Posted on 05/14/2019 9:29:15 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I love a good joke, and I even have a particular fondness for bad ones. Jokes are good. And when a stupid person says something she later regrets and unconvincingly tries to play it off as a joke, that can be amusing too. That's what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is trying to do right now. After months of being mocked for her apocalyptic predictions about globalwarmingclimatechange, now she's saying... just kidding!
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So if Republicans don't listen to AOC when she says we only have 12 years left to save the planet, they're evil and hate children and want everybody to die... and they can't take a joke?
"12 years left, 12 years left, 12 years left... psyche!"
I call this technique Clown Nose Off, Clown Nose On. I first noticed it with Jon Stewart 15 years ago, when he went on CNN's Crossfire and supposedly owned Tucker Carlson by being a passive-aggressive jerk. First, Stewart would present an argument and insist on being taken seriously. Then, when he was challenged on it, he'd backpedal: "Hey, what's the big deal? I'm just a comedian!" Once I noticed Stewart doing that with Carlson, I realized that he did it all the time. It was cheap, it was dishonest, and it made Jon Stewart rich and famous.
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She compared it to her generations “WORLD WAR II” in the same sentence.. but that was just “dry humor” too? She didn’t say the 12 year thing with hyperbole, sarcasm or dry wit...
How this horse toothed fool got a degree, let alone graduated Cum Laude from Boston University, tells you all you need to know about Higher Education in the United States.
Its like receiving a false-positive brain cancer report.
HA HA - so funny
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Hide your apples!
What is her new number?
That 12 Years is indelibly TATTOOED TO HER FOREHEAD. Countdown clocks will forever be following the dumbass.
When she was a bar keep must be when she became a whisky fish it’s what she sounds like.
“12 years” will be to her as “I invented the internet” is to Algore, or “I did not have sex with that woman” is to Bill Clinton.
leftard politicians will just call them trial balloons
What else is AOC kidding, about?
It’s either 12 years or so, requiring dramatic steps to reverse, or it’s longer than that, or never, meaning “no rush”. Which is it?
Didn’t beta male Beto O’ Dork one up “America’s Official Crackpot” by saying we are all dead in 10 years? I wonder when we hear his mea culpa?
If she really believed she was joking, she would have been acknowledging it the next day, not weeks/months later.
Her PR team have told her ‘the 12 year demise’ did not work and actually made her a laughingstock. That is why the ‘excuse’ that it was only a joke. And that gave her an ‘in’ to criticize Republicans for ‘believing it’.
If AOC and her crowd were around in the 40s we’d lost the WAR.
We have plenty of 30’s style pacifists still, right here on Free Republic
She said it in seriousness. She realizes now how stupid that was and is trying to pass it off as a joke, but remember the context in which she said it.
She let the cat out of the bag. It is all just a fraud!!!
She obviously talks without thinking.
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