Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is no stranger to defending herself against unfounded, right-wing attacks, but even she must have found this latest one a bit strange.
Former Trump adviser Steve Cortes took to Twitter to criticize the New York Representative’s recent vacation to Florida. Sharing a photo of Ocasio-Cortez and her boyfriend enjoying a casual drink, Cortes wrote:
“1. If Leftists like AOC actually thought mandates and masking worked, they wouldn’t be frolicking in free FL. 2. Her guy is showing his gross pale male feet in public (not at a pool/beach) with hideous sandals. O for 2…”
1. If Leftists like AOC actually thought mandates and masking worked, they wouldn’t be frolicking in free FL.
2. Her guy is showing his gross pale male feet in public (not at a pool/beach) with hideous sandals.
O for 2… pic.twitter.com/SNqBqMwr12
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) December 31, 2021
Cortes even circled the “gross pale male feet” in case you were too distracted by the complete normalcy of the photo to know what he was talking about.
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Ocasio-Cortez summed it up fairly succinctly, calling Cortes a “creepy weirdo.”
In a response, she wrote: “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. Ya creepy weirdos.”
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.
Ya creepy weirdos https://t.co/Z7bZCgXpWJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 31, 2021
And in a follow-up tweet, she added:
“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. These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird.”
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.
These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 31, 2021
Apparently, this isn’t the first (or second, or third) time Cortes has been a bit preoccupied with feet:
Mr. Stadnick
Sounds like Steve Cortes has a foot fetish and the sight of a man’s feet is too much for him. Is it perhaps the fact that he got an erection when he saw exposed male feet that got him all in a snit?
SamB
She’s too much… is this really her argument? I’m so pretty you all want me but you can’t have me? Ridiculous. She’s needs to be called out because she slams the mask policies of Florida and Texas but then throws her values aside so she could vacation in the warmth… maskless. Hypocrite.
Jaquelope
Evidently, you can’t see sarcasm when you see it.
Florida and Texas have no mask policies, and AOC is vaccinated, and she can vacation wherever she pleases, and “When in Rome…”
SamB
Jaquelope: She doesn’t know what sarcasm is. You’re ok with someone telling her constituents to do one thing, while she does another? At what point do you hold a politician accountable for their actions?
Cam
Nothing enrages the same old right wing troll and all its screenames more than a woman who speaks, unless of course it’s a non white woman who speaks!
Den
Clearly SamB is so dull and uninformed that he fails to understand Covid is overwhelmingly transmitted in enclosed (indoor) situations. There is nothing remotely hypocritical about AOC’s presence in Florida. She is vaccinated, likely boosted, and undoubtably wears a mask indoors as most intelligent people do. There is ample evidence of the warped sexual fixation repressed regressives have on her, as well as evidence of their widespread sex based neuroses.
And she knows quite well what sarcasm is. She is as articulate, literate and likeable as you are not.
SamB
People slamming my statement are avoiding what I’m saying. She has been saying that DeSantis has been putting the citizens of Florida in risk because there is no mask mandate. Saying, fundamentally, that his citizens are at risk of dying. Then she decides to vacation there. You don’t see that as hypocritical? If you don’t see that then she really has bewitched you.
James Hart
AOC: “If you criticize my actions or politics that means you think I’m hot and you’re frustrated that you can’t have me sexually.” Ridiculous. Was she drunk when she posted this?
Following that logic, people who criticize Nancy Pelosi are doing it because they find her hot and they want her sexually?
I can say with confidence as a moderate Democrat that it is people like AOC who will cause the Democrats to lose control of the Senate and House in November.
Billy12345
She appears to be DISTANCED, OUTDOORS and FULLY VAXXED. In case you had not known or followed the protocols, that makes her darn safe.
I know that any complexity is hard for you guys…dependent as you are upon slogans.
Den
Thank you! Right wingers are totally flummoxed by complexity of any sort. And terrified of ambiguity. That is what makes them so easily manipulated by all that culture war bull the Republican party feeds them.
James Hart
Did you watch the tape?
She was hugging and kissing people while circulating around the party. She’s a hypocrite. Just admit the obvious or you are just as brainwashed as the Republicans who think the election was stolen.
As a moderate, I can see BOTH sides have drunk the Kool Aid. Sad!
Kangol2
AOC is correct: “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. These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird.”
They need psychological help pronto, and that definitely includes the corrupt, fascist, treasonous, homophobe-enabling psycho Don the Con!
Cam
Republicans always pick a woman to attack to try to outrage their voters. For years it was Barbara Streisand, then Hillary Clinton, then Pelosi, and now AOC.
We get it, Republicans hate women.
tjack47
Freak. Let me take that back. Freak can be a very good thing. He’s a sh*t for brains with an obsession about flip flops? Dayum!
Den
It is funny how he believes his repulsion/fixation on exposed male feet is normal. It is creepy as hell. I wonder what his response to female feet is…probably needs to change his sticky undies after he sees a woman in sandals.
Heywood Jablowme
Florida has a dress code now? That actually sounds about right for DeSantis: abolish any local mask mandates, but micromanage the sandal problem statewide! Next thing you know they’ll be wearing white after Labor Day.
cheks
Last time I checked, even in New York, you take your mask off to eat. I’m sure she still wore a mask when she was inside a store.
Darryl R
Well at least she is good at math!!! Florida today: 39,797 cases
New York today: 136,970 cases