Posted on 03/04/2019 2:03:47 PM PST by 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.
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It’s Latinx, OAC. Latina engages identity politics. It’s waving a sex card and a race card at the same time.
What is a narcissistic personality disorder?
Quick, somebody give her another participation trophy. She's "helping build a case."
By saying this, you are stating that women are less powerful by default -- and that somehow you are the exception.
You, AOC, are misogynist.
She’s peed on her shoes several times.
This place has AOCDS - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome.
tHIS CHICK IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF A BALL GAG!
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Have you seen those choppers of hers? How is a ball gag going to fit?
I think her figurative stink is far stronger than that of any man I’ve met.
Seriously, I do not think any of the attacks against her have anything to do with gender, as she claims.
They are mostly about how stupid, ugly and childish she is. This description can fit any of the 20 or so genders her party says there is.
I would like to see her in a timed debate where she has to explain her logic. A debate where she has to stick to the subject and not wonder off on excuses, political ideology or her sense of morals.
Legend in her own (miniscule) mind
The only thing worse than a sore loser is a sore winner.
She can crack Coconuts with her thighs. That’s powerful!
She is headed for a YUGE fall. Don’t know when, where, or what circumstances, but she’s going to step herself into something too deep to escape. It will be interesting.
I am pretty sure POTUS is not losing sleep thinking that she’s coming after him. That is comical.
Haha. Perfect.
Hideous Harpies - it fits Hilary Clinton perfectly.
The Democrats cry when women in their party are criticized because of the stupid political theories that they espouse and are - yes - harping on them all the time.
When a conservative woman is accused of saying things that are ‘controversial’, many times it is because she has been misquoted or her statements have a different context and meaning than what the Democrats want it to mean. An example is Sarah Palen’s saying the Republicans should target certain Democrat politicians in the next election. She gets blamed for instigating the shooting of Arizona Representative Gabby Gifford.
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