Guest Post by Simon Black
I’m not here to poo poo you,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told 4.8 million followers on a live Instagram broadcast over the weekend.
“I’m not here to say you’re wrong. Or that you’re a bad person. . . I’m not here to shame you.”
She was talking, of course, to people who aren’t particularly fired up about voting for Joe Biden.
But to AOC, not voting for Biden is the worst possible sin. And despite promising to not “poo poo” anyone, she went on for 41 minutes basically poo pooing everyone who wasn’t willing to vote for Joe Biden.
It doesn’t matter whether you agree with him, whether you trust him, whether you think he’s competent or qualified, or whether his plans make any sense.
It doesn’t matter that AOC herself constantly slammed Biden throughout the primary race as a tired, outdated hack.
She has now decreed how every sensible, decent human being must vote. She doesn’t believe you should have a choice in the matter, including not voting at all.
(She also had a political hit list of half a dozen Senators to whom “she needs you to give the boot. . .”)
To be clear, I’m incredibly anti-political. I’m not ‘for’ any politician. I’ve never voted in a political election, and I find the entire process pointless; unless you live in a handful of swing states, any vote cast for a presidential candidate doesn’t matter anyhow.
But I still believe that people have the fundamental right to vote for whoever they want, or to exercise the right to not vote at all… and not be subject to the commands of AOC or anyone else.
Honestly a lot of her broadcast seemed more like a terrorist propaganda video than an impromptu political rally.
“Let this moment radicalize you,” she said, in reference to the fight to replace the recently-departed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“We can, and must fight. . . I need you to be ready. . . I need you to do this. You need to do more. Everyone has to do more.”
What exactly does she want us to do?
Whatever it takes. “There’s no limitation,” she said.
“I’m scared all the time,” she confessed to her supporters. “I’ve had moments where I’m terrified.” But then she explained how she turns her fear into fuel, and encouraged her followers to do the same.
I have a feeling this is how Al Qaida used to recruit suicide bombers. And any ‘normal’ American (i.e. not a sitting politician) would probably end up on a watch list if they had broadcast that same message.
AOC went on to say that this fight, the struggle, the ‘peaceful protests’, the occupy movements, “are tools that we are going to have to use for the rest of our lives. . . this is not over. We win in November– I’m sorry to tell you, you’re not going back to brunch. . . . that’s not happening. There is no going back after November. Gear up.”
Wow. No going back? The rest of our lives? Gear up? If you believe AOC’s melodrama, this isn’t even an election. This woman really seems like she’s rallying the troops and preparing for war.
Frankly it would be pretty comical if AOC weren’t so popular. The video was seen by millions of people and received over half a million likes, with doting comments by radicalized supporters.
Personally I don’t buy it.
I believe most people are sane and normal, and the fringe radicals and shrieking Twitter mob are merely an incredibly loud, yet small minority.
AOC likes to fancy herself as a righteous political vigilante. She loves the idea that her words strike fear in her opponents, as if she’s Bruce Wayne beating capitalist oppressors to a pulp by night with her bare fists. That’s the legend she’s trying to build.
To me she just sounds like another clueless drama queen. It’s not scary, it’s just pathetic.
But I still have a Plan B in case I’m dreadfully wrong, and AOC ends up with authority to do more than poo-poo her enemies.
And when I see videos like this, it strikes me as more sensible than ever to have a strong, robust Plan B.
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The result of grand jury in Taylors death to be announced at 1:30 today,get your popcorn and marshmellows!
Or extra mags and 72 hour bag depending on where you live.
Yep,it will not be just Kentucky that explodes,and it will explode irregardless of charges being brought up or not.
One cop only charged,and the charge is “wanton endangerment”/a class D felony that probably will not hold up in trial.
My guess is this will not be enuff to stop folks from rioting.
OK,if I am honest they would riot no matter what the charges brought were!
a louisille u haul truck which was packed full of riot shields painted w/leftist slogans was rented by a woman from the louisville bail project,a soros connected group–
at least 2 cops have been shot this evening in louisville–
I’m not here to poo poo you,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told 4.8 million followers on a live Instagram broadcast over the weekend.
I’m thoroughly “relieved.”
Winnie, you doo-doo such good work when you want to & AOC is a Communist poopy-head .
Happy 25th Birthday Family Proclamation;
I wonder if Winnie will start to proselytize correctly to you now.
Any refutations now Winnie?
I was raised 7th Day Adventist and I still look up to that denomination. BUT, I have a problem when any religion says they are the one true religion.
Donkey,
To me the ultimate debate is the spiritual. From its fountainhead downstream flows the cultural, the political, and then the economic.
We are where we are because America has long lost its way, and been taken over by Bankster Luciferians.
I belong to and advance no denomination believing in various ways every single one brings its own manmade corrupting traditions, and club/clique spiritual perversions. I follow the Bible, and also study the Book of Enoch, explained here.
https://bibleprophecyandtruth.com/notes/Enoch
https://bibleprophecyandtruth.com/notes/theBookOfEnoch
In spite of the fact that most Mormons are rock solid, clean living ‘good’ people (had Mormon neighbors for 20 years and I studied its founding history – what a crock) the Mormon spiritual fountain head is a sewer, a con, a cult and Mormonism has and will send countless ‘good’ people to their eternal doom.
.22’s repetitive Mathis/Mormon BS, and drive by libelous character shootings MO is what it is. Occasionally I go out of my way to up vote him, but he rarely reaches that point as he seems to have 10 posts and just rotates them. I also suspect he just wants some attention…no matter what type.
Ahhh….We all are opinionated, passionate people…just read the comments from Stucky’s latest brawl, made me want jump in and crash a chair over someone’s head, just for the halibut (I love fish).
Rockfish/Striped Bass with beurre blanc sauce, corn relish and fried onions…to die for. Best white fish, imo.
Winnie is not a dumb guy, I just don’t understand the repetition. Although, I am guilty of it also. Maybe some of us (me and Winnie et al) reach a point where the discussion has reached it’s zenith (I think Flea has reached his point as well as Yoji) and it all boils down to what each of us think is the sticking point. Mine happens to be the belief that Satan is having his day because truth has been destroyed. Sad days.
Yes, I agree, denominations are outdated(?). Religion has been used for bad and good. I say, reach for the good in Christianity and let the chips fall where they may. The Devil will get his DEW (that was for you). Hopefully.
Donkey,
Truth has not been destroyed…deception has just been temporarily elevated.
The only denomination that will get you through the narrow gate is the Born Again Denomination…shed all the lies from the man made crap like a pack filled with bricks…and you can walk upright and free…it’s a Pilgrim’s Progress.
What Jesus told Nicodemus alone in the night is so pure, so simple, so one on one…so ‘true’.
(That’s the end of my proselytizing to you…and .22 if he is reading).
I sure hope I get a chance to see your homestead one day. I know you’ve extended an open invitation. If that changes, no worries, I’ll understand. These are seriously crazy times.
Donkey…had hoped to be in by the election, but it probably won’t be until Thanksgiving.
When is your trip to SC?
(Gonna cut some zzzzzzzzs check back tomorrow).
Not sure about my SC trip. The mother in law has gone batshit crazy. She calls my wife and rants and raves and then hangs up on her. I really have ZERO interest in ever seeing her again.
Overall, I’m seeing the divide in America along the lines of those who want to control others and those who simply want to be left alone. Despair, it seems, is a good word for the times.
Donkey,
Well, if the world hasn’t imploded by the spring plan on a long weekend at my place. Should just be a skip, hop, and jump ride for you. We will be snugly in the new house and have it tricked out by then.
We can drink, drink, eat, shoot, drink, eat, fish and do some more shooting (always before the drinking)…then tear around the 14 acres on my grandson’s Go- Cart (I really bought it for me.)
I have no doubt between us we can solve all of the country’s problems…especially after enough adult beverages.
Welcome to my world.
She ought to hook up with Omar’s ex-husband, or was that her brother? Or both? Seems like they’d make a nice couple, though.
This is weird how she participated in no political work of any kind prior to being elected to Congress. The old playbook was to take a young kid related to either a politician or politically connected executive and groom them in the field for several years to gain “street credibility” and some portfolio of influence before putting them up for election.
When I ran with the California Central Coast lefty crowd back in the 1990s my girlfriend at the time was being groomed by the DNC for political office. Her grandfather was the CEO of a Virginia DC suburb insurance company that was one of the biggest in the USA, and her uncle was then the ambassador to Haiti under Bill Clinton (you know, Clinton Foundation ground zero). They plucked her out of a bar she was working at in Monterey CA and sent her to be a labor organizer for the AFL-CIO in Los Angeles. She spent several years at it but washed out after several union decertifications at restaurants in her territory – she was nuts to begin with and the stress broke her. She’s happily married now to one of the sons of a former head of the CIA, back in Monterey causing activist trouble like she is best at but at least it is localized.
I guess now with social media campaigns these pre-politicians can skip the whole earning your stripes in the field period which proves they are entirely controlled as they would have no clue what to do should they be left to their own devices. It’s like they just answered a casting call – oh wait, AOC did answer a casting call. They’re just empty headed vessels that deserve no respect.
Ice- I left you a message in the “1619 Project” thread.
The levitating car is CGI. It’s like Nikola’s engine-less truck rolling down the highway. Also, VW is the most debt laden car company in the world and they can’t afford an R&D project of that magnitude. What additional debt they can raise will all go to financial gimmicks. BTW few old school companies are doing R&D anymore – that’s all left up to startups, and since startup costs are so high for industrial new technology all we get anymore is software masquerading as technology as their costs are much lower.
Lost my last job in R&D when company had to sell all US assets as per FTC requirements to facilitate merger between German and American companies. First thing new buyer did was send me a pink slip – no more R&D across the board. All sales development of existing product base, no new products except by accident, and loads of diversity because diversity is our strength.
This last employer was sad – they had a decrepit research center built to perform research just before WWII that was falling to pieces and was about 15% occupied. The lab across the street was the famous Bell Telephone Laboratories, where the transistor, PVC, a ton of other new inventions were proven. It had maybe 30 cars in the parking lot, was falling to pieces like our lab. Globalism and Wall Street games are all that matter now.
Don’t underestimate how dangerous she is.
Those who bankrolled her getting there are the real danger. She’s interchangeable, like a tire rotation.
Of all those in congress who got there through a successful casting call, she has the best rack.
Her rack and her ass are the only reasons she got there.
Good control of the gag reflex too.
AOC?? Are we talking about the same person. That anorexic mama has no rack or bootie.
Looks like a Lightfoot/Schiff love child.
The hell she doesn’t. She has a great rack and an above-average bootie. Don’t let her horse teeth, annoying voice & attitude, and Marxist stupidity distract you from the T&A on display.
Kid.
How long have you been at sea?
Hot? Not!
I read someone the other day, who said that woman is a double mastectomy away from irrelevance
I think she might be Joe’s love child, they both are batshit crazy
Be careful with the teeth baby….
Wow , Axis Sally , Tokyo Rose and now AOC …
LMAO
Here are the new Ginsberg uniforms for the NFL for the period of mourning.
https://babylonbee.com/news/nfl-to-adorn-all-uniforms-with-lace-doilies-in-to-honor-rbg
Those Negroes look so cute in their lace collars. Auntie thinks they got it confused with collards.
White? Green? What difference does it make at this point?
If a constitutional judge who upholds laws isn’t good, what do she and her comrades want? if I talked like this I bet I would get arrested. Just like when I was in the military if I did what Hillary did I would have gone to prison. I can’t remember hearing and good or positive ideas from the left.
That’s it baby. Get your lunatic base all riled up to get violent.I’m not getting any younger waiting on this.
We’ve seen this act before.
I think this is fitting to link here. Here is one tidbit relating to the “Next” crisis.
But wait it gets better, because in launching digital cash, the Fed would then be able to scrap “anonymous” physical currency entirely,
So this morning, as if to confirm our speculation of what comes next, Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester delivered a speech to the Chicago Payment Symposium titled “Payments and the Pandemic”, in which after going through the big picture boilerplate, Mester goes straight to the matter at hand.
In the section titled “Central Bank Digital Currencies”, the Cleveland Fed president writes that “the experience with pandemic emergency payments has brought forward an idea that was already gaining increased attention at central banks around the world, that is, central bank digital currency (CBDC).
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/loretta-mester-hints-fed-preparing-deposit-digital-dollars-directly-each-american
I may have to print bumper stickers that read: Barter is Better.
See Bee.
The intent is to render domestic use of dollars illegal so barter will have to fill the void but I mainly put it up there in case anyone has large stashes of greenbacks put away.
When I was in Nam, they changed the scrip overnight and at 8 aam we had to trade what we had in our pockets for the new stuff. The civilians who were using the G.I. scrip in the economy lost everything and many committed suicide.
My salvation is I have no allegiance to any fiat currency. My bank acct goes to zero tomorrow…so be it. I know I have the fortitude to survive and everyone on this site I respect, helps keep my fortitude, fortified.