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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Clearly the old adage, “you don’t have to be an idiot to be a democrat, but it helps”, has just been endorsed.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
Here is the thing she seems to have forgotten about her little “joke”: When she said it, it was the lead in to her presentation of her Green New Deal, and the start of a full court press on the subject by her and many other US politicians, with them all using similar language to proclaim Global Warming to be her generation’s WWII, or their Moon Program, or whatever other humongous project they could think of. And it was also roughly contemporaneous with her rollout of the GND in printed form, presented as a detailed congressional bill, and complete with widespread endorsements, including the endorsements of, IIRC, every Democratic presidential contender. For the better part of a week, the text of the bill itself, the infamous and subsequently deleted FAQ page to the bill, and hers and other’s statements re the end of the world and the GND were collectively the top story across the country, with an avalanche of coverage and articles on the whole thing.
She is simply lying when she claims she meant it as a joke.
I mean, it is a joke, like pretty much every word she utters, but she did not mean for it to be.
It was a scolding, and she meant to be taken perfectly seriously and, in fact, given over control of the entire economy and the government and the budget from that point onward because, as she explained a few days later, she is “The Boss”.
I cannot wait until 2020 election day night, because I think there is an excellent chance she will be booted out, right on her “only joking” fanny.
And when that happens, I am gonna have the best laugh in a lot of years.
What would be good would be to compile all the people subsequent to AOC who seriously expressed the worry that the world would end if global warming wasn’t addressed in 12 years, and then let them know that AOC thinks they have “the social intelligence of a sea sponge.”
For example, all the little kiddies who visited Dianne Feinstein and criticized her for not backing the New Deal because there were only 12 years left. They probably wouldn’t be happy to be told AOC thinks they have “the social intelligence of a sea sponge.”
It may be 12 years. It is snowing in New England on May 13, Colorado is extending the ski season, the oceans are cooling, the Sun is going into a deep sleep, has been colder than Heck in the Dakota’s into southern Canada…
In a few years the ice sheets may be forming in the polar tundra and start moving south.
Yeah, but the arctic sea ice was at all all time low this April, since records have been kept! (1979).
Except Arctic sea ice VOLUME has been slightly increasing over the past 10 years. Certainly not dropping. The amount of ice = volume.
Picture:
Data: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/txt/IceVol.txt
gee, thats a long time isnt it?
https://www.navalhistory.org/2011/08/11/uss-skate-ssn-578-becomes-the-first-submarine-to-surface-at-the-north-pole
Yes, and the more sea ice is “lost” between mid-August and mid-April, the more heat is lost from the newly-exposed Arctic Ocean to the infinite cold of space.
Yes, in those fleeting few weeks between mid-April and mid_August, heat can be gained from the “darker” exposed Arctic waters. But not as much is gained as is lost through the rest of the year.
The biggest measured positive anomaly in the Arctic sea ice record – the last (and only) time sea ice extent was greater than 2 std deviations above the 30 year “average” – occurred just 5 months before the lowest ever September minimum.
Well, if she’s only joking, she better let Bill Nye in on the joke.
Seriously, wondered why that twit is trending. You’ll never guess why!
It helps to put it all into perspective.
Since the beginning of human history, and without fail, everyone who has ever predicted the end of the world has been wrong.
I see no reason why this trend will not continue.
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
Well, I take everything she says to be a joke, just not necessarily one that she’s in on.
AOC is a lower order species than a sea sponge. She said it first.
[Please do not denigrate sea sponges in this forum. .mod]
Spongebob Squarepants has a lot more respect.
that’s because SpongeBob SquarePants is a lot more coherent and less nonsensical.
When low information voters elect a low information Bar Tender to Congress, the depths of inanity are limitless.
In this case, she just angered 50% of her supporters; whom, like her, initially believed this Chicken Little horsehocky. We were correct in taking her literally: She was wrong and just made matters worse by reversing over her fan club.
Two-years of this half-wit is 729-days too long
When Democrats wanted to razz GW Bush, they said he was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.
Here AOC won a “rotten borough” where she had NO Republican challenger to speak of, and she’s a genius.
2000 Gore (D) 70 – 23%
2004 Kerry (D) 74 – 25%
2008 Obama (D) 78 – 21%
2012 Obama (D) 80 – 18%
2008 Obama 76 – 23%
2012 Obama 81 – 18%
2016 Clinton 77 – 20%
Democratic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 78%
Working Families Joe Crowley (incumbent) 6.6%
Republican Anthony Pappas 13.8%
Conservative Elizabeth Perri 1.6%
Even the NYT isn’t amazed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-primary-third-parties.html
What happens to AOC when she eats ice cream too fast?
NOTHING!!!!!
So is she saying she has no credibility and she shouldn’t be taken seriously when she speaks? Because I’m good with that.
So obviously then the press should stop fact checking all those times they fact checked Trumps hyperbole or sarcastic comments… Yeah, not holding my breath on that.
OAC is right on one point. If you believe anything she says, you have the intellect of a sponge.
Her base.
Is it really a joke if not a single person in the audience laughed when the comment issued forth from her mouth?
What? AOC says that the “science” from the UN IPCC was created by people with the “intelligence of a sea sponge”?
http://pcap2016.org/new-from-the-ipcc-12-years-left-to-keep-warming-to-1-5oc/
Ye are being gaslighted! Remember, not just CO2, but Russiagate, or the Kavanaugh circus? Maybe Venezuela, China Trade? Ok, Bolton has no lipstick under the ‘stache, a.f.a.i.k.
And AOC is right – ye fell for it! Pretty dumb! She makes Mann look dated!
Listen up! Here a classic movie clip – Gaslight :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp5iPmpZiNE
Weird how the Gen X or Z zoo can do that to otherwise well-meaning skeptics?
Apparently all mention of this on Facebook since earlier this morning has been scrubbed.
I Was Joking About World Ending In 12 Years, and you’re an idiot if you believed me.
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She was speaking to her base at the time……..just sayin’.
So AOC confirms that the Green New Deal is a farce.
Of course we believed her, she didn’t say Bazinga after the joke.
She got part of it right; “you’re an idiot if you believed me”. It’s safe to say that this is how she views ALL of her followers. We have yet to see ANY reason to believe ANYTHING she says! WHY? Because she is an idiot. It’s jut that simple!
Here’s what Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said: “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?”
Maybe she believed that literally. Or maybe she meant we have 12 years to implement the “national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II” or else doomsday will strike later in the century. Either way, she wasn’t kidding.
More importantly, both claims are horse feathers, Bjorn Lomborg explained a few days after she said it: https://nypost.com/2019/01/27/what-science-could-teach-ocastio-cortez-about-climate-change/
Here’s what Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said: “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?”
Maybe she believed that literally. Or maybe she meant we have 12 years to implement the “national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II” or else doomsday will strike later in the century. Either way, she wasn’t kidding.
More importantly, both claims are horse feathers, as Bjorn Lomborg explained a few days after she said it: https://nypost.com/2019/01/27/what-science-could-teach-ocastio-cortez-about-climate-change/
I was taught at work to never say or do anything that you wouldn’t want shown on the front page of the newspaper. If AOC didn’t really believe that the world was going to end in 12 years, then she should never had said it in the first place. However, the left’s modus operandi, and especially the social justice and eco warriors, is to wildly exaggerate the problems (lie) in order to achieve their ends, then when caught in the lie and called on the carpet try to laugh it off as a joke or sarcasm, and state “You really didn’t think that was true? I was just kidding.”
This is also a tactic used by Greenpeace:
“Greenpeace admitted in legal filings its campaign to vilify a Canada-based logging company was based on ‘hyperbole’ and ‘non-verifiable statements of subjective opinion’ that weren’t meant to be taken literally.”
https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/03/greenpeace-admits-an-anti-logging-campaign-is-based-on-subjective-opinion/
It’s one thing to not know what a garbage disposer is. Quite another not to know what a joke is.
(I already stole the excellent ice cream joke above.)