Posted on 02/25/2019 9:52:43 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Robert Hockett, who worked as an outside adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on the green new deal, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) viral exchange with young activists over the proposal was "unsurprising" and "sad."
Hockett described the 85-year-old Feinstein as "elderly" and an "old timer" in his comments to Hill.TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on "Rising," saying the young people who confronted the senator have much at stake in the battle over climate change.
"When we're younger we tend to have much bigger ideas as to what's possible. We're more energetic, we're less tired when we're younger, and that means we tend to view many more things as feasible than elderly folks do," said Hockett, a professor at Cornell University.
"When an old timer in the Congress sort of poo-poos them or dismisses them, and even is so cynical as to say well you can't vote for me anyway, so I don't care, it's in a certain sense unsurprising, and yet in another sense, very, very sad," he said.
Feinstein's encounter with children, teenagers and adults working with the Sunrise Movement went viral after clips appeared showing her appearing to dismiss the group. Feinstein said at various points of the discussion that she had worked hard on climate change in the past and had just won her election. She also said that the green new deal could not realistically pass Congress, a point that at least some other Democratic lawmakers also appear to share.
Hockett said the young people who had met with Feinstein have got "many more years ahead of them than do some of old-timers, especially like Senator Feinstein."
"I think for that very reason, they have a much greater sense of urgency on the one hand because they're going to have to live with the most profound effects of climate change in a way that old-timers in the Congress are not going to have to."
Khmer Rouge...this is how it began.
The Communists weaponized the young and the young sent the elite and their families to be executed.
Eventually Vietnam eradicated the Khmer Rouge.
And she also wants people to NOT reproduce..too bad her father didnt pull out this could have all been prevented
Exactly..we laugh at her but the garbage she is saying is the same crap you will find on ANY college campus..she spews the same idiocy they spew which is scary
Yes, even the Communist Vietnamese had some sense, heck they pretty much abandoned Communism by 1986.
Shades of the various “Children’s Crusades”. What LIB lunacy!
First, the irresponsible LIB idiot parents of these children mentally abuse them, filling their brains with lies and mush. Second, LIB moron “educators” mentally abuse them cementing these lame-brain LIB lies. And finally, when they get their big chance to talk with LIB nitwit senator feinstein, she essentially tells them to shut up and leave her alone. How sad for these abused and doomed-to-eternal-unhappiness children. They will give a lot of money to various therapists throughout their lives...but, then, maybe they will only live for 10-12 years. LOL What a pathetic situation. LIBs attempt to murder babies in the womb...if they get out, they mentally abuse them and ruin their lives. More popcorn!!!
“When we’re younger we tend to have much bigger ideas as to what’s possible. We’re more energetic, we’re less tired when we’re younger, and that means we tend to view many more things as feasible than elderly folks do,” said Hockett, a professor at Cornell University.”
IOW
When we’re young, with “all the time in the world”, we build on weak and shifting sands, with only satisfaction for the moment in mind.
The older we get, the more concern we have for the world after we’re gone, for future generations. What will last to sustain humanity and promote peace and prosperity...a lot like the Founders built into the Constitution...that’s why America has been so successful for profitable for as long as it has, longer than any other civilization.
I’m 74, and I look at things now wayyyyyy differently than I did as a young man. It’s not about me anymore, it’s about my children, and grandchildren, and future generations.
Young people see the world as a “daily masterbation”, the older you get, the more value you see in procreation and the survival of the species.
Most college “professors” are liberal, socialist, idiots...and teach their garbage to young skulls full of mush daily.
I’m always surprised by the Left’s arrogance, even though I know it’s stitched into the very fabric of their being.
What a disgusting thought...that her flesh will be in the new soylent green. I’m going to stock up now because I really don’t want to eat any of that pathetic mix.
I’m going to run out of popcorn.
“Hockett described the 85-year-old Feinstein as “elderly” and an “old timer”
Sounds accurate to me
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
This clip(below and is legit0 from THE DEAD ZONE comes to my mind every single time a Liberal Democrat uses and exploits a young child for political gain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZJF81jt4w
That a huge Lefty, Martin Sheen, plays the politician just makes it perfect.
Great post.
And we get a boost from this because anything LESS than this agenda for the 2020 dem contender will cost them millions of young votes.
And if they DO go that insanely left, there goes the independents.
Good.
This clip(below and is legit0 from THE DEAD ZONE comes to my mind every single time a Liberal Democrat uses and exploits a young child for political gain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZJF81jt4w
That a huge Lefty, Martin Sheen, plays the politician just makes it perfect.
The Chihuahuas are attacking their owners...
I think the confrontation with Diane Feinstein by those ignorant children transcends politics. They have probably been told how AMAZING they are for their entire short lives. I can’t stand Senator Feistein but the sheer hatefulness and lack of courtesy shown to her was frightening. This is Chinese cultural revolution level stuff.
ROFL
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