Posted on 01/30/2021 6:44:27 AM PST by lowbridge
Dozens of New York Democrats were tricked by a troll Twitter account into condemning comments Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters made in 2018 about harassing Trump officials in public.
In June 2018, Ms. Waters notoriously called on her supporters to harass members of the Trump administration in response to its separation of illegal immigrant families at the border, saying, “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
On Thursday, a Twitter account by the name @CuomoWatch took the same quote and switched the words “that Cabinet” for “the Cuomo Administration,” referring to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and attributed the quote to the fake name “Maxine CuomoWatch.”
Dozens of Democrats, many of them state lawmakers, denounced the comments as igniting tensions in the wake of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Mr. Cuomo’s senior adviser, Rich Azzopardi, retweeted many of the critical comments.
The news comes amid mounting criticism against Mr. Cuomo for his handling of the coronavirus, after a scathing report from the state attorney general said the number of nursing home deaths was undercounted by as much as 50%.
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That will show them... Infantile response to Jack booted thugs.
Maxine is like Leaky Leahy and Crazy Bernie, both from Vermont, after 40 years in Congress, have accomplished nothing but put millions in the bank for themselves. Leaky gave away Defense Secrets, and Crazy Bernie wrote porn. What a legacy for Vermont?
LMAO!! Stupid sheep.
The goons came out of the woodwork and they’re having the time of their lives
Humor and ridicule are a wicked weapons. Particularly against people not known for having senses of humor.
Proves it doesn’t take much to trick a trickster.
Kathy Hochul - Cuomo’s deputy Governor and token upstater, took the bait
What a fool
The difference between a “socialist” and a Leninist/Stalinist is often being in office with enough of your friends.
Trotsky was as bad as Beria, there were and are no good socialists/communists. All are terrible, horrible, people.
As genuinely bad as fascism is on its own it took all that Christ hating, neo pagan racist Nazi BS to make it as bad as communism gets without needing the help.
Ridicule ... Rules for radicals. 0buttWadd used it masterfully.
I don’t think it was styled as a kill-shot, just a form of resistance and maybe a bit of irony, satire and fun.
Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!
And when it was pointed out to them, they immediately went to their “go to” and it was of course Trump’s fault.
They even put Maxine in their name! There’s only one high-profile Maxine in the country...and yet the Left still fell right into the trap.
You see it exposes how uninformed the dems are. They did not recognize Max’s words because they never heard them.
Think about that.
The old it’s not fascism when we do it splainin.
Yep that was my first thought. When I first read it I knew exactly what they were doing.
The dems only get their news from approved/controlled sources which means that if the MSM did not report it they have no idea it happened.
They had no idea Maxine said what she said because CNN and MSNBC never reported it, so because they are so ignorant of the facts, they look like fools now. HaHA.
It is valuable to show ordinary people just who these fascist thugs really are.
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