Holy smokes.
Never in a million years would I have thought that daffy chica had a clue, but I'm here to tell you, like she says, even a broken clock is right once a day.
What I'm referring to, of course, is this memorable AOCism during an event last week with Bernie Sanders.
Her hysteria led to a certain amount of cynical and welcomed conservative hilarity.
RIVERS ARE ON FIRE BECAUSE OF DELOITTE'S CHEMICALS
AOC claimed that "rivers were on fire" due to corporations like Deloitte "pouring chemicals" into waterways
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 16, 2025
Despite Deloitte being an accounting and consulting firm, not a chemical manufacturer. pic.twitter.com/xFODBfCs0p
God bless her little pointy head.
There are always those who have to point out the obvious inconsistencies with her statements.
Deloitte is an accounting firm, @AOC 🤦🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/12W8oBNF4M
— Marisa 🇺🇸 (@marisapatriotic) October 17, 2025
And then there are those of us, like me, who prefer to simply enjoy the moment in all its progressive specialness.
Frickin' morons.
AOC’s lawyers after she blamed Deloitte for DuPont’s pollution of the Cuyahoga River. pic.twitter.com/qVmSYdKBzO
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) October 17, 2025
I do, though, always wonder what the teeny grain of truth buried in all the argle-bargle is and try to make a game out of teasing it out of the word salad.
In this instance, I believe the subliminal message the congresswoman was inartfully trying to send was a warning about accountants.
The professional class.
And who knew how right she was, particularly if you are an ardent enough Trump fan that you display signs of your support publicly.
If your allegorical rivers aren't burning, you still need to be prepared to duck in your front yard.
Some angry accountants/professional types can be easily triggered.
A 38-year-old accountant has been arrested after allegedly opening fire on a MAGA supporter who had a Trump flag in his yard. Thomas, who owns a river rafting business in the picturesque area, caught the moment on camera the gunman was seen raising a pistol from the sunroof of… pic.twitter.com/KcBBWnQrS3
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) October 20, 2025
HOLY CRAP
Additionally, man - security cameras are wonderful things.
A 38-year-old accountant has been arrested after allegedly opening fire on a MAGA supporter who had a Trump flag in his yard.
Benjamin Michael Campbell is charged with firing shots at the home of Mark Thomas, 62, in Nantahala Gorge, North Carolina, on September 6.
This fellow is in some serious trouble, being a Jimmy Kimmel look-alike aside.
...Thomas said that Campbell first caught his eye as he drove down his road at around 55 miles per hour before coming to a sudden, screeching halt.
The Republican homeowner said he checked his security cameras, and watched a man wearing an 'Antifa-style mask' emerge from his Jeep Cherokee to inspect a Trump banner attached to a bus parked on the Thomas family property.
'He was driving along, saw the sign, slammed on his brakes, you know, had a political trigger moment, and he just had to tear the sign down,' Thomas said.
'He started reaching up on his tippy toes, trying to get to the edge of the sign. I just thought to myself, this is not happening. I don't believe this.
...Thomas said he walked out to his porch while armed with the rifle, and fired two warning shots into the air from a spot where Campbell could 'very clearly' see him.
‘By this point, he had ripped the sign off, and he just whipped it up and then threw it down on the ground. Like he was proud of what he just did. I thought, Holy smokes,' Thomas said.
The intruder returned to his Jeep, but instead of heeding Thomas' warning and leaving, he circled back down his road while raising a gun through the sun roof and firing multiple times, video shows.
‘He fired five to six rounds as he was heading back down the driveway to the highway that passes in front of my place,' Thomas told the Daily Mail.
‘I found one bullet hole in my refrigerator, which is on my porch.' Thomas was standing on the porch at this point, and the bullet missed him by meters.
The security footage shows bullets (!) tearing up this fellow's yard as the nutcase fires from the sunroof of the Jeep. What an absolute miracle no one was hit.
And this masked clown isn't even a local. He's from Cobb County, Georgia, which is part of the Atlanta metro area, and had to be extradited back to North Carolina.
Bad enough when the neighbors go loony over politics, but when tourists start shooting your yard up because of your 82-year-old mother's sign?
Something ain't right, no sir.
The assailant's stature was grist for some ribbing.
Diminutive accountant tears down NC local’s Trump sign, shoots up his house: cops https://t.co/UU5xDtYfQj pic.twitter.com/0b7qQsXprM
— New York Post (@nypost) October 20, 2025
And a good friend of mine offered salient safety advice to would-be Trump-sign assaulters.
Kids, when you see a refrigerator on the front porch, it’s best to drive right by.
— TheMorningSpew2 (@TheMorningSpew2) October 20, 2025
Accountant arrested after 'opening fire on MAGA supporter' in dispute over Trump sign... as victim recalls bullets whizzing past his head | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/cbOQdpCtyA
And I won't even say 'you have to wonder what makes a guy think,' because it's 1) obvious he wasn't thinking, at least not rationally, 2) he's being told to attack anyone and anything Trump, and told that constantly.
Gov. Pritzker incites violence against Trump supporters by telling the left to take over the streets so "Republicans cannot have peace."pic.twitter.com/fVoU84S7ug
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 28, 2025
AOC warned us about accountants, but she meant all of them.
BREAKING - The man at the No Kings rally in Chicago who urged people to grab guns and shoot ICE agents has been identified as Moises Bernal, an employee of Wilbur Wright College in Chicago.
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) October 20, 2025
Ask the school if this man represents them.
Moises is about to have a very bad day. pic.twitter.com/GSQTANx4hA
The teachers...
Chicago (Oct. 18) — At the "No Kings" protest, a Chicago Public Schools teacher named Lucy Martinez was recorded gesturing being shot in the neck. After Charlie Kirk was m—rdered, many Democrats and leftists celebrated and called for more killings. pic.twitter.com/KhU3r2kivV
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 20, 2025
...the venomous pot stirrers...
"Shut down the city! We are at war!" says Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) — days after Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries instructed his members to "fight" against President Trump's agenda "in the streets." pic.twitter.com/1hpa1joDT8
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 4, 2025
...and congressional fakers just running their mouths because they have to have something to do.
🚨Hakeem Jeffries, at a “sit in” on the steps of the Capitol with Cory Booker in another Resistance™️ stunt —
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 27, 2025
— says this moment in America reminds him of what US Grant said at start of the Civil War:
“There are but two parties in America right now, patriots and traitors." pic.twitter.com/xWGLDJFFTP
I can't imagine where an accountant would get the idea that this unhinged, violent attack on perfect strangers in the middle of nowhere would all be okay, especially if he wore a mask.
Can't imagine.
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