What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

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Some days I wake up & it seems there’s 500 GOP wannabes pitching themselves as the “anti-AOC.”

First of all, as Republicans y’all don’t have the range.

Secondly, most of you are just afraid to run against your actual Dem opponent. It’s lazy. Work harder. https://t.co/rMMQOSo3lG

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 18, 2020

We laugh now but when she runs for higher office we'll see all these "her negatives are so high, just like Hillary's" stories

an excellent rejoinder by AOC... that no Republican will ever be exposed to

its not AOC but she's good too

Firstly, this is my country & I am a member of the House that impeached you.

Secondly, I fled civil war when I was 8. An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one. https://t.co/zcKKjdC8ju

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) September 23, 2020

I've been offline for several days, but I did watch the VP debate. Most of it was the usual carefully crafted talking points, some blatant lies from Pence, and the frequent evasion of direct questions by both participants, but there was one moment that genuinely astounded me. It was when Vice President Pence, speaking to a wide cross-section of tens of millions of Americans, referred to Representative Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as "AOC" with no further explanation of who he was speaking about.

That sort of three-initials fame in the USA has been limited until now to FDR, JFK, and LBJ. And she's a first term congressional rep! That moment truly gobsmacked me.

You know, I noticed that, too. At first I thought it was a sign of disrespect, but then I thought it was a symbol (however unintentional) of her power.

OTM

For the record @Mike_Pence, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to you.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 8, 2020

otm

@AOC is live

https://www.twitch.tv/aoc

if you've never bothered to check out twitch, this might be a fun way to do it

(it's just streaming video)

AOC for president in 2028 imo

disappointed, I assumed she would be streaming rimworld

she is chilling on her twitch stream, with 240K viewers (and rising), getting ready to play some game, and also talking about voting on the WFP line for people in NY, and distributing resources for how to vote for people in other areas (most of which are probably younger(?)), all the while in a very natural way, without reading a script, not in a rehearsed way, in a honest, vulnerable way. very few people in congress can pull all of that off right now.

#AOC2028

i just watched aoc successfully navigate a last-minute change of plans to launch the game through steam.

she was fine. it is hard to explain this feeling

Did she unplug and replug her modem

oh god, the audio is feeding back

oh god

i am honestly glad that this reflects a real twitch stream, where nothing is working and you don't know why

i wish all politicians were subjected to this

she's handling it better than i would

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhTLDV9qPZ4

she's playing a collaborative 8-player game in beta mode, on twitch, while using twitch for the first time

this is the day she became president

http://i.imgur.com/E64Zj5q.png

Surprised there is so much interest in this

It’s 90% me treesh

haha, I turned on Pokimane's stream without knowing this was happening and was briefly very confused.

it's at least 50% jmm as well

flaw: just turned on the stream and the first thing i hear her do is metagame

what game did she play?

Among Us

Thanks sic

There may have been another earlier - I dipped in late and just kept half an earphone on to pay better attention when she was chatting about policy or asking a UK player how the NHS works at point of service. Most of the time she was just talking through her exploring the game - "if I open this, will it kill me?" - when the other players weren't in the same room / screen.

now I will never vote for her

very sus

That was fun. Kind of a hardcore group to go up against for the first time.

Surprised there is so much interest in this

― treeship., Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:34 PM (yesterday)bookmarkflaglink

It’s 90% me treesh

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:41 PM (yesterday)

ok so there was a lot of interest, it's true. many people are saying that AOC’s record-breaking Twitch stream is the future of politics

I wish that article were better.

so do i

hopefully someone else will do it

trump just called her AOC, tonight, during a debate with biden

calling it now, 2028 or 2032, AOC

How many viewers know who he's talking about?

and i am so fucking excited for it. she gets it. she isn't perfect, but she gets it, and already has a huge following. also, preview of 2028 or 2032, but if you don't vote foe her for president you are wrong

xpost lots

AOC+3

went down for a snack and caught that bit. AOC+3 wtf is that

also agreed that this is actually laying the groundwork for her to be more popular than ever

that's what he wants, tbf, the republican strategy is not to reduce the popularity of AOC, it's to make her seem to be the face of the democrats. Of course democrats tried exactly that strategy with trump and we all know how that went

has she ever really done anything that's genuinely offensive (to these supposed Americans)? i don't get it. all i see are snippets on Fox News calling her the devil over and over again, Socialist hell, etc.

she's a woman and she knows things, ergo a witch

she wants to raise your taxes and take away your coal-rolling mega truck