What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

her team is texting people in her district to see if they need any help with the flooding, why is it so wild to see someone in Congress actually trying to help people

Sarah Palin - still alive, and just as relevant as she's been since the morning of November 5, 2008:

I’m so sorry Sarah Palin is mad at me! In fact, to address this I set up a special hotline just for her https://t.co/FGUWvdqt4T pic.twitter.com/Fcr8cYvEYT

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 9, 2021

ugh, i don't know why i'm always astonished at the face of the fox news journalist. it always seems to be someone new, too! who are these people? sarah palin, i know what she is, i know what she thinks of AOC. but it's the fucking "journalist" who just smiles and _laughs_ back at this shit that drives me nuts. didn't people used to say that fox news had a line between their "news" and "evening op-ed fascism shows" and that the news part was actually decent? but...the screenshot above says "primetime", so maybe it's in the evening fascism time? but if that's true, who is this rando smiling/laughing fascist? how do they have so many?

is that Duff?

oh sorry, I meant the Duffy who dated Puck on the Real World

"She's milkin' the whole female thing"

... phrasing

i imagine that every few evenings there's just a totally new person there in the anchor chair, reading the PR. "hello, viewers, it's me, number 34. trust me: you can trust me. on fox news, america's most trusted source. now we'll pass it to don blankenship to talk for 8-12 minutes with minimal interruptions"

That aw-shucks phrasing is the only talent Palin has - other than lip gloss. It connects to her audience.

AOC flaw: doesn't put enough letters in her fake phone numbers

evening fascism time

lol

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/aoc-met.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=322

Met Gala

I fail to see the flaw there

I mean, I know this is effectively a general AOC thread, just clarifying that taxing the rich is a good thing

Master’s house with master’s tools, etc

great photo

👑

The Met Gala really makes me want to blow up the entire planet

Yeah this is grim tbh

kinda with matt

ladies!!!

honestly can't believe how the folks at @PartyCity didn't waste any time getting this out there pic.twitter.com/UodV3XaGV6

— wide (@widesauce) September 14, 2021

lmao

i am kinda impressed on the turnaround on that. though chances are the product doesn't even exist yet

Swimming at seaworld in a wetsuit that says save the whales pic.twitter.com/g2OqfXrbv2

— raina (@quakerraina) September 14, 2021

I think AOC would be doing a better job for socialism if she wasn’t at the MET gala or basics a likable quasi celebrity. She should be an ugly crank like Dennis Kucinich, who has objectively done a great deal more for the US left and is now the President

— Dennis Hogan (@dennismhogan) September 14, 2021

who is the woman with her?

there are only two options: being at the MET gala or being dennis kucinich

you could go to the MET Gala dressed as Dennis Kucinich

exactly

*reads harbl's post, sadly deletes hastily-assembled 2 genders joke*

lol

(xps) That is Dennis Kucinich.

Dennis is running for mayor of Cleveland, again. The primary is today!

but did they pay full price to get into Seaworld, or did they sneak in? It sounded like AOC got in for free ... so ... I don't see the problem.

calstars: Aurora James

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/fashion/a37582578/aoc-tax-the-rich-met-gala-dress/

AOC worked with James on the design, and she spoke to Ilana Glazer on the Vogue livestream about the experience: "We really started having a conversation about what it means to be working class women of color at the Met. We said we can't just play along, we need to break the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions. While the Met is known for its spectacle, we should have a conversation about it."

xp thanks visiting

The idea that the dress "challenge[d] some of the institutions" is what most people seem to be taking issue with, not attending the MET.

Maybe she crashed it

lol oh no I've seen plenty of hot twitter takes already about her going to the event at all.

Idk why I said "already" -- they started last night about 3 seconds after she got there.

In so much as a dress could challenge some of the institutions, I think hers did. Idk ... I'm a diversity of tactics type.

to be clear, i'm not against her being there, the dress, or the message. i'm just extremely doubtful that it challenged anything about the institution, the Met gala isn't going to be one bit less extravagant and ridiculous last year. but she clearly did get more visibility to the message, so i'm not disdainful of the effort.

my only beef with this is that i probably would have avoided hearing about the met gala altogether otherwise

I think it's going to be consumed by the social media grist mill as a classic "limousine liberal" meme no matter why she attended, despite the fact she didn't pay, etc. The message doesn't matter as much as the imagery.

I am 100% in favor of her being there and wearing the dress, for the exact same reason I was 100% in favor of Bernie Sanders (a politician I did not support at the time) going on Joe Rogan's show. You reach new people by going to where they are. You present your message, unchanged, and if some percentage of them are receptive, you have achieved something.

lol realized i botched my post, meant to say "one bit less extravagant and ridiculous next year"

to be fair, i'm salty because i think the whole Met gala thing is ridiculous, stupid and amplifies some of the worst tendencies of American culture, so i look askance at the whole thing. but i'm not faulting AOC in the least for these larger issues i have with it all.

Get the message out there, build buzz. Take the stupid hits from randos on twitter in order to widen the audience. It's good tactics imo.

lol oh no I've seen plenty of hot twitter takes already about her going to the event at all.

There are a billion people tweeting and half of them aspire to be Dave Portnoy. Undoubtedly there are bad faith takes from people who had to look up how to spell Antoinette. From the left, though (the only side where criticisms or jokes should even be considered), not so much.

Stan culture, unfortunately, demands that people like Dennis PerrinHogan pretend Dave Portnoy and the person with the EZLN avatar are coming from the same place.

If you want to go to the fancy rich people party, go to the fancy rich people party. You're a celeb and might get to meet Frank Ocean, why wouldn't you go. Dressing it up as an act of political subversion, though, is lame as hell. I'm sure the 90-year old billionaires they keep off camera (so lenses don't shatter) really felt owned.

wait are people invoking Marie Antoinette because they don't understand what "have your cake and eat it, too" means?

Dressing it up as an act of political subversion, though, is lame as hell. I'm sure the 90-year old billionaires they keep off camera (so lenses don't shatter) really felt owned.

Again you miss the point. The audience for this gesture is not the billionaires at the party. The audience is the Teen Vogue reader/celebrity gossip consumer who wants to see pictures of celebrities dressed up fancy and has now been sent a political message along with it.