AOC: "You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face."

[tblue37]

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-01-13T01:20:53.169Z

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread tblue

[enough]

2. Thank you for the truth, Alexandria 🙏❤️

[edhopper]

3. Why isn't Jeffries saying this?

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[progressoid]

8. Something something dry powder something...

something sensible woodchuck

[leftstreet]

11. +1

[LilElf70]

12. Priorities

come to mind.

[red dog 1]

14. + 1

[W_HAMILTON]

21. Because Jeffries was busy getting the House to pass his discharge petition to extend the ACA subsidies:

Now, why do some not know this and why -- on a Democratic-supporting website -- do some first point the fingers at our Democrats for doing the best they can with the limited power the voters have given them?

[edhopper]

22. You mean the one

that will die in the Senate and go nowhere?
Can't he do this performative vote and say something as clear as AOC?
Can't he do both?
People, voters, do not pay attention to votes like this. They want to hear the Democrats fighting against Trump. It is the only way to win in November.

[happy feet]

28. I googled Jeffries statement

On the murder-numerous videos, etc showed up. Or why does he need to say exactly what AOC said?

[MadameButterfly]

29. Different legislators have different skills

We know that AOC is more charismatic than Jeffries.
But this vote is not for nothing. It needs to be on the record what the Dems are for and what the Republicans are voting down.
If we sit on our hands because we think we're going to lose we get no credit for our position no matter how many interviews we do on the steps of the capitol.

[W_HAMILTON]

33. You think passing legislation is performative but making a public statement to reporters is meaningful?

[North Coast Lawyer]

34. Jeffries needs to go.

Jeffries has proved to be an ineffective and lethargic leader. He needs to go.

[kentuck]

4. Absolutely right!

And they want more money and more guns and more masks and more violence and more death.

[2naSalit]

5. K&R

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[bronxiteforever]

9. Kick & Recommend. Clarity and truth telling.

A leader for our time.

[Initech]

10. The GOP has become the new Taliban.

Donald Trump is doing to America what Osama Bin Laden only dreamed of.

[Lucky Luciano]

13. The Onion figured this out in 2014

[thought crime]

19. This is literally what China is doing.

We waited and watched for the Soviet Union to collapse, and they did.
China is now waiting and watching. And probably laughing.

[mr715]

15. I look forward to her ...

career in the Senate

[MadameButterfly]

30. or as Speaker of the House

I'm not saying now, not trying to trash Jeffries here. I just see her getting there some day if she chooses. She can totally fill Nancy Pelosi's shoes.

[mr715]

31. Whatever road she takes

she has my support. She just keeps getting better.

[red dog 1]

16. "Even Trump Supporters Are Nodding In Agreement With AOC's Latest Takedown Of J D Vance"

https://yahoo.com/news/articles/people-applauding-aocs-viral-response-220107862.html

[Bluetus]

17. The ACA subsidies are about $14B a year. ICE got funding of $75B over 4 years.

And over half of that is to build these detention centers.

Do the math. ICE is getting 34% more money than the money Congress slashed from ACA. The ACA cuts are LITERALLY funding all this gestapo business.

[red dog 1]

18. A couple of the replies to AOC's post

Footage I saw from earlier today, one ICEhole was indiscriminately pepper spraying all the citizens on the sidewalk as they drove by unobstructed! Zero justification for this super tool to chemical spray en masse. Broken people breaking everything for others #ICEoutForGood #RemoveTrumpNOW

— Alpha Kitty (@alphakitty.bsky.social) 2026-01-13T02:10:05.969Z

Put it on fucking billboards. @aoc.bsky.social

— InkBetweenFreckles (@inkonelbows.bsky.social) 2026-01-13T02:32:36.043Z

[Hassler]

20. Short and to the point. Outstanding.

[PatrickforB]

23. She and Crockett are among the few Democrats who have any spine at all. They are also the only ones

I am donating to. I'm done with the institutionalists.

[NNadir]

24. The more I see of her, the more I admire her. She's great.

[Kid Berwyn]

25. AOC puts the complex into words I can understand.

Wish I could speak that way.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. She has a way with words

because she connects the dots where others don't.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Excellent

👍

[Evolve Dammit]

32. well said AOC