Althouse: AOC goes after Libs of TikTok.

February 8, 2023

AOC goes after Libs of TikTok.

.@AOC is absolutely TRIGGERED by @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/v0Ahedlm9r
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 8, 2023

ADDED: For a wider view of what's happening there, read Jonathan Turley, "Congress is set to expose what may be the largest censorship system in U.S. history" (The Hill).

70 comments:

Charlie said...: Holy cow, she is dumb and annoying.

As a fellow BU graduate, I demand that the school rescind her degree.; 2/8/23, 1:41 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: So where is the lie?

I recall a phone call that was recorded that proved they do perform that on anyone under 18...
Prove me wrong.; 2/8/23, 1:41 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Any discussion over leftwing violence and Antifa?

nah.; 2/8/23, 1:42 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Never ask a woman her age,
A man his salary,
Or AOC why the little hot wings are so small when buffalos are so big.; 2/8/23, 1:42 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/8/23, 1:42 PM
Kay said...: She couldn’t do anything to stop the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System, so I guess she has to go after some stupid twitter account instead. What a joke.; 2/8/23, 1:42 PM
cubanbob said...: A jumped up barmaid can't stand being exposed for the fraud she is and the frauds the others are.; 2/8/23, 1:42 PM
n.n said...: A handmade tale or a reality check?

How dare you expose our diverse inanities repeated in context.

That said, it's because she's Jewish, right?; 2/8/23, 1:42 PM
Narr said...: Awwww.; 2/8/23, 1:44 PM
n.n said...: The transgender spectrum, too. Levine's dreams of Herr Mengele or parades without pride? Perhaps albinophobic symbolism.; 2/8/23, 1:45 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Regarding transgender insanity, consider the following hyper-strange/far-out idea: LGBT is actually peaking.

I'm going to throw out the crazy theory that what we’re seeing now is the high-water mark of this movement. It started out the way it always has been throughout human history, super-fringe and 99% a choice, then it became an add-on feather in the cap of political revolutionaries (not the first time in human history this has happened), then it became quietly accepted, then it became mainstream normalized, now it’s becoming cool…a fashion…a fad. You can already see the beginnings of it aiming for primacy, an effort that will fail spectacularly and we all know why. In the evolution of a zeitgeist most of you can guess what the next step is after fashion/fad. Cogent minds can see and are seeing the writing on the wall and are realizing that this final cultural high-ground is A) not going to be ceded like the last false peaks were and B) underdog resistance and the sexiness that surrounds it is already siphoning away reasonable people - even within their own ranks - who are legitimately disturbed or otherwise can see what the end game of this glorifying fringe...

...legalization and social acceptance of pedophilia. That is absolutely the end-game. Don't doubt for a second. They know it. They know we know it. And we know they know we know it, and they are in danger if they keep pushing.

Just a thought. This shit is peaking.; 2/8/23, 1:51 PM
tommyesq said...: Mr. Roth looks like a dog who has been kicked too many times, cowering and waiting for the next blow.; 2/8/23, 1:55 PM
John henry said...: I'm with hunters..

Did the hospital perform hysterectomies, mastectomy and other sexual mutilation on children (under 18) or not?

I thought that had turned out to be true. Am I misinformed?

As for libs of tiktok, aren't all their vids of leftists/fascists/progressives bragging about what they are doing?

I don't recall ever seeing anyone malignining lgbs or t folks.

John Henry; 2/8/23, 2:04 PM
Misinforminimalism said...: Well according to Boston Children's they were offering vaginoplasties to 17 year olds (they re-wrote that webpage prior to all the "claim is debunked" stories in the legacy media).

"Bomb threat" sounds like a bad thing and it probably is. But is it worse than mutilating children?

https://www.childrenshospital.org/programs/center-gender-surgery-program/eligibility-surgery; 2/8/23, 2:04 PM
gilbar said...: Is the New Definition of 'false': Something true, that the hospital later took down?
Why did Boston Children’s delete their video about gender-affirming hysterectomies?; 2/8/23, 2:06 PM
mccullough said...: Authoritarian Opportunist Cortez; 2/8/23, 2:08 PM
Readering said...: Don't see connection between between AOC video and Turley article.; 2/8/23, 2:28 PM
Breezy said...: So weird that she’s not upset about gender mutilation of children. She cried when she thought she saw children in cages. That was horrific. But actually mutilating them? Meh.; 2/8/23, 2:31 PM
JRoberts said...: Actually, I think AOC looks cute in that Chapstick commercial smooshing her face on the car window.; 2/8/23, 2:36 PM
JRoberts said...: Actually, I think AOC looks cute in that Chapstick commercial smooshing her face on the car window.; 2/8/23, 2:37 PM
Achilles said...: The problem with AOC and the people that support her is they just don't know anything about how the world works.

They are generally stupid as well.

AOC knows deep down in her heart she is a tool for the WEF now.

She tried to oppose causing the war in Ukraine. She was brought to heel by her masters in overnight.

She is a coward with no soul and no principles.; 2/8/23, 2:39 PM
Jaq said...: Libs of Tik Tok was banned by the old Twitter regime, which is what the Twitter files deals with. The ones who took orders on whom to silence from the government and the DNC, in contravention of the first amendment.; 2/8/23, 2:48 PM
D.D. Driver said...: LOL at using a committee in CONGRESS to pursue a POLITICAL AGENDA!

To good.; 2/8/23, 2:55 PM
Yancey Ward said...: If the United States is still a lucky country, AOC will get hit by a car and die. If we aren't, she will be President some day.; 2/8/23, 2:56 PM
Chuck said...: ADDED: For an even wider view on what is going on today, check out Aaron Rupar's exhaustive, hilarious, endlessly fascinating Live-Tweeting of the House GOP Circus today.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1623422811829161984

Today's committee hearings are blowing up in Republicans' faces. My personal favorite (among too many to count right now) is Paul Gosar, whose weird neck contortions (if he has tardive dyskinesia, I'm sorry; but he should just say so one way or another) and slurred speech made it impossible to understand him. At one point, four witnesses all said they could not understand his questions, and he just kept plowing ahead, not repeating anything. The poor old crank could not even keep his mouth in front of his microphone. Tragicomic.; 2/8/23, 2:57 PM
Michael K said...: The "gender affirmation surgeries" will end in a flurry of malpractice suits and the malpractice insurance companies will stop covering it. That's what happened to "recovered memories." They may have forgotten that kids mutilated like this have until age 18 to sue.; 2/8/23, 3:13 PM
Tomcc said...: A BOMB threat! Would that be the same kind of bomb threat that happens half a dozen times a year at local high schools? I'm aware of the LibsofTikTok account, though I'm not a Twitter user. Did the owner of the account make those claims, or were they responses/comments? (Not that it likely matters to AOC.); 2/8/23, 3:46 PM
rehajm said...: The detail of how sophisticated Twitter censorship is is stunning. Lauren Boebert posted the assessment...; 2/8/23, 3:51 PM
sprx said...: I always wonder: what is the ratio of bomb threats to actual bombs discovered &/or detonated?
When my kids were in high school, it seemed like the school got 2-3 bomb threat calls every semester.

How many of the famous bombings — Birmingham, OKC, WTC1&2, Boston Marathon, etc. were preceded by threats?

Are you safer receiving a bomb threat than not receiving a bomb threat?

Asking for a friend, obviously.; 2/8/23, 3:59 PM
Gunner said...: It will always be funny whenever Congresspeople provide these giant-ass boards with Tweets printed on them.; 2/8/23, 4:06 PM
ColoComment said...: John Henry
2/8/23, 2:04 PM
As for libs of tiktok, aren't all their vids of leftists/fascists/progressives bragging about what they are doing?

That is also my understanding: that LOTT post only what libs have publicly stated as their own opinions & [asserted] "facts."; 2/8/23, 4:07 PM
Jupiter said...: Does this mean that AOC agrees it would be appalling and disgusting if that shithole of a "hospital" were doing those things? The things they were, in fact, doing?; 2/8/23, 4:11 PM
Wince said...: Quelle Hunter Biden's Hooker, wasn't the "false information posted" a recording of a BCH employee?; 2/8/23, 4:12 PM
Jaq said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/8/23, 4:37 PM
Mary Beth said...: She keeps saying LOTT posted lies. I will grant that she is probably more familiar with lies than most people, but has anyone shown that the information that was posted by the hospital and reshared by LOTT contains lies?; 2/8/23, 4:39 PM
boatbuilder said...: Governance by performance artists like AOC is probably not what the founders had in mind, but what can you do? People vote for her.

Now that she's in the minority maybe we should just ignore her. That would really hit her where it hurts.; 2/8/23, 4:57 PM
Iman said...: The Left hates that libs of TikTok showcases the LGBTQ people and the Left, in general, letting their own words and actions tell the stories.; 2/8/23, 5:07 PM
Iman said...: Cee U Next Tues… er, Wednesday, AOC!; 2/8/23, 5:09 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I just became a @libsoftiktok Substack subscriber.

Thanks for the heads-up congresswoman AOC; 2/8/23, 5:18 PM
rcocean said...: Twitter just shut my account off for a day claiming I reached a "daily limit."

Funny, me too. I just reached MY Limit. Even though I've probably tweeted 20 times in the last 24 hours. Maybe Mitt Romney James Baker, or Ted Cruz didn't like my tweets.

#Metoo#TwitterUnfair#FuckMittRomney; 2/8/23, 5:20 PM
Static Ping said...: It is good to see that our version of Evita Peron is on the case. And, no, I don't want to date her.

It is always entertaining when telling the truth is considered violent. Most of Libs content is posting what other users have publicly posted and letting it speak for itself. It is dangerously close to being journalism.; 2/8/23, 5:24 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: LibsOfTikTok responds to congresswoman AOC.

AOC lied about me on the House floor in an unhinged tirade

Point of order madam speaker....

OAC doesn't appear to be on "the House Floor" at the hearings. Hearing aren't conducted on the House Floor. (maybe Liboftiktok is talking about some other episode); 2/8/23, 5:26 PM
MadTownGuy said...: AOC was triggered. Poor little delicate snowflake.; 2/8/23, 5:31 PM
effinayright said...: JRoberts said...
Actually, I think AOC looks cute in that Chapstick commercial smooshing her face on the car window.

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It would have been much better for her to smoosh her boobs on the car window.; 2/8/23, 5:33 PM
Fandor said...: When are the voters in AOC's district going to sober up and return he to her alcohol barista duties. She's got me crying in my beer. Many problems are addressed from a barroom stool and a good bartender knows all the answers. Not only that, the answer can come with a six pack to go.; 2/8/23, 5:33 PM
Jaq said...: Boy, as a Republican, I rest easy at night knowing that life long Republicans like Chuck are standing guard for the party, but just one thing bothers me about his comments, they are long on name calling and mockery, and short on actual refutations. Almost as if he were actually a Democrat.; 2/8/23, 5:38 PM
Spiros said...: Christian Science parents that rely on prayer and refuse to give medical treatment to their children can be (and have been) convicted of (involuntary) manslaughter. Parental rights are not absolute. I think the trans ideologues are very similar to religious sects that preach faith healing. So, it is my opinion, that if a parent gets "gender-affirming" hysterectomies on their children, they need to go to prison. Prosecute these bastards.; 2/8/23, 5:40 PM
Rit said...: Readering said...

Don't see connection between between AOC video and Turley article.

Maybe, ........... if ........... someone ........... were ........... to ........... explain ........... it ........... to ........... you ........... very ........... very ........... very ........... slowly?

Any takers?; 2/8/23, 5:53 PM
Sheridan said...: Yancey Ward - if America is a lucky country, Gavin Newsom will discover his hair gel is carcinogenic and cause him to turn into Uncle Fester. If not, he'll be President one day.; 2/8/23, 5:56 PM
Scotty, beam me up... said...: AOC has proven that she is only qualified to be a bartender she was before being elected to Congress (and I am not sure if even that is the case). By saying what she said about LOTT and her Twitter account proves that she didn’t look at the videos and investigate the tweets as LOTT only re-posts liberals own postings bragging about what THEY ACTUALLY DO, including the Boston hospital executive stating the pediatric trans services her hospital actually provided. I am not sure how LOTT’s tweets fall under disinformation when they are true - but then again, the NY Post’s story about Hunter’s laptop was labelled disinformation when the so called fact checkers didn’t bother to fact check it until 2 years later when they then flip-flopped and said it was true. As for her degrees from Boston University, Bachelor of Arts degrees in both international relations and economics, aren’t worth the parchment that they are printed on. Her Marxist ideology that she honed there is a proven failed political and economic system - she should have studied 20th Century Russian history instead. Maybe she can sue BU for giving her bogus and useless bachelor degrees?; 2/8/23, 6:09 PM
Drago said...: LLR Chuck pushing Aaron Rupar who is possibly the hackiest, most disingenuous far-left pro-democratical non-journalist "journalist" is so very, very revealing.

Rupar lies so often and creates so many fake quotes that his very name has become a meme: to be falsely accused based on doctored/fake quotes and maliciously edited videos is to be "Rupar-ed".

LLR Chuck and Rupar, two peas in a pod.

It appears LLR Chuck has decided to continue his leftist campaign at Althouse which involves his 2 explicitly stated purposes:
1) To smear and lie about Trump, his supporters and conservatives in general
2) Drive a wedge between Althouse and her readers, thereby disrupting the blog; 2/8/23, 6:36 PM
khematite said...: Ocasio-Cortez sounds a lot there like Joe McCarthy reviling American Communists. I wonder whether she's ever even heard the term "McCarthyism." Her logic for suppressing the speech rights of those she dislikes certainly bears a great resemblance to McCarthy's.; 2/8/23, 6:43 PM
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...: I can see a way in which AOC might be technically correct here. There certainly was a video promoting hysterectomies for "transitioners" on the Boston Children's Hospital website, and the hospital certainly does primarily serve "children." But all the surgeries I find there explicitly offered to minors are phalloplasties, vaginoplasties, and "top surgery" (= double mastectomies), plus puberty blockers and sex-change hormone regimens and the like. So possibly BCH offers hysterectomies as well, but only to those over 18?

If true, this is an incredibly weaselly move by AOC: She's focusing on one surgery (hysterectomy) while ignoring the indisputable evidence that BCH did offer other body-maiming "care" to minors. I can't actually see the video promoting hysterectomy (Twitter, ironically, has blocked it as not suitable for children under 18 [!!!], so I'd have to resubscribe to Twitter to see it!), but BCH and AOC have both proven themselves untrustworthy here.

And yes, LOTT provides nothing but Tik Tok videos of actual people posting actual videos for the entire world to see. Said people then scream ceaselessly that, hey, they didn't want everyone to look at that stuff, just the handful of select friends they wanted to. People, Tik Tok makes everything available to everyone. (With, I imagine, some exceptions carved out for the CCP, but I mean besides those.) If you put it up there, you have zero recourse if someone decides it needs a larger audience.; 2/8/23, 7:38 PM
Readering said...: Rit, not the way writing works. You could try anyway.; 2/8/23, 7:39 PM
Chuck said...: tim in vermont said...
Boy, as a Republican, I rest easy at night knowing that life long Republicans like Chuck are standing guard for the party, but just one thing bothers me about his comments, they are long on name calling and mockery, and short on actual refutations. Almost as if he were actually a Democrat.

Well… and this is just today’s news cycle:

We had Mitt Romney telling George Anthony Devolder Eula Rochard Santos that he didn’t belong on the House floor. And “George” replying on Twitter that Romney will never be president.

There was the 45th President sending a flurry of social media posts accusing the Republican governor of Florida (whom he calls “DeSanctimonious”) of “grooming” teenage girls and perhaps of soliciting underage sex. While that same Republican Florida governor shot back that the former President had invaded the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants that he operated, to the horror, mortification and embarrassment of the young ladies in various stages of undress, with that former President having reportedly said, “Don’t worry girls I’ve seen it all.”

And then there was the actual SOTU address. Speaker Kevin McCarthy warned his conference against unruly behavior before the event; and audibly ‘shushed’ them during the speech. And still it was the most unruly House behavior in modern history.

Finally we get to the Republican Response to the President’s speech. Where one of Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ signature lines was calling for new Republican leadership. All the usual suspects lashed out. Steve Bannon; Lou Dobbs; the Conservative Treehouse; they and many more called the Sanders response disgraceful and RINO and “sounding like it was written by the Republican Governors Association for Ron DeSantis… all GOPe establishment.”

So that was all in just ONE FREAKING NEWS CYCLE!

There’s your unified Republican Party with a clear vision for leadership.

LMFAO.; 2/8/23, 7:41 PM
Temujin said...: As Bugs would say, "What a maroon." What an ultra maroon."; 2/8/23, 7:51 PM
Drago said...: LLR Chuck: "We had Mitt Romney telling..."

LOL

That would be Mitt "BLM Supporter" Romney.

Now that's what I call a LLR Chuck type of "republican".; 2/8/23, 8:08 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Wow - the left are out in full force defending their corrupt crook- and mocking someone who is brave enough to call out the pile of shit that is crook Biden.; 2/8/23, 8:15 PM
Drago said...: LLR Chuck: "Where one of Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ signature lines was calling for new Republican leadership"

Its got to be killing Chuck that the target of one of his greatest Althouse lie-fests, The Great LLR Chuck Denial of Sarah Sanders Pecan Pie Baking "Scandal", is now the duly elected Governor of Arkansas and represents a new wave of actual republicans that, over time, will supplant the pro-democratical "republicans" that undermine actual conservatives each and every day.; 2/8/23, 8:19 PM
Dave Begley said...: I testified before the Nebraska Legislature today in support of a bill prohibiting sex change operations, puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for people under 19.

I sat behind a college student who testified that at age 16 her healthy breasts were whacked off at Nebraska Medicine. She regrets her decision. She went back to being a woman. Has kind of a husky voice now.

It was heartbreaking. A number of people testified.

I told the committee that the people who approved this at Nebraska Medicine must be fired. No parent can give informed consent for experimental procedures that harm children.; 2/8/23, 8:28 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Chuck is an ass clown. Anyone who links to Aaron Rupar of all people deserves no respect whatsoever.; 2/8/23, 10:13 PM
tim maguire said...: Her delivery reminds me of William Shatner. I tried to make it to the end, but between the ridiculous punching of almost every word and her playing fast and loose with the facts, I couldn’t make it.; 2/9/23, 5:35 AM
Inga said...: “Rupar lies so often and creates so many fake quotes that his very name has become a meme: to be falsely accused based on doctored/fake quotes and maliciously edited videos is to be "Rupar-ed".”

This coming from Drago. Oh boy. Any liberal commenter here and some conservative commenters too know what it is to be “Drago-ed”. There is no commenter here that lies about and misrepresents other commenters like Drago. Does he think no one notices that he accuses others of doing what he has become known for in the comments sections? Drago lies and misrepresents as if his life online life depended on it.; 2/9/23, 5:41 AM
Howard (not that Howard) said...: Chuck lying as usual. DeSantis actually shot back “I spend my time delivering results for the people of Florida and fighting against Joe Biden — That’s how I spend my time,” DeSantis said. “I don’t spend my time trying to smear other Republicans.”

As to the rest of your "damning" snippets: who cares? Bunch of inside baseball that has nothing to do with anything.; 2/9/23, 6:29 AM
boatbuilder said...: No wonder AOC never made it as a bartender. Can you imagine? Must have been one of the places where they play the music so loud you can't hear anything.; 2/9/23, 7:21 AM
Drago said...: Russia Collusion Truther and Hillary/FBI Hoax Dossier Dead Ender Inga: "This coming from Drago. Oh boy. Any liberal commenter here and some conservative commenters too know what it is to be “Drago-ed”. There is no commenter here that lies about and misrepresents other commenters like Drago. Does he think no one notices that he accuses others of doing what he has become known for in the comments sections? Drago lies and misrepresents as if his life online life depended on it."

You and Chuck and the rest of the lunatic left cannot hide from your years of pushing insane conspiracy theories, transparently fake hoaxes and serial smears.

You, in particular, just last year, were STILL pushing russia collusion and pretending the hoax dossier was "mostly" proven correct.

You praised Joe Biden as "perfectly normal" AFTER his daughters own diary claimed Joe showered with her.

I could go on and on and that's what makes you so very upset: that many of us refuse to allow you to pretebd you havent written what you have.

Which makes you a perfect teammate for your fellow lefty LLR Chuck.

And I'm quite certain Chuck appreciates your efforts on his behalf.; 2/9/23, 7:26 AM
Quaestor said...: I'm inclined to attribute these "death threats" to minor-level Democrat staffers looking to be fast-tracked into a GS-15 cushy career, because they make simpleminded talking points for simpletons like AOC, and it's easy enough to buy a burner phone for cash.; 2/9/23, 9:21 AM
wendybar said...: WHAT isn't AOC triggered by??; 2/9/23, 9:56 AM
dwshelf said...: I can see a way in which AOC might be technically correct here.

Not.

What happened is that the Children's Hospital changed their policies after the LOTT posting. The posting was a 100% accurate record of what was happening when it was posted.; 2/9/23, 10:10 AM
Dr. Graphene said...: Okay, so AOC is really, really stupid. No news there. Do you know who is worse? The Republicans. Here's why:

Every time AOC or [insert Democrat here] goes on one of these little rants, they do the one thing they are good at without fail: they lie. AOC told a series of lies in this clip, as many commentators have already observed. But the idiot Republicans are never prepared for this, even though the Dem playbook is so obvious. When members of Congress tell egregious and demonstrably false lies or make statements that are outrageously stupid (e.g., another military base on Diego Garcia could cause it to capsize), the Republicans need to correct the record and create content suitable for viral distribution that publicly humiliates the offender. I mean ruthless, no holds barred public humiliation (but in a polite, civilized, House of Commons backbench sort of way).

And to be perfectly clear, I want the Dems to do the same thing to the Republicans. We have too many morons in government. They need to be exposed and publicly humiliated without mercy.; 2/9/23, 2:14 PM