Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared a strange picture on Friday that had voters across America asking, “Is this a joke?”
Ocasio-Cortez claimed a supporter of President Donald Trump came to her office last week and shared a message of support.
As proof, she shared a snapshot of a note that was allegedly pinned to her office’s message board by a stranger.
“About an hour ago, I was walking out of my office for the day. There was a man what I believe was his teenage son hanging a small sign they made outside my office (we let people leave well wishes on our wall),” Ocasio-Cortez said Friday.
“Astonishingly, his sign read: ‘Trump supporters for Ocasio-Cortez.’”
“I was pretty astonished,” she continued. “We shook hands, he introduced himself, and told me he wanted to show his support. I could barely get my question out — I wanted to honor his positivity, yet respectfully find a way to ask, ‘How?'”
I was pretty astonished.
We shook hands, he introduced himself, and told me he wanted to show his support.
I could barely get my question out – I wanted to honor his positivity, yet respectfully find a way to ask, “How?”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 10, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez then transcribed the alleged conversation with the anonymous Trump supporter in her office, where the unnamed conservative compliments her work.
“I somehow got it out: ‘With all respect sir, how do you… manage to support both of us at the same time?'” she wrote. “This is what he said: ‘I’ve been saying for years that climate change is our most important crisis. You’re one of the only ones who‘s been willing to be decisive on it.’”
“Then he said, ‘I like you. I can tell that you are genuine and fighting for us. You’re real and you get it.'” she wrote. “I thanked him and his family from the bottom of my heart.”
“All of this is to say don’t let any politician, no matter the party, lecture you about what is ‘possible’ or ‘electable.’ Don’t ever let a politician imply that working people are ‘less-than’ or ‘uneducated’ – aka that they are the ones in the way of solving the climate crisis,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
The thread continued: “The forces getting in the way of solving our climate crisis are politicians themselves + lobbyists. It is the willingness to bend to corporate power – the same ones that use coal miners’ plights for a tax break, yet refuse to pay for those same miners’ healthcare for black lung.”
“If you don’t understand this man’s sign — or don’t approach it with a desire to — then you do not understand this political moment,” she wrote. “The same folks who said Trump was impossible in 2016 are the same ones lecturing on what’s ‘electable’ in 2020. Don’t buy it. Vote your values.”
Critics claim the sign and Ocasio-Cortez’ conversation was faked.
“Jussie Smollett made that sign,” one user replied.
“You don’t get it,” another replied. “Bless your heart! Keep on, keepin’ on.”
Others were blunter —
Lie
— Glen Allachie (@LADMBM) May 12, 2019
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