Rilly?

AOC–AUK?–is stupid leftist scum who is there because of the Hispanic leftist vote. Ethnic imports who love tyranny and want handouts are the death of the West unless we start taking back the vote from those who support evil–socialism /ROP / gen leftist imports.

She has a point, tho not precisely the one she’s trying to make.

She faces more scrutiny than most pols. Most of the media and large sections of the US Right are obsessed with the horse-faced chalupa.

Why, I dunno. Her tits are nice, I suppose? Butter face looks like she narrowly escaped Pleasure Island from “Pinocchio”.

It’s strange how the press faps over one baño-standard Latina socialist and has relatively zero interest in the retarded Somali who married her brother and just got elected to Congress.

@ PST and RH – indeed. She is young, moderately attractive and a radical. She has the ability to peddle deeply immoral policies while giving the impression of sincerity, so a natural politician. Given her youth and abilities, I can see her going a long way as she appeals to a significant proportion of the electorate – the ones who want free stuff paid for by the rich.

So, yes, don’t play into her hands. Recognise her strengths. Her gaffs at the moment will diminish as she becomes more adept at this. Give it a decade or so and she will be running for the presidency. It would never surprise me if she won.

Mark Steyn is similarly impressed by her. On Tucker the other day he observed that if she was old enough to run for the Presidency, Trump could be in far more trouble than facing one of the Dems’ octongenarians.

http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2019/01/the-proposed-emergency-decree-to-build-the-wall-is-an-awful-precedent.html

As coyoteblog puts it in his postscript

“…what is the deal with your Ocasio-Cortez fixation? I hear many folks on both sides of the aisle who attribute some of Trump’s electoral success to the media fixation on him that kept him in the news constantly. I am reminded of the old Pepsi challenge, where Pepsi showed people choosing their product over Coke. But the thing was, while Pepsi’s sales increased, so did Coke’s because the commercials kept Coke’s name prominent in people’s minds and established it as the product to which everyone else compares themselves. Do you really want to do the same thing with Ocasio-Cortez?”

“Maggie didn’t do that.” Aye, and she had to put up with a lot of real misogyny, especially from the Left.

At least the present day Left has established that we may refer to Ms OC as “you stupid woman”.

Very good point, TimN. And none of those will have the slightest compunction in playing dirty. And have the friends in the MSM to help them do it.
What with a battle for competitive victim-hood, some world-class finger-pointing & skeleton rattling could set this up to be the bimbo brawl of the century. Could beat mud wrestling as a spectator sport.

There’s some good memes out there of AOC’s oncoming. Here’s one of her dancing to Mongolian heavy music.

Republicans and to some extent Dems are making themselves look really stupid over this. Social media has video of teenage girl having fun is a big yawn to most people under about 40 and quite a few over it. Grown ups know it went on before social media and now accept its been captured for posterity.

Far more worrying is that she is getting oxygen for her juvenile politics.

The interesting thing about her potential for trouble among Dems is the likelihood that she is their current/future demographic, that demographic knows it, and won’t give a stuff for what the hitherto anointed such as Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi want.

I think this was George Galloway’s insight when he founded Respect: these people are the future of pols like him, so try and make nice to them.

But can they make it work?

I agree with Messrs. Newman and in Spain that HRC would stop at nothing, and I do mean ‘nothing’, to do in AOC, but if AOC proves to be untouchable in the manner of William J Clinton or D Trump, then I think AOC might be able to drive over Hillary without noticing so much as a road hump.

Be fun to watch the media-entertainment complex’s heads explode as all this happens, though.

Btw, what happened to SMFS? I’d been meaning to ask…

I note the blessed Margaret has been mentioned. The interview clip that sprung immediately to mind was this one.

Watching Maggie wink at Terry, enjoying her posture, I’ve just realised she might have had somewhat more influence on my views of sexiness in women than I’d appreciated, or remembered.

I am not an uncritical admirer, but. What a gal.

Tulsi Gabbard.

Stop press.

Bernie Sanders is a evil woman molester.

I wonder which approach the left will take? Disown him or it’s different because reasons.

The Occasional-Cortex/Palin article appears to be open access on the Speccie’s US site.

Note that to me the most annoying thing about the young Congresscritter is the habit people have of referring to her as AOC which will never stand for anything other than Air Officer Commanding in my head.

@Philip Scott Thomas January 10, 2019 at 8:46 pm

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the left’s Sarah Palin, Stephen Daisley

When the media falls in love, it falls hard. Its latest crush is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat congressgirl from New York. With Obama gone, she’s their new idol and how they gasp every time she flutters her Bambi eyes from behind those Deirdre Barlow-grade glasses. Brits find the deference US journalists show their president unseemly — all that standing to attention, Hail to the Chief stuff — but their slobbery swooning over every Great Progressive Hope that comes along is just creepy. There was the White House correspondent who offered to fellate Bill Clinton and the New York Times writer who blogged her shower dream about Barack Obama and claimed ‘many women’ were having sexual fantasies about him. (This is strictly a lefty behaviour. Reporters on National Review don’t get hot under the collar for Mike Pence).

It’s not hard to see why Ocasio-Cortez has captured the hearts of the media. She’s a woman, she’s a Latina, she’s an endearing geek. If she wasn’t in Congress, she’d have her own show on MSNBC. She also calls herself a ‘democratic socialist’ and advocates a 70 per cent tax rate, which is to say she’s 29 and before entering the House of Representative was a ‘community organiser’. Ocasio-Cortez describes herself as ‘working class’, as only an architect’s daughter who grew up in Yorktown Heights could. Two years into their Trump trauma, the New York Times and the rest needed a new pin-up. It was supposed to be the guy who pretends his name is ‘Beto’ but he lost to the guy who pretends his name is ‘Ted’. Ocasio-Cortez is an upgrade: she’s a real Hispanic.

So gaga have they gone for the neophyte lawmaker, the media is even hallucinating Republican attacks on her. Last week an anonymous Twitter account snarkily tweeted a video of an undergraduate Ocasio-Cortez busting moves from the Breakfast Club. Without Republicans actually saying anything about the video, the media splurged out dozens of stories about a GOP smear against Ocasio-Cortez based on a single tweet from someone calling themselves @AnonymousQ1776.

But the press is in love; and as well as imagining right-wing conspiracies against their girl, they also conveniently avoid a rather inconvenient truth: she’s not all that bright. Love means never having to say, ‘You’re an idiot’. No, I know it’s not a nice thing to say but I am simply applying the media’s template for reporting on conservative women — and, besides, lots of not-nice things are still true.

Yes, Ocasio-Cortez is young and new to politics and on The Good Side but she is responsible for a trail of gaffes that would see her daily lampooned by the media and the Twitter mob if she had an R rather than D after her name. Like the time she said the ‘three chambers of government’ were ‘the presidency, the Senate and the House’. The three branches of government are the executive, the legislative and the judicial. Or the time she was campaigning for a Democrat in Kansas City and pledged that ‘we’re gonna flip this seat red in November’.

Those are minor brain freezes but she’s not much better on big ticket items. She has claimed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ‘is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009’. The law requires ICE to have 34,000 beds available every night, not to round up 34,000 illegal immigrants to fill them. It’s like a hospital having to keep a set number of beds available; the doctors aren’t expected to go out ramming passing cars to fill a patient quota.

She told an interviewer: ‘Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family.’ First off, that’s not how unemployment figures work. Secondly, as PolitiFact noted, there are at most seven million Americans with more than one job, multiple jobs have not been at a particularly high rate for years, and ‘people who might be working 70 or 80 hours a week amount to a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage’.

Appearing on the Daily Show last August, she simpered: ‘Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for.’ The defence budget rose by $61 billion, not $700 billion. $700 billion is the entire defence budget. And, while we’re at it, they did ask for it. Then she hailed the Democrats’ victory in Georgia’s 6th congressional district despite being ‘outspent 5-1’. In fact, the Democrats outspent the Republicans in that election.

Last month, she tweeted that a universal health insurance system could be two-thirds funded by ‘$21 trillion in Pentagon accounting errors’. She had confused cumulative transfers for actual expenditure which should have been obvious since, as the fact-checkers pointed out, ‘the data suggests that the Pentagon hasn’t spent $21 trillion in the entire history of the United States’. Asked about her military expenditure errors, Ocasio-Cortez said: ‘I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.’

Why, Republicans are entitled to ask, isn’t she being ridiculed the way Sarah Palin was? Why isn’t the basic bolshevik being sent up by Saturday Night Live week after week? Republicans, because they’re Republicans, will instinctively blame liberal media bias. It’s really about culture, though. Media people know a lot more Ocasio-Cortezes than Palins; in fact, most don’t know any Palins. They don’t work with, live with, socialise with, or hook up with people who disagree with them. Ocasio-Cortez looks like someone from their circle of friends; Palin looks like something out of the Dukes of Hazzard.

More than that, they suspect Ocasio-Cortez gets up the noses of all those toothless banjo-duellers and Russia-brainwashed white supremacists who make up that bit of America between Fresno and the Upper West Side. They are on the wrong side of history and Ocasio-Cortez is post-Trump America: young, progressive, non-white and contemptuous of history and tradition. The internet abounds with articles extolling her facility for trolling conservatives. The aesthetics of antagonism — my enemy’s enemy is my ideal president — will only divide the nation more and Ocasio-Cortez’s conviction that she is right even when her facts are wrong is a sign that post-Trump America won’t be all that post-Trump.
(c) The Spectator 2019

@GC

Yes, or against animalkin or therians, or otherkin more generally…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin

Though I fear the “being” aspect discriminates against people with Cotard’s syndrome?

https://www.healthline.com/health/cotard-delusion

(“Cotard delusion is a rare condition marked by the false belief that you or your body parts are dead, dying, or don’t exist. …

Can it cause complications?

Feeling like you’ve already died can lead to several complications. For example, some people stop bathing or taking care of themselves, which can cause those around them to start distancing themselves. This can then lead to additional feelings of depression and isolation. …”)

Do think they could have put some of the more drastic consequences first in that article.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix

Do the simulation hypothesis believers self-identify as “beings”?

You’re a horrible, existenceist guy, GC. Or maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re not any thing at all…