Totally Principled “Reagan Republican” Joined Democrats And Wants Others To Come Over

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 5:25 pm

This is the unhinged #NeverTrumper attitude in a nutshell. This piece is by “Gabriel Schoenfeld, an adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and a recently registered Democrat”

Trump & Sanders drove me to become a Democrat. Other disgusted Republicans should join me.

For many years I’ve loathed the Democratic Party. I still do. But I recently registered as a Democrat myself. Now that the Democratic nomination contest is on the verge of crystallizing, it is a critical moment for Republicans and ex-Republicans to join me in my seemingly incongruous act.

I became a Republican with Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980. This was the party of the Constitution, of limited government and a forward-leaning American posture around the world. It was Reagan who helped topple Communism in the Soviet Union and shepherded countries like South Korea and Taiwan into the democratic fold. It was Reagan who enshrined an intelligent brand of originalism by appointing the great constitutionalist Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court.

But on the day Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, I was out the door. As a lifelong New Yorker until quite recently, I know that three-card monte is a scam. I would never lend an iota of support to Trump and his shills. I immediately registered as an independent and devoted my efforts as a writer to exposing Trump’s flimflammery.

The party that I once regarded as a pillar of our constitutional order is now eating away at that order like termites, indulging every one of Trump’s transgressions against longstanding constitutional norms and against decency itself. The party that once stood against dictators is now led by a man who admires Russia’s Vladimir Putin and says he fell in love with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. As much as I loathed the Democrats, I loathe these craven Republican cowards even more.

Many of us were highly skeptical of Donald Trump, but, with a choice of Hillary or Donald, we held our noses and voted against Hillary. At the end of the day, Trump has done great. Several excellent Supreme Court picks, lots and lots and lots of great lower court picks, a great economy, and so much more. Notice, though, that Gabriel didn’t even wait to see what Trump would do before switching to a party he loathes. Gabriel, like pretty much all the #NeverTrumpers, has abandoned all their beliefs because of Trump the person, rather than what he has actually done. No, he’s not perfect, but, then, neither was Reagan. Amnesty, anyone?

I still have grave misgivings about the Democrats. The party has made a cult out of abortion rights and driven right-to-life Democrats from its ranks. This is wrong on the merits and extraordinarily foolish as an electoral matter. It means turning away an untold number of voters who would stand with it on other issues, voters whom it treats in a contemptuous and supercilious manner.

The Democratic Party is also rife with politicians hostile to the state of Israel, beginning with the “Squad” and extending outward on its left flank. Mirroring the British Labour Party, the Democrats have tolerated left-wing anti-Semitism, including time-honored tropes about Jews wielding undue power and control. This even as it practices a form of identity politics that divides Americans by race and ethnicity, celebrating some groups while remaining largely indifferent to the plight of others.

But, Orange Man Bad.

But that is not the whole story. In the inverted world that Trump has brought about, the Democratic Party is becoming the party of the Constitution. It stands for the separation of powers, for independent courts, for an apolitical Justice Department, for a law-abiding presidency. In foreign affairs. It has become the party of NATO and alliances, of law enforcement and the intelligence community, of protecting the integrity of the FBI and the CIA.

I’m going to stop here and let you read the rest, because my sides hurt from laughing and eyes from rolling. These people are nuts.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise up and kill us all, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit (who I rarely link), with a post on a Comrade Bernie supporter doing crazy things at a rally.

It’s Australian week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 10:23 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and waking up at 830am when it would have been 730am yesterday actually makes me feel like I overslept. This pinup is by Earl Moran, with a wee bit of help. It’s in honor of Liz Warren getting booted out of the race by the sexist Democrats. You deserved better, Liz!!!!!!1!!!!

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. JoNova notes that Wikipedia has deleted the list of scientists who are climate skeptics
  2. 357 Magnum wants people to stop being idiots in regards to going places with a virus
  3. America’s Watchtower covers the DNC changing the rules to keep Tulsi out
  4. American Elephants discusses the difference between Dems and Republicans
  5. Blazing Cat Fur notes that The Squad wants the TSA to hire sex criminals and terrorists
  6. Chicks On The Right covers over 25% of Italy’s population under a Chinese style quarantine
  7. DaTechGuy’s Blog has mixed feelings over Tulsi being excluded from the debate
  8. Diogenes’ Middle Finger covers Comrade Bernie hiring a big 9/11 Truther as a senior advisor
  9. Free North Carolina discusses a fact checker warning the NY Times over their 1619 Project
  10. Geller Report News notes the cost to each taxpayer per refugee brought in
  11. Grouchy Old Cripple highlights Democrats really hating their opposition. Not political hate, real hate
  12. Hogewash features a cosmic black eye
  13. IOTW Report notes ICE flooding the streets of sanctuary jurisdictions
  14. Just One Minute highlights a new front in the Culture Wars
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection crushes the “Liz Warren lost because of sexism” myth (Dems are still sexist, though)

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Jaguar Land Rover Boss: St. Greta, Extinction Rebellion Offer No Ideas

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 9:08 am

Outgoing Jaguar Land Rover boss Ralf Speth is free to have Real Talk, since he is leaving JLR, so, he doesn’t have to worry about the typical verbal and written assaults and threats from members of the Cult of Climastrology which would occur against himself, his family, and JLR

Jaguar Land Rover boss says Greta Thunberg’s criticism ‘not justified’

The boss of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has hit out at Greta Thunberg, saying that climate activists like the Swedish teenager and Extinction Rebellion make “no contribution” and have “no ideas”.

Speaking to the Sunday Times (which is behind a paywall), Ralf Speth, JLR’s outgoing boss, described Thunberg’s campaigning as “doing wrong in many areas” by raising issues but not coming up with solutions on climate change.

Speth, whose decade-long tenure at the top of the luxury carmaker has seen the UK automotive industry battle the twin headwinds of Brexit and climate change, said her criticism was “not justified” because businesses had also created a better world.

“Greta created the wake-up call for many companies and people. But on the other hand, this kind of very populistic criticism — we destroyed her life, killed this and that — is not justified because we also created a better life. Wealth, health, education — the world is getting better”, he said.

Think quick: what has St. Greta offered to solve the (fake) climate crisis? Very, very little. She screeches quite a bit, as do her disciples, but, they demand that adults Do Something. Because coming up with ideas would be too much, apparently.

Speth is certainly correct that companies and people have made the world a better place, as have fossil fuels. No need to go into long details, because you’ll either immediately understand this, or you are a Warmist who will never believe any evidence.

“There is still a lot to do. But populism should be combined with ideas to make it better. There is no contribution, no ideas, just: ‘You’re all stupid.’ ”

She’s pretty much on a long “how dare you” moment, but, if you aren’t offering ideas and solutions, you’re just whining. St.Greta and her disciples run around, holding signs, chanting, marching (destroying the grass and leaving trash), but, they do not offer solutions for the crisis they believe is real and the apocalypse. Nor does Extinction Rebellion. But, then

It may have started with St. Greta attempting to do something about her anxiety by attempting to force her ideas on Everyone Else (instead of taking up a hobby or sport or something. Someone buy her a guitar), but, she has now learned that the CoC is not about climate, but hardcore Stateist politics. Extinction Rebellion isn’t much better.

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Bummer: Our Pursuit Of Happiness Is Killing The Planet

By William Teach March 7, 2020 – 4:20 pm

You know, if these doomsday cultists would restrict their fearmongering to actual environmental issues, they’d have a point. Consumerism certainly causes damages. Disposable everything that ends up in landfills isn’t exactly the greatest, right? Smartphones are designed for you to get a new one every 1-3 years. They aren’t made to last like they used to. Today’s TVs are meant to be replaced every 4-5 years. I just too an old 30 inch square TV from 1988 to the recycling center, having replaced it with a small 1080p flat panel in the spare bedroom. The 30 inch TV actually still worked.

But, the cultists make everything about ‘climate change’

Our ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ Is Killing the Planet

As the coronavirus continues to spread, the chances that any one of us will be placed in quarantine goes up considerably. I know that being locked away like that would drive me nuts. Two weeks subtracted from my life! Still, I’d accept the justice of my confinement because I would recognize that my liberty had come to pose a real danger to my fellow humans.

Now, let’s ratchet up the sacrifice: Suppose you were required by law to turn the thermostat up to 75 in the summer, and down to 66 in the winter, in order to reduce your carbon footprint. The principle is the same: Your freedom to live as you wish turns out to jeopardize public well-being. I, for one, would bristle; I can’t stand being hot in summer. Maybe you wouldn’t mind. But what if you were also told that you had to eliminate most or all of the red meat from your diet? What if Greta Thunberg persuades President Sanders that we need to ration jet travel? At some point you’ll begin to think that the increasing globalization of bad things like climate change and infectious diseases is threatening liberal society.

Of course, that’s what the CoC wants: government telling you how to live your life, but unhappy when government tells themselves the same. Anyhow, writer James Traub talks about John Stuart Mills and the foundation of Classical Liberalism, vegetarian and vegans diets, about “The First Amendment doesn’t protect your right to eat steak”, and many other things, all warmups to get to the meat

Constant wasn’t thinking of Marie Antoinette’s right to play at shepherdess while her subjects starved, but the right to open a shop and build yourself a home rather than be drafted into Napoleon’s army spreading republicanism across the face of Europe. We moderns build institutions, and establish tacit norms, to guarantee the security of such private pleasures. That’s liberal individualism. But what do we do once we see that some of those choices threaten the health and lives of others? We will have to strike a new equilibrium between what society has the right to demand of us and what we have a right to retain for ourselves.

One is reminded of the old maxim “be careful what you wish for: you might get it.” Anyone thinking that giving government a bit more power won’t see government taking even more power is a fool.

The Dutch can reach consensus on painful social questions because they’ve spent the last thousand years working cooperatively to build dikes; the climate accord adopted last year came after a full year of discussion among representatives of all interest groups. That’s not how American democracy works, and especially so in recent years. We allow those interest groups to wage a pitched battle using all the money and influence they can muster against one another. Legislation emerges only after a war of attrition. That’s a very self-defeating way of doing business when all parties must be called on to sacrifice. At some point, presumably, things will get so bad that President Ocasio-Cortez

manages to ram a green-enough new deal through Congress. Then we’ll adjust our thermostats and go two-thirds vegan the same way we got used to the chaos and tedium of airport security check-ins: We’ll have no choice.

James seems rather taken by AOC and the Green New Deal. You can’t talk about freedom and choice in the same sentence as the GND, as it is all about Authoritarianism. But, then, that’s what the ‘climate change’ movement is about. Amazingly, after discussing Classical Liberalism and freedom, James fails to acknowledge how dangerous the movement is to freedom.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 7, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Brass Pills, with a post on Feminists demanding all men get screened by police after a breakup or divorce.

Double shot below the fold, so, check out Bustednuckles, with a post on why he likes President Trump.

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Climate Cultists Seem Upset That Governments Are More Concerned Over Coronavirus Than ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach March 7, 2020 – 10:30 am

Apparently, both Coronavirus and ‘climate change’ are evil, as espoused by people with degrees in spreading awareness rather than science. Supposing they have degrees and aren’t blowing off their education

Climate change or coronavirus? ‘Pick your evil’, protesters say

Protesters at a rally led by climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday denounced governments for taking urgent action against the coronavirus outbreak but failing to treat global warming as an emergency.

Several thousand people braved the rain in Brussels with the 17-year-old Swede, marching through the city that is home to the European Union’s main institutions.

“It is shameful that for so long the climate and environmental emergency has been ignored. We are still in a crisis that has never once been treated like a crisis,” Thunberg told the demonstrators in a speech.

Some supporters said they had put aside concerns about being infected with the coronavirus in a crowd to join the march.

“It’s pick your evil. Do you want to die from global warming or from coronavirus?” said Gorkem, 40, wearing a face mask.

“One of them gets much more attention than the other, so we are trying to raise a bit more awareness about what is already affecting all our lives.”

Flo, a filmmaker from the Belgian city of Ghent who attended with her baby daughter, said the rapid spread of the coronavirus had demonstrated that governments can respond to crises.

“You see people all crazy with coronavirus and you see that governments can do things to make everybody aware about a situation, to make things happen … But they do so little about climate change,” she said.

Because one is real, the other is fake. Of course, it really doesn’t help when the message is muddled.

So, Hotcoldwetdry, no war, Iran is cool, Marxism, and Coronavirus all in one photo. What’s the message? If you want to convince someone to buy your product, do you stay on message, or yammer on about all sorts of different things?

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Reproductive Justice Needs To Be Part Of Hotcoldwetdry Research Or Something

By William Teach March 7, 2020 – 7:30 am

Warmists keep claiming that ‘climate change’ is all about science when Skeptics say it’s all about politics, then Warmists prove us right again and again

Integrating a Reproductive Justice Framework in Climate Research

Climate change is reshaping weather patterns, economies, and social structures and fundamentally altering the planet. The question is no longer why or if climate change is happening but how communities around the world will respond in order to safeguard human health, safety, and freedom.

While climate change affects both women and men, the way it is experienced differs significantly by gender. As a result, academic researchers, government agencies, and think tanks are making efforts to integrate a gender-specific lens into their climate research—an approach known as gender mainstreaming. While gender mainstreaming has led to more extensive research on the connection between climate change and women’s health and well-being, there is still more work to be done to capture these intersecting issues. Specifically, there is a dearth of research that uses a reproductive justice framework to better understand and respond to the inequitable effects that climate change has on women. Indeed, not all women experience climate change similarly, so simply applying a gender lens is oftentimes insufficient.

Coined by women of color activists in 1994, the term reproductive justice refers to a human rights framework that emphasizes a person’s right to have children or not and to parent the children they do have with dignity and in a safe environment. It links reproductive rights with social justice and demonstrates how the intersecting forms of oppression that some women—particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous women—experience can affect their bodily autonomy and parenting decisions. These forms of oppression include facing discrimination in the health care system; being denied access to services based on income or immigration status; living in unsafe and unhealthy environments; or experiencing disparities in pay and overall economic security.

Let’s put this in plain English, rather than Barking Moonbat: they want to have the right to get pregnant through unsafe, irresponsible sex, then abort that baby willy nilly. And they’re linking the abortion on demand movement with doomsday Cult of Climastrology. Everything else mentioned later in the article, such as “poor menstrual health and hygiene,” are all diversions from the real issue, abortion, which is no surprise, being that this screed comes from the Center For American Progress, about as far left as you’re going to get.

And, pretty much everything the mention requires massive amounts of Big Centralized Government. Surprise?

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Good Grief: Stores Have To Limit Toilet Paper Purchases From Panic Buying

By William Teach March 7, 2020 – 7:14 am

Down here in the South, and, let’s face it, many other places, if a winter storm is predicted people run to the store and buy milk, bread, water, and eggs. Same thing for a potential tropical storm. One time I saw the cookie aisle wiped out. Oh, and don’t forget to get the beer. The funny one is people buying microwave meals, when the power can go out. Also, I’ve been through plenty of storms, hurricanes, tropical storms, snow storms, ice storm, big thunderstorms, where the power goes out, and never needed to buy water. On several occasions there was no power, no cable, no phone (landline and wireless), yet, water stays on. Anyhow

‘It’s crazy’: Panic buying forces stores to limit purchases of toilet paper and masks

Rationing supplies. Overwhelmed delivery workers. Toilet paper protected by security guards.

This is the new reality for some retailers that are having to take drastic action to limit the number of toilet paper rolls, face masks and hand sanitizer bottles each person can buy as customers stockpile goods over fears of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Australian supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles both began limiting toilet paper purchases to four packs per person this week. Costco Australia is also restricting how much toilet tissue, disinfectant, milk, eggs and rice each customer can buy.

In the United States, Kroger (KR) says it is capping individual purchases of “sanitization, cold and flu-related products,” while Home Depot (HD) is curbing the number of face masks in single orders placed online and in stores.

In the United Kingdom, Boots is limiting the purchase of hand sanitizer to two bottles per customer, and UK online grocer Ocado has advised customers to place orders further in advance in the wake of “exceptionally high demand.”

I can see wanting disinfectant, but, the rest? How is all that TP going to help you? Hand sanitizer won’t protect you. Face masks are for people who already have the flu (pretty smart to go to Home Depot for them, but, are they medically sound, or just to protect from dust and stuff during home building?).

At a Coles supermarket in Brisbane, Australia on Wednesday, toilet paper was completely sold out. One worker at the store told CNN Business that his shift had been hectic as customers mobbed the aisles.

When a new delivery of toilet rolls arrived that afternoon, workers didn’t even have time to unpack the goods before shoppers swooped in, he said.

Is this an Australian thing?

Sigh.

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Surprise: “More Accurate” Climate Model Projects Worse Doom

By William Teach March 6, 2020 – 3:22 pm

Funny how things always get more and more doomy with this cult, eh?

More accurate climate change model reveals bleaker outlook on electricity, water use

By 2030, global warming alone could push Chicago to generate 12% more electricity per person each month of the summer.

If the city generated any less electricity, it would be risking a power shortage that may require drastic measures to avoid rolling blackouts, according to projections from a model designed by Purdue University researchers.

That estimated increase is larger than previous projections because it takes into account how consumers use electricity and water at the same time. The model also considers a wider range of climate features that affect this mixed use, such as humidity and wind speed, making predictions more accurate. (snip)

In a study published Thursday (March 5) in the journal Climatic Change, the collaborative team applied this model to five other cities in the U.S. Midwest: Cleveland; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; Madison, Wisconsin; and Minneapolis.

As a whole, the model projected that the Midwest will be using 19% more electricity and 7% more water. And that’s just during the summer.

So, doom? Anyhow, the “model” looked at this and that and some more, all in order to prognosticate doom

The model uses artificial intelligence to make predictions on climate change impact. As a learning algorithm, the model is fed years of data from a region’s utilities and weather services and then trained to predict changes in electricity and water use given certain climate-change scenarios.

These scenarios are when the earth’s temperature increases by 1.5 or 2.0 degrees Celsius above its mean temperature during the pre-industrial period, approximately 1881-1910.

So, grab your crystal balls, kids!

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