Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday with host Jonathan Karl, where she defended Hasan Piker’s shameful claim that “America deserved 9/11.”
The 2028 Presidential hopeful came loaded with the same talking points as Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed, who, on NBC’s Meet the Press, defended Hasan Piker’s comments, blaming cancel culture and “gocha politics” for the controversy stemming from them.
Likewise, AOC appeared to blame “cancel culture” for the public outrage surrounding Piker’s apology for terror and violence in America during a word salad answer about whether Piker should be a figure in the progressive movement in the future.
She shrugged off Piker’s comments, saying, “Yes. Yes. He’s apologized,” slamming critics for “Monday morning quarterbacking.”
“We need to be not, not so, you know, willing to engage in cancel culture,” she said, arguing that Democrats need to embrace right-wing mediums like Joe Rogan and Fox News, as well as Communist Hasan Piker, to appeal to young people.
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Transcript:
Karl: Another person who’s been made an issue is Hasan Piker, who obviously endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. You’ve been on his live stream, you know, at least a few times. He’s somebody who said, you know, that America deserved 9/11. Now he backed off from that.
Ocasio-Cortez: Yes. Yes. He’s apologized.
Karl: But he said a lot of, he said a lot of controversial things. Is he somebody that should have a role in the progressive movement going forward?
Ocasio-Cortez: You know, I think when we look at our elections that have happened, we have lost young people. Much hay was made about the fact that we lost young men in the last election, and many of the same consultants that are wringing their hands today were the same ones talking about how we need to go on Joe Rogan, and we need to be not, not so, you know, willing to engage in cancel culture, and I think that the flip-flopping on this is a tactical debate that they may be having. I think the fact of the matter is, is that Democrats can go on Joe Rogan, Democrats can go on FOX News, Democrats have a responsibility to build a winning coalition.
And young people are engaging in mediums and conversations that we have a responsibility to attend to and be responsive to. And even right now, when we look at this insurgent wave of what is happening– oftentimes when people are doing that Monday morning quarterbacking and what demographics voted where, the big one that’s being ignored is the generational tidal wave, a tsunami.
Karl: I mean, you see it in the polling. It is insignificant.
Ocasio-Cortez: And millennials are not, you know, punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids. And we — that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, sidelined, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us on everything from the economy to climate. And we’re taking the reins.
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