I heard she’s made a new dance video outside her new office. Anyone got a link to it?
It’s not much. She just does her spin around thing for the camera as she’s walking out the door. (With a big smile on her face)
Here’s the first, which you referenced, so you didn’t miss it. Maybe you thought this was the original tweeter. It was not; the original tweet was deleted after being ridiculed.
Here’s the second.
You are free to believe that these two (three, including the original) represent the sum total of all criticism levied against AOC for dancing. You are also free to request that I do the work of confirming this for you by searching through all the AOC-related tweets over the past couple of days. However, I choose not to play that game. I am comfortable that while the entire GOP does not find this scandalous, there are plenty of people who feel it’s worthy of criticism. I’m sure you could find more if you looked yourself.
Oh, that was cute. I like her.
This is clearly going nowhere, so I’ll leave it alone.
I hesitate to underestimate the stupidity of people who elected Trump, but how could anyone conceivably expect that a video clip of an attractive young woman doing a cute (but not salacious) dance could conceivably harm her popularity? The original posting was anonymous - isn’t there a chance that her own publicity people (whether officially or unofficially) started this?
Always possible, but it seems like a stretch. I think the intent was to emphasize her youth and lack of seriousness. “How could anyone who dances around like an idiot be expected to represent our country in Congress”? It’s another page from the playbook that thought pointing out Beto was in a band would be damaging.
Look at all the people emphasizing that she was called Sandy in high school and college. The goal is make sure she is seen as someone not worth taking seriously.
In the interest of equal time, here is a video of old republicans dancing (and rapping :eek:)
Please, never again!
Stranger
Why did I look at that?! Ugh.
I suspect the claims of conservative criticism of this are largely overblown. Perhaps there’s some minuscule fraction that would / have complained about it, but for many this is probably the one thing (or one of very few things) AOC has ever done that conservatives actually like.
Same way you find some total nobody and claim s/he represents all Democrats or liberals?
Am I the only person who remembers Tom Lehrer’s tribute to George Murphy ?
As someone viewed as a radical right-wing nut by Collectivists, I was offended that Alexandria Occasional Cortex thinks I care at all about her dancing.
When you get down to it, the Republican hate machine needs to find a replacement for Hillary. Hillary is yesterday’s news, there is no shelf life there, and @aoc offers a very tempting target, one which may be around for 20+ years.
I dunno. I’ve seen Gore dance.
He does an awesome robot.
What’s even sadder is the remake.
Looking at a few other internet fora, Hillary is the first-place go-to for Trumpist hate machinists; Obama is in second-place. Note that I would have said “Republicans,” but most Republicans seem to be normal and reasonable people who do not revere Mr. Trump as a god, or dictator-for-life, as some Trumpists on these on other fora do.
My view is bolstered by Republicans laughing at the Twitter poster who posted the video. Seriously, a young college woman dancing during her college days in a video (and fully-clothed, to boot) is somehow scandalous? I hope the Trumpist who posted that video realized that it backfired, bigly.
Apparently it was her and her friends spreading an existing meme, like the Harlam Shake videos. The original put the Breakfast Club dance (plus other clips) to that song, and people started mimicking it.
There’s also a YouTube copyright story involved, but not quite the one you’d expect.