'I'M NOT OWNED!': Ocasio-Cortez Gets Mocked After Her Green New Deal Fails In Senate Vote
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was brutally mocked online on Tuesday after her "Green New Deal" failed to garner a single vote of support in the U.S. Senate, which led to the 29-year-old former bartender accusing people of not taking their jobs seriously.
Ocasio-Cortez's proposal had 57 votes against it — with several Democrats even voting against it — while the remaining 43 Democrat Senators voted "present" because they did not want to go on record for having supported the extremist proposal, which is estimated to cost $93 trillion.
Following the disastrous vote for Ocasio-Cortez, the young socialist took to Twitter to try to save face, declaring that she told her Democratic colleagues to not vote for the proposal.
"Because I encouraged them to vote present, along w/ others," Ocasio-Cortez responded to Republican Senator John Barrasso, who asked why no Democrats voted for the proposal. "McConnell tried to rush the #GreenNewDeal straight to the floor without a hearing. The real question we should be asking: Why does the Senate GOP refuse to hold any major hearings on climate change?"
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) mocked Ocasio-Cortez's plan, which Democratic presidential candidates are now saying sets the U.S. up for "failure," during a speech on the Senate floor which drew condemnation from Ocasio-Cortez.
"Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "But then they do things like this to clear it right up. If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything."
Ocasio-Cortez then accused Lee of not taking his job seriously, tweeting: "W/ the #GreenNewDeal, legislators, experts, & advocates have spent countless hours poring over details of industrial policy+impact of global temp/sea lvl projections. That’s what you do when you take your job seriously + respect the chamber. This is what happens when you don’t."
The official account of Mitch McConnell for Senate mocked Ocasio-Cortez, tweeting: "im not owned! im not owned!!"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is deader than we’ll all be in 12 years when the earth melts. And guess whose fault it is:
The GOP’s climate delaying is costing us lives + destroying communities.
Iowa, Nebraska & many in the Midwest are catastrophically flooded right now, in one of the 1st major climate change disasters of 2019.
A #GreenNewDeal urges us to pursue a plan on the scale of the problem.
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The GOP never said they’d go along with the Green New Deal. But plenty of Democrats did. Guess how many of those Dems voted in favor of it today:
FINAL VOTE on Green New Deal fails 0 - 57 with 43 Dems voting 'present.'
Jones, Sinema, Manchin, and King voted with Republicans.
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That’s zero. As in none. Nada. Zilch. Zip.
Oh, but didn’t you know? That was all part of her plan:
Because I encouraged them to vote present, along w/ others.
McConnell tried to rush the #GreenNewDeal straight to the floor without a hearing.
The real question we should be asking: Why does the Senate GOP refuse to hold any major hearings on climate change?
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Beg your pardon, AOC?
This chick is something else.
We were told this was an emergency.
This is the lamest excuse ever.
Why do you need a hearing? Just vote! It’s an emergency no?
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GP The real question is why did you sponsor legislation you didn’t believe was ready to pass as is?
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Why do you need hearings on something that you say is an existential crisis? Shouldn't you want to pass it as soon as possible?
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Why would you want a hearing if you can have a vote? Do you really think a single American buys your bulls**t?
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Some do. We don’t. But we’ll give her this much: While she’s woefully short on substance, she more than makes up for it in entertainment value.
Sounds like an emergency. Better just go home and tweet about it some more.
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Good idea. In fact, maybe she should sit everything out from now on. Otherwise she can look forward to more like this from Team Cocaine Mitch:
Perfect.
