Ocasio-Cortez recants with insult: I Was Joking About World Ending In 12 Years, and you’re an idiot if you believed me
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that she was joking around when she claimed the world was going to end in 12 years if we do not take serious action against Climate Change, a declaration she’s been widely criticized over. The 29-year-old socialist mocked the Republican Party for taking her claim about the end of the world seriously, which she suggested was a combination of “dry humor + sarcasm.”
AOC in a tweet published on Mother’s Day:
She looked dead serious to me when she first said it:
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Occasional-Cortex is a monumental moron and she should not take anything that she hears coming out of her mouth at all seriously as it is completely misguided by her brain.
Presumably we can be reassured that her GND is also intended as “sarcasm” , I mean no one is really going to spend that much money, right? It’s obviously a joke.
Maybe she needs to explain that to the rest of her Dim-Dem mates who didn’t get the joke and all EU leftists who are trying ape he “humourous” agenda.
They must be idiots too.
You would be referring to Harris, Booker, Sanders, and a couple other of our “brainiacs” who endorsed her GND. At least they were smart enough not to vote for it.
On the other hand, they weren’t smart enough to vote against it. And these folks are running for president!
There’s no takesies-backsies on this. She said it with a straight face and that earnest wrinkle in her forehead and got hammered for it, and now she’s saying it was a joke.
She has confirmed her status as a political animal, something that switches positions and public pronouncements with whichever way the wind blows.
What a dork!!!
with her status confirmed sata – we just have to establish WHICH political animal she is – I see a lemming
Agreed, Sara!
Ocasio not only made the statement, she doubled down repeatedly shortly afterwards.
Now, it appears someone or some people made a heroic effort to teach a little reality to ocasional.
Causing Ocasional to broadly demean others:
A) Blames everyone else for Ocasio’s idiocy.
B) Labels Ocasio’s followers as “sea sponge” stupid.
* i) N.B., Followers that rabidly attacked commenters against the ‘Green New Dead Civilizations Deal’ on multiple social media and news sites.
Such a sweet politico, Not!
So what is her timeline. 24 Yrs, 50, 100? Not? A sweet potato, maybe.
It took her 3 months to fess up that was a joke?
She’s a bit slow on the “make it up as you go along” thing. She needs prompting constantly, so she can forget about an acting career (outside of the House of Representatives).
Really?
Surely you mean its a dork who would take what she said literally?
This girl is really making neo-conservative heads explode. I like the cut of her jib.
I was wondering when this hack troll would show up.
She DID take it literally – and so did her moron followers – you can help her back track and lie all you want – that’s your job as a troll, right? No – she’s really THAT stupid – THAT’s what’s making intelligent, rational people angry – deservedly so – because she’s an elected representative and will act on it.
And look at you – trying to prop her up. See no one HERE took her claims seriously, but we know damn well SHE did – and you know it too.
She’s literally barely cognitive and you progressives want to put this little twit in charge of environmental policy.
I’m not surprised you would support this neo-fascist, socialist – you’re a kindred soul.
Yeah it was so obviously a joke that at least one other liberal lunatic took up the chorus; remember Robert Francis O’Rourke (Beto? What the hell is a Beto anyway? Coming in second to an alpha? For him that makes perfect sense). He proclaimed far and wide that the science was settled, that we had only 10 years to turn away from the brink of global disaster. Someone help me out, I know there were more AOC parrots repeating her doomsday warning.
Oh Loydo, you have no idea, are very confused, and are simply not qualified to dine at the grownups table.
While she’s a massive headache to mainstream lefties, she’s making no conservative heads explode, except maybe with massive ear to ear grins. We WANT to her keep talking, be on every talk show, express her true self. She exposes you people better than any investigative journalist ever could.
She is a gift from the Gods, and may single handedly get Trump re-elected. Keep talking AOC!!!
~ Proud Americans
You’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to spout that kind of nonsense in the first place!
She is finding that competing with the Onion is pretty hard!
I think with this recant, her new nickname should be Obsolete-Cortex.
I just re-watched the video. She was, without a doubt, dead serious. The cheers and applause she got for the ridiculous statement reveal a roomful of monumental morons. God help us.
AOC is a joke
She wouldn’t know it, but she’s the opposite of a garbage disposal.
A Garbage Sow
She’s a political creature (PC), which is rather common.
Definitely not funny
…. and with a mental age of 12 years, although saying that is an insult to 12-year olds.
I don’t know about that, Greta Thunberg can “see” CO2 and she is 16yo.
Considering that an 8 year old young lady destroys AOC’s bogus claims.
Mini aoc released her latest today, using the GND as a central theme.
https://youtu.be/VMsov0H06g0
Is ‘the social intelligence of a sea sponge’ similar to that of a basket of deplorables ?
Speaking of techniques…..
It must be similar to the IQ of the voters in her district tho……
Is joking about the world ending similar to joking about Russia finding Hillary’s missing emails? One was clearly a joke since the hard-drive may have had them was in a safe at FBI HQs. Projection on their part.
Well, I heard another political wonk say that we need to take action within 5 years or else, etc., etc.
I think it’s a shame AOC is denigrating sea sponges. After all, they’ve survived millions of years and are doing quite well.
That’s because they drive electric cars.
And don’t have garbage disposals
Yeah, and like Sponge Bob has his own tv show, and that’s way better than AOC has ever done!
Well, she’s certainly right about being an idiot if you believe her.
While trying to back-track off of completely serious remarks, the only ‘sea-sponges’ that believed her, were her own base.
How sea-sponge do you need to be to not know the difference between internal ledger adjustment transactions and real budgeted money?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/fact-check-pentagon-medicare-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html
Exactly right, and she doesn’t even get that she is calling her supporters and the Democrats stupid, you know, the ones that actually believed her.
No Republicans believed her. Mocking her with faux-belief is typical Saturday Night Live comedy fodder. It doesn’t GET any better than that to have such an idiot as a “leader”. “Social intelligence” ? How about some actual human intelligence?
FACT CHECK WHAT??? That she has no idea what she’s talking about?
It took her this long to figure out that her GND and “the world ending in 12 years” were 10 Pinocchios?
I have friends that live in her District. What an embarrassment for them, but they say that Nancy Pelosi is absolutely correct. Put a capital “D” on a glass of water and it would get elected in that district.
Yes, we fact check and we also never forget. I guess those are passe in pop culture politics.
Scare the chjllun and when the damage is done come back with a “JUST KIDDING! Ha Ha!”
Only leftists get to pronounce doomsday, we are all going to die with certainty, declarations, inciting children to run to their parents in tears and then claim “Never mind, it was just a joke” and walk away from it. Of course it requires a major assist from the Propaganda Press.
These propagandists are so obvious it makes you want to wretch. What is most insulting is what it tells us about how stupid they think we all are.
100% true!!! Only the timing as open for debate.
Was it also a joke when she said she’s never before encountered a garbage disposal? That she found it ‘terrifying’, and was ‘not sure if this was environmentally sound?’
And the hell of it is, she auditioned for this part – she’s there to purely and simply to push a message and an agenda, so there’s absolutely no possibility of her ‘learning’ anything.
I never found her amusing – she’s an elected representative and she’s going to act on her own idiocy – AND she’s got a following.
THAT”s something I find terrifying.
It is actually quite common for native New Yorkers to have never seen a garbage disposal. They were banned there for decades. Because it was considered bad for the centuries old sewage system.
Get on her for anything valid …like policy positions…but when you’re looking for every little thing to attack her on it just becomes mean and purposeless. Try to go for the policies…and have a rebuttal with a better policy. Then I and others whose views differ from yours might actually listen to what you have to say…
Oh, I think it’s valid – it’s not a ‘little thing’ for her to find ‘terror’ and concern over ‘environmental soundness’ in these same little things – these are ‘deaths by a thousand cuts’ that progressives specialize in – banning everything that ruffles her feathers. See that IS indicative of policy.
And based on your above comment alone, trying to rationalize away utterly stupid remarks, I write people like you off already – you DON’T listen, you’ve already spun and forgiven every idiot remark this little twit has to say.
I’ve never had a butler, but by 29yoa I was aware of their existence in other homes. Garbage disposals are fairly common in the rest of the country and on movies and TV.
“Ocasio-Cortez recants with insult: I Was Joking About World Ending In 12 Years, and you’re an idiot if you believed me”…..!
Sooooooo, she just called the fake “liberal media” and all her faithful followers idiots and praised all the Republican “skeptics” that knew she was nuts?
……..ROTFLMAO
It’s terrible when a politician’s statements are taken at face value. She is reminding us to take lessons from other well known examples of humour+sarcasm such as “There was no global Medieval Warm Period, it was regional,” and “You can keep your doctor.”
Be suspicious of anyone who says the world is about to end; be even MORE suspicious of anyone who says the world is about to end…and goes on to specify a date!
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!
We have only about 5 billion years before the sun becomes a red giant. We’ll probably all be dead by then, but the world is still going to end.
Dead by then? Speak for yourself, buddy.
The expansion phase that the Sun will go through to become a red giant will take Millenia to complete. It will be relatively even slower then the ‘sea level rise’ that has Leftists in such a panic. I have little doubt that any descendants we might have Billions of years from now could move the Earth further out to keep it in the habitable zone. If they remember it.
Kind of like how me save historical sites.
~¿~
I can see how people could confuse sarcasm and humor with being serious when you say your words with a completely straight face. AOC is one of the most reasonable and well informed people in politics at the moment.
..but what does 12 years really mean?
global warming > we will be able to grow bananas in Cleveland
climate change > hard freeze hits south Florida and kills all the bananas
BTW Duncan….it was the UN that said it….AOC was just repeating what the UN said
…and she was dead serious
Com’on Lat, the UN was just joking. They tell this joke every decade. You can’t beat the UN for stand-up comedy, although the EU is pretty good at it, too.
D. Smith said: ” AOC is one of the most reasonable and well informed people in politics at the moment.”
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And you said that with a completely straight face.
“AOC is one of the most reasonable and well informed people in politics at the moment.”
What she says is mostly scripted.
I’m still agonizing over dying from cow farts…is that just a joke, to
“AOC is one of the most reasonable and well informed people in politics at the moment.”
Yeah, she’s right up there with Sheila Jackson Lee who thinks Americans planted a flag on Mars, and Hank Johnson who was afraid that Guam would capsize if we got too many people on one side. (That was later claimed to be a joke, too.)
So “reasonable and well informed” that when her Green New Deal was posted on the internet and was quickly noted as being insane and idiotic, a spokesperson claimed it had been a Republican hacked version and then she later specifically blamed an employee for posting the wrong version.
She doesn’t even know the 3 branches of the federal government.
Oh yeah?!?
Olive Branch, North Branch, and….
…OK. You’re right. But two out of three ain’t bad.
Don’t forget, she was talking about the 3 CHAMBERS of the federal government.
I dearly hope this was sarcasm.
A joke that is marketing for select corporations and other special interests.
The Mini-AOC strikes again! Eight year old Ava Martinez delivers another perfect parody of AOC.
Video clip at bottom of linked article:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/mini-aoc-strikes-again-with-another-spot-on-video-mocking-ocasio-cortez/
Please reconsider you’re support of using children as pawns, whether it’s Greta Thunberg or Ava Martinez.
“Please reconsider you’re support of using children as pawns, whether it’s Greta Thunberg or Ava Martinez.”
I understand your point but the main person being used is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It will be interesting to see if she is ever able to figure that out.
Lighten up!
She got a pink mini-Tesla out of it.
(Which is more than we’ll ever get from anything AOC advocates.)
Or AOC.
“Eight year old Ava Martinez delivers another perfect parody of AOC.”
Outstanding parody. Is it possible to have Eva replace AOC in Congress? Eva appears to be much smarter than AOC and does dry humor + sarcasm much better.
The British do “dry humour” better
“humor”. There, fixed it for ya.
Correction:
In English the word is Humour.
In England it is Humour. As yet, those of us across the pond still speak English we just didn’t let French influences alter the way we spell words.
Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.
Sea sponges should be offended by being compared to her.
Interesting. The leftists are trying walk back their insanity. Of course, they’re pointing fingers and blaming everyone but themselves for their abject stupidity. I wonder why AOC seems to have changed her mind on the end of the world
Because her handlers have told her that too many people are calling ‘bullshit’ and she needs to realign her alarmism to a more distant doomsday-date.
But, no, she wasn’t joking – she was selling it for all she was worth. Truth be damned.
Thirteen years ago, the same climate worries were afloat and the good crew here at WUWT actually addressed those concerns and saved the world.
What really happened with AOC is that someone informed her that we’ve continued to address climate change since that time and that we’ve kept disaster at bay, always 13 years or so into the future.
I’m sure it was something like that, with her.
(No Nobel prizes around here for saving the world, though.)
I’m sure she’ll be quite relieved.
Que Gilda Radner: Never mind.
Emily Litella : Never Mind.
“Que Gilda Radner: Never mind.”
RIP Gilda Radner
I wish there was a way to up-vote comments like yours here.
Because Crazy Bernie and the other minions of chaos running fo Prez are starting to get target lock on the Left’s trust funds, inheritances and offshore stashes, that’s why. Capitalism may be deplorable but lift up the rug and it IS paying their bills. That’s why the Establishment is all lining up behind Sleepy Joe–like Jeb! he’s the “safe” choice not to mess with the till.
The GND would put just as big a hurtin’ on THEM as on everyone else. They only sound stupid; underneath, they’re cunning as a weasel. Be willing to bet Nancy is trying to put out the dumpster fire and ordered the walk-back.
Yes, this is known as the “Late Night Talk Show” defence, as perfected by Jon Stewart: when dealing with Super Serious Matter and caught in an obvious porkie, play the “I’m just a comedian” card.
There’s no question that one would have to be an idiot to believe anything she says.
what is “social intelligence”?
Clearly, she is backtracking… obviously stung by the criticism.
“Social Intelligence” is like social media, and about as important to how things work.
Roy,
I’d call “social intelligence” an oxymoron.
Mob Mentality?
A measure of how often you cave to peer pressure? Or just to a peer nudge.
Well, looking at that video, you got to admit, there’s a joke in there someplace.
I don’t think it’s the one she claims, though.
So the stupid cow thinks it’s funny to shit-scare people,
I know one person who attempted suicide because the 12yr claim pushed them over the edge, AOC is a despicable slag.
Is AOC like Michael from the Office?
Michael: I declare bankruptcy!
Oscar: I just wanted you to know that you cant just say the word bankruptcy and expect anything to happen.
Michael: I didnt say it. I declared it.
The people that took her initial statement seriously are on the left. Did she just call those people “idiots”?
That is what is called “A Very Good Point”.
Its like the (now) incredibly overused phrase “dog whistle”. If you are hearing something that someone isn’t actually saying…doesn’t that mean YOU are hearing the dog whistle?
She also just undercut the IPCC, because they are the promoters of the 12- year alarm.
Don’t you love words like “address” climate change and “tackle” climate change, “start now” on climate change? Can you imagine the world if these people were to run it? I think they should be told to shut up or face the music.
Remind me, does the ‘Raising Awareness’ come before or after the ‘tackle’?
And what exactly are we to do if we discover it is ‘already too late’? Do we go home, or to the pub?
Now with AOC telling us she was only joking this entire process is getting very confusing. In fact one might say, ‘It’s Worse Than We Thought’.
“Don’t you love words like “address” climate change and “tackle” climate change”
Wa state governor Jay Inslee, a Dem hopeful for president, uses “tackle” and “defeat” all the time with respect to “climate change”. It’s the most infantile thing I’ve ever heard.
She endorsed this “world-ending-in-12-years sentiment outright”. Even if she did not believe it deeply herself, she still endorsed the sentiment seriously, and so she is a liar, when she says it was a joke. If she put it out there as a fear that people should consider voiced by her generation, then she put it out there to be taken seriously.
Why would she even mention it in a serious tone, if she where not putting out there as a serious belief? She did not indicate then that she did not believe this. She did not indicate then that she was being sarcastic or dramatic. She said it like it was a real, serious concern. She said it seriously. Period. She did not qualify it in any way, other than to put it in a context to be taken seriously.
And the Extinction Rebellion morons took it on in full force. So she just called them idiots.