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AOC's CRINGE Response to Russia Proxy War Protestors

This week, Briahna spoke to Current Affairs Editor & Chief Nathan J. Robinson about last week's viral protest of AOC over her votes for Ukraine funding and silence on pushing for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Were the protestors fair to say Tulsi Gabbard has gotten to the left of the squad on this issue? Is it fair to say voting for military aid is voting for World War III? Did the protestors really shout down a deaf constituent, or is AOC weaponizing disability to avoid answering legitimate questions? We also discussed the climate protestors who threw soup at a Van Gough on Friday: Is this a legit protest or cringe? Weigh in on the debate tonight on Callin.

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Anonymous

NOBODY CARES IF AOC HAS THE LEAST WORST RECORD. If that’s even true.

Whorechata

The painting protest was an astroturfed protest the organization that did it is funded by an oil heiress they just wanted to make environmental activists look bad

Anonymous

If you believe, as Noam Chomsky continually says, that we are on the verge of annihilation from the climate crisis - which only is getting worse and worse, it seems to me that any protest that brings attention to this, even for a minute, the better.

Anonymous

I remember ACT UP!!! in the 1980s....continually doing angry, in-your-face actions that some people thought were 'too much'...and that wouldn't make any difference. What is going to stop the destruction of this planet? I think it will take EVERY kind of protest...and millions of people getting out in the streets....general strikes anyone...boycotts? Sadly, I think, we're looking to individual leaders to solve everything FOR us....how 'bout taking on the responsibility ourselves? Create and build serious movements that don't stop!!

Anonymous

Disgustingly naive privileged point of view of Ukraine from Nathan. The cause of this SMO is the skullduggery of the US and NATO which is actually a redundant statement as NATO is the US.

Anonymous

Ukraine was at the bloody negotiations table until the US and it’s puppet Boris Johnson flew in to put the kibosh on it. The lack of knowledge regarding this is disgraceful.

Anonymous

Yes, ACT UP! I have been thinking of the 80s, too, and the animal rights activists who threw fake blood on red-carpet celebs wearing furs, who released lab animals, who showed up at public events with their posters of animals caught in traps, etc. They also paid for a lot of advertising in left-leaning but also mainstream magazines and papers -- same pictures of animals subjected to testing and in traps. And guess what -- no one under 80 would wear real fur today, and the "crueltry-free" and "no animal testing" labels are ubiquitous in the health and beauty aisles at every chain grocery store and drugstore. I would love to see Sunrise Movement and any other group pay for Facebook ads using photos of the birds that fell dead out of the trees in Spain this summer or the cows that had to be put down because of the extreme heat.

Louis Waweru

A couple of lies you'll hear in this one: Putin is a madman making nuclear threats.

Ty Henry, aka Sports Droppings

Indeed. That's NOT what we sent her contributions for in 2018. We sent her contributions because she promised to bring "Freedom Caucus" energy to the progressive caucus and make Pelosi's life miserable. She's now become a gatekeeper. 🗑️

Liska Ostojic

Literally 4 and a half minutes in “we can send arms *and* push for diplomatic aid” 🤦‍♀️ so glad I stopped listening to this dweeb ages ago. Checked the comments to see if it gets better, glad to know Bri pushed back, that’s as much as I need of that

Lionel Boyd Johnson

Equating making lame Hollywood celebs feel guilty to wear fur to making oil conglomerates controlling the very levers of the capitalist structures of our modern economy feel guilty enough to turn off the taps is a bit of a stretch to say the least. Hollywood types can be shamed, but ask Steven Donziger how it worked out for him simply to get a little money from those sociopaths. I'm not against throwing some paint, and these folks are putting their freedom on the line, so hats off to them living up to their rhetoric but if you think this is going to move the needle in any form or fashion, or accomplish anything other than earning these dedicated young people a criminal record, you're kidding yourself.

Anonymous

Hi...I absolutely agree that the people controlling, as you say, the 'levers of the capitalist structures...' aren't going to stop what they do. What I think/hope/believe is that if and when thousands and thousands of 'regular' people get energized and actively protest this very destructive system that we're in...they can be FORCED to change...a little? Maybe a lot. The more 'we' protest...march.....boycott their money pipelines etc etc, the better chance we have to get other people to join in. (I hope!). What else do we have?

Anonymous

Enjoyed listening to you run intellectual laps around this clownish baffoon

Anonymous

Act Up was a fantastic organization but unfortunately fueled by the assumption that everyone 'acting up' was a dead man walking. That makes you brave. The animal rights activists did accomplish a lot but today they are 'domestic terrorists' and subject to 20-year 'terrorism enhancements' to their sentences for 'disrupting animal enterprises' (thank you Diane Feinstein). Does NOT make you brave.

Anonymous

The angry side-taking in some comments is sad. These are two excellent Left voices largely agreeing with each other and, where they do differ, doing so almost entirely on questions of emphasis. Robinson isn’t slimy, disgusting, or bogus; like Gray he's an important Left voice — and she agrees, which is why she’s broadcast so many conversations with him over the years. But if all they did was echo each other, those conversations would be a waste of time.