Apparently Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has decided the full-on socialism that she ran and got elected on isn’t far left enough. Her Green New Deal is the wide road paved to communism.
It is so ridiculous it defies logic.
If you haven’t had the joy of reading it, here’s a link to the Green New Deal FAQ at NPR.
And remember. This is woman with a degree in ECONOMICS from Boston University.
Privilege is being able to put out the worst economic plan in history and still be propped up and praised by the media. pic.twitter.com/FocyCRKvuW
— Matt’s Idea Shop (@MattsIdeaShop) February 8, 2019
Here’s a bunch of responses in no particular order.
1) By the end of the Green New Deal resolution (and accompanying fact sheet) I was laughing so hard I nearly cried. If a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful. #GreenNewDeal
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) February 7, 2019
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/iPEf0Perfu
— CryptoTrump [ EUNO•] (@MAGA1776_) February 7, 2019
I guarantee you in this world that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez wants that she’ll still be flying everywhere and using a real toilet. Because those in power ALWAYS get whatever they want. It’s just the rest of us who have to give everything up.
The Green New Deal is a GOP dream, a set-piece example of everything terrifying Ds would do if they took control–from running sectors of the economy to micromanaging what planes you can take….
https://t.co/HAkefzhdMv via @WSJOpinion— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) February 8, 2019
The Green New Deal isn't just un-American, it's also completely bonkers. https://t.co/r7VeFTAQIt
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) February 8, 2019
Democrats: We don't have enough money to build a wall on the southern border!
Also Democrats: Let's remodel every building in the country, build a railway to Hawaii, and give everyone free education, free housing, and free health care!
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 8, 2019
The original version of the New Green Deal included pay for people “UNWILLING TO WORK.” Not unable, but simply UNWILLING. Now they are walking that back and saying someone put that in there who shouldn’t have. Baloney. That’s exactly what they want. They just tipped their hand way too soon.
1) AOC releases a ludicrous plan. Democrats endorse it in droves, including major 2020 candidates.
2) They realize it's a huge electoral liability, as well as an embarrassment.
3) AOC's camp start lying, say it's all a mistake and gaslighting critics.
4) ?????
5) Profit!
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 9, 2019
Here’s an article explaining their attempts to blame the ridiculous statements on Republicans. Really. The mysterious case of AOC’s scrubbed ‘Green New Deal’ details
This is a total lie by a Media Matters researcher. The whole organization is a dumpster fire. The unwilling to work line was in the document.
Here is the original document:https://t.co/ggNX7P3Wub
Here’s an article about it: https://t.co/ko0VhLzJgy https://t.co/KiUq3ftoXo
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) February 9, 2019
In case there was any doubt in your mind that Media Matters is absolute trash… pic.twitter.com/dRnq28EU52
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) February 9, 2019
The document Tucker reads from is not “doctored” by bad actors, as this guest claims, and @AOC retweets. He’s reading what was originally published on @AOC’s official website. https://t.co/y4Q1XD6FzA
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) February 9, 2019
NYT reporters call typo-ridden, utterly nonsensical Green New Deal document "breathtaking."
You guys.. the document literally had the words "farting cows." https://t.co/RDcyKAYN23 #GreenNewDisaster pic.twitter.com/ONdZgnmQ4E
— Matt Whitlock 🇺🇸 (@mattdizwhitlock) February 8, 2019
The comments on this video are currently a goldmine of humor and snark.
Here’s a link to the text of the actual bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text
It is still ridiculous. Wanting to halt climate change is one thing, actually being able to do it is another–it would take far more than just getting carbon dioxide emissions to “net zero”–and knowing how to do it in a way that doesn’t unintentionally make things much, much worse is another humungous step beyond that.
The rest of it reads like a socialist parody of MAGA, but most of the declared Democrat presidential candidates are publicly supporting it.
Ocasio-Cortez is in so far over her head and she doesn’t even realize it. Becoming the rock star of the Democrats almost overnight isn’t going to help her either.
The fact that the presidential candidates are willing to jump on board with it almost immediately is telling. Their debates are going to be gold level comedy. Most all of them will be trying to out-Left the rest of them and pander to every demographic that now falls under their party umbrella. It will be a goldmine of sound bites for the Trump campaign. I don’t think I watched any of the Republican debates last time around. I’m already popping the popcorn for the Democrat ones. LOL!