If All You See…

By William Teach August 21, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a field dying from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on increasing taxes on “the Rich”.

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Giving NJ Taxpayer Money To Illegal Aliens For College Is A Success Or Something

By William Teach August 21, 2019 – 10:30 am

What a fantastic idea. Taking taxpayer money from legal resident of New Jersey and giving it to illegal aliens instead of using it for those legal citizens, and then having the illegals take spots at colleges meant for legal residents

N.J. gave 749 undocumented immigrants money for college. Here’s where they enrolled.

When New Jersey debuted a new program last year offering college aid to immigrants living in the country illegally, it was unclear how many undocumented students would sign up.

After a year, advocates and state official say the program has been a success.

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 749 undocumented students were awarded $3.8 million in state financial aid to attend New Jersey colleges, according to new statistics released by the state Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.

The so-called “Dreamers” — students brought to the U.S. illegally as children — had previously been permitted to attend New Jersey state colleges paying in-state tuition. But they were forbidden to apply for state-funded financial aid programs.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law last year opening up state financial aid programs to undocumented immigrants, offering them the same state grants, scholarships and other aid used by U.S. citizens living in New Jersey.

That $5,073 per student could have very much helped actual lawful residents, but, no, they gave it to illegals. As one person in the comments points out

This is utterly absurd! What about legal US citizens who can’t afford college tuition? What about tax paying parents, who can’t afford tuition for their children? My Son is 2, and my Wife & I started a 529 for him. Throw the illegal immigrants over the wall, and put some of that money into my Son’s account.

Where’s the money for the legal residents? Many of them will be denied, despite excellent GPAs, any assistance because their parents are legal residents and make too much money. Also

Those numbers are entirely irrelevant. What return did we get on our investment – how many of these individuals are in STEM majors, how many have a 3.2 or higher GPA, and most importantly, how many of them managed not to fail out?

That is an excellent point. What did we get in return? Many of the colleges attended (listed at the story) are pure liberal arts. Besides the notion that it is illegal to hire these people per federal law, what did they learn? We can speculate only.

If you jaywalk you can be fined. If you have a lemonade stand with no permit, you can be fined…if you are illegal, you can go to college for free. OK got it.

If you speed you can be fined. If you engage in your 2nd Amendment rights, you can be thrown in jail. But, if you’re an illegal, it’s all sunshine and lollipops.

What incentive do these people have to become US citizens if they get MORE benefits as “non-citizens”

Exactly.

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What’s The Real Reason Climate Cultist Big Wigs Are Hypocrites?

By William Teach August 21, 2019 – 8:53 am

One of the reasons I would guess is because this has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics, about government control, and said government control won’t effect the big shots. Michael Shellenberger writes

The Real Reason They Behave Hypocritically On Climate Change Is Because They Want To

British Royal couple Prince Harry and Princess Meghan Markle triggered widespread outrage recently after lecturing the world about climate change while flying around the world in private jets.

“With nearly 7.7 billion people inhabiting this Earth, every choice, every footprint, every action makes a difference,” the Duke of Sussex said on Instagram a few days before jetting off with the Duchess to Ibiza, Spain and then to Nice, France.

BBC calculates that those two flights alone produced six times more emissions than the average Briton does each year and over 100 times more than the average resident of the African nation of Lesotho.

Friends of Harry and Meghan rushed to the couple’s defense. “I’m calling on the press to cease these relentless and untrue assassinations,” said Elton John.

“Imagine being attacked” tweeted Ellen, the comedian, “when all you’re trying to do is make the world a better place.”

But their celebrity defenders only added fuel to the fire. “So stop lecturing us on how we live our lives and live by example,” responded one Briton.

Exactly. They’re always tell Everyone Else how to live their lives, but, never match that rhetoric with action in their own lives.

But was the couple’s ostentatious display of climate hypocrisy really accidental? After all, celebrities have been hypocritically moralizing about climate change and other environmental issues for decades. And, now, a growing number of celebrities are getting into the act. (snip)

A simpler explanation for the hypocrisy of celebrities who moralize about climate change is that it is a way of flaunting their special status.

Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people. Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.

Such displays work because, unlike wealth, status is inherently subjective. The more of it you are perceived to have, the more of it you actually have. (snip through a bit about the rich and powerful always having been hypocrites in certain aspects)

Why then do we get so upset when celebrities moralize about climate change? Because in doing so they are violating an unsaid social contract. You can be rich, fabulous, and showy, but you can’t tell us how to live. Two thousand years after the Christian revolution in morality, we take our relative prosperity seriously.

That is one hell of a great point. When they are out there flaunting their lifestyle (remember the days of Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous? How about TMZ and other outlets constantly telling us how they live their lives lavishly?), fine. When they are calling for higher taxes (which won’t hurt themselves), gun control (while not giving up their own firearms and/or armed security), or, worse, a complete control of everyone’s lives and raising their cost of living (which won’t bother them) while being hypocrites themselves, it becomes a problem. They’re preaching, advocating, and this would all make Other People’s lives worse.

It’s a very long piece, well worth the read.

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Trump: “Certain People In The Media Would Love To See A Recession”

By William Teach August 21, 2019 – 8:29 am

Have you noticed that Russia Russia Russia, collusion, the Mueller report, and impeachment have all but disappeared as of late? Instead, we’re getting treated to a constant litany of “a coming recession.” Why? Because the media is hoping for a recession to defeat President Trump, and hoping that their constant yammering can make it happen

(Breitbart) President Donald Trump criticized many figures in the establishment media on Tuesday for rushing to report a looming recession, despite an overall good economy throughout his presidency.

“I think the word ‘recession’ is inappropriate because it’s just a word that certain people, I’m going to be kind, certain people in the media are trying to build up because they’d love to see a recession,” Trump said. “We’re very far from a recession.”

The president commented to reporters at the White House that it was up to the Federal Reserve to keep growth going, pointing to their psychological impact on the economy.

“If the Fed would do its job, I think we would have a tremendous spur of growth,” he said.

There’s a huge difference between an economic slowdown and a recession. Places like the NY Times, Washington Post, NBC, etc, are all running fear stories, finding those economists who are Warning of a recession, and, when they are being honest, they say that it’s not the U.S. economy in trouble, but those in other nations. Also, that it’s simply a slowdown.

But, I disagree with Trump slightly: it’s not just the media, it’s Democratic Party politicians, their interest groups, hardcore leftist Internet outlets, and, sadly, right leaning #NeverTrumpers. That last group is the worst, because they’ve abandoned all their right-leaning positions to pray for a recession to get rid of Trump, never stopping to consider that it would mean a hardcore Modern Socialist winning the presidency.

They call themselves “libertarians” now, but, have been so infused with Trump Derangement Syndrome that they push Leftist positions and ideas. Nothing he does is ever good enough for them, no matter how conservative it is. They’re pushing ‘climate change’, defending Planned Parenthood, calling for banning guns and restricting the 2nd Amendment, dissing Israel. For instance, SE Cupp and Doug Mataconis. Both used to be reliable conservatives, but, if you read their Twitter feeds, watch SE’s show (no thanks) and read what used to be a conservative blog in Outside The Beltway, it’s almost all about Orange Man Bad, everything he supports Bad, and nary a bad word for Democrats.

As the saying goes, with friends like this who needs enemies? They, like the Democrats, really, really want a recession. None of them care if their loose talk hurts Americans. That’s how deranged they are.

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Gloom And Doom Won’t Help Us Fight ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach August 20, 2019 – 4:23 pm

Seriously, the Cult of Climastrology doesn’t have much else other than doom and gloom, all in an attempt to institute Modern Socialism. Even when they’re fighting over whether to shame heretics or not, they still push doom and gloom

Why doom and gloom won’t help us fight climate change

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The drumbeat of news about climate change and ecological degradation is deeply demoralizing. The earth is indeed in bad shape, and the trends aren’t encouraging. (July, it turns out, was the hottest month recorded since data collection began.)

Yet the big problem with bad news about the environment is that it too easily leads to resignation and then passivity. Consider Paul Kingsnorth, the former British environmental activist who suggests that the magnitude of the “ecocide” we face means that we have to come to terms with the reality that there is no hope. “We are not going to stop this from happening,” he told the New York Times a few years ago. A group of academics and activists recently published a book with an emblematic title: “Mourning Nature.” Small wonder that a series of recent polls have detected many Americans declaring that they’re experiencing “eco-anxiety.” If nature is already too far gone, why go to the trouble of trying to save it?

These people are still nuts

We must take to heart these environmental triumphs and not just fixate on the bad news. Let’s celebrate the recovery of our eastern forests, which after two centuries of decimation have regrown to cloak hundreds of millions of acres of unproductive agricultural land. The air of New York City is substantially better today than it was in the 1950s. The water in the Potomac today is much cleanerthan it was in 1947, when Louis Halle wrote his classic nature book “Spring in Washington.” Some seriously good things have happened to our environment over the past half-century — because human beings took conscious and purposeful action to establish legal and regulatory incentives that changed society’s behavior.

But, those are environmental issues. They have zero to do with anthropogenic climate change.

Only smart collective action, led by courageous people working with intelligent and well-funded organizations and agencies, can mount the necessary effort to keep our Earth from peril. We have won these sorts of battles before, and we can win them again, even if the threats seem larger than ever. With an inoculation of the magic elixir of bountiful nature, we can engage with spirit on behalf of our wildlife and forests, our bays and seas, and our one and only atmosphere. Despair is not an option.

See? We can fix this all with Big Government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 20, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible saddles made from evil climate pollution causing cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post on new words devised for the presidential campaign.

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Surprise: Chinese Americans Are Abandoning Democrats Over Socialism Shift

By William Teach August 20, 2019 – 10:53 am

Realistically, this might not make a heck of a difference, since Americans of Chinese descent account for only 1.5% of the population. But, could roughly 4 million effect an election? Since half of them live in NY state and California, no. They could very well influence others to do the same, though

Why Chinese-Americans like me are embracing the GOP

For a century, Chinese Americans have been among the least partisan and politically engaged ethnic Asian groups in America. Because we’ve lived largely in urban and suburban areas in coastal liberal states, we have tended to be affiliated with Democratic Party, even while espousing conservative values.

But over the last few years, I’ve witnessed more of my fellow Chinese-Americans abandoning the Democratic Party and generally becoming more politically conservative. There are several reasons for this, including Chinese Americans’ cultural conservatism and the Democratic Party’s slide toward socialism, which reminds many of us of the communism we fled in China.

The Republican Party is a natural home for Chinese-Americans, who tend to value free enterprise, individual responsibility, law and order, education and family cohesion. Many Chinese-Americans have been alienated by the Democrats’ emphasis on political correctness, social justice, wealth re-distribution and LGBTQ rights.

Chinese-Americans have often been the victims of the identity politics that Democrats have deployed over the last several decades through academia and the media—including the push to institute racial preferences in college admissions, which disproportionately hurts high-achieving Asian-American students.

Over the last decade or two, America has seen a strong inflow of immigrants from mainland China who came in search of freedom and better educational opportunities. Recent arrivals are beneficiaries of China’s economic boom, and they are more likely to favor individual liberty, limited government and low taxes. As Chinese-Americans have succeeded, they have become more conservative.

You could very much see this happening with other Americans of Asian descent, especially new-comers.

This has accelerated since the Obama presidency, as the Democratic Party has embraced messaging that advocates for socialist policies. These messages used to be subtle and thinly veiled; but now Democrats are more overt in their support for socialist policies such as the Green New Deal, 70 percent tax rates and single-payer, government-run health care.

Socialism and communism have repeatedly failed, resulting in death and suffering for hundreds of millions of people over just the past seventy years. It is a recurring cancer in modern history with examples in North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela. Even China’s success in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty was due in large part to its implementation of some capitalist reforms. But yet, the Chinese government continues to repress the Chinese people’s basic political and human rights. Like Cubans and Vietnamese, most Chinese arrived in America having had extremely negative experiences with socialism.

The author, Benjamin Yu, is an immigrant from mainland China (and went through the lawful process), running for California’s state assembly

2020 is shaping up to be a pivot point in America, a time of choosing between socialism and the capitalist polices that for decades have made America the envy of the world. For this reason, many Chinese-Americans, including me, are running for office as Republicans. We lived through socialism in an extreme form and understand the devastation and misery it causes. We believe we are the ideal candidates to stop socialism and bring generations of voters into an inclusive and diverse GOP.

Who better to know about the dangers than those who lived under it? Perhaps the GOP should enlist some folks who came from Venezuela to highlight this even more.

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Bummer: Warmist Jay Inslee May Not Qualify For ‘Climate Change’ Town Hall

By William Teach August 20, 2019 – 7:56 am

This really is a minor story, but, it gave me a good laugh, because, let’s face it, Jay Inslee based his whole campaign on Hotcoldwetdry, and it has really gone nowhere. He attempted to shift about a month and a half ago to say that he has other policies, but, too late. Because people may say they Care about Doing Something about man-caused climate change in theory, but, in reality, not so much. Axios (hence the strange format) notes

Jay Inslee unlikely to qualify for CNN’s climate change town hall

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has centered his 2020 campaign around climate change policy, was not one of the nine Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for an invite to CNN’s climate change town hall in September.

Why it matters: Several polls point to climate change as a top issue for Democratic voters, but Inslee, whose proposals and debate appearances have been focused on severing the U.S. from fossil fuel dependency, is still polling around 1%.

  • CNN said it would extend invitations to candidates who reach 2% in at least four DNC-approved polls conducted between June 28 and Aug. 21. Candidates have until Wednesday to qualify for the Sept. 4 town hall, so it means Inslee will likely end up being locked out.

So, the one Democrat whose whole focus is on ‘climate change’ will be locked out? These are the nutters who’ve qualified

  • Former Vice President Joe Biden
  • Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.)
  • South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
  • Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (Texas)
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.)
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.)
  • Andrew Yang
  • Worth noting: Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) was invited, but declined due to a scheduling conflict.

Think about it: Andrew Yang, the guy most Americans will say “who?”, qualified, yet, a governor of a U.S. state can’t cut it? I’m guessing ‘climate change’ doesn’t actually matter.

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Jew/Israel Hater Ilhan Omar Wants U.S. To Reconsider Aid To Israel

By William Teach August 20, 2019 – 7:40 am

Hey, Democrats, you own this anti-Israel and anti-Jew behavior, since you mostly refuse to shut it down. Notice that Ilhan isn’t calling for reconsidering aid to the Palestinians, who just banned LGBTQ groups in the West Bank, nor to nations with hardcore Islamists.

Omar says US should reconsider aid to Israel

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said Monday that U.S. aid to Israel should be tied to its treatment of Palestinians, questioning whether the funds should continue after the country blocked her and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from visiting in an official capacity.

Omar had planned to travel with Tlaib to Israel this month until the Israeli government announced last week that it would deny them both entry, citing their past criticism.

Omar and Tlaib, the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, held a joint press conference on Monday to denounce that decision, which came after President Trump tweeted that it would show “great weakness” for Israel to allow the two lawmakers into the country.

Omar suggested that lawmakers reconsider the annual U.S. aid allocated to Israel in response.

“We give Israel more than $3 [billion] in aid every year. This is predicated on them being an important ally in the region and the only democracy in the Middle East. But denying a visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally, and denying millions of people freedom of movement or expression or self-determination is not consistent with being a democracy,” Omar said at the press conference in St. Paul, Minn.

You’d almost want to assign the waaaaa-mbulance to her, because she got her feewings hurt, but, let’s be real, she despises Jews and Israel, and she was banned due to that. Neither she nor fellow Jew hater Rashida Tlaib have said just why they were banned, which is their belief in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which was founded on and based on the destruction of Israel as a nation, and rests on a bed of Jew hatred.

https://twitter.com/Oil_Guns_Merica/status/1163578395265044480

Other Dems have decided to stroll down this road

Mark Pocan (D-Wis), a co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, also said that lawmakers should reconsider visits and aid to Israel in response.

“No more members of Congress, no delegations, should be going to Israel unless this decision is reversed. And I think we’re going to have to have some serious conversations even about financial support,” Pocan told The Hill.

Democrats can yammer all they want about raaaaacism and white nationalism, but, they are owning the generic anti-Semitism, which is simply hatred of Jewish people.

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No Democratic Candidate Has Offered A Bold Plan For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach August 19, 2019 – 3:53 pm

This is one hell of a hot-take from the hardcores at Down To Earth

2020 US elections: No Democrat candidate offers bold plan for climate action

Election Day is more than a year away, but the race among Democrats in the US to take back the White House is heating up. While the field consists of about 20 presidential hopefuls, the ones leading the polls are former vice president Joe Biden and senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris. These four standard-bearers represent a party, which unlike President Donald Trump and his Republican Party, is known for climate-friendly policies.

A number of polls suggest that Democrat voters also consider climate change to be a top-tier issue, as important as healthcare. For a majority of world leaders, these presidential candidates are the last hope to make the US, the biggest carbon polluter in history, stay committed to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation. But are they taking it seriously?

Of course, when real issues are included, and we get to the general election, caring about doing something about ‘climate change’ drops to the end. And, again, most Americans refuse to pay more than $10 a month to solve Hotcoldwetdry.

But this embrace of GND does not automatically make the Democrats’ proposals ambitious. Consider this. While advocating that global emissions will have to hit net-zero by 2050 to stay below the global warming threshold of 1.5°C, GND does not recognise the fact that the US, being a massive historic polluter, should aim at a net zero carbon economy well before 2050.

Jay Inslee, who is often referred to as “climate candidate” for the Democrat nomination (who now polls at just 2 per cent), recognises this gap and advocates a 2045 target for net-zero emissions. But none of the leading candidates have voiced their opinion about it.

Essentially, this is saying that Biden, Harris, Warren, and Comrade Bernie’s plans are way too weak. Seriously, have you read them? They may not be quite as far out as Jay Inslee, who is so low in reality that he doesn’t appear in the Real Clear Politics numbers (nor most other polls, and 44% have never heard of him), but, they are way out there. They’re all nuts. But, hey, at least Bernie isn’t calling to “bring deniers to justice” like in 2016. Yet.

And this all shows just how crazy the Cult of Climastrology is.

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