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.
10 bags every time she goes to the store??? How many people does she feed? If I come home with 4 for my husband and me, it’s a lot!
I feel your pain. My car is also loaded with recyclable bags. Our town just banned plastic and only uses paper which is a nightmare if you’re carrying anything heavy.
Trader Joe’s uses paper shopping bags and they double bag everything. They also give you a credit if you bring in your own bag and enter you in a drawing for a gift certificate.
.../"Dirty Water"
Frustrated women (I mean they're frustrated)
Have to be in by twelve o'clock (oh, that's a shame)
But I'm wishin' and a hopin', oh
That just once those doors weren't locked
I like to save time for my baby to walk around
...
[[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle her plastic bags because her city’s recycling program is too “tough” for her to understand]]
Almost as tough as breathing to understand
“You just can’t make this stuff up!!”
“Hold on a sec ... I'm gonna get me ... a yam ...”
Yes, until we a) convince a judge that laws exempting politicians are unconstitutional or b) we ignore their BS.
It was a TACO bar. No further comment.
Lol, room temperature IQ
Did you heat there is now a company making condoms out of paper since there has been so much flack about condoms being tossed everywhere. So now you have to ask the girls if they want paper or plastic.
AOC is a gross embarrassment and I won’t even attempt to defend her remarks
but...
we once saw a serious memo in a big government bureaucrappy....admonishing the employees to use the correct recycle garbage cans... which quite literally littered their hallways....everywhere a different recycle can or box ...
the memo listed 19 different kinds of recycle bins there.. for about a hundred different types of stuff to be recycled....
paper here, lunch waste there, plastic over younder, batteries in a special container in the basement, ...etc etc etc
even the employees were joking about how the govt had hired a crew to run this recycle effort... and how the govt was paying all the employees to try to figure the Maze out...
and to run all over the 7 story building all day with their garbage trying to find the correct recycle boxes for each waste item
of course, the govt wasn’t wasting all these millions of its own dollars, the govt was wasting OUR tax dollars
but at least it gave the employees something to do
I didn't think anything could raise her from zero in my estimation and then you had to go and posit that.
...great...now on top of all that, my stomach is growling.
Do me a favor Wayne. In the past couple weeks there have been at least four threads on the fallacy of recycling, especially curbside residential recycling. Look those up and read through them. I’ll bet your opinion changes.
This article on you tube about The brains behind AOC is a must see. I suspected this myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=1h5iv6sECGU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2tcu01yGektpl9UBSMyhsdDJzOnyTC8tsaabI-hfWQPGX9PTqPbOoP4-U
People in Chicago still don’t recycle.
Her joint specialized in tacos. And if she is like the barmaids I know from a beer joint in the Village she is at best a vegetarian, but more likely a vegan. One gal who invited my daughter and I to her wedding had a completely vegan reception. Food wasnt terrible but I was glad the liquor was all top shelf.
No one ever said she was smart, just sounds good to low info voters.
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