Some people just don’t know when to be contrite after a epic and devastating loss. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of those people.
Speaking at a House Financial Services Committee meeting on Tuesday, the embattled representative went on a tirade, angrily countering accusations that her Green New Deal was “elitist”, due to the humongous $93 trillion price tag associated with it.
She also reminded her many critics that just a year ago she was working as a waitress and had gotten health insurance for the first time in her life only just a month ago, thanks to her election to congress.
Watch:
She released this hilarious stream of quotes:
“This is about American lives, and it should not be partisan. Science should not be partisan…”
…
“We talk about cost. We’re going to pay for this whether we pass a Green New Deal or not. Because as towns and cities go underwater, as wildfires ravage our communities, we are going to pay,”“And we’re either going to decide if we’re going to pay to react, or if we’re going to pay to be proactive.”
Yes, well…ahem, floods and wildfires have been around long before mankind built towns and cities on floodplains or communities in forests, such as what happened with the tragedy in Paradise, CA in November 2018.
Her rant reminds me of the old Billy Joel song “Piano Man”.
…and the waitress is practicing politics….
She definitely needs more practice. But, this is what it really reminds me of:
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In her 30 years of life where has there been any extreme climate change?
Has there been one place on earth that has suffered because of these rises in seal level that we know of in the last 100 years?
Lets not panic until we actually have a reason too.
Agreed – Any rises in seal level would help the endangered Polar Bears
“In her 30 years of life ….. “
“HA’, during the past 20+ years, …. do you suppose AOC claimed to be an “illegal immigrant” every time she needed medicine, medical services, etc.?
All “illegals” get free healthcare, ya know.
That also means she didn’t sign up for Obamacare. Why not? If her wages were so low, she would have been largely or totally subsidized.
Don’t forget that she was covered under her parents insurance until she was 26.
I was just thinking that very same thing. I thought that, Under Obamacare it was illegal NOT to have Health Care Coverage (or was that just Amoral??)
So She was challenging the LAW until Obamacare was moderated by President Trump.
What an #Elitist #AOC
Straight from her big Time article:
“She paid $200 a month for an Affordable Care Act health insurance plan with a huge deductible.”
Now I’ve seen people comment that having a huge deductible is effectively like not having health insurance at all, and maybe it is, but the fact of the matter is that she DID pay for a health care plan before getting her Congressional plan.
Caught in a lie? She must make her living as a politician.
In the immortal words of one of our great leaders Mrs. Pelosi, “Politicians lie. It’s what they do.” It’s a given in NY and CA. They actually tell us straight up and the morons still vote for them.
That is personal stupidity.
Over forty years ago, before I turned 18, I realized that hospital bills and surgery represented the greatest dangers to my meager existence.
A fact that I learned before purchasing my first car insurance; causing me to select the highest level of insurance that I could afford.
After that, I never took health insurance for granted. Health care coverage was a requirement for every employment position I that I sought. I discarded job offers for positions that refused health care coverage during the first year.
AOC’s health insurance claim, post Gary Doyle’s excellent point that aoc was covered by her parent’s policy, was all based upon AOC’s inaction, lack of concern or sheer lack of intelligence.
Health care and stable retirement options are the facts of life repeatedly discussed with my children; especially after reading of a local teen hospitalized with severe injuries from joyriding.
Consider that now as a member of Congress she gets excellent inisurance and is exempt from Obamacare. Is she going to rail against that?
I didn’t have insurance my first 30 years of life because I didn’t need it. It was the next 30 that I was glad I had coverage for. Why is she complaining now?
Man, I am SO FED UP with these obnoxious spoiled brats!!!! So she didn’t get to have HER way AGAIN!! Welcome to the real world, Idiota!! May your head explode and not splatter the rest of us. It’s all downhill from here!
What a M-A-R-O-N-E!!!
No worry’s there, mate. Vacuums IMplode. Very little splatter.
https://youtu.be/Zz95_VvTxZM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqLNskTt1Zs
a better example
Thanks for the reminder. But there is the danger that she could create an autonomous black hole, too.
Please don’t be too hard on her. She is the perfect example of someone of limited intelligence who has been educated in our current K-12 and college/university system; someone fed on a diet of environmentalism, climate change, sustainability and socialism. I actually feel somewhat sorry for her. She is much better suited to her previous profession.
She was selected to play this role by justice democrats in the sunrise movement and some of Sanders 2016 campaign people, after her brother nominated her. According to this:
https://youtu.be/V-3_FGyhg4k
Please, due respect to the illustrious philosopher B. Bunny. That’s MAROON.
Oh, sorry, but I was using the Italian version of it. 🙂
Sara, it’s whiners like her that give feminism a bad name. These women don’t want to be equal they want to be SPECiAL.
Well – at least eighteen of those years there was no temperature change at all.
And contrary what some have said, she IS quite clearly saying the world will end in 12 years – and not saying we have 12 years to act.
I see a straitjacket and padded cell in someone’s future…
Either that or a book tour, maybe in tandem with the next Hillary blame book in that series.
There’s assuredly a position for her in the Clinton Foundation after the abuse that reality has dealt her, no?
Mencken got it right. So does Anthony.
Mencken said many things. Is this what you’re thinking about?
Sounds like the American Left.
Mencken also said, “No one every went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People.” So laugh all you want, but, don’t be surprised if they end up buying what she’s selling.
“laugh all you want, but, don’t be surprised if they end up buying what she’s selling”
And she has a lot of help selling it, too. There’s a whole CAGW Propaganda Industry out there backing her up. So much money involved in “fixing” CAGW. Lots of people want a piece of the action.
The last word in Mencken’s quote was actually “public,” not “people.”
I think that quote should be changed to start with ‘The whole aim of pernicious politics….’
There are undoubtedly things that can only be organised on a national or quasi-national level and one of those in the US might reasonably be the co-ordination of an holistic flood- and water storage management policy for the entire Missouri-Mississippi-Ohio river basin. The reason for that is that each individual state will be bickering with other ones to protect their own narrow interests and no-one is priotising the bigger picture.
Efficient national road and rail networks are also best planned centrally – just look at how the UK railway system developed through free markets and you will see a higgledy piggledy mishmash of this, that and the other here, there and everywhere. I am just talking main arteries here, not minor and local offshoots.
What Americans actually need to do is really start discussing what is best done nationally, best done at state level and whst done best locally.
There are no right answers, it ultimately depends on political taste snd philosophy.
The American railroad network developed the same way as the one in the UK – rapacious robber barons laying rails wherever they thought they could make money. And wherever there were land grants to be had. There was no Federal “plan” for the railroads, except for the UP-CP “transcontinental” route from Omaha to Sacramento. (It is, BTW, celebrating its 150th anniversary this May.)
Can you provide some examples of what these robber barons robbed?
Argument by assertion is typical for somebody who knows nothing.
What will you do when you learn that the aldermen of NYC tried to scam Commodore Vanderbilt and when he bet everything he could beg and borrow to prevent that, and bankrupted the scammers- they started a smear campaign you continue to this day.
What will you do if you find out you have no rational argument at all – mr AOC?
meanwhile, amtrak..
meanwhile los angeles…
meanwhile musk & Boring…makers of flame throwers…
Mr (Ms?) TruthMatters,
I guess that I should have used a “/sarc” for my reference to “rapacious robber barons”. In fact, many, many early railroads in the US were built by townsfolk and farmers wanting access to the “big” city markets. And most went bankrupt at least once. However, there were rapacious robber barons, as well. Read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” for just one example. It is fiction, but anyone who has studied US history, and railroad history, can see the Southern Pacific railroad in its full glory.
As an amateur ferroequinologist (figure it out), I can tell you that, aside from the UP-CP, there was no Federal planning invovled in railroad development in the US. Not sure I get your reference to Amtrak – hardly an example of good Federal planning. Your reference to Los Angeles is equally unintelligible, and I have no idea what you are talking about with regard to Elon and Boring. Flamethrowers? Really?
They were called Robber Barons because they had more money than the elites of the day thought anyone else should be allowed to have. No reason beyond that.
As you admit, The Jungle is fiction. As is the public image of Southern Pacific that the writers of the day created.
The “planning” was essentially in the land grants. The federal and state governments provided land where they thought the railroad “ought” to go (often dependent upon the size of the bribes) then left the railroads to make use of the grant.
Mark Twain’s “The Gilded Age” is a nice treatment of how this likely worked. I know it’s fiction but it rings with truth though somewhat exaggerated and embellished to meet the entertainment need.
FWIW, Mencken said that America had “the world’s most comical railroad system.” (This may have been in his “On Being an American.” If not, it should have been.)
Here’s a link to that essay of his; hit page-down five times to get to it:
https://archive.org/stream/prejudicesthir00mencrich/prejudicesthir00mencrich_djvu.txt
oops—the link I gave to Mencken’s “On Being an American” contains a lot of irrelevant material on WWI, although its first pages are amusing. Here’s a link to the last part of it.
http://monadnock.net/mencken/american.html
There actually isn’t very much that is best done nationally except national defense needs, e.g. the interstate system.
The MO-MS-OH river basins will never be tamed, not by any kind of national plan for water storage policy. When the spring snow melt is enhanced with spring rains there simply isn’t any place in those basins to store the amount of water that is released other than the natural water storage provided by the flood plains. Mother Nature will simply not be denied.
People who live in those flood plains, even 100 year flood plains are simply making a choice. Sometimes those choices don’t work out.
Ah yes, the old centrally planned is always better than people looking out for themselves schtick.
This from the guy who refers the US as being Uber Capitalist.
Rhys Jaggar – March 29, 2019 at 7:54 am
NO, NO, N O, …. Rhys Jaggar, …. what you are talking is “hindsight”.
Rhys J, a national or quasi-national planning group cannot foresee or dictate where people are going to live in undeveloped territories.
It’s coming up to Beer-O-Clock here in Thailand. I might grab a couple of coldies and enjoy these “wise words” again. Cheers!
The scary part is she supposedly studied economics, I smell a shame degree.
I was going to put the Cersei Lannister walk video up but then I remember what it looked like 🙂
I doubt AOC has any shame, only arrogance
If you read closely, her major was international relations with some economics. She could have studied global nonsense with just a watered down economics course on foreign aid programs. She sounds too stupid to have ever taken the math needed for a real economics degree.
There are many people who “sell their bodies” to get through uni.
Such a pity no one bought hers then Patrick. Maybe a proactive $ purchase back them might have saves us all from the $trillions of cost she thinks is a bargain…
Sometimes the official biographies just don’t make any sense.
She went to an expensive private university and according to her Wikipedia biography she graduated with honors with a degree in economics. If that were true why was she working as a bartender? Something doesn’t add up.
It’s like Obama’s official biography. After graduating with a law degree from the University of Chicago why was he an unemployed community activist? You would think that a black man graduating from the University of Chicago with a law degree would be snapped up with a six figure salary by one of the big prestige law firms. Something doesn’t add up.
Havard, not the University of Chicago! He taught at the U of Chicago Law School Constitutional Law.
Dan Kurt
Thanks. You are right. It was Harvard Law School.
Sorry – I could get past the first 15 seconds.
Totally cringeworthy
The sad thing is that AOC actually believes that people care about what she says or thinks.
Unfortunately to many people do. Realize she is their leader, they are dumber than her. Let that sink in for a few minutes
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin
While it sounds nice and witty, it’s not necessarily true as it rather depends on the distribution of the numbers.
for example:
70,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,110
Average is 90, Only 10%, not half, of those numbers are below (“stupider than”) average. a full 80% are average and 10% above average.
You just haven’t used enough decimal places!
LOL! great reply Jim.
Average IQ is 100 by definition so if the intelligence increases for any reason, the scale is adjusted so that there will still be half the population below average. It’s on a par with temperature fiddling.
Average IQ is actually listed as a range, by definition, not a single value.
For the Current Wechsler (WAIS–IV, WPPSI–IV) IQ classification it’s 90-109
The The Woodcock–Johnson III classification has it as 90-110
For the The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition it’s 85-115
Average sounds better than median and is more often used colloquially.
Luckily, the other half are smarter or we would really be in deep fecal material.
George was a wise man. Give him your full attention.
You’re smarter than me, AndrewWA. I watched the whole thing and I wished I hadn’t. This is upsetting on so many different levels.
Yip, 15 seconds was enough for me too!
Just be aware-her brand of zealotry is exactly the kind that turns authoritarian and viciously so. She’s all temper and emotion and zero brains or self control.
The wisest comment in the field. +175
She was hired to play a role, she’s an employee, nothing she says is her own thoughts, apart from the ludicrously stupid things she says, those are her own thoughts.
She is part of a move by the justice democrats to flood politics with candidates (people they just put ads out for and hire so they can paint them up as politicians.
They are playing a numbers game, every election cycle throw a few hundred candidates at it and some stick, rinse and repeat. Kind of like Oakland As moneyball
Problem is, the deranged loonies behind people like AOC and the fact they are putting blithering idiots in congress. AOC has about as much life experience as my 7 year old son
Very true. She literally responded to a casting call. Zack Exley is probably the man behind the curtain.
Dangerous people want to take over the world to create Utopia.
The democrats rode the Me too movement that pictured men as bad to get young women that they could
control into congress. In this case, they are not fully in control and their plans will backfire. However, her behavior makes some of the others look better as presidential candidates.
She is perhaps the only person on earth who actually believes that Global Warming is real and will destroy the earth. Everyone else just snickers and uses it as a vehicle to push their own agenda, pretending that it’s all real.
But then a desert hobo came and told me
We all got a chicken duck woman thing waiting for us
Everyday I worry all day about what’s waiting in the bushes of love
‘Cause something is waiting in the bushes for us
Something is waiting in the bushes of love
Everyday I worry all day
I know a brilliant 50 year old electrical engineer who talks this way and a 55 year old journalist in my local paper who also talks this way.
How do they end up like this?
Stupidity is a wide ranging problem. It is not just limited to the stupid…
And it’s deep. Very deep.
the electrical engineer reads the journos paper section mayhap?
The comments here reveal the dangers of seeking out our own comfortable echo chambers. I visit this site on a daily basis, largely to maintain my sanity, but WUWT does not represent the majority thinking out their.
People are continually bombarded with misinformation about climate, even from those on the right.
The articles and the comments on many other websites reveal an almost universal ignorance of the subject. I guess that is not surprising, given that even the most knowledgeable people on the planet are just beginning to understand the complexity of the topic. Many here, who have studied the science for decades, know that it does not support the notion of a climate crisis, but no one has learned enough to explain everything that we are observing. The average citizen, who hasn’t spent a singly hour studying the science, has practically no understanding of climate and climate change.
In the absence of knowledge, the speaker with the most conviction is usually the greatest persuader. We here at WUWT have enough knowledge to know that AOC is ignorant of the science of climate change, but most people do not, and her conviction is persuasive to the masses!
Fortunately, many people do have the common sense to recognize a scam when they see one. The resistance to climate change legislation is coming from those people, not from the small number of people who are educated enough to speak intelligently against the climate crisis meme.
Eventually the science will win out, but that may take 100 years or more. Right now, while the world remains largely ignorant of climate and how it works, conviction in ‘high places of authority’ is very powerful. We can call AOC names all day long and point out her ignorance of the science until the sun goes down, but she is having a bigger impact on the population than all of us combined.
We are comfortable here in our ‘safe-space’, but we are delusional if we think we are winning.
Thank you – good points all.
+10 :<)
Dont’ worry about flying. She’ll ban your chicken vindaloo.
Think about it. No chicken vindaloo. Because AOC says so.
I’ll see you, and raise you one:
As said in an apocalyptic movie, “I hear the world is ending tonight. I think I’ll go home and watch it on TV.”
“The revolution won’t be televised.”
No, but you can get a nice table at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
And be waited upon by a large friendly animal that earnestly wishes to e eaten.
…. even Doomsday is threatened by climate change /sc
Why do some people think we should drop everything and to what they want just because they think there’s a big problem? Narcissistic self-regard, not science.
“So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! ”
Howard Beale, in Network.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29
I find the admonishing finger of this barmaid in Manhatten distinctly reprehensible. Reminds me of Isil propaganda clips. In both cases people who know nothing claiming to know everything and therefore entitled to push their infantile beliefs down our throat.
Spoiled- Petulant- Child.
Or AOC = An Obnoxious Child
Listen up all you out there, I also believe there has been a dramatic rise in seal levels too!!
I blame Dr Patrick Moore if he hadn’t saved all those baby seals from the fur hunters we wouldn’t have this massive rise in seal levels AOC is banging on about. And another thing. Because of all those rising seal numbers the Polar Bears have risen too. We now have way too many of them, and they are causing problems in northern lands.
She is talking about seal levels rising…isn’t she?
What else could she be bleating about?
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That rising numbers of SEAL levels is also causing morbid obesity in polar bears. Something must be done about that! They’re too fat!!! Stop the incursions of SEALs.!!!
Oh, wait, SEALs is Navy. Sorry, my bad. Never mind.
Rolly Polly Bear
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“The private sector knew as far back as 1970”
This is of course a reference to the “exxon knew” thing which holds that exxon knew as far back as 1970 that fossil fuels were causing dangerous climate change but “downplayed” the role of CO2. This is the whole of the exxon knew case against the fossil fuel industry which is in reality a desperate attempt to draw a parallel with tobacco.
But it doesn’t work because back in 1970, not just exxon but climate science too was downplaying the role of co2 and up playing the role of aerosols. This is because everyone in the field was busy trying to explain not warming but cooling.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/10/23/the-1970s-cooling-anomaly-of-agw/
Apparently Exxon believed in unicorns back then and later the government also started to believe in unicorns and now she herself is a believer too. Blaming the others that they did nothing about her unicorns. I’m not sure if it is endearing or just pathetic.
I’m sure that she can find relief for the pain of her unicorns at the drugstore, in the foot remedies section.
Yes, yes dear let run it all again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I
And there is a worrying amount of age lines appearing around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mouth, maybe she needs just a little Botox injection to the upper and lower lips.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/05/07/the-eve-of-destruction-of-the-planet-by-climate-change/
Or a Botox injection into her brain to kill off the “stupid” parts. Of course, that would probably leave her a vegetable.
I never try to disparage a person for where they come from in life. It is elitist to point out that she was a bartender or waitress. However, this women is dumb.
It is elitist to point out that she was a bartender or waitress
She brought it up first, from the article “She also reminded her many critics that just a year ago she was working as a waitress …”. It’s fair game to comment on when she’s the one that brought it up.
I’m guessing she had to try to get elected because bartending was too complicated.
Hey, have YOU tried making a Bloody Mary lately? Then there’s those fancy drinks that are on fire! Becoming a Congress Critter was definitely the better choice.
To paraphrase Don Henley, She just has to look good, she doesn’t have to be clear.
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Dems are trying to take the sting out of Repubs mocking their Trump derangement syndrome by saying they have AOC derangement syndrome. They are so clever.
To give them credit, it is true that when AOC speaks many suffer a debilitating reaction: mouth agape, body contortions, difficulty breathing, doubling over and grabbing the stomach as if in pain, etc. Let’s have a look. But first for comparison here’s an example of Trump derangement syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs
Now AOC derangement syndrome
Order! Order!
Oh, wait ….
Can’t they put a muzzle on her? I bet they could pass a resolution; 57 – yea to 43 “present”.
That’s the wrong chamber of Congress. AOC is a member of the House of Representative with 435 members total. The Senate only has 100 members–two for each state. A 57 vote–yea to present–wouldn’t even scratch the surface in the House.
Jim
Is this woman for real?! We have some quite deranged ‘green’ politicians here also, but i comparison AOC makes them look like honorary members of Mensa. I suspect she actually is a very good actor planted by Mr. Trump…. 😉