Posted on 03/09/2019 8:30:58 AM PST by grundle
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.
I would like to see AOC make a visit to flyover country to visit with farmers and ranchers about cow farts. Be sure she takes the train to have some clue about travel time without planes.
Paper or plastic???
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Next time I hear that, I’ll say, “I’m going to follow AOC’s lead:I’ve have double plastic bags, please!”
That’s interesting...and also true that the recycle bin for plastic grocery bags is not by the entrance to the store..I shop at Publix and it’s nearer to the shop next door than their own store. I think I would opt to pay the $.05 tax on bags also. Good idea...thanks for that link.
She’s down in Texas this weekend speaking at SXSW.
I didn’t realize the electric trains went that far from DC.
Well. Low information voters need low information representatives. It is not called idiocracy for nothing.
Thanks! That was really something "fit to print" in the NYT (no less). Quite dated, but substantiated and It concludes,
The muckraker has forgotten that there is more to life than hoarding natural resources. His recycling has become the most primitive form of materialism: the worship of materials. "Earthly things, when they are with power upon men's minds, quite carry their hearts away from God," the Interpreter says. The pilgrim cries out in horror. "O! deliver me from this muck-rake."
However, I see the liberal worship of recycling as being like that of Climate Change, which is driven by a lust for power and self-justification (wearing fur being a mortal sin while homosexual relations are promoted), to rule over others as proxy servants of the devil who seeks to do via an perversion of what God has ordained.
The one the OP cites from the NYT is even good, plus, https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.freerepublic.com+recycling&safe=active&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:m&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXmq7Zm_vgAhVNON8KHY4ABkMQpwUIJg&biw=1907&bih=674
Well; I agree that if the will to re-engineer the entire recycling industry doesn’t exist, there’s little point to collecting it and then dumping it into the landfill anyway.
She appears to be at #2...
I don't.
Besides; how would they GET there?
Brown cows, eat green grass, and give white milk.
Now that is something that I do not understand!
Here’s an hilarious montage of wisdom according to AOC:
“AOC Gets Philosophical at SXSW: Like, You Know, Like, Whatever, You Know? [Montage]”
https://news.grabien.com/story-aoc-sxsw-you-know-whatever-you-know-montage
Drive BEHIND the store to see the special bin they all go into.
Oh?
Seems like an AWFUL lot of them want to recycle old, non-workable political theories these days!
The Truth is Out There...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-map-of-the-last-remaining-flying-saucer-homes
I use the cloth bags all the time. Not a big deal. Germs are everywhere. They don’t all kill ya.
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