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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ REACTS TO CONSERVATIVE CRITICISM: ‘I AM AS POWERFUL AS A MAN" (TR)
Newsweek ^ | March 4, 2019 | Callum Paton

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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To: EdnaMode

I remember what Jock Ewing said his son Bobby when Bobby said Jock had given him the power to run Ewing Oil.

“If I gave you power I gave you nothing. Power, real Power is something you take” Jock Ewing from “Dallas”

Truer words never spoken.


81 posted on 03/04/2019 2:54:36 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: EdnaMode

I don’t think she’s ever been challenged and has always, always gotton away with everything because she’s a minority woman.

She’s not as bright as she’d like us to think.


82 posted on 03/04/2019 2:56:20 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: EdnaMode
Taking to Twitter, Thompson lays out a case where Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend was paid $6,000 by a PAC owned by Saikat Chakrabarti, now her chief of staff, at a time “when her campaign was running out of money.”

The PAC is affiliated with Justice Democrats, a collaboration between Chakrabarti and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Thompson noted.

Who might Saikat Chakrabarti be?

Again there are no coincidences at this level!:


83 posted on 03/04/2019 2:57:44 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall: Illegal migration is leading to waves of outbreaks!!!!)
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To: EdnaMode

Arrogant & ignorant twit.


84 posted on 03/04/2019 3:02:39 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: EdnaMode

Bwahahaha.... Yeah. OK. That mental midget has no idea what “powerful” means.
Let her do Marine boot camp and go through 54 hours straight of the crucible. Men and women get it on to earn the EGA. My hat off to all who are watching our 6.

Back in my day it was MCCRES before a battalion was fit for deployment ( I know, that was putting work in to join the Fleet); no woman was gonna pass that (sorry ladies, just the truth). And since I’m lifting some skirt here; “doc” was the hardest of us all. Hand to God never saw him taking a break. When us grunts were taking a “break”; “doc” was tending us.

A freeper a few weeks back summed up something these idiot females in congress do not understand. They have never gone against the likes of an American patriot with resolve. These AOC types have no idea what it is like to tango with an American Man or Woman outside their shitty city.


85 posted on 03/04/2019 3:12:22 PM PST by afterhoursarmory
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To: EdnaMode

Having to say she’s as powerful as a man, ....

you know she isn’t.


86 posted on 03/04/2019 3:15:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

And that man is dunderhead Bill Maher.


87 posted on 03/04/2019 3:15:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Army Air Corps

Honestly i doubt she last out the year.


88 posted on 03/04/2019 3:16:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NEMDF

yep


89 posted on 03/04/2019 3:20:02 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: snappahead

AOCrazy Retard.


90 posted on 03/04/2019 3:20:14 PM PST by abclily
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To: Tell It Right

Ruthi is pumping iron for more dead babies and homosexual marriage!


91 posted on 03/04/2019 3:21:02 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Bratch

92 posted on 03/04/2019 3:25:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Bratch

He really needs to lay of the just for men stuff


93 posted on 03/04/2019 3:28:32 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: ifinnegan
I'm all in with Momo. AOC makes her sound cool, and her real stupid name has 11 freaking syllables.

Momo.

94 posted on 03/04/2019 3:30:18 PM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: dead

This all reminds me of a kids witch movie where the last scene shows a girl in a straight jacket tied to a bed saying over and over “I can fly, I can fly”


95 posted on 03/04/2019 3:34:07 PM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: abclily

Yeah no doubt.
I do like occasional cortex.
Except I haven’t seen the occasional part yet.
I suspect I wont anytime soon..


96 posted on 03/04/2019 3:36:30 PM PST by snappahead (if your gonna be dumb, youf better be tough.)
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To: EdnaMode

There needs to be another casting call for AOC’s replacement.


97 posted on 03/04/2019 3:40:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: EdnaMode

If this was a republican in a no matter how safe district, a democrat would replace her, i.e. Roy Moore. But New York will just put another democrat back in.


98 posted on 03/04/2019 3:44:38 PM PST by stevio (MAGA)
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To: EdnaMode

Dream on!


99 posted on 03/04/2019 3:55:59 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

More powerful than a man???

She is but 1 of 435, which makes her..

Not very good at math.


100 posted on 03/04/2019 4:07:58 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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