Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter on Thursday night that the use of a discredited image by a prominent conservative outlet showed that “women in leadership face more scrutiny. Period.”
She said the actions of the Daily Caller were “just a matter of time” given that Republicans had been “frothing at the mouth all week” – a phrase that she did not explain. She also criticized the Daily Mail which she accused of sending a reporter “to my boyfriend’s relative’s homes” offering them cash for “stories”.
This is more scrutiny than a political party hiring a retired spy to find stories about a pee pee tape?
Rilly?
Photos of bare feet are ‘nude photos’ now?
Also, pretty privilege. (A concept I first learnt – not in person, more’s the pity – from Jorja Smith, who sure knows what she’s talking about!)
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.
Republicans will be wise to learn the lesson of master persuader and walking media maelstrom trump’s success and recognise she has a lot of the same appeal and ability.
Thus if they want to beat her they need to leave her alone and not score own goals
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.
Republicans will be wise to learn the lesson of master persuader and walking media maelstrom trump’s success and recognise she has a lot of the same appeal and ability.
Mike Cernovich and Scott Adams are saying the same. Adams in particular is pretty impressed with her persuasion techniques, reckoning she’s not up there with Trump yet but is still miles ahead of the rest of them.
@ 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.
Commenter “Johansen” at Tony Heller’s blog has renamed her Alexandria “Occasional-Cortex”
Seems more appropriate…
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.
She is a juvenile.
She distracts from her policies with indirection.
“You want to take everyone’s money?”
“Women in leadership face more scrutiny.”
The press loves it because it gives them plausible deniability as they give full backing to the socialists.
The Dems distractive politics is wearing thin. The way to deal with OC is to explode her policies. Brush off her attempts to change the subject. Expect them to come; be ready for them.
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?”
Women in US politics would do well to stop moaning about how they are especially badly treated because they are poor victim women. It looks pathetic. Maggie didn’t do that.
“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”.
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.
Well, yes. Which means she’s going to create far more trouble for establishment Democrats than the Republicans. Can you imagine her running up against Hillary, for example? I can see these women – AOC, Pelosi, Warren, Harris, Hillary – tearing strips off one another at some point.
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.
She actually speaks pretty well, even if nonsensically. While there is some temptation to call her the Democrats’ Sara Palin, she’s probably a cut above. Being young and pretty, and able to dance, expect the press to pay a lot of attention to her, especially the old guys.
However, the Dems are not going to enact anything that the Republican Senate doesn’t approve or that Trump doesn’t veto. The Dems can be as silly as they want.
So, Washington will continue to be a goat rodeo, but it seems that Nancy Pelosi may not be the rodeo queen.
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.
“This is more scrutiny than a political party hiring a retired spy to find stories about a pee pee tape?”
Unfair to compare running for the House of Representatives vs running for prez – she’s sucking up way more media attention than the average newbie.
To put this into context, there are ninety-nine freshmen in Congress this year! (Freshpersons? And that’s with another district pending that is likely to produce the 100th.) How many of them other than her, Rashida Tlaib and Mitt Romney have received any media coverage in the UK? I imagine many of them, particularly representatives rather than senators, have received pretty much zilch outside their home markets even in the USA.
AOC surely has the same problem as ‘slebs do – you’ve got to suck the coverage up because it’s the kiss of life to your career, but even the fame-hungry have reservations about all their tittle being tattled. I find it hard to disagree with her premise that if she were maler – or for that matter, staler or paler – the media would be far less worked up about her.
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…
Mr Ears, to some extent I think that is right. She risks disproving the adage that politics is showbiz for the ugly.
Not that I would, but she’s an acceptable specimen when brushed-up.
And as a latina she is likely to age well for about the next 12 to 15 years. After which, all comparisons with the fragrant Sarah Palin are off. And as far as SP goes, I would.
But I don’t sympathise with AOC’s plight, if that is what it is. She is using her youth and looks to scream around advancing all the feelz she wants. She can’t have it both ways. She could refuse to speak to Anderson Cooper, if she wanted, on the perfectly legitimate grounds that she is a mere 1 of 99 new congresspersons, she is still finding her way, and would like to spend a few years getting her feet under the desk, and learning a bit more about what’s what, before, for instance, casually slandering the head of state/government or ramping up Laffer ignorant, chippy tax arguments.
I note the blessed Margaret has been mentioned. The interview clip that sprung immediately to mind was this one.
@Mr Lud
My sympathy for any politician is necessarily limited, similarly for anyone craving attention. The intersection of both imposes a severe restriction upon my sympathies.
Nevertheless, I do feel she’s got a point.
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.
Does she have the Hispanic vote though? My understanding was she won via the richer, white areas.
While too many of us label “Hispanics” as a bloc, they tend not to do so to themselves. Well no more than Irish and Italians see themselves as having a common identity. Are Mexicans really going to vote for a Puerto Rican, merely because she is a Latina?
The rich end of the Democrats are obsessed with race and identity. It doesn’t mean all of them are. For every vote they get because she ticks all the “right” boxes, there’ll be a loss repelled by her actual politics.
Tulsi Gabbard.
…there is some temptation to call her the Democrats’ Sara Palin…
There is an article on the Spectator blog calling her exactly that. The level of snark is hilarious and well worth reading. Some brilliant (and highly steal-able) turns of phrase. Unfortunately it’s behind a subscription wall.
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.
Margaret Thatcher – Interview with Terry Wogan 1990
“I don’t make any concession to the fact that they are men”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iZ2SgeF-8c – 12m 20s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dFrpdIt7t4 – 39m 29s
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.
Whoopi Goldberg Warns Alexandria “Occasional-Cortex”: Stop ‘Pooping’ On Democrats, ‘Sit Still’ And ‘Learn The Job’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrvCNTImgA
@Philip Scott Thomas January 10, 2019 at 8:46 pm
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the left’s Sarah Palin, Stephen Daisley
“Freshpersons?”
Freshbeings.
We don’t want to discriminate against aliens.
@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.
“Ocasio-Cortez”: how the hell is she allowed to call herself after one of the most racist, most murderous conquerors in history?
I mean, “Cortez” is just a variant of “Cortés”, isn’t it?
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…
Frothing at the mouth is pretty accurate. I call it AOCDS.