Never piss off a girl from the Bronx

[SocialDemocrat61]

[canetoad]

1. Don't know

What was going on but a picture speaks a thousand words. (None of them good about RFK jr)

[wnylib]

17. Although she is Puerto Rican, that almost looks like

an Italian hand gesture, the one that starts under the chin and goes outward.

[evolves]

36. That's exactly

what I assumed it was.

[displacedvermoter]

44. Universally recognized communications tool!

[Deuxcents]

2. Whatever it is, she ain't buying it! Notice the girl to the left in the background..

[canetoad]

19. Yep

I think that posture is universal.

[calimary]

37. Looks like she's enjoying the show!

[Trueblue1968]

46. AOC ...... Kick him in the nuts !!!!!!!

[Wild blueberry]

3. That is a thing of beauty

Brava AOC!!!!!!!!

[TheRickles]

4. Not to indulge in ethnic stereotypes, but it looks like AOC is going full Italian on him!

[wnylib]

18. I just posted the same thing before seeing your post.

[erronis]

5. I'm guessing AOC's hand gesture says a thousand words. And even dunce rfkJr knows what they mean.

[flashman13]

7. I went to school with some Italian kids, and I can tell you that particular gesture is not polite.

Her facial expression is pure gold. AOC is destined for great things.

[Javaman]

9. lol I'm Sicilian and I knew right away what it was lol nt

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Same Here

One side of the family is from the Messina area. The other half, right across the straits near Reggio.
When I speak Italian, I probably do it with a southern accent!

[erronis]

33. My Italian teacher in the 60s was from Messina. He had a wonderful story about when the GI's came through.

When he was a little boy on the streets while the Allied forces came through (after a devastating bombing), he remembered some soldiers tossing wrapped candies to the kids.

Years later, when arriving in Lawrence, Kansas to teach Italian, he decided to go to a local drugstore, sat at the soda counter, and decided to try something he had never heard of before. When he took his first sip of root beer, the memories from that encounter 20-25 years ago came flooding through his mind. He could even remember the smells and the faces of the men in the jeep.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Great Story

My dad, who was fluent in Italian, ended up getting stationed in Naples (medical corps) as a medic & translator I'm the Army hospital.
So much infrastructure was damaged in the war, that civilians had to go to tye Army for care.
He got to visit family every leave by just taking the train a couple hours south.
I've been to Italy >40 times, but never south of Sorrento. So, nowhere close to where my family is from.

[calimary]

38. My dad flew photo recon.

I’ll never forget the day when he was thinking back, and he said (quietly and with some pride) “I’ve never raised a gun against my fellow man”.

Boy was that ever a moment for me! Gave me a whole new way to appreciate him.

[ProfessorGAC]

40. The War Was Over Around 4 Years When My Dad Got There

So, he never saw anything close to battle action.
Korea was starting full, so he avoided that by being bilingual.

[calimary]

41. I'd never heard my dad speak with that kind of seriousness before

or ever after, for that matter. I’d never realized how deep that was (or that HE was) until that moment.

[mitch96]

32. Yup, In my old neighborhood the nona's would say "Che cosa fai?" or Che cosa stupido?

What are you doing stupid.?
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[NNadir]

6. As a guy with a New York attitude, I absolutely love this woman's style.

She's marvelous.

She couldn't possibly flip off a worse human being than that piece of shit working to kill people.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

22. I'm not a New Yorker but I love AOC's style.

She’s bright, tough and she cares about people. And she doesn’t put up with bullshitters or suffer fools lightly.

I hate RFK jr. as much as I hate Trump.

[NNadir]

24. I totally agree. RFK Jr. Is the worst if the worst.

[chouchou]

10. One of our many Hero's

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. AOC is always awesome 😎

[sop]

12. Even back then the Kennedy family knew...

[John1956PA]

13. I think the dorsal side of AOC's fingers rolled off of her chin.

I would like to see a GIF of the entire gesture.

[erronis]

34. If the GIF doesn't exist, I'm sure someone can create it. (A rare benefit of this technology.)

[yardwork]

14. Love this!

[mountain grammy]

15. I watched the questioning

Which was very civil both ways. Didn’t see any hostility. Of course she is brilliant, nothing less, and he’s not and it shows. Would like to see the whole thing here.

[Deuxcents]

16. I believe AOC is Puerto Rican and can be very animated with her gestures. She could chew him up

And spit him out as meatloaf. She’s better educated and qualified for her position, unlike him

[róisín_dubh]

20. I grew up in an Italian-American Staten Island family

I know that look. Boy better run. She might have a wooden spoon in her other hand (I kid...)

[NNadir]

25. The same with my wife. My father in law was 1st generation.

My mother-in-law was not Italian however.

Interestingly, although she grew up on Staten Island, you wouldn't know that culturally.

[Emile]

21. I wish we had more just like her.

[Blue Owl]

23. That pic will be my new desktop screen background

[user name taken]

26. A thing of beauty

Well, it's a thing all right.

[FailureToCommunicate]

27. Our strength as a nation is our immigrants...

...and their useful gestures!

(Of course our strength comes ALSO from those who were here before all the rest of us!)

[ChazInAz]

29. Oh, I know that gesture!

[Botany]

30. Hey Bobby you want your face smacked?

A Bronx Girl, a bartender in the Bronx,
smart as they come, and can get her
swerve on too.

[Jilly_in_VA]

31. Puerto Rican women know how to tell you off

My son-in-law's mother (RIP Rosemary) was known to use the same gesture when telling off any of her boys...or anyone else. I don't think I would want to be RFK Jr. at that moment!

[calimary]

42. Hey, that's the VERY LEAST he deserves.

Her hand speaks for all the rest of us, and rather LOUDLY, too.

[griloco]

39. Have you seen her eviscerate this unfortunate white boy?

His apology

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Her response

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[erronis]

43. Thank you. Well worth the watch again. The boy's voice was quivering while reading his "apology".

I imagine he was shaking a whole lot more after AOC dissected it.

[griloco]

45. And he was bounced off the church board he was on.

Nt

[Emile]

47. I have an (ex NY) Puerto Rican friend who

now lives in Illinois. Next time I see her I'm going to show her this picture. She loves AOC just as much as we do.