10 thoughts on “Sure, It’s Satire

  1. The Babylon Bee is just as witty as The Onion ever was (and occasionally still is); also a headline today: Liberals Applaud As Local Baker Refuses To Serve Alex Jones.

    I’m happy to see this level of wit and push back coming from this corner of society. It bodes well because one important part of the left’s strength during the 60s and 70s was how much fun it was having pushing against “the man” – isn’t having fun one of the rules for radicals?

  2. Ocasio-Cortez describes herself as “working class.”
    She is the kind of “working class” person the elites love — grew up in Westchester (the property taxes on a single family home in Westchester will set you back $20k/year). Her father was an architect. She has a degree in economics from Boston U. Ocasio-Cortez interned in Ted Kennedy’s office.
    Ocasio-Cortez has been anointed because she represents elite values, not “working class” values.

  3. The only part of this story that is satire is the title. The last sentence about Washington D.C. is completely true.

  4. Ocasio-Cortez, according the wikipedia, graduated from Boston U with a double degree in economics and international relations. She then went to work as a bar tender & a waitress. Really? This is what a degree from Boston U gets you? Tuition + room and board at Boston U is $70k/year.
    Supposedly her activism was triggered by her father dying intestate, and because she was purged from the voter rolls in the Bronx.
    My father died intesate, but it didn’t matter because he had nothing. He had $8,000 in life insurance from his job. That went to pay off the lease on his car. Why was she purged from the voter rolls? No one seems to know or wants to know. My guess is that she didn’t register, or was playing games with her residency of record.
    In 2016 (sez the Wiki) Ocasio-Cortez traveled across the US by car — visiting activists in Flint, Michigan and Standing Rock. In other words, she drove across the US on a mission to meet people like herself.
    Ocasio-Cortez ain’t got the brains to get by in the working class, but she does just fine fitting in with America’s ruling class.

  5. Ocasio-Cortez ain’t got the brains to get by in the working class, but she does just fine fitting in with America’s ruling class.

    She’s everything the ruling class looks for in a mascot.

  6. I’m not so easily impressed with paper credentials these days. Her tuition was paid. She’s a female and a minority and pretty, besides. If she showed up for class at all, she would have been given C’s for class participation regardless of exam results.

    If she worked the system correctly, she only took classes from profs who wanted parrots rather than students. Listen to a few minutes of the drivel during lecture hall, figure out the prof’s hot button talking points, regurgitate them in the blue book, you’re a rock star.

    But the big firms on Wall Street can smell who’s a shark and who’s an affirmative action pass-through. They might get stuck hiring a few for diversity purposes but those people will spend their lives in HR or PR, nowhere near the customers’ money.

    Actually, now that you mention it, she reminds me of another famous person, someone who was articulate and bright and clean and good-looking, a real storybook character. That guy went a long way on nothing more. She might, too.

  7. When my youngest daughter was 4, she wondered why the important things people needed weren’t free. By the time she was 6 and had her own lemonade stand, she understood.

  8. Joe D. wrote:
    If she showed up for class at all, she would have been given C’s for class participation regardless of exam results.
    She says she graduated cum laude. I can believe it, but I would love to see the work that put her in the top 10% of her class. By focusing on the soft, subjective aspects of colonialism and international relations — “Economic experience of recent Central American immigrants”, for example, she could have gotten good grades and avoided the hard stuff. In her public appearances she seems woefully ignorant of things like “If the supply function is an ellipse of where a is positive and b=a, identify the function that describes where the supply and demand lines cross as supply changes.”

  9. All I can say is that it takes a special kind of “economics major” to love the Gini quotient but be completely ignorant of the laws of supply and demand, and that it takes a special kind of economics department to give her As for that so she can graduate cum laude. It also takes a special kind of thinking to decide that her father’s failure to write a will (that’s what “died intestate” means) indicates that society is biased against her.

  10. She interned for Ted Kennedy? Does that mean she is a good runner/swimmer? Or did Ted change his ways in his last years?

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