Posted on 01/13/2021 9:08:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fumed at Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) for contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election last week, saying that they needed to “get out” and they “do not belong” in the Senate.
“And so, I want to be clear to Senator Ted Cruz, you do not belong in the United States Senate. I want to be clear to Senator Josh Hawley, you do not belong in the United States Senate,” AOC ranted in an hour-long Instagram Live video. “You do not belong in any democratically elected seat when you don’t, when you do not believe that that election was even legitimate, according to your self-serving claims. So get out.”
“If they had any shred of integrity, any shred of integrity about their claims, their lies really, but their claims about this election, they would take off their pin and turn it in,” she continued. “But this isn’t about the truth to them. This is about if they want to be president in 2024. Let me give you a sneak peak. You will never be president. You will never command the respect of this country. Ever. Ever. And you should resign. So should every member of Congress that voted to overturn the results of our election.”
WATCH:
AOC to @tedcruz & @HawleyMO: “You do not belong in the United States Senate … you should resign” pic.twitter.com/qB5FE0iGsd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 13, 2021
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley noted that Democrats have raised some of the same objections in the past and that “it was not constitutional arson then, and it is not that now.”
“It is the use of a federal law to raise a challenge that has been raised in past elections over important issues of voter fraud or irregularity,” Turley wrote. “As with past Democratic challenges, this one by Republicans will not succeed. However, the point of yelling ‘fire!’ is to cause panic for political purposes.”
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board recently argued that the law that allows for challenging election results is unconstitutional:
In our view this week’s exercise is also unconstitutional. The text of the original charter, elaborated by the 12th Amendment, gives state legislatures the power to appoint electors. The Vice President is charged to open the votes to be counted—nothing more.
The Electoral Count Act of 1887, which the House and Senate will act upon, is unconstitutional in giving Congress the ability to second-guess those state decisions. In stretching this law for a partisan exercise, Republicans are also giving Democrats more ammunition to use in their campaign to overturn the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote.
This is the fire Republicans are playing with, no matter their political calculation. Some may figure the vote Wednesday is merely symbolic; they can show solidarity with Mr. Trump’s voters and dodge a primary challenge in 2022. Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are making their own presidential calculations for 2024. But the cost of this showboating will be more political cynicism, and a precedent that Democrats are sure to exploit in the aftermath of some future close election.
75 million Patriots agree with them that the election was stolen.
I guess...more like a chihuahua to me
This is a very EVIL person
This nut job has a cell in Gitmo ready for her.
Alexandria Occasionally Cortez thought that she was going to die last Wednesday.
She is out of shape and wasn’t prepared to run so fast to get away from American citizens carrying flags.
Whenever she talks all I hear is “Cluck, cluck, cluck”.
First I thought she said this to their faces
But no...ranting to her instagram followers
Staying in a safe space while flinging poo
“you’ll never be president”, meaning she expects she WILL be president, and I can’t say I doubt her.
Fix me a cocktail, Sandy.
75 million Patriots agree with them that the election was stolen.
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Way more than that - the EC map before the steal had DJT at 410 and Harris at 125. Even CA and HI were red. DJT’s real numbers likely go far beyond the 80 million and likely closer to 100 million given CA is red.
Occasional Kotex doth scream too much. Should try to close that large mouth once in a while.
“Staying in a safe space while flinging poo”
Like a monkey in a zoo...................................
BTW many many years from now those teeth should end up on display, like George Washington’s
Unhinged is the word for her. She is so emotional about anything that crosses her path. She needs to get a grip.
AOC: “no democracy for you” in her loud totalitarian voice.
She wants to sell Ted Cruz lamp shades and bars of soap on her twitter.
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Satan’s whore, Satan’s whore.... is an irrational and evil bore.
Look out, here comes a Satanic whore! ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
Yup. 75 mil is all the Derp State allowed counted for President Trump. If the Red China and Soros puppet got 80 million+, he can show his supporters. Have them turn out. He can’t, because they don’t exist.
AOC, FOAD.
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