Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was famously a bartender before winning a seat in Congress.
So she knows a thing or two about the server life. And she loves her some social media, so when someone posted a question on the new platform Threads aimed at AOC, she just couldn’t help herself.
“What are your best and worst food service industry stories? @AOC,” someone with the Threads handle taylorjordalardas wrote.
AOC launched into an answer that included “mansplaining” and an allegation that a customer was trying to “belittle the server.”
“Oh gosh, there is literally an endless supply here. I have some really weird stories. One time there was this really rich guy who would come in one week a year & was really addicted to mansplaining,” she wrote in response.
“You could just really tell he got satisfaction from it. He’d love to say ‘ask me a question’ and include all these little asides to belittle the server and uplift himself.”
“Anyways, if you indulged him, he tipped like $200 to $300 on a lunch tab every day for a week straight. Then disappeared till next year,” she wrote.
Needless to say, that’s horrible. A lonely guy comes into a bar, so excited to talk to someone — anyone — and interact with people that he’d say, “ask me a question.” And then the horror. After that, he’d tip you $200-$300 just for stopping and talking with him for a moment, then disappear after a week.
AOC got raked on Twitter for her pouty whine after someone posted the Threads post on Twitter.
“I’m so sorry you had to go through that ordeal. Hopefully the $300 tip helped towards your recovery,” one user wrote.
I’m so sorry you had to go through that ordeal. Hopefully the $300 tip helped towards your recovery. pic.twitter.com/VNETpwmuSS
— Noam Blum ???? (@neontaster) July 7, 2023
Geoffrey Ingersoll, editor in chief at the Daily Caller, had a compassionate take on the whole thing — but not for AOC.
“99.9p chance he was a wealthy and quaint old man whose wife had passed a few years ago and who loved reading in retirement and just wanted someone, ANYONE to talk to for a minute. Maybe even childless through no fault of his own, so passing on info to a young server gave him a sense of worth and he was willing to tip well for the opportunity,” he wrote.
“So instead of demonstrating grace to this person, aoc turns him into a fictitious boogey monster that validates all the neo marxist gender nonsense vomitted into her skull during college,” Ingersoll wrote.
Another Twitterer wrote: “$1200-$1500 from one week to listen to a guy tell stories while I worked. Guy sounds awesome! I wish I had him visit my establishment when I was younger. Would have been incredible to have such a great week in tips!”
I worked in the service industry through college and a couple years beyond, and I gotta’ tell you, if I could listen to a guy explaining things for a week and walk away with up to $1,500, I would’ve done it in a heartbeat.
But to AOC, it was just more chauvanistic “mansplaining” and a sap trying to “belittle the server.”
What a horrible distorted world view she must have. And a depressing one. So sad.
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Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.