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   From: bkshurman@outlook.com   
      
   There is, apparently, nothing too dumb for Rep. Alexandria   
   Ocasio-Cortez to say.   
      
   The media darling, a democratic socialist who won a House seat   
   from New York and hasn’t stopped posting on social media long   
   enough to get any actual work done for her constituents, keeps   
   lowering the bar — and then somehow limboing under it again.   
      
   On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez jumped onto Instagram and declared that   
   she’d never seen a garbage disposal before — or, quite possibly,   
   even heard of one.   
      
   "OK everyone, I need your help because I just moved into this   
   apartment a few months ago and I just flipped a switch and it   
   made that noise and it scared the daylights out of me," she said   
   in the video. "This D.C. apartment is bougie and has things I’ve   
   never seen before." (For the record, the Urban Dictionary says   
   "bougie" means: "Aspiring to be a higher class than one is.   
   Derived from bourgeois — meaning middle/upper class,   
   traditionally despised by communists.")   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t done. "Like what is a garbage disposal   
   really for? Is it better or worse than throwing something in the   
   garbage? More importantly why is it so loud and yelling at me?"   
   In her post, some text is overlaid with an image of a hole in   
   the sink that says, "I am told this is a garbage disposal."   
      
   It’s true that hyper-politically correct New York City banned   
   garbage disposals from the 1970s until 1997 to ease overuse of   
   the city’s water treatment systems. But Ocasio-Cortez was only 8   
   years old when the ban was lifted. It seems impossible that she   
   had never seen a garbage disposal — or even heard of one — until   
   she moved into her luxury "bougie" apartment in a posh part of   
   Washington.   
      
   That wasn’t the only dumbness posted on social media by AOC this   
   week (and it’s only Tuesday). In another Instagram video, the   
   graduate of Boston University is seen looking at her small plot   
   in a community garden in Washington.   
      
   "I just checked on my community garden slot and I was so nervous   
   because I was in New York for two weeks in recess. Look!" she   
   says as the camera pans to leafy plants. "Oh. My. God! Look at   
   this!" she gasps. "It’s like — look at the collard greens! Look   
   at the dahlias! Oh my God! I have to trim all of these back for   
   smoothies. I. Am. Shook! Look, like, honestly, gardening — food,   
   that comes out of dirt! Like, it’s magic!"   
      
   The internet shredded the congresswoman. One example: "Look, I   
   don’t want to make fun of the brainless, but AOC is without   
   question the most idiotic person ever to (dis)grace the halls of   
   Congress," Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media   
   Research Center, posted on Twitter.   
      
   Those are, of course, two mostly innocuous examples of dumbness.   
   But Ocasio-Cortez has shown a deep lack of education on far more   
   important matters.   
      
   Last year, "Firing Line" host Margaret Hoover asked her, "What   
   is your position on Israel?"   
      
   She said she thinks "that what people are starting to see at   
   least in the occupation … of Palestine [is] just an increasing   
   crisis of humanitarian condition and that to me is just where I   
   tend to come from on this issue."   
      
   Asked to elaborate, AOC started her answer by saying, "I think   
   what I meant…" She wasn’t exactly sure what she meant. Then she   
   added: "I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue. …   
   Middle Eastern politics is not exactly at my kitchen table every   
   night."   
      
   In another video post, she said Democrats are looking "to take   
   back all three chambers of Congress." Then she stopped to   
   correct herself — and made it much worse. "Rather, all three   
   chambers of government — the presidency, the Senate and the   
   House." Close, but the three branches are executive, legislative   
   and judicial. And that’s something most eighth-graders know.   
      
   The month before she took office, she posted on Twitter that $21   
   trillion "of Pentagon financial transactions could not be   
   traced, documented or explained. $21T in Pentagon accounting   
   errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare   
   for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."   
      
   The liberal Washington Post gave that claim four Pinocchios, the   
   most it awards for flat-out falsehoods.   
      
   But AOC has an explanation for her string of errors and gaffes   
   and just plain dumb statements. In a CNN appearance the day   
   after she was sworn into office, she said, "I think that there’s   
   a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually,   
   and semantically correct than about being morally right."   
      
   She’s sure right there. Facts aren’t all they’re cracked up to   
   be. Dumb is where it's at.   
      
   *Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered   
   the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at   
   josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of   
   this article ran previously in The Washington Times.   
      
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