She's a distraction to hide the behind the scenes subversion of the old guard dims.
Posted on 04/08/2019 3:16:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez burst onto the scene last year, no one expected that she would crash and burn as badly as she has in such a short amount of time. Between her constant gaffes and Valley Girl voice, she has become a real train wreck for the Democrats. She is the epitome of a young woman who was raised in a privileged environment as daddy’s little princess who can do no wrong. She’s been praised for years for doing nothing, while no one dared stand up to her and tell her she actually is lacking in many areas. Now she thinks she’s a hotshot because she’s one of the youngest members of Congress at age 29.
So not surprisingly, the Green New Deal she proposed in February was so unrealistic not a single Democrat in the Senate voted for it. As President Obama’s legacy became his failed Obamacare, so is Ocasio-Cortez’s legacy becoming her sorry Green New Deal proposal. Embarrassingly, she said the world will end in 12 years if her policy is not adopted. It is based on dubious science, which contends that man-made carbon emissions are destroying the planet. Since many of these proponents have been proven wrong, it seems absurd to spend trillions of dollars to correct a problem that may not exist. But Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t proven to be the sharpest tool in the shed. Having grown up in a privileged environment, she appears unable to grasp the concept of an unaffordable plan.
On her website, Ocasio-Cortez says she considers climate change to be the "single biggest national security threat for the United States and the single biggest threat to worldwide industrialized civilization." This is frightening considering it is dubious science.
Her Green New Deal is named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, which introduced new government programs during the Great Depression to stimulate the economy. It ties climate change policy with social justice and inequality. It will cost trillions of dollars in the name of combating climate change. It would increase investments in clean-energy jobs and infrastructure, creating jobs. By 2035, the U.S. energy system would be carbon-free and 100 percent renewable energy. Cars would no longer emit greenhouse gases. Planes would be phased out. All the major areas of the economy would be carbon-free: electricity, manufacturing, buildings, transportation and agriculture. There will be no more farting cows, a goal which has been widely ridiculed.
The Green New Deal would crush the U.S. economy since we are heavily dependent on coal, oil, and gas. It assumes much of the renewable energy would come from nuclear power — but there will be significant public opposition to this. It also includes "universal health care" and "food security." It goes beyond regular welfare, providing “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.” There are 15 requirements for “social and economic justice and security."
Even smaller infrastructure projects have proven unaffordable. California had to drop plans for its plan to build high-speed rail from Los Angeles to San Francisco due to the enormous expense. It was going to cost $77 billion, a drop in the bucket compared to the Green New Deal. California Democratic governor Gavin Newsom admitted that “the project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long.”
Ocasio-Cortez has only been in office for three months but she’s already made a fool of herself. And that doesn’t even include the gaffes she made in 2018 before she entered office. For example in November, she referred to the three branches of government incorrectly as the three chambers, and then proceeded to get them wrong: “The presidency, the Senate, and the House.” She is a gaffe-generating gift to Republicans. Despite the Democrats’ efforts to turn her into a star, she is failing miserably. Republicans shouldn’t be afraid of her.
The gift that keeps on giving!
Green Nude Eel
Mmmmmmm........nice crop of imbeciles we're getting to make our laws.
Including the hate-filled Minn rag-head ....and the Michigan something or other (still not sure what that is Michigan sent to Congress).
The first clue to Senorita Cortez’s crash and burn should have been that she graduates from renown business college with a degree in economics and ends up slinging drinks in a bar in Manhattan. Like a dozen New York types like her I knew, stupid, vacuous loud mouths who knew everything about anything and in the end nothing at all. And while they were at it thought the themselves the hottest sex goddess going.
It wasn’t “hers”; she just regurgitated someone else’s BS from decades ago (the original was quickly located). The fake black accent was even more embarrassing than the “green new deal” or Amazon debacle; as one commenter wrote: “This is what blackface looks like”.
Now AOC has done a Hillary with her fake African-American accent.
She's a distraction to hide the behind the scenes subversion of the old guard dims.
no one expected that she would crash and burn as badly as she has in such a short amount of time.
Oh, ok.
AOC and the Tribe of Subservient Men.
The Left (her constituency) lives in the postmodern world where reality, like gender, is fluid.
Reality to a postmodernist/socialist/commie is what you believe it is. Call that "Designer Reality."
In the world of Designer Reality, where her constituents live, she is as popular as ever and her credibility as the new voice of the Radical Left is still untarnished and unquestioned.
To paraphrase Sun Tzu, "never underestimate your enemy."
Can you imagine trying to have a quiet drink with this as a bartender?
Nor should she be taken lightly and written off as the mindless twit that she is. We've already suffered through 8 years of a wee-weed up awkward weakling who sees dead sailors and thinks that there are 57 states...
The Republicans must not be afraid to expose her for what she is.
You are correct. The problem is, she is very animated and exuberant. This is what her fellow ignoramuses see, not the stream of inanity. The people she is talking to and influencing will never challenge her “facts” but they will buy into and support her “ideas”.
I’m not a big Mitch McConnel supporter, but I loved him holding a vote on her Green New Deal. Even I didn’t think it would receive absolutely no votes. That was brilliant so every time one of these dems brings it up, the Repub can say “so how come not one of your guys voted for it?”
Did she run out of fingers and toes to count on?
“The Left (her constituency) lives in the postmodern world where reality, like gender, is fluid.”
Well put, and so true.
When I saw that picture you posted, I got the very strong impression that even a turd like Markley had quite suddenly realized what an untenable political corner he had painted himself into, standing there at her side as a co-sponsor.
This is Leftism at its finest. All emotion, all action, all demagoguery, until suddenly, the fabled “unexpected” and “unforeseen” results of their stupidity are tattooed on their collective foreheads.
Granted, they will simply pretend this all never happened, but I do give “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell props for being astute enough to bring it to a vote.
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