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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President Trump has never even acknowledged her existence.
This apparently pisses her off so much that she has to fabricate a story about how "upset" he must be about her.
To quote a wise old man I knew years ago: "I don't even care enough about you to be angry at you."
LOL.
Obama got a Nobel prize for doing nothing,
and proceeded to tell the rest of us what to do.
“I think that adds insult to injury to him,” she said.”
She is vindictive against President Trump, while he has done her no harm.
Trump can be very vindictive too, Occasional-Cortex.
5.56mm
“America’s Own Communist” - love that!
I would pay money to see that!
Bartender, someone just puked over here. Can you clean it up?
Chuckle...
Alex, booby, you wouldn’t even BE there if “men” didn’t vote for you.
As for “power”... you only have the power WE let you have.
What a twit.
Actually, she IS important, because her ideas could get us all killed.
Underestimate her at your peril, I thought the
same of obama.
When you have to explain to people that you are powerful....
Yeah, but can you change a flat tire?
Exactly right. We would like to ignore her but we forget she has 30 or more Communists in Congress standing with her new green nightmare.
As does being dumb as a rock.
No, he’ll just send Ray Bones and Chilli Palmer.
Dunning-Kruger effect = a person who is so stupid that they are too stupid to realize just how stupid they really are.
(Greenpeace co-founder tears into Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal: ‘Pompous little twit’)
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