Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently took to social media to address rumors that she was pregnant. After explaining that a fellow member of Congress had even asked her if she was expecting a child, the progressive “Squad” member shut down the rumors, suggesting that she perhaps had a food baby instead, after a hearty Thanksgiving feast.
Responding to a question that asked, “Are you pregnant? You’re glowing,” the Democratic congresswoman said, “Everyone keeps asking me if I’m pregnant. Actually, a member, a Republican, came to me on the floor this week and asked me if I was pregnant. I’m not pregnant, guys. I had a lot of food at Thanksgiving, okay. It happens.”
The American Tribune reported on other comments AOC made on social media, where she weighed in on the Democratic hysteria surrounding Elon Musk’s influence in politics. Musk had publicly opposed the House’s attempt to rush through a 1,500-page spending bill that included substantial budget allocations toward a leftist agenda.
AOC recently tweeted about the matter, “How about the House add campaign finance reform to the CR so Republicans and Democrats alike can stop being so scared about what a billionaire man-child thinks before they vote on anything around here.” She added, “They’re cutting healthcare to kids because Elon gets his money from Defense contracts, so they’ll never touch the military budget.”
The New York Democrat continued to sound off on Republicans in another post, which said, “Republicans are trying to shut down the government because they want to set up massive tax cuts for the rich next year while cutting Social Security and Medicare. They know Americans don’t support that, so they’re holding the entire government hostage to try to force it. No.”
Sharing a video on social media, AOC suggested that the left will have to “read a lot” now that Musk controls the X algorithm, which gives conservatives an uncensored voice. “Real power is in everyday people. And if you can control the algorithms of what they see, if you can control the narratives of what they believe through propaganda, through artificial amplification, which is what Elon does he like, sets his tweets to be the most retweeted, etc, then you can control them, so we’re gonna have to read a lot.”
Users on social media reacted to Ocasio-Cortez’s comments, where commenter said, “AOC just confirmed that this was what the Democrats have been doing for years. She’s panicking because they no longer have that stronghold on us.” Another commenter wrote, “AOC is big mad that we are beating democrats at their own game which they’ve been doing for decades.”
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AOC also reacted to a post from Musk who called to, “Defund the ACLU.” AOC, suggested that Republicans are seeking to take away health care, posting, “They receive $0 in taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, y’all are proposing defunding Veteran’s healthcare, Medicare, and Social Security when you think no one is watching. Doesn’t get lower than gutting some of the only lifelines left for veterans, seniors, widows, and the disabled.”
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