AOC’s Parody Account Giving Right-Wingers Conniption Fits

Two things going on here: We live in a world of disinformation and trolling. That’s a given. People who lack the discernment to check things out and get the story straight are going to be living in a distorted world of lies. That is unfortunately the case with a lot of people. They can’t bother to check things out.

To that end, there is a Twitter parody account, clearly marked as such, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody), which is driving right-wingers nuts. Why it should, when it is clearly marked, is the real joke here.

And it doesn’t help matters that it has a blue check by it. Elon Musk did far more harm than good when he started charging money for the blue checks. Now they mean the direct opposite of what they used to mean. They used to mean that the source was a verified one and the blue check was a badge of credibility and stature. I was looking forward to getting one myself. Now, it means that anything goes and the blue check signifies somebody who is willing to pay for one, period.

This AOC parody account has right-wingers really upset today. Who think it is AOC. pic.twitter.com/UczMVfLCDK

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 28, 2023

Here’s a MAGA with 87.9 thousand followers and he bought it, initially. I do give him credit for checking, most of them don’t.

I literally had to check to see if this was the parody AOC account because this is something the real AOC could Tweet today

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 28, 2023

Amazing how gullible people are. But it shouldn’t be. These are the people who believe Donald Trump is a great man and their savior. Ergo, they will absolutely believe the moon is made out of cheese and asteroids are crackers and we should all have a cocktail party on Jupiter. Why not? I wonder if the founding fathers ever foresaw a time in the future when people would be so stupid? Or, maybe it’s not stupidity. Maybe it’s that there’s such a bandwidth of information that a lot of people can’t take it in, so they just decide what little to take in that fits their biases and stop there. Perhaps that’s it.

Here’s another one. I guess the right-wing will get up in arms about it soon enough.

PRESS RELEASE: Today I will introduce a bill to have Biden forgive the US Debt just like he’s done for our college students.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) (@AOCpress) May 28, 2023

Now here’s a statement of wisdom.

Correct pic.twitter.com/MIi5jY7NwS

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 28, 2023

It’s entertainment to them. And I had a Trump voter tell me that, “Trump is so funny.” Bread and circus. And Trump promises them that. He’s going to make Freedom Cities with flying cars. They love to listen to all this blather.