Introduction – Jan 25, 2019

American presidents no longer have REAL power. They haven’t had any REAL power for decades now. They are little more than puppets for the REAL powers behind the scenes that pull their strings. Like second-rate actors, which is exactly what Ronald Reagan was, they are expected to perform for an audience: U.S. voters.

From a none too bright figure like George Bush II to “America’s first Black president”, who wasn’t “Black” but mixed race, modern U.S. presidents are more the creation of marketing campaigns. They are NOT the representatives of the American people.

Donald Trump is the latest example of this fraud. What better example could there be than an oligarch like Trump, who has spent much of his time prior to taking office hosting reality TV shows?

He went from one carefully scripted performance on TV to another, in the White House.

Just as Americans had grown tired of Bush II, Barack Obama was bought in as a replacement; he promised “change” but essentially pursued the same agenda as his predecessor. After pledging to reduce America’s military commitment overseas he not only sustained it, he actually increased it in some regions of the world. Likewise, Trump promised to do the same but appears to be doing little better that his predecessor. U.S. troops are still deployed and on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and, despite his promise to withdraw, in Syria too.

So America is still pursuing the same foreign policy objectives, despite Trump and his predecessor promising to change things.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be being groomed for a similar role. Just like Obama, Ocasio-Cortez has emerged from nowhere with a promise of “change”. And just like Obama was presented as America’s first “Black president” Ocasio-Cortez is being marketed as America’s first potential female “Latino” president.

Except that she’s not.

Her ancestors were actually Sephardic Jews who fled to Puerto Rico during the Spanish Inquisition. This means that despite what she may say in support of Palestinians, IF Ocasio-Cortez actually takes residence in the White House there’s a strong possibility that U.S. support for Israel will remain undiminished.

Just as it remained strong under Bush, Obama and now Trump, entry into the White House depends entirely on a commitment of continued support for Israel.

Of course, her Jewish ancestry doesn’t necessarily mean that she would support Israel. But if she doesn’t you can be sure that Ocasio-Cortez will never sit in the Oval Office.

Without a cast iron commitment to support Israel Ocasio-Cortez simply won’t be in contention; in which case she may be used as a counterpoint to Trump, to keep U.S. voters divided. Ed.

Why all the fuss about hypocritical, fork-tongued Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? She’s just a glossy socialist version of Donald Trump in expensive high heels

Piers Morgan – Daily Mail Jan 25, 2019

The post-it note messages stuck on the plaque outside Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Capitol Hill office are united in their effusive praise.

‘You rock!’ screams one.

‘I love how you roll!’ sighs another.

‘We need you!’ pleads a third.

And so they gush sycophantically on:

‘America needs more of you! Keep killing it girl!’

‘6 women from California think you’re awesome!’

‘Congresswoman, you are LOVED!’

And my personal favourite: ‘Our future is female!’ (it certainly will be if Gillette has its way..)

We know about these post-it notes because in recent days Ms Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly tweeted about them to her 2.6 million Twitter followers.

‘I’ll keep these up as long as they stick,’ she declared, ecstatically.

A statement I think we can safely translate to mean: ‘I’ll keep these up as long as I can keep sticking them back up there.’

So there’s no doubt that ‘AOC’, as she likes to call herself, bows to nobody in self-adoration, even it means creating a shrine to her own magnificence on her office door.

To understand the full magnitude of her ego, AOC even compared her New York election victory to America’s 1969 Moon landing and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Now, I don’t (self-evidently!) have a problem with big egos, so long as those who have them can walk the walk as well as they talk the talk.

And that’s where I have a slight problem with the AOC phenomenon.

There’s no doubt she is a rapid-rising superstar in US politics.

(If you don’t believe me, just ask her – she’ll soon tell you).

In terms of her appeal, she’s the J-Lo of Washington: a hot, fierce, kick-ass, talented and hugely charismatic Latina who commands magazine covers and talk-show appearances like her Hollywood counterpart.

Her story is the stuff of movies, too – the young impassioned bartender who one day decided to change the world rather than beer barrels.

Her achievement in becoming, at 29-years-old the youngest ever woman to serve in the United States Congress is genuinely remarkable.

And she pulled it off by taking no prisoners, fighting fire with fire, and whacking opponents with Trumpian aggression.

I’ve had my own taste of Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s strong-arm tactics – literally.

Two months ago, I got into a Twitter spat with the similarly self-worshipping singer Ariana Grande who admonished me: ‘also Piers Morgan, I look forward to the day you realize there are other ways to go about making yourself relevant than to criticize young beautiful women for everything they do. I think that’ll be a beautiful thing for you and your career or what’s left it.’

AOC loved this – retweeting Grande’s attack on me with the words: “Get ‘em” and a muscle-armed emoji.

Both of them got a gazillion ‘likes’ for their tweets and I was duly savagely abused by their fans.

I didn’t mind the abuse, but it was interesting to note just HOW abusive their supporters can be – particularly AOC’s, who seemed to be in a competition to suggest the most imaginative way for me to die.

She inspires such demented support because she is the ultimate ‘woke’ liberal celebrity, someone whose whole life now seems devoted to virtue-signalling her way to the top.

There’s no issue, from transgender rights to climate change, on which she isn’t apparently now a world authority.

Or perhaps she’s not.

‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ she announced dramatically this week, a statement that is just as preposterous as Trump’s insistence that climate change is fake news.

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