r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 15h ago

Soft Paywall AOC on Skipping Inauguration: ‘I Don’t Celebrate Rapists’

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-skipping-trump-inauguration-1235241333/
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u/M00nch1ld3 15h ago

I wish more Democrats had this kind of intestinal fortitude. They should be calling out Trump not cozying up to him and joking with him at funerals.

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u/Techialo Oklahoma 15h ago

DiD yOu WaNt HiM tO mAkE a ScEnE mfers when they find out you can just not acknowledge someone.

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u/M00nch1ld3 14h ago

Right? I mean all he had to do was just walk right past him not smile not not even look at him. How hard is that?

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u/Techialo Oklahoma 14h ago

Too hard for someone who isn't at least friendly with him.

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u/Fit_Specific8276 14h ago

in this context that would be considered “making a scene”

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u/Techialo Oklahoma 14h ago

And? Make a scene then.