The Art of the Green New Deal

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	D.C.'s hottest club is the Green New Deal and we have not yet talked about it on today
0:18.0	explained, but no I'm hasn't felt you have been reporting on the Green New Deal for
0:22.2	today explained and today is the day today today explained explained.
0:28.8	Where do we start?
0:29.8	I think we should actually start with Republican Senator Mike Lee.
0:33.3	Utah.
0:34.3	Utah.
0:35.3	This is of course a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine
0:40.7	gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur.
0:43.8	Okay, yeah, I think I saw a photo or a video of this online, but it was long.
0:48.9	What does this have to do with the Green New Deal?
0:50.5	You just got to be patient.
0:51.5	Okay, I can do that.
0:52.5	You'll notice a couple of important features here.
0:55.9	First of all, the rocket launcher strapped the President Reagan's back and then the stirring
1:02.1	unmistakable patriotism of the Velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag.
1:10.8	No, critics might quibble with this depiction of the climactic battle of the Cold War
1:18.2	because while awesome, in real life there was no climactic battle.
1:24.6	There was no battle with or without Velociraptors, but this image has as much to do with overcoming
1:32.5	communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change
1:41.0	in the 21st.
1:43.0	Okay, so yeah, I heard Green New Deal in there.
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