Back in 2018….
I have found this video of a 2018 interview with Rep. Ocasio-Cortes to be quite enlightening. You may also find that to be true.
But hey, don’t fall down laughing until you get to the responses to AOC’s proposals, which are in the video.
I swear I have run into dumbass people before, but she takes the cake with her pure ignorance of everything related to taxes and government budgets and spending programs. Whether or not she has improved since 2018, I cannot really determine because her level of responses to real-world, real-time issues now falls somewhere between a tenuous grasp of the reality of the world, and her return to the bubble-brained idea that somehow, somewhere, she’ll find the $92 trillions she wants to spend on her Green New Deal. I don’t think she has changed much at all since 2018.
To be frank, I have serious doubts that she has ever been anywhere outside a city like Washington or New York, and is not truly aware of the reality of the vast lands outside of cities, which are either cropland or wilderness. If she had to go campaign in Iowa, the hogs would likely scare her to pieces.
Essentially, her notions of how to do things are eminently impractical, period.
She is, however, our own and priceless while she’s at it.
Grab a cold one and a snack, and enjoy the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geRBpjOPfGo&feature=emb_rel_end
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Politics
Sure did make that trip down to the border for a good cry…
And was she not sexualy assualted?
I make no joke about this at all. But she creamed it to the media and then did not file a report.
Way to set the example and represent women, their Absent on Contact (AOC).
“Screamed”. My apologies.
This is not what I had intended to type and does not reflect my personal viewpoint(s) or am I belittling the larger issues in play..
Ex, you wouldn’t know stupid if it told you it would date it’s daughter, said windmill noise causes cancer, said being famous means you can grab them by the pussy, and asked for you to vote for it for president.
https://youtu.be/2i4JxWkSYzU
awwwww did your eee widdle pee feewings get hurted?
I”m betting you still believe the “Muh Rushya” hoax.
It was not a hoax.
And you didn’t read the Senate Intel committee report released last week did you? A Republican led committee.
And you ignored the 8 criminal indictments, guilty pleas, and convictions for committing perjuring by people in the Trump camp lying to cover up their contacts with Russia.
You also are ignoring that the Senate passed criminal referals for perjury regarding the testimony of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis. All committed perjury to hide contacts and cooperation with Russia and Russian agents.
You are ignoring that the Senate Intel committee report also found that Trump lied in his written statement to the Senate inquiry. A written statement provided in lieu of him testifying because his lawyers knew he would commit perjury if he testified.
And you never read the Mueller report.
You just took Trump’s word for it and read a couple “Russia Hoax” memes.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf
WOW Major Moonbat, you are one truly brainwashed cultist!!!
And YOU… get 4 more years of pussy grabbing President! Haha.
Better than 4 years with a pedophile.
Hoax.
And only idiots still adhere to it.
The fact that they couldn’t find the smoking gun proving Tumpmeas directly involved does not make it a hoax.
Several people were indicted and convicted for their contacts with Russia and more than a dozen committed perjury to protect Trump.
And Trump committed perjury to protect himself.
Proof of Trump’s direct involvement was successfully kept from Mueller through lies, document destruction,and unwillingness to cooperate. Even ordering all federal executive branch employees to refuse to cooperate with any aspect of the investigation.
You should be outraged that a president ordered hundreds of thousand of federal employees not to cooperate with a lawful investigation…to protect himself.
Just from a pro-small government pro-government accountability oversight perspective you should be outraged he did that.
It was an appealing and downright corrupt abuse of power.
Yet you are fine with it because you are a brainwashed cultist.
“Yet you are fine with it because you are a brainwashed cultist.”
Hey Major Moonbat, that’s some 24K projection!
Be honest Commissar, many things were thrown at Clinton and they were ducked. The lack of a smoking gun did not make his errors and ommissions hoaxes, nor make people believe him any less culpable.
Mud slings from all quarters and sticks or slides as it will.
You’re joking, right?
No wonder you are a shitty ex (thank God) cop.
Absence of evidence is not proof of a crime. Quite the fucking opposite, in fact.
“The fact that they couldn’t find the smoking gun proving Tumpmeas directly involved does not make it a hoax.”
LOL.
“The smoking gun”, AKA “evidence”.
“Proof of Trump’s direct involvement”
Involvement in what, precisely? We have heard the charges, how about telling us the specifications.
Gee, that is even weak by your standards bro.
Time to wash the sand out of your mangina, put on your big boy pants, and live in the real world. If you want me to vote for a better man or woman for president, put one on the ballot. Until you and your fellow travelers do that, kindly go stand in the corner and be quiet. You’re in timeout.
Grab ’em by the pussy? Well, Biden means it, by gum!
Joe 2020!
Courage. Commitment. Senility.
” said being famous means you can grab them by the pussy,”
It’s true. Just ask Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the Epstein guy, Bill Clinton, Gerry Studds,…
Um, I believe Studds was grabbin’ ’em by the balls…
Yeah, but he identifies them as pussy.
Go ahead AOC-hole, carbon tax the isht outta everything! My energy expenditure is already directly 15% of my budget, and I guaran-G*dd*amn-tee if you raise it higher the harbor will be steeping the King’s tea.
There’s your warning.
Have a nice day.
Companies should be paying the full externality costs of their production. Those costs should be passed on the the consumers of their products.
That is basic economics.
Anything else is skewing the marketplace in favor of polluter at the cost of every citizen, every conscientious competitor, and every other industry whose ability to use resources and properties polluted by the polluting firm.
If I pollute a river I deny its use to everyone downstream,
My cost of production should include THAT cost. Or the cost to prevent that form happening. Otherwise every firm and every citizen pays the cost while I keep greater profits.
Carbon taxes are intended to force firms to pay SOME of the true costs of their production. Not even all.
They then pass those higher costs o the consumers of those polluting products, as it should be.
Making them do so is fundamental to a functioning market.
AOC has NO experience in the Private Sector other than her stint as a mediocre bartender and YOU have none other that your stint working at a McGunk franchise by your own admittance. I myself and everyone else here at TAH have all kinds of experience there and know what we’re talking about while you spout your cult propaganda, Major Moonbat!
Short Round says, “Companies should be paying the full externality costs of their production. Those costs should be passed on the the consumers of their products.”
Does that apply to your beloved renewable energy industry?
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Commissar Wumao (五毛) here to answer that question, Poetrooper.
I kinda wish he would. I suspect I know his answer already, though – something along of the lines of, “Well, that’s different. It’s ‘green’, so the government should encourage it.”
Encourage = subsidized
You don’t say. (smile)
What’s the cost per bird killed we should assess those things for?
Companies should be paying the full externality costs of their production. Those costs should be passed on the the consumers of their products.
That is basic economics.
And that right there is why solar and wind are completely incapable of survival without MASSIVE government subsidies… (pure graft / theft like Solyndra aside
Even the Governor of California has said wind and solar are just not cutting it. Heatwave this year or not, the fact is, there will never be, in current technology or anything on the horizon a solar-wind source that gives more than it costs to build, maintain and return in power.
“…. should be paying the full externality costs of their production.”
TRANSLATION: Lars wants free shit.
I think it’s more like “Tax the rich; feed the poor”, OldManchu.
Of course, Commissar Wumao (五毛) here forgets the next line in that old song’s lyric: “‘Till there are no rich no more”.
It IS possible to kill the goose that lays golden eggs.
“It IS possible to kill the goose that lays golden eggs.”
Yes indeed, just look at the exodus of Rich People from NYC as a shining example!
Sad thing is that many of them are brainwashed leftist, and wherever they flee too, they’ll bring with / vote for the same stupid shit that ruined NYC
Ditto with liberal moonbat Californites fleeing the mess they made there!
Sumbitches are headed for Arizona. I’m not liking that one bit.
As Commie-Tsar of the Free Shit Army, I want free shit!
Since you are in an elite command position of the FSA, you likely are entitled to more free shit than the average PVT of the FSA. All free shitters and equal but some are more equal, right? Otherwise, what is the point. Cuz even commie leaders are motivated by self-interest. They just will never admit it.
Lars wrote, “Companies should be paying the full externality costs of their production..” which sounds oddly familiar with this Harvard Business Review article written in 2010.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/hbr.org/amp/2010/04/full-cost-accounting-is-the-so
Thanks, FB!
I knew he was too dumb to figure that out for himself. Now I know where he got it.
English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?
Most of the time people who claim AOC is an idiot are just clueless of the economic theories, or even basic economic principles, behind her arguments.
She has a degree in economics.
You clearly don’t.
Yet somehow, she parlayed that degree in economics (with honors) into a seven year career tending bar. Cool. Either that doesn’t say a lot about the quality of education at Boston University or it doesn’t say a lot about her career aspirations after graduation from college.
No, I don’t have a degree in economics. I DO however have a degree in public administration and enough common sense to realize that she talks enough out of her ass to SOUND smart to the greater uneducated masses that she appeals too.
“She has a degree in economics. You clearly don’t.”
Nor would you need one to discuss the topic with her…
It’s rather like discussing politics with you…
Zing….
Latest from Commiefornia. Larsi boi’s idea of a brownout is when Mommy turns his underwear inside out so he can get another day of wear out of them.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/blackouts-california-gas-plants
Gee, my UNDERGRAD degree is in linguistics (six languages) and POSTGRAD work carries that forward, using cave art and animism as formats for communications and teaching. This also applies to trig and calculus, which are languages in their own right. Should be a way to produce space alien languages out of that, shouldn’t there? Animistic images are older than alphanumerics and are still in use on this planet. Since there are 3760++ languages on this planet alone, including some which are slowly disappearing for lack of use, we as a species should be able to communicate with space aliens rather well. The irony is that in too many instances, such as your blithering bloviated egocentrist byproducts, it’s quite clear that communications among humans depend entirely on who has the biggest hoard of cash, the biggest ego, or the biggest bomb. International economics is one of those things that are part of the Bright Idea Club, having nothing to do with Real World Economics. I doubt seriously that AOC can even figure out how to balance her own checking account. Money IN has to zero out with Money OUT. That’s how economics works. It’s also how accountancy works, and I’ve done plenty of that, too. So far, Commisarry Birdbrain, you’ve done nothing but whine and complain, which is all you seem to be capable of doing, as shown on a repeated basis, right here at TAH Central. For someone who has a degree in economics, AOC has repeatedly proven that she knows ZERO ZIP NADA about budgets at any level, Budgeting by itself is a central and extremely important part of economic planning, whether at the personal household level or the bureaucratic governmental level. Since this is TWO LONG YEARS after that video was put together, she’s shown repeatedly that she still has NO CLUE, ZERO ZIP NADA, about economics, budgeting, financial planning, or how to balance accounts. Her ridiculous $92 trillion plan for her Green New Deal ignores the simple fact that the entire world economy does NOT rise that high and likely never will. I don’t expect you to… Read more »
And THIS ladies and germs…is how you roast someone without resorting to cursing. Oof.
Someone call the Corpsman, bring a fresh pair of socks, a quart of water, and some motrin (but not the silver bullet, he might enjoy that).
No Motrin… I’ll give out some ‘tussin, because ‘tussin fixes everything!
And if you run out, put some water in the bottle and shake it up: MO TUSSIN!
I know nothing about this “‘tussin” but Romilar was pretty popular in my AO.
He doesn’t despise real women. He’s terrified of them.
🙂
She keeps handing you your ass.
My sum total of economic training consists of ECON 101, ECON 102, and a few decades of living and learning. And I know more of economics than AOC with her “degree”. I doubt she could balance her home budget and checkbook alone, let alone understand simple economic processes.
I am of the firm belief that the first thing they teach you in graduate economics courses is to forget all the economics you learned as an undergraduate. That’s the only way they can discuss all those theories with a straight face. You also learn the magic words “ceteris paribus”; “all other conditions remaining the same”. And, as we who live in reality all know, all other things rarely remain the same.
Being an economist is like being a lawyer; they both use the same body of knowledge to support diametrically opposed ideas depending on who pays them. Strangely enough, I think economists are the more arrogant, as they claim to be a “science”.
Education doesn’t equal common sense, Lars… and AOC doesn’t have any common sense.
Let’s put her degree into perspective. A degree is a tool, commonly used to further advance your lot in life. An unused tool is worthless. Let’s say you run down to your local Snap-On Tool dealer and spend $15,000 on a mechanic’s tool set that would make a NASCAR team jealous. Now you set that awesome set off in the corner and never use it. Instead, you do all your repairs with a rusty crescent wrench, a pair of vise-grips and a bent screwdriver. Everything you work in gets damaged or destroyed. That’s how AOC uses her degree.
I wholeheartedly concur. Intelligence is also a tool, and the results vary depending on how and if it is used.
Washington DC is chock full of highly educated and presumably very intelligent people, and yet…..
Look here chief, I don’t need a precious Econ degree to tell me I’m ‘governed’ by idiots, to wit:
https://www.middletownpress.com/business/article/CT-s-long-road-to-replace-nuclear-power-with-15450452.php
The North East used to have some of the cheapest energy costs in the nation, fast forward a half century and the closure of a number of nuclear power plants later: CT is the highest.
I wonder why that is…? Maybe it’s the taxes and mismanagement (read:over-regulation)? Naw, it’s because we’re the ‘tip of the spear’ in making windthings and solarpainanal manditory.
But if we just tax hydrocarbons, even though that’s the only way to have base power any more because nukes = bad, we can clean up the whole f**king world with unicorn farts.
Thank the Almighty I don’t have a f**king degree in Economics , that I’m handily smarter than you and AOC.
Do us a favor Commie Prick, find a windmill you’re sexually attracted to, climb to the top with your Red Book and leap to glory.
There’s nothing inherently bad about a degree in Economics as long as you don’t take it too seriously as a science. It can even be useful when properly used; much like some drugs.
I would like to see here grades for her degree and know how many social passes she got for her classes. Please, please do not tell me this does not happen. Just don’t go there.
Most of the people who claim AOC is an idiot have listened to her talk.
I’ll put my IQ, SAT score, GPA, W2, or whatever metric you choose to pick up against yours and hers. ANY. FUCKING. DAY.
I have a minor in economics, and what she says conflicts with almost everything I learned about economics. I also took accounting and business courses, and she clearly has no idea of how the real world works or how all those wonderful theories work out in reality..
So fucking what? Dan Bernath had a law degree, but it didn’t take a lawyer to figure out he was a crazy-assed incompetent fuckstain.
Likened to a box of hair, bag of dicks, box of rocks, envelope full of busted Chinese metric Crescent wrenches and last but not least, the personality of a left handed monkey wrench….
Just like larsie-boi !!!!
Fuck off larsy boi, you’re as stupid as he/she/it is !!!!!
TESTIFY!!!!!! Again, the scariest thing is not her, it’s the idiots that vote for her, and people like her. Yeah, talking about you, spapos seagull.
I’ll just leave this right here;
Lars getting off to an early start with his filibustering today, I see…
Yeah, and he’s already trashed half of the posted threads with his droppings.
Keeping him around as a chew toy for us is Higher’s way of showing that they love us and want us to be happy.
He’s gotta earn enough Soros-bucks to pay the rent on 1 Sept. Mom doesn’t let him live in the basement rent free.
That’s kinda why I call him Commissar Wumao (五毛), rgr769.
Not sure ‘ole Commiessar is even worth fifty cents…
According to comments he’s made here before, apparently Soros doesn’t either. If I remember correctly, he was kvetching in comments one day about how Soros wasn’t paying him enough.
Was he joking? Decide that for yourself. (smile)
Someone lit his tampon on fire… again.
What Lars fails/refuses to comprehend is that AOC is attempting to force the US to comply to Green New Deal, when it is in fact a GLOBAL Market. Who gives a rip what the US does, when 28% of the carbon emissions come from China, 21% from the rest of the world, and 7% from India. Only 15% comes from the US. So China/India is 35% of the the world problem and has ZERO PERCENT of the responsibility? Cool.
China is dumping 8.8 MILLION Metric Tons of trash in the oceans annually…but we gotta get rid of plastic straws in the US or face a fine. The US isn’t even in the top FIVE of countries polluting oceans the most. Cool.
Of course, the naturally “SCREECHING AT THE SKY” argument will be “As a world leader, although Trump is a laughing stock and Biden will give us RESPECT in the world again…..we should set the EXAMPLE and others will follow….”
Or, continue doing what we are doing, and lead…QUIETLY…..but nah, that couldn’t POSSIBLY work.
Jay, you left out the part China’s COMMUNIST government has played in contaminating its own farmland with heavy metals and other pollutants.
China shuts 1,300 metal firms since 2016 in soil clean-up
Muyu Xu, David Stanway
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-environment-soil/china-shuts-1300-metal-firms-since-2016-in-soil-clean-up-idUSKBN1Y30I1
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has shut more than 1,300 heavy metal enterprises since 2016 as part of a long-term plan to curb widespread chronic soil pollution, an environment ministry official said on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: A villager and a boy ride on an electric tricycle past the Guantao Chemical Industry Park outside the village of East Luzhuang, Hebei province, China February 23, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Soil pollution is one of China’s biggest and most expensive environmental challenges. The last nationwide survey in 2014 showed that around 16% of its land – an area the size of Mongolia – was contaminated to varying degrees by fertilizers and pesticides, heavy metals, plastic and other chemicals. – article
That’s a helluva a lot of arable land to lose to metal poisoning. Greed does strange things to governments like the Chinese COMMUNIST government.
Ex,
I literally only did 3 minutes of Google research and stopped. After that, I realized it wasn’t worth it.
Oh, I wasn’t being critical. The load of contaminated farmland, which has risen drastically since 2006, was what caught my eye. I had not realized that it had become so utterly appalling.
Oh, i’ve bookmarked this to read later. I’m just at work now. That is something I didn’t know about.
That’s the problem with free trade. It works great if it’s a level playing field, but it’s not a level playing field.
You neglected to mention than on an average day, ~25 percent of California’s air pollution comes from (drum roll)…China.
It’s been said that NYC will likely lose a House Seat, anyone wanna bet that it’ll be AOC’s? She has pissed the inner establishment of the DNC off and I’m sure that they’re doing all they can to make her o one-term wonder!
NYS is projected to lose one, and probably two seats for the 2022 elections.
While the commies in Albany will try their damndest to fuck over the upstate region, they can only deny reality for so long.
Check out his guy Andrew. He does a really job of researching claims that the lackies of D’s never bother to confirm.
But…but…but…she has a degree in economics so she has to be an expert–just ask Short Round.
The two of them, Lars and AOC are living proof that degrees are frequently nothing more than documents.
Common sense cannot be bestowed by ANY institution.
The real question is,
1. Is the status of “education” really that bad at Boston College? Has it become nothing more than leftist indoctrination vs. actually teaching anything about real-world economics?
2. Did she just “earn” her degree on her knees?
She is the type of graduate that universities are spitting out these days. She’s fully versed in SJW propaganda but has no practical skills. That’s why Sandy worked as bartender for 7 years because in NYC there aren’t any jobs that involve economics and international relations as a background.
You ought to see the video where her and Bernie can’t figure out a simple APR problem. These two want trillions of taxpayer dollars but can’t figure out how much interest to pay on $500 purchase.
Please, it’s Boston University. I have made the same mistake myself, for which I apologize to Boston College.
Does Lars really have a degree? I thought he left school because of his ongoing health issues?
A recto-cranial inversion (known as an “anal-cranial loopback” in the Signal Corps) makes learning difficult.
But…she haz degree in economics? And we don’t.
If you know your bank balance, that doesn’t require a degree in economics. Nor does setting up a household or national budget require that.
Personally, from my experience and with only two Econ classes, I think she is one of the stupidest people on the planet with a college degree. She apparently just pulls stats out of her ass like a certain perennial student at Bezerkeley.
Well, I DID do the Math for Marines MCI. I MIGHT be able to hold court with her. I also did Personnel Financial Management, so I might wipe the floor with her. Who knows.
I’d like to see that!
I can calculate exactly how many spoons full of ice cream from a 1.75 litre container of Breyer’s over a total of 12 p’nut butter with Hershey Kisses cookies I need for X number of bowls of ice cream to have a proper cookie to ice cream ratio. And whether or not I can afford it.
That’s economics, math, history, supply chain/distribution AND Home Ec.
Man got to have his priorities. Too bad he’s out of cookies but has a wealth of ice cream right now. (supply chain problems)
“I can calculate exactly how many spoons full of ice cream… I need …”
Being a math major, I can also do that calculation. In the real world, though, the correct answer is “more”. Some things only require common sense.
Standards at BU really went downhill after John Silber stopped running things if she’s the kind of grads they’re producing with degrees. I swear to God, if brains were gasoline her and Lars TOGETHER wouldn’t have enough to drive a pissant’s moped around the inside of a Cheerio. I think my dog knows more about economics than she does; at least my dog knows that when the bowl is empty there’s no more food, you can’t wish it there.
I have retired now but I worked at BU for 23 years. Your observation about the decline in standards is certainly correct in my estimation. Sadly, I think this has been a national trend for many years. I am old enough to remember when not everyone went to college….better times
I am old enough to remember when three fourths of the class didn’t get A’s and B’s. In my university days, one was hard pressed to find more than four or five students in a class of fifty that received A’s.
Education/degree does not equal intelligence.
She has an undergraduate degree. At best that means she should have a solid understanding of the basics for economics and international relations.
When one considers she has continuously failed to answer basic questions related to her fields of study (such as the palestenian/Israeli conflict), it’s very apparent she has significant knowledge gaps in the fundamentals for her chosen fields of study.
She’s young, pretty(ish), and has the “right” ethic/race background. That’s what got her elected and keeps her in the news. She didn’t get elected to office because of her deep intellectual capacity.
Indeed. Everyone propping her up wants to harp on the fact she “graduated w/honors from B.U” and glosses over the finer points you mentioned, i.e. a Bachelors is nothing more than regurgitating already known facts.
Meanwhile, NUMEROUS posters on here hold advanced degrees in various fields. Not to mention having years of PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE(not serving drinks).
A Masters Degree is defined “expected to possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theoretical and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, critical evaluation, or professional application; and the ability to solve complex problems and think rigorously and independently.”
Think rigorously and independently, and contributing NEW THOUGHT. AOC (and apparently Lars) has not quite grasped that concept yet. Maybe one day he will.
Not only does she have little, if any, grasp of economics, thanks to that video supplied by E4 Mafia we can also see that her numeracy is definitely low. She may have memorized the supply/demand curves and IS/LM model, etc., but it’s pretty obvious she doesn’t understand them or how they work. I would bet graduate school is not in her future and, like English and other social “sciences”, and Econ. degree only qualifies you to be a bartender.
Dear AOC, Just to help you, your plans will not work. Because, math.
Math is raciss… haven’t you been paying attention?
More proof that standards have dropped. When I was a lad that stuff was called “arithmetic” and you learned it by high school. Math was something you studied in college.
Just for the Poodle, from Mr. Looking Up At Pond Scum.
What do you call a progressive female liberal with two brain cells? PREGNANT ! Ask Joe, Joe Mama that is.