to reflect on her first year in office, her climate anxieties, and her blueprint to fix what’s broken in our country.— something that wakes them up to the scale and severity of the crisis. What was your moment?
The Green New Deal [was] worded very deliberately, because what was very important for us is that we had to put out a comprehensive vision with underlying principles. No matter what kind of policy we’re talking about, it had to be bound by three things. The first is a drawdown of carbon emissions on a 10-year timeline. The second is the creation of jobs — having this be industrial policy to create millions of jobs and provide an economic stimulus for working people, not for Wall Street.
I’m curious what you think it would take to have a genuine debate with Republicans about the climate crisis? You’ve spoken about how entrenched the fossil-fuel lobby is, how the Koch brothers essentially purchased the Republican Party. How have you seen that manifest since you’ve been here? This is where I find who takes the White House to be important. In terms of the party itself, those basic tendencies are absolutely still there. There is an extraordinarily pro-corporate wing of the party that will block a lot of meaningful change. If we had the ACA [Affordable Care Act] fight today, we would still have people trying to kill the public option. Back then there was [Senator] Joe Lieberman; that was that clinch vote. Today it’s [Senator] Joe Manchin — and Manchin is way worse.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton, while talking about transitioning fossil-fuel workers to other jobs, said, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business.” It didn’t go over very well. What is the strategy for phasing out coal while protecting workers’ jobs?
And there is a movie made about her, it's called 'The Girl With All the Gifts'. I guess they knew she was going to start the virus.
College interns should not be running this Twitter page
Someone please tell her that it’s not like mixing a drink behind a bar. It actually has to be good
Sure because that should be her focus now..... 🙄 AOC
Oh really.. Why don't you share this more CloseYourDoors
George Harrison wrote a powerful song about saving the earth recorded by the Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps. via YouTube
Are you seriously wasting my time with this?
Remember, politicians and institutions DO NOT care about you.
Bullshit
Ugh
What turns me off about the green new deal and other similar objectives, is use of the term 'crisis'...sure there's parts of the planet that might be in 'crisis'. But let's be fair, many of us are here doing what we can.
Lmao the new green deal?, the one that wants to kill all cows so they don’t fart. And get rid of all planes and demolish all the buildings and replace them with solar power surface
🙄🙄🙄
AOC THIS is what her concern is at these critical times?
AOC Clearly someone behind the scenes is pulling her strings
AOC Better news...she will fade into memory sooner than later.
AOC There was already a massive job creation that she turned away. Much applause, AOC
AOC She's loosing her seat. Out with her