AOC spends between $3,000 - $5,000 a month on private security

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AOC gets 24/7 coverage from the nutso right wing so that's why she needs security. They cover her every move and focus their mouth breathing viewers and listeners ire on her.

This is a completely separate issue from policing and I think it's hilarious that so many of the resident morons on this board think this is some sort of slam dunk for "hypocrisy."

+1 I’m not her biggest fan but there are people in prison right now because they threatened her.

No one is in prison because they threatened AOC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AOC gets 24/7 coverage from the nutso right wing so that's why she needs security. They cover her every move and focus their mouth breathing viewers and listeners ire on her.

This is a completely separate issue from policing and I think it's hilarious that so many of the resident morons on this board think this is some sort of slam dunk for "hypocrisy."

+1 I’m not her biggest fan but there are people in prison right now because they threatened her.

No one is in prison because they threatened AOC.

As usual, you are incorrect:

(Reuters) - The Justice Department revealed charges this week against a Texas man who allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and threatened on social media to kill U.S. Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Prosecutors asked a judge on Friday to keep the man, Garret Miller, in jail ahead of a court appearance, according to court records. They revealed five criminal charges in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia against Miller on Wednesday, including for making death threats and trespassing offenses.

Images of social media posts allegedly authored by Miller, which appear to announce his trip to the Capitol and threaten the life of Ocasio-Cortez as well as a Capitol Police officer, are cited in the court filing.

Prosecutors said Miller made numerous threatening remarks online, including one instance in which he commented “next time we bring the guns” on a Twitter video showing rioters exiting a Capitol building.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-capitol-arrest/u-s-charges-texas-man-with-threatening-to-assassinate-rep-ocasio-cortez-idUSKBN29S0NV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AOC gets 24/7 coverage from the nutso right wing so that's why she needs security. They cover her every move and focus their mouth breathing viewers and listeners ire on her.

This is a completely separate issue from policing and I think it's hilarious that so many of the resident morons on this board think this is some sort of slam dunk for "hypocrisy."

+1 I’m not her biggest fan but there are people in prison right now because they threatened her.

No one is in prison because they threatened AOC.

Doubly incorrect.
“A Queens, N.Y. man who allegedly made repeated threats to murder Democratic members of Congress on social media, including threats to murder them at President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, was arrested Tuesday morning by FBI agents and NYPD officers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/man-arrested-new-york-after-threatening-facebook-kill-pelosi-aoc-n1254744

[Anonymous]

Arrested =/ prison

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing a contributor or benefactor is quietly picking up the tab for her.

And as far as I’m concerned, that’s money well-spent. She needs to protected and safe, so she can keep uttering facepalm-worthy statements as often as possible. She’s the younger face of democrat party, and I want her to be able to say as many stupid things as she can. And she hasn’t disappointed thus far.

I’m with you there. The problem is not that she has security, it’s that she is pushing policies that make the rest of us less safe while ensuring SHE is safe.

People calling for defunding the police are doing so to make people MORE safe not less. They're not pro crime. They are anti police killing private citizens willy nilly. Which you obviously know but are still snarkily pretending means something different.

how does defunding the police make us more safe when crime happens?

Everyone can't have a private security team like AOC. That is the hypocrisy. She said herself what she meant by defund. That means the rest of us without the means to hire private security get to live with crime ridden communities while the elite get protection.

FFS, welcome to summer 2020. I know, I know “defund the police” is a moronic catchphrase because although a tiny percentage of the people who say it truly mean “let’s get rid of the police altogether!” what most people is “let’s reconfigure the police forces so that they serve everyone to the best of their ability. Let’s get rid of the militarized police. Let’s have a larger mental health and social work presence, because a lot of the things for which the police are called would be better served by having a social worker or someone who works in mental health or drug addiction. Let’s make sure that Black people feel confident that if they call the police that they’ll get the same treatment a White who calls the police would get.” Etc. It’s more like “let’s reimagine the police.”

Dumb slogan, but there we are. Now you can stop being angry about the phrase and focus on the fact that right wing media has whipped a lot of unhinged right wingers into a hateful froth against AOC and she gets more threats of violence and sexual violence and sadism against her, so she has to fork over for private security because that’s not a service that the police provide. So the next time you hear Tucker or Ted Cruz or your friend Dick going off about AOC, listen for the freakish sexual/violent obsession with her. If it’s your friend, tell them what you hear in their voice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arrested =/ prison

Give it some time, his trial just started on Wednesday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/brendan-hunt-trial-capitol-riot-pelosi-schumer/2021/04/21/5440a6fe-a1fa-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arrested =/ prison

But arrested does equal someone made threats that were perceived to be illegal and that person is now facing legal trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arrested =/ prison

Jail then. Prison later.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/man-who-tweeted-about-assassinating-congresswoman-faces-charges-capitol-riot-n1255441

[Anonymous]

Ohhhh, so now you support the police? Shouldn’t they have called a mental health social worker?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh, so now you support the police? Shouldn’t they have called a mental health social worker?

Are you saying all the people at the Capitol were mentally ill? We may be coming closer to an agreement!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They aren't arguing in bad faith. They truly do not understand what you are talking about. They don't understand what defund the police means because it can't be explained in one sentence with only ten words. It does not mean get rid of all police but that's the RWNJ narrative. Also massive thread fail because the reason AOC has to spend money on personal protection is because of RWNJs constantly threatening her. Lame.

What’s lame is coming up with a slogan like “Defund the Police,” which apparently doesn’t really mean “defund the police” (even though lots of liberals would argue otherwise), and then having to liberalsplain exactly what it DOES mean to an audience whose eyes have by now glazed over.

Democrats simply don’t know how to message. You’re terrible at it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They aren't arguing in bad faith. They truly do not understand what you are talking about. They don't understand what defund the police means because it can't be explained in one sentence with only ten words. It does not mean get rid of all police but that's the RWNJ narrative. Also massive thread fail because the reason AOC has to spend money on personal protection is because of RWNJs constantly threatening her. Lame.

What’s lame is coming up with a slogan like “Defund the Police,” which apparently doesn’t really mean “defund the police” (even though lots of liberals would argue otherwise), and then having to liberalsplain exactly what it DOES mean to an audience whose eyes have by now glazed over.

Democrats simply don’t know how to message. You’re terrible at it.

I don't think many people in the history of this message board have ever argued that Democrats are great at messaging. Democrats are a big tent party with many different priorities and people rarely fall in line. When they do it's a huge deal because they are generally so disorganized.

Republicans are great at propaganda because all of their leaders (Senators, Reps, state officials) are united in their ultimate goal: making the rich richer. It's not hard to come up with messages when you are backed by dark money and lies.

The question is, why on Earth would anyone other than a billionaire support Republicans?

[Anonymous]

Poor people know the cops are dangerous and mostly useless. If you grew up in a middle class, or upper middle class neighborhood, you haven’t seen the kind of policing we know happens everyday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poor people know the cops are dangerous and mostly useless. If you grew up in a middle class, or upper middle class neighborhood, you haven’t seen the kind of policing we know happens everyday.

The people who actually DEPEND on cops more than anyone else, are precisely lower income people.

And now with the defunding actions, killings are surging in the inner cities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren't arguing in bad faith. They truly do not understand what you are talking about. They don't understand what defund the police means because it can't be explained in one sentence with only ten words. It does not mean get rid of all police but that's the RWNJ narrative. Also massive thread fail because the reason AOC has to spend money on personal protection is because of RWNJs constantly threatening her. Lame.

Au Contraire, Little Grasshopper.
When these people tell us who they are and what they think - believe them.
They mean defund and abolish.

AOC: "Defund the Police means DEFUND."

The suckers who have spent the last few weeks arguing that “defund the police” does not literally mean “defund the police” should be feeling pretty annoyed right now with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The way the freshman congresswoman tells it, “defund” means exactly what it sounds like.

On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council reached a tentative deal to cut $1 billion from the New York Police Department, “though nearly half will be through shifting school safety from the police to the Department of Education,” according to Gotham Gazette senior reporter Samar Khurshid.

Ocasio-Cortez, who represents New York’s 15th District, did not take the news well.

“Defunding police means defunding police,” she said in a statement. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so that the exact same police remain in schools.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/aoc-defund-the-police-means-defund-the-police

This is what “DEFUNDING the POLICE” means.