Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is our favorite little socialist icon and she has struck us again with pure comedic gold. This time, Occasional-Cortex evokes the plight of being the youngest woman elected to Congress: she cannot afford rent in D.C.

Cue in the violins: “I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real. We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January.”

Of course, the media is eating this up. “She’s part of the working class,” they say. According to this, the median rent in D.C. these days is $2,700. Does anyone see the seeds of a GoFundMe account being planted? Anyone?

Maybe she can bunk with Bernie or get an actual job in the interim. ⚡️ “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can’t afford rent in DC until her salary kicks in”https://t.co/EXqlskWgFq

— Michael Spalding (@mspalding3) November 10, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can’t afford DC rent. As a northern Virginian whose cost of living has skyrocketed from DC people moving here..tough. Suggest you get a roommate. Nancy Pelosi would love to take you in & teach you a few things.#ARIELSARMY🌿#RoyalGuard👑 https://t.co/6DYDYxCOh1

— Lady Rose (K){⭐️}(R) (@gailsline) November 10, 2018

Thanks to Capitalism, not even a Socialist politician can afford D.C. rent. Which begs the question: How in the world did Crazy Eyes manage for the past year?

Seems Alexandria’s economics degree has failed her yet once again. It’s “puzzling,” isn’t it? The plight is real.

Perhaps the lessons of financial responsibility escaped her? If median rent is $2,700 in D.C., she could have had at least one month’s coverage from the cash spent on an outfit for Interview Magazine:

In a photo shoot for Interview magazine, Ocasio-Cortez was pictured wearing a $3,500 outfit as she posed with construction workers. She was decked out in a Gabriela Hearst blazer ($1,990), Gabriela Hearst pants ($890), and some Monolo Blahnik shoes ($625).-Town Hall

Because all working-class Latinas wear Blahniks and spend $4,000 on Uber rides in California whilst rubbing elbows with rich Democrats. Granted, these may have been campaign funds, but still. By my calculations, that grand total comes to $7,500. $600 short of what three months of rent would likely cost Ocasio-Cortez in D.C.

Seems her critics struck a nerve:

40% of ALL Americans currently struggle to pay for one basic need like food or rent.

As much as @FoxNews likes to mock the working-class, the real scandal is that at the wealthiest point in our history, we are at one of our most unequal.

Most Americans are barely scraping by.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 9, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves her country, so much that she is willing to make the sacrifice by going to D.C. for all the “little people.” She pops tags at the thrift stores just like you and me. But she neglected to plan for the astronomical rent. Not her problem. This is somehow our problem, and we’re supposed to feel like terrible people because we are laughing at her bewilderment of how she is going to pay to live in in The District?! Spoken like a true millennial of the Obama era. I got my college degree, I organized, I have a dream, now you get to pay for it.

They weren’t mocking any class. Just wondering how you got all the money to run around campaigning this past year. Plus where were you living before. NY apts are as much as DC. Call papa Soros.

— Linda Chiangi (@LindaChiangi) November 10, 2018

We’re not mocking those that struggle to pay for basics like food and rent, we’re all mocking YOU and YOU alone. Trying to tie your incessant whining and refusal to answer questions about paying for your proposalsto the struggles of those who genuinely are struggling is pathetic

— Al (@alocke4454) November 10, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was never poor or “middle-class” as she likes to claim. If the Westchester Princess of The Bodega is so looking for a cool flat in D.C., she could probably find one she can afford in the Southeast. They have those strict gun laws that she likes so much in that neck of the woods. Or perhaps she could live in Pelosi’s basement? Or she could donate her Blahniks and take a hint from Elizabeth Warren and claim a $50,000 tax deduction? Or, she could just grab a cot and camp out in her office like some of her predecessors? She could even put a tip jar outside of her office, too (though that may be misconstrued). I somehow think: Mizz O-C thinks she’s better than that.

As a 29-year-old, I lived in the D.C. metro area, too. I made $50,000 that year and hustled at two jobs. I paid my rent, student loans, car loan, utilities and had a bit left over. Military families in the area do it all the time. Ocasio-Cortez will make $174,000 per annum. Assuming her partner does not work at all, she will be bringing home roughly $14,500/monthly before taxes. If someone cannot afford $2,700 a month for rent on a salary such as this, they have some serious financial issues and have no business making economic decisions on behalf of the people. Our advice to Ocasio-Cortez: squirrel away, Alexandria, and just pay for it.

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