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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 154 | The Green New Deal: SOCIALISM Unchained | Roaming Millennial: Uncensored

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

There has been a lot of controversy over the past few days about the exact contents of the Green New Deal being put forward by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So the only thing to do is to go over the document itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tonight Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal asserts that the only way to combat climate change is through socialism.

0:12.0

Really, I'm roaming millennial and you're watching uncensored. Hey guys, welcome back to the show. Today we are once again going to be talking about the Green New Deal.

0:33.6

Now a few weeks ago everybody's favorite quirky millennial Congresswoman

0:37.8

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had everybody talking with her plans to

0:41.8

apparently overhaul the American energy,

0:44.4

transportation, economics, and just everything systems in order to combat climate

0:49.2

change. Some of the ideas that she had thrown out there to fight climate change, which apparently is going to kill us all in 12 years, included things like eliminating the use of fossil fuels in 10 years and also just bringing socialism to America a little bit yeah a lot of people were

1:05.8

quite critical of that but in response to all that negativity Ocasteo Cortez said

1:11.0

guys the Republicans are picking on me again oh my gosh you don't know what you're talking about

1:16.0

science is totally on my side and besides this this is all just brainstorming we don't even have a bill

1:21.0

yet this is we're just trying to get ideas. Oh my gosh guys. And so a lot of people myself included figured, okay, you know what, fair enough.

1:27.6

Back crap, crazy talking points aside, we probably should be waiting until there's something concrete on the table before we

1:33.9

start giving too many opinions and this past week she delivered.

1:38.0

Acasio Cortez and one of her colleagues in the Senate released the resolution

1:41.7

recognizing the duty of the federal government

1:43.7

to create a Green New Deal. And oh boy this thing is everything conservative pundits

1:48.7

had hoped and dreamed for and more. It really didn't take long before people started picking it apart.

1:54.2

And people were especially amused and concerned with how Ocasio Cortez herself

1:58.6

was presenting the Green New Deal in effect on her very own website.

2:02.8

According to the frequently asked questions page that aimed to summarize the Green New

2:06.5

Deal, it sought to guarantee everyone things like, quote, a job with family sustaining wages,

2:11.6

family and medical leave, vacations and retirement security,

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