🔰Cenk _ Ana Respond To AOC’s Remarks About “MAGA Men”

I think Democrats need to stop talking about masculinity, period, end of story. Considering how poorly they're performing with men, making fun of masculinity, calling men weak. There are substantive things to actually attack members of the Republican Party on. Hitting them on the masculinity point, I think is a really bad move. And honestly, it turns me off personally. Well, that was my reaction to some of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments on masculinity recently. Now, the representative was making a point about how we should respond to the Trump administration. And her argument is that we're dealing with a bunch of insecure men. Let's go to AOC's comments. The last thing they want you to do is laugh at them. The last thing they want you to do is make fun of them. Because that diminishes them far more than them trying to stick a boot in your face. The fact of the matter is, is these people are, yes, tremendously dangerous, but a lot of them are tremendously dull. And then people talk about toxic masculinity. Let's put that to the side for just one second. This is about insecure masculinity. And one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them. All right. Great imagination there. Yeah, it's a disaster, okay? So she said last thing they want you to do is for you to laugh at them. Yeah, that's right. So now, after you laugh at them, what do you think their chances of voting for you are? Zero, okay? So world's worst political strategy. And if you say, hey, she's talking about extreme right wingers that are attacking our communities. I get it, guys. But do you think that everyone gets it? Or do men hear that and go, she's making fun of me? Especially when she keeps talking about insecure men, insecure men. Guys, what are you doing? You're driving away voters by the millions. I'm going to point out something very specific that she said that immediately turned me against this argument that she was making. Because she pointed to, look, I can't stand Stephen Miller. I think he's one of the most nefarious figures in the Trump administration. She was making fun of his height. And it's like, okay, but AOC, do you not understand that when you make fun of his height- Yes. All the men in the country think about their own height and how you're mocking them if they're the same height as Stephen Miller. It's the same thing that women feel when, let's say, they're in the office and a group of their male co-workers are talking about a woman who they find unattractive or attractive, whatever. It makes you start thinking about how they perceive you as a woman, how they perceive your physical appearance as a woman. You've got to be smarter than this. What is this? This is your big plan to fight back against the Trump administration? This is your big imaginative plan? Yeah, here, let's show that because it's super uncomfortable. And then I want to talk about why this is another epic disaster. Laugh at them. Stephen Miller is a clown. I've never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he's 4'10". And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he's 4'10". And he looks like he is so mad that he is 4'10", that he's taking that anger out at any other population possible. Yeah, no, every short guy is going to take that as a direct affront to them. So there goes more millions of votes, right? Don't take it personal, short kings. Okay, see, then she made this super awkward video about short kings. Wait, she did? She did. Oh, no, I didn't see that. Yes, and she's like, no, I don't mean short kings. First of all, even you said it, but I wouldn't say short kings. No, no, short king is an actual thing. It's not meant to poke fun at that. I know, but it sounds awkward. It's like if you told me don't take it offense, fat king. No, no, no, just hold, no, please. Okay, I'm begging you. Okay, so anyways, and she's like, no, I didn't mean like short in stature, but if like intellectually, then he looked, if you're bad at policy or something or intellect, then you look like you're 4'10". But again, you're emphasizing this short is bad. And she's like, if you support women, then you're 6'3". But then, okay, 6'3 is good. Please stop, please stop. Guys, Stephen Miller is a terrible guy. You can call him a terrible guy, clown I got no problem with, definitely a clown, right? He's a hateful guy who's driving terrible policy that the great majority of Americans disagree with. No, I don't want to laugh at him, okay? I don't want to laugh at him. Sorry to interrupt you. I don't want to laugh at what's going on right now. I don't want to laugh at the idea that there are literal freaking children who are being detained in freaking zip ties because ICE wants to do a raid to get a couple of alleged criminals out of that apartment building. Why are we terrorizing the entirety of that apartment building in order to do a raid on a couple of people that ICE is looking to detain? I don't want to laugh at that. I get what she's trying to say. They want to get under your skin, don't let them get under your skin. But I'm sorry, injustice and terrorizing fellow Americans gets under my skin. What is your solution to that AOC? When you're not busy thinking about running for higher office, what are your solutions? What are you going to offer up that Americans are gonna find more appealing than what the other side is offering up? Yeah. More money, more military funding for Israel, which you seem to continuously vote in favor of. Yeah, so look guys, Stephen Miller is driving that policy. So if you say I can't stand Stephen Miller, I agree with you 100%, right? But you have to, this is elementary politics. You have to isolate Stephen Miller and not associate him with all other men. Then it seems like you're attacking men and driving them towards Stephen Miller instead of away from Stephen Miller. But no, what you're gonna get is a lot of people going, yeah, yeah, toxic masculinity, yeah, yeah, insecure men, let's make fun of men. God, please stop doing damage. We have to unite the country against the vicious policies that Stephen Miller is advocating for. And by the way, good news, those policies are really unpopular. They are unpopular, yes. So lean into how unpopular they are instead of trying to make them more popular by attacking men. Even if you're not doing it on purpose, the optics of it feels like you're attacking men. Are there men who are insecure? Of course. By the way, are there women who are insecure? Of course. So if Republicans went and said, let's put aside toxic chicks for a second, okay? But let's talk about insecure women and what a problem they are. People would be like, well, that's the craziest thing I've ever seen. That's terrible, don't do that, right? When you do it about men, it is actually just as bad. I know that's a revolutionary thought. But men are also humans, they're also Americans, they're also voters. So please stop driving them away from us. It's a disastrous idea. Democrats are a disaster, period.