No regard whatsoever for potential cultural clashes, jihadi infiltration, etc.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Biden Should Take In No Less Than 200,000 Refugees,” by Ian Schwartz, Real Clear Politics, August 27, 2021:
…REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: You know, to speak to today’s attack, what happened is just an absolute and utter travesty. And these marines that have passed away, 13 now, as well as 60 Afghans that died in the explosions, we have — I mean, this is the human cost of war.
And it — this is what makes war immoral.
And when it comes to the devastation that we have seen in Afghanistan, the United States plays a role. We have a responsibility. And in order to carry out and in order to make good on the role that we have played in this violence, we have a responsibility to make a home for the people whose lives have been upended by interventionist U.S. foreign policy.
And so, as a result, I’m proud to have co-wrote a letter with Representative Barbara Lee to ask and urge the Biden administration to — as they set their refugee quotas, to make it no less than 200,000 in the upcoming year.
Wellington says
Unlike Omar and Tlaib who are evil, AOC is just dumb, rather like Biden.
Yes, I am proposing a hypothesis here and that is that to be evil requires a certain level of intelligence and AOC and Biden fail in this regard. It doesn’t mean that the dumb person can’t be sociopathic or mendacious, or that such deficient people won’t often actually do more harm than the evil do. It is “merely” a hypothesis that below a certain level of intelligence true evil doesn’t exist though great harm still can.
Infidel says
Actually, AOC has more brains than either of the other 2 (dunno about Pressley): as Tucker pointed out, she did question the wisdom of giving Amazon tax breaks for having their headquarters in NY, which other companies weren’t getting, and she did question an economy where the only lucrative job is in the Financial sector. If it weren’t for her race-baiting, there would actually be sensible things that she mentions that are worth discussing, once one factors in how woke Corporate America has become.
Of course, she’s a moron as well, given what she knows about climate, botany and garbage disposals in sinks. Speaking of which, I miss the little 8-year old ‘Mini-AOC’, who’d produce hilarious parodies of AOC. Of course, Leftists, being the thugs that they are, threatened her family into silence
Wellington says
Well, OK, Infidel, let’s assume you are correct and AOC is smarter than Tlaib and Omar (I don’t agree but for argument’s sake I’ll concede this point at present).
Well then, nonetheless, etc., I am wrong about the latter two being smarter than AOC, but this still does not negate my larger point, and which you helped to confirm by stating that AOC is “a moron as well” (digressing here but it is an arguably interesting intellectual exercise to consider and digest degrees of “moronhood”).
In any case, my larger point all along is that dumb people like AOC and Biden can often do more harm than the evil who really are intelligent. The “best” evil is wickedness “backed up” by intelligence. Here I do not believe we will disagree. We’re “merely” arguing who is intelligent enough to be able to be truly evil. Hopefully we agree here.
Infidel says
Your larger point is largely correct in these 2 aspects:
– Being a communist, she’s dumb!
– Knowing what she does about botany and household fixtures, she’s dumber
My point was that she does occasionally happen to hit the nail on the head. I’ve argued on the issue of her opposition to Amazon’s headquarters near her district, and I happen to agree w/ Tucker that she’s right on that one. Similarly, she happens to be right when she points out that if the only jobs that pay a decent wage are service jobs in the financial sector, that we as a country are screwed
Of course, in terms of the overall package as a whole, that doesn’t make her smart. But she does occasionally have nuggets of wisdom which you won’t find in either Omar nor Tlaib (the genius who wants to mint $1,000,000,000,000 denomination coins)
Of course, her being a primeval racist is what makes her ugly in the inside, no matter how pretty she’s on the outside
CogitoErgoSum says
It’s sort of like trying to decide who was the most dangerous of the Three Stooges – Moe, Larry or Curly. I say it was Moe because he seemed to be the smartest and the best at hitting the other two when they got out of line. However, a case could be made for Curly since he had the most amiable personality but caused the most damage unintentionally. Larry was …. just sort of like a crash test dummy.
As for AOC, I think it’s her eyes that make her the most dangerous …… or at least the most terrifying. It’ll be interesting to see if she starts to look and act more like Moe as time goes by. I’m so glad I have time to think about these things now.
Wellington says
Interesting Three Stooges analogy, CES. Hadn’t thought of that one. Thanks for it.
P.S. I would trust the Three Stooges with America’s future were they still around far, far, far more than I would the current three stooges composed of Omar, Tlaib and AOC. The former group were patriots; the latter group no way in Hell.
CogitoErgoSum says
I hope Alexandria will find the time, whenever she recovers from her PTSD, to take a few young Afghanis under her motherly wings and teach them how to become bartenders so they will be economically viable citizens of their new homeland.
Infidel says
Islam doesn’t allow them to consume alcohol. But would it allow them to serve as bartenders? You’re suggesting something seriously haram for them
CogitoErgoSum says
I know that and you know that but does Miss Alexandria know that? It would be fun to watch as she finds out. Sort of like the time she discovered what a garbage disposal is.
Infidel says
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uvCXnLFgamQ
Charlie in NY says
Why would AOC be supporting anyone fleeing from Sharia? Haven’t her pals Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Linda Sarsour repeatedly explained how Sharia is not only a perfect but perfectly just system – and hasn’t Sarsour specifically extolled Sharia for its non-interest loan program which would give a big leg up to the Taliban’s plan to make Afghanistan great again. What am I missing?
Infidel says
Senora
¿Hablas pastún?
Ade Fegan says
The left will never learn
Wellington says
An excellent summation, Ade Fegan. It encapsulates the Left’s greatest error, i.e., that the Left is uneducatable.
The only route out of Leftism, as with Islam, both totalitarian, is to leave each entirely. No other intellectual and ethical route of any merit is possible.
James Lincoln says
Good point, Wellington.
Neither islam nor Leftism can be “reformed”.
Only extremely marginalized…
gravenimage says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urges Biden’s handlers to take in ‘no less than 200,000’ refugees
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More rapes and murders of Americans to come…
Peter35 says
200,000 fewer will make absolutely no difference in a country of 33 million, but 200,000 more moslems will add greatly to America’s woes, in a time when all western countries are doing their ‘benevolent best’ to take in these ‘poor people’ whose co-religionists are destroying Europe, whose leaders appear absolutely oblivious to the fact.
Interesting about A.O.C.. I think she’s just a mouthpiece, and inconsequential, as opposed to the two others who are both moslems, hate America, and should have no right to lecture Americans in their own country.
Eleanor says
“The United States has a family reunification program. Only immediate family members are eligible to petition under this program. Once a refugee has been resettled to the U.S., resettlement agencies are responsible for providing support for the family reunification process.”
So, AOC’s 200,000 could turn into 600,000 or 800,000 under Reunification, which could possibly be the reason many refugees are single young men. They know they can use this process to bring their families.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Eleanor–good point.
Wellington says
Yes, a good point. The burden to America which is Islam and the Left continues. No end in sight.
Infidel says
Yeah, I heard that argued by Andrew Wilkow yesterday. He pointed out how she didn’t mention whether the 200,000 were complete families or individuals, and if they were the latter, then the number would in reality snowball into 1.2 million. Since the term ‘great replacement’ is considered to be conspiracy-theory stuff, he called it the planned ‘crowd-out’ of US citizens by these groups, be it Afghans or Central Americans
eastlight says
It’s all single men entering the UK ilegally across the English Channel. They are seen as a sleeping Moslem army who are waiting for the call to attack an install an Islamist government by force.
Giacomo Latta says
”people whose lives have been upended by interventionist U.S. foreign policy”
Yes, I’m sorry that the US tried to introduce human rights to Afghanis when clearly their system of wife-beating, of which apparently you are now an adept (on one or both sides, I’m not sure). I will agree that the lives of many Afghans have been upended. ”What do I want for myself? Guaranteed human rights or instant death at the hands of some religious nut?”
And where are the 200,000 going to come from? Unless you are counting corpses, 200,000 Taliban-vetted Afghanis are not going to result in 200,000 refugees for the US.
OLD GUY says
A.O.C. is the elected representative of her district. So obviously she is saying that her electorate want these 200,000 thousand refugees to come to their district and neighborhoods.
Or is she saying they want to dump these refugees on the rest of us.
If you propose to take in these migrants then you should be held responsible for taking care of them, not pushing that task off on others.
It’s easy to standup and preach the love of thy neighbor and care of others when you don’t take the responsibility for actually doing it or pay the price.
Is her district tax payers going to pay the millions of dollars it will take to settle these refugees? Or is A.O.C. pushing this off on all of us so that she feels good or gains politically?
I think I know the answer.