Posted on 05/27/2023 12:38:50 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
A Memorial Day weekend town hall with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) devolved into pandemonium Friday night as the crowd booed and shouted insults while she attempted to discuss her policies on immigration, Ukraine funding, and the debt limit.
The event took place in the Queens neighborhood of Corona and the venue appeared to be packed with constituents. Some in the stands held signs proclaiming, “America First,” and “Stop funding Ukraine.”
AOC attempted to discuss the debt limit before being shouted down: “We should eliminate the debt limit in the United States because of the constitutional…”
One man yelled “American citizens before migrants!” waved an American flag, and screamed, “You’re a piece of shit!” at AOC as security attempted to wrangle him away. The confrontation turned into a scuffle as the man threatened security with, “Don’t you touch me!” and “Get your hands off of me!”
Some in he crowd booed as the man was ushered out while others applauded. AOC was seen standing at the podium, smiling and saying, “Okaaaaaaay…”
“Stop this war! Are you gonna stop this war, that’s my question!” one woman shouted, before adding, “Why are you afraid of your constituents?” as she was led from the stands.
Another very animated man stood up and shouted, “Wait your turn! It is not your turn!”
Fox News reported that anyone who lashed out during what was supposed to be a question and answer session was led away by security. Some constituents came to AOC’s defense during the chaos and the Congresswoman wrapped up the event by taking photos with supporters.
AOC tweeted after the tumult, “Thank you to everyone who came to our Memorial Day weekend town hall! We had such a great crowd,” AOC tweeted after the event. “It was awesome answering all your questions, discussing the debt limit negotiations, and more. See you next month!”
The tweet featured photos taken during happier moments at the event. AOC made no mention of the hecklers.
Watch the clips above via Fox News and YouTube user FreedomNews.
I escaped NYC in 2018. I highly doubt there is any rats awakening going on, especially in Queens. It can only be that a contingent of the conservative minority made it to the town hall.
What amazed me about her is after she killed the Amazon deal for her precinct they re-elected her. Obviously those folks don’t know “Elections have consequences.
The liberal brain is like a weak compass needle in the earth’s magnetic field. You can shake up the compass and spin the needle round and round, but when calm returns the needle always settles back toward communism.
People in Queens trying to act like they didn’t know who they voted for enjoy the suck.
Im offended for the fecals of the world.
Which one?
No. Not at all. But pocketbook issues affect everyone, especially those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale and that’s who AOC’s main constituency is composed of.
Gullible, low information Democrat voters, particularly Blacks and Latino’s are beginning to find out they’ve been hosed. Given the generally low IQ of such groups this next election cycle should be interesting.
“As the dog returneth to it’s vomit, so the fool to his folly’’.
We’ll see if this is true of Democrats.
If Communism and stupid had a baby: She Guevara.
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Any NYC FReepers know?
Corona has been a Hispanic neighborhood for decades. Lots of immigrants from Cuba, Colombia and the rest of S. America. Maybe the legal immigrants don’t want the “migrants” either.
Fantasy. Illegals are the predominant group as their swarming rate unceasingly increases. This is not the few street corners community of the past.
Pretty funny!
“People in Queens trying to act like they didn’t know who they voted for enjoy the suck.“
They may not even have voted. Turnout in NYC is notoriously low. Barely 20 percent of registered voters voted in the mayoral.
I actually was disappointed with this video when I saw it on Twitter this morning.
The title made it sound like she was getting the royal butt kicking she deserved. In fact when I watched it basically 2 guys were vocal in their criticism of her maybe 10 lightly booed her. Then she had probably 8 that stood forward and defended her and perhaps 3/5 of the audience lightly cheered her and clapped. What’s my conclusion from this?
NYC is irredeemably leftist and lost.
This is not the few street corners community of the past.
Whatever that means. You didn’t read what I posted. Corona has been a majority Hispanic neighborhood as long as I can remember, and that’s since the ‘60s. Most of those people were legal immigrants.
If you read what I posted you would see that I acknowledged it has been a hispanic community.
I only differ from you in that I actually have lived nearby! It's a mexico's wonderland. Illegals come at a pace they remain the overwhelming majority. If I had a nickle for every mexican flag up in apartment windows I'd be able to buy GM.
Stop regurgitating fantasies.
The one guy in the Cuba shirt I’m pretty sure is not a Corona resident. In fact I could almost swear he’s the father of a dude who used to train at the same dojo as me in Harlem. The son was very conservative too. We were all cussing when ny passed gay marriage.
I love that those people stood up. The left *hates* opposing views being expressed.
Someone should have told that dude at the end that was screaming something about hiding behind the flag, “I can’t hear you. You’re very muffled. Or muzzled. Or something.”
That guy seriously needed and probably still needs to take a shower.
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