AOC Says Colleagues 'Wish Me Harm' After Newly Released Jan. 6 Committee Footage

[oioioi]

In a video released by the committee Wednesday, a man was shown marching toward the Capitol on January 6, 2021, while yelling “there’s no escape” and rattling off a list of Democratic lawmakers including Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The same man purportedly “took photos of hallways, tunnels, and staircases” during a tour of the Capitol complex led by Loudermilk on January 5, 2021.

Ocasio-Cortez reacted to the video by telling reporters “many members of Congress … have specifically used my name to incite violence.”



Ocasio-Cortez didn’t mention any specific lawmakers who she believes used her name to “incite violence,” but she has been the target of incendiary rhetoric in the past. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) shared an anime video of himself killing Ocasio-Cortez last year. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) was overheard calling her a “fucking bitch” in 2020, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mocked her last year for saying she feared for her life during the Capitol riot.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2022/06/15/aoc-says-colleagues-wish-me-harm-after-newly-released-jan-6-committee-footage/?sh=71ed6b8c33fa

[malaise]

1. They came to kill

That was what Slobby meant by wild

[Bluethroughu]

9. If they would have got any one Democratic leader, we would have seen blood.

They broke into the building shouting hang the vice president, and taunting different Democratic women leaders.
They were sick, deranged, and violent.

Every single person should have been sent to prison.

[jaxexpat]

34. As a start, every person beyond the security barricades should be fined into oblivion.

1. Every person who entered or attempted to enter the capitol building should see prison time measured in years.
2. Persons convicted of vandalism should see decades of prison graduated to the degree of destruction.
3. Those that undertook violence against the capitol police or any other person trying to defend the building deserve life in prison.
4. Any person who fought against the defenders of the capitol building who had at some time prior sworn an oath to defend the constitution should be executed.

If this had been a mere 75 years ago, they'd all have been summarily executed already, simply on the grounds of an attempt to occupy the capitol building and interrupt the processes of the government. It was a declaration of rebellion against the authority of the constitution. If not for the capitol police, they would have thrown the nation into civil war.

They would have, of course, lost that war and probably their lives either during or immediately after, the conflict. Seems an awful waste of treasure but, if allotted equally, 75% of the loss would fall on about 100 people. That's fair and maybe the only solution to that "concentrated wealth at the top" problem.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. And I guarantee you that a lot of these lawmakers who wished harm to her also wished

harm to others too, Pelosi, etc. All I imagine coming from the garage pit himself, djt.

djt is an assh**e, deserves to be remembered in the trash heap of history and in jail as well, along w/ any of his thugs who knew better than to illegally try to override w/ the voters legal votes, insert their will over that of millions of legal voters. One day, the silent majority (us who voted for Pres. Biden, and others under the Democratic banner) will finally get fed up w/ all of these ongoing illegal attempts to destroy/distort/take away our legally cast votes.

[Raster]

3. Three strikes against OAC: minority woman that speaks the truth.

That's enough for a death sentence #GOPfascism.

[Walleye]

5. She is also brilliant. They just hate that in a woman

[Magoo48]

14. Yup, authoritarian/patriarchal/white supremacist men are scared shitless by intelligent women.

[Strelnikov_]

6. Three strikes, but the last is the big one

Woman that does not know her place.

Minority that does not know her place.

A politician who speaks truth to power, is smart, attractive, and could be a force to be reckoned with in the future.

"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents." - Churchill

[KS Toronado]

11. That's a great quote by Churchill

lot of truth in it.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

27. Absolutely!

Churchill wasn't perfect but man, could he come up with some profound and/or inspiring quotes when the situation called for them.

[calimary]

20. THIS. Totally This.

Including the Churchill quote.

[Raster]

22. Make that FOUR strikes: Brilliant, Minority Woman that speaks the Truth.

[demmiblue]

30. FIVE: Young

A lot of elderly folks just can't stand that.

[Raster]

31. Thank you! And soooooo true.

[uponit7771]

41. +1,

[70sEraVet]

4. I have no doubt that their hatred stems from a primate-level sexual frustration

What they can't have, they sh-t on.

[Walleye]

7. I suspect you are right for some of them at least

[betsuni]

8. Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton are the most viciously hated Democratic women, for many years.

[Celerity]

10. yes, deffo incel vibes from the haters, they hate she is hawwwt and not their stooge

[panader0]

12. Great photos.

[LuckyCharms]

25. Yep. She's smart, beautiful,

streetwise, doesn't take any shit from anyone, and can slap down her haters with just a few words.

[PatSeg]

13. Seems to be a common thread

that runs through the republican party. I look at male republican politicians and I seen a bunch of frustrated teenage boys who couldn't get a date in high school. What they lacked in personality and charisma they tried to compensate for it with power and money. For those who couldn't attain power and money, they often would resort to violence.

[calimary]

21. Yep. Incels.

[Raster]

24. Maybe it's time America STOP electing Incels and other damaged goods to government positions.

[PatSeg]

36. Yes and some parents

need to rethink the way they raise their boys.

[Raster]

37. I could not agree more!!!

Toxic masculinity is the root of this evil.

[PatSeg]

38. And it is often encouraged

in boys from a young age. I've watched parents not hold their sons accountable for their behavior while being very strict and controlling with their daughters. It is even more disturbing when I see mothers treat their sons so permissively.

[ymetca]

39. Or they physically abuse them as children

"Little Johnny was being a bully and hitting people at school, so I spanked the hell out of him, but he just keeps doing it."

Maybe little Johnny has learned from you that hitting people is acceptable behavior. After all, you modeled it for him.

Spare the rod and spoil the child does not work. It's been proven, over and over and over again.

We have to stop grooming little boys to kill.

[PatSeg]

40. Yes, I agree

We continue to recycle the same failed tactics and then wonder why there is so much violence in the world.

[PatSeg]

35. Exactly

They can grow up to be serial killers/rapists, militia members, corporate CEOs, or politicians. So many similarities.

[usaf-vet]

16. Dead on truth!

[LuckyCharms]

28. Yes exactly. It's the "nice guy" or "incel" syndrome. n/t

[True Dough]

15. That woman

has more courage than 99.99999% of Americans. There are points when many DUers don't agree with her stance on various issues, but there is no denying her passion for progressive politics. And every day she goes to work -- hell, every day she appears in public -- she knows she risks having some wingnut attempt to end her life.

I wish her well and many successes over what is hopefully a long career in Washington.

[spooky3]

17. Well said nt

[LuckyCharms]

26. Well said, True Dough...

[Raster]

33. Absolutely! Props to AOC for courage...

... she has more 'nads than most of the GOP men in Congress.

And boy, do they hate her for that.

[Glaisne]

18. These Pelosi chants come straight

out of right-wing propaganda media, either radio, cable, or social media. How many times have you heard conservative political ads that say "Nancy this or Nancy that, etc." I bet not a single one of these MAGA-morons could name a single policy that she's advanced that they disagree with. All they can do is snarl and grunt and shout about her "Socialist!", "Marxist!", "Communist!". These people are brain-dead zombies.

[calimary]

23. Yep.

[Raster]

32. And truthfully, that's all the GOP really wants out of their supplicants...

...that they be brain-dead zombies that they can rile up with fear and hate and then point them in the direction of the nearest "lib'rul".

[Farmer-Rick]

19. The filthy rich don't want anything liberal to be successful

Their tools, the corporations, including corporate media and blatant lies, attack anyone who dare to promote a democratic, equitable and peaceful society.

The filthy rich want every last bit of blood and wealth from our country, and they don't care who they crush to get it. Making a liberal female a target of hate is just one more method of controlling our democracy.

[NoMoreRepugs]

29. Seriously - I back her in a one on one vs 'manly' teddycruise.