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Ocasio-Cortez hits back after Trump laughs off her Green Deal: failed ‘HS term paper’ at Texas rally
www.bizpacreview.com ^ | February 12, 2019 | Frieda Powers

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.”


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To: uranium penguin

“The best thing we can do is Keep AOC talking. The more she talks the more insane and ridiculous she appears to rational people.”

AND the more the Dems in general expose their insanity and intellectual bankruptcy in general ... Almost all of those who’ve crawled into the Dem 2020 primary clown car have endorsed the “Green New Deal”, mostly because they’ve got no other platform to run on and the GND gives them a ready-made platform, even though it is obviously insane to any voter who is paying the least bit of attention ...

our master Presidential troll is already taking these fools to the cleaner on twitter regarding the GND, but I would just LOVE to see him run some very early 2020 campaign TV ads that would slam the shite out of the GND by listing what’s actually in it ... such ads this early would also be totally outside of the box, once again break all the “rules” and seize all initiative from the Dems and their lapdog media ... quite frankly, such ads would sew chaos, confusion, panic, and outrage ...


61 posted on 02/12/2019 9:17:35 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Red Badger

As a bartender she would steal other people’s tips. So it is natural for her to come after everybody else’s money.


62 posted on 02/12/2019 9:18:44 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: M Kehoe

This was her ‘hit back line’:


Ah yes, a man who can’t even read briefings written in full sentences is providing literary criticism of a House Resolution.


Ooooooh, really edgy and obtuse....................


63 posted on 02/12/2019 9:19:08 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

“’They’re coming for your money, and they’re coming for your freedom,’ Trump told rally-goers.”

Ain’t that the truth. Pretty much says it all.


64 posted on 02/12/2019 9:19:17 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Yo-Yo
"...Said the woman who had to pull down her own Green New Deal Resolution from her congressional website..."

And then boldface lie about it on national media.

65 posted on 02/12/2019 9:20:23 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

And they’re coming for your CHILDREN..........................


66 posted on 02/12/2019 9:20:36 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Very true.

I can think of lots of comedy potential from the liberal side of our politics, but the “comedians” will never touch those subjects.


67 posted on 02/12/2019 9:21:01 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger

Another one of the democrats finest crazy member.


68 posted on 02/12/2019 9:22:56 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ronnie raygun

“empty headed arrogant teenage bartender”

That’s what she’d like us to believe — a “bartender”. Someone — maybe Rush — said that what she has been an official Community Organizer (Obama), and did bartending on the side.

If you think about it, she actually is better than Obama, in that she went to work occasionally. Obama and his partner Michelle never had real jobs.


69 posted on 02/12/2019 9:23:05 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: grumpygresh
Empty-headed Marxist P***y pulse bomb? Might wipe out the entire female portion of the Democrat Party, as well as a substantial portion of the male segment...

Let's get on it!

70 posted on 02/12/2019 9:23:53 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Red Badger

They will try to be sure, but I suspect they will need to undermine her since she’s shown no sign she’s willing to listen to her “elders”. I suspect someone on her staff was paid to sabotage her GND launch by putting that ridiculous FAQ document online, for example. If I’m right, look for more of the same.

It still might not work because her base doesn’t much care what Granny Nan has to say about anything and if the moron who appeared on Tucker last week is any example, her advisors have mastered the art of lying and denying without regard for the truth, because they know they can get away with it.


71 posted on 02/12/2019 9:25:34 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Exactly, it sounds like a project for a junior high social studies class. Which is about her level of maturity and knowledge....


72 posted on 02/12/2019 9:27:25 AM PST by machman
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To: bigbob

“If you think the democrat pols are thrilled by her arrival, think again.”

So ironic, snice she is their creation, their love child, a product of puclic schooling, feminism, political correctness, the MSM, MTV, SJWs and virtue signaling.

She IS the New Democrat.


73 posted on 02/12/2019 9:28:20 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Red Badger

74 posted on 02/12/2019 9:29:51 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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AOC doesn’t understand much about briefing time constraints. I remember Junior officers scampering around headquarters compiling pertinent data for the famous 2 minute brief.

That is what each division was limited to in order to get their point across. Two minutes and a summary which was around 20 seconds. The admirals received summaries on paper as well and they could take notes on later on in the day if they had any questions requiring amplification. I think the average 2 minute briefing even lasted as little as 40 seconds and then a 10 to 20 seconds summary. Graphs and other visuals we’re always posted or shown on the PowerPoint during these presentations as visuals helped get the point across quickly.

That is all the admirals htime for because the amount of information was so great the top brass could only be briefed with those types of constraints otherwise the Admirals, or in this case the president, would be in the briefing room all day long and there are other things that need to be done besides being briefed all day long.

And what a AOC doesn’t understand is when you are at the tippy-top I mean the very tippy-top of an organization (or the nation for that matter), there are a lot of time constraints.

AOC doesn’t understand and perhaps it is because she is incapable of delivering a blabber free and succinct 2 minute brief to anybody.


75 posted on 02/12/2019 9:30:05 AM PST by Clutch Martin (TheSant trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: atc23; bigbob; liberalh8ter
As liberalh8ter had suggested, it's quite possible that Pelosi is giving AOC just enough rope to hang herself. She may very well not be getting any "help" from her Party, in the expectation that, wading into the deep political waters without a flotation device, she'll eventually drown.


76 posted on 02/12/2019 9:30:10 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: Dick Bachert

AOC - All Out Communist.................


77 posted on 02/12/2019 9:31:11 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Rebelbase

“That still wouldn’t tackle the cow farts.”

Caught Stefanny Miller’s am radio show. She was commenting on Trump’s comments. Using fart sounds and fart jokes throughout the segment. Another adult child proggie mean girl with a mic.

God help America.


78 posted on 02/12/2019 9:31:46 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Red Badger

Bwhah hah hah, Trump is trolling the bipolar manic SKANK. She’s being sucked into Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump knows she’s hypersensitive, thinks she’s really smart but is actually a DUMBASS,and always has to have the last word.

DJT correctly and very publicly characterized her ludicrous, laughable “Green New Deal.” Now the fake “cheery progressive” is showing who she really is: a manic, mentally unbalanced, angry and GROSSLY INCOMPETENT rookie politician.


79 posted on 02/12/2019 9:31:59 AM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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To: Red Badger

Like that one as well! :-))


80 posted on 02/12/2019 9:35:16 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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