Oct 2, 2022 ~ Victor Davis Hanson, "We blindly accept the faddish New Green Deal. We virtue signal about defunding the police. We merely shrug at open borders. And we brag about banning fertilizers and pesticides, outlawing the internal combustion engine, and discounting Armageddon in the nuclear age - as if on autopilot we have already reached utopia. But meanwhile Westerners are systematically destroying the very elements of our civilization that permitted such fantasies in the first place." [Climate Change, Green New Deal, Illegal Immigration, Police, Victor Davis Hanson, Western Civilization]
Jul 20, 2021 ~ Muslim member of the Fairfax County School Board, Abrar Omeish, is under fire by The Pride Liberation Project for not being a "100% ally". "Ms. Omeish made incredibly harmful comments", “emotional violence.” Demand she apologize, affirm queer lifestyles, and attend pride parades. [Cancel Culture, Green New Deal, Islam, LGBT, Religious Freedom]
May 14, 2020 ~ Biden selects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be the co-chair of his Climate Change Taskforce along with John Kerry. AOC thinks the world will end in 12 years (now 11) unless we implement her Green New Deal which will destroy the economy while having exactly 0 impact on the climate. [Biden, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Climate Change, Green New Deal]
Sep 17, 2019 ~ Stephen Moore, 'Renewable Energy Will Only Be Possible With Massive Increases in the Supply of Critical Minerals'. The US is '90% dependent on China and Russia for many vital rare earth minerals.' Resources exist here but regulation red tape is prohibitive. Blocked by GND people. [Climate Change, Green New Deal, China]
Aug 28, 2019 ~ AOC makes another set of insane climate alarmist claims. Diseases unleased 'frozen for thousands of years, and that they're going to get into our water' Malaria in the US, every coastal city under water, major droughts, won't be able to grow food, death unless we enact the GND. [Climate Change, Fake News, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal]
Jul 12, 2019 ~ AOC's chief of staff Chakrabarti admits the Green New Deal was about finding an excuse to remake the economy. 'It wasn't originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.' [Climate Change, Green New Deal, Economy, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez]
May 14, 2019 ~ AOC says 'what we're fighting against is a logic that says it is ok to pay someone less than they need to live, and we are here to say no more.' This is essentially Marxism. Which has led to hundreds of millions dead and the worst poverty the world has ever seen. [For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Ocasionomics, Green New Deal]
Apr 27, 2019 ~ American Enterprise Institute study on the Green New Deal finds that even if fully implemented, which is neither financially nor technically feasible, its impact would be between '0.083 to 0.173 degrees', a number 'barely distinguishable from zero.' Huge downside, no upside. [Climate Change, Green New Deal, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez]
Apr 24, 2019 ~ Stossel article, 'Green Dreams'. On zero emissions, 'That's a goal you could only imagine possible if you have no idea how energy is produced'. Batteries 'are far from green' 'You have to consume 100 barrels of oil in China to make that battery pack'. Wind is not green either. [Climate Change, Green New Deal, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, John Stossel, China]
Apr 22, 2019 ~ New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's adopts a NYC version of the Green New Deal banning the beautiful classic skyscrapers that make NYC, NYC. 'We are going to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers.' [Climate Change, Green New Deal]
Apr 1, 2019 ~ Bjorn Lomborg explains to Tucker why the GND and efforts to combat climate change will kill far more people than will be helped. Over the last 100 years climate deaths reduced by 90% despite quadrupling population. Due to getting richer. But GND 'solutions' will make us poorer. [Climate Change, Green New Deal]
Mar 26, 2019 ~ A resolution supporting AOC's Green New Deal was voted on in the Senate. This was the exact resolution AOC introduced that many Democrats claimed to support. It was not binding; It was just a resolution that Congress should do this. It received 0 votes, even from democrats. Zero. [For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Climate Change, Green New Deal]
Mar 4, 2019 ~ Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace told AOC regarding Green New Deal, 'You have no plan' to grow or transport food for 8 billion. 'every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel, cooking, heating' 'You would bring about mass death.' [Climate Change, Green New Deal, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez]
Feb 28, 2019 ~ The cost of the Green New Deal is now topping $93 Trillion over 10 years. This is massive insanity even by democrat standards. Are they are just pandering to the loony left only to ditch it after the primary or are they really this stupid? [Green New Deal, Politics]
Feb 7, 2019 ~ The airline industry replaced rail so that trips could take hours instead of days. Dems want to set us back more than a century. 'build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary'. Meanwhile, the elites take 1500 private jets to Davos Climate Conf. [Economics, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal, Climate Change]
Feb 7, 2019 ~ 100 Democrats including most of the Presidential candidates endorse the Green New Deal despite it being insane- net 0 emissions in 10 yrs, end of air travel, combustion engines, farting cows. guaranteed income and healthcare, upgrade all buildings. [Economics, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal]
Feb 7, 2019 ~ Kimberley Strassel of the WSJ explains how unserious the so called Green New Deal is. 'If a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful.' [Economics, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal]
Jan 13, 2019 ~ Alexandria Ocasio Cortez proposes 70% tax on income over $10 million to pay for 'Green New Deal' and Single Payer Healthcare - number crunching shows that would pay for about 1% of the left's new spending proposals -'Green New Deal' a joke [Budget, Climate Change, For the record, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal]