RedState’s Streiff reported earlier Friday how 58 Democrats searched their souls yet were unable to vote “aye” on a resolution honoring slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was gunned down by a deranged leftist assassin on September 10 in a killing that has roiled the country and indeed the world.
Instead of just showing grace in the moment—a moment that has left a grieving widow in Erika Kirk along with her two young children—New York’s incendiary Democrat representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a speech before the vote bringing up an entire laundry list of progressive grievances, almost all based on—you guessed it—race, gender and SJW (social justice warrior) issues.
Of course, she slandered Mr. Kirk by taking numerous comments he made over the years out of context and portraying them in the most sinister ways possible. Here is a good fact-check nuking almost all her points, but to me, that isn’t even the main issue.
The point she entirely misses in her hateful diatribe is that even if you don’t agree with a word he said, he didn’t deserve to be savagely murdered for expressing those thoughts. It all sounds good and reasonable for the first minute or so, but then she goes off the rails:
BREAKING: AOC just took to the House floor to defend her No vote on the Resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 19, 2025
This is going to make your blood boil.
AOC: "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was... His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to… pic.twitter.com/MMjecCmyk5
The tweet continues:
AOC: "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was... His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."
"Far from the quote working tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution."
AOC is a VILE and DISGUSTING woman who just used Congress to push the SAME RHETORIC that incites violence against her political opposition.
She does NOT belong in the halls of Congress.
She can leave her supposed "prayers" at the front door, we know who you really are @AOC.
READ MORE: What the Heck? Fifty-Eight Democrats Vote Against a Resolution Condemning Political Violence
If you can believe it, the flame-throwing but intellectually unimpressive socialist is mulling a presidential run. I’d laugh, but somehow Joe Biden once got to live in the Oval Office.
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Add to that, she’s a fraud:
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Trump is used to these sorts of games from the Democrats, but even he was repulsed by the Democrats’ refusal to agree to a simple honorary resolution:
.@POTUS: "House Democrats voted against condemning the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Who could vote against that? All they're saying is please condemn the assassination of a human being and they said, 'No, we're not going to do that.'" pic.twitter.com/LqqwdqlkFA
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 19, 2025
There are many people with whom I disagree, but I would never, ever advocate for violence against them. I would also never excuse it, and I had just as much disdain for the shooter of former Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabby Giffords as I do for those who target Republicans.
That being said, this is not a “two-sided” issue these days—there is one party that is consistently using violent rhetoric and excusing assassins like Tyler Robinson and Luigi Mangione.
AOC is symbolic of the poisonous ideology infecting our country, and it’s time America stopped treating her like a photogenic, fun-to-mock, sideshow—she’s a real threat to the values of decency and compassion.
She certainly showed that here.
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