Posted on 07/09/2021 5:02:04 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has claimed a viral video showing a flooded NY subway station is the result of Americans taking orders from fossil fuel execs. She claimed that her Green New Deal was being sidelined by corporate elites who would make you swim to work. Thunder storms brought flash flooding to the city this week with footage showing New Yorkers wading through filthy waist deep water at a Bronx subway station. AOC, who is from the Bronx, responded to the videos on Twitter, mocking her critics by writing in their voice: 'The Green New Deal, which is a blueprint to create millions of good jobs rebuilding infrastructure to stem climate change & protect vulnerable communities, is unrealistic. Instead we will do the adult thing, which is take orders from fossil fuel execs and make you swim to work,' she continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Slammed by Republicans, critics say AOC's policy proposal makes sweeping assumptions about what has caused this 'climate emergency,' including corporate greed and 'racial injustice.'
Biden announced in January that the United States would rejoin the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change, and has promised to put the country on track to net-zero emissions by 2050.
AOC and her allies believe net-zero by 2050 is not enough to tackle the problem.
However, critics say that even to achieve net-zero by the mid century will require a total overhaul of the economy at a colossal cost to the taxpayer with potentially negligible improvements to the climate.
The NYC subway system often floods when there is heavy rain, however many scientists theorise that stormy weather has become more common due to climate change.
AOC’s tweet brought a mixture of bemused and critical reactions, with one person replying: ‘I don’t understand the connection. I’m not being a jerk. Yet. I just don’t understand how AOC is saying this is a republican caused / fossil fuel execs issue.’
Equity research analyst Gordon Johnson replied: ‘So, buying solar panels made in China, shutting down natural gas plants in the US (the ones that employ millions in the US), and sending our energy grid back to the Middle Ages (CA is begging people to consume less water, natural gas, and engaging in 3rd world blackouts) is a solution?’
The Bee missed one!
First of all, I promise I’d never wade through that mess to get to a job. Second, no employer could, legally, require an employee to do so. AOC and her followers, who are about as brilliant as a pet rock, are the only ones who believe this to be possible.
Oh, what the history books will say about this dark era of America.
AOC thought the Supreme Court was just a regular court with tomato and lettuce.
So much stupid for such a pea-brained woman.
Ok, that’s a good one :)
You know, a person of color would take the attitude of Marion Barry getting on an airplane for the Caribbean after his brother in laws failure to maintain snow equipment left the city unprepared for Snowgeddon _ "God put it there, God can take it away."
God in the form of the US Army eventually did and not too much later the DC government was put in federal receivership where it should still be.
That is IF history is allowed before all this is forgotten. Wiped out of history as when the Library of Alexandria was burned. I can only imagine what was truly lost, and that knowledge would no, doubt have changed the world as we know it today.
I forgot where I saw that but I thought it was funny.
On the entire world. But, I don’t believe in “climate change” in and of itself. Climate has been fluctuating since the great flood.
If AOC gets diarrhea, is it the fault of global warming? Everything else is the fault of global warming so why not that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4JTE76Xnp0
many scientists theorise that stormy weather has become more common due to climate change. ......................... Duhhhh? Its weather, and weather does what it wants to. Our freshwater canal in FLA was down to the sand, now it received 11 inches of rain, its happy again, along with the fresh water clams and other aquatic residents. The shore birds were feasting on the clams because they where exposed by the loss of water. Do they really think you can control the weather? If they were able to do it, it would make one hell of a WEAPON now, wouldn’t it? Rhet.
I forgot where I saw that but I thought it was funny.
Yeah, scientists for the most also believe in evolution, and that there is no God, etc. :(
BTW, where in Florida? I grew up in Tampa.
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