Alexandria Ocasio-Smollette keeps the lie going
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AOC never said she was in the Capitol BUILDING YOU RACIST HATEFUL LYING BITCH!
Here again you think you can come to the forum and tell lies, and expect us to believe you!
Liars lie about other people lying- that's just what they do! THAT IS A TACTIC RIGHT OUT OF DONALD TRUMP'S PLAYBOOK!
BUT IT WON'T WORK HERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
In a circus of cyberbullying that began on Feb. 3, 2021, conservative news outlets and social media conspiracy trolls latched on to the misleading claim that Ocasio-Cortez “wasn’t in the Capitol building” and therefore was not in harm’s way, as she had described in the Instagram video.
Examples included the RedState blog headline, “AOC Wasn’t Even in the Capitol Building During Her ‘Near Death’ Experience,” and the following tweet from the Daily Wire website:
Others similarly chimed in, such as conspiracy theorist Candace Owens, who piled on another false claim by tweeting that Ocasio-Cortez had faked her “own attempted murder” after having previously “staged a photo shoot dressed in all white at a parking lot to spread lies about immigrant children in cages.” The “staged photo” claim was based on disinformation produced by the Alex Jones conspiracy network InfoWars.
Online trolls went further by drawing a misleading comparison between Ocasio-Cortez and Jussie Smollett, an actor accused of staging a racist, anti-gay attack against himself in Jan. 2019.
The attacks on her were not just made in bad faith, but nonsensical.
AOC’s Video- In an emotional 90-minute video, Ocasio-Cortez described in detail how her sense of danger grew in the days leading up to the assault on the Capitol. On the day of, she said she had felt sick with anxiety, but she was also happy at news that fellow Democrats Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff had won U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia, handing Democrats a narrow majority in that chamber.
Around the time the clashes at the Capitol started, Ocasio-Cortez said she was at her desk scrolling through lunch options when she heard a loud, “violent” banging on her office doors. She ran over to her legislative director Geraldo Bonilla-Chavez (whom she calls “G”), who told her, “Hide, hide, run and hide.”
She hid in the bathroom of her office and realized that the person who was banging on the door had gotten inside and was yelling, “Where is she?” Ocasio-Cortez said didn’t know it while she was hiding, but the person calling that out was actually a Capitol police officer.
In the moment, while she was hiding in her bathroom and the door started to open on her, Ocasio-Cortez said, she thought she was going to die. “This was the moment where I thought everything was over.”
Ocasio-Cortez went on to describe the ensuing chaos as she and Bonilla-Chavez tried to find a place to hide after the officer told them to evacuate, without directing them to a specific evacuation destination. While she and Bonilla-Chavez ran up and down stairways and wandered hallways, she said, they could hear rioters getting louder and louder, trying to break inside, and felt that at any moment the attackers might breach the building. Ocasio-Cortez said they finally found U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., and ended up sheltering in place in her office.
Porter stated in a Feb. 1 interview on MSNBC that Ocasio-Cortez’s level of “fight-or-flight” was so heightened that when Porter informed her that she was a mother and had everything they would need to stay there as long as necessary, Ocasio-Cortez had replied, “I just hope I get to be a mom. I hope I don’t die today.” Porter’s office also found Ocasio-Cortez extra clothes and sneakers to change into so she could blend in and flee if she needed to.
Ocasio-Cortez’s video, as of this writing, has been viewed more than 5 million times on Instagram alone. In it, she called on members of Congress, such as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to resign, saying they had helped incite the violence by breathing life into an incendiary disinformation campaign promoted by President Trump and his supporters falsely claiming that the November 2020 election had been “stolen.”
The Online Attacks- Ocasio-Cortez was attacked on social media with bad-faith attempts to discredit her story by people who falsely claimed she exaggerated the danger she was in because she wasn’t actually inside the main Capitol building where the House and Senate chambers are located.
But Ocasio-Cortez never claimed she was in the main building. She said was inside her office, which is in just one of the network of buildings containing congressional offices that comprise the Capitol complex. The office buildings and the main Capitol building are interconnected by a series of tunnels known as the Capitol Subway System, which allows members of Congress to traverse underground from their offices to their respective chambers.
Ocasio-Cortez’s building, Cannon House, is across Independence Avenue from the Capitol and was one of the buildings evacuated.
The online attacks on Ocasio-Cortez downplayed, from a safe distance, not only the sense of fear she felt in the moment during the attack on the Capitol, but also the imminent physical danger that she and others in and around the Capitol really were in during the attack.
Five people died in the assault on the seat of the U.S. legislature, including a Capitol police officer who was beaten by a rioter with a fire extinguisher. Videos, images, and personal accounts by officers tell stories of mobs beating and overrunning police and injuring 140 officers. Rioters who breached the Capitol loudly voiced their desires to kill lawmakers, and hours after the attack began, one rioter wrote on social media, “assassinate AOC.”
The FBI searched for a suspect who planted pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic national committee offices the night before the attack. Another man was arrested at the Capitol on charges related to possessing firearms and eleven Molotov cocktails — jars containing melted styrofoam and gasoline, “an explosive mixture that has the effect of napalm because, when detonated, the substance causes the flammable liquid to better stick to objects that it hits.”
The House Trial Brief for Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, prepared weeks later, observed that it wasn’t just those inside the main Capitol building who were in danger:
Members and staff who were not on the House floor at the time of the siege were also in danger. Many barricaded themselves in their offices. Speaker Pelosi’s staff hid under a table with the lights turned off for hours while they could hear rioters outside in the Speaker’s office. One Member asked his chief of staff to protect his visiting daughter and son-in-law “with her life” — which she did by standing guard at the door clutching a fire iron while his family hid under a table.
In her video, Ocasio-Cortez alluded correctly to the fact that it took police and the National Guard hours to secure the Capitol complex after the attack due to a series of glaring security failures. Images and videos from the attack show rioters had a significant period of free rein, breaking into and casually sitting at the desk in an office used by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, leaving behind smeared excrement and stealing the Speaker’s lectern.
Ocasio-Cortez made history when she was elected in 2018 as the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress. She is also a political progressive and a woman of color, and she is the frequent target of smear campaigns and disinformation. She has stated multiple times that right-wing smear campaigns have prompted death threats against her.
She was in her office way over in the Cannon Bldg. where THERE WERE NO MOBS OF RIOTERS COMING DOWN THE HALLWAY...just one lone cop.
She's full of bull.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said that her office is in the same hallway as Ocasio-Cortez, two doors down, and that there were no rioters in that area at any time. She called out the New York representative for her "egregious" claims.
She's full of bull.
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You care about honesty now?
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speaking of Nancy Mace, here is how she first talked about the insurrection-
WASHINGTON — Ever since she won election to the U.S. House from South Carolina last November, Nancy Mace was seen as a bright new star in the Republican Party, a potential leader of the new crop of freshman GOP women. But like many of her colleagues, Mace — once a loyal supporter of President Trump — was shaken to her core by the events at the Capitol on Wednesday. Just three days after being sworn in, Mace found herself barricaded in her office while rioters rampaged through congressional buildings, smashing windows and breaking down doors. “It made me angry,” Mace said in an interview on the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast. “I was pissed off last night. I am more pissed off today than I was yesterday.” But most of all, she says, she’s worried about her kids — and that they will now be concerned that every time she goes to Washington, “that mommy’s life is in danger.”
Where were you when the Capitol building was breached?
At one point we were stuck in a tunnel under the Capitol with several other members of Congress and maybe 100 staffers who were evacuated from Cannon [House Office Building]. We were in this tunnel and then when we were able to get back to our offices. That's when the breach happened. We were put immediately into lockdown. We had to lock our office doors, turn off the lights, [and be] quiet. We weren’t speaking. You could just hear the sirens all across the Capitol, and it was scary. I was worried about my staff. I wanted to make sure every person was accounted for and that we were all in a safe place.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/skullduggery-nancy-mace-capitol-riots-010852358.html
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AOC Recounts Surviving Titanic On Instagram Live
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned viewers of her Instagram live broadcast Monday night when she recounted her narrow escape from Titanic.
The Congresswoman told the amazing story after being only three zip codes away during the Capitol riots.
“You guys, it’s been like, the most cray cray week ever,” she told her 87 million viewers. “First of all, I wake up—right? And freaking Ted Cruz breaks down my door and tries to strangle me with his bare hands. I’m like ‘not again!’
After that whole fiasco, the white supremacists storm the Capitol. I could hear the gunshots. I couldn’t believe it. But no matter how many times I rewound the footage on MSNBC, I could still hear the gunshots.”
Then AOC dropped the bombshell.
“You people don’t know what I’ve been through. And when I say ‘you people’, I’m obviously talking about white people,” she explained. “I once traveled from London town to Brooklyn on the Titanic and let me tell you, that [explicit] sank. And I was completely freaking out. They were like ‘women and children first’ and I screamed ‘how dare you assume our gender?’ It was a total [explicit] show, you don’t even know.”
AOC claims she was saved because she insisted on not calling the White Star Line for help, but rather the Black Star Line.
“BSL was there for me,” she said tearing up. “They totes saved my life.”
https://tinyurl.com/y2y3keuu
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned viewers of her Instagram live broadcast Monday night when she recounted her narrow escape from Titanic.
The Congresswoman told the amazing story after being only three zip codes away during the Capitol riots.
“You guys, it’s been like, the most cray cray week ever,” she told her 87 million viewers. “First of all, I wake up—right? And freaking Ted Cruz breaks down my door and tries to strangle me with his bare hands. I’m like ‘not again!’
After that whole fiasco, the white supremacists storm the Capitol. I could hear the gunshots. I couldn’t believe it. But no matter how many times I rewound the footage on MSNBC, I could still hear the gunshots.”
Then AOC dropped the bombshell.
“You people don’t know what I’ve been through. And when I say ‘you people’, I’m obviously talking about white people,” she explained. “I once traveled from London town to Brooklyn on the Titanic and let me tell you, that [explicit] sank. And I was completely freaking out. They were like ‘women and children first’ and I screamed ‘how dare you assume our gender?’ It was a total [explicit] show, you don’t even know.”
AOC claims she was saved because she insisted on not calling the White Star Line for help, but rather the Black Star Line.
“BSL was there for me,” she said tearing up. “They totes saved my life.”
https://tinyurl.com/y2y3keuu
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned viewers of her Instagram live broadcast Monday night when she recounted her narrow escape from Titanic.
The Congresswoman told the amazing story after being only three zip codes away during the Capitol riots.
“You guys, it’s been like, the most cray cray week ever,” she told her 87 million viewers. “First of all, I wake up—right? And freaking Ted Cruz breaks down my door and tries to strangle me with his bare hands. I’m like ‘not again!’
After that whole fiasco, the white supremacists storm the Capitol. I could hear the gunshots. I couldn’t believe it. But no matter how many times I rewound the footage on MSNBC, I could still hear the gunshots.”
Then AOC dropped the bombshell.
“You people don’t know what I’ve been through. And when I say ‘you people’, I’m obviously talking about white people,” she explained. “I once traveled from London town to Brooklyn on the Titanic and let me tell you, that [explicit] sank. And I was completely freaking out. They were like ‘women and children first’ and I screamed ‘how dare you assume our gender?’ It was a total [explicit] show, you don’t even know.”
AOC claims she was saved because she insisted on not calling the White Star Line for help, but rather the Black Star Line.
“BSL was there for me,” she said tearing up. “They totes saved my life.”
https://tinyurl.com/y2y3keuu
speaking of Nancy Mace, here is how she first talked about the insurrection-
WASHINGTON — Ever since she won election to the U.S. House from South Carolina last November, Nancy Mace was seen as a bright new star in the Republican Party, a potential leader of the new crop of freshman GOP women. But like many of her colleagues, Mace — once a loyal supporter of President Trump — was shaken to her core by the events at the Capitol on Wednesday. Just three days after being sworn in, Mace found herself barricaded in her office while rioters rampaged through congressional buildings, smashing windows and breaking down doors. “It made me angry,” Mace said in an interview on the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast. “I was pissed off last night. I am more pissed off today than I was yesterday.” But most of all, she says, she’s worried about her kids — and that they will now be concerned that every time she goes to Washington, “that mommy’s life is in danger.”
Where were you when the Capitol building was breached?
At one point we were stuck in a tunnel under the Capitol with several other members of Congress and maybe 100 staffers who were evacuated from Cannon [House Office Building]. We were in this tunnel and then when we were able to get back to our offices. That's when the breach happened. We were put immediately into lockdown. We had to lock our office doors, turn off the lights, [and be] quiet. We weren’t speaking. You could just hear the sirens all across the Capitol, and it was scary. I was worried about my staff. I wanted to make sure every person was accounted for and that we were all in a safe place.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/skul...010852358.html
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OK.
Nothing.
It is up to the president to decide what action should be taken to combat an insurrection. As I said, a painted clown with horns isn't the leader of an insurrection
It was a protest that got out of hand. No different (other than the burning and looting) that BLM has done in different parts of the country.
Am I defending it? Nope. Not in the least. Read my previous posts.
"Ocasio-Cortez also provided more details surrounding the insurrection, stating that a man broke into her office in Congress on January 6, during which she was hiding in her bathroom. “Where is she? Where is she?” she recalled the man asking. “This is the moment where I thought everything was over … It felt like my brain was able to have so many thoughts in that moment between these screams and these yells. I go down and … I thought I was going to die.”
Looking through the door hinge from the bathroom, Ocasio-Cortez recalled seeing “a white man in a black beanie open the door of my personal office.” Though she says the person did not identify himself, he was a Capitol police officer. “He was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.” After the encounter, she and a staffer ran to another building to looking for a place to hide, where she found Representative Katie Porter; together they barricaded in Porter’s office for five hours."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-im-a-survivor-of-sexual-assault.html
Looking through the door hinge from the bathroom, Ocasio-Cortez recalled seeing “a white man in a black beanie open the door of my personal office.” Though she says the person did not identify himself, he was a Capitol police officer. “He was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.” After the encounter, she and a staffer ran to another building to looking for a place to hide, where she found Representative Katie Porter; together they barricaded in Porter’s office for five hours."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-im-a-survivor-of-sexual-assault.html
She was sexually assaulted by the rioters and Trump in her office ? Shame shame.
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It's difficult, at best, to determine whether the Trump supporters don't accept the election results or realize they were defeated- but that it doesn't matter, as they just want Trump to be their president- so they continue the Charade that Trump won the election.
It comes down to either they care about fair Democratic elections in America- or they are stupid enough to just believe anything Donald Trump says- OR THEY JUST DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT DEMOCRACY anymore.
Which do you think it is? Do you think Trump supporters are just being stupid, or just being dicks about losing the election?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned viewers of her Instagram live broadcast Monday night when she recounted her narrow escape from Titanic.
The Congresswoman told the amazing story after being only three zip codes away during the Capitol riots.
“You guys, it’s been like, the most cray cray week ever,” she told her 87 million viewers. “First of all, I wake up—right? And freaking Ted Cruz breaks down my door and tries to strangle me with his bare hands. I’m like ‘not again!’
After that whole fiasco, the white supremacists storm the Capitol. I could hear the gunshots. I couldn’t believe it. But no matter how many times I rewound the footage on MSNBC, I could still hear the gunshots.”
Then AOC dropped the bombshell.
“You people don’t know what I’ve been through. And when I say ‘you people’, I’m obviously talking about white people,” she explained. “I once traveled from London town to Brooklyn on the Titanic and let me tell you, that [explicit] sank. And I was completely freaking out. They were like ‘women and children first’ and I screamed ‘how dare you assume our gender?’ It was a total [explicit] show, you don’t even know.”
AOC claims she was saved because she insisted on not calling the White Star Line for help, but rather the Black Star Line.
“BSL was there for me,” she said tearing up. “They totes saved my life.”
https://tinyurl.com/y2y3keuu
Excellent!
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Awwwww ... it’s sooooo Sweeeet to see the Victimhood
Yes and you're so good at it as well, almost as good as GobbledyGook!
Yep. I voted for Trump. It's over, he lost. And the socialists won the presidency and the senate. It's no secret that at most "demonstrations" throughout the summer there were those who "recruited" voter registrations, requesting registering Dem.
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