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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Be The Leading Democrat On Climate Change
Huffington Post ^ | 6/27/18 | Alexander C. Kaufman

Posted on 06/27/2018 2:19:23 AM PDT by Libloather

QUEENS, N.Y. ― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning primary victory over powerful U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in the working-class New York district stretching from the Bronx to Queens is likely to propel her avowedly left-wing platform into the Democratic mainstream as the 2018 midterm elections heat up.

But her detailed proposals to deal with climate change could prove among the most influential at a time when the Democrats have failed to rally around any policy that could feasibly reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically enough to make a difference.

Ocasio-Cortez outlined plans to transition the United States to a 100 percent renewable energy system by 2035. It’s a goal hailed by environmentalists as the last best hope of staving off the most catastrophic effects of human-caused planetary warming, and it’s one already adopted by a coalition of mayors representing 42 percent of U.S. electricity use and representing major cities such as Atlanta and St. Louis.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; cortez; democrats; globalwarming; hoax; ny; ocasiocortez; ocasiocortezcrowley
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To: Qiviut

Should be very worrisome to Pelosi & her old guard


Why should this be a surprise to them? They spent decades building a Democratic party that was hostile to White people, especially straight White males. People like Pelosi thought they could ride the tiger. Now the tiger is getting ready to eat them. Hoist on their own petard.


41 posted on 06/27/2018 5:35:28 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: rbg81
They spent decades building a Democratic party that was hostile to White people, especially straight White males. People like Pelosi thought they could ride the tiger. Now the tiger is getting ready to eat them. Hoist on their own petard.

The inmates that they cater to are now running the asylum. These socialists wackos have been given credibility by Dems and they have now assumed leadership of the party. The Dems are now the Democrat Socialist Party.

42 posted on 06/27/2018 5:38:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Libloather

It will be curious to see if the DNC supports here with staff and money.

If not they will be accused of being racist, sexist, and in the pocket of President Trump.


43 posted on 06/27/2018 5:38:22 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: JonPreston

Wow. That putting it on a single piece of paper makes it all look so easy. [/s]

Until it comes to paying for it. Or taking away people’s rights to implement it.


44 posted on 06/27/2018 5:39:48 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: JonPreston

And a unicorn in every pot.


45 posted on 06/27/2018 5:46:58 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: SMGFan

And her “advertisement” promising “a unicorn in every pot” doesn’t even mention the headline’s foremost promise of 100% renewable energy.


46 posted on 06/27/2018 5:50:59 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

47 posted on 06/27/2018 6:01:15 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

never forget this $90 trillion has been upped since 2016, and is only one of the areas the globull warming scammers see as ripe for the picking:

7 Oct 2016: The Commonwealth: Urgent need for US$90 trillion investment: Lord Stern tells finance ministers
One of the world’s leading experts on climate change has been telling Commonwealth finance ministers that much more money needs to be pumped into tackling the problem. Professor Lord Stern, co-chair of the new Climate Economy report, said that investments of US$90 trillion were needed and that the time for action was now.

Outlining the critical need for transformative change in how development is financed, Lord Stern told ministers meeting at the IMF in Washington DC that the window of opportunity is as narrow as two or three years...
http://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/urgent-need-us90-trillion-investment-lord-stern-tells-finance-ministers


48 posted on 06/27/2018 6:01:25 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: mewzilla

Maybe they can call Newt and he can step up and straighten things out there.......again. /s


49 posted on 06/27/2018 6:21:54 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Libloather

Nothing odd about the fact that the biggest green types are socialists. I’ve long heard them called envirosocialist watermelons because they’re red on the inside. It’s the same old socialism hidden under a green wrapper.

Oh, and she’s a complete lunatic. That might play in NYC but her brand of extreme envirowhackoism and global socialism will turn centrists and Independents away in droves. If the Bernie bots take over the Democratic Party, they’re toast in national elections. Ergo, let’s hope it happens.


50 posted on 06/27/2018 6:28:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: The Antiyuppie

There was a huge spike in oil prices and Venezuela has huge amounts of oil. There is literally no amount of stupidity that could have ruined that for a little while at least. Other oil exporters that weren’t insane made huge piles of cash and built up some very large nest eggs for themselves to cushion against periods of low oil prices in the future.


51 posted on 06/27/2018 6:37:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: JonPreston

They’ve got the wrong picture on that flyer....she’s SANTA CLAUS!!!


52 posted on 06/27/2018 6:59:34 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: JonPreston

Thanks; it already occurred in my county where they’ve filled rustbelt urban areas abandoned by Anglo Dems. They simply vote themselves larger and larger pieces of Americans’ paychecks - and now even liberal Anglos are fleeing their costs.


53 posted on 06/27/2018 7:55:06 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: House Atreides

Certainly if she actually thinks we can go to one hundred percent “renewable” energy sources in seventeen years she envisions something that I can only consider impossible at this point, barring some kind of Nicola Tesla level discovery. On the other hand she worries me, she is young, decent looking without a lot of makeup and seems rather well spoken. She may succeed in rousing a lot of leftists to make trouble. I only hope that a few more years of life may introduce her to reality. She apparently dwells in fantasy land now.


54 posted on 06/27/2018 8:38:18 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: Libloather

More funneling of money to the democrats. They are completely corrupt.


55 posted on 06/27/2018 10:14:10 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: SMGFan

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is totally extreme in her views.

Does she have a Republican opponent in the general election? Even given the hard-left orientation of the district, might that opponent win by appealing to the common sense of the voters? (The district has elected Republicans in the not too distant past [1980s-early 1990s], although it has been redistricted since then.)


56 posted on 06/28/2018 5:15:13 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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