Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: "My Parents Did Not Raise Me To Accept Abuse From Men" - News & Guts Media
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After Wednesday's non-apology by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor where she said of the retiring Republican:
"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 calling women & using abusive language towards women."
Here is my full response regarding Mr. Yoho and the culture of misogyny that inspired his actions.
I am deeply appreciative of my colleagues and everyone speaking up and out against the rampant mistreatment of women both in Congress and across the country. ⬇️ https://t.co/nFfxy5UdmP
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 23, 2020
The Hill reports:
Yoho (R-Fla.) was coming down the steps on the east side of the Capitol on Monday, having just voted, when he approached Ocasio-Cortez, who was ascending into the building to cast a vote of her own.
In a brief but heated exchange, which was overheard by a reporter, Yoho told Ocasio-Cortez she was "disgusting" for recently suggesting that poverty and unemployment are driving a spike in crime in New York City during the coronavirus pandemic.
"You are out of your freaking mind," Yoho told her.
A reporter who heard the exchange says after walking away, Yoho murmured "f*cking bitch." AOC recounted this during her speech today, including using the specific language used against her. The NYC congresswoman added:
"Mr. Yoho was not alone, he was walking shoulder to shoulder with Rep. Roger Williams and that's when we start to see that this issue is not about one incident, it's cultural. It is culture of lack of impunity, of accepting of violence and violent language against women and an entire structure of power that supports that. Because not only have I been spoken to disrespectfully, particularly by members of the Republican party and officials of the Republican party, not just here but the President of the United States last year told me to go home, to another country with the implication that I don't even belong in America. The governor of Florida, Governor DeSantis, before I was even sworn in, called me a whatever that is. Dehumanizing language is not new. And what we are seeing now is that incidents like these are happening in a pattern. This is a pattern of an attitude towards women and dehumanization of others."
There's a lot going on, but there's a reason @AOC's speech today on the House floor is resonating. She says what for too long has gone unsaid. Silence is not an option. The moment for reckoning with misogyny and harassment, in Congress, and in the country, is here.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) July 23, 2020
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Women do not have to take dehumanizing abuse...
WTF??????????? Sticks and stones ring a bell? She's in a whole different situation than when she lived the life with mommy and daddy. And wasn't she a bartender? And she never was subject to (LOL) abusive language? Did she think that going to DC was going to change human nature? Gotta LMMFAO
I guess they didn’t use swear words in Sandys upscale suburb.
shes showing her privilege.
So, basically a young Congresswoman with brown skin from The Bronx should expect to be accosted and verbally abused by an angry fatass goppers just for doing her job representing her constituents because she once worked in a bar to put herself through college and to help support her family? Really?
That is lame!
Yep, in Trump's America everyone knows that the truly privileged, the real snobs, are poor brown working class people from the Bronx and not some poor trust fund billionaires like, um, Ivanka T. That is common knowledge/S...
No, she is an obnoxious far left wing loon that never fails to open her mouth about things she knows nothing about. That has nothing to do with her sex, race, or anything else other than her stupidity.
But at least she is fitting right in with the other corrupt politicians in Washington.
Maybe you need to review some of AOC's biggest hits:
When she discovered the garbage disposal.
When she called the electoral college a racist scam.
Or her getting Amazon not to invest in NY- which would have brought in much needed good paying jobs; and enriched the neighborhood. So dumb she thought a 3 billion dollar tax break was the same as giving Amazon 3 billions dollars. Well NY got nothing, and will have to like it.
Here are some more of her dumber moments.
But she has that all important D behind her name; so she is golden to the left.
Thanks for making my point so eloquently...
Thank you for missing the point so completely. If she had an R behind her name you would be screaming she is dumber than Trump!
There is no excusing her massive stupidity outside of that almighty D behind her name.
The amount of hate conservatives have shown toward AOC is directly correlated to their fear of her as an extremely strong, articulate and opinionated woman who isn't the least bit cowed by any of them. A woman who burns them every time. The kicker- even many republican women agree with her on this.
She has earned the distinction of deserving every bad name she has been called.
She should have stayed out of politics and become a high priced escort.
Please do articulate just how and why you beleive that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has earned contempt and abuse.
She isn't smart enough to be a high priced escort- she should have stuck to bar tending.
Yet AOC whipped the popular CNBC host Michelle Caruso-Cabrera by fifty two points in her supposedly hotly contested primary. That doesn't sound like soon to be two term Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is dumb!
No, it's more like the brain dead voter base she conned into voting for her are the truly stupid ones. Soon to be two term? Only in people's dreams of fantasy....
Unfortunately, this is NY we are talking about.
Winning the primary all but guarantees her victory. The only chance any Republican has is to bash her stupidity continuously, and hope that the voters have been following her blunders- especially the Amazon debacle.
Oh boy, you really aren't going to like it when this generation of women take their power. Feel better after that disgusting comment? AOC is just one of the first young women to be a voice against misogyny and sexism. I'm pretty sure these old farts wouldn't appreciate their own comments coming at their own wife or daughter. But most women agree she nailed it. Reading the disgustingly sexist misogynist comments from the right makes me even happier these young women are taking over from the old boys network.
In other words, instead of simply accepting an apology and forgiving someone, another hour on the floor was needed to allow others to decide if the apology was good enough?
Why am I not surprised?
Maybe because you mistook his bullshit for an apology. It was not. It was a poor attempt to lie and obfuscate, no apology for what he called her at all. And you'll be seeing that clip of her many more times over the years to come. She spoke for millions of women. It was beautiful to behold. The fact all the old geezers are having a cow is they know their time is up. Enjoy women making a big point in November.
'The witch'? How very Christian of you. Burn her at the stake!
Only if calling a young Hispanic Democratic Congresswoman a, "Fucking Bitch", is now considered official policy by the damn gop...
I bet if she would have called him a misogynistic prick, they would have gone off the rails.
What does ethnicity have to do with anything?
Not real women!
It appears the gop is losing young female voters...
PERMANENTLY!
But he is doing really well with poorly educated white males with underserved hubris, Nazi's, white supremacists and misogynistic incels.
Nice SG but I'm sure your friends will let it stand.
However, I am a white guy, a 20 year Navy veteran only retired 15 years ago, a Bachelor's degree, and married to an Asian woman for 30 years and my son, who is my wife's son from a first marriage, and is full Filipino, appreciated that so much HE married an Asian woman.
Kindly tell me where in your delusion I fit into.
You are responsible for how we perceive you...
Did I say no one else would be voting for Trump? I've no doubt there are some who are just so embittered towards liberals and progressives that they'll vote for a dishonest sack of shit like Trump just to piss them off. But the fact remains, Trump is doing really well with poorly educated white males, Nazi's and white supremacists who will be right there next to you voting for Trump in November. Personally, I'd be a little bothered if my preferred candidate also attracted such garbage and would at least wonder why such sacks of shit are so attracted to him.
To be honest, I don't give a shit how you perceive me.
What we all know, however, is that most democrats put minorities into neat little boxes based on how they perceive those minorities.
Where is your proof of this?
Just because you don't like a president doesn't mean that certain people will vote for him.
Let me ask this...
Joe Biden said just recently that if don't vote for him, you ain't black.
This is just one of many racist statements he has made over the years.
What group of people are sure to vote for him?
Obviously those that agree with this and all of the other racist statements he has made.
Seems to me he is the one attracting uneducated whites (most liberals?), white supremists and nazis.
if my preferred candidate also attracted such garbage and would at least wonder why such sacks of shit are so attracted to him.
Your preferred candidate attracts all kinds of garbage....scum like Antifa, BLM, and all kinds of other trash
If one wanted to be equally as hypocritical they'd say Trump attracts the KKK and Nazis!
Antifa are unaffiliated anarchists that I disagree with, but they do not have any blood on their hands. BLM has done nothing wrong, they have merely been blamed by ignorant bigots of any and all vandalism and violence that occurs at any protest regardless of whether it was some right wing infiltrators or Boogaloo boys. The claim that they were responsible for the Texas officers being gunned down is pure unadulterated bullshit and only used by the most worthless of racist bigots trying to smear a movement that is merely trying to stand up for their own civil rights.
The right wing attracts Nazi's, the KKK and white supremacists of all stripes. Right wing extremism has actual blood on their hands with dozens of murders happening at their hands annually.
I'm just fine voting next to BLM members, progressives, liberals, lgtbq Americans and all other patriotic sane Americans who recognize the real danger that fascist Trumpism presents to America. How those on the right can sleep at night knowing they are voting along with Nazi's, domestic terrorists, white supremacists, fascists and other right wing extremists is truly amazing to me.
You've made this bullshit claim more than once and have been asked for proof of it. You have never provided that proof.
Maybe now?
Doubtful.
Since it doesn't look like you flagged it, YOU must be one of those friends letting it stand.
Impossible while following the CoC.
AOC did not even know what a garbage disposal is
I was amazed the first time I saw a home trash compactor.
They are really rare in the Bronx. They are not allowed in my building because they clog the pipes. We cannot have dishwashers either. We do have an incinerator and a compactor room though. Do you got those in your home?
You know what else nobody has in the Bronx? Septic Tanks and Cess Pools! AOC probably never smelled one of those either. How backwards of her /s...
Actually yes, never having seen something before is the perfect reason for not knowing about that thing. For instance, my mom still has a 1970's era trash compactor in her kitchen. Her two great grandchildren asked her what that was. They had never ever seen one before and had no idea such things even existed. I can guarantee you that these children are very bright.
I have to ask though, do you ever really have a point to make besides just being unnecessarily difficult and argumentative? If so, I certainly can't discern it. Arguing against all evidence that a well educated articulate popular member of the United States Congress is stupid is, well, stupid!
Go ahead, show me. I'm not a little melting snowflake liberal that flags and whines incessantly.
I don't intentionally violate the CoC.
So what you are saying is you cannot respond to someone without insulting and name calling.
No, that isn't what I'm saying.
But hey, perhaps you'd like to review the last 27 days of responses that I have posted to prove to yourself that your comment is false.
Why just the last 27 days?
Did you finally stop with the snarky replies and insults 27 days ago?
[Enough already. Discuss the topic, please.]
Well if you can't come up with anything it the lase 27 days your comment is FALSE bugsy.
Never started.
You're doing a fine job of it though.
Well that is historically pretty obvious. It's easier than admitting they could be mistaken or wrong!
Another opinion piece.
Nothing more.
That is your opinion. There is massive evidence the gop is losing women voters by the millions...
Another opinion,
No, actually it is a well documented fact.
Even the reason he approached her displays his abject stupidity. Obviously, he has a lot of problems.
I just don't think he suffers idiots and fools very well...................
I think he is an idiot and a fool. He sure proved it there.
It was no doubt an intentional appeal to his constituents, many of whom are deathly afraid of smart young women of color. They hold an enormous amount of animosity for anyone that threatens their precious white Christian patriarchy.
Very true.
For all the frantic bombast from Trump loyalists, I smell fear. (Ok I smell their toots too, but mainly fear.)
Fear is usually the cause of irrational hatred such as that exhibited by so many above against Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. Please note that not a one of those bashing her could articulate why...other than that she is young and brown and working class and liberal!
There were lots of yahoos calling her stupid. This is a US Congresswoman. Yep, she scares em shytless.
Isn't it just amazing how the reactionaries try to prove what big tough men they are by cursing out and insulting women?
It brings to mind the line from the song in "West Side Story"... "psychologically disturbed".
A little adjustment to Roosevelt:
...fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, [--] justified terror which paralyzes needed efforts ...
Yep - that's what I smell. (And the toots too.)
And, wonder why women voters are repulsed.
Smells worse than a dead skunk in the road...
Probably their wives pretend they're not... repulsed, that is.
Fear causes stress and stress leads to gas. I definitely understand what you are talking about
AOC is smart, articulate and determined. She instills fear in those who rely on fear for power.
As far as Rep. Yoho----he is not, not and not-----and is a Trumper that felt a calling but nothing else.
I am not a fan of Ms. Ocasia Cortez. She is a little too liberal for my taste and I think she leans heavy on identity politics. With that said, none of us should be surprised with how republican men view and treat women. I applaud her for calling out Mr. Yoho for his vulgarity towards women and for Mr. Williams' silence to the abuse. His silence is his agreement.