“‘You Want Me Silenced? Let’s See Who’s Really D.a.n.g.e.r.o.u.s,’ Sen. Kennedy READS AOC’s Tweets Out Loud — A Showdown of Truth and Hypocrisy.” When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Senator John Kennedy was “d.a.n.g.e.r.o.u.s” and “needed to be silenced,” she had no idea what she was unleashing. Instead of firing back with fury, Kennedy took a different approach. On a nationally televised forum, he calmly pulled out every tweet AOC posted — and read them out loud, word for word. No edits.