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24 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
AOC just posted a 4-page statement where she purports to explain why she voted PRESENT instead of NO on US funding for Israel.

If anyone could find the part where she actually explains why she voted PRESENT instead of NO, please flag it for me. I genuinely can't find it.
AOC's statement is barely comprehensible in the English language. It's like a parody of the worst excesses of modern left-wing discourse: social justice phrases and self-aggrandizing grievances randomly strewn together amidst classic AOC self-victimization about trauma and pain.
I mean, seriously: what the fuck is this and what does it mean?
LOL. Exactly - AOC's entire statement is actually a passionate argument for voting NO (like 4 of her Squad colleagues did). Except she didn't vote no. She voted PRESENT. And after this statement, her reasons for doing so remain as mysterious as ever:

I'm still eager to hear AOC reconcile her PRESENT vote -- not only on this Israel funding but also on Pelosi's increase in Capitol Police funding -- with her prior condemnation of PRESENT votes as cowardice.

Then again, maybe I don't want to hear that.

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Was AOC's 4-page statement today about why she voted PRESENT on funding for Israel more coherent or less coherent than the last time she tried to explain her views on Israel and Palestine?

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Jen Psaki blatantly lied in 2020 by citing intelligence officials to claim the Biden emails were "Russian disinformation" (those officials admitted they didn't know and had no evidence).

Even a POLITICO reporter just proving the emails were real, she still can't tell the truth:
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But they also know their audience doesn't care if they get caught lying as long as it's for the right Party.
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I have two specific questions for Congresswoman @AOC about her "present" vote on funding Israel's Iron Dome, and I made a short video to lay out the two questions I have for her:

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A few points from the above video on @AOC's cowardly and staggeringly hypocritical "present" vote on funding Israel's Iron Dome.

First, to denounce @TulsiGabbard's clearly explained 2019 "present" vote on Trump's impeachment, AOC insisted it's *always* wrong to vote "present."
Yesterday was not the first (or worst) "present" vote from AOC. In May, Pelosi demanded $2 billion more for Capitol Police. The Squad all agreed to join the GOP in voting NO -- until they realized that would sink the bill. So AOC changed her vote to PRESENT to ensure it passed.
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It's shocking to watch - even though I know it shouldn't be - that the corporate outlets that spread the CIA lie that that the archive was "Russian disinformation" are just *ignoring* the new book proving they lied.
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The media constantly relies on former national security officials to disseminate narratives (that's who concocted the lie about the Biden archive being "Russian disinformation").

Yet there are trained career liars. And they so often are paid to spin lies, like they did here:
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The NYT won a Pulitzer in 2008 for revealing how ex-Generals use network contracts to propagandize:

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Hopefully POLITICO will one day learn the lesson to stop relying on these former national security officials which their own reporting today reveals are corrupt. This is what happens when you do it:
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