Friends,
When I see stories like this, I stop and ask myself if there is any proof that the person they accused has done anything like what they are accusing that person of having done:
Friends,
When I see stories like this, I stop and ask myself if there is any proof that the person they accused has done anything like what they are accusing that person of having done:
Have you seen this story yet?
“If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the highest court of the land and then issue without basis — if you read these opinions — issue without basis, rulings that deeply undermine the human and civil rights of the majority of Americans, we must see that through,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
OK, first things first, THIS IS ILLEGAL SPEECH! AOC is sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution — even when she does not like the result. Heck, especially when she does not like the result. She would be the first one demanding the Right accept an unconstitutional ruling had the Court ruled as she wanted it to, but here, she is calling for retaliation when the Court actually rules according to the Constitution. That means that a strong case can be made that AOC is calling for violence against SCOTUS, especially in light of her support for the ‘protests’ (i.e. terrorism) that has been directed at several members of the Court in recent days. Should that case be made, her words here would then represent subversion/sedition, and both are a violation of federal law.
However, illegality of her words aside, this is yet another clear example of how the Left lies. Allow me to use AOC’s own words to demonstrate.
AOC says that there must be retaliation for lying to get on the bench, then ruling opposite of what was said.
AOC claims she is for ‘democracy,’ yet, when ‘democracy’ does not go her way, she demands ‘retaliation.’
Hence, AOC has lied to get in office, then, once in office, she rules against ‘democracy.’
AOC is guilty of the very thing she accuses SOCTUS of doing. Her actions are 180 degrees out of sync with her words.
See how it works?
Now, let us look — carefully — at her accusations. No one on the bench has lied to get confirmed except — maybe — Sotomayor. None of the Justices said to be ‘Right-Wing’ have ever been shown to have lied during their confirmation hearings. However, given their rulings, the same cannot be said about the Justices on the Left. However, if the ‘Right-Wing’ Justices did lie, it was not about supporting a radical agenda and then voting in line with the Constitution, but exactly the opposite: they claimed to be Constitutionalism but, once in office, they have ruled against the Constitution. Roberts and Obamacare would be a perfect example.
So, if and when AOC seeks to remove Roberts, Sotomayor and all the other Leftists who have voted contrary to what they said in their confirmation hearings, all we have here in this story is another tyrannical extremist putting her hypocrisy on full display.
Simply stated, the 180 Degree Rule states:
The political Left in the United States accuses its political opponents of trying to do what the Left is actually doing.
This story is a perfect example of the 180 Degree Rule in the headlines, but, before you can see it, you have to remember what the American Left has said about the American Right. First, a couple ‘general’ examples of the 180 Degree Rule from past headlines:
US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
Canadian political scientist warns in op ed of Trumpist threat to American democracy and possible effect on northern neighbor
Twelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term
“The fascist speech Donald Trump just delivered verged on a declaration of war against American citizens,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) tweeted. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) — noting in an opinion column three days later that the president’s “attempt to use chaos to shred democratic safeguards and consolidate authoritarian power is deadly serious” — put it this way: “This is our own Reichstag fire and, yes, Trump is playing the role of would-be Fuehrer, proclaiming a ‘God-given signal’ to seize more power.”
Finally, a clear parallel from past headlines — where the Left accuses Trump of doing exactly what Biden is threatening to do in the title story of this post:
Republicans Have Made It Clear They Will Let Trump Become a Dictator. Will We?
Freed from all accountability by the Senate, the realtor’s inner autocrat is on full display, with a pressure campaign on the Justice Department to back off on its sentencing recommendations for his convicted friend Roger Stone, and with an extraordinary flurry of tweets personally attacking the judge in Stone’s case.
So, the Left claims Trump was threatening dictatorship simply for expressing his anger over the sentence of Roger Stone. Fine. Then tell me how that is any different from this:
Biden says he’s looking at executive orders on abortion rights if Supreme Court strikes down Roe
He said, “I think what we’re going to have to do. There’s some executive orders I could employ, we believe — we’re looking at that right now.”
For those who cannot see this issue clearly, I’ll explain it:
Trump was accused of dictatorial threats because he was ‘intimidating’ the Supreme Court.
Biden is flat-out saying he will over-rule the Supreme Court by ‘executive decree’ (I do not say ‘executive order’ because there is no such allowance for the President to make law that way; in the way Biden is threatening. Thus, it would be a decree, not an order).
Folks, these are directly parallel actions with one exception:
Trump did nothing to over-rule, pack or dismantle the Supreme Court; Biden is saying that is exactly what he will do if the Court does not obey him.
For the slower members of our class, this means that Biden is opulently declaring he will turn dictator if does not get his way (which, if you do not understand it, means he thinks he is already entitled to ‘dictate’ to the Supreme Court).
So, to conclude this lesson: any way you slice it, the Left actually does what it claims the Right is only threatening to do.