This Month in AOC Gaffes

DB: We’re nearing the end of April and the pace of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s gaffes is showing no signs of slowing down.

While there wasn’t exactly a shortage of gaffes to choose from – here are the top five from April:

Code Switching 

Near the beginning of the month (April 5th), AOC pretended to have a black accent when speaking to a majority black audience (which she defended as “code-switching,” claiming that she switches her voice around Hispanic crowds too as if that makes it better). She then added that she simply “acts and talks” like she’s from the Bronx, even though she grew up in Yorktown Heights (an affluent suburb that is 90% white). I suppose “code switching” must be a synonym for “pandering.”

The same day she blocked Daily Wire reported Ryan Saavedra on Twitter for criticizing her “code switching” defense, which potentially violates a Court ruling from U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald last year which ruled that public officials’ Twitter accounts are a public forum, and thus they cannot block people. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit from people blocked by President Trump on twitter – but is being appealed.

Attacking Veterans to Defend Ilhan Omar 

A week later AOC attempted to provide damage control to Ilhan Omar after she (some woman doing something) made offensive comments neglecting the role of Islamic extremism in 9/11.  Omar also made comments seeming to indicate she believed Muslims to be the true victims of 9/11, because 9/11 incited anti-Muslim bigotry (random aside: those comments are similar to a Norm MacDonald joke – except he’s actually just joking). After Omar was criticized by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Cortez attempted to shame Crenshaw for not co-sponsoring the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund bill, which she apparently thinks is the same thing as a lack of eventual support (it is not).   more here