America's least favorite barmaid sure has been on a roll lately. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the embodiment of the famous quote from Adam Savage on Mythbusters: 'I reject your reality and substitute my own.'
Just in the last few days alone, she has gone from claiming that no one can possibly earn a billion dollars to inventing a new American history where black people 'invented democracy.' (Cleisthenes and the ancient Athenians could not be reached for comment.)
She even threw in a little added bonus of race-peddling ignorance, claiming that black representatives are being eliminated in Tennessee, even though the Representative who is expected to lose his seat in the Volunteer State, Steve Cohen, is a white man who is going to lose to a Republican black woman.
The sky must be a lovely shade of pink in AOC World.
Last night, however, AOC may have even topped herself in a simply stunning level of historical illiteracy, making the bold -- and extremely stupid -- statement that the American Revolution was a fight by peasants against 'the billionaires of their time.' Watch:
"The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time" - AOC pic.twitter.com/PGmDnLa9DU
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 8, 2026
We have to apologize to our Twitchy readers. We know her level of idiocy can be excruciatingly painful to witness at times, but we'll do our best to struggle through it with you.
Not that AOC has never actually read the Declaration of Independence, but to help her out, we're going to remind her how that document concluded (with some emphasis added on a key phrase):
... And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The colonists were fighting against the billionaires of their time?
Someone should tell that to the men who signed the Declaration.
This is Robert Morris, the richest man in America in 1776.
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) May 9, 2026
He literally bankrupted himself usinf his vast personal fortunate, shipping fleet, and fiscal acumen to pay for the American Revolution.
AOC is stupid. https://t.co/4Y3q3GMiIP pic.twitter.com/PBIFRw9mQQ
AOC absolutely does not know who Robert Morris was. But she might recognize a few other names from that era.
John Hancock was arguably the richest person in the colonies.
— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) May 9, 2026
He was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence
His main competition was Robert Morris, who also signed the Declaration.
AOC is embarrassing.
There's even an investment firm today named after Hancock. Kind of a dead giveaway.
Granted, AOC probably thinks that firm was named after a movie superhero played by Will Smith.
George Washington was the richest president in American history other than Trump. https://t.co/BwyCn7gdD4
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 8, 2026
This is just ahistoric.
— Austen Allred (@Austen) May 9, 2026
Many of the founding fathers (Washington, Hancock, Morriss, Carroll, and even Franklin/Jefferson/Madison) were among the wealthiest people in the colonies.
Read a book. https://t.co/Kq9V3d3vqy
Whoops.
Who wants to tell her? pic.twitter.com/9vMlFPi5Dt
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) May 9, 2026
There's a reason that men who signed the Declaration of Independence and fought the war pledged their fortunes to the fight. They were ALL wealthy landowners, the same people AOC claims to hate today.
It’s like Drunk History except sober and just naturally ignorant. https://t.co/n3c0X5E9hA
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) May 9, 2026
We'd actually feel a lot better if AOC were drunk when saying things like this.
It would make her stupidity much easier to explain. And it beats the alternative:
The confidence with which she speaks false, ahistorical nonsense is always something.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 9, 2026
There's a certain, almost psychotic nature to it. https://t.co/wzC4ujvUF4
You can see it in her eyes. You can always see it in the eyes.
No, AOC, the American Revolution was NOT “against the billionaires of their time.”
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 8, 2026
It was against a large, distant, overly intrusive government that recognized no limits over its own authority to tax, regulate, and eat out the substance of the citizens it claimed to serve. https://t.co/OzQegCugsZ pic.twitter.com/F96FSwNHJ4
We appreciate Senator Lee politely trying to educate AOC on the actual history of the American Revolution, but we think it's a futile effort.
She's a lost cause.
Thomas Sowell on AOC:
— Thomas Sowell Daily (@DailySowell) May 8, 2026
“As I listened to her, I was amazed that there seems to be no factual issue as far as she is concerned. She just pronounces things to be so and that’s the end of it.” https://t.co/qXchQwBwnl
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.
AOC, on the other hand, is a national embarrassment.
— Katie Scarlett (@Katiescarlet2) May 8, 2026
LOL. An evergreen quote from Senator Kennedy.
Good grief. 😳😳😳😳😳 pic.twitter.com/lvFLdG9zJp
— ♞Paladin♞ (@Glorfindel1951) May 9, 2026
🤣😎🤣 pic.twitter.com/MQTtfhUGYG
— Marlon East Of The Pecos (@Darksideleader2) May 9, 2026
I rest my case your honor 👨⚖️🏛️🧑⚖️ pic.twitter.com/ueRIzoBiik
— Semper Raw ™️ (@SemperRaw) May 8, 2026
It makes us wonder if AOC has ever read even one American history textbook. Even the most leftist of them never make the argument she is making.
Did she learn her history from Reddit? https://t.co/hUiPbzE5ph
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) May 9, 2026
That would explain a lot.
History is fanfiction now.
— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) May 8, 2026
You can just rewrite it.
George Washington read Marx in the trenches and the Founding Fathers were a non-binary punk band called The Trans-Continental Congress selling hand-thrown pottery on Etsy. https://t.co/ePqxH4E43M
We saw Trans-Continental Congress open for Crispus and the Attucks at Concord-A-Palooza in 1775.
As funny as it is to point and laugh at AOC's ignorance, we're not surprised. Rewriting history to fit their narrative is simply what Marxists do. It's what Marxists always try to do.
Unfortunately for AOC, though, we do not live in Oceania, and she does not control the Ministry of Information, so she can't rewrite the American Revolution in her Communist image.
Instead, she just sounds dumber than a box of rocks.
Which is convenient. Because she is.
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