Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Manchin after he refers to her as 'young lady'
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) on Sunday fired back at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) after the centrist senator referred to her as "young lady" while responding to criticism from the congresswoman.
"In Washington, I usually know my questions of power are getting somewhere when the powerful stop referring to me as 'Congresswoman' and start referring to me as 'young lady' instead," she tweeted.
"Imagine if every time someone referred to someone as 'young lady' they were ask responded to by being addressed with their age and gender?" she continued. "They'd be pretty upset if one responded with 'the old man,' right? Why this kind of weird, patronizing behavior is so accepted is beyond me!"
Imagine if every time someone referred to someone as "young lady" they were ask responded to by being addressed with their age and gender? They'd be pretty upset if one responded with "the old man," right? Why this kind of weird, patronizing behavior is so accepted is beyond me!
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 13, 2021
Ocasio-Cortez's comments come after Manchin made remarks about the congresswoman during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" when he discussed recent accusations from the House lawmaker that the senator huddles "weekly" with personnel from Exxon Mobil.
Manchin denied those allegations during the CNN appearance, saying they are "totally false" and that such comments "continue to divide, divide, divide."
"I don't know that young lady that well. I really don't. I have met her one time, I think, between sets here. But that's it. So we have not had any conversations. She's just speculating and saying things because she wants to," Manchin added.
The tense exchange marks the latest back-and-forth in recent weeks between the two, who represent opposite flanks of the Democratic Party, as Manchin has repeatedly bucked others in his party over the proposed $3.5 trillion price tag associated with Democrats' forthcoming social spending bill.
Democrats are working to pass the package, which would advance key parts of President Biden's economic agenda, using a process called reconciliation, which would allow them to approve the measure in the Senate without buy-in from Republicans.
However, the party has had trouble uniting on a path forward as the tensions run high between different factions amid spending negotiations. Some moderates say the package should be smaller, while a number of progressives have said the opposite.
Manchin has emerged as a target for progressives over his opposition to the floated $3.5 trillion price tag, as well as his comments calling on Democrats to hit "pause" on the reconciliation efforts as leadership works quickly to craft and advance the package.
During his interview on Sunday, Manchin pushed back against criticism from his colleagues that he "bought and paid for by corporate donors," saying, "I'm opposed to it because it makes no sense at all."
"You're entitled to your own facts - I mean, your own opinions. You're just not entitled to create your own facts to support it. And that's exactly what they're doing," the senator said.
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AOC appears a little miffed.
Best pull up her big-girl panties and get over it already.
Don't you just love it when Democrats fight among themselves?
Could have been worse. He could have referred to her as "clueless young lady" that she in fact is!
How is she clueless?????????????????
Should have said "Bless her heart".
From my perspective, all one has to do is listen to her.
See post #4 down below. Ronin hit the nail on the head.
That should have read ZERO SENSE!
Nah, he never does
A warped perspective
I'll take his word over a lot of people's here any day.
At least I have one.
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What a dumb thing to say.
Why, solely because my perspective does not exactly match yours?
It's as good as Aykroyd looking at Newman and letting out, "Jane, you ignorant slut."
What a friggin' spoiled little Bitch.
Gads - gonna hate to see her if/when she grows up.
The next Pelosi in training from the looks of it.
She makes Pelosi look like a John Birch Society member.
I meant as far as toxicity and being a queen bitch.
Both are little miss can't be wrongs.
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Someone put a latex glove on and pull the corncob out of AOC arse.
She needs it badly.
Still hoping AOC sticks to her guns and manages to kill both of these dumpster fire bills that will cause both inflation and the deficit/debt to spike further.
Only a complete moron like her wouldn't realize that she has won. She already has the bipartisan infrastructure deal that the Republicans never would have signed on to w/o Manchin's assurances it would never reach reconciliation. All she has to do is compromise a little on the reconciliation bill and Manchin will claim victory and fold. She will still get a good portion of what she wants; and will live to fight another day.
Her all or nothing stance will cost Democrats that aren't from districts that "a half filled glass of water with a D on it can get elected" in mid terms; and she will be shafting those she represents (and actually believe her BS) by getting nothing.
Go AOC Go! Kill both of those bills! We know you can do it!
Wow nothing but ignorance and misogyny to be found here. WHAT A SHOCKER.
Well, the article IS about AOC, so good recognition on your part!
Just because someone dared to criticize one of your darlings doesn't mean misogyny is in play. That is just a knee-jerk reaction to a woman being criticized, and it merely points out the folly of calling every criticism of a progressive liberal woman to be misogyny.
Just remember to keep you back to the wall, and don't blink.
Who said AOC was 'one of my darlings'??????????????????
He didn't say that to you.
You did
So I was correct then.
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He's never correct. We both know that
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Is that anything like the right wing's, self admitted, alternate facts?
Nah, that is it.
Many of them are about as obtuse as one can get.
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Nope, but, hey, what a good attempt at deflecting!
So now asking a simple question is deflecting? Good to know your definitions are on a sliding scale.
Yes, and that is where context comes into play.
it does seem like you may be getting it now!
“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
― Ronald Reagan
You're quoting an Alzheimer's patient?
"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), cited in the Sacramento Bee, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park, March 3, 1966
"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
--Ronald Reagan (Republican candidate for president), cited in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, February 15, 1980. (In reality, the average nuclear reactor generates 30 tons of radioactive waste per year.)
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
--Ronald Reagan, campaign speech, 1980
"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966
Reagan was and is still being proven right about liberals. I see it every day here multiple times.
Next to Trump, Reagan is one conservative liberals love to hate almost as much. I remember how hard liberals bagged on his diminished mental capacity while he was POTUS.
Biden is clearly more cognitively impaired than Reagan ever was while POTUS and he's not even a year into his term but he gets a pass from the left.
More empirical data which supports Reagan's hypothesis .....
Was he right about all his tax increases?
Was he right about granting immunity to illegal immigrants?
There is my post.
See anything at all in it about taxes or illegal aliens being granted immunity?
Please stop asking me asinine questions unrelated to my posts.
Yes and yes.
So you say Reagan is being proved right. I asked if that were true for some of the things he has done, and you say those things have nothing to do with him being right.
Amazing!!!
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Must be nice to live in a world where anything you don't agree with, or want to be aware of, is just filtered out of your perception like it didn't exist. You live in a very idyllic, albeit ignorant and 1 sided, world.
Next, we should work on context and comprehension of what you read!
That's kind of what AOC called Manchin. A big girl doesn't need feminist cliches!
AOC will become a major figure in Congress and be that for as long as she wants. She is a star. History will remember her far more than it will remember Joe Manchin.
Having said that I think her complaint about being called "young lady" is somewhat petty.
The star part is very much in doubt.
The fact that a glass of water with a D behind it could win her district ensures her longevity--if she chooses to stay. I think she has bigger ambitions, but will end up as a footnote in the history of failed progressive policies.
AOC is not dumb, by any stretch, ( she would run rings around Trump in an intelligence contest) and she has ideas and great charisma. She will be a star as soon as she is seen as having gotten enough experience in Washington.
She will tear the Democratic Party apart with her demands.
It simply isn't the time for her and her little Squad.
Not ONE FUCKING thing to do with Trump, so get off of that crap or stay off the seed.
She would run rings around most of the Republicans.
Happy now?
She would--IF SHE COULD.
Now we both know that is certainly bullshit.
I am always happy when Democrats make fools of themselves and are paving the way to a landslide for the GOP next year.
She can't even figure out how to use a garbage disposal. She won't be running rings around anyone mentally.
She is certainly fake enough to be a leader of the Democrat Party.
Nothing like crying in front of an empty parking lot in front of a detention center. But at least she remembered to wear her new bling courtesy of her brain dead supporters, and the US tax payer.
John, AOC's so called "great charisma" is confined only to a small segment of the population and you know it and her ideas are not necessarily good ones, again except to a certain segment of the population that share her views.
Now that's funny.
Only problem is that AOC would be running in the opposite direction!
You do understand that is not AOC in the video dont you?
The Dems have pretty much become experts at falling on their own swords.
Just a very funny parody.
True but it is a spoof of the real thing. It really happened John and you know it.
Yeah, that gal really has AOC down pat.
Remember that 11 or 12 year old girl that parodied her last year and went viral? Now that kid did a fantastic job! Wish she would do some more.
Yes, but even she has to grow up.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Yes, we understand parody.
We are STILL waiting on progressive liberals to learn what it is after hearing all that shit about how they confused Sarah Palin with a comedienne.
Not sure about petty, but I think Manchin hit something personal with her. So it may look petty from our perspective, but not from her own.
Yeah, "young lady" seems like such an insult!!
LMMFAO and SMH at the idiocy that surrounds AOC.
Should have said "young menstruating person" what's wrong with him.
And once again you show a complete lack of understanding about my comment. At least you are consistent.
Nah, you're the one who is missing the point.
But just like with AOC, we expect that from the triggered.
I'm sure it is to a child trying to play in a grownup world./Sarc
She is the new Bernie Sanders. She is the heir apparent to the title of "Icon of the Left Wing Extremists".
Have you taken a look at AOC's congressional voting record lately? She is near rock bottom on the number of bills she has submitted and gotten approved. That says quite a bit. Yep, real star material there!
She runs plenty of rings around plenty of those on this 'article'
Or maybe it's just about her acting like she's in high school.