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Is she or isn’t she?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Workers’ Paradise) announced her engagement way back in 2022, but it’s three years later now, and questions have begun to swirl around her marital plans. This is not just a matter of leftist schoolgirls dreaming of emulating Comrade Heroine, or even of disappointed young blokes who yearn to take the place of the beta schlub AOC apparently plans to marry. It actually involves serious ethics violations, which just a scant few months ago Democrats could commit by the bucketload without fear of the slightest consequences beyond a few curmudgeons grumbling at Frontpage Magazine. Now, however, it’s a different story.
On Monday, Parade magazine published a gushing bit of groupie lit entitled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Future Husband Sounds Like a Dreamboat: Get to Know Riley Roberts.” A dreamboat? Is Parade stuck in 1957? No, not hardly: the far-left entertainment rag goes on to inform us that men are bad, of course, for “some men are threatened by a successful woman.” Not, however, Mr. Beta AOC, of whom the Great Leftist Hope herself gushes: “He has been so supportive and willing and deeply engaging. He’s not a witness to this. He dives into the fray for himself in that he uses what we go through as opportunities for personal growth. And it’s incredible.”
There’s just one catch. Parade was recycling that quote from a glowing (what else?) 2022 GQ profile of AOC. Parade insists: “Yes. Ocasio-Cortez is set to marry Riley Roberts.” There is reason to believe, however, that all might not be well between the vanguard of America’s descent into socialist third-worldery and her lumpy schlub of choice. On the same day that the Parade piece was published, the Washington Free Beacon posted a nifty bit of detective work, pointing out that AOC “hasn’t been pictured wearing her engagement ring since November 2023, according to an extensive Washington Free Beacon review of Getty and Associated Press images, as well as the lawmaker’s social media posts and public appearances.”
It is drearily typical of Marxists to drag their tedious and repressive ideology into absolutely everything, and AOC’s alleged betrothal was no different: the Free Beacon reminds us that “Ocasio-Cortez confirmed in May 2022 that Roberts proposed to her with a ‘zero emission’ ring made from ‘recycled gold.’” Oh, good grief. But while this climate change fantasy-friendly ring “was a constant presence on the ring finger of her left hand during the first year and several months of her engagement,” since then it has disappeared: “since the start of December 2023, Ocasio-Cortez has given a primetime speech at the DNC, attended several televised committee hearings, appeared on the Late Show, and toured the nation on a private jet with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), among countless other publicappearances. Ocasio-Cortez didn’t wear her engagement ring to any of those events, though she frequently sported several other bands on the fingers of both her hands.”
Even if you’re not in love with AOC or Riley Roberts, this matters: “Far from being mere tabloid fodder, the legal status of Ocasio-Cortez’s relationship with Roberts also carries significant financial and ethical ramifications for the potential 2028 presidential candidate. By virtue of remaining unmarried to Ocasio-Cortez, Roberts retains certain privacy privileges not afforded to the legally married spouses of other lawmakers.” Ah. So that’s the game.
Because Riley Roberts is not married to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “he has been exempt from publicly disclosing his assets, stock trades, and his places of employment as a part of Ocasio-Cortez’s annual financial disclosure reports. It’s a level of secrecy not granted to the spouses of Ocasio-Cortez’s married colleagues such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), whose husband’s market-busting stock trades frequently make national headlines.”
Kendra Arnold of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust said that AOC and Roberts “are benefiting from a ‘loophole’ in congressional financial disclosure rules that provide different treatment for members’ long-term partners versus spouses.” This is because the financial disclosure rules were written before it was common for people to live together without being married. In this anything-goes age, that needs to be addressed.
There could be another explanation: have they simply broken up? Not likely: “they were filmed walking out of a Brooklyn movie theater together in March 2024 on what appeared to be a date when pro-Gaza protesters accosted Ocasio-Cortez. The lawmaker wasn’t wearing her engagement ring, the footage shows. Public records also indicate the couple still live together. Both Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were registered to vote out of the same Queens apartment during the November elections, New York voter records show.”
In fact, AOC and her well-padded ginger sweetheart may already be married. The Free Beacon reportedback in Sept. 2023 that “taken at face value, four legal filingssubmitted to the House Ethics Committee pertaining to AOC’s overseas travels in 2022 and 2023 suggest the pair have been legally married at least since Jan. 13, 2023.” Yet her office denied that they were married.
So are AOC and Roberts skirting ethics rules by downplaying their engagement and/or marriage? Now that the Biden regime’s adventures with a two-tier justice system appear to be a thing of the past, at least for now, will she be held accountable and this “loophole” closed? We can hope.
Anyone who marries this Dim-Bulb must have drank way too much
She has big boobs on a small, delicate torso, with delicate shoulders, that’s always a plus in this age of transgender linebackers.
Does a day ever go by when you don’t utter a classless remark?
Says the guy who visits bathhouses in San Francisco
Try English, Mohammed, And thanks for telling where you go on vacation.
The guy who frequents gay bathhouses is offended? Good one
So Mohamhanded, you had to write that twice? Not much else going on in your pathetic life. And your new hobby appears to be chasing after me like a pathetic lost puppy dog. I thought Muslims didn’t like dogs.
Uh I already have a dog and he is much smarter than you.
I agree she’s attractive.
The problem is the crap/ignorance that comes outta her mouth. Every time she opens it, she gives fact-checkers a choice; ignore the sheer volume of material, or stay up all night.
Roberts has a choice:
Buy tampons for two & subserviantly carry her purse around, or escape with what’s left of his machismo. (As he’s an effeminate liberal, my money’s on “Door #1”.)
Nah, she’s gorgeous. Any sensible man would say that. But she’s dumb as a bag of hair. Needs a real man to keep her in line, stop her saying stupid things, stand up to her. So she got herself a beta. He’s okay with that I think. Doubt if he could get a better looking woman if he paid for it.
WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an attractive couple, inside and out. Megsy and Harry, meet Sandy and Riley.
more chewing gum for the mind .
Given Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s attitudes, the “recycled gold” in her engagement ring probably was extracted from teeth at Auschwitz. Greta Thunberg and Susan Sarandon would applaud, too.
Marxists marry for practical reasons, not for love.
Keep it the way it is.. Marriage is a legal contract recorded in a state court and it ends with death or legal divorse. “Significant other” and “long term partner” are FAR too mushy to base legal requirments .. What defines “significant” when does a dissolving relationship become no longer significant?
Whatever the case may be, I wish good luck to the poor sod who would attach himself to such a dead weight.
He’ll need it.
Unfortunately, his luck will most likely entail him hoping he’s not recognized in the check-out line while buying tampons.
Timmy Walz already looted the store of tampons and sanitary pads. AOC says he was driven by hunger.
He must have lost a bet sometime in the past. She could be somewhat attractive on a completely superficial level, but her stupidity, shallowness, and obnoxious personality make her completely unattractive.
I vote “likely unmarried” because a legal marriage would imply that when the inevitable divorce occurs (highly probable with celebrities) that the otherwise senseless sod would get half of her ill-earned gains by book advances, royalties and lecture honoraria. Even such zealous Marxists like Sanders, Berholt Brecht, and Chomsky are very jealous of their earnings from the filthy capitalist market. Interesting that Brecht, although a member of the East German Communist Party, chose to live in Switzerland where the DDR could not tax his vast earnings.
AOC has all the beauty and allure of an Angler Fish.
I love anything Robert Spencer writes, and this piece was no exception. He is a national treasure.
It is a sad state of affairs or engagements or marriages even when guys think AOC is attractive. With Pelosi and Omar and the rest if the squad as a baseline, I guess this poorly dressed donkey face is less ugly. There is something slimy and ill fitting about her person. But I guess some men find utter stupidity appealing in a female.
Seriously? She’s obviously gorgeous. Not that bright, but definitely very sexually attractive. Playboy would take her in a heartbeat.