ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ REACTS TO CONSERVATIVE CRITICISM: ‘I AM AS POWERFUL AS A MAN" (TR)

Newsweek ^ | March 4, 2019 | Callum Paton

[EdnaMode]

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York believes that the stream of attacks that GOP lawmakers and the conservative media spew her way stem from her gender.

“I am as powerful as a man, and it drives them crazy,” the freshman congresswoman told David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, after she emerged as the Republican Party’s bête noire over the course of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that ended on Saturday.

Ocasio-Cortez was responding to comments made by a writer for the feminist news outlet Jezebel, who said women in politics are characterized as either “hideous harpies,” such as Hillary Clinton, or "pretty idiots." "To her critics, Ocasio-Cortez is firmly in the pretty idiot category,” Jezebel writer Ashley Reese said.

In The New Yorker interview, Ocasio-Cortez said she agreed with the comments. "I feel like I predicted it from day one,” she said. “The idea that a woman can be as powerful as a man is something that our society can’t deal with.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who worked as a bartender and waitress at a taco restaurant before leading an upstart campaign to win the race for New York’s 14th Congressional District against a 10-term incumbent, said that virtually every aspect of her background was offensive not only to the GOP establishment but also to President Donald Trump.

“I can see Trump being enormously upset that a 29-year-old Latina, who is the daughter of a domestic worker, is helping to build the case to get his financial records. I think that adds insult to injury to him,” she said.

[EdnaMode]

She really thinks highly of herself.

[chris37]

Maybe, but you aren’t even 10% as intelligent.

[Army Air Corps]

She really does not have a clue. Not so much as a glimmer of a clue.

[Steely Tom]

“I am as powerful as a man, and it drives them crazy,” the freshman congresswoman told David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, after she emerged as the Republican Party’s bête noire over the course of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that ended on Saturday.

I wasn't aware that she was anyone's bête noire (which translates to "black beast," though probably the author of this piece doesn't know it).

She's more like our favorite Democrat congressperson, whom we hope to make into the face of the Democrat Party.

[MagUSNRET]

tHIS CHICK IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF A BALL GAG!

[Paladin2]

H->! knows WAY more about graft and corruption than the average American Man.

What is America’s Own Communist’s point?

[Long Jon No Silver]

She isn’t in the ‘pretty idiot’ category. She is just in the idiot category.

[KC_Lion]

[dead]

She's more powerful than a man. Bernie or Beto or Cory couldn't convince the Democratic Party to kill themselves, but Alexandria Mocasio-Cortez and her $93 trillion dollar dream are getting it done!

[Fungi]

“I am as powerful as a man, and it drives them crazy,” and uglier than a horse. “She is an idiot’s idiot with a little girl voice that gives expressive form to her thoughts and dreams.” Scott Johnson, Powerline. .

[nascarnation]

The Puerto Rican Princess aka America’s Socialist Sweetheart

[HangnJudge]

Being a man does not make one powerful, grasshopper
I am married, I know...

You however have a gift within you that is worth any price, the capability to create, a capability that forever out of men’s grasp. You espouse legislation permitting the wholesale destruction of the gifts. It is only because you are a child that your words and actions are not held up as despicable

[frank ballenger]

Can she leap tall buildings at a single bound?

Can she grow her beard as long as Bryce Harper,ZZ top or Jerry Garcia and Jim Morison just before they died?

Can she please, excite and truly satisfy a woman .....uh, maybe cancel that one. I was starting to say truly satisfy her curiosity about deficit federal budget financing alternatives.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I wish Sarah Palin would punch Obnoxious Kotex in the face.

[Skywise]

She’s nanners.

[sparklite2]

"Just give me a can of spinach!"

[Toespi]

“I’m so powerful that I can lift any man right over my head”.

(Power seems to be a big component for AOC.”)

[Regulator]

NOTHING THIS FRUIT SAYS IS EVEN VAGUELY IMPORTANT

So why the caps?

[metmom]

“I can see Trump being enormously upset that a 29-year-old Latina, who is the daughter of a domestic worker, is helping to build the case to get his financial records. I think that adds insult to injury to him,” she said.

I don't think he really cares.

She's so full of herself, it's beyond ridiculous.

[tet68]

Ocasio-Cortez was responding to comments made by a writer for the feminist news outlet Jezebel, who said women in politics are characterized as either “hideous harpies,” such as Hillary Clinton, or “pretty idiots.” “To her critics, Ocasio-Cortez is firmly in the pretty idiot category,” Jezebel writer Ashley Reese said.

She’s neither pretty or an idiot, she is however a danger
to the health of our nation.
She falls into the Hideous Harpie box as far as I’m concerned.