Posted on 07/14/2019 5:57:02 AM PDT by grundle
Saikat Chakrabarti is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff.
On July 10, 2019, the Washington Post published the following: (the bolding is mine)
Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
It’s been said before by libertarians and conservatives that the environmental doomsayer movement is like a watermelon – green on the outside and red on the inside. Chakrabarti’s statement verifies this claim.
In the 1970s, environmental doomsayers referred to their alleged upcoming environmental apocalypse as “overpopulation.” In the 1990s, they called it “global warming.” And now in the 2010s, they are calling it “climate change.” In all three of these cases, the environmental doomsayers have claimed that the only way to prevent these alleged environmental disasters from happening is to have the government take control over properly, resources, energy, the economy, jobs, and the means of production.
Chakrabarti’s statement proves what many of us libertarians and conservatives have known all along: for many of its participants, the environmental doomsayer movement is just an excuse to massively increase the size and power of government control over everyone and everything.
The whole global warming and climate change agenda is more than controlling the economy. It’s hampering developed nations. Require the US and other successful countries to do things not required of 3rd world and communist countries. We must cut back greenhouse gases by developing and using technologies that make energy much more expensive than in developing nations while they get a pass on the requirements directly or indirectly by being able to use technology without incurring the costs of development (e.g., ignoring patent and other intellectual property rights).
The whole global warming and climate change agenda is more than controlling the economy. It’s hampering developed nations. Require the US and other successful countries to do things not required of 3rd world and communist countries. We must cut back greenhouse gases by developing and using technologies that make energy much more expensive than in developing nations while they get a pass on the requirements directly or indirectly by being able to use technology without incurring the costs of development (e.g., ignoring patent and other intellectual property rights).
AOC has to fire him now. While controlling the economy (and suppressing our standard of living) has always been the goal, the leftist power mongers have always avoided saying so directly. They have to maintain the illusion for their useful idiots that they really care about the environment. That’s because if the useful idiots learn the truth, they might withhold support for the “green” agenda.
Are you kidding? This guy is great! He can't stop writing "Re-elect Donald Trump in 2020 because the Democrats are batsh*t crazy!" campaign posters!
I believe most of the useful idiots will be fine with the notion that it's more about controlling the economy than the environment because they believe that Republicans, Big Business, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Whateverelseannoysthem, and, of course, President Trump are the biggest threats to the environment, so if controlling the economy controls them, they're on board.
No way! He's her Valerie Jarrett, the man behind the curtain.
It is designed to be a global tax, managed by the UN so it can be increased or assessed anytime they want and it bypasses Congress and the President.
CARB in CA is a micro version of it.
Appointed (not elected) people write laws which no one has to put their name on.
Protects the Political Elite and CARB gets lifetime employment.
Wait till the UN starts managing it.
I think he is the one who composes her tweets/ talking points. She like Obama without his TelePrompTer reveals true ignorance of simple things
Oops, the truth escaped from the sainted OACommunist.
By controlling the use of energy, they control the means of production. It has always been a communist goal.
ENVIRONMENTALISM = emotionalism & demagoguery + hatred of industrial civilization & economic progress (both which are necessary for mass prosperity) + devaluation of man + hatred of man’s life + bogus claims + dishonesty + fake data + false data + phony data + manipulation of data + exaggeration + scare tactics + paranoia + hysteria + fake compassion for the masses + evasion of reality (that benefits of capitalism outweighs any harm) + desire for destruction, suffering, and misery of both the rich and the masses through socialism + desire for omnipotent and omniscient big government + desire for force and violation of God-given natural rights + desire for power and control
Anyone with any sense already knew that.
He is Cortez’s handler, he controls her, not the other way around.
The Communists FINALLY admit it.
When they say “the economy” they really mean YOU. That’s because “the economy” is billions and billions of people interacting with each other in ways that can’t be fully imagined.
So, at the root of it, “the economy” can’t be controlled without controlling every single facet of your life.
Hence my tagline.
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“AOC has to fire him now.”
Oh please by all means no. She should keep him on and defend him relentlessly. Let him keep talking and the louder the better.
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"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."
--Christiane Figueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) 2015 speech
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” 23.11; Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
“The Communists FINALLY admit it.”
The fact that he would admit this means he is comfortable that the goal is in sight and there is nothing that could get in the way of achieving it. I am reminded of a college student who lit a joint in front of a cop. The cop told him to make it disappear. The student argued that everybody does it and it’s no big deal. The cop arrested the student, who was outraged. The student was in his own bubble, divorced from the real world. Thus, the student’s world was okay with lighting a joint in public, in front of cop. Then, reality intervened. Hopefully, this man’s bubble is very small and reality is much bigger.
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