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June 6, 2021
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Rep. Alexandria “Don’t Call Me AOC” Ocasio-Cortez offered forth some more of her renowned wisdom this week, declaring that there’s no evidence that insane Democrat policies like doing away with bail or defunding the police have caused the skyrocketing crime waves in blue cities. No, she insists that if we want less crime, we need to build fewer jails.

This inspired a brilliant idea for me, too: if we don’t want any more pandemics, we need to build fewer hospitals. Think about it: what’s the #1 sign of a pandemic? Hospitals full of patients. No hospitals, no patients; and no patients, ipso facto, no pandemic!

Sorry, having to listen to nonsense like this got me thinking like a liberal for a minute.

AOC claims there’s no evidence that the rise in crime was caused by leftist policies, but that’s like saying you see no evidence that a flood was caused by a rainstorm, just because you slept through the rainstorm. At the risk of suggesting something that might be beyond her abilities, I’d suggest she try connecting the dots. Read this article from the Wall Street Journal about the horrific conditions being suffered by minorities in cities that defunded the police and allowed rioters and looters to run riot.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-year-after-george-floyds-murder-its-open-season-in-minneapolis-11621893383?mod=hp_opin_pos_2

It points out that in Minneapolis, between January 1st and last week, homicides were up 108% from the same period last year, shootings were up 153%, and carjackings up 222%. Similar crime spikes have been seen in other blue cities with similar policies, including New York, L.A. and Chicago. Perhaps most horrifying of all, shootings of children in Minneapolis are up 171%. The grandmother of a 10-year-old boy who’s fighting for his life asked why nobody is mad and protesting that; is it only because a cop didn’t shoot him?

In a darkly ironic twist, the area known as “George Floyd Square” is now described as a burned-out, desolate, isolated, police-free zone where residents live in fear and senior citizens sleep in their bathtubs to try to avoid being shot through their windows. The WSJ article notes that Democrats blame this crime wave on the pandemic, but it actually started after the George Floyd riots, which began two months after the pandemic shutdowns began.

To be fair, AOC does have a bit of a point buried under her usual illogical verbiage. If someone is genuinely mentally ill, they should be in a hospital or care facility rather than jail (of course, it was leftists who insisted that it was a violation of civil rights to involuntarily institutionalize people and gave us the epidemic of mentally ill homeless people.) It probably would help reduce some crimes if we focused more on root causes such as preventing drug abuse or street gangs. But without the threat of possible jail time, some would sincerely seek help while others would just play the system to see what they could get away with.

Ironically, the only reforms that would truly make a difference are things that AOC and her comrades would virulently oppose.

First, improve inner city schools. We all know how bad many urban public schools are, and Democrats have recently given us a perfect example of how they prioritize teachers’ unions over the students. With the endless lockdowns, poor minority students have suffered the most, since many can’t afford the Internet or tutors. Want to help them avoid falling into drugs and crime? Help them get better educations. And I mean real educations, not teaching them that they can never get ahead because America is racist.

Next, a reform I know AOC would hate: bring back traditional, Judeo-Christian values.

Leftists lament that in crime-ridden urban neighborhoods, many young people have no respect for life, but they want to put an abortion clinic on every corner. They want new government programs to deal with gangs of young males who grew up without fathers, while demonizing marriage, dismissing the importance of fathers and incentivizing having kids out of wedlock (the founders of Black Lives Matter have openly stated that one of their goals is the destruction of the nuclear family, which is the #1 culprit in the destruction of black lives over the past half-century.) AOC wants a slew of new government programs to provide every need even as leftists wage war on churches that used to provide such charitable assistance, along with the spiritual guidance to help people overcome their demons, understand that God loves them, and get on their own feet so they no longer need charity.

If AOC really wants to rebuild families, instill respect for life and help people overcome sin and temptation, I’m actually with her. I just seriously doubt that she’d approve of the only things that would actually accomplish those goals.

Speaking of AOC, she actually blamed the still-unrepaired damage to her grandmother’s home in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria on “systemic injustices” and Donald Trump. That led conservative commentator Matt Walsh to launch a GoFundMe account to raise money to pay for AOC’s grandmother’s home repairs, since AOC can afford a Tesla but can’t seem to cover her grandmother’s handyman bills. He suggested giving $499, the monthly cost of a Tesla lease.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-aocs-abuelas-ancestral-home?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

It was picked up by other conservatives eager to rub AOC’s nose in it (Ben Shapiro, for instance, pledged $499), and the fund rose to $104,153.

But someone in AOC’s family said her grandmother would not take the money, so it’s being refunded. Apparently, AOC won’t accept voluntary help from conservatives. She’ll only accept help in the form of taxes taken from them by force.

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  • Robert Carter

    06/22/2021 09:18 PM

    This may sound like Superman talking, but it seems to me that any organization that is responsible to the public for an accurate rendition (by paid subscription, either direct or through commercial advertizements) of the accounts of public interest, but instead wilfully misleads the public with untruth, has a burdon of guilt for such action (unless, of course it's called "editorial" opinion) to the extent of liable, punishable by extreme fine or other punitive burden, such as paying for the illegial immigrants medical, food, clean-up, jail meals and transportation expenses for the trips home; paying for all abortion costs (not authorized to be paid by public taxation); et al.
    Has the legal system ever seriously addressed punitive action against media for liable ? It could cost them more in legal costs than it's worth to release such garbage.

  • Constance H Whitley

    06/20/2021 03:47 PM

    I'm wondering why Putin made those flowery and patently ridiculous remarks about how astute and with-it Biden is and how false his portrayal as senile by the MSM. No way could he possibly believe that drivel. So what was he given to coerce him to say it? Just curious.

  • Gerald A. Gould

    06/20/2021 03:20 PM

    AOC is a self-absorbed child in a women's body. She sees the world not as it is but as she deems it to be, which of course is divorced from reality. In the Indianapolis area where I live, we have issued more ankle monitors than anywhere else in the country. Our murder rate has been escalating like in other cities, most of the victims, young black men, killed by handguns. Most of these crimes never get solved. And it is hard not to assume that the perpetrators are men with monitors. So there is hardly any penalty for committing a crime. Based on stories of a few men locked up for decades and then released after evidence, usually DNA . upends their convictions, we have decided as a country not to lock up anyone, it seems. Low bonds, or failure to arrest law breakers is eating at the heart of society. If I were a witness to a crime in the black community, but knew the person responsible for committing a crime would be out on the street after posting no bail or at most $50., why would I risk my life or that of my family to provide information to the police? The AOC's and her Hamas loving compatriots, if successful, will cause the breakdown of civil society.

  • Margaret Kost

    06/20/2021 02:40 PM

    Governor,
    Excellent points on AOC article. Yes, Governor Wolf is definitely a ‘let the Democrats control everyone and everything’. We hope Pennsylvanians will start speaking up for to the conservative values that many here hold. The few ruin it for the many.
    HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to you!
    Also to all fathers everywhere. May God love and bless you all with wisdom…

  • Douglas Quinn

    06/20/2021 01:06 PM

    She needs to go back to bar tending

  • Russell A. Palmer

    06/18/2021 11:33 PM

    She lies as her laws of her country, (that is NOT America,) have worse prisons than we, and they get by with breaking law against anyone other than their politicians. The Islam's feel if they steal or kill anyone an Islam, and do it for Allah, it is OK. God, (the Real God,) says that is not true. She will pay the price for her sins. B|

  • rooare

    06/18/2021 10:30 AM

    We should stop calling democrats liberals, they are not liberals they are leftists aka progressives/socialists/Marxists.

  • Connie Focht

    06/18/2021 06:55 AM

    Well Said !! Thank You !!!!!!

  • Belle Mieloch

    06/13/2021 08:47 PM

    A women in Asheville NC found a pair of jeans inside out with underwear still on them in her trash can. Called the police. They said they had no report of woman being assaulted. And did nothing. I told her to bag the jeans and keep them in case of a future crime was reported. She did this. Police said it was probably put there by homeless person. What homeless person discard a good pair of pants? This is our world today so sad nobody cared.

  • Douglas Hoffmaster

    06/13/2021 08:36 PM

    Absolutely loved your article about AOC (sorry but I just can't not call her that) and the comments you made saying that following her logic we can stop the Wuhan virus by building fewer hospitals!! Fantastic news ??. And that would save a lot of construction costs since all the building materials have become so expensive thanks to the Socialist policies. We can also save our teeth by having fewer dentists. Why, the possibilities are endless. And such an easy remedy