{"id":813090,"date":"2021-09-25T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=813090"},"modified":"2021-09-25T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:14:10","slug":"aoc-slammed-across-political-spectrum-after-trying-to-explain-her-present-vote-always-a-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-slammed-across-political-spectrum-after-trying-to-explain-her-present-vote-always-a-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Slammed Across Political Spectrum After Trying To Explain Her \u2018Present\u2019 Vote: \u2018Always A Victim\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-slammed-across-political-spectrum-after-trying-to-explain-her-present-vote-always-a-victim%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=813090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AOC1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who the former head of the DNC once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dnc-tom-perez-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-future-2018-7\">anointed<\/a> as the future of the Democrat Party, faced widespread condemnation across the political spectrum on Friday after she attempted to explain why she voted \u201cpresent\u201d for a bill that would have provided Israel with funding for a missile defense system that protects them for Palestinian terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In a roughly 900-word statement, AOC explicitly stated that she wanted \u201cto be clear\u201d that she was \u201copposed to this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After explaining over the course of several hundred words why she really opposed helping one of America\u2019s top allies defend its citizens from terror attacks, AOC then pivoted to \u201cthe process of bringing it to the House floor\u201d being \u201cdeeply unjust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC attacked Democrat House leadership, calling their decision to quickly vote on the bill \u201creckless,\u201d and then claiming the bill was \u201cmost controversial,\u201d even though it passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, 420-9.<\/p>\n<p>AOC implied that the situation created a \u201ctinderbox of vitriol\u201d where she became the victim of \u201cdisingenuous framing, deeply racist accusations and depictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I wept,\u201d AOC said after Congress made the decision to help Israel defend its citizens from being murdered in terrorist attacks. \u201cI wept at the complete lack of care for the human beings that are impacted by these decisions, I wept at an institution choosing a path of maximum volatility and minimum consideration for its own political convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I wept at the complete lack of regard I often feel our party has to its most vulnerable and endangered members and communities \u2013 because the death threats and dangerous vitriol we\u2019d inevitably receive by rushing such a sensitive, charged, and under-considered vote weren\u2019t worth delaying it for even a few hours to help us do the work necessary to open a conversation of understanding,\u201d AOC continued. \u201cIt certainly wasn\u2019t the first time people\u2019s wellbeing was tossed aside for political convenience, and sadly I do not believe it will be the last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC faced widespread criticism over the statement, with most saying that the statement amounted to nothing more than word salad.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most notable responses to AOC included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Batya Ungar-Sargon<\/strong>, Newsweek: \u201cI don\u2019t understand much of this statement, though I now think my reading of AOC\u2019s vote was pretty wrong. What matters most here is that per AOC, \u2018the majority of constituent feedback\u2019 asked her to \u2018quell the volatility of this moment in our community.\u2019 Twitter, meet constituents.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sean Davis<\/strong>, The Federalist: \u201cCortez is little more than a functionally illiterate woke actress, and this selection of word vomit is what happens when on-screen talent try to write their own lines.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kimberley Strassel<\/strong>, The Wall Street Journal, wrote mockingly: \u201cAllow me to bore you with a two-page letter that still doesn\u2019t explain why I voted present.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Helaine Olen<\/strong>, The Washington Post: \u201cNo explanation would have been better than this.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miriam Elder<\/strong>, The Hive: \u201cAre AOC\u2019s sharp political instincts waning? Met Gala now this weird letter that postures one way while failing to explain why she didn\u2019t vote against it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moti Ankari<\/strong>: \u201cThe best part of AOC voting present is now more people hate her.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Harsanyi<\/strong>, National Review: \u201cThis is just gibberish.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>StopAntisemitism.org<\/strong>: \u201cYou voted \u2018present\u2019 because you\u2019re salivating over Chuck Schumer\u2019s seat.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Noah Pollak<\/strong>: \u201cThis BDS supporter, collaborator in the Squad\u2019s obsessive slanders of Israel, and defender of her colleagues\u2019 anti-semitism, is complaining about the \u2018discourse\u2019 around Israel and declaring herself the victim (she\u2019s *always* a victim!) of \u2018hateful targeting.&#8217;\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Josh Jordan<\/strong>: \u201cThat\u2019s a whole lot of words to never explain the reason for the letter which was why she voted present on the Iron Dome funding as opposed to no.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AOC faced the most intense criticism from her far-left base and many of the responses were too vulgar to share, however, here are two of the most notable ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ryan Knight<\/strong>: \u201cThat\u2019s a whole lot of words to say that you are a coward who didn\u2019t have the courage to stand up for the Palestinian people when it mattered most.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiorella Isabel<\/strong>: \u201cAOC always makes herself a victim. Ultimately she voted \u2018present\u2019 on apartheid because of a career move. It\u2019s not the first time. She did this same move to fund Capitol Police with $1.9 Billion after initially saying \u2018no.\u2019 If your can\u2019t handle doing your job, get the f*** out!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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