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We’re All Horny for AOC, Which Is Why We Vote Republican, or Something

Posted on | January 3, 2022 | Comments Off on We’re All Horny for AOC, Which Is Why We Vote Republican, or Something

It was Ace of Spades who dubbed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “donkey chompers,” and I really tried to avoid using it because making fun of someone’s appearance is cheap humor, and not political debate. But just like you can’t unsee “Brian Stelter is a potato,” so likewise with AOC as donkey chompers. Her idiocy is exceeded only by her narcissism. After pictures emerged of AOC having cocktails in Miami, while New York was experiencing a record spike of COVID-19 cases, this was how she reacted:

Is she really that stupid? What part of Steve Cortes’s tweet is indicative of “sexual frustrations”? His comment about her boyfriend wearing sandals was obviously intended to call attention to (a) how pasty white the guy is, and (b) the fact that he was wearing sandals despite not being at the beach. (Guys: It’s tacky, the sign of a slob, to wear sandals anywhere except at the beach. And do we also need to have a conversation about when shorts are appropriate?) Beyond criticizing the sartorial choices of AOC’s boyfriend, where does she get this idea that Republicans are mad they can’t date her? But then again, where does she get any her loony ideas? Her reserve supply of stupidity is apparently infinite.

But this goes back to why I try to avoid making fun of someone’s appearance in political arguments. (Unless they’re a potato, like Brian Stelter.) Whether or not a particular woman is attractive is irrelevant to validity of her opinions on public policy. Even if it is true, as Ann Coulter said of anti-Trump protesters, that “without fat girls, there would be no protests,” such a comment does nothing to advance our understanding of the relevant public policy issues. And by bringing appearance into the discussion, we invite a tu quoque reply. Of course, it is far more likely that the unhinged rage of anti-Trump protesters was rooted in “sexual frustrations” than to imagine that Steve Cortes was motivated by such frustrations. At the same time, why does it even matter?

The reason AOC became a target of criticism for her Miami trip was because it was hypocritical of her, as an advocate and defender of COVID-19 lockdown policies, to travel to the Republican state of Florida to escape those policies. And the reason why Steve Cortes mentioned how pale her boyfriend is, is because AOC routinely engages in rhetoric demonizing white males as the cause of all evil in America, i.e., more hypocrisy.

It’s not about AOC’s donkey chompers, and it’s not even about her stupidity. It’s about the fact that her rhetoric and policy positions are contradicted by her own personal choices — she does not wish to live in the world that her policies seek to bring into existence. And I think no one would wish to live in such a world, if they soberly contemplated where AOC’s policies would lead us. Sensible people will always prefer liberty — which is what Ron DeSantis’s Florida is all about — to the soul-crushing bureaucratic nightmare world of socialism. This preference for liberty, and not “sexual frustrations,” is why 74 million Americans voted to reelect Donald Trump. And we’re not going to apologize for that.




 

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