“Squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was blasted as a “total fraud” online after her infamous “accent” video re-emerged.
The video first caused issues for Ocasio-Cortez in 2019 when she appeared to use an “accent” at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network convention that year.
The Democrat socialist congresswoman was responding to critics who pointed to her past employment as a bartender that she categorized as attempts at delegitimizing her as a lawmaker.
The footage of her speech made its way around the Internet again this week when the Twitter account End Wokeness reposted the video cut with a recent video she made about former President Trump where she was not using the accent.
End Wokeness blasted Ocasio-Cortez as a “total fraud” and pointed out her “accent before and after.”
“When Donald Trump tapped into this idea of Make America Great Again, there was times of economic opportunity,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the video. “Wages rose until the 1970s.”
“I'm proud to be a bartender. Ain't nothing wrong with that,” Ocasio-Cortez said in 2019. “There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy. There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat. There is nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work. There is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America and there is everything dignified about it.”
A number of conservative commentators reacted to the video of AOC and added their own critiques of the lawmaker.
According to Fox News, the Democrat lawmaker's speech was not well-received in 2019, with the congresswoman being compared to failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whose dialect appeared to change for different audiences on the campaign trail.
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to respond to the criticism, citing her upbringing in the Bronx and explaining that she talks differently when she's “fired up.”
“As much as the right wants to distort & deflect, I am from the Bronx. I act & talk like it, *especially* when I'm fired up and especially when I'm home,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “It is so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me, yet somehow asserted as false at the same time.”
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No there ain’t nothing wrong with being a bartender..my empath daughter was one of the greatest bartenders on the continent. But this AOC bartender makes a miserable representative and I pity the demented electorate who voted this dimwit in.