AOC Explains That Impeachment Is About Defeating Trump In 2020

By William Teach November 14, 2019 – 7:16 am

This isn’t really surprising, though, as we all know that this whole thing is the Democrats Trump Derangement Syndrome going back to when they were calling for Trump to be impeached as soon as he won the election. It’s just an extension of Russia Russia Russia.

AOC: Impeachment ‘About Preventing a Potentially Disastrous Outcome from Occurring Next Year’

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said today’s public hearing in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump was ”not just about something that has occurred.”

She said it was instead “about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”

Ocasio-Cortez said, “The whole point of the public hearings is to present the facts to the public and let the general public see the facts for themselves and understand why we have chosen to move forward with the impeachment inquiry. What we heard today was astounding and devastating news for the president and anyone in the administration, really partaking. Frankly, this is devastating for the country. Our national security has been compromised, our elections potentially compromised. I think right now what Republicans have to do is decide what their role is going to be in the scope of history. We will look back at this time and really truly examine the moral decisions each member of Congress decided to make.” (snip)

She added, “I’d like to remind everyone, one of the initial people who brought this conversation of quid pro quo into this conversation was the president. It was when these allegations first came out about Ukraine, he started tweeting and frankly raising the bar saying, ‘No quid pro quo, no quid pro quo.’ It wasn’t Democrats that set that bar, because you don’t need quid pro quo. He met it, all of that aside, we’re focused on him using the power of the United States government to engage in extortion of a foreign government in order to intervene in our elections. I think that’s our message, the fact he undermined national security, that he is trying to undermine an election, he is engaged in flagrant abuse of power should be a concern to all Americans who believe in rule of law in the United States of America.”

She concluded, “We also need to move quite quickly because we’re talking about the potential compromise of the 2020 elections. And so this is not just about something that has occurred; this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”

Interesting. Democrats have been saying for years that they wanted to stop outside interference in our elections (not going to happen. We interfere in the elections of other nations, they interfere in ours, welcome to the world, Dems) and wanted to get to the heart of what happened in 2016. Well, Trump was trying to find out what happened. And Ukraine was a central player. Why is it only OK to investigate Trump and his team? When will we get the investigations into the Obama administration spying on presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign, then on president-elect Donald Trump and his team?

But, anyone, per AOC, this whole impeachment theater is about damaging Trump for the 2020 elections, essentially using a very serious measure in the U.S. Constitution to attempt to change the outcome of the election. We all know this, she’s just letting the cat out of the bag.

Seriously, impeachment theater was pretty bad on day 1

When your main witnesses on day 1 were actually not witnesses, good luck!

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Virginia Commission Fails To Come Up With Recommendations On 78 Gun Control Bills

By William Teach November 13, 2019 – 2:38 pm

Reading between the lines, this pretty much shows that all the gun grabber bills won’t do anything to stop crime, and no one wanted to put their signature behind gun grabbing bills

A state commission spent months reviewing Virginia’s gun laws. It came up with no recommendations.

Citing “inconclusive evidence,” a state group tasked with studying gun policy says it can’t give any recommendations on what to do with the 78 bills it received.

In a three-page report released Tuesday, the Virginia State Crime Commission staff outlined its review of the legislation filed during the July special session on gun control called by Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, following the Virginia Beach mass shooting.

“While staff researched a wide variety of policies and many other matters related to gun violence, the overall findings from the research were often insufficient, mixed, contradictory, or based on limited methodology,” staff wrote.

Review of the legislation fell into the commission’s hands after Republicans ended the special session without voting on any bills.

“We are confident that, under your leadership, the Crime Commission will be able to better understand what steps Virginia might take to keep our communities safe without the distraction of partisan politics,” Speaker of the House Kirk Cox and Sen. Tommy Norment wrote to the chairman and vice chairman of the commission in July when they asked for the review.

Well, the commission was unable to put themselves behind any of those 78 bills. If the idea was to reduce crime, didn’t seem to work. But, then, we know most of the bills offered up end up punishing the law abiding, rather than actual criminals. Because Democrats are afraid to go after their constituents who are criminals. Or is it that they just like the criminals, much like we see in places like San Francisco? Regardless, Democrats are about gun grabbing, not stopping crime. Hence, the commission tried to sugar coat their conclusions.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 13, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is the thought of maple syrup disappearing due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is hogewash, with a post on Democrats wanting to hide their impeachment votes.

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We’re Saved: California To Spend $2.4 Million On Climate Art

By William Teach November 13, 2019 – 10:30 am

Not just any art, but permanent art!

California Is Spending $2.4 Million to Build the World’s Largest Permanent Installation of Climate Change-Themed Art

California’s clean-air agency has commissioned the world’s largest permanent public installation of climate changed-themed art. Large-scale works by Allora & Calzadilla, Refik Anadol, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Noé Montes, Andrea Polli, and Tomás Saraceno will appear in the common areas of the California Air Resources Board’s new headquarters in Riverside, California, opening in late 2021.

The agency went through 600 applications before it made its selection of “world-class art by artists whose work embraces environmental and equity themes,” said board chair Mary Nichol in a statement. The works themselves will be announced in 2020.

“The conversation about climate change should always include the subject of climate justice,” artist Noe Montes said in an email. The photographer was inspired to apply for the project after witnessing the health problems experienced by residents in the Jordan Downs housing project in South Los Angeles due to air pollution from the logistics industry.

“Climate change affects marginalized, low income communities first and disproportionately,” he added. “My work will help to illustrate this fact through the stories of residents who are the most impacted.”

Well, that’s interesting that the “marginalized, low income communities” would be mentioned. $2.4 million might not seem that much in terms of government spending, but, in the real world, how many of California’s ever-growing homeless population could be fed and housed with that money?

That’s just one shot of California. Yet, they’re creating ‘climate change’ art.

Dedicated to combating the effects of air pollution and creating programs that fight climate change, the California Air Resources Board sets the state’s air quality standards and promotes efforts to reduce emissions. The new headquarters, being constructed through the $368 million Southern California Consolidation project, will feature a vehicle emissions testing and research facility on a 19-acre campus. It aims to be the largest true zero net energy facility of its type, and will give off zero emissions.

Think how they could help with $368 million.

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Climate Cultists Vow Hunger Strikes Unless Pelosi Does Something Or Something

By William Teach November 13, 2019 – 8:02 am

Good, more bacon, steak, pork, chicken, chocolate, and all the other foods Warmists claim are bad for ‘climate change’ for the rest of us

Protesters vow hunger strike to push U.S. on climate change

Climate change opponents plan to stage a hunger strike to demand a meeting with U.S. Congressional leader Nancy Pelosi, they said on Tuesday, in the political battle over global warming.

The protesters said they want a one-hour on-camera meeting with Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to discuss reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2025.

“You have yet to pass even symbolic legislation recognizing the climate crisis as a national emergency. With all due respect, you have failed,” they said in an open letter.

“Meet with us or leave us to starve while you jet to your Thanksgiving feasts and cocktail parties in the glow of a burning world.”

Well, good luck with this. I don’t think Pelosi cares. They could have voted on the Green New Deal resolution, which was purely symbolic. They didn’t. Heck, Democrats blew a gasket over Mitch McConnell holding a vote on the GND in the Senate, and none voted for it. Even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has mostly given up on tweeting about it.

(Pelosi) has resisted a Congressional resolution called the Green New Deal backed by progressives that seeks a 10-year, government-driven effort to promote clean energy and make the nation carbon-neutral by 2030.

Pelosi has said she welcomes the “enthusiasm” behind the Green New Deal but in an interview with Politico, an online news site, called it a “green dream.”

No matter what you say about Pelosi, she is no idiot. She sees the polls and knows that pushing ‘climate change’ may be popular in theory, but not in practice. She knows that passing, or at least attempting to pass legislation would hurt Democrat chances in 2020. You can bet that once the Democrat primaries are done that ‘climate change’ will mostly disappear from their campaigns, just like it has in 2016, 2012, 2008, 2004, and 2000.

The protesters said they will launch a week-long hunger strike on November 18, 10 days before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, at Pelosi’s Washington offices, elsewhere in the United States and in other countries. They are part of Extinction Rebellion, a grassroots green movement launched in London in 2018.

This should be fun. Will they be super-gluing themselves to stuff? The optics will not be good for the climate cultists.

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Suddenly, Democrats Are “Concerned” With Stonewalling And Executive Privilege

By William Teach November 13, 2019 – 7:43 am

Over at the NY Times, Excitable Neal K. Katyal, a former acting solicitor general and a law professor, is Concerned, mirroring what many in the opinion and straight news sections are yammering about

What Trump Is Hiding From the Impeachment Hearings

The public impeachment hearings this week will be at least as important for what is not said as for what is. Congress will no doubt focus a lot on President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and his secret plan to get that government to announce a public investigation of the man he considered his chief political rival, Joe Biden.

But think about what the president is trying to hide in the hearings. He has been blocking government officials from testifying before Congress, invoking specious claims of constitutional privilege. And while the Ukraine allegations have rightly captured the attention of Congress and much of the public, Mr. Trump’s effort to hinder the House investigation of him is at least as great a threat to the rule of law. It strikes at the heart of American democracy — and it is itself the essence of an impeachable offense.

The very heart of democracy! And impeachable itself! Though, if the Democrats who run the House weren’t having their moonbat investigation, that wouldn’t be so, correct? It’s not like they haven’t been calling to impeach Trump since the day they were elected, since they just can’t deal with losing the 2016 election.

President Trump has categorically refused to cooperate with the impeachment investigation. He has declined to turn over documents related to the inquiry and has instructed all members of his administration not to testify before Congress. Every member of the executive branch who has gone to tell the truth to the House impeachment investigators — like Marie Yovanovich and Alexander Vindman (and maybe Gordon Sondland, too, at least the second time around) — has done so in defiance of the president’s instructions. President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has refused to testify. Secretary of Defense Mike Esper, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, have ignored congressional subpoenas related to the investigation.

So, Trump is supposed to cooperate with an unhinged witch-hunt? But, let’s consider: these same media folks had zero problem with President Obama and his administration categorically refusing to cooperate with numerous House and Senate investigations of serious issues, real issues. Republicans didn’t even trot out the impeachment threat over these serious issues, even though Obama and his folks stonewalled, slow walked, and refused to cooperate constantly. Operation Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, and Benghazi were the big ones, though Team Obama did the same thing with other issues.

Let’s not forget that Obama and his team spied on presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and his campaign personnel, and then spied on them after Trump won the election. The Democrats and their pet media have zero problem with that, so, what’s wrong with asking Ukraine to investigate the corruption that led to the spying?

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Bummer: Hotcoldwetdry Is Causing Problems To Nuclear Repository

By William Teach November 12, 2019 – 3:48 pm

The Cult of Climastrology always looks for something to proclaim Doom over, and the newest one is…..

Climate change is ‘cracking open a nuclear tomb’ built to contain American waste

A concrete tomb containing more than three million cubic feet of nuclear waste is reportedly cracking under the strains of climate change.

Officially known as the Runit Dome, the structure holds the radioactive waste produced by the 67 nuclear bombs which were detonated on the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958.

According to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times, the US government also conducted a dozen biological weapons tests on the islands before mixing the lethal debris and soil with concrete and burying it in the dome.

Despite being buried, the newspaper investigation found evidence that the dome – which locals refer to as “The Tomb” – is leaking.

The rising level of the ocean water means that the waters around the dome rise every year, and Los Angeles Times reporters found evidence of coral bleaching and fish kills nearby, as well as health impacts on local residents.

This story is being repeated all across the news, because they have a new Talking Point. Here’s what it looks like

Sea levels are rising almost three times as fast around the Marshall Islands than the global average, according to scientists.

Experts say the waters around the Marshall Islands could be five feet higher by the end of the century – causing the nuclear tomb to crack and spill its lethal waste into the ocean, with devastating effects.

Really? According to the actual tide station, we see

The relative sea level trend is 1.88 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.68 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1946 to 2018 which is equivalent to a change of 0.62 feet in 100 years.

It is average for the Holocene, and below average for a warm period. And it is not accelerating. Further, how do they think the islands were created? It occurred when the seas were much higher. Notice, too, that the dome is not much above sea level, and has quite a bit what would have been below sea level back then. Not the best place to build it, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 12, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea wall built to stop the dozens of feet the sea will rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on how feminism and immigrant invaders destroyed Europe

Double shot of Katheryn Winnick, a Canadian, below the fold, so check out Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on Don Cherry being right.

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Say, When Will Republicans Ever Stand Against President Trump?

By William Teach November 12, 2019 – 10:30 am

Tribune News Service’s Scott Martelle continues with the Trump Derangement Syndrome, wondering if Republicans will ever stand against him

Will Republicans ever take a stand against Trump? | Opinion

Republicans have been engaging in some interesting contortions in conjuring a defense for President Donald Trump’s attempt to get Ukrainian officials to investigate the family of political rival Joe Biden. The most plausible approach is one Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey signed on to last month, saying that he is keeping an open mind but that even if Trump asked Ukraine for a favor, the offense may not rise to a level that demands impeachment.

That’s a debate worth having, and it will likely underlie the arguments if and when the House sends articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial.

My short answer: Yes, what Trump did is an impeachable offense. And yes, it is sufficient to require his removal from office, especially when placed within context of his other actions.

There are precious few policies that this administration has pursued that I agree with. And there are precious few Trump backers who accept that one can oppose Trump on policy grounds, yet also not reflexively back impeachment.

The screed goes through lots of spin as it winds its way, particularly about the firing of James Comey, of whom Trump had every right to fire and it was recommended that he actually fire him, along with making stuff up about Trump threatening to fire Mueller (Scott forgets to mention the outcome of the Mueller report, which was Bad for Democrats)

This is the internal wrestling Toomey and other Republicans will have to contend with. If a president pressuring a foreign government to investigate a political rival for his own political gain and then obstructing congressional efforts to conduct oversight doesn’t cross the line into impeachment territory, then where is the line?

In fact, is there a line that this president could cross that would lead Republicans to put national interest ahead of party loyalty, and vote for his removal?

This is the crisis that looms larger than Trump’s abuses. The Constitution creates the process to hold a rogue president in check, but that check disappears if Congress won’t use it.

That’s all very interesting, and, an argument that President Obama should have been impeached repeatedly. But, one has to wonder, when did Democrats ever not support Obama? When did they take him to task for things like Libya, Operation Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, creating his own policies while avoiding the duly elected Legislative Branch, and so much more? Heck, even as Democrats were losing thousands of federal, state, county, and local seats, they didn’t take him to task.

So, why should Republicans diverge from Trump on Ukraine? They all know this is pure mule fritters, that it was about investigating corruption, corruption that Joe Biden was involved in. They know that this is just a big nothingburger, things that constantly happen during politics, both domestic and foreign.

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What We Really Need To Solve The Climate Crisis Is A Global Tax Or Something

By William Teach November 12, 2019 – 8:13 am

Personally, I’d recommend that all members of the Cult of Climastrology give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, but, hey, they want everyone to suffer

The Real Cost Of A $50 Trillion Climate Change Push

In three weeks, the world’s leaders will begin to gather in Madrid for the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The intensity of the global climate strikes this year suggests that the proceedings will be scrutinized as never before. But the decisions made, or not made, will also have repercussions for global markets.

We’re transitioning towards a lower carbon economy, albeit at a slower pace than needed to stay within a two degrees Celsius climate scenario (2DS). For companies that can build offshore wind installations, develop electric vehicles and manufacture renewable diesels, we see potential for material earnings growth. In Decarbonisation: The Race to Net Zero, we estimated that more than US$50 trillion of capital will need to be deployed into renewables, EVs, hydrogen, biofuels and carbon capture and storage over the next 30 years, putting US$3-10 trillion of EBIT up for grabs.

Decarbonising electricity is the largest opportunity to reduce carbon emissions, with the power sector responsible for a quarter of global emissions. Strong renewables growth should be achievable given the significant improvements we’ve seen in solar and wind economics. But costs continue to constrain many other clean technologies, including battery storage, green hydrogen, CCS and biofuels.

If governments are serious about halting climate change, some form of stimulus will be needed.

That means more money out of your pocket, in the form of taxation and higher energy costs, which means a higher cost of living, along with government limits on how you live your life.

Taxes should be another means of incentivizing investment in low-carbon technologies, but they remain ineffective. Even in Europe, where the carbon price has increased three-fold since the end of 2017, it remains far below the US$75 per tonne estimated by the IMF as necessary by 2030 to achieve a 2DS.

Even if the price of carbon rises to that level, a global tax is needed, through either a multilateral agreement or a carbon border adjustment. Domestic carbon taxes are unlikely to succeed in a world where many industries can move to regions with less punitive environmental regimes.

Well, that’s kicking the tax schemes up to 11, eh?

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