AOC compares impact of climate change to 9/11: Democrat questions why government went to war after the attack on the Twin Towers but did little after Hurricane Maria, despite 3,000 being killed in each
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is amping up her rhetoric addressing climate change
- She spoke in a 'All In' televised town hall meeting at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx on Friday with MSNBC host Chris Hayes
- She compared the government's urgent response to war and conflict to its slow approach to natural disasters such as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017
- AOC said the U.S. went to war and speedily responded when thousands of lives were lost in 9/11, but didn't react as urgently to the 3,000 dead in Puerto Rico
- 'Where is our response?' she asked as the crowd roared with applause
- She also defended her Green New Deal initiative saying 'we have to mobilize our entire economy around saving ourselves and taking care of this planet'
That was one of Ocasio-Cortez’s comments that drew a lot of head scratching, not to mention snark and rolling eyes:
If President Trump unilaterally declared war against the weather, would AOC sound the constitutional alarm?
And how many died at Pearl Harbor?? 2400?? And we dropped an A-bomb them? What are we doing? Mother Nature must go down!!
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Shes right! Its time we start carpet bombing tropical storms before they become hurricanes!
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You aren’t serious about tackling climate change unless you want to invade India and China
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This is what Dems just elected to Congress.
Trumps getting re-elected, isn’t he?
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After a roaring response from the crowd, the United States government has decided to declared war on hurricanes....
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I’m not sure if invading the hurricanes is the right course of action at this point.
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Wait til she finds out how many people die in auto accidents per year.
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The science is settled!
Insert Woody Woodpecker laugh here.
