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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Doesn’t look like she was joking:
I swear I’m not making this up:
Yes, I’m a conservative Christian (gasp). But I read the “Babylon Bee” before actually hearing this piece of news. I honestly thought that it was true satire by the “Bee” (the whole “sea sponge” thing). Because that’s what it sounded exactly like. When I later listened to the “Matt Walsh Show” podcast, and realized it might be true, I had to go on the (multicolored logo search engine) to check and see if that was true. Good Lord it was. I seriously thought it was satire. This woman has made truth and satire indistinguishable.
Thank you Democrats for 4 more Trump years.
Back to her original ” world is going to end ” statement; I forget now, was that for a particular time and time zone? Greenwich? PDT? AWST?… at 5:00 in the afternoon?
Sure, we believe she was just joking! (Wink-wink, smirk!)
Alexandria, your supporters took you at your word. They glue themselves to all kinds of things, go on rampages and are suicidal because of what you say. Now you say that those very people that support you and that went bonkers because of their 12 year lifeline are all Bozos? Because I never took anything serious that you said, I always knew that you would say whatever you think the people you need to vote for you would like to hear. Right now, you told them that they should go bang their head against the wall. That’s how stupid you just called them. You know what – you were right.
“Alexandria, your supporters took you at your word. They glue themselves to all kinds of things, go on rampages and are suicidal because of what you say…”
That’s a good point: AOC just told the “Extinction Rebellion” that they have the intellect of a sea sponge. I wonder if they appreciate that characterization of the intellect?
“That’s a good point: AOC just told the “Extinction Rebellion” that they have the intellect of a sea sponge. I wonder if they appreciate that characterization of the intellect?”
Well, “intellect” is a three syllable word. They used up their syllable quota when they spent days thinking up their name. So they have no idea they’ve been insulted.
(Psssst… somebody should tell Kamala, Liz, Spartacus, Kirsten, Amy, the Bern, Inslee, Yin, Fidel Jr., the Mayor of Podunkville and O’Dork she was just kidding. Haha. Just kidding. Get it?)
Well I’m certainly impressed at how well she can backpedal with her foot still firmly implanted in her mouth.
So, did she just insult all her followers by saying they have the intellect of a sea sponge? After all, they all believed her.
Yup. AOC may have realised that Trump will be in the White House until 2024 which will mean the world will end 6 years from then. Even the most eco-anxious will find that hard to swallow.
It looks like her career in politics will be over soon after scoring that massive own goal.
So you were joking and it IS okay to have children??? I hope that V job didn’t take! LOL I wonder if this means AOC is preggers.
Well, she was right about the second part.
And ‘Beto’ O’Rourke At the Iowa High School In February-
“ If we do not abolish all fossil fuels within 12 yeas, everything on the planet will be dead.The scientists are 100% united on this.Just as Americans of the past had to fight get at Normandy, we have to fight this now and save our planet.”
This guy is actually standing for President of the United States.
Was the Amazon rant also a joke?
The “only joking ” defence, usually used by teenagers and the otherwise brainless (even if only for a minute) when they realise they have said something cosmically stupid and are still trying to get away with it.
Her electorate must be so proud they sent her to congress. What an asset to the country.
As a member of congress, she should not be joking. So from now on we should assume that everything she says is just some sort of joke.
I’ve considered her a complete joke since day one. That her constituents were stupid enough to vote for her doesn’t say much for them.
Americans should consider themselves lucky: for all the disproportionate publicity she gets from a compliant and lazy media, she’s only one of a handful of rookie Reps, with one vote (and as we have seen, her party doesn’t even support her when it counts).
Here in Canada, we actually elected someone dumber as Prime Minister, with a majority, and in our parliamentary system of government, he has the sort of power that a US president could only hope for…
I don’t believe any on this side of the argument believed the lady.
Folks on this side criticised her for making stupid statements.
Just who are the idiots who believed her? Her own supporters?
correct Bruce. Made fun of? yes. Believed? no.
So is she saying the IPCC 12 year threat is BS?
Ah, I get it now. AOC says we should not take her seriously because everything she says a joke.
It’s the Harry Mudd paradox.
“Everything I say is a lie”
“I’m lying”
Evil Canadian Maurice Strong arises from the grave: “Hey, just kiddin’ folks”. Fade out to Looney Tunes.
Liberals. Even they don’t take what they say seriously.
I have known less than successful teenagers try to pull that one on me. They eventually grow out of it but at great cost to themselves and sometimes to those around them. The collateral damage of her kind of thinking can be enormous as we wait for good sense to kick in.
So…does this mean that other things she has said could also be just a joke? How do you tell the difference? I am sure her constituents will be pleased at being duped.
She got told to retract it. It was going to be an election lance for the Republicans against the Dems. Still might be.
AOC is the joke, not her insane statement. “Like, the world, you know, like, will, like end, like, in 12 years, you know, if we don’t, like, address, like, Climate Change, you know?”
The video of this profoundly stupid AOC pronouncement shows the inane crowd applauded (not laughed at) this imbecilic statement..
For AOC to say three months later this insane statement was a joke shows she is just a sock puppet of the far Left who is willing to say absolutely anything to stay relevant…
Make AOC Bartend Again….
In April she seemed to say this was not. Subject to joke about.
AOC -“For everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids will not,” she warned. “So, understand that the internet documents everything.”
For more see https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/04/ocasio-cortez_to_critics_of_green_new_deal_i_pity_you_for_your_role_in_history_right_now.html
What grandkids. If you follow AOC’s advice you won’t have kids let alone grandkids. Or was she “joking” about not having kids as well? What else has she been “joking” about and is there anything she has said that she classifies as “serious”?
Her voters should say the same about their votes
Bollocks. The liberal/left don’t do jokes.