Socialists on Damage Control
Ocasio-Cortez Staff In DAMAGE Control Over False Statements after her policy adviser went on Tucker Carlson and falsely stated that their FAQS on the Green New Deal were not in fact real.
Following this an activist with Media Matters spread a snipped video only showing the adviser denying the FAQ and not Carlson correction leading many to believe that the FAQ was fake. To make it worse, Ocasio-Cortez retweeted the activist propaganda.
Now we have a staff member for Cortez saying âunwilling to workâ WAS supposed to be included we just didnât understand what they meant. The damage control for the far left bill seems to be not working as it just makes the press on the issue worse.
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In the wake of the Green New Deal it would seem that Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and her staff are in full on damage control. A controversy erupted when one of her policy advisors went on Tucker Carlsonâs show and incorrectly stated that the FAQ they released âdidnât exist and was actually trollsâ because apparently he was referring to some other document.Â
Now we can see theyâre kind of backpedaling back and forth and I have to assume I think theyâre kind of lying and I think they did publish this on purpose but because of the backlash, because of the embarrassment; theyâve started walking things back. But now one of the staff members for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says âno we were thinking about some of these things; you just didnât understandâ.
First from Business Insider" Ocasio Cortez and team attempt damage control after a fumbled Green New Deal rollout that included a line about paying Americans quote âunwilling to workâ. A line on Cortezâs website supporting economic security to all those who are unable or unwilling to work triggered backlash this week and prompted mixed messages from her team about where that line came from and whether it was ever intended to be part of the landmark Green New Deal policy package.
The controversy has given fodder to critics of the Green New Deal legislation which was unveiled Thursday, though the actual Green New Deal legislation introduced to the House of Representatives contains no mention of guaranteeing economic security to those unwilling to work, the phrase was included on Cortezâs website in a frequently asked questions page that has since been removed from the site. The page was also sent to reporters including NPR which published the document and The Washington Post.
This tweet began to make its rounds which kind of exacerbated the problem. Jeff Stein of The Washington Post said âincredibly strange dynamic right now a zillion outlets have run with the Green New Deal equals mystery FAQ sheet, which includes things like money for those unwilling to work, but thatâs not in the
plan the senator and often now Cortez is retweeting her advisor, telling Fox the sheet is itself not theirs.â
He continued âit certainly looks as if the documents below came from AOCâs office. AOC advisor and clip retweeted by Cortez to Fox âyouâre referring to some I think doctored document that someone other than us has been circulatingââ
My [Tim Poolâs] response to this got nearly 2500 retweets and I want to make sure we get all of the facts on the record and break down whatâs going on I said âThis is getting scary. AOC and others are straight gaslighting people. NPR still has the faq published CNBC reported the same. The web archived from her web site still exists.â
At the time the information we had was that her policy adviser on Tucker Carlson repeatedly said it was a forged document and that she had tweeted about it. She then retweeted a clip from activist organization Media Matters for America where they said âlook what happens when Tucker is pushed out of his conservative bubble and a policy advisor for AOC debunks all of his conservative liesâ but this was a short clip and it was propaganda, it wasnât the truth. On the show Tucker Carlson then went on to correct her policy adviser saying âIâm getting information in my ear it is on your website it is trueâ but her policy adviser refused to believe it.
And yesterday the Daily Wire published a story about this they said âOcasio Cortez adviser caught making false statements about documents they publishedâ.
Now it is true he did make false statements. He went on later to clarify he was mistaken and was referring to something else. First they show this tweet which was pushed out by Cortez herself, it says âwatch what happens when Tucker Carlson steps out of the conservative bubble and brings on an AOC policy adviser who debunks all the conservative media lies straight to his face. Spoiler: it doesnât go great for Tuckerâ.
However it would seem that her policy adviser was referring to this tweet where Cortez was criticizing Mark Dice and jack Posobiec for satirizing her Green New Deal with an obviously fake document that talks about recycling urine, she said âwhen your Green New Deal legislation is so strong the GOP has to resort to circulating false versions but the real one net 70 House co-sponsors and a one and all dem a presidential candidates anyway.â
The Daily Caller also covered the story and added at the end Hockett conceded that he was wrong in an email to Daily Caller News Foundation on Saturday. âIt appears there was more than one document being discussed yesterday only one of which I had heard about with any definiteness by last evening after a long day of media appearances namely the one referred to by congresswoman in her tweet.â He wrote âI regret that we seem unknowingly to have ended up speaking about different documents for a minute during our longer and otherwise on-the-same-page conversation last night.â
Cortez responded to Jeff Stein of The Washington Post on Twitter by saying âThere are multiple doctor to Green New Deal resolutions and facts floating around there was also a draft version that got uploaded taken down.
Thereâs also draft versions floating out there. Point is the real one is our submitted resolution H.res 109.
Saikat Chakrabarti who worked with Cortez also tweeted an explanation saying âRegarding all the errant faq TL;DR is read the resolution to see what people actually signed onto. We did this in collaboration with a bunch of groups and offices over the course of last month as a part of that process. There were multiple iterations brainstorming Docâs FAQ set cetera that we shared some of these early drafts got leaked.âÂ
âThere separately is a doctored FAQ floating around and an early draft of a FAQ that was clearly unfinished and that doesnât represent the Green New Deal resolution got published to the website by mistake. Idea was to wait for launch, monitor questions and rewrite that FAQ before publishing. Mistakes happen when doing time launches like this coordinating multiple groups and collaborators. Itâs hard to have both a transparent and open process with many stakeholders while keeping all info locked down but whatâs in the resolution is the Green New Deal.â
So essentially it wasnât apparently an attempt at actual gaslighting and the issue weâre seeing is they claim they âmistakenly published the FAQ to their website they mistakenly published another PDF version of this and send it to various news organizations and they shouldnât have done that because it was an early version of the draftâ
Personally I donât think thatâs whatâs happening and I think theyâre doing damage control in trying to walk things back. Now that does kind of make sense, the resolution in the FAQ are a bit different but barely the only real difference is that the resolution uses more legal language, it looks like a bill and it doesnât mention unwillingness to work but it does call for racial equity and gender pay equity and things of that nature so theyâre still basically the same thing.
But hereâs where it gets more interesting while I donât want to say necessarily that there I can definitively prove they were gaslighting at the time with Ocasio Cortez retweeting that statement from her policy advisor her policy adviser going
on TV and saying ânope youâre wrong itâs a fake documentâ it really did seem like
they were trying to confuse people and Gaslight people.
Now I canât say it definitively because at this point theyâve given reason to believe it may not be true, though my personal opinion I do think they are lying and trying to play damage control, but hereâs the thing Saikat Chakrabarti has actually come out and said âno yeah we are actually talking about these thingsâ. The reality is the FAQ is something they did plan they did talk about they do believe but was accidentally published. So itâs not like the document shows information that is factually incorrect, they do believe these things and psychotically clarified they do then they do believe this.
He tweeted yesterday night saying âwe were essentially thinking about pensions and retirement security eg economic security for a coal miner who has given 40 years of their life to building the energy infrastructure of this country but who may not be willing to switch this late in his careerâ he tweeted this in response to CNBC saying that the Green new deal offers economic security for those unwilling to work.
So itâs not that the FAQ was wrong, no apparently the frequently asked questions was real they actually are thinking about providing economic security to those who are unwilling to work and he clarified what he meant was âpeople who lose their jobs when their jobs become obsoleteâ but I kind of find that hard to believe because they could just say economic security to people who lose their jobs due to technological advancement, not those unwilling to work, thereâs a bit of a difference there. But it sounds like heâs admitting they really are having those conversations the faq isnât wrong if itâs not wrong why did they take it down why didnât they just change that one sentence?
In my opinion itâs because that was something they believe it is something they talked about and theyâre embarrassed by it it made them look bad and other politicians and credit party were calling them out.
Beyond just the unwillingness to work he also addressed the economists when they said that the Green New Deal bundles together the issues of climate change and economic inequality, he said âweâve been saying since day one that a Green New Deal is a path to jobs and justice through a national mobilization of our economy to tackle climate change. Itâs a huge opportunity to create wealth and shared prosperity.â
Yes, the Green New Deal is more about âequality and justiceâ but hold on equality is the wrong word what they actually say is equity and thereâs a big difference; equity does not mean equality in fact equity brings about the opposite of equality.
This image is often shown to people to explain what equality and equity is when you look at equity you can see that three people are now all able to see a baseball game, but when it comes to equality and people are given the same resources not everyone has a chance to watch the baseball game.Â
This is very easy to understand when you can see except itâs about height⊠But whatâs about skin color or gender or other things that arenât quantifiable.Â
Equity means the opposite of equality, it means we will arbitrarily decide based on our personal opinions or ideology to allocate resources to people through means that are not uantifiable.Â
In this image it makes sense, in reality it actually doesnât and this is what their bill is calling for - equity NOT equality.Â
That means they believe some people should get more money than others based off of their perception and their ideology, not what is quantifiable.
So the most important conclusions we have here is that itâs very likely on Tucker Carlson that this policy adviser was just ill informed.Â
But thatâs important too, why would a policy advisor for Cortez go on national television without knowing what was in their own published frequently asked questions, not only on her website but in multiple PDFs sent out to various news organizations.Â
You think that kind of preparation and knowledge would be very important.Â
We can also see that Saikat has mentioned they were talking about paying people unwilling to work.Â
Why didnât her policy adviser know about that?Â
This is very strange and it would seem that somebody is lying somewhere down the line.Â
The Green New Deal seems like a bungled intersectional mess and theyâre in full-on damage control.
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Well I knew a while ago they are not fighting for equality, that has been clear with their double standards, their methods, hypocrisy, lies and bias concentrated attacks at dissenting voices that have reasonable concerns and criticisms. And they no doubt abuse their equity policies considering the certain demographics they are collectively writing discriminating and false rheotric about in their propaganda hit pieces everyday, organized social media lynch mobs, pushing in the media and âeducationâ system as well as sabotage and undermine our understanding and perception of truth and reality, education, facts, freedoms, economy, rights, way of life and culture in western countries. They are not fighting for equality, that is a lie, always has been from the beginning. I very much doubt it is for helping the disadvantaged, I think they have found their method to gaining power and are exploiting it as much as possible by using the disadvantaged as a means to subvert the majority.