Apparently she is a survivor herself.
Edit: aaaaaaaand the libs are co-opting this of course.... I’m proud of AOC for sharing her story. I wouldn’t be nearly as brave or intelligent when I was her age. critical support, as usual. AOC good today. Who knows what tomorrow holds.
On the 6th at a bit after 1pm someone started banging on every door in her office. There were no voices. No yells. No one identifying themselves. Just “boom boom boom”
She ran over to her legislative person and he just goes “run and hide”
She hides in a bathroom. Keeps hearing bang bang bang.
She realizes that she should have jumped into the closet - opens the door to the bathroom so she can go run across to the closet. Then she heard that whoever was trying to get inside had gotten into her office. She went back into the bathroom to hide.
Then she started to hear these yells of “where is she?WHERE IS SHE?”
This is the moment where she thought everything was over. She thought she was going to die
Edit: 134k people watching this
She looks through the keyhole in the bathroom door, and saw a white dude in a black beanie screaming “where is she” and then all of a sudden she heard her staffer telling her to come out.
So she comes out, and the man was a capitol police officer. He was not yelling capitol police. He didn’t have a partner. He was looking at her with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.
Apparently her legislative director said they didn’t know if the police officer was there to help her or hurt her. The staffer was wondering if he’d have to fight the officer to protect AOC
So the officer didn’t give a specific location. She was with other congresspeople in the basement and didn’t know where to go, but could hear the zombie chuds outside of the doors of the hallway
They were told to go to street level. She went to a familiar members office. She was with only a few people in a hallway. She saw Katie porter in the hallway who had no idea what was going on at that point. She ran to her office and knocked on the door and said “can I shelter with you right now” and she was like “sure come in”
So she was fully expecting for one of the chuds to be turning the corner with a gun. She assumed twice that she was going to die at this point. She starts looking for places to hide and she tells Katie “have any of the staffers left workout clothes?”
So she starts looking through and finds a bag and they get sneakers (she had been in high heels)
Staffers pushed furniture against the door. They wanted to change into gym clothes so they could run and escape through a window and not be recognized in a crowd
OUR BEST BET IS TO REMOVE THE CAPITOL POLICE PRE-EMPTIVELY, THEN WE CAN REPLACE THEM WITH OUR PEOPLE
Back to this officer. Her thoughts: “was he doing this on purpose [because he was a white supremacist]”
Did this officer target her because of her race or what Fox News says about her?
This wasn’t the first time she thought she was going to die during her term
They absolutely would have killed her if they had the chance. And worse. These people have been whipped into a frenzy by their fascistic media and their online "leaders" have done nothing but try to constantly demean and dehumanize her for having the gall to speak a modicum of truth to power. They primed the pump for this violence. It is good the chuds were too busy being knuckleheads to actually find one of their targets but I also know mob mentality, and if one person had managed to grab her and knock her down, others would have joined in the attack. No-one in that group would have tried to intervene. They're too stupid to do anything right, and that includes doing the right thing, such as attempting to mitigate the violence around them. They're such fucking cowards. Misogynist, misanthropic, mollycoddled cowards.
It really does seem like we're a handful of competent people short of a fullblown take over by the right wing . Contrarians will talk their usual irony pilled shit about how it was nothing, just like everything ever, but this. is just the beginning. They are just as naive and arrogant as liberals are.
And of course there are fucking creeps thirsting over AOC in the chat while she shares her trauma.... jfc
Proving once again that the only good police are the volcel police.
Hmm. That defeats the purpose of them being volcel police. Kind of like the fact that cops are domestic violence perps defeats the purpose of then being cops
Nooo don’t get murdered by a right wing militia you’re so sexy ah ha
This is only tangentially related but it's extremely troubling to me that every woman I know has either been a victim of sexual violence or has at least had multiple close calls. It's so fucking common and it's barely ever acknowledged, let alone anything done about it.
Imagine the time I realized I was basically describing myself as "one of the lucky ones" because my brushes with sexual violence have never gone beyond threats. Yay! So lucky. I just had to stop for a minute and think about how fucked up that is.
Zero support for the capitol rioters - they're enemies. But the initial liberal/mainstream reaction to it was exaggerated. At that point, all we knew was that a mass of demonstrators broke through flimsy police lines/was welcomed in, loitered for an hour or two max, then left. Calling such civil disobedience "terrorism" or a "fascist coup" is A) inaccurate, B) opens the way for greater police repression, the bulk of which is always anti-left.
The scarier details of the events (though still not entirely clear) only came out later - like now. Hard to judge something before you have all the evidence. Now it seems a bit flipped - there were some rioters with murderous intent and perhaps some danger of greater casualties, BUT the Democrats are calling for unity with Republicans.
Still, the dangerous element here was whoever purposefully weakened the police defenses (getting 9/11 flashbacks): either the Trump administration or just far-right cops. The mob itself, even with its most dangerous elements, was no organized insurrection, no putsch. They only became dangerous because the cops stood down (or were drawn down). That's who the investigators should go after. Fuck Ted Cruz and Trump, but pointing the finger at them in public is participating in the clown show.
opens the way for greater police repression, the bulk of which is always anti-left.
Chomsky radlibs who don't understand Marxism but see everything in the idealistic lens of "the Overton window" and "manufacturing consent"
There was talk of a second Patriot Act. That was aimed at (ostensibly far-right) Wahhabists, then applied to everyone, especially OWS/BLM. We should repress the reactionaries, not empower the existing state to do so.
brown-red creep defend them
Anytime anyone mentions this phrase I immediately think of shitting out blood bc of the colors :(
I think the key is you said riot. I am on board with riot. I think my issue is with calling it a coup. Calling that thing a coup attempt is an insult to actual coups.
Attempted murder isn't an insult to murders, they're just failures. coup attempts are not an insult to coups, they're just failures.
brown-red creep defend them
Can you think of a reason why middle class white settlers sympathize with other petit bourgeois fascists?
I think most people saw the riots as funny and dopey for the most part (and I agree), but undeniably there was also a threat to the lives of Congresspeople, including AOC, Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
When congressional reps asked about the security plan for the electoral college certification: the police leadership said “we can’t tell you because it might leak” lmao
ACTUALLY A GOOD POINT, BUT PROBABLY IN REALITY THEY DIDN'T SHARE ANYTHING BECAUSE THERE WAS NO PLAN AT ALL
“As a [sexual assault] survivor I struggle with the idea of being believed”
She says multiple other members of Congress told her to form a security plan because she would be a target
I’ll live tweet it to you all:
This was Monday the fourth: So apparently a crowd of trump people were around her car and capitol police hadn’t secured the area and they were accosting her and the best they could do was say “oh she’s driving a car!” (It was an electric car). Lmao. Like she was scared. I’d be terrified, but they just said stupid boomer shit.
So on Monday they were already having heightened reactions with these people
Edit: Tuesday there were tons of MAGA hat people all over DC escalating shit with her at grocery stores and in parking lots. She came to the conclusion on Tuesday that it was not safe for her to be outside.
Lmao the pigs let it happen to get politicians to fund the police. That’s my pet theory
they literally went "bet you are happy to have us here now?" to escaping congresspeople.
I know congresspeople said it - Matt Gaetz did a bit about it when he Spoke that night
I don’t have a source handy on the cops saying that but I remember hearing that they’d said that on MORNING JOE of all places lmfao
I'm not sure if this is the original source, but Matt Fuller live-tweeted the whole thing, and he mentioned that quote.
meanwhile my terminally online ass knew right wingers were planning to storm the capitol weeks earlier
They were talking about it on TheDonald.win for said weeks earlier. Screaming it in all caps. At the very least letting everyone know something more was going to happen than just a peaceful protest.
BECAUSE THE LEFT HAS SO MANY FALSE ALARMS. THINK ABOUT HOW MANY TIMES OTHER TRANS PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME, THIS IS A CLEAR AND DEADLY THREAT, BE AFRAID. AND YET, OFTEN I END UP GETTING THROUGH THINGS SAFELY, OR FIND OUT THAT THE THREAT/WARNING WAS IN THAT SPECIFIC CASE OVERSTATED OR PARTIALLY A MISPERCEPTION. I AM THINK OF HOW MANY TIMES ANY WOMAN OF COLOR IN AMERICA HAS TO THINK ABOUT THREATS: EVERY TIME THEY GO OUTSIDE. BUT THE REALITY IS, USUALLY THESE THREATS, EVEN IF THEY'RE REAL THEY STILL DON'T MATERIALIZE WITH THE DEADLY FORCE OF A VIOLENT MOB ATTACK 99% OF TIMES IN DAILY LIFE. WITH 4+ YEARS OF HYPERNORMALIZATION, AND 40 YEARS OF NEOLIBERALISM, WE'VE LOST A GRIP ON REALITY ITSELF, AND SO OUR ENEMIES HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF OUR TRAUMA-INFLICTED INABILITY TO DISCERN REAL FROM IMAGINARY THREATS. IT'S ONLY HUMAN FOR US TO DISREGARD THE BARRAGE OF DISCURSIVE THREATS TO SURVIVE THE DAY TO DAY AND BE CAUGHT OFF GUARD WHEN SOMETHING GENUINELY THREATENING ACTUALLY GOES DOWN POLITICALLY. THEREIN LIES THE EFFICACY OF POLITICAL TERROR.
LOVE YOU BABE. SINCE YOU BRING IT UP, THIS IS MY NEW ACCOUNT AESTHETIC, PARTIALLY CHOSEN TO AVOID INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BEING ABLE TO DISCERN WHAT MY PREVIOUS ACCOUNT WAS. TONE OBSCURATION
Talking about how republicans are using language of abusers (“just move on,” etc.) which is definitely true
This really shows to me the thing with chud militias who want to overthrow the government, they are too stupid to succeed, but they are also too stupid to try it.
Don't get me wrong here, in an event like what happened at the Capital, people like AOC were very much at risk. I am not trying to downplay that.
Yes, she was very much at risk. But they stayed within the queue ropes in the statue hall lmao
STUPID BOOMERS KILLED MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS & JAPANESE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE INTELLIGENT TO KILL PEOPLE, YOU JUST HAVE TO BE ARMED AND WILLING OR PRESENT AND COMPLICIT
I cannot imagine what Ilhan Omar And Rashida Talib were going through as well.
I've been really frustrated at people dismissing them fearing for their lives as hysteria. Yes the majority of people at the capitol hill break in were kind of dopey and just wondered around, but there were certainly people there intending to do harm to Congresspeople and the squad.
Capitol was probably "prepared" enough. There is no way this wasn't planned to happen. Either way there were lots of armed security guards all over the place who would gun down everyone to shit if push came to shove. Apparently the dude yelling in her office was a capitol police officer.
I think a lot of people just thought it be, at worst, a few hundred middle-aged chuds who run the local jet ski dealership acting tough for a few hours.
That's about what I figured it would. Of course, I am not privy to various intelligence that was gathered in the lead-up to the insurrection.
I think a lot of people just thought it be, at worst, a few hundred middle-aged chuds who run the local jet ski dealership acting tough for a few hours.
I think that’s what a lot of it was.
It’s just that there were actual, more serious fash types amongst them who would have done more awful shit had things been less disorganized.
And the dopes only wandered around because they didn't fucking FIND AOC. They would not have been LISTLESSLY STANDING AROUND AND TWEETING PICTURES OF A PODIUM if they had managed to FIND AOC.
And some of the same exact dipshits who stood around gawking at statues of Andrew Jackson were the same people who had just beat a guy to death to get in there.
woah shes saying the cop that was there wasnt following certain procedures and thinks maybe he could have been putting them in danger or something on purpose? or at least it was an uncertainty she was thinking about the whole time
It's horrific and bad, but if you're a 'socialist' sitting in a seat of power in America, you gotta be ready for this.
Shit, half her own party probably wants her dead.
If AOC had her own independent socialist party backing her up they could maybe better prepare for shit like this. But she's a Democrat, and her party's leadership can throw her under the bus at any point if she becomes a serious threat.
Stop trying to muddy the picture. She was targeted for being brown/woman by Trump’s racist thugs. Her politics were irrelevant.
Chuds absolutely despise Ilhan and AOC, like I've never seen more bloodthirsty people online than chuds. They 100% hate them more than Pelosi or Bernie or whoever, and not just because they're women of color, but because they are outspoken, assertive women of color. They don't hate someone like Candace Owens nearly as much.
TO CHUDS, THESE ARE VIRTUALLY SYNONOMOUS AT THIS POINT, BUT REGARDLESS THEIR POLITICS AS WELL AS VARIOUS OTHER FACTORS LIKE YOU MENTION ARE UNDOUBTEDLY, EACH & ALL, IRREDUCIBLE ACCELERANTS. IT MAKES NO SENSE TO DOWNPLAY THE FACT THAT THEIR RADICAL POLITICS (SOCIAL DEMOCRACY) ARE IN FACT MAKING THEM EVEN MORE TARGETED THAN THEY ALREADY WOULD BE
Idk that that’s the point, but your second point is definitely valid
Stealing my thunder are you?
Thanks for the link. I couldn’t figure it out. My gf is watching on her phone. I just post. No instagram
I WOULD BE HAPPY TO BE A BODYGUARD FOR ANY OF THEM, REGARDLESS OF THEIR LIBERALISM. DREAM JOB
