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...Timpf said she could come up with lots of plans that don’t work: “How about we fly around on unicorns instead of airplanes? How about instead of gasoline we use fairy dust we get from Tinkerbell?” The columnist then wonders whether Ocasio-Cortez “wants us to do away with all modern technology” before going on to suggest that the deal would lead to turning back to the mid-1800s and “reliv[ing] the Donner Party.”<p class="slate-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="slate.com/components/slate-paragraph/instances/cjsszzejo00153h62b3r9lr7u@published" data-word-count="53" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">“I don’t want to eat people, Greg, and I don’t want people to eat me,” Timpf said. “AOC, do you want people to eat you?” She said that right after suggesting that the Green New Deal would also force her to “only eat lettuce and carrots like some kind of little fucking bunny.”<p class="slate-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="slate.com/components/slate-paragraph/instances/cjsszzeji00133h629723o4p4@published" data-word-count="90" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Timpf’s rant was guided by <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-not-boss-coming-plan-202600830.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.12s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: var(--theme-color,#ff0e50);">a piece</a> she wrote earlier this week in which she said the freshman lawmaker was “ridiculous” while characterizing the plan as pointless because it has no chance of working. “Would the world be a better place if the United States eliminated all carbon emissions? Of course it would—just like it would be better if we all got free Lamborghinis,” Timpf wrote. “The truth, however, is that being a notable leader requires a lot more than just fantasizing about pie-in-the-sky proposals that have no real future.”<p class="slate-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="slate.com/_components/slate-paragraph/instances/cjsszzeji00133h629723o4p4@published" data-word-count="90" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">...