Guest Post by Simon Black
Apparently Bill Gates has sat on his ass and contributed nothing to Microsoft’s success over the past 44 years… at least, according to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
At an event commemorating Martin Luther King on Monday, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told the audience that wealthy people “sat on a couch” while “undocumented workers” earning “slave wages” created all the wealth and value.
She went on, chuckling that “there is a case” that “billionaires are inherently, morally corrupt,” and that “if Jeff Bezos wants to be a good person he’d turn Amazon into a worker cooperative. . .”
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And this is the solution that AOC is posing; she wants to completely upend the system and turn the country into a Marxist collective.
It’s worth noting that AOC is not stupid. Conservative media likes to beat up on her and make her out to be an idiot. She’s not.
AOC is clearly an intelligent person, and some of what she says is true. One of her central themes, in fact, is that a lot of people are getting screwed by the system. And it’s hard to argue with that.
The primary danger, as is the case with most politicians, is that AOC doesn’t seem to have a grasp of the problem.
Why are people getting screwed by the system? Why is healthcare so expensive? Why is education so expensive? Why haven’t many workers’ wages kept up with inflation?
She makes no attempt to understand the root cause of these issues, and that’s extremely counterproductive. No one can solve a problem which they haven’t properly defined.
Instead, AOC simply blames wealthy people for all the ills of the world– the wealth gap, environmental issues, social injustice, etc.
And her solution for everything is to confiscate their property.
Not to be outdone, two separate sets of video recordings have recently been leaked by Project Veritas in which Bernie Sanders campaign staffers call for violent revolution and for wealthy people to be incarcerated in forced labor camps.
One of them even said, “Guillotine the rich!”
And all of this, of course, has taken place in a time when gangs of violent thugs (who call themselves ‘Antifa’) have started roaming the streets of major cities and physically assaulting their perceived political opponents.
It almost makes me breathe a sigh of relief: it’s finally out there in the open. These Bolsheviks are finally saying what’s really on their minds– they’re not bothering to hide their true thoughts anymore.
They want to punish and kill rich people. They want violence. They want to steal private property and redistribute it to workers.
It almost seems like a weird twist on that hilarious scene in Monty Python where the peasant from the “anarcho-syndicalist commune” gets into an altercation with King Arthur and shouts, “Now we see the violence inherent in the system!”
Except it’s not a comedy. This is real life. And all of it would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
Do you have a Plan B? If not now, when?
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And perhaps she will keep a livable wage of her salary,$15/hr, and let the government take the rest.
My Plan B for collectivist sophistry?
Bullets.
That is plan A because voting isn’t working.
The root cause of our economic problems are central banking and fractional reserve banking. It is basically legal counterfeiting. This is the root cause of our problems.Most in Congress know this but either are to scared to say anything or are getting rich themselves through bribery or payoffs.The system is corrupt to the core .Our only hope is another Hitler or Stalin who then
Abolish through force this vile shit. Only problem is the next dictator will be just as corrupt.
I agree with you BB. I sorta see this thing as a snake eating its own tail. When do you feel the butt heads will consume themselves? Or, do you feel it will go on forever?
It will go on until we stop it. Problem is, we aren’t serious yet. But the leftists are. They are winning.
True true Delta.It will go on until we stop it. Unfortunately I think there may only be one way to stop it. Nothing else seems to work. Voting don’t, compromise is gone, The only thing that seems to be left.Is one side must be eradicated.
The leftists WILL win. Why? Because as more and more people fall off the economic ladder, they will join them.
Good or bad, right or wrong like it or not, wealth/income inequality leads to very bad things.
Book it.
Not only that but we are letting in millions of people who america and american corporations have taken advantage of (economic hitman? Reserve currency?). How much you want to bet, they look forward to getting even?
I respectfully disagree…
She is stupid.
For someone with an Economics degree to not have the basic grasp of Econ 101 (supply and demand, marginal ‘anything’, etc.), shows either abject stupidity, never going to class, or both. That she still GOT the degree is a sobering illustration of how worthless degrees are today (Boston University’s Econ Dept. ought to have its accreditation pulled simply based on HER).
She is MANAGED, with talking points galore supplied…but have you ever seen her get off those talking points…pure magic.
She is the whore of Babylon, managed by those who worship the morning star, her blood stained lips are a tribute to her masters.
I think I read that she graduated with honors, another reason to revoke BU’s accreditation.
There is no plan B. There is simply the fact that plan A must not fail or you, your children, your wife and all that you hold dear will be forfeit. The stakes are high. You MUST not fail.
She is one dumb ass cunt.
The violence inherent in the system:
Looks like a big swamp to drain! We the people best roll up our sleeves and put on the hip boots. This is going to take some real mucking out. It is nice to see the names that makeup the head of this snake. That said, this is a big elephant to prod but, it must be prodded.
“At an event commemorating Martin Luther King on Monday, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told the audience that wealthy people “sat on a couch” while “undocumented workers” earning “slave wages” created all the wealth and value.”
This is an emotional state common to most people – Libertarian/Marxist, left/right, conservative/liberal, Jew/Goyim, rich/poor. “I created all this wealth and the rest of you are only useless eaters!” This emotional state is exhibited by many posters on this blog each day.
Howdy, the difference is we are right. Jus sayin. Now troll go back to cnn where you came from.
The odd thing is she’s capitalizing on what I heard from a democrat strategist just yesterday on POTUS radio, he actually said most registered democrats are low information young whites and blacks.
So she spouts off about the wealthy while the democrat field is full of rich white people and the idiots cheer and eat it up, it’s hilarious to watch the Bloomberg ads point out the Trump Tower and how he’s going to make the wealthy pay their fair share.
Bloomburg is ten times more wealthy than Trump, but do the democrat fucktards understand that? Do the democrat fucktards understand that AOC is on the path to be one of the elite where laws and rules are for the low information useful idiots and she is going to keep every penny of her government paycheck and any money given to her (bribe) by lobbyist and not redistribute her wealth to those that voted her in?
It’s past time for a reset, I fear this reset, but we need a reset.
At what point does it become treason?
Other than being told exactly what to say by her handlers, this shit for brains waitress does have awesome cankles if your into that sorta thing. Ugh
AOC is clearly NOT an intelligent person. She could not spell cat if you sputtered her the C and the A. She spouts what her handlers spoon feed her, often very poorly.
Fucking autocorrect- sputtered her? Kinda fits, but was typed “spotted” her.
Waiting to hear her line after she bags her first $10 million as a public “servant”.