Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Joe Rogan & Tim Pool

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Tim Pool

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Tim Pool is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the "Timcast" podcast and Youtube program.

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Did you see the Green New Deal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? No. There's, so she publishes, it's a non-binding resolution, which means that even if it passes, they can't enforce anything. But my God, the fact they released alongside it literally said they want to provide economic security for people who are unwilling to work. Right? What? Unwilling. Okay. Really? I swear to God. Yeah, CNBC reported this. Apparently, this got removed from the site. The reason I bring this up is there's a chart from the Economist. I frequently show this in the content I make where you can see that conservatives are coalescing around common ideologies. For a while, there was some upset in the party because people didn't like Trump, but now they've pretty much, they say it's the party of Trump. People agree with him. Ted Cruz even gives him a standing ovation at the State of the Union. But the left has been spreading out. And again, this is from a chart put together by the Economist. The Democrats are very clearly being spread from far left to center. And it's kind of making it very difficult for the Democrats to put forward something that makes sense. If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she puts out the Green New Deal, but in the bill, it talks about equity, racial justice, the gender pay gap, things that have nothing to do with the environment. And then Nancy Pelosi says it's green dreams, and she derides this. You can see that there's a new faction of the Democrats that have wholly ideological drive. And I think one of the reasons for this is what we see on social media. The ideological bent of the platforms then lead to the mass followings of specific individuals who then use specific tactics to get elected. And when these platforms only allow certain ideas to form, those ideas will naturally rise to the top of our political space. And then you get crazy stuff, like if you're unwilling to work, we'll provide you economic security, which I don't know necessarily what that means other than some people who choose not to work will get paid, I guess, from taxpayer money. But... Well, that seems completely insane. And not only that, where's that money coming from? From you. This is actually another funny thing that... No, I mean, I know what you mean. Literally you. Yeah, literally. Andrew Cuomo said, God forbid, if the rich leave New York, because I believe 1% of New York, the top 1%, pay 46% of their taxes, of the revenue they use. And so they just had a big budget shortfall. I believe it was something Trump did that caused a shortfall, and they were asked if they would tax the rich, and he was like, no, God forbid, they'll leave, and they're already leaving. So incoming a million people saying I'm conservative for bringing that up, but facts are facts, I suppose. Well, facts are facts, and that's what's really important about this. And when you suppress any ideology, if you are on the left and you suppress the right, it is just going to shore up their defenses, and they're just going to harden their line. That's just how it goes. That's how human nature is. You can't tell people what to do. You just can't.