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mystery-ak · « **on:** July 21, 2020, 04:45:10 pm »

Ocasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: 'That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me'
By Mike Lillis - 07/21/20 08:45 AM EDT

Tensions flared on Capitol Hill this week when a Republican lawmaker challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on issues of crime and policing in an unusual â€” and decidedly personal â€” confrontation on the Capitol steps.

Rep. Ted 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.

Ocasio-Cortez shot back, telling Yoho he was being "rude."

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of

mystery-ak · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2020, 04:45:45 pm »

Hoyer calls on GOP lawmaker to apologize on House floor for accosting Ocasio-Cortez
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508312-hoyer-calls-on-gop-lawmaker-to-apologize-on-house-floor-for-accosting-ocasio

catfish1957 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2020, 04:52:38 pm »

Yoho needs to control his temper no matter how much he is right, or how much we might agree.

Giving this wench a "victim card" in this timeframe, is not advised.

Hoodat · « **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2020, 04:52:59 pm »

I take it she's never heard of Preston Brooks.

Brooks, a Democrat, was a strong advocate of slavery and states' rights. He is most remembered for his May 22, 1856, attack upon abolitionist and Republican Senator Charles Sumner, whom he beat nearly to death; Brooks beat Sumner with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech in which Sumner verbally attacked Brooks's second cousin, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.

Hoodat · « **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2020, 04:54:41 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on July 21, 2020, 04:45:45 pm

Hoyer calls on GOP lawmaker to apologize on House floor for accosting Ocasio-Cortez

Hoyer should apologize for stealing his leadership position away from Jim Clyburn.

skeeter · « **Reply #5 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:03:09 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on July 21, 2020, 04:45:45 pm

Hoyer calls on GOP lawmaker to apologize on House floor for accosting Ocasio-Cortez
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508312-hoyer-calls-on-gop-lawmaker-to-apologize-on-house-floor-for-accosting-ocasio

meanwhile the left is totally off the chain with their hysterical charges and insults. Someone needs to call them on their idiocy, people are dying.

Too late for niceties.

FeelNoPain · « **Reply #6 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:07:08 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on July 21, 2020, 04:52:38 pm

Yoho needs to control his temper no matter how much he is right, or how much we might agree.

Giving this wench a "victim card" in this timeframe, is not advised.

Agreed. I am so tired of old men who can't control their emotions/mouths in public. It's such effete weakness.

FeelNoPain · « **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:18:10 pm »

Quote from: skeeter on July 21, 2020, 05:03:09 pm

meanwhile the left is totally off the chain with their hysterical charges and insults. Someone needs to call them on their idiocy, people are dying.

Too late for niceties.

A sitting GOP congressman (from swing state Florida with 25% Latino population!) calling one of the most prominent young Latina women in the country, who, btw, is less than half his age, a "f--king bitch" within earshot of a reporter doesn't help. It is beyond stupid. Too many conservatives act like the country is still as it was 1970 demographically and/or culturally.

skeeter · « **Reply #8 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:28:43 pm »

Quote from: FeelNoPain on July 21, 2020, 05:18:10 pm

A sitting GOP congressman calling one of the most prominent young Latina women in the country, who, btw, is less than half his age, a "f--king bitch" within earshot of a reporter doesn't help. It is beyond stupid. Too many conservatives act like the country is still as it was 1970 demographically and/or culturally.

I didnâ€™t open the story so didnâ€™t see the fâ€™n b*tch part. I wouldnâ€™t have used those words. But her being a â€˜Latinaâ€™ would have nothing to do with it. She doesnâ€™t feel so constrained to insult people like me.

skeeter · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:32:58 pm »

Quote from: FeelNoPain on July 21, 2020, 05:07:08 pm

Agreed. I am so tired of old men who can't control their emotions/mouths in public. It's such effete weakness.

Wasnt there another adjective between old and men in there you forgot?

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:41:22 pm »

Quote from: FeelNoPain on July 21, 2020, 05:07:08 pm

Agreed. I am so tired of old men who can't control their emotions/mouths in public. It's such effete weakness.

Admin Guy sees what you did there....

(I mean, Really! That Hoyer guy....)

DCPatriot · « **Reply #11 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:41:53 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on July 21, 2020, 04:52:38 pm

Yoho needs to control his temper no matter how much he is right, or how much we might agree.

Giving this wench a "victim card" in this timeframe, is not advised.

Bullshit. NO MORE "MR. NICE GUY"!

Have you not digested anything these past four years?

catfish1957 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:43:56 pm »

Quote from: DCPatriot on July 21, 2020, 05:41:53 pm

Bullshit. NO MORE "MR. NICE GUY"!

Have you not digested anything these past four years?

Calling the woman a f'n bitch in earshot of the press is really going to garner a lot of sympathy for our cause there won't it buddy!?!!?

Have you any common sense what so ever?

FeelNoPain · « **Reply #13 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:49:52 pm »

Quote from: skeeter on July 21, 2020, 05:32:58 pm

Wasnt there another adjective between old and men in there you forgot?

bitchass? (I wanted to, but I wasn't sure if it was allowed).

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #14 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:17:48 pm »

Quote from: FeelNoPain on July 21, 2020, 05:49:52 pm

bitchass? (I wanted to, but I wasn't sure if it was allowed).

Well, the Forum software didn't bleep it out....

DCPatriot · « **Reply #15 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:40:16 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on July 21, 2020, 05:43:56 pm

Calling the woman a f'n bitch in earshot of the press is really going to garner a lot of sympathy for our cause there won't it buddy!?!!?

Have you any common sense what so ever?

@catfish1957

Nobody said anything out loud as to what type of bitch she is...so don't make it up whole cloth.

Furthermore, genius, it's whatsoever....not what so ever.

Have you any remedial knowledge of English?

skeeter · « **Reply #16 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:43:24 pm »

Quote from: FeelNoPain on July 21, 2020, 05:49:52 pm

bitchass? (I wanted to, but I wasn't sure if it was allowed).

well then if I feel like chucking a profanity at someone Iâ€™ll be sure to check with you first. Wouldnâ€™t want to insult the wrong type of folks.

Hoodat · « **Reply #17 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:46:53 pm »

Here's AOC's bff:

catfish1957 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:50:22 pm »

Quote from: DCPatriot on July 21, 2020, 06:40:16 pm

@catfish1957

Nobody said anything out loud as to what type of bitch she is...so don't make it up whole cloth.

Furthermore, genius, it's whatsoever....not what so ever.

Have you any remedial knowledge of English?

@DCPatriot

Nobody said anything out loud? I am convinced you have reading deficiency issues. That or dementia is taking its toll.

And btw you grammar / spelling prissy hall monitoring routine? You use that well when you are losing arguments, or rightly called out. So FU!!! and that WHAT SO EVER banner you are waving.

XenaLee · « **Reply #19 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:52:56 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on July 21, 2020, 05:43:56 pm

Calling the woman a f'n bitch in earshot of the press is really going to garner a lot of sympathy for our cause there won't it buddy!?!!?

Have you any common sense what so ever?

I would have just called her a commie bitch.....

because that is exactly what she is. A Soros stooge commie bitch.

XenaLee · « **Reply #20 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:54:30 pm »

Tempers running high today....

understandably so. Another day, another frustration (or three).

Right_in_Virginia · « **Reply #21 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:57:36 pm »

Quote from: FeelNoPain on July 21, 2020, 05:07:08 pm

Agreed. I am so tired of old men who can't control their emotions/mouths in public. It's such effete weakness.

How do you describe a wee-weed up boy who uses "effete weakness" as the kill shot?

Right_in_Virginia · « **Reply #22 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:58:41 pm »

Quote from: XenaLee on July 21, 2020, 06:52:56 pm

I would have just called her a commie bitch.....

because that is exactly what she is. A Soros stooge commie bitch.

QFT

DCPatriot · « **Reply #23 on:** July 21, 2020, 07:02:09 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on July 21, 2020, 06:50:22 pm

@DCPatriot

Nobody said anything out loud? I am convinced you have reading deficiency issues. That or dementia is taking its toll.

And btw you grammar / spelling prissy hall monitoring routine? You use that well when you are losing arguments, or rightly called out. So FU!!! and that WHAT SO EVER banner you are waving.

@catfish1957

First of all, get your own material.

Secondly, he had a mask on and claims he said, " Facemask itches".

Okay, I admit that I didn't read the entire article. "Effing bitch" was buried.

FeelNoPain · « **Reply #24 on:** July 21, 2020, 07:09:51 pm »

Quote from: Hoodat on July 21, 2020, 06:46:53 pm

Here's AOC's bff:

Tlaib's primary opponent has made a point of this vulgarity. It may cost her, yet.
But, holding AOC responsible for her friend would be like holding Trump responsible for Roger Stone (not saying that you're doing this).