Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the “Farting Cows” blunder was not her fault.
AOC blames aide for ‘farting cows’ Green New Deal document
by Jerry Dunleavy
March 30, 2019 03:53 PMRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blamed an unnamed aide for the document that was sent out to the media and posted on her congressional website during the disastrous February rollout of her Green New Deal climate plan.
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"I definitely had a staffer that had a very bad day at work," @AOC said in response to a question about her controversial #GreenNewDeal FAQ that mentioned "farting cows"
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 30, 2019
She labeled it a "working draft" that was released too early by said staffer.https://t.co/ea17ZG48nx pic.twitter.com/vLoHFt9faABut the rollout hit an immediate snag: a confusing six-page Green New Deal FAQ document that had also been sent to the media by Ocasio-Cortez’s office and posted on her website.
Among other things, it proposed providing “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” and called for “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases.”
“We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast,” the Green New Deal FAQ document read.
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The Green New Deal FAQ document which contains the embarrassing farting cows reference;
I think it is kindof sweet that AOC seems to have forgiven whichever unnamed staffer inadvertently helped make her Green New Deal look like such an amateur effort.
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Thanks for that Andrea.
As the ex-waitress you’ll be able to recommend some good ‘cake’ for me to eat.
In effect, your GND is exactly that – Cake Recommendation
I do hope they’ve held that job open for you.
PS Maybe cancel that health insurance you just bought, I don’t imagine it’ll be valid for encounters with Mme Guillotine. Cowardice and buck passing don’t endear you to anyone – esp also in the restaurant business..
She is way out of her depth.
Sometimes she seems out of breadth.
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The New Green Deal will cost an extra $9.3 trillion a year, current federal income from taxes is $3.3 trillion.
Federal spending is $4.1 trillion leaving a shortfall of $13 trillion, someone is going to be paying a lot of extra tax.
Of course it’s not her fault that cows fart. They have done that since before she was born!
“Green New Deal”
New deals are not new.
In 1939, H.J. Haskell published the “New Deal In Old Rome”. He was Pulitzer-winning journalist.
Bureaucrats responded to the same forces then as in the 1930s.
Grain farmers not making enough money, form an agency and give them below market rates of interest loans.
Too much wine production–form a government agency and advise vintners to tear out vines.
People are unemployed give them bread. Unemployed get restless, entertain them with “circuses”.
Eventually the City of Rome had almost half of its 1 million population on the dole.
Then the Welfare Dictatorship over whelmed the military dictatorship.
Some 1700 years before Alinsky contrived his “Rules For Radicals”.
The problem with so much of the controversy about this is that “… the “Farting Cows” blunder… ‘ is nowhere near the worst blunder of the entire NGD. It is stupid from beginning to end.
Don’t blame me. Blame the person I hired.
She has a plaque on her desk: “The buck stops over there.”
AOC is a pathological liar. The GND FAQ document was converted to PDF of Saikat Chakrabarti’s computer.
Unlike AOC, the metadata doesn’t lie… at least not yet.
Saikat Chakrabarti is AOC’s Chief of Staff / Sock-Puppetmaster and and was the guy who “hired” AOC to be a member of the “Justice Democrats / New Democrats” to primary old, white male democrats and bring about the Socialist Justice Revolution.
Saikat Chakrabarti is calling ALL AOC’s shots and is the one putting the lies in AOC’s mouth, because she is too dumb to do it herself.
Heh, the ‘unnameable staffer’. There’s a photo on the web with him wearing a sweatshirt of an East Indian fascist from the 20 Century. These totalitarians are sooooo similar under the skin.
The history of totalitarianism is just beginning to be written.
H/t Max you know who.
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I sure hope he has more than one of those shirts because that’s the only way I’ve ever seen him dressed.
Classy.
https://amazedtees.com/product/saikat-chakrabarti-nazi-collaborator-subhas-chandra-bose-shirt/
A classic leftist progressive fake strawman tactic; blame someone else for just one of the mistakes that day.
A) It defines AOC as unable to manage an office, project, information release, voter education, whatever.
B) It clearly demonstrates that AOC did not read her alleged globe saving manifesto.
* i) Normally organizations have reviews where every word is checked and verified, and that full explanation and defenders are behind every word.
* * a) e.g. Whitehouse and Markley had Titely ready with words and propaganda to defend their antiscience claims.
C) It demonstrates that AOC did not tier up and assign employees/contractors to collecting, preparing and teeing up background information.
* i) i.e. AOC mismanaged the gnd project top to bottom.
D) The words and writing of both the gnd resolution and the faq echoed a sloppy beer fest gabfest where ignorance and assumptions were thrown into a pile of socialism will “Save the world” phrases.
* i) Experts were never involved to discuss, analyze, and identify impediments and legal problems for any of the “Save the world” suggestions.
Yet AOC’s inability to own her gnd resolution while throwing her underpaid employees to imaginary wolves clearly defines aoc as all suit without substance.
Ether like substance that aoc demonstrates with virtually every one of her public pronouncements; where aoc demonstrates profound ignorance, pathetically weak effort, shallow research, inability to clearly articulate and rabid junkyard dog verbal assaults.
That shadowy figures back an incompetent incoherent aoc with millions of dollars is alarming.
“That shadowy figures back an incompetent incoherent aoc with millions of dollars is alarming.” – And THAT is precisely why we need to keep a weather eye on this ludicrous dingbat excuse for someone in governance. If we do NOT watch what she says and does, no matter how inane she is or seemingly dimwitted in what she says, she’s the puppet being directed by the puppetmasters, those Behind The Curtain, who are far more dangerous than she is.
They’ll go on promoting her until she becomes too much of an embarrassment and then she’ll be tossed aside like a ragged old sweater, and someone new and energetic will step into her shoes.
I’ll be sorry then. She opens more eyes wide than just her own.
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But stay on guard.
She’s a nutso but she’ll make their nutty ideas seem “reasonable” by comparison.
B) It clearly demonstrates that AOC did not read her alleged globe saving manifesto.
I don’t know. I rather suspect she read it and saw nothing wrong with it *until* the backlash hit after which she scrambled for excuses and finally settled on the “unnamed staffer did it”.
“We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions”
Lucky that, since zero emissions would require a prohibition against breathing.
‘Climate Change’ is long on politics and short on science, as is AOC’s ‘Green New Deal’.
They are ‘scary crisis’ mechanisms for advancing collective socialism.
Both are appropriate topics for this blog, as these frauds must be refuted.
Apparently her constituents don’t like her either. They say the voice mail at both her offices is full and you can’t leave a message, and she doesn’t respond to people who try to contact her through her website.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/30/her-heart-is-not-in-the-bronx-aocs-own-district-turns-against-congresswoman/
There have also have been questions about where she really lives, as her neighbors in the Bronx apartment say they have never seen her or her boyfriend.
Keep in mind that House members only serve two year terms so she will have to run for re-election in 2020.
“You can’t just be passionate; you have to do the math.”
The amount of energy necessary to make such a transition is “massive” (they like that word).
If the plan was to transition to a high percentage of nuclear power over the next 10 years by cutting unnecessary punitive regulation, etc., there might be a chance. Can you imagine rebuilding all our infrastructure without increasing our fossil fuel use? How about making and placing all those solar panels and windmills? At the end of the transition we would be a country covered with solar and wind farms and co2 eating forests without much room for anything else other than battery re-cycling centers.
Atomkraft, ja, bitte.
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Still looking for an explanation from AOC of how the Green New Deal will accomplish anything with China and India allowed to continue increasing emissions until 2030 under the Paris Accords.
Shhhh, you’re gonna make me believe global warming was just a Chinese Hoax.
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When they get to 2030 they will just keep on going. Until then they don’t have worry since it is a part of the agreement. The agreement has no teeth when it runs out.
If you are a parent and you tell your child, “I’m going to count to three.” you’ve just told the child the real limit of their behavior. If you want it to stop, it has to be zero tolerance.
Jeff
According to AOC, the world ends in 10-12 years.
I’ve read both 10 and 12 years to extermination; all things considered, I’m kind of partial to 12 years.
10 or 12, doesn’t matter the world ended 19 years ago (in the year 2000) if you believe one of the previous pronouncements of imminent doom in a decades time
AOC is like all other worry wart, busy body, we know best progressive bullies.
The only way they stick to their views is by avoiding all competing challenges to their notions.
I’m certain she has never visited, consumed or considered anything from WUWT or any other source of climate critique.
Pick any topic and it’s the same approach.
They never subject their notions to any honest assessment and reject any critique as unworthy.
That’s a recipe for dumb as dirt activism with the rabid insistence they know it all.
I looked at the resolution for the GND that got thrashed by the Senate 0-57. The FAQ simply details how it is to be done. For the resolution to work, you would need to implement it as described in the FAQ. She was honest about what it would take. The rest of the Democrats are trying to give her a crash course politicking. So far it’s not working, and I think the only way out is to vote her out in 2020.
The other thing I wonder when her name comes up: how do we know she’s not being paid by Trump?
Ok, this really may sound like crazy here.
But,
I for once got to consider that AOC and what she stands and represent need a helping hand, guys…
Their lot seems to be very good and fast learners, and the main problem I can see with that lot is the lack of experience…and future problems with it…for this lot if neglected and with no help.
At this point, I think that when considering these guys and AOC as nuts in steroids, it simply happens to be so due to their weak point, the lack of experience… and quite possible me being wrong with it all.
But again,
Simple question,
who do you think can manage and successfully reform the democratic left-liberals, and brink it to the real meaning of a proper left platform and proper left force, free and outside the real extreme and radicalization
insanity that it has being under for quite a long while up to now,
and also manage to get it out of that full devious supreme grip control of/by the Old Guard crazies cabal?
Who do you think can and has a chance to successfully achieve that?
Oh well, maybe another grumpiness on my part.
cheers
“The Buck Stops … over there, somewhere. I don’t even know their name. Someone else must have hired him/her. I, like, know what I’m, like, talking about. STOP MAKING FUN OF ME BECAUSE OF WHAT I SAY!!!!! (somebody else, like, must’ve said it)” – AOC
At a campsite in the Italian Alps in 1980 I met two German engineering apprentices, who had an old Saab 96 (beautiful car) , and had manufactured the most amazing tent pegs from some hard alloy. You could hammer these things through stones that would terminate the useful life of most other tent pegs. But that’s an aside. Their bumper sticker, styled like the ‘Nuclear Power, No Thanks’ ones, read ‘Atomkraftgegner überwintern bei Dunkelheit mit kaltem Hintern’.
Anglophones often say that that Germans have no sense of humour. Not true. This is funny, and it rhymes.
I really ought to get a t-shirt with that on it.
Along with a another that states CO2 = Plant Food.
Well then,”the butler done it”.
Funny how our progressive comrades are never responsible for anything,unless said thing is advantageous to the narrative.
Also ironic is how this “person of the people” immediately falls back on the standard excuse of effeet elites;”The peasants are revolting….Can’t get good help….vast right wing conspiracy”..
AOC’s excuse is not much better than someone saying,
“Drat, my plans for technocratic world domination by utterly destroying the world economy were ACCIDENTALLY published online, that was just supposed to be an internal proposal, so nothing to see here.”
Which begs the question: What the hell was anyone in AOC’s office doing with such a proposal in the first place? And why would they post it online unless they had absolutely no ability whatsoever to discern a really bad idea when it was staring them right in the face?
Drat; my plan would have worked if it wasn’t for those meddling kids. Scooby-Dooby-Dooooo!
Give it up girl as the well to do know what Green New Deals are all about already-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/sheerans-pond-inspected-after-neighbours-complain/ar-BBVooHq
Spare no expense when it comes to the great crested newts although Ed was apparently a charity supporter of ‘No Cold Homes’ so he might be a closet skeptic among the usual suspects. LOL.
Hypocritical and blaming others for mistake .. how to identify the progressive left
She talks about greenhouse gas emissions. The greenhouse gas that is emitted in the largest quantities in both the USA and the rest of the world is H2O and not CO2 and her Green New Deal does nothing to reduce H2O emissions and does very little to decrease the overall radiant greenhouse effect for those who believe in that sort of thing.
The reality is that, based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, one can conclude that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. There is plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. But even if we could somehow stop the climate from changing, extreme weather events and sea level rise would continue because they are both part of the current climate. We do not even know what the optimum climate is, let alone how to achieve it. We do not know of a global climate that is not associated with extreme weather events. The Green New Deal would assuredly ruin our current global economy without any possible benefit to mankind.
There is no discernible influence of Livestock on the climate, whatsoever:
https://www.intechopen.com/books/forage-groups/domestic-livestock-and-its-alleged-role-in-climate-change