They want to be taken care of, not run their own lives. They want others to feed them, clothe them and house them, not produce and earn these things for themselves. They believe they can remain personally free where they are dependent on others for much of what they receive. But the issue is much much more than just their ignorance.
Donald Trump was elected president and is president based on the rules of the democratic game. The Democrats are using every means they can devise – legal, quasi-legal and illegal – to overturn that election. Their media conspirators are in it up to the hilt, lying at every turn, downplaying and even ignoring any news that shows a positive picture of America that can be attributed to the president. They lie and cheat at every turn. They are corrupt and dishonest. And on their side there is no disgust or shame in what they are doing. There are no higher principles they are defending.
Whatever the left accuses its enemies of is exactly what the left itself is or is doing. “America is a fascist country!” What AOC means is that she is a power-hungry, anti-democratic, anti-American fascist.
You should road-test that projection theory. It works every time. Spooky.
Ocasio-Cortez’s model for the US economy could be summarised:
(Benito Mussolini).
But this is exactly how many on the Left (the Greens especially) see Australia.
Tanya Plibersek advising them.
The thing that I find mind boggling is that people actually believe the BS that AOC sprouts.
But then on the other hand, a lot of people believe in klimate change.
Apart from me, and people who think as I do, the world has gone bonkers.
AOC
https://imgur.com/7mo3jx1
The Democrats are in for a big shock in 310 days.
anyone would think it’s time for a revolution against soft and hard socialism
If it were not for their consistent stupidity, incompetence and deceit, the Dumbocrats and Leftard Parties in general, would have no standards at all to guide them.
astrology, chakras, negative energy, the law of attraction. the list of crap wyminses and betas believe in is never ending.
The solution is, then, that both sides should be given full autonomy over their respective affairs, each independent of the other.
AOC, Dumb as a box of hammers – without the inherent usefulness of a box and totally unable to nail anything!
More “profundity” from AOC
https://imgur.com/y4U1kRd
Klimate Khange Kult perhaps Fifth Bike Rider?
Responding to an interjection from the crowd: ‘Fascism is what we have. And what we are evolving into’. Such incoherent speech is all too common. Trump’s response is to bang into it hard. ScoMo has not shown much inclination to do so. OTOH, Trump gives too much latitude to his enemies to attack him on legitimate grounds.
As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn
John T. Flynn’s classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America.
https://fee.org/resources/as-we-go-marching/
max #3274723, posted on December 29, 2019 at 1:24 pm
and
American Betrayal by Diana West
Yet here we are, on the very highest peak of Moral Righteousness, pretending that the clouds that surround us are symbolic of our purity rather than obstructions to a clear view; that the lack of oxygen affecting our cognitive processes produces wisdom rather than hallucinations, while the world we think we inhabit (and understand), fragments far below us.
“So what do you expect us to do?” I imagine some of you may ask.
The answer is that if you have to ask the question, you are incapable of understanding the answer.
The ego and hubris is not helping us.
From Open Forum
Manhattan Institute – Issues 2020: A Fracking Ban Would Trigger Global Recession
The Narrative
“I will ban fracking—everywhere.”[1]
— Elizabeth Warren
“Any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands.”[2]
— Bernie Sanders
“I favor a ban on new fracking and a rapid end to existing fracking.”[3]
— Pete Buttigieg
Reality
The extraction of oil and gas through the techniques of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (colloquially, “fracking”) has catapulted the United States into leadership of the world’s energy markets. Since 2007, fracking has doubled U.S. oil production and increased gas production by 60%. Instead of a major importer, America is rapidly becoming the largest exporter of oil and is expected to supply the majority of net new energy traded on global markets over the next two decades.
If the U.S. imposed a fracking ban, the supply disruption would trigger the biggest oil and natural gas price spikes in history—almost certainly by more than 200%—which would, in turn, tip the world into recession. Even the expectation that a ban could be enacted would destabilize markets. U.S. imports and the trade imbalance would soar, as would consumers’ spending on energy. To keep the lights on, America would have to nearly double the quantity of coal burned, as well as import up to 1 million barrels of oil per day for dual-fueled power plants that would lose access to natural gas.
A long and excellent read with good footnotes
Rafiki
#3274708, posted on December 29, 2019 at 1:03 pm
………OTOH, Trump gives too much latitude to his enemies to attack him on legitimate grounds.
Merely stating something does not make it a fact, Rafiki.
Could you please give factual examples to prove this assertion.
thanks
From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary on the origins of the word fascism.
You would think Occasional Cortex would be thrilled the US was a fascist country. The quote above from Il Duce, provided by I am not a robot, would be the goal of her and her schizophrenic antifa ilk, who are busy protesting the very political philosophy they actively embrace.
Fascism is just another side of the collectivist coin. How the heck it gets applied to individualism and personal endeavour is beyond me.
Unortunately AOC and her flock of Twittard’s ….. make a lot of noise … Empty Vessels rule !
Progressives want us to bow to the authority of a braying eel-monger barmaid, a rambling near-octogenarian shock-mopped dotard, and a hissing shuddering Swedish pressure-cooker of misanthropic loathing.
And they still insist they are the intelligent rational ones.
Fifth Bike Rider
“The thing that I find mind boggling is that people actually believe the BS that AOC sprouts.
But then on the other hand, a lot of people believe in klimate change.”
Quite a bit of overlap there so don’t be fooled by someone who adds the two to get a bigger number
The perfect response to anyone who claims that Trump has “done nothing”
“11-Page Outline of Trump Administration Accomplishments…”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/28/11-page-outline-of-trump-administration-accomplishments/
AOC is a puppet. Much like Greta.
AOC is not dumb. She is setting the scene to be President of a socialist USA in years to come.
Only Trump stands in the way. She and Pelosi are desperate to have him killed off in one way or another. He simply cannot be able to win in 2020.
Ms Pelosi must be one of the richest socialists in the world. She will fight Trump to the end to retain her power and wealth.
Fat Tony at 1.03
His inept (at the very least) handling of Ukrainian affairs is a prime example. And today we have his retweeting of a tweet naming the ‘whistleblower’. I understand this may involve a criminal offence. Deleting the retweet won’t change this.
The fossil fuel supply-side has plenty of material … however Iran’s oil is blocked from the international market, Libya is horribly unstable, Russia is under sanctions, Venezuela keeps punching itself in the face and Saudi Arabia’s facilities got blown up by jihadi fighters with homemade drones.
If I didn’t know better, I would think someone was actively trying to keep oil scarce. But that’s crazy talk, who would do such a thing?
Rafiki
#3275162, posted on December 29, 2019 at 11:23 pm
I understand this may involve a criminal offence.
Yet you’re not concerned what the Bidens and Pelosi have done?
Tony
Well yes, but I was speaking about media attacks on Trump for what he does. If a centre-right politicians think the media will jump on their indiscretions and mistakes more readily than leftists (and note how the ABC behaves), then it is sensible for them to take more care.
The Donald makes too many avoidable mistakes.
To begin with , we need to stop listening to such fake news media such as , CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, the ABC. in particular. They are the devils out to create evil on this planet.
So a 30 year old twerp with a BA and, Probably, Venezuelan/Cuban etc antecedence wants to talk about democracy. Don’t make me laugh! My mirth is fully occupied with our own Green clowns!
“The Donald makes too many avoidable mistakes.”
I guess that depends on what you mean by a mistake.
He is leading by telling us what he thinks on real issues.
If he’s wrong on popular opinion, why did he get elected?
If he got elected as the least bad alternative, what does that say about the rest of the field?
If he got elected to “drain the swamp” and is certainly and obviously trying to do that, is that a mistake?
If the swamp keeps fighting back with their MSM mates, does that make his impression of what real people want wrong?
When at his rallies, people cheer when he says the MSM is “the enemy of the people”, is he mistaken?
The swamp creatures despise him, because he’s an outsider and doesn’t play by the unofficial rules they created to help line each others pockets.
The MSM despise him because by his use of twitter, he has removed their ability to distort his messages.
He certainly makes mistakes, but doesn’t “double down” on them – he learns, and doesn’t make the same mistake again.
What’s not to like?
Kneel
I explained just above by what I meant by a mistake.