Why no one should vote for AOC for President (or anything else)

[Mick]

Here is AOC’s verbatim response to a fairly basic question. This is a security question about one of our closest allies at a security conference:

Interviewer: “Would and should the U.S. actually commit U. S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to actually move (on Taiwan)?”

AOC: “Um…you know…I think that, uh…uh…eh…this is such a…you know, I think that…this is a um…this is of course a, uh…a very long-standing…um… policy of the United States…uh…and what I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure we never…get…to that point…and we want to make sure that we…are moving in all of our economic research in our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.”

Gretchen Whitmer, not long removed from a  presidential run herself, was asked a question about resolving the war in Ukraine:

Interviewer: “On Ukraine, what does victory look like?”

Whitmer: (points to another panelist) “…Ambassador?”

Ambassador: “No, please, I’d love to hear your answer.”

Whitmer: (points to another panelist) “…it, uh , it is, uh, the two, the two that I’m on the panel with are much more steeped in U. S. foreign policy than a governor is…but um, I do think that, Ukraine’s independence, keeeping their, their land mass and having the support of all the allies, I think is the goal…from my vantage point.”

 

[Beeg_Dawg]

The AOC response is priceless.  Her standard answer on domestic policy is more free stuff.  Not a news flash to anyone, she has no clue on foreign policy.  She is dumber than Kamala Harris, which is no small feat.

[Mick]

According to this article, AOC’s standing stayed about the same after her abortive appearance at the security conference:

How AOC’s presidential odds stand after Munich appearances

In other words, she’s still way behind Newsom for the nomination.

[Mick]

Two more items on AOC…

She tried to bash Trump for kidnapping a head of state “just because the nation is south of the equator.” Umm…Venezuela is north of the equator there, Ms. Geography Major.

She tried to fact-check Rubio on American cowboys coming from Spain…claiming the first cowboys were Mexican and Black. Actually, Rubio was right…here’s the clean lineage:

• Spain brought the key ingredients to the Americas in the 1500s: horses, cattle, ranching laws, and horsemanship (much of it shaped by Iberian traditions).
• In New Spain (Mexico and the Spanish borderlands—Texas, New Mexico, California, etc.), ranch work evolved into the vaquero system (from vaca, “cow”).
• Those vaqueros were the first true “cowboy-style” cattle workers in North America, and they were often Mexican/Spanish-colonial people, including mestizo and Indigenous vaqueros, and later Black and Indigenous cowhands as the cattle economy spread.
• The iconic U.S. cowboy of the 1800s borrowed a ton directly from that vaquero world: lasso/rope work, saddles, chaps (from chaparreras), spurs, branding practices, and even a bunch of vocabulary.

So: the roots are Spanish (through colonial Mexico), the first cowboy culture in North America was vaquero, and the American cowboy is essentially a later remix that spread north and east from that base.

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