Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Sunday that people who believe the suggestion that the world will end in 12 years have the intelligence of a “sea sponge,” even though Ocasio-Cortez made that very claim in January.
Ocasio-Cortez suggested that Republicans too often mischaracterize her dry humor and “fact check” her jokes, claiming that they take them too literally.
One of her alleged jokes includes a January claim that the world will end in 12 years if we do not address climate change, comparing it to a modern World War II-style struggle.
“Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows,” Ocasio-Cortez said:
This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it.
Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.
But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 12, 2019
“I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and Gen-Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ and your biggest issue is–your biggest issue is, ‘How are we going to pay for it?’” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.”
Readers can decide for themselves whether the progressive lawmaker meant for this to be a sarcastic joke or a serious claim about the alleged dangers of climate change.
.@AOC on millennials and social media: “We’re, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change” pic.twitter.com/HjhbVyfFN4
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 22, 2019
In other climate change and Ocasio-Cortez related news, the New York congresswoman recently discovered what a garbage disposal is and asked whether the waste removal device is “environmentally sound.”
“I am told this is a garbage disposal,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I’ve never seen a garbage disposal. I never had one in any place I’ve ever lived. It is terrifying. I don’t know what to use it for, or what its purpose is.”
Ocasio-Cortez asked, “Is this environmentally sound?”
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And the stupidist Sea Sponge in the briny deep is named AOC
AO-C has memorized the Socialist and Green play books. She delivers sermons better than Preacher Gore. If you’re a Leftie, she’s your rising star.
Now she says she was pulling our leg with that “12 years to save the world” business . No she wasn’t. She’s trying to dodge a gaffe.
Comedy is difficult to master. She should stick to fooling some of her sea sponge followers some of the time.
Really AOC? Really?
You put out them utter lies and now blame us for being a sea sponge?
What does she have against sea sponges?
I’m sure there is some Liberal group who would defend their rights against prejudicial statements.
She just insulted millenials and whatever a Gen Z is. Apparently everybody else was supposed to take her alarmism as sarcasm.
She seems to know everything about nothing.
This 12 year lie scared the sht out of hundreds of thousands of schoolkids around the world and they are now severely traumatized. Some went home crying because they thought they were going to die. Can we expect the usual American Class Action Lawsuit for billions against AOC? Probably.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez never said that the world would end in 12 years. What she said was if strong action wasn’t taken in the next 12 years the world would come to an end. Like so many things it gets distorted. School kids, the extinction rebellion, and even presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke believe she said that the end will be in 12 years.
Of course anthropological climate change is a total fraud. It would be nice if this fraud ended in 12 years.
Republicans do not refer to AOC as a “sea sponge.”
She is known to the GOP as “The gift that keeps on giving.”