AOC slammed for mocking protesters chanting ‘AOC has to go’ by dancing along at NYC town hall event
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was filmed joining protesters who chanted “AOC must go” as they were supported by a drum roll during a frenetic city hall meeting.
Protesters confronted the second-term congressman at a town hall in Queens Wednesday night.
The grinning congresswoman shook off the aggressive criticism as she sipped from a water bottle and began to move her shoulders to the beat of the chants.
She sat on stage the whole time and kept smiling, even as an enraged woman seemed poised to explode with rage as she screamed herself hoarsely from the seats.
Despite AOC’s famously progressive leanings, the crowds that show up to protest her candidacy claim she has moved too far from her original, anti-elitist platform and turned into one of the politicians she was supposed to replace.
Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pictured dancing onstage as protesters chanted ‘AOC must go’ at a Queens town hall on Tuesday night
Comedian Alex Stein posted a video in which AOC told the crowd to ‘Listen!’
He jokingly wrote, “I can’t tell you in words how excited I am when AOC talks like that!”
Some berated the incumbent for her apparent disregard for the views of the people who had put her in office.
‘You are’ [sic] your constituents harassed you last night and you started dancing and humiliating them? Hopefully they really wake up and realize that you have to pass a single piece of legislation for them or someone else and they will vote you out of office!” wrote Brent Smith.
One user identified by the handle @nashland wrote: ‘You are an embarrassment and disgrace sitting there ‘dancing’ at your town hall meeting instead of dealing with the very serious issues people are raising. Do you think war is funny?’
Tiffany Justice, the co-founder of the Moms for Liberty parent association, wrote, “Any good leader would be considerate when dealing with voters angry at their leadership. Not this woman.
“Look at AOC sitting, legs spread open, mocking her constituents by dancing and sticking her tongue out as they tell her they want her gone. Gross,” she said.
As the screams grew louder in the room, AOC said to a man in the crowd, “Very stylish, thank you sir.”
AOC continued to dance even as this protester shouted himself hoarsely from the seats, while another woman appeared to be trying to calm her down
AOC has a form of challenging those who disagree with her, but this is her first time doing so through the medium of dance.
In a recent interview with GQ, she blamed a nationwide hatred of “colored women” for fearing she might not be alive by September.
‘People ask me about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’ll be alive in September,” she told the glossy magazine.
However, the profile calls her “the political voice of a generation — and a cultural star whose power transcends politics,” a title she may have struggled to sustain, based on complaints from some of her constituents.
This is the second town hall event in recent days where the progressive politician has faced interruption for her actions in DC.
Last week, she was booed at a town hall in the Bronx. Her former supporters disputed her decision to continue sending military aid to Ukraine.
“You voted to mobilize and send money to Ukrainian Nazis,” he shouted.
‘You haven’t done anything. Tulsi Gabbard has shown guts where you have shown cowardice,” he continued, referring to the former Democratic presidential candidate’s public decision to leave the Democratic party last week.
The intermission was met with a mix of yelling—and some applause—as the congressman asked the men to wait their turn, as there was apparently a line of voters waiting to ask AOC questions.
But during her dance recital on Tuesday night, multiple Twitter users called out the politician for her “humiliating behavior.”
Congresswoman tried to calm the crowd on Wednesday night
Getting used to: it was the second town hall within a week that the progressive legislator was scolded by its voters
As the screams in the room grew louder, AOC said to a man in the crowd, “Very classy, thank you sir.”
During her relatively short time in Congress, the outspoken politician has been criticized a number of times for her behavior — and with increasing frequency, by that of her own party.
She has apparently become known in the world of high fashion, appearing on the covers not only of GQ, but also of Vanity Fair with beautiful and expensive outfits.
Last September, she walked the red carpet at the Met Gala in a designer dress with the words “tax the rich” written in red on the back. Her dinner tickets worth about $10,000 to the swanky event were reportedly paid for by the museum.
After her bold red carpet look, her official website started selling nearly $60 sweatshirts with the same tagline as her Vogue-approved look.
The official earns a six-figure salary and regularly speaks live with her 8.6 million Instagram followers from her luxurious apartment in DC’s Navy Yard neighborhood.
Responding to her protesters’ reasoning, despite her big promises about changing the game in Washington and for the American people, she has consistently been ranked among the least effective members of Congress.
According to the impartial Center for Effective Legislation, the congresswoman has never been able to introduce a “substantive” piece of legislation that has passed the introduction phase. And that despite a united Democratic party in the capital for the past two years.