Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez accidentally spills the beans.

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Oh man, so much to get to today.

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solid deal. Okay. So we begin today with a reminder that the Democratic Party has now taken over

the House, which means that we have to take them seriously. We are now supposed to take all of their

policy prescriptions and all the things they say seriously. And which Democrats should we take

seriously? Well, presumably we should take seriously the Democrats Democrats that the Democrats are taking seriously. You know, the ones who are considered the new leaders. We should be taking, we should be taking serious stock of the Democrats that the media say are the ones we should be paying attention to. How do we know which ones? Well, let's say that there were a Democrat who'd been Ballyhooed as the new wave in the Democratic Party, a Democrat who'd been featured on social media, a Democrat who'd been featured with profiles in Vanity Fair in the New York Times and the Washington Post, a Democrat who was featured on 60 minutes over the weekend. Would it be fair to pay attention to that person? I think yes. And I think that if people said we shouldn't pay attention to that person, that that would be a bit of media sophistry. If the game were to be that Democrats pay attention to a person and we're supposed to ignore that person lest we be accused of being obsessed with that person, that would be a bunch of crap. So the person of whom I'm speaking, of course, is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Now, the reason that a lot of folks on the right like to cover Alexandra Ocasia-Cortez is because she says dumb things, a lot. It's not that she says dumb things only sometimes. She says dumb things routinely. Like all the things she says, 90% of the things she says are dumb. The only thing she says that are not dumb are things

that are pop culturally related. So when Alexander Ocasia Cortez talks about like instant pot

recipes on Instagram, not so dumb. When she talks about how she's a pretty good dancer,

not so dumb. When she talks about economics, it's like she stuck her head in an oven. Okay,

the things she says are just idiotic.

And she gets caught out saying idiotic things on a routine basis.

But this does not seem to dim her appeal any for Democrats, which leads to an ironic situation.

The same Democrats who have accused Donald Trump of lowering the standards of truth and fact,

the same Democrats who say that Donald Trump

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