Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Joe Biden has take the risky step of inviting deep green firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to join his climate policy panel.
Democrat Ocasio-Cortez will serve on Biden’s climate change panel
Trevor Hunnicutt
ENVIRONMENT MAY 13, 2020 / 2:17 PM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO(Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will serve on a panel helping Joe Biden develop climate policy, an aide to the congresswoman said, providing a prominent liberal voice who could help the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s efforts to win his party’s full support.
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“She made the decision with members of the Climate Justice community – and she will be fully accountable to them and the larger advocacy community during this process,” the aide said.
“She believes the movement will only be successful if we continue to apply pressure both inside and outside the system.”
A spokesman for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside of normal working hours.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-climate-idUSKBN22P0F8
Joe Biden may be struggling to win the support of greens and disappointed Bernie comrades.
Despite Biden’s occasional wild threats to jail fossil fuel executives and anti-fracking speeches, A lot of climate activists seem to think Joe Biden’s climate position is not radical enough. Grist’s response to Joe Biden’s recent climate policy podcast was “The whole thing sounds like a voicemail two of your grandparents left you”
Bringing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez onboard might temporarily reassure climate radicals and Bernie comrades about Biden’s candidacy, but how will AOC handle compromising on climate policy?
One misstep and AOC will be accused of selling out. But if AOC doesn’t compromise at least a little, she risks blowing up the whole Democrat party unification process.
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Barackward Obama picked Joe Biden because he made Barry look smart by contrast. The same mechanism is at work here, with Joe Biden’s pick of AOC.
CNN poll of ‘battle ground states’ shows millennials increasingly shifting from Biden support towards Trump support.
Joe is hoping that she wears a tight dress and sits on his lap.
Holy Corn Pop, Batman. How dense can you be? Biden is only in the position of front-runner because the Fashionable Intelligence of the Democratic Party did NOT care to put the 2020 election race in the hands of an unrepentant Socialist. Now Biden wants to drag that camel by the nose back into the tent.
AOC was in awe when she first saw a garborator in her sink, what will she do when she sees a solar panel or a windmill?
I’m surprised that AOC isn’t Joe Dementia’s agriculture advisor, too. After all, she wants to exterminate all the livestock, eliminate “factory farms”, and ban diesel tractors. And outlaw the growing of cauliflower because it’s “colonial”.
“What’s For Lunch?” should be his new campaign slogan.
If you dropped AOC from a helicopter into a bean field, she wouldn’t know “factory farm” from a dog run. This is a gal who can’t grow a chia pet. So naturally she’s the perfect choice for Secty Ag in Joe “Where am I” Groper’s new administration.
With apologies to the Rolling Stones:
Waiting for a girl and her knees are much too fat
Waiting for a girl who wears scarves instead of hats
She’s got muscular arms
You’ll find her on a factory farm
Waiting for a girl who’s got curlers in her hair
Waiting for a girl she has no money anywhere
She plows behind a team of mules
Waiting for my factory farm girl
Really, there is nothing wrong with her as a woman. If she doesn’t talk.
Why these half measures? Biden should make AOC his running mate.
AOC is not old enough to run for president or vice president. You have to be 35 years old.
Dementia and insanity. What could go wrong?
From the article: “But if AOC doesn’t compromise at least a little, she risks blowing up the whole Democrat party unification process.”
AOC doesn’t look like the compromising type to me. She looks more like a zealot. How can she compromise when the world is about to be destroyed by CO2?
No matter what she says/does, she’ll come out two weeks later saying it was a joke, and that anyone who believed her (like all of her sycophantic followers) has the intelligence of a sea sponge.
What – No Forrest Gump? – No 3 Stooges? – you have to be kidding right?
Here’s one for Alexandria…more nukes to increase rainfall
Apparently radioactivity from nuclear testing increased ionization in the atmosphere leading to increased water droplet formation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/atomic-tests-cold-war-increased-rainfall-on-shetland
The generally dismaying thing about Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is that she openly admitted that she doesn’t really care about strict accuracy. I think her point was that moral correctness trumps factual correctness. As in, so what if what she says isn’t true as long as what she says is motivated by a sense of justice and concern for the future. That viewpoint is scary, not only in itself, but because so many people hold it.
Joe had best keep his hands to himself and keep his nose out of her hair.
The real message here is that you too can punch above your weight if you buy into this BS.
I’m sure I should know this but who are “ the Climate Justice Community”?