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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC Warns That Trump Hate Rally Was Rehearsal For 'Another January 6'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show on Monday and skillfully reduced Donald Trump’s Nazi-inspired rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

"This was not just a presidential rally. This was also not just a campaign rally,” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “I think it's very important for people to understand that these are mini January 6 rallies. These are mini 'Stop the Steal' rallies. These are rallies to prime an electorate into rejecting the results of an election if it doesn't go the way that they want.”

I mean, you have JD Vance literally talking about watering down people's right to vote, depending on if they can viably carry a child or not,” Ocasio-Cortez said, pointing to the low bar of sanity in the Trump campaign. “We have to understand how unhinged this campaign has gotten. And the only reason that their rhetoric has gotten this far is precisely because they are trying to prime the kind of froth that led up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol."

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made the biggest headlines at the MSG rally, after his truly unfunny act, in which he called Puerto Rico “literally a floating island of garbage,” went viral. The naked insult to millions of Puerto Ricans led to celebrities like Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin to respond by publicly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris while castigating Trump. Right-wing pundits and politicians everywhere are now scrambling to deflect from the inherent racism of Trump’s Nazi rally by simply dismissing it as a joke.

"Right now the campaign is scrambling, and they're trying to blame this rhetoric on a so-called comedian. This is not a comedian. This is the Trump campaign,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “They invited this rhetoric on their stage for a reason. It was a chorus of speakers on that campaign for a reason. It was vetted and they knew exactly who was going to say what before they went on.”

“The only backtracking that they're doing right now, is just because tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans happen to live in Philadelphia, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And also the several swing seats in the House in the end, in the House of Representatives that run through the state of New York."

Ocasio-Cortez was clear to detail that the preponderance of junk polling and fabricated claims of ballot burning are all a part of this systematic disinformation campaign by the right to undermine our upcoming elections. And we know what the end game is: Accomplishing what Trump failed to do on January 6, 2021—reinstalling himself over our democratically elected president.

“All of this is exactly a replay of what Donald Trump did on January 6. We don't have to think about if this is what happens,” Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC viewers. “This is their playbook that they have used that led to the deaths of multiple people on Jan. 6. This led to one of the largest attacks in American history on the American Capitol, on U.S. soil."

#Endorse This: Kimmel Torches Crazy Trump And His QAnon Cult

#Endorse This: Kimmel Torches Crazy Trump And His QAnon Cult

Last night Jimmy Kimmel tore into Donald Trump’s open embrace of the QAnon conspiracy loons at his latest rally, which featured the music associated with the movement. And no, it's not Patsy Cline's "Crazy."

As the Qanon song played, Trump fans held up a single finger.

“That means one, which is their average IQ, I think,” Kimmel joked. “It would seem that Trump has now fully embraced the lunacy because these are the only people who still believe there’s a conspiracy against him,” he said. “Things are getting very crazy out there.”

Nothing but Qanonsense!

Watch the entire segment below:

Trump’s Georgia Rally Drew Only 5000 — And Some Kooky Candidates

Trump’s Georgia Rally Drew Only 5000 — And Some Kooky Candidates

Saturday evening, former failed President Trump was in Commerce, Georgia, for a rally. Trump’s mouthpiece claimed the crowd was “massive,” and that the “Fake News Media” didn’t show it. But local reporters from Georgia say the gathering was scant and similar to others held across the state recently.

Greg Bluestein, a politics reporter from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, tweeted: “This is the smallest crowd I’ve seen at a rally of his in Georgia since he won the 2016 election—significantly smaller than the crowd in Perry [Georgia] in September.”

Georgia Public Broadcasting reporter Stephen Fowler tweeted: “It’s almost time for Trump to speak here in Georgia and there’s probably no more than 5,000 people here, the smallest Trump rally I’ve ever covered here. Way less than the Perry rally in 2021 (closer to 10k).”

Trump was in Georgia to stump for a bunch of Republican primary candidates. But, mostly he spent his time ravaging Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for their lack of support in overturning his loss in 2020 to President Joe Biden.

"You know what, if Kemp wins, I think Herschel Walker is going to be very seriously and negatively impacted because Republicans that happen to like Donald Trump—MAGA Republicans—are not going to go and vote for this guy Kemp," Trump said Saturday. "And if they don't vote for Kemp, they're not going to be able to vote for a great man right there, Herschel Walker. And we don't want that to happen. So a vote for Brian Kemp, RINO, in the primary is a vote for a Democrat senator who shouldn't be in the Senate."

And Trump’s tone set the tone for the evening. GOP candidate after GOP candidate slammed Kemp and alleged a stolen election.

Gubernatorial candidate David Perdue chummed the audience with the old standby conspiracy that the “elections were absolutely stolen.”

Of course, the blame was placed directly on the shoulders of Gov. Kemp, even stoking the crowd with a promise that if he wins the governor's seat, he would send “whoever was responsible” for the alleged theft to “jail.” The MAGA crowd went wild, and began shouting, “Lock him up!”

Perdue wasn’t alone in using the Big Lie to rile up Trump supporters for 2024, true deplorable Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “supposed” and Sen. Burt Jones, who’s running for lieutenant governor, declared a ban on ballot drop boxes and an end to “cursed Dominion machines,” according to the AJC.

Even virtually unknown John Gordon, who is challenging Chris Carr for Attorney General insisted that if elected, he would open an investigation into the 2020 presidential election.

“We are going to uncover the facts, we will expose the truth and we are going to hold the people responsible accountable,” Gordon ranted, per the AJC. “It will never happen again.”

Despite the fact that some in the Republican party have suggested that it’s in fact time to move on from the Big Lie, it seems like it remains a requisite in order to keep Trump’s support. Ask GOP candidate for Senate in Alabama, Mo Brooks.

Brooks mentioned his desire to move past Trump’s loss in 2020, prompting the petty former president to pull support of him.

According to one AJC reporter, the mini-crowd Saturday only really roared to life when the candidates decried Kemp and cited the bogus conspiracy of a stolen election.

“I’m doing my research, but I know I’m backing Perdue. Kemp threw Trump under the bus after the election,” Dale Branham, a teacher from Sandy Springs, told the AJC. “Everyone else who watched what went on knew what was going on. And David Perdue never doubted what happened.”

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos

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