Pulling back the curtain on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
January 23, 2019
Phil Valentine
Award Winning Radio Talk Show Host
OK, we've had our fun with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It's time to stop pretending that she's relevant. Or even serious. Sure, she took the left-wing media by storm when she unseated the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. That was quite a feat. Joe Crowley had been there for 20 years and had climbed the ranks of power, but his defeat was a local issue in the Bronx.
The left-wing media have blown her all out of proportion. Why? Because she's a socialist just like they are. It also helps immensely that she's a) young, and b) attractive. Liberal, young, and hot are three attributes that make a politician absolutely irresistible to the media. However, AOC is devoid of any substance, despite constant appearances on late night television and cable news.
She has equated the fight against global warming to that of defeating the Nazis in World War II. She believes we should 'mobilize and industrialize our entire economy' to fight it, just like we did during the war. The Nazis were real. Global warming isn't. We could actually see Hitler and the Nazis marching across Europe. The left chases this phantom of global warming without a shred of evidence. All you have to do to shut them down is ask them to prove it. They look at you with anger and frustration as if you'd just asked them to prove the Easter Bunny is real. If you believe even half of the rhetoric of the Branch Algorians, you can't really think that retooling our entire economy to fight it is a good idea.
Speaking of World War II, AOC compared the migrants fleeing Central America with victims of the Holocaust. Maybe you believe most of these people are refugees from violence (which they're not), you still can't possibly equate them to 6 million Jews being gasses by the Nazis. But, of course, if you're trying to gin up hysteria you can.
AOC came out with the claim that the Pentagon had lost over $21 trillion. Even the left-wing media were skeptical. Jake Tapper at CNN called her out on the numbers. She couldn't produce any evidence to support her accusation. She made the point to illustrate that we could fund Medicare for All, her communist plan to take over the medical sector, at 66 percent with just the lost money from the Pentagon. Problem is the entire military budget for a year is barely over a half-trillion dollars. In fact, experts estimate that we haven't spent $21 trillion on the military in the entire history of the country, must less lost that much.
Now the Bronx Braintrust is at it again on global warming. During a Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration she said, "And we're, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change." The crowd applauded in agreement. Then she asked, "Your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it? And, like, this is the war, this is our World War II."
Um, like, Alexandria, the world is not going to end in 12 years. This is the same bovine scatology that Al Gore's been pushing for 30 years or more. It's always 10 or 12 years in the future. Then the future arrives and nothing happens and the crazy people who worship at the altar of Al Gore act like it was never said.
I'm going to be brutally honest, because somebody has to be. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is cute, but she's nuts. It's time to actually start listening to what she says.