The Green New Deal..

or, Is This Real or Some Dark Parody?

Ojos Loco, also known as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) released her “Green New Deal” on Thursday through National Public Radio. And what a deal it is. Introduced with and co-authored by another Seeker, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), this non-binding resolution is a socialist’s wet dream, touting “human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century.” This results in “an increase in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and other extreme weather events.” They forgot forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together and mass hysteria.

Enough of my blather, our own Veritas Omnia Vincit has some thoughts on the issue, and he’s inclined to share. Without further ado,

Veritas Omnia Vincit
The Green New Deal resolution a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War 2 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and create economic prosperity for all. It will:

1) Move America to 100% clean and renewable energy

2) Create millions of family supporting-wage, union jobs

3) Ensure a just transition for all communities and workers to ensure economic security for people and communities that have historically relied on fossil fuel industries

4) Ensure justice and equity for frontline communities by prioritizing investment, training, climate and community resiliency, economic and environmental benefits in these communities.

5) Build on FDR’s second bill of rights by guaranteeing:
a) A job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security
b) High-quality education, including higher education and trade schools
c) Clean air and water and access to nature
d) Healthy food
e) High-quality health care
f) Safe, affordable, adequate housing
g) Economic environment free of monopolies
h) Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work

By now most of you have seen the Green New Deal FAQ or if you haven’t you’ve at least heard about it. When I first saw it online I was convinced I was reading The Onion or Duffel Blog or some other parody site’s version of what they thought a Democrat might propose.

As it turns out this isn’t parody at all it’s their actual plan in all it’s idiotic glory wrapped up in a pretty, albeit vacuous, ethnic package that often speaks without any concern for reality, factuality, or evidence. It’s the “emotions are as valid as facts” crowd writ large in the person of a former bartender/economics major from New York City. It’s written without any specificity whatsoever and written without and suggestions as to how this would be funded beyond, and I quote; “The question isn’t how will we pay for it, but what is the cost of inaction, and what will we do with our new shared prosperity created by the investments in the Green New Deal,”

You really can’t make this shit up folks, it just writes itself each and every day in real time on our smart phones and televisions. Even with her 70% tax proposal the government will run out of every billionaire’s money trying to fund this mess in a few months time. In typical “progressive” fashion she glosses over the funding aspect to express the concept that once the air is clean and all of our houses, businesses, cars, trains, and boats, (not planes there’s no more planes in her plan) are running on unicorn farts and sparkle pony dust we will be awash in prosperity and joy where we will all break out into spontaneous song and dance routines not at all unlike the shows she grew up watching on Broadway, oblivious to the difficult financing aspect of those shows and the necessity to actually turn a profit to keep the show running.

The Twitterverse is all abuzz with the incoherent ramblings of Ms. Cortez, after all who can resist such gems as this? “Climate change and our environmental challenges are one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life, not just as a nation, but as a world,” As someone who fancies himself a semi-coherent speaker the fact that she mentions two things as one of the biggest philosophical threats to our way of life as a whole world would no doubt make Nietzsche blush. After all as one of the pre-eminent existentialists one of his largest contributions to that realm of study was his insistence on logically disputing truth from opinion and error. There is so much error in every aspect of this Green New Deal I can’t believe any serious economic student or any serious politician would even submit such a sophomoric load of tripe for consideration in any public forum.

When I read that crap as written I am immediately drawn to such vapidly idiotic phrases as “justice and equity for frontline communities” “family-sustaining wages” “just transition” words without meaning except in the coded tongue of the social justice warrior progressive leftists. Meaningless phrases constructed with such ambiguity they guarantee government over reach, and because they defy definition can be claimed as success without changing one aspect of our current lives in these United States.

When I read that she intends to guarantee items such as “healthy food” “family sustaining wages” “vacations” “retirement security” it occurs to me that she has no idea that many of us already have all of that, largely due to the simple fact we get up off our asses in the morning and head on out into the world to perform actual work, work that generates a profit for our family that we can utilize in our variations of “The Pursuit of Happiness:.

When I read this component “Economic security for all who are unable or UNWILLING to work” I realize that not only is this woman a complete and total fool, she’s a dangerously incompetent fool. Even in her lefty bible of communism and socialism those unwilling to work are deemed inappropriate to the working classes and are required to attend re-education to impress upon them the necessity and benefit of communal work.

It’s really no wonder that the new Crypt Keeper of the house, Pelosi, tried to laugh off this Green New Deal as something that “they” want. Whoever the hell “they” are as Pelosi wanted no part of that line of questioning. Proposals like this are why some in the Democratic Party are actually suggesting that the DNC start looking for someone to primary AOC in 2020 so they can rid themselves of this dipshit albatross they’ve hung around their collective necks.

With people like this working in DC the nation won’t have to worry about external “existential” threats, we’ll be killed by our own from inside.

Of course that’s just my opinion, your mileage will most certainly vary as well it should.

VoV

Thanks, VOV. This has all the elements of watching an impending train wreck- you know it’s going to be horrific, but you can’t look away. Keep ’em coming, Bro.

100 cool points to those who caught the “Seeker” reference.

Category: "Teh Stoopid", Global Warming, Politics