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AOC says only a 'sea sponge' would believe her '12 years' doomsday remark, but most Dems bought it
Fox News ^ | 5-23-19 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 05/28/2019 4:48:55 AM PDT by SJackson

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the world will “end in 12 years” unless climate change is tackled was accepted as a fact by two-thirds of Democrats, even though she said herself that only those with the “social intelligence of a sea sponge” could actually believe it.

The New York Democrat drew mockery from Republicans after she made the doomsday warning in a bid to convince people that radical action against climate change is needed.

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'” Ocasio-Cortez said. A few months later she repeated the claim again.

Earlier this month, however, Ocasio-Cortez backtracked on the gloomy forecast and instead blamed the Republican Party for taking her humor and sarcasm literally.

"This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and 'fact check' it," she wrote.

But it appears that more than two-thirds of surveyed Democrats took her literally.

A Rasmussen poll, conducted earlier this week, found 67 percent of Democrats believing that the U.S. has only 12 years to avert the “disastrous and irreparable damage to the country and the world” stemming from climate change. Out of all total likely voters, 48 percent of respondents believed the apocalyptic claim.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aoc; crazywomen; envirowhackos; greennewdeal
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Just ask a sea sponge, they knew it was a joke.


1 posted on 05/28/2019 4:48:55 AM PDT by SJackson
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Ridicules little idiot!!!


2 posted on 05/28/2019 4:52:35 AM PDT by ontap
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2/3 may “believe it” for a pollster asking questions, but they also don’t GAS. If they did, we’d see far less cars on the roads, far less consumerism, etc. All for the sake of appearances, just like their voting record.

Mindless.


3 posted on 05/28/2019 4:53:07 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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"This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and 'fact check' it," she wrote.

And -- ahem -- does the media do that with President Trump?

4 posted on 05/28/2019 4:54:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SJackson

She’s so full of crap. Her audience didn’t laugh. They soaked it up like good little brain-dead lemmings. If her audience didn’t understand it as a joke, what does that say about them? She doesn’t like anyone questioning her infinite wisdom because then she looks like the vapid ditz that she is.


5 posted on 05/28/2019 4:56:15 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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It would be humorous if she weren’t a puppet who auditioned for a lethal role in the destruction of our great nation from within and got the part.
She’s easy on the eyes, makes thinking people giggle but just the sort who, that when future historians assess how the USA ceased to be, will be lauded as a key and irreplaceable reason why it was able to occur.


6 posted on 05/28/2019 4:57:44 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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I doubt she even knew what a sea sponge was until someone told her to say that.


7 posted on 05/28/2019 5:02:21 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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She is lying. It was obvious from the video that she meant every word of it. She is like that fool who said, in all seriousness, that Guam might capsize, and then, when he was justly ridiculed, claimed that it was brilliant humor.


8 posted on 05/28/2019 5:03:25 AM PDT by djpg
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Obama’s FBI and the Democrat House intel committees cite candidate Trump’s joke at the GOP convention about having the Russians look for Hillary’s missing emails as the reason they spied on him before and after his election. Now THAT is over-reacting to a joke!


9 posted on 05/28/2019 5:03:35 AM PDT by txrefugee
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In 11.65 years, there ain’t gonna be no sea sponges.


10 posted on 05/28/2019 5:04:19 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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I doubt she even knew what a sea sponge was until someone told her to say that.

Of course she knows
11 posted on 05/28/2019 5:06:17 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: SJackson

Almost every Democrat candidate for President has endorsed the Green New Deal. So they are all sea sponges?


12 posted on 05/28/2019 5:07:13 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Pearls Before Swine

13 posted on 05/28/2019 5:07:18 AM PDT by Neidermeyer (There's a Tesla owner born every minute.)
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“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it,” she wrote.

Liberal projection rears its ugly head, yet again..

When Ann Coulter, in her sane period, suggested killing Muslim men and converting their women and kids to Christianity, the left parsed it pretty thoroughly. And when Trump asked the Russians to find Hillary’s emails, oh the shouts of treason from the left.
The left is still running with her 12-years-to-die lie and scaring children with it.


14 posted on 05/28/2019 5:07:32 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: JudyinCanada

Stalinists lie. Always

She’s on the same corrupt AF team as Mildred Gillars/Axis Sally was and Hanoi Jane Fonda too.


15 posted on 05/28/2019 5:09:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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Apparently we are supposed to forget the video AOC made about saving the world with the Green New Deal.


16 posted on 05/28/2019 5:09:27 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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"This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and 'fact check' it," she wrote.

Sort of like when the WaPo actually measured the height of a Big Mac and then ran the numbers to disprove Trump's assertion of ordering a mile-high stack of Big Macs for the football players who visited the Whitehouse. All for the purpose of then claming what Trump said saw "another lie".

17 posted on 05/28/2019 5:09:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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Be nice to Speaker Ocasio. She faces the challenge of presiding over a caucus with the IQs of sea sponges.


18 posted on 05/28/2019 5:12:40 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF
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To: SJackson

That goes for anything she says.


19 posted on 05/28/2019 5:13:19 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standaurds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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>>She is lying. It was obvious from the video that she meant every word of it. She is like that fool who said, in all seriousness, that Guam might capsize, and then, when he was justly ridiculed, claimed that it was brilliant humor.


20 posted on 05/28/2019 5:13:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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