AOC claimed world will end in 12 years if climate change not addressed. Now she's changing her tune.

2019-05-12
Source: WashingtonGuardian
by: Chris Enloe

This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it.

Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.

But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 12, 2019

'But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made headlines in January after she claimed the world will end in 12 years if climate change is not addressed.

"I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials, and Gen-Z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we're like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change, and your biggest issue is, your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it?" Ocasio-Cortez said at the time.

"And like this is the war, this is our World War II," she claimed.

Over the weekend, the controversial freshman lawmaker downplayed her claims in an apparent attempt to walk them back completely.

Source: The Blaze

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