‘I WAS JUST A KID’ IS THE EXCUSE FOR BEING INSANE THE LAST FEW YEARS:
Yesterday I wrote about AOC’s “defense” of the woke insanity of the past few years.
“Woke one was craaaazzy.“
Nothing says "principled stance" like needing two different answers six years apart. AOC vs. AOC on defunding the police, side by side. pic.twitter.com/6yr6584bl4
— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) August 10, 2026
She was speaking about Francesca Hong’s stated positions as a sitting state legislator, over 30-years-old, and she held those positions until she started getting trashed for them in her current campaign for governor.
But really, she was just a kid and shouldn’t be held responsible for anything she said outside the current context of her campaign.
Time is remarkably fluid these days:
I love the way we’re talking about 2020 like it’s 1920, and 1619 like it’s 2025. https://t.co/yASujMtyAd
— Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) August 10, 2026
But hey, 2020 was just a few bad tweets, right?
It was the pressing down of any disagreement or question, it was the constant threat of violence, it was the destruction of the careers and lives of countless people (and the consequent evisceration of the entertainment industry), it was the the removal of choice for vaccines, it… https://t.co/f5qGIwxul0
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) August 11, 2026
Tweet concludes, “it was the removal of choice for vaccines, it was the inflammation of racism, it was the numbing of meritocracy, it was the dismantling of the spirit of quite a few cities (and the accompanying declining property values), it was the collapse of a political party, it was the crushing of common sense (particularly in the young), it was the ruin of university value, it was the end of trust in the media, it was the fostering of the most selfish era in modern society. It was fascism, intolerance, and decidedly un-American. It was shameful and despicable. It was not ‘bad tweets.’”
Many more responses here: The replies to this tweet about the woke era are making my day.