This Is It, The Dumbest Thing Ocasio-Cortez Has Said

It seems that every time Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks she inserts her foot into her mouth.

And it seems to happen every time she thinks she is saying something wise.

On Saturday she set her sights on Christopher Columbus and somehow related his holiday to Election Day.

He 29-year-old socialist could not comprehend how the man who discovered America would have a holiday but Election Day would not be.

“How is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?” she wrote on Twitter.

How is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 18, 2018

Twitter users set her straight.

Without Christopher Columbus, we wouldn't have Election Day, or America for that matter. https://t.co/OgshH7Tl9v

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) November 18, 2018

OH NO HERE WE GO…MORON TALKING…DANGEROUS… https://t.co/YjCdegKDMv

— Hector (@Hector55945645) November 18, 2018

AOC hasn't even started the job yet and she's already angling for more vacation days. https://t.co/0BPFe8YeSy

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) November 18, 2018

Imagine having a day off work just to circle a few people on a ballot and then having the rest of the day wasted https://t.co/hFKI4RF0ZW

— Mike (Dead2009) (@RavensMike) November 18, 2018

Welcome to #DumbTweetsWithAlexandria https://t.co/dLUAnbG9z4

— Jarret (@jarrethoskins) November 18, 2018

Because one is celebrating something and the other is the day when we participate in civics. It isn't, definitionally, a holiday. https://t.co/n06UORj3us

— David Sylverthorne (@D_Sylverthorne) November 18, 2018

Christopher Columbus discovered America; Erica Election did not.

— Ingenuous Firebrand (@INGFirebrand) November 18, 2018

How do twits get elected to Congress?

— Const'lGovernance (@ConstlGovt) November 18, 2018

Low information voters.

10 days on the job and you are already looking to manufacture more days off.

— Tex (@TXANM) November 18, 2018

If only this were part of her campaign ad….. she wouldn’t have been voted in as an elected official 🤦🏻‍♀️

— K A Y – C (@officialkarlyc) November 18, 2018

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