Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows just how to pay for her socialist agenda — like cutting the military. Because we don’t need no stinking new fighter jets! We just want Free Stuff!

She showed up on Trevor Noah’s “The Daily Show” to expound:

“Then the last key, which is extremely extremely important is re-prioritization. Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for. They’re like, ‘We don’t want another fighter jet!’ They’re like, ‘Don’t give us another nuclear bomb,’ you know?”

Well honey, like, we do need new fighter jets, along with a lot of other military hardware. You know?

Like, you know, new fast attack submarines. We’ve got subs that were originally intended to operate for 30 years being extended to 42 years. Moreover, the Air Force is flying aircraft with an average age of 27 years, and the Army needs to replace its tracked vehicles.

Now you wouldn’t want to take a road trip in a car that’s, say, 15 years old, right? Yet Ocasio-Cortez says it’s okay to give our military forces aging equipment to defend the nation. Because. . . socialism! And Free Stuff!

Furthermore, her statement that the military “didn’t even ask for” a budget increase is pure BS. At a retreat in February, Defense Secretary James Mattis said he needs a 3-5 percent increase over inflation to rebuild readiness in our forces:

“I’m not subtle. . . I need to make the military more lethal.”

And you don’t make the military more lethal by giving away Free Stuff instead, do you.

But Ocasio-Cortez did tell Noah how she plans to pay for all the Free Stuff. And that’s . . . ding, ding, ding. . . tax the rich! Why, it’s the old socialist mantra!

“So we’ve got $2 trillion from folks paying their fair share, which they weren’t paying before the Trump tax bill. They weren’t paying that before the Trump tax bill. If we get people to pay their fair share, that’s $2 trillion in 10 years.”

Oh wait — there’s more! We’ll impose a carbon tax, too!

“Now if we implement a carbon tax on top of that, so that we can transition and financially incentivize people away from fossil fuels, if we implement a carbon tax — that’s an additional amount, a large amount of revenue that we can have.”

Sadly, there are braindead nimrods in Ocasio-Cortez’s voting district who think every word she spews is gold, and that socialism is awesome. Although they’re not quite so glib in explaining how all that Free Stuff will be paid for:

Now you know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be the next Congressperson from her New York-14 district; in fact, she even won a write-in primary in the neighboring 15th district. That area is bluer than that Dory fish in Finding Nemo — and just as dumb. Maybe even dumber.

But this is what happens when Democrats promise Free Stuff to people who have All The Feelz but little concept about how responsibility, duty, and honor work.