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'This Isn't Aging Well': Why People Are Revisiting AOC’s Recent Tweet About Protesting
TownHall ^ | 1/7/2021 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 01/07/2021 6:59:18 AM PST by Onthebrink

After Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in response to the certification of the Electoral College vote, people on Twitter began taking a second look at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s December tweet explaining why people protest.

“What if activists aren’t PR firms for politicians & their demands are bc police budgets are exploding, community resources are shrinking to bankroll it, & ppl brought this up for ages but it wasn’t until they said 'defund' that comfortable people started paying attn to brutality," she said on Dec. 2. “The thing that critics of activists don’t get is that they tried playing the 'polite language' policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore. It wasn’t until they made folks uncomfortable that there was traction to do ANYTHING even if it wasn’t their full demands.”

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aoc; aocstupid; democrats; dsj03; progressives

1 posted on 01/07/2021 6:59:18 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

I’m sure her account was hacked. /s


2 posted on 01/07/2021 7:01:57 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from the inside. Check! WTH?)
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To: Onthebrink

Bottom line, the US government is now ‘Criminals R us’ !!!

Change my mind


3 posted on 01/07/2021 7:05:20 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: Onthebrink

When you steal an election, innaugerate an illegitimate regime, using a corrupt demented man as its figurehead, betray the American people, trample their liberties and heritage, and turn your country over to vile, globalist elites, decent, patriotic people will rise up and object. They won’t be paid by people like Soros, nor will they be seeking to destroy and steal. They will also ignore the propaganda of the MSM, which is controlled by those same vile globilist elitists who promoted Antifa and BLM.


4 posted on 01/07/2021 7:07:25 AM PST by allendale
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To: Onthebrink
“The thing that critics of activists don’t get is that they tried playing the 'polite language' policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore.”

Was she thinking of John Kasich?

5 posted on 01/07/2021 7:07:56 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SMARTY

Bottom line, the US government is now ‘Criminals R us’ !!!


It always has been

Remember how much money they print, they always print themselves more so they stay ahead of the game.

Think about that


6 posted on 01/07/2021 7:08:23 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: All
Greenie AOC tweeted December 2, 2020 WRT why people protest (not realizing it applies in spades to the Capitol Hill protest):
“......ppl brought up (police brutality) for ages but it wasn’t until they said 'defund the police' that people started
paying attn......critics of activists (and protesters) don’t get that they tried playing the 'polite language' policy game
and all it did was make them easier to ignore. It wasn’t until they made folks uncomfortable that there was
traction to do ANYTHING, even if it wasn’t their full demands........(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
7 posted on 01/07/2021 7:09:03 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: SMARTY
Bottom line, the US government is now ‘Criminals R us’ !!!

Change my mind

Criminals? Us? Oh, we'll change your mind alright.

A nice stint in our new Biden reeducation facilities will help. Working productively 11 hours a day, six days per week, and all on a healthy, weight watching diet of 600 calories per day! Soon you will be slim, trim and will be a patriotic German citizen who will admire the utopia we are going to build.

8 posted on 01/07/2021 7:11:58 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Onthebrink

Four people are dead, one shot, 3 by medical emergencies after being shoved around by police , without cause.
But you’ll hear nothing in the news, Meanwhile thousands looted and committed arson without ANY gun barrels leveled at them in Minneapolis and Seattle.

They were unarmed at the Capitol and simply going into the People’s House.No acts of looting or arson were committed like in Mineapolis and Portland. The Pearl Clutchers, particularly in the Republican Party, were almost dying of apoplexy because the supposedly sacred precincts of Congress used to attempt a usurpation of the President for 4 long years were invaded while the precincts of Minneapolis and Seattle are defined as less sacred? A line was crossed? Buahahahahahahahaha!

Democrat lefty srson, and lootimg violence OK, Republican protest BAD!Shoot the Republicans?

What a laugh? The Democrats CAUSED THIS. But the Republicans are clutching their pearls instead of fighting back.

The pearl clutchers are so upset over the fact that Republicans became slightly “violent” after 4 years of the Swamp in Congress tried to illegally usurp a duly elected president of the United States.

Ashli Babbit was shot by an elderly man in a suit, it was video taped. Yet the man remains unidentified? Murder was committed against an unarmed woman squeezing through a barrier in a hallway.

This is not over.

AOC thinks she can justify only lefty protest? She has opened a can of whoop ass. Lets see if she can take her own medicine with 4 years of Joe in his basement and half of America engaged in authentic anti-government civil disobedience, not AOC style prank euroweenie, man bun looting and arsonm and beating up old folks.


9 posted on 01/07/2021 7:16:54 AM PST by Candor7 (white)
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To: Onthebrink

#AOCStupid is a forever kind of stupid.


10 posted on 01/07/2021 7:26:13 AM PST by TigersEye (2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
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To: SMARTY
From my friend, Frank Welch

She was escorted to the killing fields by no less than 5 uniformed/ ARMED Capitol Police and they were all within 10 ft of her when she was shot.

One raised his gun to address the sound of gunshots but he failed to return any fire.(?)

The Capitol Police were right there.

Why was she shot by one person but not arrested or shot at by the Capitol Police who were right next to her while she was doing what she was doing?



11 posted on 01/07/2021 7:57:00 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: Onthebrink

Anything from Townhall is not worth reading, they are DrudgeReport now, with just enough bait to draw in suckers and when they accidentally say somthing wise it’s just that, they are not as good at being communists as the other communists.

Those who want to read about this should seach the issue elsewhere. Humblegunner should add Townhall to his s-list of blogs, and a bad one at that.


12 posted on 01/07/2021 7:58:07 AM PST by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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To: Trump.Deplorable
Ever seen a 'retired' Senator that isn't a multi-millionaire?
Nope, and you never will.
The Reps are not far behind.

The reason most of these maggots 'serve' is $$$$$$$$$$$$, not patriotism or love of country.

13 posted on 01/07/2021 8:05:11 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (Bernstein & Woodward ruined journalism)
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To: Semper Vigilantis
A57517-D4-E231-410-B-9-BB7-95-EBF872-C054

Kamala Harris gushing over Rioters!


14 posted on 01/07/2021 8:44:45 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: Candor7

I heard rumors that some antifa were dressed up like police

**********
BTW, Bernie Kerik was on War Room just now with video showing the capitol police opening the barriers to the Capitol Building letting Patriots and perhaps antifa in a restricted area. Then they let the group INSIDE the Capitol.

I saw the video with police removing barriers. I did not see them letting public inside the bldg


15 posted on 01/07/2021 9:10:14 AM PST by Karoo
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To: Karoo

I am not surprised.

Its the Alinsky method.


16 posted on 01/07/2021 9:12:45 AM PST by Candor7
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To: Onthebrink

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pure evil. She is a devious propagandist for the democratic party which is now also evil. They have sunk so low as to ignore the will of the people and completely cheat in an election to impose their will on the people of the United STates. They adhere to things like the ‘Green New Deal, Defund the Police, Abortion, Do away with the Electoral College (which they just used to cheat), etc, etc, etc.’ The conservatives are beginning to get angry!


17 posted on 01/07/2021 9:56:51 AM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EQ)
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To: Onthebrink

They won’t prosecute Antifa instigators.

Photos, Reports Show ANTIFA Infiltrators Stormed the Capitol Building
https://gellerreport.com/2021/01/photos-reports-show-antifa-infiltrators-stormed-the-capitol-building.html/

Liberals instigated violence at Trump’s rallies in 2015 and 2016 to make conservatives look bad.

The same thing is happening here. And it was done to justify systematic oppression of conservatives by Biden-Harris AND scare Republicans into rolling over on the Electoral College vote that was going on.


18 posted on 01/07/2021 11:41:51 AM PST by tbw2
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