Ocasio-Cortez versus the Army of Straw Men

In order to successfully play the role of the victim, you need a villain.

After all, if nobody is attacking you, you’re not a victim.

So if there is nobody attacking you, you just create straw men.

And that pretty much sums up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

You have to hand it to Ocasio-Cortez.  She is the Queen of creating villainous straw men out of thin air.

The other day, some anonymous geebo on Twitter posted a video of a college-age Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing – ostensibly to ridicule her for being a “clueless nitwit.”

This anonymous nobody thought folks would retweet the tweet in order to mock and attack Ocasio-Cortez.

But from the countless responses I saw from fellow conservatives, nobody gave him (or her?) the desired response.

Utterly bizarre to criticise AOC for dancing/goofing around particularly when she was very young. You can mock the crap she spouts as a socialist politician but if you think sharing this endearing video damages her then you’re more wacky than her policies! https://t.co/w53FpXhqWC

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) January 3, 2019

If I say AOC is massively more likable than Warren, am I being sexist or anti-Native American?

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 3, 2019

Worst thing about AOC’s dancing video is that Elizabeth Warren will now feel obliged to imitate it #relatability

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) January 3, 2019

I know I'm late, but I literally have no idea why I'm supposed to care about the AOC dancing video. Also lollll get used to 10-year-old ridiculous footage of congresspeople in college millennials are taking over

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) January 4, 2019

Of course it's stupid to attack her over dancing and of course I'm not doing that. The boomer obsession with her is just weird.

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) January 4, 2019

So what did this anonymous Twitter geebo do when he didn’t get the response he expected?  Well, not only did he delete the tweet, but also his entire Twitter account.

And yet.

Despite the fact that nobody joined the single-account pile-on (can you have a pile-on with one guy?), Ocasio-Cortez claimed (without evidence) that the GOP was attacking her over this video.

Who in the GOP?

Well, nobody I saw.  And certainly not any elected Republican.

But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has to have straw men to battle.

Because without them, she can’t keep her army of Twitter followers rallying to her side to defend her.

Honestly, the lengths this chick goes to be a victim is mind-boggling.

Name the members of the GOP who think this. Who are they? What did they say?

I’m guessing one is named Congressman Straw Man? https://t.co/yscemOY105

— Dianny ?? (@DiannyRants) January 5, 2019

And rather than a Trump-like headline like, “Ocasio-Cortez, without evidence, claims GOP are attacking her over decade-old video,” the media lapped it up like dogs at a water bowl.

The establishment media promised us: “We will hold the powerful accountable.”

“Democracy Dies In Darkness,” they screamed.

Yet, when an obviously manufactured lie is propagated by the “new Obama” – watch what happens: they spoon feed the lie uncritically to readers.

*Thread* pic.twitter.com/nYm0nDSJjn

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 5, 2019

Benny took the time to provide screen caps of some of the headlines from the news media.

Here are just a few:

Reuters News: pic.twitter.com/S7fAIMunJU

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 5, 2019

“Attempt to shame” from one anonymous troll on Twitter who has already deleted the account in question.

Yeah, it’s a big GOP pile-on.

New York Times: pic.twitter.com/U2o8g7pk2x

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 5, 2019

Huff Po pic.twitter.com/Iivown8NG6

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 5, 2019

Again, a “smear” — from some random nobody that was roundly mocked (by Conservatives) for posting it.

Good grief. The media is happy to take Alexandria’s straw men at face value. Just like they did with Obama.

No one in the GOP thought your video was "scandalous."

No one in the GOP thinks "women dancing" is scandalous.

This is an entirely media-driven manufactured outrage.

Modern Left playbook:

1. Create an imaginary monster
2. Slay the imaginary monster
3. Claim victory

They lie

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 5, 2019

Without straw men to battle, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just might have to defend her dangerous, nonsensical and economically crippling socialist agenda.

And we can’t have that, now can we?

So instead, Ocasio-Cortez creates out of whole cloth this supposed “GOP attack” in order to once again cast herself in the role of the victim.

No one thinks this is scandalous. Dance away (was actually pretty good).

What is scandalous is increasing income taxes to 70%. It’s wholly unethical for anyone to work a majority of the year just to give their money to the government.

Dancing’s great, but ideas matter more. https://t.co/8RIShEJjAL

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 4, 2019

Here’s Paul Joseph Watson’s video on the subject. Naturally, he nails it.

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