Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or ‘AOC’ for short, is the state representative for the 14th congressional district of New York. She is also, to say the least, a character who is larger than life for many reasons. The youngest member of Congress has been in the headlines for many controversial and not always flattering, but humorous, reasons.
In February she introduced a shaky piece of legislation called The Green New Deal, which was aimed at protecting the environment which AOC claims will be destroyed in exactly 12 years if we don’t act soon. This bill would have come with a price tag that some estimates had at upwards of 93 Trillion dollars!
Thankfully for the United States taxpayers, the Republicans put the bill to the test in the Senate where it died without a single yes vote. In addition to examples such as this one, there have been many interesting social media experiments and gaffes, such as this video of her drinking wine on a hardwood floor. This has been something many politicians and even Presidental candidates have tried to do as of late, to appear more relatable to the younger voting demographic such as Millenials.
Another example of social media blunders was a now-deleted Tweet accusing Republicans of ‘trolling’ her in a photo of a man standing next to a cardboard cutout of her. It, in fact, ended up being a photo of Democrat John Yarmuth, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and a member of the House Progressive Caucus, which Ocasio-Cortez is a member of as well.
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Another recent blunder made by the freshman Congresswoman was a statement she made praising the ‘VA’, or Veterans Affairs healthcare system and basically calling it a problem free system that is not in need of any reform.
From The Washington Examiner, Ocasio-Cortez stated the following:
“[T]here’s some things that we’re hearing today, there’s some themes we’ve got coming out, and especially when it comes to the VA, all I can think of is that classic refrain that my parents always told me growing up. Which is that, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’” she said last week in little-noticed comments made during a town hall event in New York City.
This is a stark contrast to the evidence that shows that the VA has many problems ranging from higher than acceptable death rates to long ER waits. Her opinions, evidently wrong by most people’s standards, are also very much juxtaposed with President Trump’s thoughts on the system, which are that it needs nothing short of a complete and comprehensive overhaul, much of which he already began implementing.
Even newer and more controversial yet though, was a recent video that made waves in the headlines today. This clip was just posted on Instagram and shows Ms. Ocasio-Cortez questioning the purpose of a garbage disposal machine in her kitchen sink. In the video, she claims she has one such device in her new apartment but has never before in her life heard of or seen one before and doesn’t exactly know why it exists.
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It isn’t 100% clear in the video if AOC is in fact completely in the dark on what a kitchen sink garbage disposal is, or if this video is her idea of some kind of goofy joke. It may, however, call into question her credibility as an elected congresswoman representing over 700,000 constituents, in tandem with the other bizarre and strange statements and actions made by her since elected.
If you aren’t sure what to think of the video by itself, a man on YouTube by the name of ‘Joey Saladino’, who calls AOC a “parody of herself” can be seen in the video below which is independent of Politics Elections.
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Ironically enough, a Twitter user had in the recent past created an AOC parody account which was just banned by Twitter. The point made by the YouTube commentator was that it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between an AOC parody Tweet or video, and her actual ramblings of constantly surprising statements and actions. The YouTube user mentions in his video that his short monologue describing his opinion of the AOC clip was ‘demonetized’ on YouTube for some reason unbeknownst to him.
The Twitter parody account, which was banned on Monday, apparently was too similar to AOC’s actual account and was banned based on their terms that say you can’t have an account that might fool someone into thinking that it is something it’s not.
Perhaps Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is indeed familiar with what a garbage disposal device is, perhaps not. Clearly, she thinks these videos and ‘jokes’ are doing her more good than harm, although, depending on exactly what the voter base in the 14th is looking for, it may be exactly the opposite.
