From February 7, 2019
Straitjacket ready!
Okay, sure, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ha-ha funny. Her “Green New Deal” made me laugh so hard, I almost tipped over and capsized. You’ll hardly believe what’s in it (https://www.atr.org/green-new-deal-air-travel-stops-becoming-necessary).
But really, it’s not that funny to be governed by idiots.
Here are the highlights she provided in an interview on National Public Radio. I didn’t know they had a comedy hour.
Rebuild every single building in the U.S. How do you even answer that?
Phase out all air travel in just ten years, and replace it with high-speed rail. What? Take a train to Europe? Last I heard, the Atlantic Ocean’s in the way. That’s that bunch of water you can see from New York, if you look thataway. Geography not her strong suit.
Government-guaranteed jobs for all. Really? Do we get to pick what job we want, or will the government pick it for us? Ocasio-Cortez calls herself “pro-choice,” so that probably means they’ll make the choice for you. That’s what it usually means.
Universal basic income. Paid for by _________? Don’t ask.
Medicare-for-All. As long as we’re spending money, we might as well spend all of it. The government can always print some more.
All new jobs to be unionized. Another choice they’ll make for you.
“Massive government intervention,” she says, will see us successfully through this period of adjustment. Like when they tear your house down and assign you to your new job of shining some politician’s shoes.
As for the total cost of all this joy… “Shut up,” she explained.
So, yeah, it’s funny–but it’s also not so funny. This breathtakingly stupid woman sits up there on Capitol Hill and wants to craft public policy. It’s hard to believe anyone could be so ignorant without being totally staring daft, too. And it’s alarming to note that she’s one of the stars of the Democrat Far Left Crazy Party… that just won an election last year and now controls the House of Representatives.
If that doesn’t scare you–well, it should. Yes, it should.
I’ll cry from fear when I first stop laughing. Of course they won’t let us pick our jobs. We’d take theirs faster than they could say “immoral.” The only “strong suit” she has is that hillary look-alike pants suit she always wears. Where did the “Democrat Far Left Crazy Party” get its own star? Outerspace, apparently.
Deal or No Deal? I demand that choice. I hope what she takes for her conditions don’t wind up on the streets. Although, I have noticed the same dysfunction in her supporters.
“I also play chess, basketball, and military and sports simulations.” Me too. Now sign us up for a seat in congress. We must earn the right to be called “deplorables.”
The good thing is that she is exposing the truth and reality of what they really want. The lefties are probably cringing right now because they were planning to keep us all asleep until it is too late!
Maybe they’ve all drunk the crazy juice.
And people who don’t want to work don’t have to – what a deal. Maybe when Pelosi finds out a way to primary AOC out of the Congress, AOC can become a successful fictional writer.
Naw–a CNN nooze anchor. Perfect for it.
Let’s just call it what it is, the Communists New Deal.
I have never in my life heard a public figure spout such pure twaddle.
We’re into new territory here. What I fear is that the voting public has become so senseless that they will fall for it.
She totally needs Jesus and also some wisdom
I especially love the part of replacing all air traffic with light rail — even aside from the problem with transoceanic railroads. Where does she suppose all those new rails and trains are going to come from, other than factories burning fossil fuels, and what are the trains going to run on, other than fossil fuels or electricity generated by fossil fuels?
As my old friend Bugs Bunny would say, “What a maroon.”
And now she sits up there on Capitol Hill, in front of the TV cameras, lecturing to the rest of us. That really does cheese me off.
Sorry, I should have said “high-speed rail,” not “light rail.” Although Ocasio-Cortez probably wouldn’t know the difference.
Oh, and of course we all know how the railroads have already done in this country — including the supposed high-speed rail corridors, which somehow found themselves slowed down by traffic and terrain to something more like medium-slow-speed rail.
Yeah, but… yeah, but… yeah, but we gotta Save The Planet!!!!! That means taking everybody’s cars away. Except for Important People’s cars.
The interviewer must have found it hard not to tip over and capsize…
It’s probably a good thing I wasn’t conducting the interview.
lol! 🙂
Funny… “Ocasio” sounds a little like the Japanese phrase”Okashii-yo!”, which means “That’s ridiculous!”
I love it!
Now I know two words in Japanese, which will be repeated over and over
Ha-ha! Ocasio wa okashii-yo! (Ocasio is ridiculous!)
I was tempted to refer to her as Okashii-yo, but readers wouldn’t get it unless they’d read your comment.
No worries.
I thought I should tell you that the comments on “Loony Lib” are disabled.
Fixed
“Ocrazyo” sounds just fine. It suits her well… what does “ocrazyo” mean?
It means crazy, like it sounds. It comes from the Proto-Hittite “wa-ko,” meaning a loon.
Oh, I see! I actually didn’t see the word “crazy” in Ocrazyo. Makes more sense now.
Hi Lee,
The dialogue about That’s Rediculous Cortez is so funny, I’d love to send it to my favorite humorous/political columnist. OK? Evelyn Reilly
Please be my guest! What columnist would that be?
Howie Carr of the Boston Herald.
Oh! I hear him on the radio now and then.
I wonder if he’ll use it…
We’ll see. I will try to leave a message for him by phone tomorrow. Don’t know if I will be able to get through.
Actually, I understand he may not be the most perfect or brilliant of them all, but he does nail it on the head when people like Elizabeth Warren and “That’s Ridiculous” Cortez act up. And he’s probably the best we have locally in the sense of combining humor and truth in politics. He will have a field day with this one!
And the drama continues, to this day.
Rolling right along.
It is a time of insanity.
Boy, is it ever!