Ocasio-Cortez shreds GOP for doing nothing while the Midwest drowns

[turbinetree]

By
Oliver Willis -
March 27, 2019



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave a blistering speech that shamed Republicans for dismissing the real harms of climate change to ordinary Americans.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed a Republican congressman for dishonestly claiming that it's "elitist" to combat climate change — when poor and middle-class kids are the ones most hurt when lawmakers fail to act on environmental issues.

The exchange happened on Tuesday during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.

"The Green New Deal is one that if you are a rich liberal from maybe New York or California, it sounds great, because you can afford to retrofit your home or build a new home that has zero emissions, that is energy efficient, affordable and safe," said Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI).

Ocasio-Cortez immediately took Duffy to task for denying reality and insulting vulnerable communities — from her constituents in the Bronx struggling with asthma, to farmers in the Midwest struggling with historic floods.

https://shareblue.com/ocasio-cortez-shreds-gop-climate-change-midwest-drowns/


This leadership...........................

[demmiblue]

1. She is fierce!

Link to tweet

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. I want to have her babies

[guillaumeb]

2. She is speaking truth to corrupt power.

And the GOP is allergic to the truth.

Recommended.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Here is a make or break issues for the Mid West

Democratic Party People. If you want to kick the rethugs out,get your ass to Iowa,Nebraska,South Dakota,and Missouri. Get in there and give these people some positive hope of recovery.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. I would like to hear someone ask those farmers if they'd like to reject socialist disaster relief

payments, since socialism is soooo bad an' everything.


And while they're at it, they could start rejecting socialist subsidies, socialist price supports, and socialist crop insurance.

[Yavin4]

5. Giving payments to farmers is not "Socialism", but it's definitely "Social Democracy" at work

And Social Democracy is pretty much the foundational post-WWII principles of West (USA, Canada, Western Europe, etc.).

[Maru Kitteh]

6. You miss my point, I think.

I know these people.

A brown family with two parents working full time at minimum wage jobs receiving a pittance for food assistance; the very same assistance that keeps those farmers in business is BAD and it is SOCIALISM! They oughta go get them a better job or go back where they came from!

A perfectly good white man working full time on the farm he inherited from his dad-eh receiving tens, or even hundreds of thousands in direct payments and benefits from the government is HIS RIGHT because he works hard n' feeds 'MURICA.

Don't trouble yourself with dictionary definitions - it has nothing to do with what they're talking about.

[MondoMan]

7. GOP having an increasingly difficult time defending their climate lies

The climate has a way of kicking GOP lies to the curb.