Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was criticized for her apparent hypocrisy after criticizing JD Vance for ‘manspreading’ and then being quickly caught sitting in the same position..
The New York congresswoman reacted with disgust to seeing a clip of Vance sitting comfortably in a wide, overstuffed chair, his legs splayed in a relaxed manner.
“Why are you sitting like that?” he wrote Tuesday, in an apparent nod to Vance’s spread-eagle stance.
But AOC’s jibe was dismantled within minutes.
Clown World, an X account known for criticizing liberals, took a screenshot of AOC’s post and placed it next to its own spread-eagled sitting pose. Less than two years ago.
Clown World’s post on X shows that AOC herself has practiced manspreading in the past
“AOC,” the account wrote alongside its criticism of Vance. “Also AOC,” it tagged the image of her broad stance.
In one part mailClown World responded to AOC’s question with, ‘Because she has ba–s.’
Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, had been criticized by other liberal outlets on X for how he sat during his appearance on the Full Send Podcast last Friday.
But with her huge following, AOC has drawn new attention to the clip and now, some backlash on the Internet for doing the same.
The photo of AOC sitting on the stage comes from a campaign event she held in October 2022 ahead of the contentious midterm elections, a contest in which Republicans won the majority in the House of Representatives and Democrats maintained control of the Senate.
The event was taking place in a small auditorium in his district and several protesters were recorded by user X Danny De Urbina chanted “AOC has to go.” One man banged a drum to accentuate the cries of his allies.
The camera then pans back to AOC, who was sitting on the stage with her legs spread and dancing to the drum beat, trying to appear indifferent to the interruption.
One woman could also be heard repeatedly calling AOC a “sellout.”
A spokesperson for the liberal congresswoman provided a statement to Newsweek Magazine After the event, she called the people shouting at her disruptors who were “part of a far-right group that regularly protests at vaccination clinics, against LGBTQ rights, etc.”
“They were not voters,” the spokesman added. “We are grateful to the many Astoria voters who turned out last night to participate in the civic process. We are grateful that we were still able to have a meaningful dialogue, despite that group of outsiders.”
Vance also has a history of attacking AOC.
At her October 2022 event in her congressional district, AOC is seen sitting with her legs spread, though no significance was given to this at the time.
After protesters began disrupting her event, she began doing a little dance on stage to appear unbothered by their shouting.
JD Vance appears on the Full Send podcast, a show hosted by Kyle Forgeard
When he was running for his Ohio Senate seat in 2021, he spoke to a Catholic group about his “sociopathic” attitude toward families and children, guardian reported.
“Maybe AOC just didn’t find the right person, whatever the case may be. AOC has basically said – if you look at her public statements on this issue – that it’s immoral to have children because of concerns about climate change. Isn’t that right? Let’s be blunt: This is a sociopathic attitude toward family,” Vance said.
In fact, AOC questioned the ethics of having children in a world affected by climate change shortly after being elected in 2018.
“There’s basically a scientific consensus that children’s lives are going to be very difficult. And I think that leads young people to ask a legitimate question: is it OK to continue having children?” she said in an Instagram Live in March 2019.
Vance’s attacks on AOC regarding her views on family came around the time he made his infamous comments about America being run by “a bunch of cat-loving women with no children” — comments that have resurfaced since his appointment as vice president.
He specifically mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris, AOC and Pete Buttigieg.
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