LOL: Ocasio-Cortez says global warming poses same threat as Nazi Germany

It’s another day that ends in “y,” so that means 28-year democratic socialist it girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has to say something asinine.

Speaking in front of her supporters in Queens, Ocasio-Cortez tried to impress her followers by touting history and bringing it into a present-day context. As expected, it didn’t go well.

Ocasio-Cortez urged U.S. industry to combat global warming because it is a “direct existential threat” that poses similar danger to the world as Nazi Germany.

“So, when we talk about existential threats — the last time we had a really major existential threat to this country was around World War II. And so we’ve been here before, and we have a blueprint of doing this before,” she said.

“None of these things are new ideas. What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war. We had a direct existential threat with another nation; this time it was Nazi Germany, and the Axes [sic], who explicitly made the United States as an enemy, as an enemy.”

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But it is obvious that she needs a history lesson.

James Fite, associated editor at Liberty Nation, does a more than admirable job:

“For starters, the United States didn’t enter World War II because the Nazis declared us their enemies. Despite President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s desire to get involved, there was a nationwide reluctance to – once again – engage in a massive war half way around the world. It wasn’t until Japan launched a sneak attack on our fleet at Pearl Harbor that we entered the war – and even that might have been the president’s fault.

She’s hardly an economic genius either.

Each time Japan took aggressive bites out of Asia or the Pacific, Roosevelt had the U.S. take some sort of action against it. In the summer of 1941, Japan invaded southern Indochina, and the Roosevelt administration froze all Japanese assets in the U.S. Then, in December of that year, Japan tried to destroy our Navy.

On the European front, Roosevelt chipped away at the Neutrality Acts that kept us out of the war, winning more opportunities to give military aid to Britain and France. By 1941, Britain had the use of U.S. destroyers, could buy weapons from us, and had naval escorts of American ships that could fire on German subs on sight. We were at war with Germany in all but name. It should have surprised no one that Germany and Italy officially declared war against us just three days after we declared it on Japan.

That’s not to say that the Axis powers attempting to swallow up the world were the good guys in this story – only that the U.S. didn’t enter the war, as Ocasio-Cortez proposes, because the Nazis named us as their enemies.”

Since Ocasio-Cortez will inevitably win her seat, she would be better off quiet and allow her momentum and media endorsements to carry her to Congress.