Ocasio-Cortez Says The World Ending In 12 Years Was ‘Dry Humor’ (tr)

Daily Caller ^ | 5-12-2019 | Virginia Kruta

[Sir Napsalot]

Full title: Ocasio-Cortez Rebuffs ‘Fact-Checkers,’ Says The World Ending In 12 Years Was ‘Dry Humor’

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained Sunday that GOP fact-checkers were taking her “dry humor” literally.

“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it,” she tweeted. “Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from ‘The Office’ so who knows.”

(AOC tweet)

And when Ocasio-Cortez first made the claim, she certainly appeared to be playing up the absurdity of the statement for effect.

.@AOC on millennials and social media: "We’re, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change"

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...and her dry humor gets better, with Beto reducing the 12 yrs to 10 yrs. Dry Hilarity.

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