Who among us hasn’t had the urge to put our credentials in the best possible light? Especially when engaging in Twitter repartee with a formidable intellectual opponent like Senator Ted Cruz.
As disputes so often do these days, this one started over a President Trump policy; namely, Trump’s decision to place Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the U.S. response to the rapidly-spreading coronavirus. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed that decision in a tweet on Wednesday claiming that “Mike Pence literally does not believe in science.” (RELATED: When it comes to public health crises, the Left’s memory is short)
Mike Pence literally does not believe in science.
It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.
This decision could cost people their lives. Pence’s past decisions already have. https://t.co/NhMPOusOWm
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2020
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Cruz responded with a tweet thread asking her, in her capacity as “the oracle of science,” such questions as “what exactly” a Y chromosome is. For the record, we suspect Cruz of facetiously trolling Ms. Ocasio-Cortez with this interrogatory.
As you are speaking as the oracle of science, tell us, what exactly is a Y chromosome? https://t.co/t4XVVzWr3A
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 27, 2020
Although Cruz didn’t make any reference to AOC’s work background or resume, she apparently took his response in that light. She came back swinging in a somewhat combative tweet, complaining that Cruz judges people’s intelligence “by the lowest income they’ve had.”
If he only knew, it seems, Cruz would realize he was up against someone who holds “awards from MIT Lincoln Lab &others for accomplishments in microbiology.”
Sen. Cruz, while I understand you judge people’s intelligence by the lowest income they’ve had, I hold awards from MIT Lincoln Lab &others for accomplishments in microbiology.
Secondly, I’m surprised you’re asking about chromosomes given that you don’t even believe in evolution. https://t.co/vOIwJhpl7q
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 28, 2020
Sincerely,
an Intel global finalist,
a fmr multi-year intern for Sen. Kennedy,
a cum laude dual major in Economics & International Relations,
a fmr Educational Director for national organization,
Who to you is “just a bartender,”
And also your colleague.https://t.co/9ktAgXFXDE— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 28, 2020
To Cruz, said Ocasio-Cortez, she is “just a bartender.” But the deeper truth is — well, it’s that she got second prize in a high school science fair for her microbiology research project.
Unsurprisingly, the Twitter ratio on this for Ocasio-Cortez has been off the charts. Critics might cut her a break, considering that, as she points out, she was also an Intel global finalist, a multi-year intern for the late Senator Kennedy, and “a cum laude dual major in Economics & International Relations.” But critics haven’t been showing a lot of mercy.
Senator Cruz, with laudable grace, seems to know when to pass up an easy shot. He made no further contribution to this exchange.
(H/t: Daily Caller)
