I really did not want to write about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez any more, but with AOC being the new face of the Democrats, I have to discuss her latest excursion into fear and ignorance. Yesterday, she was interviewed at an event for MLK Day. Here's an excerpt of what she said:
It's a bizarre rant filled with fear mongering and misinformation.
1. The world will end in 12 years from global warming. AOC actually says this. I remember when Al Gore told us we had 10 years. That was in 2002. We're still here. Atmospheric temperatures have not risen according to the satellite system put in place to monitor global temperatures. Ice levels in Antarctica have risen, not fallen. Ice in Greenland has declined, but not enough to offset the increase at the South Pole. In addition, and this is the key, even were global temperatures to rise by a full degree in the next decade (which they won't), the world would not end. In fact, the world would still not be as warm as it was in the days of the Roman Empire.
2. 3000 Americans died last year due to global warming. No they didn't. The actual number of those who died due to global warming is zero. Sure, there were some people who lost their lives in hurricanes, but hurricanes are not the result of global warming. They have always been around. For instance, back around the beginning of the 20th century, a hurricane hit Galveston and 6000 people were killed. It had nothing to do with global warming. This is just ignorance promoting fear.
3. People died from out cruel and unjust criminal justice system. Who? I assume AOC means people of color who were killed in confrontations with police. How many were there in this category last year? How many ten years or fifty years ago? In AOC's worldview, it seems that any person who dies in a confrontation with police is automatically a victim. That's just not true. Only a distorted view of reality turns criminals into victims.
4. America has people living in their cars so that they can get a second job without healthcare. This one is ridiculous even for an ignorance-based lie. Imagine someone who is working two jobs but who can't afford a place to live but who still has a car. Sorry, if you work two jobs, you can find a place to live. And if your income is truly low, it doesn't matter that your job doesn't provide healthcare; you can get Medicaid which will give you medical care.
I know that AOC is a phony. She calls herself a Bronx girl, but she was raised in a prosperous suburb in Westchester County, NY. She has "reinvented" herself to provide a bogus proletarian background. That lack of honesty on her part makes me wonder if she knows that much of what she says is false and she doesn't care. Is she really this ignorant or is she just willing to lie and lie and lie? Either way, no one ought to pay attention to her.
“And I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II. And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3,000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system?
How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down. It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King spoke of. That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable. Until, we start pitching in and holding people accountable, I’m just gonna let them have it.”
It's a bizarre rant filled with fear mongering and misinformation.
1. The world will end in 12 years from global warming. AOC actually says this. I remember when Al Gore told us we had 10 years. That was in 2002. We're still here. Atmospheric temperatures have not risen according to the satellite system put in place to monitor global temperatures. Ice levels in Antarctica have risen, not fallen. Ice in Greenland has declined, but not enough to offset the increase at the South Pole. In addition, and this is the key, even were global temperatures to rise by a full degree in the next decade (which they won't), the world would not end. In fact, the world would still not be as warm as it was in the days of the Roman Empire.
2. 3000 Americans died last year due to global warming. No they didn't. The actual number of those who died due to global warming is zero. Sure, there were some people who lost their lives in hurricanes, but hurricanes are not the result of global warming. They have always been around. For instance, back around the beginning of the 20th century, a hurricane hit Galveston and 6000 people were killed. It had nothing to do with global warming. This is just ignorance promoting fear.
3. People died from out cruel and unjust criminal justice system. Who? I assume AOC means people of color who were killed in confrontations with police. How many were there in this category last year? How many ten years or fifty years ago? In AOC's worldview, it seems that any person who dies in a confrontation with police is automatically a victim. That's just not true. Only a distorted view of reality turns criminals into victims.
4. America has people living in their cars so that they can get a second job without healthcare. This one is ridiculous even for an ignorance-based lie. Imagine someone who is working two jobs but who can't afford a place to live but who still has a car. Sorry, if you work two jobs, you can find a place to live. And if your income is truly low, it doesn't matter that your job doesn't provide healthcare; you can get Medicaid which will give you medical care.
I know that AOC is a phony. She calls herself a Bronx girl, but she was raised in a prosperous suburb in Westchester County, NY. She has "reinvented" herself to provide a bogus proletarian background. That lack of honesty on her part makes me wonder if she knows that much of what she says is false and she doesn't care. Is she really this ignorant or is she just willing to lie and lie and lie? Either way, no one ought to pay attention to her.
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