AOC is facing comparisons to an infamous Dr. Phil guest.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) spoke at an event for a nonprofit group called Girls Who Code on Friday, where she vented about criticisms of her Green New Deal using language that reminded some of a well-known guest on the popular daytime talk show, Danielle Bregoli, who has since become known as rapper Bhad Bhabie.
“I’m the boss. How ’bout that?”
Speaking with the nonprofit organization’s founder and CEO, Reshma Saujani, AOC accused Green New Deal critics of obsessing over the “little, minute thing[s].”
“Like I just introduced the Green New Deal two weeks ago, and it’s creating all of this conversation. Why?” she said. “Because no one else has even tried. Because no one else has even tried.”
But it was her next line that reminded conservative commentators of Bregoli.
“So people are like, ‘Oh it’s unrealistic. Oh it’s vague. Oh it doesn’t address this little minute thing,'” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And I’m like, ‘You try. You do it. ‘Cause you’re not. ‘Cause you’re not. So, until you do it, I’m the boss. How ’bout that?'”
AOC’s style of complaining was reminiscent of Bregoli’s first Dr. Phil appearance in 2016, when she appeared on the show to address her delinquency. The resemblance is uncanny:
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Green New Deal flops
Meanwhile, the Green New Deal that Ocasio-Cortez has touted has made it abundantly clear that she is a shiny, new congresswoman. The proposal — which aims to eliminate all “dirty” energy within 10 years, provide for people who aren’t able or “willing” to work, and put all people through college for free, among other things — has drawn widespread criticism from both sides of the aisle since its botched release earlier this month.
“The Green New Deal is a dream, it’s not a deal. It’s a dream,” said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). “I’ve got to work in realities and I’ve got to work in the practical, what I have in front of me. I’ve got to make sure that our country has affordable, dependable, reliable energy 24/7, but you can’t just be a denier and say, ‘Well, I’m not going to use coal. I’m not going to use natural gas. I’m not going to use oil.'”
Democrat and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz shared a similar sentiment.
“When I read the Green New Deal and I try to understand what they’re suggesting, I don’t understand how you’re going to give a job to everybody, how you’re going to give free college to everybody, how you’re going to create clean energy throughout the country in every building of the land, and then tally this thing up with $32 trillion on Medicare For All,” Schultz said. “I think it’s immoral to suggest that we can tally up $20, $30, $40, $50 trillion of debt to solve a problem that can be solved in a different way.”
Such criticism has had AOC working overtime to defend her proposal. During a live stream on Sunday, she even tore into longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for scoffing at the deal last week during an encounter with a group of children who demanded that she vote for it.
“It’s not just, ‘I’ve been doing this for 30 years,’ so we need to listen to them,” AOC said, referring to Feinstein, “because frankly, people have been failing at the same things for 30 or 40 years.”
If AOC’s recent venting tells us anything, it’s that the widespread criticism from all sides might just be getting to the freshman representative. Will she bow under the pressure? Only time will tell.
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