We Can Land on the Sun at Night
Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Say 'We Can Land on the Sun, We Just Have to Go at Night?'
Claim
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "yes we tin country on the dominicus, we just have to go at nighttime."
Reporting
Advertisements On January 31 2019, a Facebook user shared the following meme (archived here), claiming that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had once said that it was possible to "land on the sunday" and "we just have to go at night":
https://www.facebook.com/NightTrainInTheMorning/posts/2227289070649770
Non only did the post not include whatsoever indication as to whether it was presented as real rather than as a joke, no links as a source for the quote were included. Needless to say, such a quote would have fatigued considerable mockery were it authentic, and the merely search results for it were links to the same or similar memes.
The primeval iteration of the meme we located was from December 2018, from a Twitter business relationship devoted to mocking Ocasio-Cortez:
https://twitter.com/aocmemes/status/1069770009331884033?lang=en
Two months later, a reference to the spurious quote appeared in Ocasio-Cortez'due south Twitter replies:
@AOC @PolitiFact True you say???How the heck are nosotros supposed to country on the sun and at night??Makes you wonder how well-nigh Dems even graduated high school.
A similar meme attributed the quote to President Donald Trump. Many people commenting on the Facebook post decried Ocasio-Cortez's purported stupidity, whereas others canonical of it while acknowledging the quote was fabricated:
We don't actually think she said this. We know it is a joke. Sadly what the Dems don't empathize is that it is GOD that heals the state. In the Bible. So they tin attempt and salve the planet all they desire but equally long as they go on voting in wicked legislation that goes against God'south principles NOTHING will salvage them or the land. of course if one does non believe the Bible information technology is a moot point.
Chill John Boy, it'southward totally a joke and we get information technology. With all her by blobs she is the side by side target for comedy. Call up, Democrat comics get abroad with distasteful humor. Republicans are racists, sexist, bla- bla-bla… We need a Will Rogers to tickle our funny os; in the hateful time DEMS are supplying plenty material to bust a gut. Don't take it seriously…the state of war is settled at the voting poles.
We know she didn't say that, but give her a chance, and some solar day she volition say it. She would turn this state into Venazula
Ever notice about Democrats; they don't recognize humor or satire. All they know is hate. Pitiful,small minded people.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the subject of a number of similar memes and claims: that she had "forgotten" to vote for her own Light-green New Bargain proposal, that she claimed her Girl Picket troop "re-enacted" the Challenger explosion, that she said white women demand to take more than abortions, and similar to the meme above, that she said "all the engineering in the world" would not allow a wall to be built over mountains.
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