Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently doesn’t like having her photo taken when she’s out to eat.
She lashed out on Twitter after someone took her picture and it posted it on Twitter:
Tonight a dude was creepily (and obviously) taking a picture of me while pretending he wasn’t and I had to break his imaginary fourth wall and say “Hi! I’m a person! This is weird!” https://t.co/JnybvVubVh
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2019
When you’re a guy that’s so unaware of his own creepiness that you tweet this from your own account as if it’s normal and not stalkerish at all 👍🏽 https://t.co/XMMLp550At
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2019
Also: in before “It WaS a JoKe”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2019
You do realize I’m making fun of the people stalking you right?
Snapping photos of people while they’re eating is just weird, regardless of anyone’s politics
Come on @OANN anytime we can chat about anything you like
Have a nice night Congresswoman
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 27, 2019
a) it would help if it was funny
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2019
b) a former Coast Guard member literally got arrested plotting to kill me last week and Republican journalists have been paying stakeout photographers to take pictures of me going inside my house, maybe read a room
c) the tweet is still creepy!
What’s this then? pic.twitter.com/7Ud5HMU4gm
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2019
She ran for public office and she’s lashing out now because people who see her in restaurants take pictures of her? I mean yeah, it’s probably weird and Posobiec says. But even so, to get this upset about it seems like it will only invite more.
Also can you imagine what she’d say if she were in Ted Cruz’s shoes a few months ago, being shouted out of a restaurant? She’d be apoplectic.
Ted Cruz could seriously give AOC some lessons on how to be cool on social media when stuff like this happens to her and to take it in stride.
By the way, the point of the photo was to mock her and her chief of staff for eating a hamburger after she said people should eat less hamburgers because of climate change.
UPDATE: Just to clarify, even though Caleb Hull may have initially tweeted the photo, he says he didn’t take the photo, that it was sent to him:
to be clear, this picture was only taken and sent to me because AOC told the country to eat less hamburgers and her COS is here eating a hamburger. Notice how she wasn’t confronted and forced to leave the restaurant like liberals have been doing to the GOP?
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) February 27, 2019