From The Daily Caller
Speaking at a “Girls Who Code” event in New York City, self-identified democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back against critics of her Green New Deal resolution.
WATCH:
Ocasio-Cortez declares "I'm the Boss… How 'bout that!" while claiming that no one else has tried to come up with climate change policy before the Green New Deal.
Apparently she's never seen @TheDemocrats policy platform… ever.
This infighting is going to be fun to watch. pic.twitter.com/AV1TgRa5kU
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 24, 2019
“I just introduced the Green New Deal two weeks ago, and it’s creating all of this conversation,” the New York Democratic congresswoman said Friday to moderator Reshma Saujani, the CEO of Girls Who Code. “Why? Because no one else has even tried. Because no one else has even tried.”
Ocasio-Cortez claimed that — regardless of success — the “power” goes to the individual who tries.
“So people are like, ‘Oh it’s unrealistic. Oh it’s vague. Oh it doesn’t address this little minute thing.’ And I’m like, ‘You try. You do it. ‘Cuz you’re not. ‘Cuz you’re not. So, until you do it, I’m the boss.’ How ’bout that?’”
Ocasio-Cortez introduced her Green New Deal resolution earlier in February alongside Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey. The bill not only calls for the U.S. to dramatically transition to 100 percent renewable energy in just a few years, but also demands upgrading all buildings in the country, addressing the emissions released from cow farts in a now-deleted FAQ page, and touches on a number of other progressive issues. (RELATED: ‘Dis Me. I’ve Been Around Awhile’: Joe Lieberman Is Not Impressed By Ocasio-Cortez)
The resolution has been met with criticism and ridicule from both parties. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking senator in his party, said after reading and re-reading the Green New Deal, he still had to ask a co-sponsor, “What in the heck is this?”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might bring the Green New Deal up for a vote in the upper chamber of Congress in the coming days. The move would force numerous Democratic presidential candidates to take a public stance on the bill.
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After 30 years of preaching doom, gloom, death to all living forms, the old adage, what you sow, so shall you reap comes to mind
As BernardP said above, the children that have grown up listening to this have now come of age, not very intelligent age, but able to vote age anyway.
Awww, she thinks her random thought bubbles are policy. That’s so cute.
If I’m holding a gun.
The best course of action may be to do nothing.
Works for a plethora of situations.
She is the poster child for the D-K Effect.
The Naive New Deal… Full of prophecy and dictatorship. Sounds about right.
What is worrisome here is that an organization called “Girls Who Code” invited this fruitcake.
I have known a few girls who code (and a lot of women that code) – and they would all be rolling around on the floor every time Occasional Cortex opens her mouth.
Pardon me; a correction. At least three of the excellent coders that I have known would probably not be amused in the least. They escaped the Soviet Empire, and know what “socialism” means.
When all the girls and women coders you know are rolling around on the floor, I suggest you mention to them what the salary is of a member of the House of Representatives is. That will stop them from rolling around on the floor. You can code for more than 10 years and won’t make that kind of money.
Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos are coders of varying skill, among many other founders of startups large and small. So was Paul Allen.
The sky’s the limit for programmers.
Making a big salary means that she AOC can’t be an idiot?
She makes more than you.
Keith Sketchley
How do you know?
He doesn’t – he’s just really trolling hard.
Even if true, so what?
PS: I notice that once again, you completely evaded the question.
Even coders who make less than 174 grand per year at least are generally doing useful work, unlike Rep. Ocasio.
And they have done so for more than two years. Remains to be seen how long the Bronx Bomber from left field, who’s really from Westchester, can last. Although CNN might hire her.
When I was contract, I grossed $260K a year (admittedly, thirty years experience).
A former boss (a woman coder, by the way) pulled down ~$180K (I only know this because I handled the payroll software at that company. She switched jobs to a university – and I saw that position advertised for $210K at the time. (I didn’t apply, myself – bad experiences with academic parasites).
Now, to be honest, I’ve never had a job where the employees could unilaterally give themselves a raise whenever they fell like it, as the Congress critters can. Nor, to my knowledge (I didn’t try, so it could have been out there) did I have people lining up to pay me several million under the table to screw with my employer.
A new constitutional amendment went into affect a decade or so ago that congress’s ability to give itself pay raises.
A congress can no longer raise their own wage, the best they can do is to give a raise to the next congress. Of course with a 98% re-election rate, that’s not that big of a distinction.
And Zuck, of course.
My prior post with a list of coding billionaires hasn’t appeared yet.
Members of Congress are overpaid.
It’s that just the cutest pink unicorn? Horrors!
The post Trump era could very well be an Atlas Shrugged moment in history, where the appropriate response for productive, intelligent people is to go “on strike”, and accelerate the inevitable outcome of their idiotic policies. It will have to get much worse before these people can see the error of their ways.
I thought I wrote an early, logical rebuttal to the Green New Deal. I even suggested that perhaps, the Nation should have an Energy Plan based on common sense. If you do a search on the Green New Deal you will find nothing but praise for AOC and socialism. If you search for “Why the Green New Deal is a Bad Deal for America”, you won’t find my book. You will find that the Green New Deal is marvelous and we just don’t understand it. I’m sorry, I just don’t have it in me to go through that daft, daffy legislation again. But I do hope we can buy our uranium back from Russia. Whoops, collusion?
I did a search for your book (using Startpage) and did not find your book listed on the first five pages, but this particular WUWT article showed up right at the top of the results.
President Trump is trying harder than you dear. Go ahead and salute him.
“the “power” goes to the individual who tries.”
Go on LinkedIn and look at these two posts. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6504472004983427072 and https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6493895378310623234
” yelling “I’m the boss” or “I’m in charge” ”
Isn’t that always the way with socialists. When someone doesn’t agree with you, use power to force them to agree.
It is the same with capitalists. In a company you follow the party line or get sacked. No convincing people you are right.
Republicans going to war: they do it whether people are convinced or not (so do Democrats by the way).
There is imposition of power from both sides.
Rhys Jaggar
“It is the same with capitalists.
Not in my experience.
You are an embarrassment to my name.
As a former employer in a labor market with full employment the employer works hard to make their good employees happy or the employee leaves. The customer is always right in a free market.
The only time I’ve ever been fired for not following the political line was when my bosses were socialists.
Most companies have policies that you can’t bad mouth the company, but beyond that you are allowed to say anything you want.
Perhaps if you actually learned something about capitalism.
Rhys,
Wrong!
In the US, large corporations with union contracts are obliged to permit free speech for their employees, and smaller, non-union companies don’t care or their staff is protected by the US and state constitutions.
Capitalism, ie economic freedom, is the flip side of the liberty coin with political freedom.
“I’m the boss.”
Ultimately, that’s where socialism winds up. An ideology that believes as part of its DNA that the government should be expanded so it can solve more problems will always seek to expand government, and enhance government power at the expense of personal liberty.
And TNCs do not expand their coercive influence to grow shareholder profits?
Do me a favour: learn the first rule of politics and business: POWER is what it is all about.
Republican billionaires may be reclusive, but they are in charge as much as any socialist. They want control as much as any left winger.
Sheldon Adelson? David Rockefeller (before he died)? The Koch Brothers? Etc etc.
You cross a Republican administration, they put the surveillances teams on you and treat you like a prisoner. They do NOT believe in freedom, they believe in power.
You go out there and preach self-determination for Venezuela, free of John Bolton, Mike Pompeo et al. Do the same for Iran. Iraq. Syria. Afghanistan.
You will have your phone calls overtly monitored, your car tracked and followed, your financial transactions reported back to you, you mail tampered with and much, much more.
I DO believe in freedom. And I know there is no freedom joining any political party…..you follow the party line or else, especially when US wars are being touted. As true in the UK as in the US.
Rhys Jaggar
“And TNCs do not expand their coercive influence to grow shareholder profits?
Not primarily. If there were no products or services to sell in the first place they wouldn’t have anything to be coercive about.
Business is about competition. It may be corrupted by the power of politics, which it frequently is (John Selwyn Gummer to mention just one such individual) but primarily, the power lies with the consumer.
Gerald Ratner is sufficient evidence of that.
You then go on to distort your argument by citing government agencies which are not businesses.
Everything you own is thanks to the free market principle. What did the Chinese and Russians own under their extreme socialist regimes? Absolutely nothing. Now they have converted to free market capitalism as a functioning principle, there are , allegedly, more Rolls Royces sold in China than anywhere else in the world.
One of the two major American political party’s ideology has expansion of government in their DNA. The other major American political party has individualism in their DNA. The grassroots supporters of the Democrats generally favors government expansion, while the grassroots supporters of the Republicans generally favors smaller government.
The fact that government itself generally favors more expansive government does not change that. Socialism is expansive. Do you somehow disagree with that?
The only mental ability the average socialist ever masters, is projection.
They just assume that the opposition must be as evil as they are.
They have no evidence to support such an assumption, other than the fact that it makes them feel better about their own shortcomings.
Do you have any evidence that right wingers and capitalists actually do the things left wingers are constantly being caught doing?
Oh yes, the obligatory, US wars. As if there were no wars before the US was founded.
Once again, the only thing Rhys demonstrates is the desperate need of those on the left to believe that those who oppose them must be evil.
This is for “Girls Who Code,” right? Did she explain that, since they will make high salaries she want to punish them for their stealing from poor people?
They might not make the 70% income tax bracket, but with state, city, local, Social Security, etc. I’m sure that they will have only 30% or less of their money left.
Also, she and her cronies just took thousands of job opportunities away from any NYC girls who code, which, even if they didn’t work for Amazon, would have resulted in higher salaries for them due to increased demand.
Not sure why they would be cheering.
Maybe because they too got participation trophies for their coding and are actually the same useless placeholders that write the code for marketing search engines (which is all of them). They are responsible for my not buying from many merchants who have search engines returning “socks” when I ask for potato chips. It’s revolting and convincing me coding is not a profession.
This is a deadly serious post.
This is what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to do to us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNMDCMM3dI
Civilization is actually a very fragile thing.
I thought idiocracy would take longer to get here.
Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
So, you say you’re the boss over me because I haven’t fronted a climate change policy, eh?
OK, as the saying goes “it’s time to put up or shut up.” Your order me to do something, anything . . . and just see what will happen. How ’bout that!
It’s nice to see such a fine rhetorician articulating her thoughts so eloquently.
Oh wow, LOL, this woman is a piece of work. She is one of those who would be living in a palace while everybody is starving due to the failure of her plans.
I forget who said it, but she really reminds me of the saying: “The urge to save the world is almost always a false flag for the urge to control it.”
She’ll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come up blue
She’s got Charlie Manson eyes
She’ll expose you
When she snows you off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She’s ferocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she’s a spy
She’s got Marshall Applewhite eyes
She’ll turn the music on you
You won’t have to think twice
She’s pure as New York snow
She’s got Adam Lanza eyes
lyrics sort of from Kim Carnes
Well, No. Bruce Springsteen is still the Boss. Whatever you are, history will decide.
I’m with you on that!
That’s so sad.
She’s deluded herself into believing that Star Wars is real, and she’s Yoda. Just do!
She also apparently misunderstood the dialogue. She heard “use the force” and only heard “use force”…
Just do! She told you to! She da boss!
She’s deluded herself into believing that Star Wars is real, and she’s Yoda. Just do!
…
Just do! She told you to! She da boss!
Sounds more like she’s Jar Jar Binks than Yoda.
I think people are taking these words far too literally.
She is ‘in charge’ of trying to get the GND billl through legislative oversight. Just as another other Rep would be ‘in charge’ of trying to get their bill through.
She may or may not get it through. What does get through, if anything gets through, may be a vastly watered down bill.
No-one else is trying because maybe nobody else thinks it is the right approach.
What I think is arrogant is equating herself as a first term Congresswoman to FDR through hooking onto the slogan NEW DEAL. New Deal is a very emotive term for older Americans. It was about choosing the future rather than suicide where their parents were concerned in many cases. That is not what GND is about, despite its grandiose language.
There is now a Republican/climate skeptic community being triggered emotionally every time AOC says anything. What she has said here is just girl talk, nothing serious.
Here are things which would be serious:
1. Whilst spouting morals, she is a fully trained surveillance operative preying like a parasite on the work of 250,000 unconsenting adults.
2. She is flying around the world first class spouting GND slogans.
3. She is an avowed warmonger, willing to become an MIC shill to get to the White House.
4. She does not attend to district matters brought to her by her electors.
5. Etc etc.
Rhys Jaggar
Trumps “locker room banter” was taken pretty seriously. Why not this?
Rhys,
I’m in charge of taking out the trash . . . that doesn’t mean I’m the boss over all trash generated by my family.
The analogy is apt.
Rhys, nice attempt at rationalizing her irrational statement, but the context she said it doesn’t support your rationalizations.
You just don’t understand!!!! All you have to do is BELIEVE and the Green New Deal will happen.
Stop bothering our fresh new leader with details.
But actually skeptics should applaud AOC. The GND does not go far enough, it does not specify what the consequences of adopting its energy requirements would be. But it does at least spell out part of what you would have to do to comply with the demands of the global warming alarmists.
Climate skeptics most logial and effective response to this would be take it to the next step. Demand that the GND advocates also put together policies which will move the population into dense urban areas served by mass transit. Change diet, consumption and work patterns. Huge changes in agriculture.
The more concrete and specific thinking about this stuff, the better. The GND actually is proposing going back to 1870, but with wind turbines and computers and with a hugely expanded population. As people start to debate it, this will become clear.
She is doing the world a great service. Without realizing quite what that service is. It is a bit like proposing to avert teenage pregnancy by abstention. At a certain point, people start to realize what it will take to enforce abstention on teenagers.
That is when they wake up and smell the coffee, and they will also wake up when they realize that the GND is indeed a logical consequence of the alarmist world view, this is indeed what not just the US but the world should be doing, if they are right, and this is what it means in specific terms.