Newsweek tried to shame those who questioned what came out of the mouth of Ocasio Cortez:
Unfortunately, she went ahead and provided the answer just today:
The US Budget is $4.094 trillion for FY 2018. The US Department of Defense spent 610 billion in 2017 and if the comments I read beating around the expenditure on Defense between 1789 and 2018 (which includes several wars and “inexpensive” stuff like the Manhattan Project) only reaches $18 trillion.
We are not questioning her IQ, I think it is pretty much set and done. We are here with the popcorn enjoying the show.
I consider it charitable to question the intelligence of self-proclaimed socialists. The alternative is they’re aware their creed murdered over 100,000,000 in just a century.
If you got a degree in economics at at top 50 school (Boston University is ranked No. 42) and you are working as a bartender, I think it is pretty clear you didn’t learn much and critical thinking is not one of your strengths.
So… she took the question “How stupid can you be?” as a challenge?
Questions that I would ask, if I could, would be: “In what circumstances did you earn your degree at Boston University? What was your GPA? Were there any scandals that were swept under the rug?”