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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) responded to the wave of criticism she received over photos of her vacationing in Florida, claiming her Republican critics are taking out their "sexual frustrations."The tone-deaf AOC strikes again.
Ocasio-Cortez directly responded to critics on Friday after they accused her of fleeing her home state of New York amid a coronavirus surge and sweeping restrictions to take a vacation in Florida, which has been heavily criticized by Democrats for rejecting the use of strict Covid mandates, many of which Ocasio-Cortez supports. The progressive Democrat faced massive backlash after photos of her and her boyfriend dining out in Miami Beach were published the night before.
"If Republicans are mad they can't date me they can just say that," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in one Friday tweet, pushing back against accusations of hypocrisy and elitism.
Just . . . . . . wow. What a loon.
Ocasio-Cortez also took a swipe at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office, which had joined in on the mocking the night before. "Hasn't Gov. DeSantis been inexplicably missing for like 2 weeks?" she tweeted, referring to the Republican governor's absence from the public eye that has sparked speculation.
On Tuesday, the Democratic mayor of Orange County said Floridians "should be outraged" with DeSantis. While the governor has not commented on the issue, Fox News reported on Friday, citing a DeSantis spokesperson, that the governor accompanied his wife, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, to a treatment center on December 29.
"I think that it is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win. I understand why people want to argue for their priorities. That's what they believe they were elected to do.
"Look, I'm all about having vigorous debate. I think it's good, and it gives people a chance to be part of the process. But, at the end of the day it means nothing if we don't have a Congress that will get things done, and we don't have a White House that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive."

Comment: Recouping the mechanisms to re-attain natural resources will take years - should reason dawn and the course is reversed. Given the disintegrating mentality in Washington - along with years of public counter-programming, this is a long shot unless everyday Americans come to their senses, band together and relentlessly make demands.