJ" / Twitter noting Adam Serwer on Twitter: "The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. [url]https://t.co/Ekgat3cxbu https://t.co/Nd4o77bJru" / Twitter[/url] noting The Cruelty Is the Point - The Atlantic - "President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear."
Stephen Miller: Trump’s Right-Hand Troll - The Atlantic Like this: "In perhaps his most memorable act of teenage trolling, he ran for student government on a platform that included increasing the janitorial staff’s workload. Speaking to an amphitheater full of privilege-checking peers, he asked, “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”" He also complained loudly about announcements done in Spanish.

 

[ZiprHead]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "When you stand up to bullies once, it gets easier to do each following time. I am used to the right’s behavior towards me - but I will never get used to their heartless cruelty towards other human beings escaping violence & despair, nor their indifference to everyday Americans. https://t.co/TyiNZYqHG3" / Twitter noting Mother Jones on Twitter: "How the right turns the cruelty at the border into an AOC punching bag https://t.co/hoPVGWOhbw" / Twitter noting article How the Right Turns the Cruelty at the Border Into an Ocasio-Cortez Punching Bag – Mother Jones

Rush Limbaugh, speaking on his radio show in overtly sexist rhetoric, then alleged with no evidence that the “gaggle of hysterical” congresswoman had been lying for the sake of shock value. “Between this little AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and this gaggle of hysterical women that she takes down there with her to the border, lying their way through that border visit,” Limbaugh said on Tuesday. “After a while, your gig gets old, your schtick no longer shocks and so you have to keep crossing new lines.”

Seems like the right wing needs villains. They denounced Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as left-wing ogres even though they might have been good moderate Republicans half a century ago. But unlike BC and BO and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, AOC fights back.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The GOP’s grand plan to “Make America Great Again” is to hurt children, immigrants, refugees into thinking America isn’t great - that it’s cruel & inhumane - so people don’t come at all. But America isn’t America at all without immigrants. To turn them away is Un-American. https://t.co/bpYFCqOxXe" / Twitter noting Kyle Griffin on Twitter: "The American Academy of Pediatrics has provided NBC News with drawings that it says were made by children recently released from CBP custody. The children have drawn themselves in cages. https://t.co/XRhV3M5fK3" / Twitter
Even "Native Americans" are immigrants, but immigrants from some 10,000 years ago.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The cruelty is the goal. It’s called “deterrence” - a policy stance that if our country inflicts enough pain on refugees, they will think twice before believing America is worth their dreams & aspirations. Only policy change can end cruelty, not blank checks to the status quo. https://t.co/QSSCIo2rLJ" / Twitter noting Adam Serwer������ on Twitter: "The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. [url]https://t.co/Ekgat3cxbu https://t.co/Nd4o77bJru" / Twitter[/url] noting The Cruelty Is the Point - The Atlantic - "President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear."
Stephen Miller: Trump’s Right-Hand Troll - The Atlantic Like this: "In perhaps his most memorable act of teenage trolling, he ran for student government on a platform that included increasing the janitorial staff’s workload. Speaking to an amphitheater full of privilege-checking peers, he asked, “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”" He also complained loudly about announcements done in Spanish.

Not to mention he used a crappy hispanic accent whenever he spoke her name and that the OIG confirmed everything she said and showed pictures of the conditions.

 

[lpetrich]

Not to mention he used a crappy hispanic accent whenever he spoke her name and that the OIG confirmed everything she said and showed pictures of the conditions.

Who? Rush Limbaugh? Stephen Miller? Both?

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "A thread of some of the policy approaches we should consider wrt immigration: 1. Foreign policy: Reinstate US humanitarian aid in the Northern Triangle, where people are fleeing. US should start acting like a real partner in Latin America,& increase visas where we intervene." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "2. Climate change: There is broad consensus from military to activists that resource strains (droughts, famine, etc) & nat disasters are drivers of refugees. People are fleeing places that were once livable &are no longer. It will get worse the longer we do nothing #GreenNewDeal" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "3. Border policy: As @JulianCastro mentioned in the #DemDebate, it’s time to repeal Section 1325 & 1326, the statutes this admin is using to mindlessly throw people in cages. We have to take these proceedings out of criminal code & into civil code. Torture accomplishes nothing." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "4. Econ: We need large-scale public investment to spur job creation for citizens&immigrants alike. Ideally that investment transitions us to a sustainable economy (climate & income-wise). We are overdue to rebuild American infra&it’s going to take ALL of us & immigrants to do it." / Twitter

Elizabeth Warren on Twitter: "No, Jamie. Corporate greed and corruption in Washington are what’s really wrong with America. That’s what got your bank a no-strings-attached taxpayer bailout after the crash back in 2008, and it’s still rigging the system against working families today. https://t.co/dpNt5Q8zii" / Twitter noting Yahoo News on Twitter: "Jamie Dimon: 'Regulation, bureaucracy, and stupidity' are what's wrong with America [url]https://t.co/DDWKM4K8Jw https://t.co/P8OkcfDT8t" / Twitter[/url]
Jamie Dimon is the head of the US's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase. Is he saying that his company has no internal regulation, no internal bureaucracy, and no internal stupidity? Or does he love all three when it's a business that does those things? Or both?

Public Citizen on Twitter: "As we watch @AOC, @AyannaPressley and @RashidaTlaib expose the horrors of our border camps, don’t forget that private prison companies are getting filthy rich off these atrocities. Of every 100 immigration detainees, 74 are held in private facilities. https://t.co/158gsOrf6b" / Twitter noting Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is a Boom Time for Private Prisons – Mother Jones
A form of crony capitalism that right-wingers love, it seems.

 

[angelo]

Most Western Democracies use private security as well as privately run prisons. In most cases Tenders are called and these companies submit their tenders. The best, or the least expensive tender is than accepted. [ that's the way it's supposed to work ] That's capitalism in action for you for better or for worse.

 

[ZiprHead]

Not to mention he used a crappy hispanic accent whenever he spoke her name and that the OIG confirmed everything she said and showed pictures of the conditions.

Who? Rush Limbaugh? Stephen Miller? Both?

Rush. So much for conservatives never code-switching.

 

[lpetrich]

Not to mention he used a crappy hispanic accent whenever he spoke her name and that the OIG confirmed everything she said and showed pictures of the conditions.

Who? Rush Limbaugh? Stephen Miller? Both?

Rush. So much for conservatives never code-switching.

It figures. He has a long history of boorishness.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Happy Independence Day! American democracy was once an unspeakable idea. To challenge the divine right of Kings & aristocrats was to challenge the structure of society. The founders’ notion of a government by the people was incredibly radical. And in many ways, it still is. https://t.co/xrwyIA4nae" / Twitter
noting
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Mood: American Revolutionary https://t.co/c38Kwm821d" / Twitter

The world the British colonists inherited was ruled by kings, hereditary aristocrats, and wealthy gentlemen. Then, in the year 1776, Americans decided to change that world. They would do without a king or aristocrats. They would create a new government based solely on "the people."

But who would really count as "the people," and how would it all work? Should wealthy and educated gentlemen still dominate the government? Could a new, representative form of government truly represent the interests and views of common men and women? How should these people participate to make their voices heard?

Under "Media Tags" was "Smithsonian"
I quickly found its origin: The Great Leap | National Museum of American History

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

'Mini AOC' Doxxed And Threatened, Family Shuts Down All Her Social Accounts

The "tolerant" left in action again. Isn't it great to do this to an 8 year old girl?

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Republicans & CBP (as if they would tell on themselves?) are working overtime to discredit my account from the camps. However, you could remove my entire account & the claims still stand. Details are now being corroborated by independent 3rd parties, from courts to inspectors. https://t.co/MhujNAYohJ" / Twitter noting Gadi Schwartz on Twitter: "BREAKING: Office of the Inspector General releases new pictures of overcrowding at Border Patrol Facilities in TX. One senior manager calling this a “ticking time bomb.” #Immigration #ICE @NBCNews https://t.co/bQdde1LYmB" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "“Just got back from visiting [CBP]. People say that Trump’s policies have failed. I disagree. I think they’re working exactly the way they’re supposed to. This is exactly what they wanted to happen. This is not a logistical problem. It is a moral problem.” - @DiegoBernalTX https://t.co/Hf3qbdCUH4" / Twitter noting Diego Bernal on Twitter: "Just got home from visiting Border Patrol stations in El Paso. @JoaquinCastrotx & @AOC have already shown what they found there (State Reps visited the same afternoon). It's hard to write or explain everything I'm feeling a day later, but here's my 2 cents on the policy end. https://t.co/KwweBaRAdJ" / Twitter
AOC quoted Diego Bernal here. DB also claims that this nastiness is deliberate.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This is pretty wild, and a testament to why everyday people in NYC have begun to vote out those engaged with Tammany Hall-style political machinery in the first place. Elections should not be decided by lawyers who make millions grifting off the “widows & orphans” court. https://t.co/KpxKv2h4XW" / Twitter noting Ryan Grim on Twitter: "The BoE, whose Queens commissioner was appointed by Joe Crowley, is refusing to count 2,500 ballots cast by affidavits, the Cabán campaign says. The judges who may end up hearing this are also machine-appointed. But a count of all the ballots would likely be in Cabán’s favor" / Twitter
This is in reference to Tiffany Cabán, who won the primary vote against Melinda Katz in an early count. Katz leads Cabán as Queens DA primary race goes to a recount | am New York

... initially was just over a percentage point ahead of Katz, who was backed by the Queens Democratic Party, on election night, with a 33,800 to 32,700 vote margin. But that tally did not include nearly 6,000 paper ballots and affidavit votes.

A Wednesday count of paper ballots seemingly flipped the result, with Katz holding a 34,898-to-34,878 lead over Cabán. However, Cabán's camp is crying foul over the Board of Elections' decision to invalidate nearly 3,000 affidavit ballots.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "CBP is trying to refute the toilet drinking story by saying their toilets have sinks. The sink in the cell we visited wasn’t functional. Guards told these women,Cuban refugees , they could drink out of the bowl. This account has been corroborated by other members of Congress. https://t.co/VT99UGZ6Ex" / Twitter noting CBS News on Twitter: ""There's abuse in these facilities": @AOC says migrants are "drinking water out of the toilet" at a Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas [url]https://t.co/ia3uVLoCsj https://t.co/zMULqe4ARO" / Twitter[/url]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "When members of Congress asked CBP if they knew about violently racist & sexually disturbing secret Facebook group w up to 10,000 CBP officers, they told us they just learned about it. Looks like CBP lied. Reporting shows they knew about it for *years.* This is a big deal. https://t.co/cbE643Sbzv" / Twitter noting POLITICO on Twitter: "Border officials had known about the secret Facebook group for up to three years, according to a Homeland Security official. The private group had come under fire days ago after reports showed members mocking dead migrants and Democratic lawmakers https://t.co/dViyZt5adJ" / Twitter noting article Border agency knew about secret Facebook group for years - POLITICO

 

[angelo]

A little spat?

https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/02/kellyanne-conway-ocasio-cortez/

Kellyanne Conway traded Twitter jabs Tuesday with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after the latter claimed that people were drinking from toilets at migrant detention facilities.

“Chuck Schumer wants to talk about photo-ops?” Conway said on Tuesday morning’s edition of “Fox & Friends,” according to a Daily Beast article that Ocasio-Cortez posted. “I saw one yesterday. And it’s called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going down to one of these facilities and making this outrageous claim that a woman’s drinking from a toilet, which everybody who has control over that facility, or control for the border patrol has said that’s not true, they’ve not heard of this.”

 

[Patooka]

First off - the daily caller? If they reported the sky is blue and water is wet, I would still wait for confirmation from a legitimate source.
Secondly - Kellyanne Conway, known for her passion in speaking out for the poor innocent victims of Bowling Green has as much integrity as Nigerian royalty.
Thirdly - AOC isn't the only one who witnessed the happy-fun-not-concentration-camps. Her claims were backed up by other members of congress.

It could be worse. The US government could try and absolve themselves of any responsibility by outsourcing the security to the tune of $422 million, paid to a PO box in Singapore, by a company "that was registered to a beach shack on Kangaroo Island."

It really is a race to the bottom at the moment.

 

[angelo]

No one is asking these economic migrants to flood the borders, who exactly is stopping them returning from where they come from. That's besides the point that the toilet tale is pure AOC bunkum.
One wonders when her fawning fans will see this bimbo for what she really is. An extreme left wing nut job who's out to attempt to destroy incentive and enterprise of ordinary Americans.

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The solutions are right in front of us. It’s just about having the political imagination and courage to pursue them. We can rise to meet the global challenge of the climate crisis with a #GreenNewDeal https://t.co/JTKUsqndqh" / Twitter noting a now-deleted tweet from vox.com

That tweet referred to this article: Climate change solutions: forest restoration might be the single best way to fight climate chage - Vox - "Adding 2.2 billion acres of tree cover would capture two-thirds of man-made carbon emissions, a new study found." That's 0.9 billion hectares. The Earth's land area is 37 billion acres or 15 billion hectares.

Then some tweets on Trump's big rally: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Trump spent millions on a poorly attended, 1 day parade days after saying he couldn’t afford toothpaste & soap for caged children. Did he ask Congress for military parade? No. Trump held these kids hostage to secure billions for their abusers. Congress needs to see that." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Ah yes, now Newt & the GOP are resorting to calling me a liar.

Who else do they call liars?
- 96% of scientists who agree on climate change
- Millions of Americans they locked up in the War on Drugs
- #MeToo survivors

So I’ll take it as a compliment. Thanks. https://t.co/2AXUz5zave" / Twitter noting Joe Scarborough on Twitter: "While trying to attack ⁦@AOC⁩, Newt unwittingly writes a scathing indictment of Donald J. Trump:

“When your goals are that radical, lying is simply part of the game. When you despise American values, lying is perfectly natural.” https://t.co/4vsQDsGxgP" / Twitter noting Newt Gingrich: Ocasio-Cortez is vicious, cruel and dishonest – And determined to destroy the America we know | Fox News
It seems to me that it is Newt Gingrich himself who is the vicious, cruel, and dishonest one. He whined about the necessity of controlling the borders, and like many others on the right, he implied that the end justifies the means, that one must break eggs to make an omelet.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I probably spent the first 10 mos after my primary terrified, too. Each day felt like a tightrope, as if one slip would end it all.
Fear followed me around&moved into my apt.
But courage requires fear. We should teach each other how we handle fear, to help others be courageous. https://t.co/KmShyfcsiA" / Twitter noting Esmeralda Bermudez on Twitter: "Just finished watching the documentary Knock Down the House. What struck me most is @AOC’s utter terror at every turn. It’s the kind of vulnerability most of us know and hide so well. She put it out there and blasted through it in one of the most astonishing races. #4thofJuly https://t.co/aiRhmGYXaM" / Twitter