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Flat White

No philanthropy, thanks, we’re leftists

11 June 2021

2:12 PM

11 June 2021

2:12 PM

The other day, Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter to complain how her “abuela” (grandma) in Puerto Rico is still living in deplorable conditions, four years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, all because the mean Donald Trump blocked part of the relief and reconstruction funding. Never mind the corruption and mismanagement of the aid by Puerto Rico’s ruling Democratic Party establishment, or that the Orange Man has not been President for a while now; many commentators have suggested that perhaps as a relatively well-off person AOC could – and should – have helped her grandma herself, instead of using her as...

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