Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Follies

Quote: AZDuffman

AOC got initial attention because she was young and attractive. A liberal politician made for the cover of "People." Michael Moore even called for us to change the Constitution so she could run before she turned 35. Do not underestimate the appearance thing, either. And she had education credentials at least on paper.

Then she starts talking......

This is a woman to whom Jamie Dimon had to explain in congressional testimony that banks do not run or have responsibility for pipelines. Her comments this week show she is not ready to play at the level she is on let alone as a POTUS candidate. Get past her prepared left-wing Trump hate prepared soundbite remarks and off the rails she goes.

Lefties whine about the "above the equator" thing but they piled on Quayle for "potatoe." But it is the Taiwan thing where she showed she is just not all that intelligent. She could not even talk around it. I think it is Toastmasters does it but we did it in the Jaycees sometimes as well--you are given a topic at random to talk on. You have a few moments to think about it, then you have comment on it for like a minute. Then you get graded.

It's fun but it is practice for when you get put on the spot like this. The average Joe who does it does better at job interviews and sales presentations. Politicians who do it do better when they get this kind of question. A working House member does not need to be expected for an eloquent comment on Taiwan in a random question. One who goes to a forum knowing they will be the center of attention had better.

As a House member, AOC was not getting near the presidency in 2028. I believe that has only happened once in history and I cannot remember in my lifetime any such candidate getting past the earliest primaries. But she very well might have blown her chances of being asked to be a running mate out of the water.

Quote: GenoDRPh

And yet you belive everything Donny says, hook, line and sinker? You excuse and expolain away his ignorance and cravenness?

Quote: AZDuffman

Believe everything he says? Nope. I do explain when he is joking so the low-IQ crowd who takes every word out of his mouth literally can settle down.

Quote: missedhervee

The fat oaf shouldn't "joke" and treat America as the set for his latest comedy show: he should take his job seriously.

Quote: AZDuffman

Get a sense of humor. Learn how satire is used to make a point.

Quote: missedhervee

Oh, I have a fully developed sense of humor, and also a sense of propriety.

It is not proper for the fat oaf to tweet whatever it is his failing mind comes up with at that particular moment, posting without any filter whatsoever.

He probably should not tweet at all without all proposed tweets first being vetted by somebody else, somebody with the power to block him from tweeting if the content of the tweet is deemed counter-productive and / or likely to alarm needlessly.

But that would involve telling the big baby "No, you can't do this" and this megalomaniac refuses to have any guardrails: he seems to think he's emperor, king of kings.

Quote: AZDuffman

See, he is not 9 years old and needs a parent to check things out. That he gets losers worked so worked up shows he knows what he is doing.

Quote: AZDuffman

This whole AOC conference disaster really shows the difference between what the left and right call "smart."

Charlie Kirk dropped out of college yet went and sought out debate with people hostile to him. Yet in pretty much every case he handled himself and showed a mastery of the subject.

AOC has her degree from a supposedly good college. She went into friendly territory. And when questioned sounded like a blithering idiot.

Yet the left insists that piece of paper makes her more qualified.