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Is she or isn’t she?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Workers’ Paradise) announced her engagement way back in 2022, but it’s three years later now, and questions have begun to swirl around her marital plans. This is not just a matter of leftist schoolgirls dreaming of emulating Comrade Heroine, or even of disappointed young blokes who yearn to take the place of the beta schlub AOC apparently plans to marry. It actually involves serious ethics violations, which just a scant few months ago Democrats could commit by the bucketload without fear of the slightest consequences beyond a few curmudgeons grumbling at PJ Media. Now, however, it’s a different story.
On Monday, Parade magazine published a gushing bit of groupie lit entitled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Future Husband Sounds Like a Dreamboat: Get to Know Riley Roberts.” A dreamboat? Is Parade stuck in 1957? No, not hardly: the far-left entertainment rag goes on to inform us that men are bad, of course, for “some men are threatened by a successful woman.” Not, however, Mr. Beta AOC, of whom the Great Leftist Hope herself gushes: “He has been so supportive and willing and deeply engaging. He’s not a witness to this. He dives into the fray for himself in that he uses what we go through as opportunities for personal growth. And it’s incredible.”
There’s just one catch. Parade was recycling that quote from a glowing (what else?) 2022 GQ profile of AOC. Parade insists: “Yes. Ocasio-Cortez is set to marry Riley Roberts.” There is reason to believe, however, that all might not be well between the vanguard of America’s descent into socialist third-worldery and her lumpy schlub of choice. On the same day that the Parade piece was published, the Washington Free Beacon posted a nifty bit of detective work, pointing out that AOC “hasn’t been pictured wearing her engagement ring since November 2023, according to an extensive Washington Free Beacon review of Getty and Associated Press images, as well as the lawmaker’s social media posts and public appearances.”
It is drearily typical of Marxists to drag their tedious and repressive ideology into absolutely everything, and AOC’s alleged betrothal was no different: the Free Beacon reminds us that “Ocasio-Cortez confirmed in May 2022 that Roberts proposed to her with a ‘zero emission’ ring made from ‘recycled gold.’” Oh, good grief. But while this climate change fantasy-friendly ring “was a constant presence on the ring finger of her left hand during the first year and several months of her engagement,” since then it has disappeared: “since the start of December 2023, Ocasio-Cortez has given a primetime speech at the DNC, attended several televised committee hearings, appeared on the Late Show, and toured the nation on a private jet with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), among countless other public appearances. Ocasio-Cortez didn’t wear her engagement ring to any of those events, though she frequently sported several other bands on the fingers of both her hands.”
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Luchtpint says
I think she should seriously consider the antidote: marry a Wahhabist clergyman in Saudi Arabia instead, and all will be fine !
Lol
Edward says
A horse walks into a bar, sits down and looks at the “Bartender” The Bartender looks at the horse and politely says: Hose, why the long face?
somehistory says
Like most of her comrades, she’s corrupt up to and beyond the neck. And she’s an idiot, except that she knows how to profit from the ideologies of others.
If two people “live together” as a couple long enough, it’s *common law marriage.*
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I understand that that is the law in Georgia, where I lived for a year. Not sure about other states
somehistory says
There are others. I don’t personally know about NY
somehistory says
Washington, D.C. has common law marriage. Do they live there or in NY?
If they live mainly in D.C……then they are considered to be.
Living together without being married, was once called shacking-up and nice/good, moral people didn’t do such things.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Shacking up is what a lot of people do, and some states, like Georgia, recognize that as a “marriage”, for all intents & purposes
somehistory says
According to wiki, GA no longer recognizes it as marriage. Most states did at one time, perhaps all did; but only a few now, along with D.C. see it as marriage.
Many elderly couples live together without getting married so each keeps their own social security. If they marry they lose some of the money.
Many young people do so they can get to know the other person and have the benefits of marriage without the commitment; easier to split if they don’t have to go legal with divorce.
For some of us, it’s still morally wrong.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I recall reading her being miffed when Riley failed to stop a reporter outside the capitol approaching her to ask some inconvenient question – I think this was in 2020, during the BLM riots. She responded by posting a social media poll asking women what would they do w/ a guy who fails to stand up for them
I think Riley, if he had any sense, should dump her & move on. Also, since she’s so race-obsessed, she should at least look at dating another Hispanic, if not a man from Puerto Rico. Maybe one of the Castro brothers in San Antonio
Skirting ethics rules would be rather stupid: even if the GOP has the thinnest of margins when it comes to actual issues, for something like an ethics violation by a Dem, they surely can make everyone fall in line. That said, if she isn’t married to Riley and isn’t telling the world that she is, what rule is she breaking? Only thing that I recall – him accessing her personal office equipment w/ her permission, which she put down to spousal privilege, even though she wasn’t married to him even then
Bret says
I heard the ring was free range gold.