WASHINGTON, D.C. - After learning on Twitter that Venezuelans attempted a coup to oust President Nicolás Maduro from power, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quickly took to her various social media accounts to slam citizens of the South American country for not turning to "high-speed rail instead of gas-guzzling coupes."

"A coupe? Really?" she told an aide before firing up her smartphone. "I'll comment on this online. Everyone loves when I do that."

"Our planet is dying, and these selfish Venezuelans are creating a full-blown coupe when high-speed rail would be much more efficient," she wrote in the first tweet in a 28-tweet-long thread. "Coupes sometimes have big engines with 8 Vs. They are also loud sometimes, which means they are bad for the planet."

"The least they could do i

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