Posted on 02/12/2019 8:33:55 AM PST by Red Badger
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not handle President Donald Trump’s mockery of her controversial “Green New Deal” and ripped into him for his comments during a rally.
The New York Democrat fired back at the president after he ridiculed the proposal during a rally in El Paso, Texas on Monday where he called it a “massive government takeover that would destroy the incredible economic gains” made in the nation.
“It sounds like a high school term paper that got a low mark,” Trump said.
“I really don’t like their policy of taking away your car or taking away your airplane flights. Or ‘Let’s hop a train to California,’” he said. “You are not allowed to own cows anymore? There are a lot of problems.”
His remarks during his first “Make America Great Again Rally” of the year drew cheers from the thousands gathered at the El Paso County Coliseum on Monday, but apparently got under Ocasio-Cortez’s skin. The freshman lawmaker and self-proclaimed Democratic socialist lashed out at Trump on Twitter Monday night.
Ah yes, a man who can’t even read briefings written in full sentences is providing literary criticism of a House Resolution.
(“Reading the intelligence book is not Trump’s preferred ‘style of learning,’ according to a person with knowledge of the situation.” – @washingtonpost) https://t.co/O7daeYlXZO
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 12, 2019
She quoted a Washington Post article which stated, “Reading the intelligence book is not Trump’s preferred ‘style of learning,’ according to a person with knowledge of the situation.”
The president had already derided Democrats in a tweet encouraging them to move ahead with their “brilliant” proposal.
I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. It would be great for the so-called “Carbon Footprint” to permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military – even if no other country would do the same. Brilliant!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019
Fox News’ Jedediah Bila “loved” Trump’s tweet, noting during “Fox & Friends” that the “Green New Deal” was “so removed from the rational and the practical” that all he could do was “to laugh at it.”
The radical legislation has come under fire for its impractical goals as it seeks net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years, effectively eliminating all fossil fuel energy production as well as nuclear energy, basically rebuilding every building in America and making air travel unnecessary. The socialist dream plan, which tasks the government with providing for anyone who is “unable or unwilling to work,” would be funded by printing more money.
“They’re coming for your money, and they’re coming for your freedom,” Trump told rally-goers. “It’ll never happen. They won’t even come close folks.”
She got elected because the old guard Democrat in that seat forgot that every election is a new situation. This especially after all the new levels of citizen activity generated by the Trump presidency, and #MeToo generated by a number of older men who haven’t realized we are in a new century.
Ain’t bein’ a melting pot GREAT!!??
The audio back then didn’t go much over 3Khz.
Could have been filtered out.
Ooops.
I think I have gotten phone an AM radio confused.
The range of the human voice extends from 80 Hz to 14 kHz but traditional, voiceband or narrowband telephone calls limit audio frequencies to the range of 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz.
Wideband audio - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_audio
“A failed High School term paper” is absolute perfection as a way to characterize the “Green New Deal”-—the trope of “High School student” was always how I characterized Barack Obama., by the way.And the Dems know that pushing this “Green New Deal” scenario is and was a risky roll of the dice....that’s why all the official spokesfolks/candidates/talking heads and surrogates who are pushing it have now started talking about it as a mere “conversation starter”, on the assumption that they can push their way into an ongoing needless debate that in one form or another has already been going on for many years.
She was running against the worst kind of potted-plant, do-nothing Republican. It’s almost a perverse kind of blessing she won.
When I first read that line, I knew she didn’t write it....now I see she quoted the WaPo.
Rush said she was elected in a district where only 3% of the population voted.
Democrats being mocked is a certainty with this New Green Deal.
Mocking is the only thing that drives them to distraction.
But never forget, THEY ARE DEADLY SERIOUS..............................
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