Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has childishly refused gracious invitations to tour real concentration camps. Why? Because one of the invitations came from Congressman Steve King.

“On Sunday, socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declined an invitation from a Holocaust remembrance group to visit Nazi concentration camps with a Holocaust survivor, suggesting that it was part of a “far-right” scheme designed for “political gain.””

As soon as I read that, I wanted to leap through my computer and give her one helluva Gibbs slap of common sense. Just because Steve King issued the invitation?? Look, I am personally not a fan of Steve King. He is absolutely not someone I respect and I’m glad he is not my Congressman. That said, what we have here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ignoring genuine invitations like this one:

“”AOC — look at me. My name is Sami Steigmann. I am a holocaust survivor. I went through it. How can you — looking at my face, telling me that the camps we have in the South are concentration camps? What you are doing is you are insulting every victim of the Holocaust. Shame on you!” Steigmann said. “I’m not only a Holocaust survivor, I was in a labor camp … I was subjected to medical experiments and, later on, a German woman saved my life, when I came to the stage of dying of starvation.” Tuck, who has been through four concentration camps, said AOC’s comments were purely political and don’t reflect reality. “My name is David Tuck. I’m a holocaust survivor. I was in four concentration camps. We have no concentration camps [in America],” he said.”

A must watch for sure.

Hi @AOC –

You say America runs concentration camps.

I spoke with people who have true authority on this issue: David & Sami. They both survived real Nazi concentration camps.

They have a message for anyone who thinks America runs concentration camps.

AOC – Please listen, for once pic.twitter.com/hGOwa1T2UG — Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 22, 2019

She also ignores this one:

“”Dear Congresswoman Cortez

We at From The Depths, would like to invite you as our guest during your summer recess from The United Congress, to join us along with Holocaust Survivor, United States Citizen and President of From The Depths, Mr. Edward Mosberg on an educational tour, specifically built for legislators, of the German Nazi Concentration Camps. The educational tour will visit Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek Concentration Camps, amongst many other educational sites.”

There were quite a few other invitations as well. All sincere. Yet she never responded. Until Steve King sent a tweet. Then the gloves were off.

Keep in mind, King wasn’t inviting AOC to go tour WITH him, he was encouraging her to accept at least one of the invitations that had been sent her way. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn’t get out of her own way to see that and instead dug more holes for herself.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1142866800297816065

Hey @Liz_Cheney, you’re the GOP Conference Chair – perhaps you should come collect your colleague before more members of your caucus start saying the quiet parts loud — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 23, 2019

The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop. So I’m going to have to decline your invite. But thank you for revealing to all how transparently the far-right manipulates these moments for political gain. https://t.co/TQkaPEESoD — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 23, 2019

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1142873623377694722

Well….isn’t she just oh so special and rude as hell.

She chose to fixate on Steve King’s invite and has blatantly ignored the invitations of Holocaust remembrance groups and survivors. That says a great deal about HER character…or lack thereof.

Perhaps she’ll watch something like this moving video instead?

It got dusty in here for a bit.

Don’t get me wrong. AOC would watch that video and then snark about the issues with the detention centers on our border because children!

Her solution to that real issue, one that does NOT resemble actual concentration camps is this.

The GOP has supported building mass concentration camps on the southern border. Kids & families are dying. Now they want money for more – w/ ZERO negotiation on how $ is spent. We can’t do that. They‘ve shown that when they get more money, they build more camps. #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/DYhXuU9Crz — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019

So, instead of working to provide actual funding to help alleviate the problems of resources stretched extraordinarily thin, AOC has decided that no funds are needed to help the children. Stellar plan that!

AOC has proclaimed herself as a consensus builder.

“”I think the truth of what I am is a consensus builder,” she told Cooper in the video above. “And I like to think that I’m persuasive, and so I think a lot of that work is going to be on building relationships and trying to persuade and talk to my colleagues on building a progressive agenda for the party.””

I had no idea that consensus building meant rudely and childishly dismissing a significant and incredibly painful part of our history, but that’s the hill AOC has chosen to climb in favor of her #CloseTheCamps narrative.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs to learn from history instead of ignoring it. However, that seems to be a task even more difficult than dealing with those weird garbage disposal thingies and plants actually growing out of dirt.

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