Tag Archives: AOC

AOC To Endorse Challenger To House Dem Incumbent

This is actually great news: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans on Tuesday to announce her endorsement of Marie Newman, a progressive candidate seeking to oust Representative Daniel Lipinski, a conservative-leaning Illinois Democrat, marking her first move of the 2020 campaign cycle to back a primary challenger to an incumbent. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s high-profile support amounts to a powerful seal of approval, telegraphed …

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Sinclair Affiliates Burn AOC Photo In Debate Ad [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: The clip opens with ominous music and a portrait of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) bursting into flames to reveal a pile of skulls. “This is the face of socialism and ignorance,” the narrator intones. “Does Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez know the horror of socialism?” The jarring ad, which aired on ABC during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston, …

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Karl Rove: AOC Is Vicious, Nasty, And Conceited

“The self-centeredness, and the conceit of this woman, who thinks that because she’s young, and everybody else is young, and she’s a left-winger and she knows a lot of other left-wingers, that somehow or another they are the greatest generation that America has ever seen, is just beyond me. But you know, we have to put up with her. I …

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US House Members Demand Epstein Suicide Probe

The Hill reports: New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) led public calls Saturday demanding answers after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell due to an apparent suicide. “We need answers. Lots of them,” Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, tweeted. Many immediately began questioning the details surrounding his death after …

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Trump Cultist Arrested For Death Threat Against AOC

The Toledo Blade reports: A Toledo man was charged in federal court Friday for making threats against U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and illegally possessing ammunition. Timothy J. Ireland, Jr., 41, was charged in U.S. District Court in Toledo with being a felon in possession of a firearm, being a fugitive in possession of a firearm, and making interstate …

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AOC Blasts McConnell For “Choking, Groping” Photo

The Washington Post reports: The young men wear matching shirts from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)’s campaign, and cluster around a cardboard cutout of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Several of them hold their thumbs down. One grasps the life-size poster by the waist and pretends to kiss the congresswoman. Another appears to mime his hand around her neck. To …

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Cop Suspended After Saying That AOC Should Be Shot Update: Cop Fired And Other Cop Who Liked Post Fired

The New Orleans Advocate reports: The Gretna Police Department has put Officer Charlie Rispoli on administrative leave following Rispoli’s Facebook comment last week that suggested a Democratic congresswoman should be shot. The email, sent just before 1 p.m. Monday, said Rispoli has been suspended without pay pending the department’s internal investigation. Rispoli had posted a story about U.S. Rep. Alexandria …

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LOUISIANA: Local Cop Says AOC Deserves To Be Shot

The New Orleans Advocate reports: A Gretna police officer posted a comment on his Facebook page this past week calling U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “vile idiot” who “needs a round, and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve.” The comment, which alludes to the freshman Democrat’s past work as a NYC bartender while apparently saying she should …

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Joe Biden Hails “Brilliant” AOC And Her Squad [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden heaped praise on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other freshman congresswomen targeted in racist tweets in recent days by President Donald Trump, calling them “brilliant” and “really smart” in an interview with MSNBC. But Biden, the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, also cautioned that the progressive firebrands represent “the exception rather than …

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Trump’s Four Targets: Impeach The Racist Now [VIDEO]

Let’s go to Fox News for this one: In spirited remarks tinged with open animosity, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., standing side-by-side with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, declared at a news conference on Capitol Hill Monday that “it is time for us to impeach this president” for “openly violating” his constitutional oath. “The eyes of history are …

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AOC: Lindsey Graham Is Bringing Back McCarthyism

NBC News reports: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Monday afternoon after he called her and three other freshman congresswomen targeted by President Trump “anti-Semitic” and “communists.” Graham made the remarks in defending a series of tweets from Trump aimed at Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), telling …

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Amash Condemns Trump’s “Racist” Attack On Dems

The Hill reports: Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), who recently left the Republican Party to become an Independent, on Sunday lambasted President Trump for telling a group of progressive congresswomen to go back to where they came from, saying it was “racist and disgusting.” The comments from Amash came just hours after Trump targeted a group of female lawmakers, saying that …

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Trump Tells Immigrant Democrats: Go Back To The “Broken And Crime-Infested Places” You Came From

The Independent reports: US President Donald Trump has said that some Democrat congresswomen from countries “whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Whilst it is not explicitly clear to whom he is referring, it comes after the president launched an extraordinary attack …

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Fox News Contributor: How Do We Know AOC Isn’t Working For Sex Traffickers, Cartels, And Terrorists?

“We’re looking at someone who basically wants to give you the wish list for terrorists, the wish lists for criminal cartels and sex traffickers, and you have to wonder is she working for them or is she working for the American people? The American people, especially those constituents that she represents in New York City, want the border secure, where …

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AOC Gets Wild Welcome At NYC Drag Show [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was met by an eager crowd chanting her name when she attended a drag show in New York. “You are beautiful. You are accepted,” the freshman lawmaker told the audience at Bartschland Follies, a drag and burlesque show at the McKittrick Hotel. Ocasio-Cortez appeared alongside performer Joey Arias, who shared footage of the …

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Trump: AOC Is A “Raving Lunatic” Version Of Eva Peron

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has compared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Eva Perón, saying that though he first saw the New York congresswoman “ranting and raving like a lunatic on a street corner” and thinks “she knows nothing”, she has “a certain talent”. “That’s Evita,” he said. The president’s remarks are contained in American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the …

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Bernie Sanders Hits Biden Over “Far-Left” Dig At AOC

CNBC reports: Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden said Friday that Democrats across the nation do not identify with the kind of far-left policies championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Biden, the elder statesman of the Democratic establishment, said in a CNN interview that the party aligns with his “center left” sensibilities. “What I’ve seen around the country is …

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Border Patrol Chief: AOC Is Trying To Dehumanize Us

Brandon Judd writes for Fox News: As the president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing 16,000 Border Patrol agents, I am personally and professionally offended by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrageous, inflammatory and false claims about the dedicated law enforcement officers I represent. By comparing Border Patrol agents to Nazis, Ocasio-Cortez is trying to dehumanize us. Interestingly, this …

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Sarah Sanders Blasts AOC In Defense Of Ivanka Trump

Newsweek reports: Outgoing White House press secretary Sarah Sanders came to Ivanka Trump’s defense on Twitter, after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the president’s daughter appearing at last week’s G20 summit. Defending Ivanka Trump and her father, Sanders accused Ocasio-Cortez of “phoning it in” herself by “wasting” time on social media and “destroying jobs” in New York. Ocasio-Cortez made headlines back …

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House Passes Border Spending Bill After Pelosi Reverses

ABC News reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is “reluctantly” urging Democrats to pass a bipartisan emergency spending bill Thursday afternoon to send humanitarian relief to the southern border, reversing course and abandoning a Democratic effort to amend a measure that won strong bipartisan support in the Senate on Wednesday. “The children come first. At the end of the …

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