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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I understand she was quite good at STEALING the other waitresses tips also!
She’s no question chesty
Whether the sheer is shopped or not
Arms extended behind her, projecting chest, deliberate pose.
Yep, sure looks that way. Hey, if ya got 'em, flaunt 'em, right?
Or as a female musician bandmate once said to me on the way to the stage: "Showtime -- t!ts out!" (It was particularly funny since I'm male.)
The downside (sorry) of big'uns like AOC's is that they rarely retain their youthful perk after about 35, especially with children. AOC turns 33 in a month, and will likely start up a family in a few years, so her best body years are nearly over. Can't blame her for showing off while she still can.
She speaks barmaid Spanish.
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