The AOC town hall harassed the town hall about migrants, drag queens and the debt ceiling
A town hall meeting held by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Queens on Friday night turned into a farce as the stake was called a “piece of sh*t” and berated for her views on Ukraine, migrants, story hours about drag queens and the debt ceiling.
The meeting took place in the Corona district, the constituency of AOC. Her voters weren’t in a welcoming mood, especially when City Hall moved into the question-and-answer phase.
“American citizens before migrants,” cried one heckler. Others chanted, “America first.”
Another shouted, “We are on the brink of nuclear war with Russia. Are you going to stop this war?’ shouted another, according to video recorded by conservative activist group Freedom News TV.
Video shows a protester, dressed in a Cuba T-shirt and waving miniature US flags, led away by security after repeatedly calling AOC a piece of sh*t and asking, “Where are you on the migrant issue?”
An Iraq veteran tried to defend the Bronx-born Democrat by saying, “Immigrants have nothing to do with vets, it’s just an excuse. We all came through Ellis Island for the most part.’ At that point, a protester interjected, “Legal!”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a town hall meeting Friday night in her constituency in Corona, Queens
The meeting was bombarded with protesters, a man was escorted out after calling the congressman a ‘piece of shit’
AOC protesters wanted to know why the congressman continued to support sending billions to Ukraine when many are struggling in Queens and The Bronx
In social media posts announcing the event, AOC made no reference to the protesters
A prominent sign read: “AOC: An Obvious Criminal.” Others had phrases like, “Stop funding Ukraine,” “American First.” Only legal migrants vetted’ and ‘AOC: stop pushing drag queen story hour’
Another woman was removed as she screamed, “Stop funding this war, there are many communities that need help and need that money. I come from that community’
“I don’t like that the Republicans passed a $1.7 trillion tax cut for the richest people in this country,” the crowd said to great applause.
A prominent sign read: “AOC: An Obvious Criminal.” Others had phrases like, “Stop funding Ukraine,” “American First.” Only legal migrants vetted’ and ‘AOC: stop pushing drag queen story hour’, reports the New York Post.
The congressman was loudly criticized by a protester for voting in favor of sending $100 billion to Ukraine after the Russian invasion after she made comments in favor of removing the debt ceiling.
When that protester was yelled down by someone who told him to wait his turn, he replied, “Freedom of speech!”
President Joe Biden said a deal to resolve the administration’s crisis seemed “very close” late Friday, even as the deadline for a potentially catastrophic bankruptcy was pushed back to June 5 and negotiations between the White House and Republicans likely move to another frustrating week seemed to drag on. .
Social media posts from AOC’s team after Friday’s town hall made no reference to the protesters.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for tonight’s town hall in Corona in May! We had such a great turnout, even over Memorial Day weekend!” read a Facebook post from her official page.
“It was great answering all your questions, discussing the debt limit negotiations and more. See you next month!” the congressman tweeted in a separate post.
In 2022, AOC was pictured dancing on stage as protesters chanted ‘AOC must go’ at a Queens town hall
In 2022, AOC famously danced with protesters at a town hall who drummed to tell her to resign.
The grinning congresswoman shrugged off the harsh criticism as she sipped from a water bottle and began to shake her shoulders to the chants.
She sat on a podium the entire time and kept smiling, even as an irate woman seemed to burn with rage as she hoarsely yelled herself off the seats.
Comedian Alex Stein posted a video of AOC telling the audience to “Listen!”
He jokingly wrote, “I can’t tell you in words how excited I get when AOC talks like that!”
Some berated the incumbent for her apparent contempt for the views of the people who put her in office.
‘You are [sic] your own voters harassed you last night and you just started dancing and humiliating them? Hopefully they will really wake up and realize that you don’t have to pass a single piece of legislation for them or anyone else yet and they will vote you out of office!’ wrote Brent Smith.
A user identified by the handle @nashland wrote: ‘You are a disgrace and disgrace, sitting there ‘dancing’ at your town hall meeting instead of addressing the very serious issues people are raising. Do you think war is funny?’
Tiffany Justice, co-founder of parent rights group Moms for Liberty, wrote, “Any good leader would be considerate of voters who are angry with their leadership. Not this woman.
“See how AOC sits, legs spread woman open, mocking her constituents by dancing and sticking her tongue out as they tell her they want her out of office. Coarse,” she said.
As the shouting grew louder in the room, AOC said to a man in the crowd, “very classy, thank you sir.”
Earlier this week, AOC mocked the launch of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, saying on Twitter that more people saw her playing video games than his announcement.
While this month the congresswoman made headlines for openly referring to the Navy veteran’s involvement in the May 1 death of homeless Michael Jackson impersonator Jordan Neely.
Before an indictment was filed, she tweeted that Neely’s “killer” was being “protected” while “many in power are demonizing the poor.”