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struggle4progress

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Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:28 PM Feb 23

Dumbest man ever calls AOC dumbest Congresswoman ever elected

... these accusations of law-breaking by teaching people the law are coming from people who very clearly do not know the laws themselves.
By Kylie Cheung | February 18, 2025 | 3:18pm

When President Trump sends members of his administration to do the television circuit, he’s not sending his brightest ... But in a string of right-wing cable appearances on Monday, immigration czar Tom Homan proved he might be the least bright.

Homan, who’s previously called for lawmakers supportive of immigration sanctuary cities to be charged with crimes, spent much of his airtime going on obsessive, incoherent rants about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). At some points, he appeared to threaten her, but at most points, he disparaged her intelligence while making clear that he himself doesn’t know the laws.

Homan takes particular issue with Ocasio-Cortez hosting workshops and disseminating information to immigrant communities about their rights to turn away ICE agents who lack warrants. “She wants to go out saying she’s teaching people their constitutional rights, yeah, you can call it that. We all know what she’s up to,” Homan said on Fox News. “She wants to tell these people how they evade arrest.” Right-wingers, led by Homan, are increasingly, desperately trying to frame teaching the law as breaking it. That’s because, to state the obvious, it’s much easier to violate people’s rights when they don’t know their rights—which is something the Trump administration is counting on to carry out its mass deportation campaign ...

https://www.jezebel.com/dumbest-man-ever-calls-aoc-the-dumbest-congresswoman-ever-elected
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Dumbest man ever calls AOC dumbest Congresswoman ever elected (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 23 OP
That bastard has the mug right out of a 1930s gangster movie. Klarkashton Feb 23 #1
Who is the dumbest? Jvp Feb 24 #2

Klarkashton

(3,366 posts)
1. That bastard has the mug right out of a 1930s gangster movie.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:38 PM
Feb 23

And an attitude to match. He looks like he has been beat the fuck up a few times too.

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