Much crazier in the world of rhetoric was AOC, who was giving a speech about global warming and decided to get misty-eyed — to start crying because she is convinced the world is about to end and she now feels that she can’t be a mother.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I speak to you not as an elected official or public figure, but I speak to you as a human being — a woman whose dreams of motherhood now taste bitter-sweet because of what I know about our children’s future, and that our actions are responsible for bringing their most dire possibilities into focus. I speak to you as a daughter and descendant of colonized peoples who have already begun to suffer.
What is she suffering? Last I checked, she’s getting $300 haircuts and living in a posh apartment in Washington D.C., and going on television all the time. What did she suffer? She said I am suffering, I am a member of an indigenous peoples group that we are suffering.
What are you suffering? What are other people suffering? There is no evidence that the world is going to end in 12 years. There is none, not one little bit. That’s not scientific. It’s not even — I don’t even, to call it a religious view is not really supported by the evidence because most religious views have some logic to them. Some have a lot of logic to them; this has no logic, none whatsoever.
The worst global warming predictions are that the Earth will warm about two degrees over a century. There is no evidence that this will pose any problems for humans, certainly will not pose any problems for Americans. Why is AOC worried about having children? Look, if AOC doesn’t have children, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth exactly. But in the spirit of humanity, because I am human and nothing human is alien to me, I would like AOC to feel like she is free to have children. Why doesn’t she want our children now? Because she says we know that they will face the diarist of consequences. What’s the diarist of consequences? I guess death would be the direst of consequences.
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