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AOC’s Biggest Problem Is That She’s AOC
NRO ^ | 9 Sep 2022 | Charles C W Cooke

Posted on 09/11/2022 12:59:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan

I don’t know if the purpose of GQ‘s profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was to make its subject look like a whiny, cartoonish, spoiled, self-indulgent mediocrity, but that’s certainly the effect it had on me. At no point during the interview, it seems, did it occur to either the writer, Wesley Lowery, or his interviewee that the core problem that AOC faces is AOC — not other people. Take this line, for example, which represents just one part of a rambling, embarrassingly pseudo-eloquent answer to the question of whether, one day, she might be elected president:

People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September. And that weighs very heavily on me. And it’s not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center. This grip of patriarchy affects all of us, not just women; men, as I mentioned before, but also, ideologically, there’s an extraordinary lack of self-awareness in so many places. And so those are two very conflicting things. I admit to sometimes believing that I live in a country that would never let that happen.

The reason that it is unlikely that this country will “let” AOC be president is not that she’s a woman. It’s that she’s a dimwitted socialist. This country is also not going to “let” Marjorie Taylor Greene be president. That’s not patriarchy; it’s taste. In his next paragraph, Lowery gets quite close to understanding this, but then swiftly backs away from the implications of his own words:

Even were she theoretically to become president, then what? She’d face a system—from the Senate to the Supreme Court—both empowered and inclined to thwart her most sweeping ambitions.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: Rummyfan

I read where she was known as Sandy Cortez by the guyz back on the block and at the Taco bar.


21 posted on 09/11/2022 2:01:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: Rummyfan
She’d face a system—from the Senate to the Supreme Court—both empowered and inclined to thwart her most sweeping ambitions.

Like National Tequila and Taco Tuesdays.

22 posted on 09/11/2022 2:05:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: Bullish

“She’s got a BIG mouth and nothing of any value ever comes from it.”

The only thing of value that will ever issue from her mouth will be her last breath.
At least then she’ll be out of someone’s misery.


23 posted on 09/11/2022 2:09:48 PM PDT by oldvirginian
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To: Rummyfan

The Constitution was designed to prevent any President from carrying out his or her most sweeping ambitions. It’s called “checks and balances.” (Unfortunately most Presidents since the 1930s have lost sight of that.)


24 posted on 09/11/2022 2:17:06 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Rummyfan

Since the Democrats’ goal seems to have more illegal aliens than citizens in the country by 2028, the Democratic Party should dictate that the 2028 debates be held in Spanish (with subtitles in English). I’m looking forward to hearing AOC debate Beto O’Rourke in Spanish. Maybe Gavin Newsom will be in the debate too—as governor of a state which is 40% Hispanic, he has no excuse for being less than fluent in Spanish.


25 posted on 09/11/2022 2:22:11 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Rummyfan
Rules even for her

https://i.postimg.cc/s227SH4V/23-D8-CD77-0684-4-B48-A386-EEC76-E817178.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/g2mvc2wL/2-E9-D405-A-2-B82-42-BA-A161-67-F6-F22-DA1-D4.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/9QbyDHT8/3425-FB06-A0-CB-47-B6-A166-E7355-FBF229-A.jpg

26 posted on 09/11/2022 3:02:07 PM PDT by wardaddy (If you are squishy about what’s going on you’re damn weak and on the wrong forums)
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To: wardaddy

27 posted on 09/11/2022 3:07:28 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Rummyfan

In before the “Godzilla had a stroke and died trying to read her statement” meme


28 posted on 09/11/2022 3:17:38 PM PDT by GunHoardingCapitalist (The cake is a lie!)
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To: Rummyfan

Thank u

We can think she’s silly or stupid

But she’s hardly ugly and has a leggy lanky big boobed bod

I wouldn’t kick out of bed

At least when I young and failed to cull lib tang


29 posted on 09/11/2022 3:20:05 PM PDT by wardaddy (If you are squishy about what’s going on you’re damn weak The water is still and on the wrong forums)
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To: Rummyfan

”there’s an extraordinary lack of self-awareness in so many places“ .......principally her own brain.


30 posted on 09/11/2022 3:21:13 PM PDT by Dave911
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To: nesnah

She has NEVER evolved beyond stealing all the tips out of the tip jar at the bar where she worked, cheating her fellow employees.


31 posted on 09/11/2022 3:40:15 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: wardaddy

I’d hit it.

But I’d hate myself in the morning.


32 posted on 09/11/2022 4:24:27 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (I’m standing behind Alec Baldwin.)
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To: Rummyfan

AOC (pronounced: Yeach!)


33 posted on 09/11/2022 4:59:59 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Avalon Memories

Think about this...stupid can be controlled. She is in line for something. The Dems are grooming her for the future. Just watch.


34 posted on 09/11/2022 5:09:15 PM PDT by JoJo354 (I am in mourning for the United States of America.)
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To: JoJo354

She’ll be a perfect Senator from NY. Replace Shuck Choomer in a decade.


35 posted on 09/11/2022 5:12:45 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: nesnah

Sometimes it’s all a dumbitch can do just being a dumbitch.


36 posted on 09/11/2022 7:02:36 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: wardaddy

At least when I young and failed to cull lib tang.

So you stuff panties in her mouth?


37 posted on 09/11/2022 7:05:13 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: wardaddy

Hopefully not a photoshop, but if it is, it's a good one.

I'll prefer to think it's real.

38 posted on 09/11/2022 7:27:46 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: JusPasenThru
> I’d hit it. But I’d hate myself in the morning.

No reason to hate yourself.

Assuming you didn't make any silly promises in the process, of course.

39 posted on 09/11/2022 7:30:36 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: JusPasenThru

Leave when you’re done then.


40 posted on 09/11/2022 7:37:07 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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