Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Republicans who attacked her for taking a trip to Miami, “creepy weirdos”, and said they were mad they cannot date her.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez was photographed with her boyfriend at a restaurant in Miami earlier this week not wearing a mask.
At its core, the row is about differing responses to Covid-19. Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s homestate of New York has taken an aggressive measures to combat the virus that causes Covid-1 and New York City has a vaccine mandate.
Conversely, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis has taken a much more lax approach, opposing mask mandates and keeping businesses mostly open. He’s also signed legislation restricting vaccine mandates. All of this has made him a darling of the right and a potential candidate for president.
The conservative National Review noted that Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s visit came despite a surge of the Omicron variant in New York, even though Florida has also seen a spike in Covid-19 as well because of travel.
In response to the trip, conservatives made #AOCLovesDeSantis trend on Twitter. But Ms Ocasio-Cortez criticised conservatives for their obsession with her. In particularly, she responded to a tweet from former Trump adviser Steve Cortes, who criticised her boyfriend for wearing sandals.
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet,” she said. “Ya creepy weirdos.”
She also said that many of the men criticising her need therapy but won’t go to it.
“It’s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women,& LGBT+ people in general,” she tweeted.
Jeffreyxu0927 on January 1st, 2022 at 01:00 UTC »
Daily reminder trump golf trips cost 100 million, all taxpayer money.
PartialToDairyThings on December 31st, 2021 at 23:14 UTC »
The MAGA-central Daily Mail went with this for their front page earlier, headlining a massive photo of AOC eating outside without a mask as her having hypocritically "escaped the restrictions" in NYC for the "freer" Florida. She was outside and not wearing a mask because she was eating! Exactly as people do in New York and have done throughout the whole pandemic. Of course the comments were chock full of things like "typical hypocritical Dem, one rule for them one for us" and "she's escaped crime ridden NYC for Florida like most liberals" (Florida has worse crime stats than New York in virtually every category including homicide). The extent of the complete and utter fantasy world that conservatives live in is astounding. Their media has basically constructed an entire alternate reality for them in which the objective truth is absolutely unimportant.
Doctor420Strange69 on December 31st, 2021 at 23:00 UTC »
It’s so weird how republicans obsess over her - she’s literally one member of the House and the GOP treats her as the figurehead for everything they don’t like.
Ironic coming from the party whose catchphrase is “dO wE LiVe In YoUr HeAd??”