Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday evening mocked people who are getting &#8220;cancelled&#8221; as being entitled and unliked.
In a series of tweets, which came in part as a response to an open letter defending &#8220;open debate&#8221; (below), the Democrat congresswoman attempted to reframe the idea of &#8220;cancel culture,&#8221; a term primarily associated with left-wing activists attempting to destroy political opponents or squelch support for ideas and causes that they oppose.
&#8220;People who are actually &#8216;cancelled&#8217; don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets. This has been a public service announcement,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;The term &#8216;cancel culture&#8217; comes from entitlement &#8211; as though the person complaining has the right to a large, captive audience,&amp; one is a victim if people choose to tune them out. Odds are you’re not actually cancelled, you’re just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.&#8221;
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The term “cancel culture” comes from entitlement &#8211; as though the person complaining has the right to a large, captive audience,&amp; one is a victim if people choose to tune them out.
Odds are you’re not actually cancelled, you’re just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1281392795748569089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I have an entire TV network dedicated to stoking hatred of me. A white supremacist w/ a popular network show regularly distorts me in dangerous ways, &amp; it’s a normal part of my existence to get death threats from their audience. You don’t see me complaining abt &#8216;cancel culture,'&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;Many of the people actually &#8216;cancelled&#8217; are those long denied a fair hearing of their ideas to begin w/: Palestinian human rights advocates, Abolitionists, Anticapitalists, Anti-imperialists. Not spicy &#8216;contrarians&#8217; who want to play devils advocate w/ your basic rights in the NYT.&#8221;
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Many of the people actually “cancelled” are those long denied a fair hearing of their ideas to begin w/:
Palestinian human rights advocates Abolitionists Anticapitalists Anti-imperialists
Not spicy “contrarians” who want to play devils advocate w/ your basic rights in the NYT
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1281396963867529216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez provided no evidence backing up her claim that the term “cancel culture” comes “from entitlement” and that it involves people who have “a large, captive audience.” While the targets of cancel culture have included famous names, many people who get “canceled” are ordinary people whose employers face calls for boycotts if they keep them as an employee.
Ocasio-Cortez appeared to hold herself to a different standard in her tweets as she claimed that people who were &#8220;cancelled&#8221; were really “just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.” Ocasio-Cortez then claimed that Fox News, which she did not name directly, was “dedicated to stoking hatred of” her. Like other media outlets, Fox News does frequently report on Ocasio-Cortez, but is often just challenging her ideas, holding her accountable, or reporting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-devastated-new-poll-inside-her-ryan-saavedra">that she&#8217;s unliked</a>.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s tweets were widely criticized online, with some even noting that things that she described made them more, not less, supportive of free speech.
&#8220;This is patently false and easily disproved — we also have a government official here advocating for censorship and shutting down a public letter standing up for free speech and open debate,&#8221; commentator Sasha Stone tweeted. &#8220;That is hard core overreach.&#8221;
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This is patently false and easily disproved &#8211; we also have a government official here advocating for censorship and shutting down a public letter standing up for free speech and open debate. That is hard core overreach. <a href="https://t.co/kdoQWGOxfT">https://t.co/kdoQWGOxfT</a>
&mdash; Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/AwardsDaily/status/1281456243173801984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;People getting their characters smeared for dangling their hand out the window and losing their job, journalists silenced out of fear of getting fired, a research analyst fired for posting a tweet of a study people didn&#8217;t like,&#8221; Stone continued, later adding, &#8220;You&#8217;re doing worse than complaining about cancel culture. You are now advocating for it at a government level, which is dangerous&#8230;&#8221;
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People getting their characters smeared for dangling their hand out the window and losing their job, journalists silenced out of fear of getting fired, a research analyst fired for posting a tweet of a study people didn&#39;t like. <a href="https://t.co/Lbbmp29aKi">https://t.co/Lbbmp29aKi</a>
&mdash; Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/AwardsDaily/status/1281456920763588610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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You&#39;re doing worse than complaining about cancel culture. You are now advocating for it at a government level, which is dangerous&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/uIXsYUFOKf">https://t.co/uIXsYUFOKf</a>
&mdash; Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/AwardsDaily/status/1281456516302659586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s comments also come after scores of left-leaning figures signed a letter from Harper&#8217;s Magazine on &#8220;Justice and Open Debate.&#8221; The <a href="https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/">letter</a> states:
<blockquote>Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.
This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won’t defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn’t expect the public or the state to defend it for us. 
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Ocasio-Cortez Mocks People Who Get ‘Cancelled,’ Suggests That They Are Entitled And Unliked

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A letter being <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2020/06/four-progressive-congresswomen-circulate-letter-threatening-to-condition-aid-to-israel-over-annexation/">circulated</a> in the House of Representatives, by four members of Congress, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), calls for the Israeli government to stop all considerations regarding the “annexation” of the Jordan Valley.
The letter itself has gained significant momentum as Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), André Carson (D-IN), Nydia Velázquez (D-PR), Bobby Rush (D-IL), Jesús Garcia (D-IL), and Danny Davis (D-IL), as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-aipac-israel-aid-annexation-345287">added their signatures</a>.
Whether you support or condemn Israel’s decision to extend sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, there are 4 things you should know about the letter.
First, the letter repeatedly and erroneously uses the term: Annexation. 
The term <a href="https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-vows-to-annex-all-settlements-after-election-starting-with-jordan-valley/">annexation</a> refers to a state’s decision to impose its legal authority over a territory that was forcibly acquired from another state with the use of force or aggression. As International Human Rights Lawyer, Arsen Ostrovsky and Colonel Richard Kemp <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/annexation-vs-sovereignty-words-matter/">note</a>:
<blockquote>“First, all apply to territory acquired by force or in an offensive war. The Six-Day War, in which Israel was compelled to defend itself from neighboring Arab armies seeking the Jewish state’s destruction, was defensive. Second, in 1967, there was no ‘state of Palestine,’ nor does such an entity exist today under international law.”</blockquote>
With a total disregard for international law, the letter’s vocabulary not only, and wrongly, insinuates that history witnessed the existence of a sovereign ‘Palestine,” but it ignores Israel’s indigenous and legal claims to the territory as established by the 1920 San Remo <a href="https://www.cfr.org/israel/san-remo-resolution/p15248">Resolution</a>.
Secondly, the letter, dubiously, <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2020/06/four-progressive-congresswomen-circulate-letter-threatening-to-condition-aid-to-israel-over-annexation/">speculates</a> that annexing parts of the West Bank will “perpetuate” and “entrench” human rights violations against Palestinians.
The signatories of this letter might benefit from carrying out a comparative analysis, in regard to standards of living, of Palestinians pre-1967 and Palestinians post-1967.
According to Ephraim Karsh’s, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and author of Arafat’s War, explains:
<blockquote>“The number of Palestinians working in Israel rose from zero in 1967 to 66,000 in 1975 and 109,000 by 1986, accounting for 35 percent of the employed population of the West Bank and 45 percent in Gaza.”</blockquote>
Karsh also adds:
<blockquote>“By 1986, 92.8 percent of the population in the West Bank and Gaza had electricity around the clock, as compared to 20.5 percent in 1967; 85 percent had running water in dwellings, as compared to 16 percent in 1967; 84 percent had electric gas ranges for cooking, as compared to 4 percent in 1967&#8230;”</blockquote>
And in regards to Palestinian access to education, Karsh details:
<blockquote>“At the onset of the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, not a single university existed in these territories. By the early 1990s, there were seven such institutions, boasting some 16,500 students as compared with six in Israel or seven in the Irish Republic.”</blockquote>
The statement on this letter ignores an indisputable truth – Israel has done more for the Palestinian people than their own leadership has. If the signatories truly cared about human rights violations against Palestinians, they would note that the Palestinian leadership regards homosexuality and the sale of property to Jews as crimes; it continues to indoctrinate children with antisemitism and senseless hatred; it has invested millions of dollars in foreign aid to <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/where-does-the-palestinian-aid-money-go">fund</a> terrorist activities rather than social welfare programs, and it has repeatedly turned down generous offers for peace that would have granted the Palestinian people independence.
Thirdly, the letter threatens to “pursue conditions” on the $3.8 billion in US military funding to Israel if the Israeli government moves forward with “annexing” Jordan Valley. Such a move could have devastating impacts for Israelis, Palestinians, and American citizens.
A significant portion of the $3.8 billion received by Israel for military funding is <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/14/fact-sheet-memorandum-understanding-reached-israel">allocated</a> for defensive weapons systems such as the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow-3. If Israel were unable to defend her skies from the thousands of indiscriminate rockets fired from Hamas-held Gaza, it would possibly be forced to adopt more offensive tactics to protect her citizens. Such tactics could result in the tragic loss of Palestinian and Israeli civilian lives.
Moreover, the cut in funding would harm Americans during a devastating pandemic. According to the <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/israel-gives-much-more-to-the-u-s-economy-than-you-imagined/">US Department of Commerce</a>, in between 2009-2014, 254,562 jobs were directly supported by the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement. Every state in the US enjoys its own economic ties with the State of Israel. In 2014, at the very <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/israel-gives-much-more-to-the-u-s-economy-than-you-imagined/">lowest</a>, is Alaska which accumulated nearly $300,000 in trade with Israel. In the same year and at its <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/israel-gives-much-more-to-the-u-s-economy-than-you-imagined/">highest</a>, is New York, which accumulated $6.3 billion in trade with Israel. The impacts of reducing aid to Israel would only add to the hardships that many American families are already experiencing.
Lastly, the letter makes the claim that under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, “annexation” is illegal, such a move would constitute a violation of international law by Israel.
To set the record straight on the letter&#8217;s faulty nomenclature, Israel does not propose annexing any territory; rather it is considering extending sovereignty over the Jordan Valley. It appears that the signatories of this letter are unfamiliar with the uti possidetis iuris doctrine. Put aptly, when new countries emerge from old ones, or from colonial empires, the last official international borders constitute the new boundary lines.
Professor Eugene Kontorovich, of the Antonin Scalia School of Law, <a href="https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/crimea-international-law-and-the-west-bank?fbclid=IwAR0nNtEkTXFprRQQaXXOwHaju4nlCuD_q2l-QZ8rVfS_kghgETaNnpn_c2U">explains</a> how this doctrine applies in Israel&#8217;s case:
<blockquote>“In 1922, the League of Nations established a new “country” to serve as the Jewish national home. This was the Mandate for Palestine. Under certain provisions of the Mandate, Palestine was partitioned at the Jordan River to create the country of Transjordan (now called Jordan) on its eastern bank. After that, the international frontiers of Mandatory Palestine ran from the river to the sea. The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine provides the legal basis not only for Israel’s borders, but for those of Jordan as well, and indeed for Jordan’s entire existence.”</blockquote>
Whether you support Israel’s decision to extend sovereignty or not, it is imperative to recognize the fallacies of this letter. Not only do the signatories wrongly accuse Israel of, potentially, violating international law, but it paints a misleading image to the majority of Americans who remain committed to the US-Israel alliance.
Yoni Michanie is a Middle East analyst, Israel advocate, and former IDF Paratrooper. He can be reached on Twitter, @<a href="http://twitter.com/yonimichanie">YoniMichanie</a>.
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On Sunday morning, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden apparently refusing to condemn people tearing down statues of Confederate figures. Cruz blasted, “Dems support the riots. The vandals. The anarchists. That’s their base. And they’re terrified to offend them.”
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Dems support the riots. The vandals. The anarchists. 
That’s their base. And they’re terrified to offend them. <a href="https://t.co/B5nRPRGBYM">https://t.co/B5nRPRGBYM</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1279657317315772417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tried to take on Cruz by theorizing that the fact that Biden was the presumptive nominee indicated that the Democrats’ base was not hard-leftists, tweeting, “Yes, that is precisely why the party nominated&#8230; Joe Biden.”
“Is it me, or is the GOP losing their touch with the conspiracy-theory-as-campaign-rhetoric technique?” she added in a follow-up post.
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Yes, that is precisely why the party nominated&#8230; Joe Biden <a href="https://t.co/ZFx5YAnd9b">https://t.co/ZFx5YAnd9b</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1279827646889824258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Is it me, or is the GOP losing their touch with the conspiracy-theory-as-campaign-rhetoric technique?
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1279828136641921026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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That triggered a withering response from Cruz: “You’re the base he’s terrified of. Do you support: 1) Tearing down statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson &amp; Abraham Lincoln? 2) Destroying Mt. Rushmore. 3) Abolishing the police. 4) Acquiescing to ‘autonomous’ lawless zones like CHAZ/CHOP? 5) ANTIFA mob violence?”
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You’re the base he’s terrified of. 
Do you support:
1) Tearing down statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson &amp; Abraham Lincoln?
2) Destroying Mt. Rushmore. 
3) Abolishing the police. 
4) Acquiescing to “autonomous” lawless zones like CHAZ/CHOP?
5) ANTIFA mob violence? <a href="https://t.co/qJCM6Z7yjt">https://t.co/qJCM6Z7yjt</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1279839868080869376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz’s tweet was issued early Sunday afternoon. By midnight there were still only crickets from Ocasio-Cortez.
In April, Ocasio-Cortez spoke to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/aoc-progressives-joe-biden.html?action=click&amp;module=News&amp;pgtype=Homepage">The New York Times</a> about what she expected about working with Biden. &#8220;The whole process of coming together should be uncomfortable for everyone involved — that’s how you know it’s working,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And if Biden is only doing things he’s comfortable with, then it’s not enough.&#8221;
Despite her implication in her Sunday tweet that she believes the Democratic base is not hard-left, she told the Times in April, “While Biden is the nominee, we also know that he didn’t win because of policy — I don’t think he won because of his agenda, he won because of different factors. In state after state after state, Democratic voters support a progressive agenda.&#8221;
She added, &#8220;I think people understand that there are limits to what Biden will do and that’s understandable — he didn’t run as a progressive candidate. But, at the bare minimum, we should aspire to be better than what we have been before. And I just don’t know if this message of ‘We’re going to go back to the way things were’ is going to work for the people for who the way things were was really bad.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez’s own radical message was in evidence in December 2019, when she said at a Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles, “So we need to fight to start this work, an establishment of an advanced society. Because as much as much as we like to say that the United States is the richest country in the history, or rather in modern history, for who? The richest country, who cares about how much gold is being amassed if we can’t realize an advanced society with those resources? And we’re here to say that what we’re living in right now is not an advanced society. It is fascism! What we have, what we&#8217;re evolving into as well.&#8221;
In March 2019, Ocasio-Cortez suggested to an audience at the South by Southwest Conference &amp; Festivals that America was “10% better than garbage,” asserting, &#8220;It’s just that now we’ve strayed so far away from what has really made us powerful, and just, and good, and equitable, and productive, and so I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are but where we are is not a good thing. And this idea of like 10% better from garbage, is, shouldn’t be what we settle for …&#8221;
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On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, referring to the gigantic cuts to the New York Police Department budget that have been estimated at anywhere from $1 billion to $1.5 billion, pontificated that the cuts weren’t severe enough, snapping, “Defunding police means defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math.”
“It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/30/aoc-says-1-5b-nypd-budget-slash-didnt-go-far-enough/">New York Post</a>. She added, “It does not mean counting cuts in overtime as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every attempt by City Council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyways. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed ‘cuts’ to the NYPD budget are a disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues,” <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/505307-ocasio-cortez-dismisses-proposed-1b-cut-defunding-police-means-defunding">The Hill</a> reported.
Ocasio-Cortez was asked recently, &#8220;What does an America with defunded police look like to you?&#8221; She <a href="https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32849383/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defund-the-police/">answered</a>, &#8220;The good news is that it actually doesn&#8217;t take a ton of imagination. It looks like a suburb.&#8221;
The New York Post noted that the plan from New York City mayor Bill de Blasio would include canceling the NYPD’s July class of 1,163 cadets as well as $350 million to overtime pay and other expenses. On Monday, de Blasio said, &#8220;We have found a plan that will keep this city safe, will achieve the $1 billion in savings, will allow us to redistribute money to youth programs and communities that need it most.”
New York City Council speaker Corey Johnson echoed Ocasio-Cortez, saying, “To everyone who is disappointed that we did not go further, I want to be very honest and candid: I am disappointed as well,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/nyregion/nypd-budget.html">The New York Times</a> reported.
Brooklyn Councilman Carlos Menchaca, who has evidenced staunch support for defunding the police, said, &#8220;This budget deal is not a people’s victory. It’s a retreat into fear, with accounting gimmicks standing in for the real thing,” <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/de-blasios-1-billion-nypd-budget-cut-based-gimmicks-and-fiction-councilmembers-say">The Gothamist</a> noted.
Jumaane Williams, the city’s public advocate, “pointed to an obscure <a href="https://files.constantcontact.com/1c58f85b001/4f89d969-7dc8-4c3f-9818-7967beacf800.pdf">provision</a> in the City Charter that requires the public advocate to sign a warrant authorizing the collection of real estate taxes, which underpin the city’s budget. He said he would not sign that warrant unless the city eliminated the next class of police officers,” the Times wrote, adding, “No public advocate has refused to sign the warrant.”
<a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/06/30/nyc-budget-cuts-1-billion-from-nypd/">CBS New York</a> quoted Williams as saying, “As we near the final budget vote, it has become clear to me that this budget ignores some of the most critical elements of reducing NYPD’s funding and redefining public safety. Unless it meets those needs, I will use my Charter authority as Public Advocate under Ch. 58, Section 1518 to prevent the budget from being executed during the final tax warrant process.”
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Since its initial publication, the following op-ed has been read and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Along with stirring up widespread debate, the self-styled &#8220;heterodoxical&#8221; piece has been reviewed by fact-checkers, some of whom have pushed back on some its claims and conclusions (see summary below).
The following is the full text of an opinion piece written by climate activist and energy expert Michael Shellenberger which was originally published by Forbes but <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1277611390195216390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1277611390195216390&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclimatism.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F29%2Fmust-read-on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare%2F">pulled</a> a few hours later. Shellenberger, a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner, told The Daily Wire in a statement hours after Forbes deactivated the piece, &#8220;I am grateful that Forbes has been so committed to publishing a range of viewpoints, including ones that challenge the conventional wisdom, and was thus disappointed my editors removed my piece from the web site. I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly  alarmist approach taken by most reporters, and look forward to contributing heterodoxical pieces on energy and the environment in the future.&#8221; 
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On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.
I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30.
But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.
Here are some facts few people know:
<ul>
<li>Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”</li>
<li>The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”</li>
<li>Climate change is not making natural disasters worse</li>
<li>Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003</li>
<li>The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska</li>
<li>The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California</li>
<li>Carbon emissions have been declining in rich nations including Britain, Germany and France since the mid-seventies</li>
<li>Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor</li>
<li>We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter</li>
<li>Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change</li>
<li>Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels</li>
<li>Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture</li>
</ul>
I know that the above facts will sound like “climate denialism” to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism.
In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies.
Some people will, when they read this imagine that I’m some right-wing anti-environmentalist. I’m not. At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women’s cooperatives. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26 I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia.
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California.
In my 30s I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them. Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions.
Until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an “existential” threat to human civilization, and called it a “crisis.”
But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.
I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse.
But then, last year, things spiraled out of control.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/">said</a> “The world is going to end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” Britain’s most <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/12/04/why-climate-alarmism-hurts-us-all/#2f5c614d36d8">high-profile environmental group</a> claimed “Climate Change Kills Children.”
The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713829853/climate-change-is-greatest-challenge-humans-have-ever-faced-author-says">called </a>climate change the “greatest challenge humans have ever faced” and said it would “wipe out civilizations.”
Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off.
As a result, <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate">half of the people</a> surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity extinct. And in January, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-children/one-in-five-uk-children-report-nightmares-about-climate-change-idUSL1N2AV1FF">one out of five</a> British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.
Whether or not you have children you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter. After we talked about the science she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus, understandably, frightened.
I thus decided I had to speak out. I knew that writing a few articles wouldn’t be enough. I needed a book to properly lay out all of the evidence.
And so my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of my new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1590609394&amp;sr=1-1">Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.</a>
It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables.
Some highlights from the book:
<ul>
<li>Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress</li>
<li>The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land</li>
<li>The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium</li>
<li>100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5% to 50%</li>
<li>We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities</li>
<li>Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than 4%</li>
<li>Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did</li>
<li>“Free-range” beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions</li>
<li>Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon</li>
<li>The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants</li>
</ul>
Why were we all so misled?
In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests. Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs forced the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty “sustainable.” And status anxiety, depression, and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism
Once you realize just how badly misinformed we have been, often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations, it is hard not to feel duped.
Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it.
The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop.
The ideology behind environmental alarmsim — Malthusianism — has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever.
But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power.
The coronavirus pandemic is an actual crisis that puts the climate “crisis” into perspective. Even if you think we have overreacted, Covid-19 has <a href="https://covid19.who.int/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_-D3BRBIEiwAjVMy7KU0ya2ktmSUopVsnznft6PuAjAnIBH9nqxBNJA2yn2eRzXOf8l5yRoCKM0QAvD_BwE">killed</a> nearly 500,000 people and shattered economies around the globe.
Scientific institutions including WHO and IPCC have undermined their credibility through the repeated politicization of science. Their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform.
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalists at legacy publications.
Nations are reorienting toward the national interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables.
The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to.
And the invitations I received from IPCC and Congress late last year, after I published a series of criticisms of climate alarmism, are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment.
Another sign is the response to my book from climate scientists, conservationists, and environmental scholars. “Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book,” writes Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “This may be the most important book on the environment ever written,” says one of the fathers of modern climate science Tom Wigley.
“We environmentalists condemn those with antithetical views of being ignorant of science and susceptible to confirmation bias,” wrote the former head of The Nature Conservancy, Steve McCormick. “But too often we are guilty of the same.  Shellenberger offers ‘tough love:’ a challenge to entrenched orthodoxies and rigid, self-defeating mindsets.  Apocalypse Never serves up occasionally stinging, but always well-crafted, evidence-based points of view that will help develop the ‘mental muscle’ we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future.”
That is all I that I had hoped for in writing it. If you’ve made it this far, I hope you’ll agree that it’s perhaps not as strange as it seems that a lifelong environmentalist, progressive, and climate activist felt the need to speak out against the alarmism.
I further hope that you’ll accept my apology.
Follow me on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/@ShellenbergerMD">Twitter</a>. Check out my <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/founder-president">website</a> or some of my other work <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/#37fc7ec7b1b8">here</a>.
Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award Winner, and author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Harper Collins, June 30, 2020). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and other publications. His TED talks have been viewed over five million times.
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Update: The fact-check site Climate Feedback published a report on June 28 summarizing responses of six climate science fact-checkers who concluded that “several” of the claims made by Shellenberger are “accurate or partially accurate,” while “others are inaccurate and mislead readers by lacking context and cherry-picking data while overlooking other relevant scientific studies.” Among the claims the reviewers push back on is that “climate change is not making natural disasters worse,” which they said is “inaccurate and contradicts reports from the IPCC as well as numerous scientific studies linking anthropogenic climate change to temperature extremes, drought, precipitation patterns, and wildfires.” The fact-checkers also argued against Shellenberger’s conclusion that “Humans are not causing a ‘sixth mass extinction,’” saying it “contradicts scientific evidence demonstrating that extinctions in animal species far exceed background extinction rates.” Additionally, they refuted some of his claims about wildfires. (<a href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-shellenberger-mixes-accurate-and-inaccurate-claims-in-support-of-a-misleading-and-overly-simplistic-argumentation-about-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR0cJgnM4_hceJ5VnRJCMhkTbkcbGNZV6D8TZE0p6sp8fnpdzeB1T-8zU3w">Read the full fact-check here</a>.)

Sen. Bernie Sanders And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Housing Green New Deal

SHELLENBERGER: On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Climate Change

Global Warming

Team Trump was ecstatic.
“Just passed 800,000 tickets,” campaign manager Brad Parscale wrote on Twitter on June 14. “Biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x. Saturday is going to be amazing!”
Saturday was, of course, the day of a campaign event by President Trump in Tulsa, Okla., his first since March 2.
On the 15th, Trump got in on the act. “Almost One Million people request tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!” Trump tweeted.
There was just one problem — and Team Trump should’ve seen it from a mile away.
The city of Tulsa has just over 400,000 residents. The entire county has a population of slightly more than 650,000. If you group Tulsa with all the nearby cities and towns — Broken Arrow, Bartlesville, Owasso, Bixby, Jenks, Claremore, Sand Springs and Sapulpa — you still come up short of a million.
Yet Team Trump hyped and hyped, projecting a massive crowd — even setting up a followup speech by Trump to what was expected to be thousands of people unable to get into the BKO Center, which holds 19,000.
But on Saturday, fewer than 6,200 tickets of attendees were scanned, at least according to the city’s fire marshal, who keeps track of that sort of thing. There was a pathetic overflow crowd; Trump aides scrambled to cancel the president’s appearance for what would have been a few dozen folk milling about.
Donald Trump, the internet’s Greatest Of All Time Troll, got trolled.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a socialist from New York, let Team Trump in on a secret that had been moving around the internet for weeks. AOC gleefully reported that “teens on TikTok” reserved thousands of tickets — and then didn’t show up.
“Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/fake ticket reservations &amp; tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID,” she wrote in response to a Twitter message by Parscale.
“Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said.
AOC also thanked fans and “stans” of South Korean pop music. “KPop allies, we see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice too,” the congresswoman wrote.
Trump was reportedly (if you can believe the mainstream media, and who can these days?) “shocked and furious.”
“The president, who had been warned aboard Air Force One that the crowds at the arena were smaller than expected, was stunned, and he yelled at aides backstage while looking at the endless rows of empty blue seats in the upper bowl of the stadium, according to four people familiar with what took place,” The New York Times wrote Monday.
Team Trump — and especially Parscale, who had unwittingly oversold the event — went on the offensive.
Parscale hit social media first, declaring that there were several reasons — other than Zoomers and Kpop fans — for the empty seats. “Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with @realDonaldTrump supporters at the rally. They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering,” he wrote on Twitter.
Others said fears of the coronavirus — which the MSM was in the process of rehyping (gotta get those ratings!) — was another factor for the no-shows.
Still other Trumpers sought to kill the messenger. Ken Farnaso, deputy press secretary for the Trump campaign, told Fox News that tickets are not scanned at Trump rallies. “Every rally is general admission — entry is on a first-come-first-served basis and prior registration is not required. There are no tickets to scan,” he said.
Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh offered his own count, nearly double the fire marshal’s number. “First, we know how many people went through the magnetometers that are set up by the Secret Service and it was 12,000 so the fire marshal is wrong.”
In the post-mortem, so-called news agencies read the tea leaves and came up with a slew of interpretations, the most hilarious of which was offered by the once-great Associated Press.
“Instead, his weekend rally in Oklahoma highlighted growing vulnerabilities and crystallized a divisive reelection message that largely ignores broad swaths of voters — independents, suburban women and people of color — who could play a crucial role in choosing Trump or Democratic challenger Joe Biden,” the AP said.
In a last-ditch effort, Team Trump touted the big numbers on TV and online. “The President’s speech was viewed by almost 20 million Americans, including a record-setting 7.7 million viewers on Fox News as well as almost 12 million viewers on the campaign’s streaming sites,” the campaign said.
And that’s great. But in the end, Trump The Master Troller appears to have gotten trolled by Zoomers and Kpoppers.
No amount of spin doctoring can change that.
*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.
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President Trump Departs White House For Trip To Arizona

CURL: Trollmaster Trump Gets Pwned By Zoomer Trollsters

Donald Trump

Oklahoma

&#8220;Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed to challenge Chuck Schumer in Senate primary,&#8221; said the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-pushed-chuck-schumer-prim/">Washington Times</a> headline.
The story found a big-time fan: President Trump.
&#8220;Actually, that would be a big improvement &#8211; and she would win!&#8221; Trump wrote Monday on Twitter.
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Actually, that would be a big improvement &#8211; and she would win! <a href="https://t.co/EzmOjNtYJS">https://t.co/EzmOjNtYJS</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1274923712324796421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Times said, &#8220;liberals are kicking around the idea that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could launch a 2022 primary challenge against a titan of the Democratic Party establishment: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer.&#8221;
“Just going to say something out loud that should be obvious: The fastest way to speed up the process of changing the corrupt, do-nothing, status-quo-protecting culture of the national Democratic Party is for @AOC to defeat @ChuckSchumer in a Democratic primary in 2022,” David Sirota, a senior adviser to Sen. Bernard Sanders’ presidential campaign, wrote recently on Twitter.
<blockquote>Ms. Ocascio-Cortez would be a natural fit, so the mere thought of the liberal sensation considering a heavyweight clash with Mr. Schumer is generating buzz about the future of the first-term congresswoman while adding another layer of intrigue to the New York’s primary.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender, surprised politicos in 2018 when she knocked of party power broker Joe Crowley in the 14th Congressional District, which includes parts of the Bronx and Queens. Since then, she has built a mini-machine, targeting incumbents she deems not progressive enough and hauling in huge amounts of cash.
The first-term lawmaker is staunchly anti-Trump, which makes his endorsement all the stranger. On Sunday, the democratic socialist from New York took glee in the reported low turnout at President Trump&#8217;s campaign rally on Saturday in Tulsa, saying &#8220;teens on TikTok&#8221; reserved thousands of tickets &#8212; and then didn&#8217;t show up.
“Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/fake ticket reservations &amp; tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID,” she wrote in response to a Twitter message by Trump 2020 Campaign chief Brad Parscale.
&#8220;Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
AOC also thanked fans and &#8220;stans&#8221; of K-Pop,  a genre of music popular in South Korea. &#8220;KPop allies, we see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice too,” the congresswoman wrote.
Photos from the event showed parts of the upper tier of Tulsa&#8217;s BOK Center were empty during the rally, despite requests for tickets that Parscale claimed earlier last week topped one million.
Parscale said there was another reason for empty seats. &#8220;Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with @realDonaldTrump supporters at the rally. They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.
Liberal media outlets also gloated about the smaller-than-expected crowd.
&#8220;In the days leading up to Trump&#8217;s rally, he and his allies ginned up expectations for a massive crowd with campaign officials telling CNN that more than a million people had registered to attend, and one local official stating they expected 100,000 to show up near the arena,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/politics/tulsa-rally-trump/index.html">CNN</a> wrote.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist from New York, took glee in the reported low turnout at President Trump&#8217;s campaign rally on Saturday in Tulsa, saying &#8220;teens on TikTok&#8221; reserved thousands of tickets &#8212; and then didn&#8217;t show up.
“Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/fake ticket reservations &amp; tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID,” she wrote in response to a Twitter message by Trump 2020 Campaign chief Brad Parscale.
&#8220;Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
AOC also thanked fans and &#8220;stans&#8221; of KPop,  a genre of music popular in South Korea. &#8220;KPop allies, we see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice too,” the congresswoman wrote.
Photos from the event showed parts of the upper tier of Tulsa&#8217;s BOK Center were empty during the rally, despite requests for tickets that Parscale said earlier last week topped one million.
Parscale said there was another reason for empty seats. &#8220;Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with @realDonaldTrump supporters at the rally. They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.
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Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations &amp; tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID
Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud. ☺️ <a href="https://t.co/jGrp5bSZ9T">https://t.co/jGrp5bSZ9T</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1274499021625794565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Liberal media outlets also gloated about the smaller-than-expected crowd.
&#8220;In the days leading up to Trump&#8217;s rally, he and his allies ginned up expectations for a massive crowd with campaign officials telling CNN that more than a million people had registered to attend, and one local official stating they expected 100,000 to show up near the arena,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/politics/tulsa-rally-trump/index.html">CNN</a> wrote.
<blockquote>But those crowds didn&#8217;t appear as large as expected Saturday afternoon, leading to an abrupt change of plans by the campaign. The team abandoned plans for the President to speak to an &#8220;overflow&#8221; area outside the arena in Tulsa where only a couple dozen people were standing near the outdoor stage less than two hours before the rally. As soon as he came on stage, Trump suggested that protesters had kept away the crowds away from his rally.</blockquote>
There apparently was a coordinated effort to secure tickets to Trump&#8217;s rally, and then not attend. &#8220;An Iowa woman posted a video on TikTok last week, encouraging people to participate in the alleged scam,&#8221; CNN reported.
“All of those of us that want to see this 19,000 seat auditorium barely filled or completely empty go reserve tickets now and leave him standing alone there on the stage,” the woman, identified as Mary Jo Laupp, told her TikTok followers. Thousands of other TikTok users posted similar messages as the plan spread online, The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html">New York Times</a> reported.
“It spread mostly through Alt TikTok &#8212; we kept it on the quiet side where people do pranks and a lot of activism,” YouTuber Elijah Daniel, 26, told the Times. “K-pop Twitter and Alt TikTok have a good alliance where they spread information amongst each other very quickly. They all know the algorithms and how they can boost videos to get where they want.”
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AOC Boasts That Trump’s Tulsa Turnout Was Sabotaged By ‘Zoomers’ Who Got ‘Fake Ticket Reservations’

Longtime Democratic politicians have been rushing to save sixteen-term Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) from primary challenger Jamaal Bowman, a left-wing-backed candidate who is now <a href="https://prospect.org/politics/eliot-engel-down-double-digits-new-poll-jamaal-bowman/">polling</a> ten points higher than Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. 
While Bowman has been endorsed by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Engel has racked up a litany of endorsements from establishment Democrats. In the last few days alone, these endorsements include House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The flood of support suggests that Democrats fear that Engel, who has <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/jamaal-bowman-takes-the-lead.html">reportedly</a> not had a serious primary challenge in 20 years, may suffer the same political fate as former Congressman Joe Crowley, who was the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus when he lost a primary challenge to the then-politically unknown AOC. 
Engel has been facing scrutiny for the lack of presence in his district, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/eliot-engel-new-york-coronavirus/611611/">Atlantic</a> journalist Edward Isaac-Dovere, who reported that Engel was hunkered down near the capital while insisting, during in-person conversation with Isaac-Dovere at his Maryland home, that he was also quarantined in New York.
<blockquote>“I’m in both places,” Engel said.
“You are?” I asked.
“I sure am,” he said.
“You’ve been quarantined in both places?”
“Sure have.”</blockquote>
Engel’s office also advertised the congressman as participating in two local events, although The Atlantic reports that he didn’t. For one of them, Engel maintained the following day that he participated in the event, a mask distribution, despite allegedly not actually attending in-person.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hot-mic-dem-congressman-begs-to-speak-at-new-york-press-conference-gets-shut-down?%3Futm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=cnews">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Engel made an appearance in New York City after the Atlantic report dropped, but made headlines over a viral hot mic moment during which the congressman begged an event organizer to let him speak, seemingly so that his constituents would see that he actually attended.
“If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care,” Engel told the organizer, who asked him to repeat himself, prompting the congressman to say it again: “If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care.”
“Don’t do that to me, we’re not going to do this,” the organizer told Engel in response to his begging. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/eliot-engel-new-york.html">The New York Times</a> reported that the event organizer also added: “Everybody has a primary, you know that.”
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/pelosi-engel-new-york-primary-301507">reports</a> that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NY) endorsed Engel two days later.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/nyregion/eliot-engel-jamaal-bowman-primary.html">The New York Times</a>, which reported Wednesday that “Top Democrats Are Trying To Stop This Man From Becoming The Next A.O.C.,” Bowman has highlighted Engel’s district attendance as a reason he shouldn’t be re-elected.
“He doesn’t live in our community,” said Bowman. “I live in our struggles.”
Engel, who reportedly purchased his Maryland home in 1988, believes these criticisms are unfounded.
“I work in Washington and he’s going to deny me a place to sleep?” said Engel, who added, “you can’t stay on the, sleep on the streets.”
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Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump

After Hot Mic Moment, Democrats Rush To Save Sixteen-Term Rep From Getting AOC’d

2020 Election

Eliot Engel

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had a bit of a meltdown on Monday after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany referred to her as a &#8220;Biden adviser,&#8221; which is a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/aoc-joins-biden-s-climate-policy-panel-n1205886">correct</a> statement, and suggested that McEnany was racist for not referring to her as a &#8220;Congresswoman&#8221; and demanded an apology. However, it was quickly pointed out by the White House that McEnany did, in fact, refer to Ocasio-Cortez as a &#8220;congresswoman.&#8221;
McEnany <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kayleigh-mcenany-trump-appalled-by-the-defund-the-police-movement">made the remark</a> in response to Fox News correspondent John Roberts asking her: &#8220;What’s the president’s thinking on this growing movement to either defund or dismantle police forces across the country, and what reforms does the president think would be appropriate in the week of the George Floyd killing?”
&#8220;The president is appalled by the defund the police movement, the fact that you have sitting Congresswomen wanting to defund the police, notably Rashida Talib, notably Biden adviser AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former Clinton and Eric Holder spokesperson, Brian Fallon, wanting to defund our police across this country, it is extraordinary,&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;And when you think the left has gone far and they couldn’t possibly go farther because we all remember the defund ICE movement, they want to defund immigration and customs enforcement, and now they wanted to fund the police.&#8221;
&#8220;This is extraordinary. This is rolling back the protective layers that protect Americans in their homes and in their places of business,&#8221; McEnany continued. &#8220;He’s appalled by it. And it’s remarkable to hear this coming from today’s Democrat party.&#8221;
McEnany&#8217;s claim that Ocasio-Cortez has called for defunding the police is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-supports-defund-the-police-demands-george-floyd">correct</a> and it&#8217;s a position that is <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-agree-policing-reform">highly unpopular</a> with the American public.
&#8220;@PressSec wouldn’t be the first person to mistake a women of color for having a lower position or title than she does, but Kayleigh &#8211; in case you haven’t picked up a newspaper in two years, I’m a Congresswoman,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter. &#8220;The @PressSec comment is steeped in a long, hurtful, &amp; horrendous history of stripping women of color of titles and diminishing them to &#8216;the help.&#8217; Perhaps she isn’t aware that what she did is mired in racist history. If that is the case, I look forward to her apology tomorrow.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> comment is steeped in a long, hurtful, &amp; horrendous history of stripping women of color of titles and diminishing them to “the help.”
Perhaps she isn’t aware that what she did is mired in racist history. If that is the case, I look forward to her apology tomorrow.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1270065245856374785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The White House quickly debunked Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s false claim, with Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah responding by writing on Twitter: &#8220;Verbatim quote by @PressSec : &#8216;POTUS is appalled by the &#8216;defund police&#8217; movement. The fact that you have SITTING CONGRESSWOMEN wanting to defund the police—notably Rashida Tlaib, notably Biden advisor @AOC &#8230;&#8217; she literally called you Congresswoman, @AOC .&#8221;
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she literally called you Congresswoman, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>.
&mdash; Alyssa Farah (@Alyssafarah) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssafarah/status/1270072944232890370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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McEnany also responded on Twitter by including a screenshot of the transcript and writing: &#8220;Read the transcript, Congresswoman @AOC&#8221;
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Read the transcript, Congresswoman <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/knvCMmVjWh">https://t.co/knvCMmVjWh</a> <a href="https://t.co/q6uRWROYNA">pic.twitter.com/q6uRWROYNA</a>
&mdash; Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1270075234075291648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately respond to being corrected by multiple officials and did not take down her tweets or issue a correction or an apology, which she originally demanded from McEnany.
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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

AOC Snaps, Suggests McEnany Is Racist For Calling Her ‘Biden Adviser.’ White House Torches AOC In Response.

Kayleigh McEnany

After backlash from high-profile Democrats, including the campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), The New York Times, once again, changed a headline and deleted a tweet promoting it. President Trump has since responded by pointing to the paper&#8217;s most recent Democrat-prompted headline change as more evidence that it&#8217;s become a &#8220;fake newspaper.&#8221;
&#8220;As Chaos Spreads, Trump Vows to &#8216;End It Now,'&#8221; read the paper&#8217;s original front-page for its Tuesday print edition. The front-page features articles on Trump issuing &#8220;threats to send military&#8221; into riot-ravaged cities, the protests raging in 140 cities that have brought &#8220;5 deaths and thousands of arrests,&#8221; and the &#8220;chasm of race&#8221; in &#8220;liberal bastion&#8221; Minneapolis.
An image of the front page including the original top headline — accurately quoting Trump&#8217;s declaration and fairly describing the riots tearing through the country as &#8220;chaos&#8221; — was tweeted out by print editor Tom Jolly Monday evening and quickly highlighted by many incensed Democrats, including former Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro.
&#8220;The President is acting like a budding dictator,&#8221; wrote Castro. &#8220;Headline fail, [New York Times].&#8221;
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The President is acting like a budding dictator.
Headline fail, <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>. <a href="https://t.co/wOYcCAtNPn">pic.twitter.com/wOYcCAtNPn</a>
&mdash; Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) <a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1267646288952205312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Another Democrat disappointed with the generally Democrat-friendly Times, Ocasio-Cortez, wrote in response to Jolly&#8217;s since-deleted tweet: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me.&#8221;
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You’ve got to be kidding me. <a href="https://t.co/XJqrTH5P7c">https://t.co/XJqrTH5P7c</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1267650595277725696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Along with Castro and Ocasio-Cortez, Biden&#8217;s campaign complained, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/501085-trump-calls-new-york-times-fake-newspaper-after-headline-change">The Hill</a>.
On Thursday, Trump responded to a post by the Trump War Room calling out the Times &#8220;bow[ing] to the Biden campaign&#8221; by changing the headline highlighting Trump&#8217;s pledge to &#8220;end it now.&#8221;
&#8220;The Fake Newspaper!&#8221; Trump wrote.
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The Fake Newspaper! <a href="https://t.co/X6LEqpQeBc">https://t.co/X6LEqpQeBc</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268497297702367235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The incident is reminiscent of the Times&#8217; infamous &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/curl-new-york-times-proves-once-and-all-it-takes-joseph-curl">Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism</a>&#8221; headline cave.
“Together, we lock arms to shoulder the grief, we ask God in Heaven to ease the anguish of those who suffer, and we vow to act with urgent resolve,” Trump said in response to two devastating mass shootings in August 2019. &#8220;In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside — so destructive — and find the courage to answer hatred with unity, devotion, and love.&#8221;
After massive backlash from Democrats — among them then-Democratic presidential candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1158549774490120193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1158549774490120193&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fcurl-new-york-times-proves-once-and-all-it-takes-joseph-curl">Beto O&#8217;Rourke</a> and, again, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1158557383767052293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1158557383767052293&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fcurl-new-york-times-proves-once-and-all-it-takes-joseph-curl">Ocasio-Cortez</a> — the Times scrambled to change the headline to read &#8220;Assailing Hate But Not Guns.&#8221;
As with the &#8220;End It Now&#8221; switch, Trump took to Twitter to call out the Times, writing, &#8220;&#8216;Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism,’ was the correct description in the first headline by the Failing New York Times, but it was quickly changed to, ‘Assailing Hate But Not Guns,’ after the Radical Left Democrats went absolutely CRAZY!”
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“Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism,” was the correct description in the first headline by the Failing New York Times, but it was quickly changed to, “Assailing Hate But Not Guns,” after the Radical Left Democrats went absolutely CRAZY! Fake News &#8211; That’s what we’re up against&#8230;
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1159049603209158656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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NYT Trump

NYT Changes A Trump Headline, Again, After Team Biden, Ocasio-Cortez Complain; Trump Responds

Joe Biden

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocaiso-Cortez (D-NY) lashed out at The New York Times for allowing Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to publish an op-ed in the newspaper that features ideas that are supported by the majority of Americans.
Cotton&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">op-ed</a> accurately describes the violent riots that have rocked Democrat-controlled inner cities across the country over the last week in response to the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody last week.
Cotton then describes how the violent riots are harming the most vulnerable communities and suggests that the solution to fixing the problem would by to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military to highly unstable areas that are not doing what it takes to fix the problem:
<blockquote>One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers. But local law enforcement in some cities desperately needs backup, while delusional politicians in other cities refuse to do what’s necessary to uphold the rule of law.
The pace of looting and disorder may fluctuate from night to night, but it’s past time to support local law enforcement with federal authority. Some governors have mobilized the National Guard, yet others refuse, and in some cases the rioters still outnumber the police and Guard combined. In these circumstances, the Insurrection Act authorizes the president to employ the military “or any other means” in “cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws.”
This venerable law, nearly as old as our republic itself, doesn’t amount to “martial law” or the end of democracy, as some excitable critics, ignorant of both the law and our history, have comically suggested. In fact, the federal government has a constitutional duty to the states to “protect each of them from domestic violence.” Throughout our history, presidents have exercised this authority on dozens of occasions to protect law-abiding citizens from disorder. Nor does it violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which constrains the military’s role in law enforcement but expressly excepts statutes such as the Insurrection Act.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez, along with leftist reporters at The New York Times, called James Bennet, Editorial Page Editor at The New York Times and brother to Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet (CO), for publishing the op-ed and made numerous false suggestions in doing so.
Ocasio-Cortez posed the following questions for Bennet:
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<li>Can you explain why you chose to publish misinformation in your pages in service of an “opinion” for state violence?</li>
<li>Can you explain your choice to publish it on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square?</li>
<li>Do you believe your Black colleagues saying your choices have put them at risk?</li>
<li>Other Qs: Did you consider the author‘s explicit call for violence (“no quarter”) when you chose to run this piece?</li>
<li>Is it your belief that you are not responsible for the factual integrity of what you publish?</li>
<li>Do you believe calling for violence is an “opinion”?</li>
</ul>
Ocasio-Cortez was unable to list off any of the &#8220;misinformation&#8221; that she claimed was contained in the piece.
Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed that the op-ed, which was published on June 3, was published on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre, which took place on June 4th and 5th in 1989.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s suggestion that Cotton&#8217;s idea somehow puts blacks &#8220;at risk&#8221; suggests that only blacks are responsible for the violent riots and looting that is taking place.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim that Cotton explicitly calls for violence is also false.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/JBennet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBennet</a> Other Qs: Did you consider the author‘s explicit call for violence (“no quarter”) when you chose to run this piece?
Is it your belief that you are not responsible for the factual integrity of what you publish?
Do you believe calling for violence is an “opinion”?
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1268415067407749121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cotton correctly noted in his op-ed that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/majority-americans-support-calling-military-assist-police-during-nationwide-unrest-polling-shows-1508210">the majority of Americans</a>, including nearly half of all Democrat voters, support deploying the military to stop the violent riots.
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House Oversight And Reform Committee Holds Hearing On Confronting White Supremacy

Ocasio-Cortez Explodes Over Tom Cotton Op-Ed That Features Ideas Supported By Majority Of Americans

New York Times

Tom Cotton

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/494275-ocasio-cortez-says-she-will-vote-for-biden-in-november">supporter</a> of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, has joined a call to cut U.S. military funding at a time when tensions, including the possibility of a military conflict, with communist China are rapidly increasing.
Ocasio-Cortez signed onto a letter with 29 other far-left Democrat lawmakers to the House Armed Services Committee that demanded a &#8220;reduction in defense spending during the coronavirus pandemic.&#8221;
&#8220;As you draft this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), we encourage you to authorize a level of spending below last year’s authorized level,&#8221; the letter stated. &#8220;Congress must remain focused on responding to the coronavirus pandemic and distributing needed aid domestically. In order to do so, appropriators must have access to increased levels of non-defense spending which could be constrained by any increase to defense spending.&#8221;
The Democrats&#8217; argument that we must reduce defense spending in order to better fund the coronavirus response flies in the face of recent statements by officials. The U.S. federal government has spent trillions of dollars in multiple stimulus bills to combat the coronavirus pandemic, and the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in an interview this week that in terms of the financial ability that the U.S. federal government has to combat the pandemic, &#8220;there&#8217;s a lot more we can do.&#8221;
&#8220;I will say that we&#8217;re not out of ammunition by a long shot,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;No, there&#8217;s really no limit to what we can do with these lending programs that we have. So there&#8217;s a lot more we can do to support the economy, and we&#8217;re committed to doing everything we can as long as we need to.&#8221;
The letter that Ocasio-Cortez, who is helping <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-goes-far-left-aoc-gets-top-campaign-spot-to-push-radical-green-new-deal-after-she-cheered-job-losses-last-month">advise</a> the Biden campaign on policy, signed onto calls the coronavirus &#8220;our greatest adversary.&#8221;
&#8220;America needs a coronavirus cure, not more war,&#8221; the letter concluded. &#8220;We need more testing, not more bombs. In order to reopen our nation in a data-driven, safe manner, we need to focus our spending efforts on the millions of additional coronavirus tests and tens of thousands of additional contract tracers we will need, as well as covering treatment costs, developing therapeutics, and distributing future vaccines.&#8221;
The move by Ocasio-Cortez comes as the risk of military confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has dramatically increased in recent months over China&#8217;s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-sentiment-ex/exclusive-internal-chinese-report-warns-beijing-faces-tiananmen-like-global-backlash-over-virus-idUSKBN22G19C">reported</a> at the start of the month:
<blockquote>As a result, Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic and needs to be prepared in a worst-case scenario for armed confrontation between the two global powers, according to people familiar with the report’s content, who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter. &#8230;
Xi has revamped China’s military strategy to create a fighting force equipped to win modern wars. He is expanding China’s air and naval reach in a challenge to more than 70 years of U.S. military dominance in Asia.</blockquote>
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-all-comes-from-the-top-trump-unloads-on-china-for-their-lies-and-the-pain-and-carnage-they-have-spread-throughout-the-world">hammered</a> China late last night in a series of tweets, writing, “Spokesman speaks stupidly on behalf of China, trying desperately to deflect the pain and carnage that their country spread throughout the world. Its disinformation and propaganda attack on the United States and Europe is a disgrace. It all comes from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but they didn’t!”
Trump later added, “China is on a massive disinformation campaign because they are desperate to have Sleepy Joe Biden win the presidential race so they can continue to rip-off the United States, as they have done for decades, until I came along!”
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Ocasio-Cortez

Biden-Supporter AOC Calls For Military Cuts As China Military Threat Rapidly Increases

China

Coronavirus

Military

Now that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has signed on to former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign, leaving many of his supporters without a leader and his operation struggling to figure out what&#8217;s next, progressives are &#8220;in despair&#8221; and in political trouble, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/18/progressives-democratic-party-despair-255675">per a Politico report</a> Monday.
Sanders promised that the Democratic &#8220;Establishment&#8221; would not stand in the way of a progressive &#8212; even socialist &#8212; agenda, but &#8220;not only did the &#8216;establishment&#8217; stop Sanders,&#8221; Politico says, &#8220;it stamped out the candidacies of a string of left-wing insurgents, leaving the progressive movement reeling and in a state of despair.&#8221;
&#8220;Three highly-touted liberal House candidates — Jessica Cisneros in Texas, Robert Emmons in Illinois, and Morgan Harper in Ohio — lost their primary races against more moderate members of Congress,&#8221; the outlet continues. &#8220;The movement has also had limited influence on the proposals House Democrats have put forward to address the coronavirus, with leadership rejecting its most ambitious ideas.&#8221;
The most visible progressive leigislators &#8212; the &#8220;squad&#8221; &#8212; are notably vulnerable. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is facing a primary challenge from a more &#8220;moderate&#8221; Democrat with ties to her constituents in the Bronx, who are notoriously concerned that Ocasio-Cortez has spent the last two years raising her national profile rather than addressing local concerns. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is under heavy scrutiny for a series of potential campaign finance and personnel issues.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is facing a primary challenge from Detroit City Council president Brenda Jones, who narrowly lost to Tlaib in 2018. Jones was appointed to represent Michigan&#8217;s 13th district after former Rep. John Conyers resigned in 2017, but faced questions of whether she could serve in Congress and lead Detroit at the same time, making her run for the seat in 2018 controversial. She faced a 6-way primary that included Tlaib, and lost the seat to Tlaib by fewer than 1,000 votes.
Jones declared her intent to run against Tlaib back in late April, triggering progressive panic.
Elsewhere, progressive Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is likely to lose to Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA), the more &#8220;moderate&#8221; option, and the one &#8220;progressive&#8221; win &#8212; Marie Newman, who defeated Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois &#8212; is being credited to mainstream Democrat groups, not Democratic socialists.
Worse still is Sanders&#8217; former operation, according to a different report <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/bernie-sanders-base-in-disarray-259514">from Politico</a>. Sanders staffers are now in separate camps, operating a handful of different PACs, and rarely communicating or sharing information. Organizing networks are &#8220;on the verge of falling apart.&#8221; Sanders&#8217; PAC from 2016, &#8220;Our Revolution,&#8221; has been all but winless.
There are &#8220;no networks&#8221; or master lists of progressive volunteers or donors to help upstart campaigns; the Senator&#8217;s lists have all been migrated over to the Biden campaign, leaving progressives empty handed.
Sanders has been quiet since endorsing Biden several weeks ago, though some of his supporters, including Ocasio-Cortez are now on Biden policy teams. Sanders, instead, has been laying low. Over the weekend, he told media that his supporters will back Biden but that he intends to do legwork on the issue &#8212; and there seems to be plenty to do.
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‘Squad’ Doomed? Progressives Face String Of Losses, Supporters in ‘Disarray’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have unintentionally handicapped her own re-election campaign after failing to get the necessary 15 signatures to place her name on the November ballot in New York under the &#8220;progressive union-backed Working Families Party (WFP)&#8221; per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-removed-union-backed-progressive-party-ballot-line-new-york">Fox News</a>.
Ocasio-Cortez wanted her name placed on the ballot under the WFP apparently as a way of ensuring that she remains a choice for voters in November, even if she doesn&#8217;t make it through the Democratic primary for her Congressional district. She&#8217;s currently facing a tough primary challenge from Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, another Democrat with local ties to the Bronx, who has pledged to spend more time working with Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s constituents and less time seeking national prominence.
&#8220;The Working Families Party is an independent political party that cross-endorses progressive candidates through New York&#8217;s fusion voting system &#8212; which allows endorsement across ballot lines &#8212; to press Democrats to the left and extract concessions without being dismissed by voters as a spoiler,&#8221; Fox News reported.
New York greatly scaled back the number of signatures candidates need to get on the state ballot in order to avoid candidates and their campaigns going door-to-door and potentially spreading the novel coronavirus. The state announced that just 14.5 signatures (functionally, 15 signatures) are necessary to earn a spot on a ballot line.
Ocasio-Cortez turned in &#8220;only 13 signatures from members of the progressive group that has dubbed itself the &#8216;Tea Party of the left&#8217; &#8212; two short of what she needed to get on the ballot.&#8221;
After complaints, a judge booted her from the ballot under the WFP&#8217;s name.
The blunder probably won&#8217;t cost Ocasio-Cortez much &#8212; she&#8217;s still favored to win the Democratic primary in her district, which has been rescheduled for later this month &#8212; but she was probably hoping to avoid having to do any real campaigning in her district, particularly given that there are complaints among her constituents that she prioritizes national issues over local ones.
She&#8217;d also likely prefer to focus her efforts on former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s national, presidential campaign. On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez was named to the former Veep&#8217;s national policy team and will coordinate the candidate&#8217;s platform on climate change (Ocasio-Cortez, the author of the disastrous, monstrously expensive Green New Deal, is considered an &#8220;expert&#8221; on the issue).
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/497532-ocasio-cortez-fails-to-secure-working-families-party-ballot-spot">told The Hill</a> in a statement that the decision has no impact on its strategy.
The Working Families Party also says it will focus its own efforts on getting Ocasio-Cortez re-elected, regardless of which line she appears on on the final ballot.
“As the pandemic was erupting, we did not believe it was appropriate to put canvassers or voters’ health at risk. We stopped collecting signatures — knowing it would not affect our ability to help in the Democratic primary,” the party noted in a statement from its leadership Wednesday.
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Oops! Ocasio-Cortez Booted Out Of Progressive Ballot Spot After Failing To Get Just Fifteen Signatures

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Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday night that democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was working with his campaign to promote her radical <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/group-sees-ocasio-cortez-s-green-new-deal-costing-93-trillion">$93 trillion</a> &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; which gives the government <a href="https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/commentary/the-green-new-deal-less-about-climate-more-about-control">far more control</a> over the economy and imposes a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-socialist-that-could-11549583738">complete takeover</a> of some private industries. The move comes after Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-celebrates-american-oil-job-losses-you-absolutely-love-to-see-it">cheered</a> American job losses last month that happened in the energy industry as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
&#8220;Ocasio-Cortez will co-chair a task force for Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign on climate change, a source with direct knowledge of the planning tells CNN, a move that adds progressive credentials to the former vice president&#8217;s effort to unify the party ahead of the general election,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/politics/ocasio-cortez-biden-campaign-task-force-climate-change/index.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The group is one of several task forces being formed to bridge the divide between the polices of Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ended his White House bid last month.&#8221;
An aide for Ocasio-Cortez said that she made the decision in conjunction with far-left climate change activists.
Biden later confirmed the news during an interview with News8 in Las Vegas, during which he also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-on-pandemic-the-people-who-are-getting-hurt-are-democrats-our-constituency">appeared to falsely suggest</a> that the coronavirus pandemic was only impacting Democrats.
“Well, the good news is that Bernie has robustly endorsed me, we’ve set up joint committees together to deal with how we would deal with everything from, from the virus all the way down to education, the criminal justice system, the New Green Deal, etc,” Biden said. “And we’ve got overwhelming support. I mean we’re more united today than almost every, every single person who competed in the primary is now wholeheartedly endorsed me, campaigned around the country for me using their digital media to promote our campaign, and I’m working with Bernie and with his people.”
Looking down at his notes, Biden continued, “And so we’ve made some changes, we’ve listened to Bernie supporters and, you know, for example, we have, uh, you know, uh, congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, she is on one of the panels as well and so I think we’re going to have a very united party and my message to all, and what they’re finding out now that the nomination process is de facto over, they’re finding out the positions I had on an awful lot of things were not accurately characterized and, uh, they’re feeling more comfortable with it. But I’m listening, I’m here, I need them and I hope they all will join us.”
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Joe Biden says he set up a joint committee with Bernie Sanders to discuss the &quot;New Green Deal&quot; and that Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> is on one of his policy panels.
Make no mistake. Joe Biden is the bannerman for socialism. <a href="https://t.co/NTHGGz9fg7">pic.twitter.com/NTHGGz9fg7</a>
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Biden has shown a great affinity for far-left members of his party during the course of his presidential campaign, including toward <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/born-to-lose-beto-orourke-brutally-mocked-over-failed-campaign">failed presidential and Senate candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke</a>, who went on to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-republicans-blow-out-beto-orourke-backed-democrat-in-key-texas-house-race-report-says">back</a> other Democratic candidates who failed to win their elections.
O&#8217;Rourke has embraced radical anti-Second Amendment policies, including confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens.
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Democrat Beto O&#39;Rourke wants confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens.
If you don&#39;t comply, there will be &quot;consequences&quot; and you&#39;ll get a &quot;visit&quot; from law enforcement.
Beto is absolutely UNHINGED. Watch⬇️<a href="https://t.co/KCfqghnWFU">pic.twitter.com/KCfqghnWFU</a>
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Biden embraced O&#8217;Rourke in March, declaring that he wanted O&#8217;Rourke to head up his efforts on gun control, saying that O&#8217;Rourke was &#8220;going to take care of the gun problem with me&#8221; and that O&#8217;Rourke was going to &#8220;lead&#8221; the effort.
Biden is all over the map when it comes to firearms, from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-socialist-that-could-11549583738">falsely claiming</a> that firearms have killed 150,000,000 (not a typo) Americans since 2007 to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-rational-gun-policy-is-banning-50-clips-in-a-weapon-ak-47-wont-protect-you-from-government">saying</a> that a &#8220;rational policy&#8221; on guns means not having &#8220;20, 30, 40, 50 clips in a weapon.&#8221;
Biden has also called for effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-essentially-calls-for-banning-nearly-all-firearms">banning nearly all firearms</a> and has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-compromise-biden-goes-extreme-guns-calls-ban-ryan-saavedra">said</a> that it is &#8220;totally irrational&#8221; to let church-goers arm themselves so they can protect themselves and others from potential harm.
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Beto O’Rourke championed eliminating your <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a> rights, confiscating your guns, &amp; punishing law-abiding Americans
Joe Biden just promised to put Beto in charge of “the gun problem” to “lead this effort”
Joe wants to take away Americans’ guns just as badly as Beto!
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has now said that Tara Reade&#8217;s sexual assault allegation against former Vice President Joe Biden is not &#8220;clear cut,&#8221; despite her belief that something might have happened between them both.
Speaking with NPR, the far-left congresswoman called this a &#8220;messy moment&#8221; while acknowledging that some aspects of Reade&#8217;s account have been verified by journalists.
&#8220;There have been investigative journalists that have corroborated certain aspects of her account – that is undeniable – [and] have raised questions about other aspects of her account,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851715944/rep-ocasio-cortez-says-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-not-clear-cut">told NPR</a>. &#8220;It certainly seems as though something has happened. I&#8217;m not sure&#8230; Frankly, this is a messy moment, and I think we need to acknowledge that – that it is not clear-cut.&#8221;
In March, Tara Reade claimed that then-senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade’s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the alleged assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called into CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
This past Saturday, The Associated Press <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-new-sources-claim-tara-reade-told-them-about-aspects-of-joe-biden-allegation">reported</a> that two new people, both of whom wished to remain anonymous, said that Reade spoke of Biden’s behavior prior to her going public.
Biden has unequivocally denied the allegation against him, claiming it &#8220;never happened.&#8221;
In the same interview with NPR, Ocasio-Cortez said this could be an important moment for survivors of sexual assault.
&#8220;I think that there is an impact here for survivors, and I think it&#8217;s very important to speak about what this moment means for survivors across the country,&#8221; the lawmaker said.
&#8220;I think a lot are watching how our leadership and our culture and our media respond to this, and I don&#8217;t think the response overall has been sufficient,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult because this is in a hyper-politicized zone, right? Instead of focusing on her account, instead of focusing on her story as a survivor, people are fast-forwarding to the political implications – &#8216;Do you want Trump to win? Will you be voting for Joe Biden?&#8217; – and that denies justice in this situation.&#8221;
The politicization has certainly gotten in the way of an honest inquiry regarding Reade&#8217;s account. Just this week, Linda Hirshman, author of a book called “Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-op-ed-electing-biden-is-worth-dismissing-accuser-weakening-the-voices-of-victims-suck-it-up">wrote an op-ed in The New York Times</a> explaining that she believes Reade but will be voting for Joe Biden anyway:
<blockquote>All major Democratic Party figures have indicated they’re not budging on the presumptive nominee, and the transaction costs of replacing him would be suicidal. Barring some miracle, it’s going to be Mr. Biden.
So what is the greatest good or the greatest harm? Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the worst president in the history of the Republic. Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez added that she does not believe Tara Reade to be a political actor.
&#8220;While a lot of folks, again, are trying to jump to the political implications, she has never explicitly said ‘don&#8217;t support Joe Biden,’&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;She hasn&#8217;t explicitly said anything in terms of a political remedy that she wants. If anything, it simply sounds like she wants to be heard.&#8221;
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A New York newspaper blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after the lawmaker became the only Democrat on Capitol Hill to vote against one of the four coronavirus emergency aid packages.
The New York Daily News editorial board published an <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-house-vote-20200426-apcnqbwg55bejmf3qtib6ejvp4-story.html">article</a> Sunday condemning Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for voting against the fourth aid package that passed the House on Thursday in a landslide 388-5 vote. Ocasio-Cortez joined four Republicans in voting against the bill: Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Jody Hice of Georgia, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
&#8220;[Ocasio-Cortez is] from the hardest-hit part of the hardest-hit city of the hardest-hit state in the hardest-hit country on Earth,&#8221; the editorial board wrote. &#8220;So why was she one of just five members of Congress to vote against the $484 billion bill delivering boatloads of urgently needed help to small business, and to hospitals, and to ramp up testing?&#8221;
In a floor speech on Thursday, the freshman Democrat said the aid package was lacking in its support for hospitals, testing, and small businesses. She blamed Republicans for the bill’s shortcomings.
&#8220;The only folks [Republicans] have urgency around are folks like Ruth&#8217;s Chris Steak House and Shake Shack. Those are the people getting assistance in this bill. You are not trying to fix this bill for mom and pops,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
&#8220;We have to fight to fund hospitals, fighting to fund testing. That is what we&#8217;re fighting for in this bill,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It is unconscionable. If you had urgency, you would legislate like rent was due on May 1 and make sure we include rent and mortgage relief for our constituents.&#8221;
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The New York Daily News dismissed her criticism, saying that the fourth bill, like the previous three, was a key step in the larger response to the coronavirus pandemic.
&#8220;AOC claims it’s because the bill didn’t go far enough. Yeah: The first aid bill didn’t go far enough. Nor did the second. Nor did the third. The fourth didn’t get there either, but the response to crises happen in steps. If everyone said no to each massive package because it didn’t go all the way, we’d all be even deader in the water,&#8221; the board wrote.
&#8220;Her terribly wrong vote made her the only Democrat in either the House or Senate siding against any of the four coronavirus bailouts passed since early March,&#8221; the board continued. &#8220;Not the kind of distinction a rising star legislator should be proud of.&#8221;
President Trump signed the $484 billion emergency aid bill into law on Friday. The relief package included a $320 billion infusion into the Paycheck Protection Program that had exhausted its funds over a week before. The program was designed to provide forgivable loans to small businesses forced to shut down or restrict service over the coronavirus.
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‘Enemy Of The Good’: NY Newspaper Slams Ocasio-Cortez Over Coronavirus Aid Vote

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/coronavirus-relief-package-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-only-democrat-to-vote-against-484-billion-relief-package/">only</a> House Democrat to oppose funding to help Americans who are struggling from the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China.
The move by the far-left lawmaker comes after she cheered American job losses on Twitter earlier in the week when she learned that the oil industry was being ravaged by the pandemic.
Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-celebrates-american-oil-job-losses-you-absolutely-love-to-see-it">tweeted</a>: “You absolutely love to see it. This along with record low interest rates means it’s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet. *cough*&#8221;
The $484 billion bill that the House voted on Thursday night included a &#8220;$310 billion infusion to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a forgivable loan program that ran out money last week amid skyrocketing demand from hurting small businesses,&#8221; Fox News reported.
&#8220;It is a joke when Republicans say that they have urgency around this bill,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. &#8220;The only folks that they have urgency around are folks like Ruth&#8217;s Chris Steakhouse and Shake Shack. Those are the people getting assistance in this bill. You are not trying to fix this bill for mom and pops.&#8221;
Senate Republicans were ready to move forward with the bill two weeks ago but Senate Democrats blocked it — a move that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-claims-gop-stalled-ppp-funding-she-praised-democrats-for-blocking-it">praised</a> at the time.
Earlier this week, after she celebrated American job losses in the oil and gas industry, Ocasio-Cortez said that people should not go back to work when the economy reopens.
&#8220;When we talk about this idea of &#8216;reopening society&#8217; you know, only in America, does the President, when the President tweets about liberation, does he mean go back to work,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/22/alexandria_ocasio-cortez_americans_should_just_say_no_to_going_back_to_work_after_reopening_society.html">said</a>. &#8220;When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot people should just say &#8216;no,&#8217; we’re not going back to that. We’re not going back to working 70 hour weeks just so that we can put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.&#8221;
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a Democrat who is challenging Ocaiso-Cortez in the primary race for New York&#8217;s 14th Congressional District, slammed the former bartender for her antics.
“AOC votes against more aid to our overburdened hospitals in the Bronx and Queens and indeed the whole nation,” Caruso-Cabrera <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/23/aoc-primary-challenger-slams-her-vote-against-coronavirus-relief-package/">said</a>. “AOC votes against more coronavirus testing for the Bronx and Queens and indeed the whole nation. AOC votes against aid to small businesses for the Bronx and Queens and indeed the whole nation.”
Caruso-Cabrera added, “This is outrageous and just plain wrong. Nothing could underscore more clearly why AOC’s anti-democratic party, pro-socialist agenda needs to be rejected once and for all.”
This report has been updated to include additional information and quotes.
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This week, the price of oil futures collapsed catastrophically. In fact, the prices collapsed into negative territory in the near term. This bizarre situation, prompted by lack of consumer demand and lack of storage facility, led the irrepressible Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to tweet: &#8220;You absolutely love to see it. This along with record low interest rates means it&#8217;s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet.&#8221;
This tweet was too dumb even for her — an extraordinary bar, given her past commentary — and she deleted it. But she then reiterated the point in a follow-up tweet, characterizing the rock-bottom oil prices as a &#8220;key opportunity&#8221; to &#8220;create millions of jobs transitioning to renewable and clean energy.&#8221;
Needless to say, investing in expensive green energy at a time when oil producers cannot give away oil is peak stupidity. But the Boston University economics major&#8217;s faux pas merely underscores an uncomfortable truth regarding this pandemic and its aftermath: For the most partisan, every crisis is an opportunity to push political priors.
The most obvious agenda item for those on the political left has been the growth of government. Dan Balz, chief correspondent of The Washington Post, drooled while saying: &#8220;For the first time, many Americans are looking to government for their very economic survival. In time, that could make them look at government differently.&#8221;
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote for The New York Times that the &#8220;unequal impact of the pandemic and economic collapse are forcing us to rethink the assumptions of our system.&#8221;
Among those assumptions: the free market economy (Sanders terms the free market &#8220;the path of greed and unfettered capitalism&#8221;). The New York Times termed the coronavirus a &#8220;new frontier in the fight for civil rights&#8221; and quoted race hustler the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who is calling for a government commission to investigate the &#8220;racism and discrimination built into public policies&#8221; that result in racial health disparities.
Precisely this attitude — that every crisis is a new weapon in the war for more expansive government, and in favor of a complete rethinking of the constitutional bargain — will lead more and more Americans to view shutdown orders with skepticism.
It is one thing to lock down populations on a bipartisan basis with clear goals — goals like preventing coronavirus patients from swamping the health care system. Most Americans will go along with that, and most Americans are willing to grant policymakers the benefit of the doubt.
But when politicians begin to reveal ulterior motives for such shutdowns, Americans begin to ask questions.
When politicians simultaneously take measures that obviously do nothing to combat the coronavirus — measures like locking public parks where people are social distancing, or banning Americans from buying gardening supplies but ensuring access to abortion remains fully available — Americans begin to wonder whether their politicians are trustworthy. And when politicians meet such questions with hysterical accusations that the questioners simply don&#8217;t care about human life, Americans grow even more suspicious.
Crises require trust in authority. But authorities must earn our trust with well-founded, sensible policy. They must be transparent about what they are doing and why they are doing it. When authorities instead suggest openly that their agenda isn&#8217;t solely curbing the coronavirus but remaking America along the lines of their own political priors, they lose our trust. And they should.
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