Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Putting aside her childish behavior during the State of the Union, let’s instead take a look at her Green New Deal. Seems that Nancy Pelosi was right to keep her off the climate change committee AND mock her bill. Here’s why.

This bill is a laughable train wreck. It’s amazing that NPR was able to write this with a straight face.

• “upgrading all existing buildings” in the country for energy efficiency;
• working with farmers “to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions … as much as is technologically feasible” (while supporting family farms and promoting “universal access to healthy food”);
• “Overhauling transportation systems” to reduce emissions — including expanding electric car manufacturing, building “charging stations everywhere,” and expanding high-speed rail to “a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”;
• A guaranteed job “with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security” for every American;
• “High-quality health care” for all Americans.

Oh, but there’s more. Much much more.

You see, her referendum wants economic security for EVERYONE! Including those who don’t want to do anything. In other words, welfare for all! But it’s a super duper GREAT day y’all!

Let’s put charging stations everywhere and build so much high speed rail that in 10 years, airplanes will become obsolete! Yes folks, that’s actually in there.

This is also supposed to build upon FDR’s second bill of rights and guarantee us full unfettered access to nature. I guess just walking outside or going to a park isn’t considered ‘access to nature.’

The grammar, or lack thereof in this mess is something to behold. 

“Americans love a challenge,” reads one section header, and “This is our moonshot.” It cites John F. Kennedy’s space program pledge to reach the moon in ten years, but it’s written as “When JFK said we’d go to the by the end of the decade.” Go to the what?  Will all of the expertise that goes into a Green New Deal eventually include proofreaders?

And there’s this little gem.

When FDR called upon America to build 185,000 planes to fight World War II, every business leader, CEO, and general laughed at him. At the time, the U.S. had produced 3,000 planes in the last year. By the end of the war, we produced 300,000 new planes. That’s what we are capable of if we have real leadership.

Real leadership based upon junk science.

How do they think they want to pay for this? Bring lots of new banks online and issue lots and lots and LOTS of credit. Details of payment?

LMAOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/iRsqFYBHmS

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) February 7, 2019

In other words, let someone else deal with the pesky details. Because you see, we need to get rid of airplanes and cow farts!

We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast, but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero.

Cow farts guys. Cow farts.

Now how does she propose to get rid of cow farts? Feed them unhealthy food so they won’t fart anymore? Oh wait, I know! Maybe kill all the cows? Nahhhh…that couldn’t be the plan. Could it?

You know, I don’t agree with Nancy Pelosi at all on anything. However, this is one time that I’m on the same page she is.

Yes, of course that brings to mind the ‘we’ll have to pass the bill to see what’s in it’ Obamacare bit Nancy threw at us all those years ago. However, what AOC in her limited wisdom is promoting should be mocked and laughed out of the room on a continual basis.

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