See update below.
If you ever needed proof that liberalism has become a mental illness, you need only watch this.
One of Ocasio-Cortez's constituents loses her mind over climate change during AOC's townhall, claims we only have a few months left: "We got to start eating babies! We don't have enough time! … We have to get rid of the babies! … We need to eat the babies!" pic.twitter.com/uVmOnboluI
If you can’t see the video in the Twitter post, here is the link to YouTube.
UPDATE: It seems this was a stunt:
The trolling stunt was a street performance of a passage from Jonathan Swifts satire “A Modest Proposal“:
I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand children, already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle, or swine, and my reason is, that these children are seldom the fruits of marriage, a circumstance not much regarded by our savages, therefore, one male will be sufficient to serve four females. That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.
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“We have to eat babies to survive climate change”
Better to eat them than let NASA scare the hell out of them.
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/
https://youtu.be/nixR6wVa4HY
Any time the ___ch gets caught with her pants down saying or being associated with someone saying something totally outrageous…
It’s just a Stunt … or … I was only joking
Is this truly how we want our sitting Senators to act and project themselves?
No schist !
It’s a bit sad that anyone, in their eagerness to attack AOC or climate alarmists, is prepared to believe this was for real but I think this outstanding performance finally disproves the claim that you cannot parody climate alarmists. I’ve often said that myself, but we’ve been proved wrong.
It’s not easy and this woman is probably the only person in the world to successfully pull it off. Her performance deserves an Oscar.
The woman in question did a great job. As to AOC, I am definitely no fan of hers but feel she handled it well. If she was in the dark that this was a stunt, then to immediately go on the defense and talk about ‘babies being eaten’ would have made her an enabler. AOC tried to answer with an encouraging topic, while trying to calm the woman down. And the comment about “even if we bombed Russia, we would still have too many people….”!
Yeah, she set out to Jonathan Swiftboat AOC and wound up Jonathan Swiftboating skeptics as well with her Poe-faced, plaintive eco-Scando persona. I hope she gets a TV deal.
Was her accent an imposture? That was my first thought, not because it was badly done, but because it was just too perfectly-suited to the character. The kind of thing you couldn’t make up… unless you did.
She failed to Fool Me, but there’s no shame in that. I probably enjoyed it all the more for knowing I was witnessing art, not psychosis.
But veal is out of the question.
Ha ha ha
The vegans will be eat only seeds?
Come to Hungary. We got veal. Lots of veal. Eat veal every day if you want. In every restaurant.
And why not?
I can’t help feeling that this was a sick hoax, she had a T shirt already printed, but only took her jacket off so you could see what it said when she started ranting. At least I hope it was a hoax rather than someone even more crazy than AOC!
The problem for AOC is she didn’t say “no, we’re not going to eat babies.” She answered it calmly as if was a serious question that wasn’t simply absurd.
In 1988 Dukakis had that infamous moment after they asked him whether he’d be for the death penalty for a brutal killer of his wife, and he stood there cold faced, saying “no” and talking about statistics.
In some sense this was like a Dukakis moment for AOC, because she couldn’t say the obvious: no to eating babies.
Which would make it close to being a perfect troll, if that’s indeed what it was.
That’s what I first thought. Surely she can’t be serious? Surely?
These days it’s hard to distinguish satire from ordinary, everyday insanity.
Insanity thrives when there isn’t any satire.
“Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.”
Satire exposes insanity.
Gore Vidal: If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
It’s a parody. And don’t call her Shirley.
+++
It’s called an inversion. Reality and parody have switched places.
I hear Dilbert said that it is an inversion, so it must be true.
Inversion of the Body Snatchers?
That was the impression that I got, was that she was deliberately making a parody of AOC. She was really “hamming it up” and hopefully she, (AOC) got the message that she was coming across as a fool.
I agree. Someone punking AOC. Not real. That’s my opinion.
I think it’s creation of the LaRouchePAC. Here’s an interview with a guy in the same T-shirt taking orders for Thanksgiving.
https://twitter.com/Burke4Senate/status/1179965951036596225
Yeah, I think the lady asking the questions may be the same person in the above video. Good one.
I don’t use Twitter but this one’s pretty funny.
I think the woman is either insane or mentally retarded.
If she could read, she should read this, but its unlikely she would understand it.
https://rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/ever-been-told-that-the-science-is-settled-with-global-warming-well-read-this-and-decide-for-yourself/
The sad truth is that if we are hysterical enough to take on all these “solutions” to combat climate change we will indeed starve .
“More than a billion people suffer from energy poverty around the world and plans proposed by the Democratic candidates for the party’s nomination for President, like various version of the Green New Deal, would bring poverty and death for millions in the United States.”
Read ” The push for Energy Socialism” Also on WUWT. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/03/the-push-for-energy-socialism-in-the-united-states/
She was a Troll…with props…note the shirt
But a troll parroting their own extremist message.
That’s called an effective troll – not the type you encounter here.
I think it was actually a genius marketing strategy for the LaRouchePAC, specifically US Senate candidate Daniel Burke.
https://twitter.com/Burke4Senate
The trouble is that there are a lot of real mentally ill or not yet fully mentally grown (young children who still believe in Santa Claus) people who really think we ‘re in a climate crisis. They can be brutally fanatic like we see in child soldiers.
This stunt only shows where people like AOC will take us because if she doesn’t do it someone even more extreme will take her place.
What scares me more is that MSM is not all over this?
Let her parents start
Didn’t they just tell us to stop eating red meat? One thing is that I don’t understand them. The question is do they, the bitter resentful, understand themselves? They hate the World so much that anything goes?
Would we complain if the liberals eat their own and hasten their own extinction?
If it involves sacrifice, socialists always want someone else to do it.
In Order to survive climate change we all have to lie down and die?
Yes. Yes, that is what we must do. Don’t you get it?..says the radical pig leftist.
Good grief, what has this climate catastrophe come to? That vocal young women is almost as bright as AOC. Two peas in a pod. I wonder if the backroom manipulators like Gore/Mann et al, are wondering if they have maybe over hyped the CO2 angle being responsible for all climate change. I would be embarrassed to be an alarmist.
I wonder if that lady ate her therapist.
Mental comfort food.
Alarmists are insane; and misanthropes:
https://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2012/04/our-abc-green-narrative.html
They have it under control – not.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1179717732775759872
I can’t find the right words to express how bat s… crazy this has become.
It’s like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO5TNU3fiJo
I can find the words but I’m not allowed to use them.
Excellent summation.
AOC follower and berserk.
Isn’t that redundant?
Mama, don’t your babies grow up to be babies.
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AOC refuses to condemn eating babies!
+1000
She probably loves babies. Just can’t finish a whole one.
OK I think you just won the thread…
Babies, … the other white meat.
Small for a turkey substitute, big for a chicken replacement.
Holiday ham sized.
Do they come in spiral sliced?
I am eagerly awaiting the AOC food critics review saying that they taste just like chicken.
That’s an old one, and I was about to post something similar. Still funny though!
That might actually constitute stealing someone’s childhood.
+1000
AOC obviously believes that baby eaters are ‘fine people’! Impeach her!
Always Openly Cannibalistic
AOC’s Green New Meal
https://twitter.com/SugarPillKiller/status/1179962760878149632
Don’t look so disturbed, Alexandria.. surely this is the kind of behaviour you wanted? No?
It’s so progressive and with progressive anything goes?
Was she a farcical agent provocateur?
It sure looked like one big Troll to me. I think she pushed it just a little too far. But authentic or not, nobody in the room uttered a single word in response. Nada. They just sat there nodding their heads to … one of their own.
I think you are right..a bit of a plant.. making a point using their own stupidity and extrapolating it a bit to its most idiotic conclusion..
https://assets.amuniversal.com/ba290890c0470137c01c005056a9545d
It’s satire, Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal redux.
“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.”
(from A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift)
Well… Looks like after all these years we finally discover who this very knowing American is.
My first thought as well
Climate dementia. This is what happens when this sort of hysterical lunacy bubble is not burst earlier-people start coming out with totally insane ideas. Don’t laugh- pagan human sacrifices to the weather gods are a feature of past cultures. Do remember, the human brain is the same today as it was 10,000 years ago. Humans are just as vulnerable to nonsense now as they were in pagan human sacrifice days. Well may we laugh at the absurdities of the past, but are the measures proposed to combat “climate change” any less idiotic than sacrificing virgins in live volcanoes?
I never thought I’d see the day when I’d end up wondering what a United States congresswoman’s position is on whether to eat babies.
Doh, didn’t see another “David” in here – I’ll start using my last name so we can tell each other apart 8)
Swedish professor, who is she talking about? But that is just absolutely crazy…couple of months left, too must CO2…batsh!t crazy!
She was referring to the Swedish professor who recently suggested cannibalism as a climate solution.
Are the Swedes letting loose all their homegrown nutbars in the US this month?
They already released their meatballs (which I’m now wondering are made of).
Swedish meatballs are made of Swedish Meat
The younger the source, the more tender it is
There was a story a little while back about eating people to save the planet from climate change.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/09/05/cannibalism-professor-says-eating-human-flesh-will-save-planet-from-climate-change/
And I thought I had seen everything. I really did… but I was wrong… and I still haven’t seen EVERYTHING.
Ummm….. that pathetic individual needs help… lots of help… a quiet place with no electronic stuff to disturb her….
Anyone who goes into a panicky wacko rant like that in public has a problem, a real problem, and not something to make fun of, either. She needs help right now…. unless, of course, she was faking it to get attention. And frankly, nothing would surprise me less if attention is the real reason behind that rant.
Next to her, Greta T. makes actual sense of some kind.
Good grief.
Sara, This is what I sent in an email to my friends this morning:
” . . .But the woman that was ranting at AOC’s townhall is mental. And I do feel sorry for her because the global warming fear mongers have driven the poor woman crazy with their dooms day predictions. I was watching Tucker Carlson last evening and at the end of his show they had the clip of the poor woman at the townhall. She was very passionate and I believe she really thinks the planet only has a few months left.
Yes, I do hope the woman gets help because she’s likely to descend into despair and kill herself because she thinks there is no hope. And that’s just sad. But it also makes me madder than hell at the cynical bastards that manipulate people to this end.
AOC and her ilk on the other hand deserve out utter contempt and scorn. Their hysteria over imminent climate/weather doom is what drives these weak souls to despair. And it’s all a scam for money and power.
. . . “
Well, yes, of course this case represents mental illness – and that is why I think WUWT should simply not have bothered reporting it. I know a fair bit about human insanity, having worked a lifetime in mental hospitals (while we had them!). I remember a certain number of clinical cases of schizophrenia coming in with delusions about “radio waves”, then (in the 1960s) it became about “television” or “flying saucers” or “moon landings”. Insane people often pick obvious current phenomena to construct an edifice of delusions about – as any psychiatrist will tell you.
Forget about it – it is not worth getting worked up about.
What revealed to you that this woman suffers from mental illness? Was it her words or how she said them? Her words really weren’t that much different from other climate alarmists, just stated in a slightly more blunt and hysterical way.
The point in sharing this sad scene is so that people can realize that the rhetoric of climate alarmists in general is just as insane and dangerous. The whole climate change movement is an “edifice of delusions”, and the sooner everyone realizes it, the better.
Excellent question from James Clarke : How does one diagnose schizophrenia? Just what is the difference between the delusions of sane people – and those of insane people? I must admit that without knowing a bit more about this young lady I cannot be 100 per cent sure she is insane. But if she continually expresses such mad opinions with such conviction and vehemence for weeks and cannot accept any arguments to the contrary – then she is mad. The rule of thumb is here that if common sense tells you she is mad – she IS mad. Lunacy was diagnosed by common sense for 100,000 years before the invention of psychiatrists – in civilised countries in a court of law.. About one third of new cases of the illness will recover spontaneously within days or weeks. But if the illness has slow beginnings and establishes itself over weeks rather than over a day or two, her chances of recovery are very slim. Once the illness is chronic it is incurable.
Andy, I presume you are talking about AOC, re, the gestation period of insanity? The young disciple putting that extreme Green Socialist anxiety into words “we must eat babies”was just revealing to the wider world, what the end game of this collective climate alarm insanity is. The high priests of the movement are the ones who are insane.
Rod Evans – I am simply talking about a young person coming down with the illness of schizophrenia (as one per cent of all people in the world will) . Cases vary enormously in their clinical appearance – it is difficult to believe that they can possibly represent the same illness, but that is what Bleuler suggested a hundred years ago. And no convincing arguments exist for him being wrong (irrespective of our psychiatric, diagnostic manual (DSM) now feebly suggesting otherwise).
No, the high priests of the movement are not clinically insane – they are just plain silly and deluded. You can argue that they are mentally disturbed, pathologically anxious, neurotic or whatever – but such conditions are qualitatively different from lunacy.
Poor lass.
AOC and her staff didn’t seem to quite know what to do with the poor demented thing. Wonder if AOC saw a little of herself there.
She’s an AOC creation, plain and simple. If that’s not a wake-up call to AOC, well then she’s beyond reach.
Eating babies is bad for the planet.
Eat em, abort em . Tomato, tomahto.
“There are but two ways of forming an opinion in science. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they do not fit theory laid down by authority.” from “Life-Line” by Robert A. Heinlein August, 1939.
C’mon… This can’t be real. If it is, it makes a strong case for involuntary commitment to a psychiatric ward.
But only before the second, third, perhaps fourth trimester.
Human sacrificial rites for social progress. Human sacrificial rites for social justice. Human sacrificial rites for fair weather. Sure, why not.
Fourth trimester?
What sort of fractions are you usin’ there?
It’s the late-late-term abortion (i.e. post-birth child left on a steel slab) that was offered for consideration several trimesters ago.
It’s also a unit of measure equal to three months. That said, applying Occam’s scalpel leads us to conclude that selective and cannibalized-child have already been normalized for the sake of a liberal society, green lawns, and now fair weather. A logical progression.
Sounds like old Azteca
Moloch would be proud.
Perhaps not cannibalism in the conventional sense (i.e. ingestion and digestion), but rather clinical cannibalism or recycled-child under the “planned parenthood” umbrella.
It’s not good to agitate the psychos. Sometimes the psychos act out when their mental strain gets to be too much for them to handle, after hearing too many scary science fiction stories about CO2.
CAGW lies have consequences.
It took me about 40 seconds to figure out how the left will spin this, because I am kinda tired and this poor woman is so obviously the product of AOC and the other alarmists. But the obvious is not acceptable to the paradigm, so this woman’s condition must be the fault of evil climate deniers! You see, if you had not taken all of that Big Oil blood money and stopped the necessary actions from being taken 20 years ago (i.e. turning all power over to radical leftists), this distraught woman would now be sleeping peacefully in a care-free socialist Garden-of-Eden utopia. BUT NO! You prevented everything good from happening, and now we are doomed to 3 degrees warming and have to eat our babies!
I don’t know how you climate deniers sleep at night after forcing the world to eat babies! I disgust me!
(Hey! I think I am getting the hang of this post-modern, post-rational world!)
You’re definitely getting the “POST” part down
That post was most proper
+42^42
I don’t see anything to watch.
get a real browser
I’m using Chrome. Is that real enough?
I see your lead sentence, and something tries to load, then it goes away. No ad blocker.
Looks like it was blocked by DuckDuckGo’s privacy essentials.
Try this:
https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/1179947901847367680?s=20