AOC tears into Christian Super Bowl commercials for making ‘fascism look benign’

Progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized a Christian organization behind two ads made for Sunday night’s Super Bowl game, claiming they promote ‘fascism.’

He Gets Us, a nonprofit aimed at modernizing Americans’ perceptions of Jesus Christ and Christianity, reportedly paid a hefty $20 million to run its messages during the big game.

‘Something tells me Jesus would *not* spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign,’ Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. 

The first black-and-white clip shows migrants fleeing their homes under life-threatening circumstances, implicitly heading for the US. 

At the end, it’s revealed to be a comparison of today’s asylum-seekers with Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Christian group He Gets Us of promoting ‘fascism’ at the Super Bowl

She fired off a tweet on Sunday night after both of the group’s ads had run during the game

Also featuring colorless photos, the second clip shows people in scenes of heated confrontation set against Rag’n’Bone Man’s 2017 hit ‘Human.’ 

It ends with the phrase: ‘Jesus loved the people we hate.’

The ad campaign is purported to be non-partisan and is funded by a cache of anonymous donors – along with the family of David Green, the billionaire owners of the Hobby Lobby store chain.

‘We are wanting to say – we being a lot of people – that he gets us. He understands us. He loves who we hate,’ Green told conservative media personality Glenn Beck in late November, while discussing the ad campaign.

‘I think we have to let the public know and create a movement.’

He Gets Us touts itself as a diverse, forward-thinking organization seeking to modernize Christianity.

But it is a subsidiary of The Servant Foundation, which has reportedly donated more than $50 million to Alliance Defending Freedom between 2018 and 2020, according to left-wing publication Jacobin. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center classified Alliance Defending Freedom as an anti-LGBTQ ‘hate group’ in 2016.

One shows images of civil unrest and ends with the phrase: ‘Jesus loves the people we hate’

But Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism of He Gets Us was not the only shot she fired off as the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles went head-to-head.

The New York lawmaker posted an image on Twitter of the platform’s billionaire owner Elon Musk sitting next to fellow billionaire and owner of Fox Corp, Rupert Murdoch.

They were spotted together at the Super Bowl, each with a female companion sitting next to them.

Ocasio-Cortez quipped, ‘Birds of a feather flock together.’

But as usual, the high-profile TV event caught heat from lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum.

Outspoken conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused the NFL of peddling liberal ‘wokeness’ after both the National Anthem and Black National Anthem were performed ahead of the game.

‘Chris Stapleton just sang the most beautiful national anthem at the Super Bowl. But we could have gone without the rest of the wokeness,’ Greene wrote on Twitter. 

Last night’s game ended in a referee call giving Kansas City the upper hand at the end of the final quarter, leading them to beat Philadelphia 38 to 35.