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

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

what I assumed it was.

I think that posture is universal.

Brava AOC!!!!!!!!

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

What are you doing stupid.?
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She's marvelous.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

My mother-in-law was not Italian however.

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

Well, it's a thing all right.

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

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!

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

His apology

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

Nt

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.