Boom BoomOcasio-Cortez
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus. She is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details..bashed US foreign policy during a private meeting with Bronx community leaders, prompting two military veterans to storm out.
"She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about," said Silvio Mazzella, a Vietnam War vet and treasurer of Community Board 11.
Anthony Vitaliano ‐ an Army veteran who worked in the NYPD for 38 years, and commanded the Bronx’s homicide detectives ‐ was sitting between Ocasio-Cortez and a staffer for the freshman Dem.
"I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore," the former CB11 chairman said. "I just got up, got my umbrella in my hand and walked right out."
AOC held the closed-door meeting with about a dozen members of the board on Wednesday night, marking a rare visit to the Bronx part of her district.
One Middle Eastern board member raised the issue of the conflict in Yemen.
The progressive firebrand
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firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
slammed the US policy of providing bombs to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, which has supported Yemen’s government in a brutal civil war, according to attendees. Some blamed her for not including the roles of other nations in explaining the volatile region’s violence.