Posted on 02/29/2020 6:00:04 PM PST by grundle
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just stated the following:
“… as we’ve discussed the Green New Deal, I’ve noticed that there’s been an awful lot of misinformation about what is inside this resolution – a tremendous amount of wild claims – everything from saying we’re seeking to ban airplanes to ending ice cream…”
You can see and hear her saying those words in this video. Skip to 1:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Fma_esNe4
While it’s true that the specific resolution that she is referring to does not say anything about banning airplanes and cows, Ocasio-Cortez herself does support such a ban.
A year ago, Ocasio-Cortez put a document on her official Congressional website which said she wanted to get rid of airplanes and cows.
After a huge number of people criticized her for this, she took the document down.
Fortunately, the internet archive has a copy of that same webpage from Ocasio-Cortez’s official Congressional website at this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190207191119/https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq
The original link (which no longer works) to the page at Ocasio-Cortez’s official Congressional website is https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq
In addition, NPR (a highly reliable source, which liberals love) published a copy of the same document at this link: https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ
And in case NPR ever takes that page down, here is the internet archive of that NPR page: https://web.archive.org/web/20190207164217/https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ
Here are Ocasio-Cortez’s exact words, as reported by NPR:
“Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases. Anyone who has read the resolution sees that we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy. Simply banning fossil fuels immediately won’t build the new economy to replace it – this is the plan to build that new economy and spells out how to do it technically. We do this through a huge mobilization to create the renewable energy economy as fast as possible. We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast, but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero.”
The version from Ocasio-Cortez’s official Congressional website is slightly different, as it replaces the phrase “farting cows” with “emissions from cows.” Since the version that she gave NPR is funnier, that’s the version that I quoted.
Anyway, that’s proof and more proof that Ocasio-Cortez really does want to ban airplanes and cows.
So her recent statement that she does not want to ban airplanes and cows is a lie.
And this is not the first time that she tried to pretend that she never said she wanted to ban airplanes and cows.
Her earlier denial from a year ago, as reported in this article by the Washington Post, was that Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, blamed “typos” for the fact that Ocasio-Cortez’s official Congressional website said that Ocasio-Cortez wanted to ban airplanes and cows.
The Washington Post reported that Chakrabarti said:
“People are trying to take the focus away from the big picture to these little typos.”
Typos?
Seriously?
I’m not buying that.
A “typo” is when you type “pwn” instead of “own.”
There is no way that the following text from Ocasio-Cortez’s official Congressional website is a “typo”
“The Green New Deal sets a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, at the end of this 10-year plan because we aren’t sure that we will be able to fully get rid of, for example, emissions from cows or air travel before then.”
There’s no way that those words are a “typo.”
Someone deliberately typed those words into the document.
And who might that someone be?
Well, as I explained in this previous post, the document’s metadata proves that the document was created by Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff.
That’s the same Saikat Chakrabarti who blamed “typos” for the fact that Ocasio-Cortez’s official Congressional website said that Ocasio-Cortez wanted to get rid of airplanes and cows.
Chakrabarti’s lie about “typos” is just as unbelievable as the other lie that I mentioned in my previous post, where Ocasio-Cortez advisor and Cornell Law School professor Robert Hockett blamed “Republicans” for starting a rumor about the document being on Ocasio-Cortez’s official Congressional website. Here’s the video of that again. Skip to 1:06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qyx6eDkrmw
At the end of that previous post, I wrote:
“Hockett is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. So I’m 100% certain that he is familiar with the laws against defamation. I hope that he will apologize to the “Republicans” that he falsely accused of lying about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s positions on the above issues.”
Hockett must have read my post, because he later admitted that he had been wrong.
So first they blamed this on “Republicans.”
And then later, they’re blamed it on “typos.”
And now, with Ocasio-Cortez’s most recent statement, she’s still trying to pretend that she does not want to ban airplanes and cows.
Again, to be clear, Ocasio-Cortez was telling the truth when she said that the current resolution does not say anything about banning airplanes and cows.
Her lie is when she said that it’s a “wild claim” that she wants to ban airplanes and cows.
It’s not a “wild claim,” because she said it on her own Congressional website, as well as in a document that she gave to NPR.
Ocasio-Cortez is still trying to pretend that she doesn’t want to ban airplanes and cows..
The worst part is that she wants to get rid of the airplane/cow hybrids.
Sorry...
They always get caught in their own lies, eventually.
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Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With on Christmas - SNL (Foreshadowing AOC)
Like, Like, like, like, like, like......That word drives me nuts. Every third word in a sentence is the same? That’s nuts!
She needs to be wheelbarrowed around NYC and will shut up for months.
She needs to be wheelbarrowed around NYC and will shut up for months.
LOL
Wheelbarrow here through Staten Island’s south shore first and she might shut up for a lot longer than that :)
This was a JOKE!
No harm against any person or persons is intended nor does the stated sentence expressly imply that. It was said in jest with no intrinsic thoughts of malice towards said individual.
Can’t be too careful these days :)
One of the most disgusting people of all time
When the mouth opens and sh## comes out, when the mouth opens and the head is empty, when the mouth opens and your foot is the only thing that ends up in it..............Hope you didn’t throw your waitress uniform out
Important people like AlGore and Michael Moore and Bernie can still use airplanes. It will not be a total ban.
We may hate her, but please folks, use the ballot box and the soapbox, but not the other box connected to that saying.
Congrats to Turning Point for putting together a good pictorial summary of socialism!
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