Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is demanding that President Trump be removed from office or else. AOC - who inflames her base with lies like 'the world is going to end in 12 years' - is blaming President Trump for what happened at the Capitol yesterday. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blamed the Keystone XL pipeline for leaking about 5,000 barrels of oil in rural South Dakota about two years ago. There's just one problem: The Keystone XL pipeline has not been built yet.
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cheered the news that oil futures plunged below zero on Monday as demand due to the coronavirus pandemic continued to plummet.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: 'You absolutely love to see it. This along with record low interest rates means it's the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet. *cough*
Ocasio-Cortez wrote her statement while promoting a tweet that stated: 'Oil prices now at ‘negative values,' meaning oil producers have to pay people to take it off their hands and store it because when demand plunges (like now), that is less expensive for them than building more storage and/or shutting wells down.'
Rep. @AOC after seeing news that means American workers will lose their jobs: 'You absolutely love to see it.' pic.twitter.com/WcHb4fI220
— Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@MattWolking) April 20, 2020
There was immediate backlash online as critics said that Ocasio-Cortez was 'cheering' American job losses due to the pandemic.
Political commentator Stephen Miller mocked those who have claimed that no one is cheering the pandemic, sarcastically writing: 'No one is cheering this pandemic.'
Miller later added: 'You only need thousands of people dead and millions of people unemployed to enact your vision, which is basically what we've been saying all along.'
No one is cheering this pandemic. https://t.co/J6zb7kATJ0
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 20, 2020
Another political commentator from the Heritage Foundation wrote: 'Member of Congress actively cheering massive job losses and economic misery for thousands of her fellow citizens:'
Member of Congress actively cheering massive job losses and economic misery for thousands of her fellow citizens: https://t.co/IL08w2qDfw
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) April 20, 2020
America First Spokesman Steve Cortes responded: 'I look forward to challenging leftists – from AOC to Joe Biden to Andrew Cuomo – to explain their anti-Energy radicalism to voters, especially in places like western PA'
I look forward to challenging leftists – from AOC to Joe Biden to Andrew Cuomo – to explain their anti-Energy radicalism to voters, especially in places like western PA… https://t.co/ar6IO51vuU
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) April 20, 2020
Jason Howerton tweeted: 'AOC deleted the tweet. Never forget. Radicals want revolution and they don't care what kind of unthinkable hell all of us would have to go through to get there.'
AOC deleted the tweet.
Never forget. Radicals want revolution and they don't care what kind of unthinkable hell all of us would have to go through to get there. pic.twitter.com/eEKLihpskr
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) April 20, 2020
Daily Caller investigative reporter Chuck Ross wrote: 'My cousin's husband was laid off from his oil field job in Western Texas even before today's downturn. They have 3 kids. She has cancer for the second time in her life, prognosis unclear. So no, you don't ‘absolutely love to see it.''
RNC Rapid Response Director Steve Guest wrote: 'Screen shots live forever. Here's a screen grab of @AOC cheering on job losses. Disgusting.'
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Here's a screen grab of @AOC cheering on job losses.
Disgusting. https://t.co/5WTyQs4x4xpic.twitter.com/MuIPpwes6h
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 20, 2020
Ocasio-Cortez offered no apology for her remarks and instead kept going, tweeting: 'Now is the time to create millions of good jobs building out the infrastructure and clean energy necessary to save our planet for future generations. For our economy, our planet, and our future, we need a #GreenNewDeal.'
Just last week, the Houston Chronicle reported:
Oil and gas companies announced plans to cut more than 6,400 jobs on a grim day for the industry that saw the price of crude oil settle below $20 for the first time since 2001 and the amount of petroleum in U.S. storage rise by nearly 20 million barrels.
The most job losses came at Weatherford International, the Houston-based oil-field service company, which said Wednesday that it plans to cut 25 percent of its global workforce. A breakdown of where the layoffs will take place was not immediately available but the company had said it employed about 24,000 workers at the beginning of the year — meaning it will shed 6,000 jobs.
Last year, Ocasio-Cortez was one of the people who sabotaged a deal where Amazon would have brought tens of thousands of new jobs to her district and billions of dollars of economic activity.
'Thirty-eight percent of voters faulted the congresswoman for the deal's demise, identifying her as a ‘villain,'' The New York Times reported. 'In the New York City suburbs, 50 percent of voters blamed Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Upstate, the number was 40 percent; in the five boroughs, it was 29 percent.'
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday denounced the 'audacity' of oil giant Shell after it waded into the global discussion about the climate crisis by asking members of the public what they would do to reduce carbon emissions.
'I'm willing to hold you accountable for lying about climate change for 30 years when you secretly knew the entire time that fossil fuels emissions would destroy our planet,' the New York Democrat and co-sponsor of the Green New Deal legislation replied.
I'm willing to hold you accountable for lying about climate change for 30 years when you secretly knew the entire time that fossil fuels emissions would destroy our planet https://t.co/ekj1Va1Cp0
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 2, 2020
In the poll it posted to Twitter, Shell offered choices to the public including 'stop flying,' 'buy an electric vehicle,' and shifting to renewable electricity.
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What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions? #EnergyDebate
— Shell (@Shell) November 2, 2020
Coming from the world's third-largest company, which knew as early as 1988 that its extraction of oil and gas was linked to the heating of the planet, the question was seen by Ocasio-Cortez and other critics as a gross deflection of Shell's own responsibility.
'The audacity of Shell asking YOU what YOU'RE willing to do to reduce emissions,' Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. 'They're showing you RIGHT HERE how the suggestion that individual choices—not systems—are a main driver of climate change is a fossil fuel talking point.'
The 'good choices' American voters and lawmakers can make, the congresswoman added, are ones that will help 'reign in fossil fuel corporations' that are actually fueling the destruction of the planet.
The journalism initiative Covering Climate Now called Shell's tweet 'a textbook example of greenwashing.'
Here's a textbook example of 'greenwashing' + corporations making it seem like climate change is a symptom of everyday people's inaction. Journalists beware! https://t.co/soZtQK8QGQ
— Covering Climate Now (@CoveringClimate) November 2, 2020
Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Texas Tech Climate Center, echoed Ocasio-Cortez's disgust at the company as she noted that out of 90 companies in the world, Shell is the sixth-highest contributor to fossil fuel emissions in history.
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'Yes, everyone must do their part—starting with the biggest emitters,' Hayhoe tweeted, adding that the company has previously publicly suggested that individuals making changes to their daily habits is what will help save the planet.
Despite what the CEO of Shell claimed in 2019, eating food that's in season, avoiding fast fashion and recycling ISN'T GOING TO CUT IT when it comes to stabilizing climate change. Those actions will make no more than the tiniest of dents. https://t.co/VsnrVFBGgZ
— Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 2, 2020
Shell's tweet drew outrage from international climate action group Greenpeace, international lawmakers, and climate experts.
All this corporate BS over who is responsible for climate change. It's them, folks.
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As @KHayhoe pointed out, Shell is #6 of 90 companies responsible for 2/3 of greenhouse gas emissions
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Listen to @degreespod episode: 'Give Up Your Climate Guilt.'https://t.co/kMGi6pFF3m
— Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) November 2, 2020
You polluted our planet, you funded climate change deniers, you fund the lobby to slow down climate protection laws and you still invest massive into fossils. But you're asking us to help reducing emissions?
Wtf, Shell..https://t.co/44Jye1aux0https://t.co/6BI0rvjQdepic.twitter.com/VCrE5IrtO3
— Michael Bloss (@micha_bloss) November 2, 2020
We're willing to fight for climate justice and for people not to fall for your dirty tricks, @Shell. Individual choices matter, but you and the other fossil fuel companies are the ones responsible for the climate crisis the world is facing right now https://t.co/gkwhNat4QV
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— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) November 2, 2020
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'What am I willing to do?' Hayhoe wrote in reply to Shell's poll question, which she later said was hidden on Twitter by the company. 'Hold you accountable for 2% of cumulative global greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to those of my entire home country of Canada. When you have a concrete plan to address that, I'd be happy to chat about what I'm doing to reduce my personal emissions.'
