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So I have to start today with a piece of sad, sad news.

That piece of sad news is that despite the best attempts of the Daily Wires, Matt Walsh,

Alexander Ocasia Cortez's abulita is still living in poverty.

So you'll recall that last week, she had her, she tweeted out,

Alexander Ocasia Cortez did, about her grandmother living in Puerto Rico and her roof caving in. And then she blamed Trump and the policymaking in Puerto Rico. Now, we could get into the policymaking in Puerto Rico, who's really responsible for the distribution of resources in Puerto Rico, how it was kind of Democrats in Puerto Rico who left millions of water bottles on the tarmac to just become

completely useless and all of this. But instead, one question that a lot of people were asking

was why exactly is Alexander Ocaso Cortez, who literally leased a Tesla apparently last month?

Why is she complaining about the living conditions of her grandmother when she could, you know, help out

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