Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle because it's too “tough” for her to understand

wordpress ^ | March 9, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle her plastic bags because her city’s recycling program is too “tough” for her to understand

On February 24, 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a live video on her Instagram account where she was talking about different political issues while peeling and cutting sweet potatoes.

A guy named Gob Abierto posted several different excerpts from that video in a string of tweets at this link, which has since been deleted. I watched a bunch of those excerpts before the tweet string was deleted. The internet archive has a copy of the same tweet string at this link, but it doesn’t include the videos.

One thing that I remember from watching the excerpts is that Ocasio-Cortez tosses her plastic grocery bags and her sweet potato peelings into the same garbage can, which means that she didn’t recycle the plastic bags, and she didn’t compost the sweet potato peelings.

She also complained that they give her 10 plastic bags every time she goes to the grocery store.

She also said of plastic bags:

“I wish they didn’t exist.”

But no one forced Ocasio-Cortez to accept those plastic bags at the grocery store.

Millions of other Americas use reusable grocery bags that are made of materials other than plastic.

I’d be curios to hear Ocasio-Cortez explain why – if she hates plastic bags so much that she “wishes they didn’t exist” – she brings home 10 additional plastic bags every time she goes to the grocery store, instead of using the reusable, non-plastic bags that millions of other Americans use.

Here is a different video where Ocasio-Cortez says a similar thing. She states: (skip to 0:20)

“I can be upset that I get 10 plastic bags at the grocery store, and then have to toss out my plastic bags because the recycling program in the area is tough.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1EybnxYzKk

I think it’s incredibly hilarious and extremely hypocritical that someone who wants to hugely inconvenience everyone else by having the government embark on endeavors as gargantuan as banning fossil fuels, banning nuclear power, getting rid or airplanes, stopping cows from farting, and retrofitting every building in the country, is herself too lazy to do something as small and easy as buying reusable non-plastic bags, or to recycle the plastic bags that she does use.

For the record, I myself happen to believe that government mandated recycling of post-consumer garbage actually wastes more resources than it saves. My evidence for this belief is this New York Times article, which is called “Recycling Is Garbage.” It’s a great article, and I recommend that everyone read it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Being a former barmaid, I’ll bet she eats a lot of spicy chicken wings.

[1956tbyrd]

good for thee, but not for me

[Tennessee Nana]

New Green means no more recycling...

[pepsionice]

The DC program is designed in a way that even a 8-year old kid can understand.

[Spok]

The depth of stupidity of this woman has yet to bottom out. Unfortunately she may be what the future holds. The left is determined to create a generation of imbeciles.

[NTHockey]

Proof once more that Socialism/Communism is for thee but not for me. Also proof that being a politician does not require any thinking, knowledge or even a brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauLgZISozs

[Lisbon1940]

Now they want you to carry your own coffee cup, too.

[qaz123]

She has the ability to write and vote on laws that she will then impose on you and me.

[Da Coyote]

Tic-tac-toe is too difficult for Occasional Cortex to understand.

Her stupidity is a gift from God.

But, we were given the word “bimbo” in preparation for progressives such as she.

[AndyJackson]

reusable grocery bags that are made of materials other than plastic

Oh, the hurt when they find out that those "green" bags are made from woven recycled plastic.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Paper or plastic???

You’re officially on the clock...

[bgill]

Her picture is next to “stupid”, “hypocrite” and “crazy” in the dictionary.

Bet she brings home a box of plastic waste paper bags inside one of those plastic grocery bags she’s tossing. Wonder how many shoes and outfits are in her closet that she’s never worn?

[Doogle]

."....at least a box of rocks you can turn into ammo"

[gaijin]

AOC PLANS:

-Making air transport illegal, building bridges to Europe and Hawaii
-Destroying and re-building EVERY structure in the USA using green tech
-Doing away with concrete as a construction input
-Saving money for socialized medicine via fewer funerals
-Eliminating beef-eating pets
-Cross-breeding humans and rabbit so we can all become vegans

[bboop]

Here in Pasadena CA we are in the ‘Occupied Territories,’ and MUST bring our own bags to the grocery stores. My car is full of bags, looks like a homeless person lives there. I very much resent having government interference at that depth in my life. We go to visit our grandkids in NJ and get FREE plastic bags. It is like getting a Happy Meal with a toy in it.

[Leep]

Is that a commercial for McDonald’s?

[\/\/ayne]

I believe that if we can recycle and re-use it's worth it even if we just break even. There is just a lot of garbage in the world. A major problem is indeed that people are lazy.

In Marxist countries where laziness is built-in to the culture with guaranteed jobs and frozen salaries, pollution and garbage problems are monumental. We don't want to be like them.

The engineers of America (including human factors engineers) could solve the mechanical, chemical and human problems we have with recycling - if they put their minds to it.

[GOPJ]

“I can be upset that I get 10 plastic bags at the grocery store, and then have to toss out my plastic bags because the recycling program in the area is tough.”

Paper bags are biodegradable AND all a person has to do is ASK for one at any grocery store checkout. Even AOC can learn to ask...

[humblegunner]

I’d be curios

You'd be a blogger.