Conservatives over at the daily
wire thought it would be funny to
troll representative
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez after
she shared some photos on social
media of what her grandmother's
home looks like in Puerto Rico,
in an effort to make a point about
the damage that was done after the
Trump administration, intentionally
Froze relief funding to Puerto Rico
following Hurricane Maria which of
course was devastating.
Now daily wire writer and
podcast host Matt Walsh launched
a GoFundMe on Friday seeking to
needle Ocasio-Cortez after she
posted these photos showing her
grandmother's home in Puerto Rico,
in a state of disrepair.
Now AOC again, was trying to
draw attention to the fact that
the Trump administration had
delayed $20 billion that
had been appropriated by Congress
to provide relief to Puerto Ricans
following Hurricane Maria.
Now it all started after 2018 when
OMB or the Office of Management and
Budget began requiring
HUD to send grant notices for
disaster funds through
an interagency review process for
approval, making it hard for HUD to
publish the notices needed to
unlock funding in a timely manner.
Investigators found that OMB had
never before required such a review
before posting notice or
allocating the recovery funds.
Now the Trump administration's
OMB Insisted on overhauls to
Puerto Rico's property management
records, suspension of its
minimum wage on federal contracts.
And other prerequisites to access
relief funds.
So I'm giving you all of that
context so
you can understand what AOC was
trying to draw attention to.
The United States government is
responsible for providing relief
funds to various states.
And by the way, of course,
Puerto Rico since it's under our
jurisdiction when these
natural disasters happen.
But, what Matt Walsh wanted to do
here was basically,
make the argument that
AOC such an awful person because
she's not helping her grandmother,
which is ridiculous.
But more importantly that, we
should just rely on mutual aid, in
lieu of an actual robust government
social safety net, that helps
out when people are in trouble,
because of these natural disasters.
So, here's what his tweet said.
He says, as you've heard AOCs of
Wella is living in a dilapidated
home that was ravaged by
Hurricane Maria, AOCs nunable
to help her grandma for whatever
reason, so I have set up this
GoFundMe campaign to save her home.
Please give if you can.
Now the GoFundMe apparently raised
as much as $100,000 before it was
stopped because someone reached out
to GoFundMe to inform them
that AOC and her family have
no intention of taking that money.
So, Matt Walsh Updates Twitter by
saying, update 'someone' in AOC's
abuela's family told GoFundMe
that she won't take the money,
even though AOC previously claimed
that her grandma was in dire
straits (and it was Trump's fault).
@AOC still hasn't acknowledged This
effort or thanked us, and later
AOC did respond jank by saying you
don't even have a concept for
the role that first
generation firstborn daughters
play in their families.
My abuela is okay.
But, instead of caring for mine and
letting others suffer, I'm
calling attention to the systemic
injustices you seem totally fine
with in having a US colony and
I think she's right about that.
>> Yeah of course, look, the only
thing I would have differed on is I
haven't taken the money and
then I want to use it against, not
only use it for her house but for
the other houses in the community.
And I would have done a large press
conference and explaining what I'm
about to say which is Guys, we
can't do this one person at a time.
We do this at Healthcare to my mom
has cancer Indiegogo.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay, my dad's about to die.
Please go fund me.
No, no.
Every other developed nation has
Universal Health Care.
So people who don't have to beg
online or in the, To save their mom
when they have cancer, or to save
their grandmother when the American
government betrays her and
all of her neighbors and
other communities and
other neighborhoods in Puerto Rico.
We know for a fact now that
the Trump administration withheld
$20 billion from Puerto Rico that
they were supposed to get
during Hurricane Maria.
Why did he do it?
Well, he did it because
they criticize them.
He's such a monster.
He's such, actually caring about
the people of Puerto Rico.
Plus he figured their colony and so
being the colonialist that he is,
being the terrible imperial person
that he is, by the way, portions of
the so called left wing Like, I'm
so worried about imperialism and so
I don't mind Trump.
>> Yeah. [CROSSTALK] >> Now look at
what he's made of one Rico,
they don't vote who cares.
And he, you know what,
he accuse them of corruption.
How's that for ironic?
And that's why he didn't want to
give him the 20 billion dollars.
When they looked into the facts
turns out Texas in Florida, doing
the same exact thing, but they vote
and they vote Republicans.
So he funneled all the money to
them and othing to Purtorico.
Then when AOC points out
that hypocrisy, they're like, yeah,
you're not taking good
care of your grandmother.
Let's do it Indiegogo.
GoFundMe.
So funny.
It's not funny.
The way that you actually do it is
you follow the law.
Congress already appropriated that
money, but you guys are sick people
so you wouldn't actually
let it get in Puerto Rico.
And we have to look,
the whole point of government is to
act collectively.
>> Yes. >> Now when,
>> They don't want that
chunk like that's the point.
>> So I was going to say though
depends though Anna it depends okay
you're talking about cops, they're
like yes pool their money together
and give it to all the cops and
make sure they beat the living crap
out of all the minorities project
my own property my property what
property government helped
me Government helped me.
This is why people protesting in
the streets government collect
together all the money given to
all the cops.
You don't mind it
when it goes to cops.
You don't mind it when it
goes to the fire department
which makes sense.
It should go to the
fire department.
We do need to have police,
but why they protect your lives.
You know what else protects your
life, Healthcare,
otherwise you die without it.
But when it comes to that, no,
no I got enough money I'm okay.
Or otherwise I'll go online and
beg and beg.
Why, because drug companies and
insurance companies pay off
republicans By the way, and
democrats.
Here's shelling for
giant corporations you're not
even a part of you suckers.
You morons on the right wing.
No, no, no, I don't
want health care.
I just want a beg when I get sick.
Why because Mitch McConnell is
getting, and by the way, Donald
Trump and by the way, Joe Biden,
Nancy Pelosi, they're all getting
paid off by drug companies.
They're all getting,
one Joe Biden what happened?
I thought we're going to
negotiate drug prices.
Nothing, nothing corporate
democrats are just as guilty as
corporate Republicans.
>> So but look, there's also a huge
disconnect because I don't want you
to equate the desires of Republican
voters with the desires of goons
like People over at the daily wire
who get funded by millionaires and
billionaires to spread
the propaganda that they spread.
They've got their gift going,
they're fine.
They just don't want to contribute
to federal taxes which fund
the social safety net programs and
ensure that if there is a natural
disaster people get the help
that they need.
But when it comes to Republican
voters, I mean, just think back at
the 2016 election,
where Donald Trump pretended he
wanted to expand Medicare, that he
wanted universal health care and
how much Republican voters
supported that kind of messaging.
So there is a disconnect.
And it's important to like, be able
to suss that out because, really,
I think most voters, regardless of
their political ideology,
understand that relying on mutual
aid, which really means relying on
the whims of millionaires and
billionaires to provide help
through charity Is not the sign of
a system that works.
It's a sign of a broken system
>> They're trying to turn all of us
into beggars.
But it's our
money we paid the taxes.
We should be able to get what every
other country gets including
Canada, including Mexico,
including all of Europe.
And those of the extreme right wing
or the racist,
white people are awesome.
Well, all the super white people of
Northern Europe have luxurious
health care.
We're the only ones who don't have
it, we're the only ones who don't
have it, because no, my corporate
donors have to get paid.
Do those daily wire guys.
By the way, they don't even
get investments.
What they get is just flat out
money- >> Yes.
>> Here, take this money and
do propaganda for me.
The one of the their donors or
whatever is that
the Higgs Brothers.
So they're frackers are they do
they built their money on fracking.
So what is the peat what
are the people at daily wire do
fracking is awesome, screwed
environment hot green New Deal.
They won't let you eat burgers.
Let's just lie about who cares?
Who cares? We got money to live.
Let's just do it.
So then even if you're a right
winger, they're deceiving you, and
maybe it's easy to understand it.
Maybe you don't care when it's
Puerto Rico.
AOC I don't like AOC Latinas and
Latinos, I don't like them.
So Well yeah,
we don't send them money.
Haha, but it's also affects you
guys look at what happened in Texas
because of the donors.
They didn't make them
repair the energy infrastructure
because it would cost their beloved
corporations an extra dollar and
then you froze to death in Texas.
But you've all ready paid
your taxes.
>> That's right, >> Rob you over
and over again and funnel all
the money to corporations, if you
actually care about corruption, and
I actually know through polling
that the Republican voters do care
about corruption.
Is there one saving grace,
vote these bums out the corporate
Republicans and
the corporate democrats.