![]() Adapted from Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC, a book-length biography by the editors of New York Magazine. “They treat me as if I’m some kind of crazy person, or like I have three horns coming out of my head. How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the face of a resurgent left. While appearing on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ “InfoWars” program Sunday, Greene complained about the way she’s seen by people in the mainstream. Ocasio-Cortez then expressed concern over Greene’s “fixation” with her, called the 47-year-old former gym operator “deeply unwell” and questioned her relationship with reality. Greene had earlier recorded a video in which she challenges AOC to a debate, calling her “a scared little girl who is pretty stupid and doesn’t know anything about the economy or economics.” In May 2021, Greene aggressively confronted AOC outside the House chamber and tried to argue with her about topics including economics and environmentalism. He crafts a unique and stunning cocktail menu based entirely on seasonal. During that visit, Greene rambles about “illegals” and New York’s abortion laws. Ignacio Murillo is the talented bartender at A.O.C. She said because she was reasonably cute and friendly, the old men who frequented the joint kept throwing money at her. She tended bar in a run down dive on the bad side of town. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) May 31, 2019. Capitol in 2019 shows Greene’s crew’s attempts to taunt Ocasio-Cortez through her closed office door and the door’s mail slot. Actually, I knew someone similar about 15 years ago. In New York City, where Ocasio-Cortez worked as a bartender prior to becoming a member of Congress. ![]() ![]() The night you stared at the screen, in a shock stemming from the true extent of the revolution you’d started, I saw in your face my own face.Video of the Georgia representative leading a small group through the U.S. “I watched your brilliant, ambitious campaign from half-way across the country,” she writes, “with much hope and with a kind of dread, thinking I already knew the ending like you, I’d often been exactly the right person for an opportunity, and many times I’d been kept from it because of forces outside my control - my Latinidad, my working-class roots, my gender, my youth.” And when AOC emerged victorious, Capó Crucet shared in “that feeling of astonishment that comes when our hope and brilliance really and truly pay off (against all odds and the expectations of those who purport to know better). . . In early 2018, we introduced you to a bartender from the Bronx trying to pull off what many said was impossible. Critics of the 32-year-old Bronx native frequently deride Ocasio-Cortez for having worked in New York’s hospitality industry after graduating with honors from Boston University with a degree in International Relations and Economics. English and ethnic studies professor, novelist, and essayist Jennine Capó Crucet revisits the night she watched AOC upset longtime incumbent Joe Crowley, the fourth-most-powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives. AOC is so much smarter than all of us, Greene told her audience. ![]() Apparent throughout the collection is how profoundly many of its essayists identify with AOC, how they revel in her success after years of feeling unrepresented in a political system dominated by people who are wealthy, male, White and connected. ![]()
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