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Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle because it's too “tough” for her to understand
wordpress ^ | March 9, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 03/09/2019 8:30:58 AM PST by grundle

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.


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To: grundle

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.


81 posted on 03/09/2019 3:34:08 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Paper or plastic???

* * *

Next time I hear that, I’ll say, “I’m going to follow AOC’s lead:I’ve have double plastic bags, please!”


82 posted on 03/09/2019 4:36:02 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: grundle
Ocasio-Cortez believe recycling is hard? I wonder if thinking is hard for her. Er, forget it, thinking is not a trait of Dems... 😀
83 posted on 03/09/2019 4:50:14 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: depressed in 06
Fresh-cut and better looking.

Evil As Hell


84 posted on 03/09/2019 5:42:10 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nicollo

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.


85 posted on 03/09/2019 5:43:53 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: The Great RJ

She’s down in Texas this weekend speaking at SXSW.
I didn’t realize the electric trains went that far from DC.


86 posted on 03/09/2019 5:50:29 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: grundle

Well. Low information voters need low information representatives. It is not called idiocracy for nothing.


87 posted on 03/10/2019 9:52:31 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: grundle; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; kinsman redeemer; BlueDragon; metmom; boatbums; ...
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.

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.

88 posted on 03/11/2019 4:10:01 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: cyclotic; \/\/ayne

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


89 posted on 03/11/2019 4:15:54 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

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.


90 posted on 03/11/2019 4:39:35 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: grundle
...her city’s recycling program is too “tough” for her to understand.

She appears to be at #2...



91 posted on 03/12/2019 4:18:54 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sacajaweau
Everyone says cloth bags are loaded with germs.

I don't.

Besides; how would they GET there?

92 posted on 03/12/2019 4:21:51 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: cuban leaf

Brown cows, eat green grass, and give white milk.

Now that is something that I do not understand!


93 posted on 03/12/2019 4:23:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: x

94 posted on 03/12/2019 4:26:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: grundle

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


95 posted on 03/12/2019 4:29:24 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Thank You Rush
...they ask shoppers to return them and provide the cans …

Drive BEHIND the store to see the special bin they all go into.

96 posted on 03/12/2019 4:30:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BobL
I don’t think recycling was intended for political leaders.

Oh?

Seems like an AWFUL lot of them want to recycle old, non-workable political theories these days!

97 posted on 03/12/2019 4:33:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: nascarnation
What we get withOUT recycling...
 
 
 
SWSX
 

98 posted on 03/12/2019 4:52:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

The Truth is Out There...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-map-of-the-last-remaining-flying-saucer-homes


99 posted on 03/12/2019 5:08:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I use the cloth bags all the time. Not a big deal. Germs are everywhere. They don’t all kill ya.


100 posted on 03/12/2019 5:53:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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