As Twitchy readers know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was babbling earlier today about abolishing prisons because they evolved out of slavery and Jim Crow or something. She may have even called them ‘American apartheid’.
We were shocked, SHOCKED, that she could spell the word, ‘apartheid’, but that’s beside the point. Apparently, the socialist darling took so much flack for her stupid idea that she came back to Twitter and wrote a thread about how the right was ‘freaking out.’
Laughing hysterically at her is not freaking out but whatever floats her little boat.
I know the term “prison abolition” is breaking some people’s brains. The right is already freaking out.
Yet the US incarcerates more than anywhere in the world.
We have more than enough room to close many of our prisons and explore just alternatives to incarceration.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
Breaking some people’s brains.
And hey now, if anyone knows about having a broken brain it’s AOC.
First of all, many people in jailed or in prison don’t belong there at all.
Whether it’s punitive sentencing for marijuana possession or jailing people for their poverty & letting the rich free through systems like cash bail, we wrongly incarcerate far, far too many people.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
First of all, what?
What the Hell is she even talking about here? Letting the rich free through systems like cash bail …
Hoo-boy.
Secondly, our prison & jail system is so large bc we use them as de facto mental hospitals, homeless shelters, & detox centers instead of *actually* investing in… mental health, housing, edu, & rehab.
If we invested meaningfully, what do you think would happen to crime?
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
AOC should feel free to write a check and pay more in taxes if she really wants to ‘us’ to pay for all of these things. Oddly enough, peeps like AOC never want to be the ones to foot the bill for all the free crap they promise people.
Funny how that works out.
Lastly, people tend to say “what do you do with all the violent people?” as a defense for incarcerating millions.
Our lawmaking process means we come to solutions together, &either way we should work to an end where our prison system is dramatically smaller than it is today.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 7, 2019
Notice she has NO answer as to what we do with violent and dangerous people.
Technically she has zero answers in her entire thread but we digress.
Your mistake is thinking it's the right freaking out. Nobody wants to assume the reason a murderer or a rapist is in prison b/c or economic or societal factors…instead of maybe they just *like* to do those things.
Have fun convincing everyone jails are concentration camps now.
— AnotherTListener (@listener_t) October 7, 2019
AOC is obsessed with drinking out of toilets and concentration camps.
That’s sorta … weird, right? Maybe it’s a millennial thing.
I agree with @AOC here.
We should abolish about 90% of prisons, decrease sentences for most crimes, and increase the number of death sentences to many thousands of people per year (at least). https://t.co/bjl6wSKp81?
— Boomieleaks (@notwokieleaks) October 7, 2019
Sounds … extreme.
Heh.
We are? Where do you get the “right”
Is freaking out?— Anthony Cipollo ?? ?? (@acipollo) October 7, 2019
LOLOL…let me ask a rhetorical question, are you really that stupid? The answer is painfully obvious, YES! Go to China, go to NOKO, go to Russia, go to Iran & see how many are incarcerated & for what. MAGA!
— Royce Labor (@Horns_Rod) October 7, 2019
Presumably we'd at least need some sort of jails for short-term detention? Plus there are certain serious offences we wouldn't want punished purely in the community.
— Simon ? (@uncriticalsimon) October 7, 2019
If only there were a legislative body empowered with undoing the laws sending these people to prison in the first place
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 7, 2019
Right?! If only.
People said I was crazy when I said the left's end game is to abolish prison.
And yet, here's Congress' beer wench literally proposing "prison abolishment".
— Jack Daley (@RealJackDaley) October 7, 2019
Welp, they need someone to vote for them besides illegal immigrants.
OH CALM DOWN, it was just a joke.
Sorta.
You current job is ::squints:: as a member of the elected branch tasked with passing and/or changing laws. That might be a better use of your time than tweeting. Then again, that would be actual work.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) October 7, 2019
Yeah, all the ex-cons can come live with you.
— Jay Zealberg (@JZealberg) October 7, 2019
Hey, maybe they can show her how the garbage disposal works.
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