'Famed economist Milton Keynes':
Economics graduate AOC confuses John
Maynard Keynes with Milton Friedman
during Instagram video pushing for a four-
day work week—and claims it was a 'typo'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Valerie Edwards
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/9/2020 10:50:53 AM
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an awkward blunder when she mixed-up two economists while addressing the benefits of a four-day work week in a video shared on Instagram. The 30-year-old was asked by one of her followers to discuss the benefits of a shorter work week when she misspoke and referred to 'Milton Keynes'. Ocasio-Cortez later said she had confused a British economist, John Maynard Keynes, with Milton Friedman, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize. John Maynard Keynes—who she intended to refer to—theorized that government spending was linked to economic growth. He was an advocate for increased government expenditures
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/9/2020 10:54:51 AM (No. 312939)
Maybe that bar-tending job will still be open for her when she needs it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
crankyyankee 2/9/2020 10:55:28 AM (No. 312940)
Economics degrees from Boston University are not worth the paper they are written on anymore.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/9/2020 11:01:04 AM (No. 312951)
I guess she 'entertained' her way to that Econ degree.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
daisey 2/9/2020 11:01:58 AM (No. 312952)
Alexandria, honey, you’re in way over your head. You’d be smart to shut up, but you’re not smart, so.......
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jasmine 2/9/2020 11:02:27 AM (No. 312953)
How would a "typo" rob her of the ability to SAY the correct name?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 2/9/2020 11:08:49 AM (No. 312964)
#5 It doesn't . She does not know what a " typo " is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bamboozle 2/9/2020 11:09:06 AM (No. 312965)
I think that she meant a mental typo #4. She seems to make those quite often.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 2/9/2020 11:13:33 AM (No. 312971)
Like confusing Charlie Brown and Charlie Manson.
Happens all the time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 2/9/2020 11:18:27 AM (No. 312982)
Milton Bradley. Lol. Don't let her speak at any Marine Corpse events.... Not that she'd want to.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mizzmac 2/9/2020 11:18:43 AM (No. 312983)
Such a scholar, that one.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/9/2020 11:21:26 AM (No. 312986)
Only 30 and she's already having senior moments.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 2/9/2020 11:24:27 AM (No. 312990)
She's Boston university's Forrest Gump.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BillW. 2/9/2020 11:26:38 AM (No. 312991)
Funny OP!! ;)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Mushroom 2/9/2020 11:28:17 AM (No. 312994)
Pfft ...We white guys all look the same. :)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
droopydog 2/9/2020 11:35:45 AM (No. 313005)
He was like totally the best economist in the world, or whatever.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 2/9/2020 12:05:50 PM (No. 313036)
She couldn't find her arse in the dark with both hands.....what a waste of protoplasm...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Millie Woods 2/9/2020 12:16:38 PM (No. 313042)
Dear God, I know I asked you to make my enemies appear ridiculous but this has gone too far. Could you please tone it down a little.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/9/2020 12:31:14 PM (No. 313056)
This shows just how worthless a B.A. in Economics from Boston University really is. Any first-year econ student knows who these two economists are, and would never confuse them - their economic philosophies are totally at odds with each other!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rama41 2/9/2020 12:42:39 PM (No. 313066)
She has yet to mention the first president, Abraham Washington.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 2/9/2020 1:16:01 PM (No. 313095)
Sandy, the tip-stealing barmaid, has shown that she is an uneducated, mis-educated fool many times.
This is just one more time she proves she is an idiot.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/9/2020 1:33:32 PM (No. 313112)
For some reason, AOC reminds me of that Warner Bros. buzzard that sang "Arkansas Traveler".
Baaa loopa a loopa a loopa...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
edgar 2/9/2020 1:34:21 PM (No. 313114)
Saw a comment on a different site, "Blondes are telling AOC jokes." Thought it worth sharing.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Petronius 2/9/2020 1:39:01 PM (No. 313118)
Or she confused him with the English town Milton Keynes.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/9/2020 1:49:07 PM (No. 313131)
All Out Crazy confuses fantasy land with realville all the time and it’s no typo.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Calico Al 2/9/2020 1:52:18 PM (No. 313135)
You have to wonder if BU is proud of her?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 2/9/2020 2:06:13 PM (No. 313144)
Good point, #23, but I seriously doubt that this barmaid has ever been to Buckinghamshire.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
November Rose 2/9/2020 2:27:29 PM (No. 313160)
Stupid is as stupid does.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
snapper451 2/9/2020 2:34:41 PM (No. 313165)
Her thesis was on Milton Berle and the economic impact on the Borsht belt. Just when you though she could not get any stupider! And to think Vernie Sanders would take as VP candidate if she were age eligible!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/9/2020 2:36:19 PM (No. 313167)
Her personal bible is Das Kapital by Groucho Marx.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/9/2020 3:08:18 PM (No. 313184)
Next thing you know, she'll confuse Thomas Robert Malthus with Thomas the Tank Engine.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/9/2020 5:34:46 PM (No. 313277)
I don’t care about her mixing up names. I care about the insanity of a 4 day work week.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
joew9 2/9/2020 5:50:03 PM (No. 313286)
I'd really be interested in seeing how she pronounces Keynes.
The correct pronunciation is canes. Like a plural candy cane.
The common incorrect pronunciation is Ka-nees.
But I can't bring my self to watch any AOC videos to find out.
Surely she learned the correct way in college.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/9/2020 8:32:53 PM (No. 313389)
What does she care? As a congress person, we know she doesn't work on Mondays or Fridays. But when she is ''at'' work, she is looking for ways to keep from paying the thousands of dollars she owed to the Democratic National Committee. Scofflaw. May her constituents are not ''that into her.''
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I can't bear to read the article or look at her. Why is it stupid people are always proud of their ignorance ? To think our tax dollars pay the squad $174k a year each. All four combined have less sense than a hummingbird.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
mifla 2/10/2020 7:28:28 AM (No. 313645)
Keep talking AOC. Keep talking.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 2/10/2020 10:09:21 AM (No. 313830)
Good thing she didn't mention that other economist - Paul Sandfordandson.
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She might also have been thinking of Karl Stuart Mill or maybe Milton Bradley, her other favorite economists. Can't a girl even make a mistake without being called out on it?