Posted on 05/24/2026 2:33:54 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is taking heat from southern conservatives after she delivered a fiery speech in Montgomery, Alabama, last week, demanding that northern progressives “pull up to the South.”
Speaking at the “All Roads Lead to The South” rally May 16, the prominent “Squad” member claimed the US was not a true democracy until the 1960s when the Voting Rights Act was passed, and took direct aim at the Supreme Court, accusing the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts of being “part of that long history of regression and repression in America.”
Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial call to action, demanding that “the North” travel to red states like Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi to fight what she described as political injustice.
She doubled down on social media following the event, writing, “If you’re not from these states, it’s time to pull up.”
Her rhetoric was quickly slammed by conservatives on social media, with many pointing out the irony of the congresswoman urging people to “pull up” while she stood heavily protected during her speech behind bulletproof glass.
Conservative podcaster Todd Spears went viral with a TikTok reaction video that racked up 1 million views, mocking Ocasio-Cortez’s security setup.
“[Pull up] and do what? Help us get the boat off the trailer, like cut the grass, track a deer in the woods?” Spears said.
“Roll up and do what exactly? Because you’re standing behind, like, pope glass in your own hometown. You come down here starting that s—, you better bring a tank. That’s not a good idea. You stay where you’re at.”
Spears also criticized the divisive nature of her remarks, writing in the video caption that “AOC talking about the North ‘rolling up’ on the South and Alabama, like this is still the 1860s...
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“Pull up”
She’s using gangbangerese to appeal to her homies.
Taco and Margarita squaw talk with forked tongue.
what part of TN is that? It sounds like my kind of place ...
Considering it is AOC the correct quote should be "I speak bimbo"
Sounds like the Puerto Rican Pineapple Princess is trying to start another Civil War. Deport the ho. I don’t care where the hell she was born. She’s just another worthless, foreign anchor baby.
AOC, good old Torr Top.
no mention of her biden imitation
she meant to say “opening salvo”
but said “opening silo” instead
the collectivist left calls for violence
again
The Democrats: Hating America since 1860... 🤣
New Yorkers should “pull up” on Alabamers?
Typical liberal. Wants others to do her bidding and end up getting arrested, hurt or killed. and then it’s,
“Who? Me? I never told them to do that...”
The North claims to have won the War of Northern Aggression.
However, wars are fought over Territory, right.
We Southerners got the best part of the country!
Besides, this Georgia Boy made a raid to Rhode Island and stole one of their finest babes to be his wife. Many other Southern boys have done the same.
‘Nuf said. :-)
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