FUCKING OUTRAGEOUSLY EMBARRASSING STUPIDITY...
@AOC
You historically illiterate girl...You just humiliated yourself on a global stage by cackling like a hyena at Marco Rubio for daring to state the blindingly obvious fact that the American cowboy tradition traces straight back to Spain.
And you did it with that smug, vacant-eyed sneer that screams “I skimmed Wikipedia once and now I’m an expert.”
Let’s carve this into your skull with the precision of a Toledo blade.
The cowboy... the archetype you think sprang fully formed from some John Wayne fever dream...is a direct descendant of the Spanish vaquero. Full stop.
Not “Mexican” in the modern national sense you’re desperately trying to retrofit onto history. Not some spontaneous invention of Black or Indigenous Americans...though they later contributed brilliantly.
The core practices, tools, vocabulary, and culture came from Spain. Spain domesticated cattle in Europe for millennia. Spain mastered mounted herding on the Iberian Peninsula..
After 1492, Spanish conquistadors and colonists brought horses...reintroduced to the Americas after extinction...and longhorn cattle to New Spain...what is now Mexico and the Southwest U.S.
By the 1500s–1600s, the hacienda system in colonial Mexico produced the vaquero: Expert horsemen who roped, branded, drove, and managed massive herds using lariats, chaparreras...chaps... sombreros, spurs, and saddles that were Spanish in design and name.
The word “rodeo” is literally Spanish. “Lasso” is Spanish. “Bronco” is Spanish. “Mustang” derives from Spanish...mesteño.
The entire goddamn lexicon of cowboy life is Spanish because the tradition is Spanish. When Anglo-Americans moved into Texas and the Southwest in the 1800s, they learned ranching from Mexican vaqueros...who were themselves inheriting centuries of Spanish technique. The Texas longhorn drives, the open-range culture, the cattle trails...all built on the foundation laid by Spain centuries earlier.
You mocking Rubio for pointing out that the cowboy’s roots are Spanish is like mocking someone for saying pizza has Italian origins because Americans later added pineapple. It’s not just ignorant... it’s a deliberate, ideologically driven erasure of historical fact to shoehorn your preferred narrative into reality.
Your brain doesn’t malfunction because you lack intelligence. It malfunctions because you’re addicted to the dopamine rush of moral superiority. You don’t seek truth; you seek applause from the terminally online who need to believe every iconic American symbol must be “decolonized” or credited to marginalized groups...even when the historical record says otherwise.
You’re not just wrong, Alexandria. You’re a living embodiment of weaponized ignorance: loud, proud, and utterly convinced that feelings trump facts.
The lineage is Spanish → colonial Mexican vaquero → American cowboy.
Swallow it. And next time you feel the urge to laugh at actual history, maybe try reading a fucking book instead.
I'm absolutely shocked that you did not say they spoke "Mexican"...
I'm eternally, vicariously embarrassed and full of cringe every time you open your mouth.