From the occasionally used cortex department:
Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Friday at a campaign event that the United States’ blueprint for beating global warming needs to be the same as the blueprint the U.S. used for defeating Nazi Germany in the 1940s.
“So we talk about existential threats, the last time we had a really major existential threat to this country was around World War II,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And so we’ve been here before and we have a blueprint of doing this before.”
“None of these things are new ideas,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war. We had a direct existential threat with another nation, this time it was Nazi Germany, and axis, who explicitly made the United States as an enemy, as an enemy.”
“And what we did was that we chose to mobilize our entire economy and industrialized our entire economy and we put hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country,” she stated. “We have to do the same thing in order to get us to 100% renewable energy, and that’s just the truth of it.”
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This child is not to be taken seriously in her ignorance. Let her run her course to it logical conclusion: gagging for breath in the deepest end of the swamp!
Here in Texas, we have the same phenomenon with Beto. Neither are serious or substantive candidates. Neither has any known accomplishments to run on. Their agendas are based upon not truth, not facts but perception. Most of what they believe simply isn’t true.
Unlimited governments are an existential threat to both their own citizens, and the citizens of other countries. That is why the only governments that are stable are those that are “limited” in their power by a Constitution that allows control of the government by the public, and by fundamental rights granted to the public by that Constitution.
The most recent existential threat was the Soviet Union targeting the free world with thousands of nuclear warheads, and a leadership that was unstable enough to use them if they could gain a substantial advantage and survive the exchange. She doesn’t want to mention that, because it is the end result of unlimited government power. The end game for her philosophy. She also does not want to mention the USSR, because it was such an economic mess, they imploded due to distorted economic incentives that ALWAYS eventually destroy socialist economies. The level of government ownership over the means to production, determines the rate of collapse.
The socialist agenda is to make up “existential threats”, and then use government power to remove power from the public. Thereby creating and advancing the existential threat, while claiming to remedy it.
As a British citizen I’m embarrassed by the fact that it seems to be English speaking countries that are at the forefront of the Luddite movement to use global warming as a pretext to destroy the world’s industrial-technological economy. Australia, UK’s ecofasc1st Guardian and academia, Canada, the US powerful left complete with its new occasional cortex figurehead, etc. They should be careful what they wish for.
Economies are not just numbers for academics. People live and die by them. Typically if economies run more or less OK people generally are subdued and content but once the economy start going seriously downhill, people get agitated and politics get interesting in a bad way.
Contemplate the following sentence:
“Anglo Saxon is the new Cosmopolitan.”
If you follow European politics you will be aware of rumblings on the German far right about a “rootless global class”. They’re not talking about Jews. They refer to people who “speak fluent English, are equally at home in Berlin or Singapore, and have no connection with where they live”.
If IPCC 1.5 degree madness takes hold in government policy of major economies, the result is an inevitable disastrous economic crash / depression. When this happens folks will cast about for a class of people to blame. The Anglophone community of CAGW fanatics are doing their utmost best to make sure that when this time comes, they are the ones who will be in the spotlight.
But this is not the spotlight that even the most ardent narcissist really wants. It’s more like a concentration camp searchlight.
I can be vapid at times, but (I’ve heard) she takes it to a whole new level.
And facts matter WHY?
Damned that climate change and it’s ball bearing factories!!
She has about the same grasp on history as she does economics and international relations.
There’s no denying she really is a perfect fit for the new face of the Democrat party. Utterly ignorant drain-dead over-emotional over-confident privileged schoolgirl.
Watch the video of when Cortez sees she won the election. Just watch it, she never intended to win, she has no clue what she is on about, that’s why she says the insane idiotic things she does. She’s way out of her depth.
Here it is, watch, she never wanted to win. You can see the fear and realization dawn on her as she sees the results.
https://youtu.be/ltOA3eJbrHw
are all posts held until review or just mine?
Lately mine have been too. so not just you.
A socialist dreaming of a world in which the government controls everything, even to the point of telling individuals how much and what they are permitted to buy.
Not a surprise.
the last time we had a really major existential threat to this country was around World War II,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And so we’ve been here before and we have a blueprint of doing this before.”
How will carpet bombing European cities help anything? Or maybe going atomic (IE nuclear) is what she meant? Ah who am I kidding, she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
Maybe she only wants to bomb “carbon”:
– open coal mines
– mountaintop removal mines
– oil fields
– supertankers
– offshore platforms
– and of course forests