Two speeches that everyone's talking about - BBC News

Why were images of Luke Skywalker on a Tonton and Ronald Reagan on a dinosaur part of a Republican senator's critique of the "Green New Deal"?

Mike Lee of Utah explains his thinking while Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends her proposals for tackling the causes and consequences of climate change.

[ShoddyLegion]

Haters say the pictures of Reagan riding a raptor is fake.

[skj]

I'll give up my car for a tauntaun any day

[babakchalangi]

Tuantuans Mr.President
Best line i heard all my life from a politician

[alexwoodruff]

Lmao, I had to do a double take and make sure this wasn't the onion

[paulwalsh]

Ummm... When I saw thumbnails of U.S. SENATOR Mike Lee's GND speech, I thought he was being trolled using photoshopped posters... but it was real !
Sen. Mike Lee is a living, breathing WTF?! meme.

[g.a.]

This is what happened when you're told to write a speech but you have a movie marathon instead.

[kongesnok]

Hey BBC News, it's written tauntaun, not Tonton. Who the hell fact checks this? Do your job right mate!

[dhoffman]

He may have interviewed cows in Utah, but he could not have interviewed the livestock that drowned in Iowa and Nebraska.

[CymonTempler]

I wanna know what kind of drugs he was doing that let him talk to cows 😁

[FleurPillager]

The USA has a widespread lead contamination problem in our water supply and no one is addressing it.

[mrpuddingpop]

Ronald Reagan on a velociraptor with a machine gun and rpg is summer 2019 goals 😂🙌

[ishikawagoemon]

I'm more confused than understanding

[nathanbrady]

I still don't know where Mike Lee expects us to get Tauntaun from. We're in the middle of an "easy to win" trade war with Hoth.

[thinkabout]

usa trying to out crazy britain we both lose

[xnastyxnickx]

I actually thought the one of the right was a philabuster at first.

[Flashman]

One talked seriously about a stupid idea. One ridiculed a stupid idea. I prefer the latter.

[PartTimeJedi]

Sen Mike Lee's presentation.. savage level 1000

[drazgul]

Mike Lee is every meme loving teen on the internet, when they go into politics.

[ChulhyunAhn]

"Then I don't know what we are here doing." - I like her Shakespearean flourish.

[jjsharp]

Beautiful Contrast 😊

You couldn't have shown the difference between these 2 any clearer

Nicely Done !! 😊👍 !!