Hilarious: AOC's Reply on Abolishing the Senate Is a Train Wreck (Plus Some Wild Code-Switching)

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The Democratic Socialists of America have been flirting with the idea of supporting Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) for president in 2028. 

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The general response to that idea from people on the right has been: please do. Because there's probably no better person to show not only how bad their policies are but how empty-headed they are as well. 

She showed that in spades in two separate incidents. 

Here she is at a get-out-the-vote event for fellow leftist Justin Pearson, who is a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing parts of Memphis. He's running for the U.S. House for the 9th district. Of course, AOC is not from Tennessee. She grew up in the suburbs of New York City. But she seemed to pull the same trick we've seen from people like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. Check out this accent. 

‘We can’t afford to leave Tennessee behind, Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind," AOC ranted. 

How fake is that? That is not her normal accent. I'm expecting her to tell us she's in "no ways tired" and has "hot sauce in her bag" after that. Does she really think people are going to fall for that? It just makes her look even sillier and inauthentic. But she could follow in the tradition of Kamala and Hillary, run and lose, too. 

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But that wasn't the only remark from AOC that received a lot of backlash and had people mocking her. 

Ocasio-Cortez was asked about one of the DSA platform points—abolishing the Senate—by Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt outside the Capitol. The DSA co-chair had previously confirmed that this was part of their agenda, among other moves to upend our system of government generally. 

READ MORE: Yikes: DSA Co-Chair Just Made a Big Admission About One of Their Goals to Change Our Government

Not surprisingly, AOC didn't look like she wanted to answer that question. While she didn't really give a straight answer, not only did she not reject the DSA's idiotic platform idea, she attacked the Senate in an ahistorical reply.

"I mean, again, I'm not running for any larger office presently," she said when asked about the proposal.

AOC added that abolishing the Senate "is, of course, a constitutional question."

When Duchardt pressed the lawmaker on whether she supports the Senate itself, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the chamber's history.

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"I don't support the filibuster. I don't support elements of this institution that we know...were founded on...Jim Crow," she replied. 

What is she even talking about? The Senate was created as part of the Constitution in 1787, long before "Jim Crow," whose origins started after the end of the Civil War. The filibuster also preceded Jim Crow. And how can you swear to uphold the Constitution if you can't even say straight out that you support such a critical part of it? 

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