She is opinionated about political views that I fundamentally disagree with. 
If it makes you feel any better, I hate MTG for the same reason.
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None of the above. It’s because I disagree with her policies. Particularly the Green New Deal.
Some of you seem to be unaware that it’s possible to disagree with a woman without being sexist. I mean you miraculously remember this when the woman in question is someone you disagree with (like Sarah Palin or Marjorie Taylor Green) but then you forget it when the woman in question is someone you agree with, like AOC.
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I respect AOC in that I feel that she actually prepares and studies things, and is actually intelligent. But I think that she gloms onto facts and theories that agree with her preconceptions, leading her to positions that I disagree with. I think that MTG neither prepares nor is intelligent, and don’t feel that a comparison is fair.
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AOC is sane and educated though.
MTG is clearly mentally unwell. I will give you Palin as a counterpoint as she is of sound mind just not very intelligent.
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Yup. I’m over the instant ___ism wagon circling every time something like that happens.
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Not sure whether I agree or not. She’s not normal. She at least acts as though unhinged. The things she says are often impressively stupid.
But there are numerous other politicians who I believe to be intelligent but put on the stupid, obsequious MAGA act because it brings power and wealth.
Do I think MTG is in the “secretly intelligent camp”?.. Not truly. But it’s hard to say with some of that flavor of toady. I believe “across state lines” Gaetz isn’t particularly stupid, for example. He’s just a definite sex pest and potential child rapist and didn’t expect to get pinned on those, particularly by other Republicans who are using his ethics investigation as a cudgel of control.
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100% parody, but I listened to a chunk of his speech until I felt unclean enough to turn it off.
It was essentially promoting tradwife lifestyle.
as objectionable as I found it, I feel it may not have been an inappropriate message for the audience.
The problem isn’t so much that he is promoting a certain lifestyle, but rather that he is belittling and demeaning those who don’t want to. And yes, it was inappropriate for the audience.
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The nut job! “Societal improvements are only for me and not for thee!!”
It’s fine to disagree with AOC on policy. That’s perfectly valid. But RDO started this line by calling AOC an idiot comparing her to an actual idiot in MTG and drug using pedophile in Matt Gaetz and saying there are on the same level.
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But that’s not going anywhere. So, big effing no-deal.
Save it for someone with actual power and the need to ruin other people’s lives because of the way they look.
Do you agree with “R_D_O” that she is a “nut job”?
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I probably wouldn’t use the term “nut job”. But I would say that her policies (at least some of them) are pretty darn nutty.
Also “a lot smarter than MTG” is a pretty low bar. When I think of smart people, I do not think of AOC. But she does have at least one strength, as I mentioned, and that requires some intelligence, so I certainly wouldn’t call her “dumb”.
I don’t follow US politics as closely as most of the Americans on this thread but I don’t find AOC very radical by Canadian political standards.
But this (gifted) New York Times article on her greatly influences my positive view of her.
Humorous article on Butker’s address:
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Gonna read this, but I’m looking through her wiki to find the nutjobby or even mildly disagreeable things she has said or done. Not finding them.
There was this one time when went to Texas to help people who lost their power. How awful! Doesn’t she know that the only response to a loss of electricity in Texas is to go to Cancun?
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There’s a whole thread on the Green New Deal.
And spare me the “that’s irrelevant because it’ll never get passed” argument. It’s a nutty set of positions that she not just supported, but championed.
You could say “never gonna happen” about 90% of Trump’s nonsensical positions too. It doesn’t transform them into logical positions.
I was asked what nutty positions AOC has, and that’s a collection of nutty positions that I judge her negatively for championing even though I know they won’t come to pass.
I am also not worried about Guam tipping over, but I judged the guy who was worried that it would.
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