On Monday, newly-elected Democrat Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a page from former Vice President Al Gore’s book and declared that the entire planet only has 12 years left if so-called “climate change” isn’t addressed immediately, Fox News and others reported. It’s not that there is a lack of material. This week, for example, Ocasio-Cortez declared that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” She has said that. Ocasio-Cortez is likely referencing a United Nations report that found there are only 12 years left to limit climate change before we start to face serious environmental catastrophes.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Sunday that people who believe the suggestion that the world will end in 12 years have the intelligence of a “sea sponge,” even though Ocasio-Cortez made that very claim in January.

Ocasio-Cortez suggested that Republicans too often mischaracterize her dry humor and “fact check” her jokes, claiming that they take them too literally. One of her alleged jokes includes a January claim that the world will end in 12 years if we do not address climate change, comparing it to a modern World War II-style struggle.

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“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,” Ocasio-Cortez said:

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

“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. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.”

This is a provable lie.

She spoke in public last January about her claim of 12 years to escape doom, and nobody laughed. Her audience clearly did not think it was a joke, and she did not pause for laughter at the punch line. Rather, she was greeted by applause:

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.@AOC on millennials and social media: 'We’re, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change' pic.twitter.com/HjhbVyfFN4

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And she doubled down in April on Instagram, without a trace of a smile or humor. (view here).The only mention of laughter was her explicit denial of any humor in the situation:

For everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids will not.

She is shaming people who disagree with her, claiming that history and their heirs will judge them harshly for laughing. And now she wants to claim she was joking? What will her grandkids (assuming she reproduces) think?

She didn't think this through — a skill that she has not practiced very much. If she is claiming it's dry humor to say 12 years are left before doom, then she is also mocking the 2018 U.N. report from whose conclusion she extracted her '12 years' prediction. This makes her a 'denier' if her claim of humor is taken seriously.

The ingenue pol is simply not used to being called to account for the stupid things she says. Having lived her adult life as a fit, busty, good-looking female with some good dance moves, and working as a bartender, she could get away with spouting all sorts of nonsense, and at least the males around her would nod, approve, or sympathize. Hot chicks don't get called out very often by the guys.

She doesn't know how to handle her errors. She needs to maintain an aura of courage and leadership with her fans. But this is a very bad sign of her ability to pull off her act beyond one term in Congress. Blaming your own stupidity on other people's inability to grasp your sophistication doesn't play well if you are not slinging drinks to horny guys.

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Caricature by Donkey Hotey.