In exactly 22 seconds during a late-night television appearance, Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showcased her lack of understanding how the United States government works. Ms. AOC literally gets the construct of our government reversed.
According to AOC it is “the responsibility of the president and congress to put the Supreme Court in check.”
Exactly the opposite is true.
It is the literal role and responsibility of the Supreme Court to check the constitutional validity of the legislative and executive branch. The supreme court exists, almost exclusively, to keep the president and congress in check. WATCH:
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Ms. AOC could not be more wrong if she tried. However, this is a great example of how basic civics are unknown to some of the people in congress. Quite remarkable.
I’ve seen more attractive mouths on a bass.
Hahahaha, good one….
My Arkansas buddy used to say “Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”
The people who voted in this menace have earned my disdain.
They deserve worse.
Correct. There are millions of profoundly stupid people like Cortez in America. The only way they find their way to power is when even dumber people vote for them. Our voters are to blame for people like Cortez representing us, and I don’t see light at the end of that dark tunnel of uninformed voters.
(And, yes, I categorically refuse to use her full name or her initials. She doesn’t deserve my respect.)
2000 mules— did voters elect this nitwit?
Perhaps.
Perhaps not.
She was chosen for her stupidity by the young Turks, if I’m not mistaken.
Yes, she was picked literally at an audition. People forget.
This is one of the most ignorant people EVER to be elected to public office at any level. Dog catchers have more knowledge about government. That is not to disparage dog catchers. At least, they provide an actual service. She? None at all. .
What this little tart disdains is our entire country and she craves the spotlight, which the leftist media is so eager to give her.
I think Hank Hohnson, the Rep. who infamously said Guam could tip over, would give her a run for the money.
His name appears next to “useless” in the dictionary.
He IS consistent, however. He was a race baiting piece of shit as
a Dekalb County Comissioner, and continues to be one in Congress/
This middle-aged woman-baby perpetually has her eyes bugging out of her skull and her mouth wide open. Has no one ever told her that is no way to age gracefully?
I love Sundance with all my heart and my respect is deeper than the ocean. I may be splitting hairs here but I think we need to begin using the correct language when speaking about people like this. Yes I believe AOC is unintelligent but in a case like this she fully understands the civics. When people like her speak out about these types of things they aren’t making a mistake – they are blatantly saying that the old “civics” should be done away with forever. In this regard they aren’t stpid. They are our enemies.
You nailed it. This is exactly what the D RATS want. And all the dumb down people who follow her believe it.
I agree. She’s talking to her audience and they are not deep thinkers.
Yes.
There hatred of America and the Constitution knows no bounds.
For AOC ignorance is bliss. She continues to show her ignorance on a daily basis.
She’s dumber than a bag of hammers. but she’s got a nice rack so she gets a pass.
Evolutionarily speaking, this puts her ahead of the curve.
It’s a silly world, but can’t say I judge it to harshly with the beauty that abounds all around us.
Big bazoongas can’t overcome a punchable face.
Congress has the duty to impeach all government officials who commit high crimes and misdemeanors.
This includes all judges.
NOT saying any justice has done so.
She is partially correct.
EACH branch has the power and the duty to check and balance the other branches.
Just as the STATES have the power and duty to check and balance the federal government.
And the people have the power to check & balance all of them…way past time for all of us to take our power back.
Absolutely!
ABSOLUTELY dumber than a box of rocks….
Knowing that she may be as power drunk as queen nancy some day scares the you know what out of me.
Speaking of Biden and the Supreme Court, I thought this was pretty funny…
https://ifunny.co/picture/hello-joe-it-s-me-cornpop-DTe9eUI88
She doesn’t know she’s wrong. This helps her come across as convincing.
Our system of government is just an idea, as such AOC may actually have an advantage by dismissing the ideas of our governments systems of checks and balances in favor of her implied idea of centralized control.
All of us would be well served to remember:
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”
Our individual autonomy is critical to our well being, this ties in interesting ways back to the abortion debate. I’m not sure that either side has the proper resolution, though generally I think government should be out of the debate (meaning no gov funding and no saying no to it).
Or she does know and lies. Either is the same. God hates a lying tongue.
I personally think these people do not believe in God. As my retired GP said, anyone that can not succeed in another profession, trade, goes into politics.
You can fool some of the people some of the time but, apparently, you can fool die hard democrats all of the time. Vaccines, the Ukraine war, and now packing the Supreme Court. It’s really amazing that people believe the lies coming from democrap elites and the enemedia propagandists. I used to think the democrat base was just not curious. I’m now shifting towards thinking they’re stupid.
One of the biggest tools the left has in their toolbox is activist judges. If they open the can of worms to have the other two branches checking the judicial? Well lets just say it will be as wise a decision as it was for Dingy Harry to nuke the filibuster.
She won her seat in Congress due to winning a “casting” call audition by some left wing organization in NY. She’s a cunning little progressive Marxist who knows how to use social and main stream media, but dumb as a rock!
Cunning. Perfect apt description for “Sandy from the Bronx.”
Even a stopped clock …
This one, AOC actually got right (and Sundance is wrong).
Our Constitution gave (limited) original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court and such appellate jurisdiction as Congress may allow. The Constitution requires the President to swear (or affirm) that he will PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, before he can take office.
In contrast, all other federal officers must swear (or affirm) they will SUPPORT THE CONSTITUION (see the difference?).
What are the threats to the Constitution that our President is obliged to defend (against)? Ans: Other branches of government — specifically the legislature and the judiciary.
We’re taught in school there are three co-equal branches of our federal government. This is a blatant lie. Congress is by far the most powerful, the can fire every federal office in an afternoon (impeachment and conviction by joint session).
Congress can also neuter the Supreme court by appending a single line to every bill, “No action may be brought in any court in these United States challenging the constitutionality of this Act, ending the Supremes self declared power to nullify laws.
Alas, Congress can’t get out of its own way.
The Judiciary is (by far) the weakest, not only do they depend on the executive to enforce their decisions, only he has the power and Constitutional mandate to declare laws to be unconstitutional.
If you’ve ever seen the man on the street interviews with random young people, their lack of knowledge is astounding. Example: Interviewer points to an American flag flying nearby and asks, “How many stars are on that flag?” to which a college-age girl replies, “I don’t know, it’s moving too fast.”
By these standards, AOC is a freaking genius.
She’s like a Sheepdog yapping at the heels of the Left to move in the direction of the Biden Admin/Congress packing the Court in response to all the outrage over their sacred cow being gutted. Which has been the plan all along.
I can’t help visualizing her mouth open and her hands going up and down and up and down.
We have Senators Warren and Congresswoman AOC who are not even aware of the Hyde Amendment.
Little Miss Red Faced Stompy Feet still has not matured enough to read the US Constitution and understand the three Branchs. How can she mature when surrounded by immature, illogical adults day to day. If they all think the same it would be similar to that Mom that begins to think relate and talk like her three year old because she does not get out enough. Its preaching to chore everyday. To get their way they get Red Faced and Stompy Feet on the web and in the streets becoming physically violent because they are not getting appeased as they did in their youth. Just a whole generation of spoiled children in grown up bodies.
How the hell did she get elected if she didn’t pass high school basics? Who are these idiots who elect these kind of people?
In the sense that the Supreme Court is APPOINTED and APPROVED by the Executive and Legislative branches respectively, she isn’t entirely incorrect. She’s demonstrated her idiocy before but if you’ve studied Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln’s writings on SCOTUS, they would disagree with your simplistic take.
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps…. Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.” (Jefferson)
“John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” - Andrew Jackson
Now they know how we felt during the Warren court years.
In a checks and balances system, yes, the Executive and Legislative branches can “check” the Supreme Court via exercise of their Constitutional powers. Congress can propose a Constitutional Amendment to create abortion rights. If sufficient states ratify it, a right to abortion can be legally created. The Dems do not actually have the votes and state legislative support for this, but they want what they want NOW. Therefore violence, illegality, and dictatorship. The Left has no use for democracy that disfavors whatever they please situationally.
Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, who is a trained hypnotist, says we’ve been watching a movie on a screen, but the left is watching another movie on the same screen. The key is to choose the movie that is most predictive of the future, so you are not constantly stunned and surprised by outcomes.
AOC and the left listen to the wrong people, and watch the wrong movie, and are constantly indignant that reality does not conform to their fantasies.
AOC Actress, Barmaid, Soros shill. He sure can pick them.
I will join you. Cheers!!!
Globalist Barbie – pull her string, and her “marxist truths” spew out.
But she is so pretty to look at & she is so passionate in her stupidity
To be fair, there isn’t really that many “checks” on the Supreme Court as it is. I mean, when have the judges ever faced any consequences for stepping out of line and rewriting law — which is out of their scope of government? The fact that we have been beholden to a Supreme Court decision for decades — where rights were just crafted out of thin air, shows me that there’s hardly any checking going on. That’s why people can get away with talking about “breathing life” into the constitution by bringing in things that aren’t really there.
This woman has to be the dumbest person on earth. I still cannot get past her first month in an elected position when she bitched about not having been paid so she could pay her rent and buy clothes to come to work!!! Well, where was the money she was earning as a bartender?? And where were her wealthy parents?
This ditzy woman is supposedly college educated? She has zero understanding of the Constitution and the form of government the Founding Fathers created and shows that ignorance whenever she speaks on the subject. Did she even understand the Oath she took off?
They just make stuff up as they go. AOC is epitome of on-the-job rewriting of ANYTHING she disagrees with. Next week, if the SCOTUS rules in favor of something she likes….viola!….they are her best friends. And then when they rule against her…..Boom!…..enemies again.