U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks as, from left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his incendiary comments about the four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don’t like things going on in America. They fired back at what they called his “xenophobic bigoted remarks” and said it was time for impeachment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) just proved that she truly belongs to the far-left “Squad” group that also includes Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
First, she proved her far-left radical credentials by attacking our American justice system as “racist, xenophobic, rogue & fundamentally flawed beyond reform.” Meaning, of course, that it had to be torn down and face “radical transformation.”
This country's criminal INjustice system is racist, xenophobic, rogue & fundamentally flawed beyond reform.
Today, we are calling for a radical transformation rooted in decarceration: The People's #JusticeGuarantee ➡️ https://t.co/67rSvoSmt5 pic.twitter.com/MxdKetnOTo
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) November 14, 2019
We’ve seen that underway with radical and progressive DAs being elected across the country with a little help from George Soros.
In San Francisco, you even had Chesa Boudin, the son of radical Weather Underground terrorists winning the DA race there and promising to not prosecute “quality of life” crimes.
But even beyond the radical policy, Pressley stepped in it big time, as her sisters in the squad often do.
Here’s what she tweeted as a follow-up to the first tweet. She deleted it, but the internet is forever.
#MA7 remembers her tweet pic.twitter.com/gEckHeluUC
— Jess Turner🦃🇺🇸 (@JessTurnr) November 14, 2019
Wait, what? How could she actually believe that 1 in 4 people in the world are “locked in cages?” Never mind that people locked up in jail are not “locked in cages,” but are in jail because they were convicted of crimes.
There are about 7.5 billion people in the world. So she’s claiming that over a billion people, about 1.8 billion are locked up in the United States? There are only about 330 million total in the United States.
Going by the https://t.co/U0MXO6eNIJ here… 7,743,882,000 people on the planet. 1 in 4 of that is 1,935,979,500 people. The US population is 329,064,917 people. How exactly are we able to cage 588% more people than our population? Reasons I can't take politicians seriously.
— Salem Pardus (@SalemPardus) November 14, 2019
How did she make it to Congress with this kind of grasp of math and statistics?
https://twitter.com/BlueChekist/status/1194972837301358592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1194972837301358592&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj-3930%2F2019%2F11%2F14%2Fmath-is-hard-ayanna-pressley-deletes-tweet-about-the-number-of-people-locked-in-cages-around-the-world-but-we-got-it%2F
I *think* she means the U.S. prison population is 1/4 of the global total (this is likely high tho) but her tweet is hilariously garbled. However even that stat counts the 2.2 million in the U.S. but doesn’t include, for instance, 1 million Uighurs in Chinese concentration camps. https://t.co/kIYOtbaNhV
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) November 14, 2019
Or all the people locked up in concentration camps in North Korea.
And North Korea is essentially a prison state of 25 million people and I have no particular reason to trust incarceration numbers they (or China etc.) provide. The point being — this “1 in 4” figure is flawed in many many ways & it’s not a good basis for criminal justice reform.
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) November 14, 2019
Ultimately, she did ‘fix’ it to this:
When 1 out of 4 prisoners in the world are locked away in cages in America, it becomes our moral obligation to do something. When we acknowledge America's dark past, we provide ourselves w/ a chance to fundamentally change our future. #JusticeGuarantee https://t.co/k8jk0PIxOP
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) November 14, 2019
But, as Jerry Dunleavy noted, that’s probably too high as well.
Simply letting people out or not prosecuting crimes that should be prosecuted leads to more crime and a lot of other burgeoning quality of life issues that we’re seeing in some Democratic cities
HT: Twitchy
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