"AOC is Donald Trump in high heels: a fast-talking, shoot-from-the-hip, fact-mangling, narcissistic, Twitter-addicted, aggressive, ruthlessly ambitious New Yorker." Why all the fuss about hypocritical, fork-tongued Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? She’s just a glossy socialist version of Donald Trump in expensive high heels https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ialist-version-Donald-Trump-pricey-heels.html The post-it note messages stuck on the plaque outside Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Capitol Hill office are united in their effusive praise. ‘You rock!’ screams one. ‘I love how you roll!’ sighs another. ‘We need you!’ pleads a third. And so they gush sycophantically on: ‘America needs more of you! Keep killing it girl!’ ‘6 women from California think you’re awesome!’ ‘Congresswoman, you are LOVED!’ And my personal favourite: ‘Our future is female!’ (it certainly will be if Gillette has its way..) We know about these post-it notes because in recent days Ms Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly tweeted about them to her 2.6 million Twitter followers. ‘I’ll keep these up as long as they stick,’ she declared, ecstatically. A statement I think we can safely translate to mean: ‘I’ll keep these up as long as I can keep sticking them back up there.’ So there’s no doubt that ‘AOC’, as she likes to call herself, bows to nobody in self-adoration, even it means creating a shrine to her own magnificence on her office door. To understand the full magnitude of her ego, AOC even compared her New York election victory to America’s 1969 Moon landing and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Now, I don’t (self-evidently!) have a problem with big egos, so long as those who have them can walk the walk as well as they talk the talk. And that’s where I have a slight problem with the AOC phenomenon. There’s no doubt she is a rapid-rising superstar in US politics. (If you don’t believe me, just ask her - she’ll soon tell you). n terms of her appeal, she’s the J-Lo of Washington: a hot, fierce, kick-ass, talented and hugely charismatic Latina who commands magazine covers and talk-show appearances like her Hollywood counterpart. Her story is the stuff of movies, too – the young impassioned bartender who one day decided to change the world rather than beer barrels. Her achievement in becoming, at 29-years-old the youngest ever woman to serve in the United States Congress is genuinely remarkable. And she pulled it off by taking no prisoners, fighting fire with fire, and whacking opponents with Trumpian aggression. I’ve had my own taste of Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s strong-arm tactics – literally. Two months ago, I got into a Twitter spat with the similarly self-worshipping singer Ariana Grande who admonished me: ‘also Piers Morgan, I look forward to the day you realize there are other ways to go about making yourself relevant than to criticize young beautiful women for everything they do. I think that’ll be a beautiful thing for you and your career or what’s left it.’ AOC loved this - retweeting Grande’s attack on me with the words: “Get ‘em” and a muscle-armed emoji. Both of them got a gazillion ‘likes’ for their tweets and I was duly savagely abused by their fans. I didn’t mind the abuse, but it was interesting to note just HOW abusive their supporters can be – particularly AOC’s, who seemed to be in a competition to suggest the most imaginative way for me to die. She inspires such demented support because she is the ultimate ‘woke’ liberal celebrity, someone whose whole life now seems devoted to virtue-signalling her way to the top. There’s no issue, from transgender rights to climate change, on which she isn’t apparently now a world authority. Or perhaps she’s not. ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ she announced dramatically this week, a statement that is just as preposterous as Trump’s insistence that climate change is fake news. OC has become the leader of the PC Pack and woe betide anyone, particularly of the white older male variety, who tries to stop her. But like most fervent PC-crazed socialists I’ve met, she is not above copious lashings of shameless hypocrisy. This is a woman who we know despises the rich and wants to take rich people’s money away to help the poor. Her flagship new headline-grabbing policy idea is to slap a 70% tax rate for the wealthiest Americans, thus punishing many of them for being successful and creating jobs. Yet our budding female Robin Hood recently wore a $1,990 Gabriela Hearst blazer, $890 matching wool pants, and $625 Manolo Blahnik pumps for an Interview magazine photo-shoot, in which, with no apparent sense of irony, she draped herself around construction workers and talked about the urgent need for more to be done to reduce financial inequality. It wasn’t quite Marie Antoinette ‘Let them eat cake!’ level of tone-deaf offensiveness, but it wasn’t far off. AOC’s hypocrisy appears to be limitless. Last August, she lamented the closure of the restaurant she once worked at in New York, saying this would inspire her to fight hard for people’s jobs. But the restaurant’s owner blamed big hikes in the minimum wage for his decision, the very same hikes that AOC wishes to increase much further. She’s repeatedly called for the national minimum wage to double to $15-an-hour, which would financially cripple many more businesses like her old restaurant. She berated Uber, saying New York’s yellow cabs ‘are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber.’ Then it turned out her own campaign spent $4000 on 160 Uber rides in California (where she wasn’t even running for office) over a three-month period. But it’s not her hypocrisy that’s most troublesome. It’s her inability to tell the truth. When she appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show two weeks ago, AOC attacked Trump’s Oval Office address the night before, saying ‘there was falsehood after falsehood, and we have to make sure we get out facts straight.’ Yet just days earlier she herself had been heavily criticised by the Washington Post for her ‘tendency to exaggerate or misstate basic facts’. The Post gave her its most scathing ‘Four Pinocchios’ rating for her completely false claim the Pentagon has wasted $21 trillion that could pay for 66% of all Medicare costs. When she was challenged about this on 60 Minutes, she responded: ‘I think there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right.’ Ah, I see. So facts don’t really matter… so long as it’s AOC who’s the one making stuff up! Previously, the Post has exposed Ms ‘we have to make sure we get our facts straight’ AOC for lying on the record about unemployment numbers, ICE bed quotas, America’s upper-middle class not existing, Medicare costs, and Affordable Care Act payment systems. So when she bangs on self-righteously about the importance of facts, it’s worth noting that barely anything that comes out of her mouth seems to actually be factual. As Marc Thiessen, a Post columnist, wrote: ‘If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were a conservative, all anyone would be talking about is how uninformed she is. She would be facing trick questions from reporters designed to expose her lack of knowledge, and brutal sketches on “Saturday Night Live” mocking her intelligence and fitness for office. Instead, SNL fawns over her. Boy, it’s good to be a socialist.’ It certainly is, but would it also be good to live under a socialist President? As Thiessen also pointed out, Vox recently calculated the cost of all AOC’s bold proposals, from Medicare-for-all to free college tuition, guaranteed jobs and a “Green New Deal”, would be $42.5 trillion over the next decade. This is more than twice the national debt! When Sarah Palin came out with such nonsensical stuff, she was rightly destroyed by the predominantly liberal US media. But AOC gets a pass from her absurd utterances because she’s a liberal heroine, which is ironic because in many ways, AOC is Donald Trump in high heels: a fast-talking, shoot-from-the-hip, fact-mangling, narcissistic, Twitter-addicted, aggressive, ruthlessly ambitious New Yorker. And that’s why she’s also the very last person the Democrats need leading their Trump resistance charge. Hollywood actor James Woods labelled AOC ‘the most dangerous person in America right now.’ But that won’t be how President Trump views her as he sits in the White House planning his 2020 campaign. Trump will be licking his lips with unconfined joy that the Democrats’ noisiest media-dominating new star is a fork-tongued, hypocritical, cocky, extremely ‘woke’ hard-core socialist. Frankly, he couldn’t script a better figurehead for his rivals as he battles re-election. AOC’s post-it note fans think her acronym stands for: ‘Amazing Outstanding Champion.’ I would put it another way: ‘Annoying Overhyped Charlatan.’ (More at above url - pictures, tweets, etc.)
Piers Morgan whining because he is getting picked on by women...the dude can dish but his pussy bleeds whenever someone hits him back. Piers Morgan calling someone else an overhyped charlatan....
You only need one quote to understand the entire context of the article.... "But AOC gets a pass from her absurd utterances because she’s a liberal heroine, which is ironic because in many ways, AOC is Donald Trump in high heels: a fast-talking, shoot-from-the-hip, fact-mangling, narcissistic, Twitter-addicted, aggressive, ruthlessly ambitious New Yorker."
I find AOC to be very interesting because she has the power to move the dial and cut through the powerful right wing echo chamber. The proof is in the pudding. She made a statement about taxing income over 10 million at 70% then the right wing spin machine kicked in portraying it as a 70% tax on all income. She pushed back through social media and clarified her statements and now her proposal has an overwhelming solid majority of support. In democracies the will of the people is power. The fact that she can cut through and move the dial is powerful. I’m still out on her because she has some funky ideas but her ability to message on a national scale is something to reckon with. Also, her presidential endorsement is probably the biggest ticket in the dem primaries.
What I've noticed is politics is the new entertainment. The media will build up a politician and track their every step, until the scrutiny makes them blow up. It's basically the new child start model that was successful in the 90s- '00s, where people were glued to a Disney bimbo's every move until they ended up in a pool of their own vomit after an alcohol-cocaine bender.
She does a pretty good job cutting through the powerful left wing echo chamber too. That's the thing about nonsense. You can shout nonsensical crap over any normal conversation and it takes center stage.