Anybody who spends any amount of time online, which includes not only myself, but also by definition,

you, dear viewer, is probably familiar with the term cringe and not just the term but what it actually means.

And although it's kind of typically discussed as some new internet term that has been

repurposed and popularized, it's actually been around for several centuries, coming from old

English, really never changed in its meaning, which basically indicates the experience of

feeling embarrassment for somebody else, secondhand embarrassment,

typically because the person you're watching is doing something that is embarrassing,

but they don't actually know that it's embarrassing and you feel this kind of internal

discomfort as a result. And there are a lot of things that have caused me to feel cringe over the

years, probably none more frequently

than when AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman from New York, tries to talk about

foreign policy. At best, she, like, barely skates by without some kind of a disaster, and it's

like watching a high wire act, you're just petrified that the person's going to fall over and crash or anticipating that they will with excitement and so it ranges

from like just barely surviving to an absolute disaster and maybe ranges in between and this has been

true basically from the very first time that she emerged on the political scene back in 2018 when she

shocked the political world by defeating

a man named Joe Crawley, who despite being unknown to essentially everybody outside his family,

including the people in the Queens District that he represented for many, many years,

was actually one of the main power brokers within the Democratic Party.

Number three to Nancy Pelosi, she considered him a likely successor to her when she finally waddled away and retired with her stock portfolio. And so

typically Democrats like that don't lose in primaries. And yet she won. And the fact that it was such a

stunningly surprising victory that she had taken

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