If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez releases her Green New Deal and it receives heavy criticism, does that make it a conservative lie and/or accident?

This seems to be the (current) thought process behind the Green New Deal, released just days ago by New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (hereby referred to as AOC, her abbreviation). I specify ‘current’ because the narrative has shifted tremendously since its release and it may very well shift again. First posted on her website and released to NPR as a groundbreaking, new plan to completely overhaul many aspects of daily American life and its future, it almost immediately received praise by many prominent Democrats, several of which are now running for the 2020 presidential nomination.

The New York Times called it “breathtaking.” Senator Cory Booker described it as “bold” and compared it to the US saving “Earth from the scourge of Nazism.” Senator Kamala Harris tweeted on Feb. 7th that she was “proud to co-sponsor @AOC and @EdMarkey’s Green New Deal” to “aggressively tackle climate change.” AOC unveiled the plan by stating “today is also the day we choose to assert ourselves as a global leader in transitioning to 100% renewable energy and charting that path… we should do it because we are an example to the world.”

Then problems arose with the Green New Deal. In the midst of the emphasis on saving Earth from climate change, criticism from both sides of the political aisle materialized. The plan was exposed as a socialist trojan horse disguised as an environmental bill, guaranteeing government-controlled free food, water, healthcare, transportation, housing, and a high-speed rail system across the United States alongside environmental policy.

While this 10-year plan costs well into the tens of trillions just with those policies alone and would be nothing short of disastrous for the US economy, AOC and her team further displayed their economic ignorance through an FAQ on her website. One point in particular garnered the most criticism, stating that the Green New Deal would provide “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”

To make such a plan work, where those who are ‘unwilling to work’ receive free money from the pockets of hardworking American families, requires a fantasy world not even George R. R. Martin could create.

To access the FAQ today, however, one has to go to NPR’s website because AOC and her team deleted the FAQ from her website. This is the point where the narrative began changing, twisting sharply and spontaneously to the point of political disaster.

Robert Hockett, a policy adviser of AOC, went on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss the Green New Deal.

Per the Daily Wire’s transcript of the show, Tucker asked, “Why would we ever pay people who are quote ‘unwilling to work’?”, to which Hockett responded “We never would, right? And AOC has never said anything like that, right? I think you are referring to some sort of document that – I think, some doctored document that somebody other than us has been circulating.”

After this statement, Tucker became visibly confused and embarrassed. A Twitter user, “@ndrew_lawrence”, tweeted the video and stated, “Watch what happens when Tucker Carlson steps out of the conservative bubble and brings on an @AOC policy advisor who debunks all the conservative media lies straight to his face (spoiler: it doesn’t go great for Tucker)”.

This tweet was retweeted by Congresswoman Cortez. Not only was it an outright lie by Hockett, but this act of historical revisionism was then supported by AOC herself – as if she truly believed she could lie herself out of it (spoiler: it doesn’t go great for Cortez).

Hockett later apologized, admitting that the Green New Deal’s FAQ wasn’t a ‘doctored document’ once it was shown he made several false statements on national television. AOC, like several other times in the past, has not apologized for trying to lie herself out of controversy.

Once lying didn’t work, AOC’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti claimed the FAQ was an “early draft” that was published “by mistake.” Just like that, the narrative went from the FAQ being a doctored document being perpetuated by the lying conservative media to an early draft that was accidentally published.

Alexandria has proven to the world she would rather act as an immature, incompetent child, relentlessly lying and throwing a tantrum about the ‘conservative media,’ rather than owning her mistakes like an adult.

 Needless to say, the Green New Deal has been a complete disaster for AOC and other Democrat politicians who support government-controlled distribution and management and of food, water, housing, healthcare, energy, income, and transportation in the United States. The Green New Deal is a pitifully naïve attempt at making an American utopia, a fantasy that would undoubtedly result in dystopia.

Let’s call it what it is: The Green New Deal is a great new disaster.