Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Harvey have both returned from vacation on the same day. Coincidence?
In any case, your challenge is to guess which one of them said the following:
“Even when I was on vacation, I woke up in the middle of the night at 3:30 in the morning, um, just concerned about climate change … It really, like, freaks me out and it can be really, really scary. . . .
You think overhauling our economy to decarbonize and save the planet is going to be expensive? Try not decarbonizing our economy and allowing sea levels to rise, every coastal city to go underwater, every midwestern city, or large swaths of the middle of the country experiencing drought on a level that we have not seen. Um, that’s going to be a lot more expensive.”
I know it’s difficult to tell which one is in Congress. That’s why they call it “Jeopardy.”
So many big words! How does she do it?
Reject Jesus as your Savior and you will see what expensive is.
I heard all of the Great Lakes are going to rise in level also. You will be able to throw and wet a hook from Missouri.
I think she made that statement because this seems more like what Harvey would say… When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody. All we got to say on this proposition is this: first, me and you is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better; second, nobody ain’t got no right to take away none of our rights; third, every man has got a right to live, to come and go as he pleases, and to have a good time whichever way he likes, so long as he don’t interfere with nobody else. That any government that don’t give a man them rights ain’t worth a damn; also, people ought to choose the kind of government they want themselves, and nobody else ought to have no say in the matter. That whenever any government don’t do this, then the people have got a right to give it the bum’s rush and put in one that will take care of their interests. Of course, that don’t mean having a revolution every day like them South American yellow bellies, or every time some jobholder goes to work and does something he ain’t got no business to do. It is better to stand a little graft, etc.,.than to have revolutions all the time. But when things get so bad that a man ain’t hardly got no rights at all no more, that you might almost call him a slave, then everybody ought to get together and throw the grafters out, and put in new ones who won’t carry on so high and steal so much, and then watch them. This is the proposition the people of this colony is up against, and they have got tired of it, and won’t stand it no more.
You really didn’t expect me to read all of that, did you?
Wait — where did that translation come from?
Or is it original?
Don’t care, still ain’t reading it. Its late and I’m too tired anyway. Maybe tomorrow, but I doubt it.
Maybe he got it from Spicoli
A friend of mine sent it to me in an EMail. I thought it was interesting so I stashed it away for future use…like this afternoon.
Google says HL Mencken… this is making LOTD in the near future…
I have a serious question. Not being sarcastic or anything because I honestly don’t know the answer.
Stipulate that the glaciers melt causing the sea levels to rise and flood all of the coastal cities and what not…How does this lead to droughts in the mid-west? I would think adding more liquid water to the water cycle would mean more rain rather than less. Greater surface area of the oceans for evaporation, etc.
It all depends upon how many butterflies there are flying on any particular day in the Amazon.
Glaciars melt. Ocean levels rise… Hmm. Put ice in glass. Fill to brim with water. Watch ice melt. And flooding in 3 2 1 ummm, in 5 4 3…n.m.
I don’t know your age, but the very fact that you pose that question suggests strongly that you are not a recent product of the educational system. Or else you are extraordinary.
In any case, I don’t know the answer.
The answer you will get is that everything is caused by global warming. Try to keep questioning that.
If a blizzard happens in one part of the country on the very same day as a heat wave in another, both are caused by global warming, in their logic, yet they do not cancel each other out temperature-wise. This is an extraordinary form of logic and math which you will have to get used to.
Sea level rise explained. Put 3 large ice cubes in a glass, and fill it with water. Now observe. will the melting ice cause the glass to overflow?
Better yet. Try to snatch the pebble from my hand Grasshopper.