Fox News shares with their audience the horror of AOC's socialist agenda

[Pluvious]

They must have been traumatized...



From Reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/ap3sp2/fox_news_exposing_aoc/

[underpants]

1. They're coming out in full force on her. She scares them

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I've seen memes on Facebook - one said "the end of dumb blonde jokes" to talk radio hosts commiserating the death of a colleague mentioning sending each other the latest AOC joke.

BTW - notice she doesn't have anything there about the military. That simply doesn't compute in Foxworld. You simply have to wrap yourself in the flag. It's required.

[True Dough]

6. I've mentioned several times

that I frequent a sports forum that is rife with ReThugs. There is a "general" section on the site with various topics but politics is predominant. AOC is the subject of a disproportionate number of threads. It's mostly mouth-breathers denigrating her, but the amount of attention paid to her reveals much. And it's satisfying to know the right is troubled by her ambitious agenda.

Sleep well, ReThugs!

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Same here and I've mentioned it frequently

The sports forums are dominated by right wing white males. The "general" or "OT" forums on those sites are about as vile as it gets in terms of savaging anything from the left. Runaway fear. It reminds me exactly of my decades in the Las Vegas sportsbook environment, which featured the same demographic. They despise me because I can parry it, and I mostly laugh at them.

The sports guys thought Hillary was sub human. She is still hated and mentioned but after 2016 there was sort of a lull in terms of an individual targeted for their wrath. They turned to CNN as a frequent thread topic. But now Ocasio-Cortez is clearly the favorite. They use her as symbol for everything evil.

Fortunately the Political Forum on a Miami Dolphins site called Finheaven has evolved from heavily right wing when I joined in 2005 to most left leaning and extremely impressive these days. But that is the only transformation I have ever seen of that type.

[True Dough]

33. I concur on the right's hatred for Hillary

Amazing how long that endured.

And AOC is most definitely a lightning rod. They are so incredibly threatened by strong women.

That's a fascinating dynamic you mentioned regarding the Dolphins' fan site. I wish that was the start of a trend.

[Awsi Dooger]

35. The Dolphins thing was mostly a fluke

Some posters took exception to the administration of Finheaven and started a competing site. It had a quick advantage because Finheaven was down due to a hacking. Maybe half of the top posters departed for the competing site including the majority of the right wingers who posted in the political forum. So when Finheaven rebounded the Political Forum was already less right wing due to attrition, and then steadily tilted toward the left. It was helped partially by the administrator in question becoming more of a moderate, and then opposing Trump. He lets the left-leaning discussion persist even when it would be cut off on other sports sites. This has evolved over a full decade.

I don't see that trend anywhere else. I post on pro and college football sites, golf, track and field, horse racing and swimming. College football is easily the highest percentage of wing nuts. That is true of national forums and also team-specific forums. Even if an area is considered liberal, the online forum discussing that team will be hard core right. Golf would be next. But those sites generally discourage politics and religion. Track and field has an amazing number of ultra right loons. Every day on the Letsrun.com message board there will be desperate threads ripping Nancy Pelosi or mocking climate change,etc. They allow people to post with ever-changing user names. One guy was posting, "Democrats are Gays and Trannies" multiple times in every thread. They finally banned him but it took a year or more. There is an ongoing Donald Trump thread on Letsrun.com that must have reached 2500 pages. It is primarily righties but a handful of impressive liberals. Horse racing forums are still right wing but not as much as a decade or so ago. Swimming is probably the most balanced, probably because many non-Americans post on those sites since swimming is such an international sport. Not a heck of a lot of political talk but when it does show up it is respectful and can trend both ways.

I've mentioned for years here what those sports sites look like from a political perspective. I am glad you are backing me up on it. I'll read about Trump losing by landslide here, and then I'll visit a sports site 5 minutes later in which everybody thinks he is the greatest American of all time and should be on Mount Rushmore already.

[Ohiogal]

2. I'll bet that sent some shivers down some spines!

I'm laughing just thinking of the looks on their faces.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Dear Fox News : Which part is supposed to frighten or anger me?

[mjvpi]

18. Exactly!

I think it might be the omission of an infrastructure proposal that is bugging them.

Oh wait, Fox just forgot to include it.

And I’m sure there is a position on military spending that would cause real concern.

[Thekaspervote]

20. My thoughts as well. Who watches that shit and thinks those are terrible ideas

[ck4829]

25. Any... All... Doesn't matter. Run! Panic! Head for the hills!

[Fresh_Start]

4. I approve everything on AOC's platform summary

But I would dearly love to see an addition of voting rights which may be one of the biggest root problems in the entire system

[safeinOhio]

5. If Jesus called for Social Justice they'd mock him...

Wait a minute, he did.

[empedocles]

7. fox news is not scared, - publicizing that platform just makes fox more 'exciting' and

attractive to potential viewers who might lean conservative on some issues.

[John Fante]

11. Luring potential assholes?

[UpInArms]

8. They say that like it's a bad thing

Lol!

Go, AOC!

[Iggo]

9. Oh no!

[elias7]

12. Looks good to me!

[winstars]

13. The.............Horror.........

[demtenjeep]

14. all of those are "so horrible"

give us all that "punishment" for putting up with dotard

[TCJ70]

15. Well all of that just sounds awful...

...right?

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. If you didn't know that they twisted those talking points to suit their agenda...

one would think they were supporting her for president.

The more they hate her, the more I love her.

[gay texan]

17. The thing that sets AOC apart from others

Is that she fights back. They cannot stand it.

[47of74]

22. Yeah conservatives hate people who stand up to them and fight back.

It's not just AOC but anyone in general who doesn't kiss Herr Furor's ASS.

Last month during the shutdown we had one of our local conservatives put in a letter to the editor that since fuck face won we should all stop resisting him. I couldn't think of a polite way to tell her to kiss my ass that would get printed by the local paper.

[MyOwnPeace]

31. You could have

"politely" pointed out that over 3 million more people voted for Hillary Clinton and that the latest gain of 40 seats in the House of Representatives shows that his "agenda" is NOT the preferred one.

Not that she would have understood that anyway........

[47of74]

32. someone else did

I thought of pointing it out too, but mine would've had too many swear words to be printable in the local paper.

[MyOwnPeace]

36. I understand.........

tough to read a paper when it is on fire!

And again, it wouldn't have mattered. They're a cult locked in stupid.....

[Strelnikov_]

28. Agreed n/t

[pazzyanne]

19. Hmmm, my bleeding heart liberal brother...

… just used this same meme to promote AOC's stand in Congress. It gets my seal of approval.

[47of74]

21. These fucks act like these are all bad things.

[suffragette]

23. She's in their head, doing a dance.

[ck4829]

24. Because apparently, socialism is now... *checks notes* compassion and human decency

The horror. The horror.

[demigoddess]

26. will someone put up a graphic for what republicans want.

such as 1. right to carry guns into school or restaurant and shoot people.
2. the right to deny health care to anyone who isn't a millionaire.
3. telling women what to do with their bodies even if men don't get told what to do with theirs. Example: no abortion for women , no charges for molestation or rape for men.

[Strelnikov_]

27. Mein Gott . . . the horror

I'm in love.

[happybird]

29. That is one fine looking To-Do list.

Like others said, I don't get how anyone could be opposed to these things.

Go, AOC!!

[Pluvious]

34. Welcome to posting on DU happbird !

A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine

[spanone]

30. Isn't that the Democratic Platform?

[diane in sf]

37. Looks like my wish list, lol.

[customerserviceguy]

38. It's not about appealing to the mushy middle

it's about keeping the Trump base fully motivated.

And "LGBTQIA+"?? I understand the first four letters, but I admit, I have mostly ignorance about the fifth, and complete ignorance about the sixth and seventh, and what to make out of the plus sign.

[niyad]

40. oh Dear Goddess, what a TERRIFYING program. I am shaking in my birkenstocks!