{"id":399903,"date":"2019-03-17T06:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-good-are-your-thoughts-and-prayers\/"},"modified":"2019-03-17T06:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T05:12:17","slug":"what-good-are-your-thoughts-and-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-good-are-your-thoughts-and-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Good Are Your Thoughts and Prayers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/14\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-responds-to-mosque-shootings-what-good-are-your-thoughts-and-prayers\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 15, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to the mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday by questioning the \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d often expressed in sympathy with victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 1st I thought of saying, \u2018Imagine being told your house of faith isn\u2019t safe anymore.\u2019,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I couldn\u2019t say \u2018imagine.\u2019 Because of Charleston. Pittsburgh. Sutherland Springs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat good are your thoughts &amp; prayers when they don\u2019t even keep the pews safe?\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At 1st I thought of saying, \u201cImagine being told your house of faith isn\u2019t safe anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I couldn\u2019t say \u201cimagine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of Charleston.<br \/>Pittsburgh.<br \/>Sutherland Springs.<\/p>\n<p>What good are your thoughts &amp; prayers when they don\u2019t even keep the pews safe?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2mSw0azDN8\">pic.twitter.com\/2mSw0azDN8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1106408088603713536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the past few years, many advocates of gun control have responded to mass shooting events by openly mocking the expression \u201cthoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, for example, liberal comedian John Oliver, who hosts Last Week Tonight on HBO, reacted to the mass shooting at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parklands, Florida, by saying (via Newsweek): \u201cThoughts and prayers, fuck your thoughts and prayers, it\u2019s a mental health problem, yeah but it\u2019s also a gun problem and then someone says, \u2018Now is not the time to talk about gun control\u2019 and everyone moves on until it inevitably happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(\u201cThoughts and prayers\u201d is reference to the NRA\u2019s phrase used to deflect conversation away from policy change during tragedies. Not directed to PM Ardern, who I greatly admire.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1106419873922584577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/14\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-responds-to-mosque-shootings-what-good-are-your-thoughts-and-prayers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, March 15, 2019  at  6:57 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-responds-to-mosque-shootings-what-good-are-your-thoughts-and-prayers.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<p>          &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-responds-to-mosque-shootings-what-good-are-your-thoughts-and-prayers.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartMarch 15, 2019 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to the mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday by questioning the \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d often expressed in sympathy with victims. \u201cAt 1st I thought of saying, \u2018Imagine being told your house of faith isn\u2019t safe anymore.\u2019,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cBut I couldn\u2019t say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}