‘Embarrassing’: AOC And Rick Scott Duke It Out In Fiery Twitter Exchange

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 06: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses the crowd gathered at La Boom night club in Queens on November 6, 2018 in New York City. With her win against Republican Anthony Pappas, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress.  (Photo by Rick Loomis/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 06: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses the crowd gathered at La Boom night club in Queens on November 6, 2018 in New York City. With her win against Republican Anthony Pappas, Ocasio-Cortez be... NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 06: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses the crowd gathered at La Boom night club in Queens on November 6, 2018 in New York City. With her win against Republican Anthony Pappas, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress. (Photo by Rick Loomis/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) quarreled Monday on the most predictable of platforms — Twitter.

It started when Scott tagged her in his outraged response to Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) gun control proposal to require gun licenses nationwide.

“What’s next? Will we have to register sharp knives?” Scott tweeted. “Maybe @AOC will make us register every time we buy meat as part of her #GreenNewDeal.”

Ocasio-Cortez shot back: “That a sitting US Senator can say something lacking so much critical thinking + honestly is embarrassing to the institution.”

“If you were a female candidate, maybe you’d be called ‘unlikeable,’ ‘crazy,’ or ‘uninformed,'” she continued. “But since you’re not, this inadequacy is accepted as normal.”

Echoing one of President Donald Trump’s favorite defenses, Scott then claimed he was merely being sarcastic.

“That a sitting Congresswoman doesn’t understand sarcasm would be embarrassing to the institution if you hadn’t embarrassed yours to the point of irrelevance already,” the Florida senator tweeted.

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  1. Scott’s attempt at sarcasm shows his true character, so that’s a good thing. But still, AOC might try a bit of humor that would have the effect of putting Scott in his place. Such as saying something about Scott have a knife fetish or something…

  2. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    "I was just joking:" the last refuge of a GOP dumb-ass.

  3. My teenager does the same thing trting to get himself out of trouble when I call him out on his attitude

  4. America rejects socialism and will continue to.

    Hands off my Medicare fraud!

  5. How about “making a sarcastic comment about gun control proposals in the context of mass shootings, when there have been multiple mass shootings in one’s own state in the past few years, is an unconscionably harsh, and an unforgivable insult to the victims and their families.”

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