No big deal, just the first-year congresswoman from New York comparing herself to Martin Luther King Jr. after 3 months or so on the job:
So @AOC is on Instagram Live assembling furniture while speaking off the cuff about how she believes that she has a moral responsibility to fight for what's right, even if people call her an extremist. "People don't realize Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist."
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) April 4, 2019
Even better, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did this while assembling Ikea furniture, drinking wine and eating popcorn during a live-stream on Instagram last night:
More than 8,000 people on Instagram are watching @AOC live stream herself putting together IKEA furniture, drinking wine and talking about the GOP and climate change pic.twitter.com/VTBoaku8o4
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) April 4, 2019
She’s a multi-tasking socialist, we’ll give her that:
She just gave a socialist critique of late-stage extractive capitalism that values profit over people's health, and then pivoted to tightening hex screws. It's just kind of amazing.
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) April 4, 2019
And of course, she wasn’t really prepared for the job at hand:
"OK, it says I need a screwdriver, which is a bad sign. I don't have a screwdriver." She's polling the viewers, asking them to comment ? if they want her to try to build it anyway and ? if they want her to move on the next piece of IKEA furniture.
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) April 4, 2019
She also found time to bash Republicans:
"The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly on their lack of moral grounding on so many issues." Says they do everything they can to protect a paradigm that values short-term profit over everything else.
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) April 4, 2019
Video here:
On Instagram live, AOC just compared climate change and the world ending in 12 years to the civil rights movement and people protesting against African-Americans… pic.twitter.com/6fcC74h5ny
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 4, 2019
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And she loved comparing herself to MLK Jr. so much on the live-stream, she later took to Twitter and made the comparison again:
“And day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there 40 million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. https://t.co/vuolKYj1y6
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 4, 2019
”When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 4, 2019
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