castillo cortez responding to the
criticism by saying quoting here
republicans are freaking out because we
don't use slave wage
labor for merch that funds grassroots
organizing
but what's the difference between
trump's merch and ours ours is made in
the u.s
and for gop who joked that we should
give shirts for free
we actually do just volunteer carly
shimkas
member of the fox news headlines 24 7
crew joins us now carly it's always
great to see you talk to you at the end
of the show
you know at least aoc didn't wear this
sweatshirt into the french laundry in
napa valley which wouldn't got her a
little bit more
trouble right i mean she could have done
that she didn't do that am i the only
person that yeah am i the only person
that didn't know what the french laundry
was until this week
but yeah um aoc's campaign now has its
own
uh store so she's essentially a business
owner it is the official aoc
shop so working under a purely socialist
system
she would take the profits from her
store and distribute them evenly to
everyone even members of congress that
she doesn't like
but because this is america and under a
capitalist system she and her team got
together
they brainstormed they thought of gear
that her supporters would like
and because every purchase is a campaign
donation
she gets to benefit from that hard work
which sounds like a great system
a system that would create the most
prosperous country in the world
and yes it is ironic that she created a
58
originally the price tag i believe was
65
tax the rich sweatshirt i could see it
on a bunch of college students and
having their parents uh be very
surprised and horrified by the
sweatshirt
in which their young children are
wearing yeah 58 bucks she's getting a
lot of pushback on this we should show
some of these tweets on social media
matt's idea shop tweets
aoc selling 65 sweatshirts that you say
are now 58
that say tax the rich that only rich
people can afford should just say
tax me when you're aiming for socialism
but you
hit capitalism and then you have this
from the daily caller foundation hey aoc
i can't afford this sweatshirt right now
you got a coupon code for the non-rich
so she's getting some heat yes you know
what um
this it's really difficult and this is
sort of the theme of the week for
these elected leaders uh to live up to
their own high standards
um and espec that aoc falls into this
trap from time to time because it's very
difficult
to live under her world view
last year the new york post came out
with a story of how she and her campaign
spent 30 thousand dollars
on uber rides when the subway was just a
few feet away from her office
going against the green new deal um
there was also a story about how she
spent all this money
on amazon and then she drove amazon out
of new york and all the jobs with it so
you could add this sort of tax the rich
uh sweatshirt
to that list i think it's a it's a
matter of kind of reading the room
though carly it's one of those things
where
you know she also got pushed back i
think last year a couple of years ago
when she went on the
cover of i think vanity fair wearing
some 14 000
outfit it wasn't her outfit i mean they
didn't give it to her that but it's the
whole
idea of just reading the room it's
optics when you're a politician
and when you're fighting for socialism
and you know you want the rich to give
everything back
there's a way to kind of gauge the
temperature and i'm not sure
that that she's quite done that as well
yeah yeah you said it so well and i get
you know to be fair to her
um the tax the rich sweatshirt um
although it is receiving criticism
is now sold out in all sizes from small
to
xxx the green new deal sweatshirt that
she's selling is also sold out
but there are other items that haven't
sold out just yet like
drink water and don't be racist that's a
bumper sticker
not um so popular it's still available
on her website so because she's now
a businesswoman i'm sure she's going to
look at those numbers and try and figure
out
how to prosper using her online store
even more
yeah and lastly just to educate you on
the french laundry carly you know it's
350
average per person right there's several
courses they're all very small it's
wonderful uh apparently i hear and
the average bill is like a thousand
dollars without wine yeah
that's why i've never heard of it i hate
restaurants that serve plates with foam
on them too foam not for me carly
shimkus great to see you