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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Stood on the House Floor and Said: ‘Yoho Called Me a F*cking B*tch’

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AOC is the OG.

There is something about Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, “AOC” that really gets under the Right-Wing’s skin. It could be that she’s young, very young for a United States representative, still under thirty. It could be that she’s an attractive woman, and many in the Republican party – particularly the politicians – believe that attractive women are to be on their arms at social gatherings, not representing New York City.

It could be that she’s near radical in her progressive views, far to the left of even mainstream Democrats – proving we have a big tent. It could be she’s a woman of color. Or, it could well be that she just doesn’t give a fck about their “old boy ways” in Washington, with President Grumpy-Mean-Grandpa, and is going to say what she wants about whatever she wants.

Whatever it is that bugs them, they’re learning a very valuable lesson. Do. Not. Underestimate. her, or her power. She is the next generation – a woman of color, a woman, who wants progressive values, cares about the planet, and demands that her voice be heard, that her values matter every bit as much as Exxon’s. Do not even underestimate her willingness to call you out on the floor of the House and not mince words:

Boom.

Her full remarks:

About two days ago, I was walking up the steps of the Capitol when Representative Yoho suddenly turned a corner … and accosted me on the steps right here in front of our Nation’s Capitol. I was minding my own business, walking up the steps. And Representative Yoho put his finger in my face, he called me disgusting, he called me crazy, he called me out of my mind. And he called me dangerous.

And then he took a few more steps, and after I had recognized his comments as rude, he walked away and said, ‘I’m rude? You’re calling me rude?’

I took a few steps ahead and I walked inside and cast my vote. … I walked back out and there were reporters in the front of the Capitol, and in front of reporters Representative Yoho called me, and I quote, a ‘fucking bitch.’

“Representative Yoho decided to come to the floor of the House of Representatives and make excuses for his behavior, and that I could not let go,”

She added that she could not allow her nieces, victims of verbal abuse, and others, “to see that excuse, and to see our Congress accept it as legitimate, and accept it as an apology. And to accept silence as a form of acceptance. I could not allow that to stand.”

 “My father, thankfully, not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter.”

“I do not need Representative Yoho to apologize to me. Clearly, he does not want to. Clearly, when given the opportunity, he will not. And I will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over…using abusive language toward women.”

Yes, he attempted to apologize yesterday and we covered it, he denied saying it but said he was sorry “if it was interpreted that way,” and then went on to say he won’t apologize for his passion, love of God, country, all that shit that basically said: “I love God so much I yell what I want!” Which, when you think about it, is a very old white man’s way of saying “I’m not sorry.”

Now he’s learning his lesson, the old way doesn’t work anymore, while many have her back.

https://twitter.com/SnarkyDragonfly/status/1286310035602190339

https://twitter.com/connormw/status/1286311308078587905

https://twitter.com/connormw/status/1286311308078587905

https://twitter.com/Ardhen723/status/1286313021908885506

https://twitter.com/maple_1981/status/1286314689689944073

Go AOC.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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