Posted on 02/26/2019 1:04:25 AM PST by LibWhacker
Arrogant Ocasio-Cortez on Green New Deal: ‘We’re in charge’ — James Woods reminds her: ‘YOU work for US’ By Joe Newby - February 24, 2019
On Friday, newly-elected Democrat Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Americans that “we’re in charge” on the so-called Green New Deal, a scheme designed to destroy the entire U.S. economy for generations of Americans. This didn’t sit too well with James Woods, who reminded her in no uncertain terms that she, as a member of Congress, works for the American people, not the other way around.
“Yup. If you don’t like the #GreenNewDeal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis,” she said.
“Until then, we’re in charge – and you’re just shouting from the cheap seats,” the New York fascist declared.
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James Woods responded: “So, you may have missed this, but the way it works in America is YOU work for US. The last time somebody told Americans to sit down and shut up was 1776. If you ever learn to read, look it up. You are not only a idiot, you’re an arrogant idiot, and there is nothing more dangerous.”
This isn’t the first time Woods has called Ocasio-Cortez “dangerous,” as we reported here.
(Excerpt) Read more at dcdirtylaundry.com ...
"Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president, and the secretary of state in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course."
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution places the Speaker of the House (Tip O'Neill) and the Pro Tempore of the Senate (Strom Thurmond) ahead of the Secretary of State.
Oops.
Naturally, the Republican-hating media raked him over the coals for that remark. Haig tried to correct the impression in a 60 Minutes interview:
"I wasn't talking about transition. I was talking about the executive branch, who is running the government. That was the question asked. It was not, 'Who is in line should the president die?'"
Looks like Jack Lalanne tired of explaining how to do a proper push-up.
Once again, the RATs have overplayed their hand in thrusting AOC to the spotlight. Privately, I think Pelosi et al. now consider her an embarrassment.
I predict an eventual fall for the loud mouth. Wouldn't surprise me if they're grooming some pliant Hispanic to run against her in 2020.
Yes. The most bothersome - and frankly, frightening and disturbing - about AOC is her arrogance ... which she maintains even though she is completely ignorant of the real world.
But her 15 minutes of fame will be worth millions to her. Maybe she’s not an airhead.............just kidding.
Again, hers is an adjacent district which makes it
even dumber
(Ignorance + Arrogance) x Intolerance - Cognizance = Irrelevance
QED
IF she(BIG IF) is defeated in the next dem primary for her district she will have so many job offers from: MSNBC, CNN, etc. that she will be rich for the rest of her life.
They do have a propensity for hiring airheads.
I heard the NY PTB are planning to x-out her district.
Considering how she's pissed off Cuomo and de Blasio, those two would probably have no problem with that.
It is amazing (and disheartening) that a loser college grad is a loser bartender for several years (she stole others’ tips) and now is given so much press for (or because of) her glowing idiocy. It also proves that a high percentage of media is worthless.
Today's media is shamefully lazy and unthinking. They're no better than the jurors in the Trial in "Alice in Wonderland".
`And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, `and those twelve creatures,' (she was obliged to say `creatures,' you see, because some of them were animals, and some were birds,) `I suppose they are the jurors.' She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. However, `jury-men' would have done just as well.The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. `What are they doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. `They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun.'
`They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in reply, `for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.'
`Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, `Silence in the court!' and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking.
Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down `stupid things!' on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them didn't know how to spell `stupid,' and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him. `A nice muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over!' thought Alice.
One only need notice the part about "providing a living wage to those who are unwilling to work" to see that this GND is not about the climate.
It is all about their socialist revolution.
The climate change part is in there only so they can steal more money from our wallets to fund their blotted government and line the pockets of the elites who will run the show under socialism.
Socialism is a naive theory. IMHO it is necessary to bring any discussion with a socialist down to earth. Comrade Obama said that Donald Trump was promising what he could not deliver, for lack of a magic wand. Well, there is a magic wand, and Trump waved it masterfully. What is that wand? It is the trust which enables free market capitalism to transcend the expectations of anyone who does not understand the power of networking. It is low taxes, low regulation, and the trust of society in the predictable scarcity and value of the dollar. Because predictably scarce/valuable currency catalyzes cooperation within American society.I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.
And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.
So, “You didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly. It is not the government but society - as Thomas Paine points out in Common Sense, a very different thing - which makes the pencil. And that cooperation is enabled by the “magic wand” of predictably scarce currency.
Government planning is merely interference in society’s subtle workings by people who have nowhere near the competence needed to make such large decisions and be responsible for them. It is nothing more than the irresponsible separation of responsibility from authority, in violation of the first principle of good management. Cynicism engendered by violations of that principle is illustrated by the following poem:
It's not my place to run the trainImprovement in efficiency via government “planning” is a paper tiger.
The whistle I can't blow.It's not my place to say how far
The train's allowed to go.It's not my place to shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell.But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.
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