…is a horrendous carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Brass Pills, with a post on “Millennial Writer Cries at Work, Puts Mother on Speakerphone after Her Boss Corrects Her Spelling”
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How does this work again?
NC radio host@OnAirBrooke: "I 100 percent believe that the West Coast will be underwater soon, and I'd like to experience it while there's still time left" https://t.co/sLEoHZoym2
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) July 16, 2019
From the lunatic screed
In the summer of 2015—the warmest year on record at the time—it was the literal heat that got to Meg Ruttan Walker, a 37-year-old former teacher in Kitchener, Ontario. “Summers have been stressful to me since having my son,” said Ruttan Walker, who is now an environmental activist. “It’s hard to enjoy a season that’s a constant reminder that the world is getting warmer.”
“I think my anxiety just reached a peak,” Ruttan Walker continued. It felt like there was nowhere to go, and although she had spoken to her primary care doctor about anxiety, she hadn’t sought help with her mental health. Suddenly, she was contemplating self-harm. “Though I don’t think I would have hurt myself, I didn’t know how to live with the fear of… the apocalypse, I guess? My son was home with me and I had to call my friend over to watch him because I couldn’t even look at him without breaking down,” Ruttan Walker said. She eventually checked herself into an overnight mental health facility.
Her case is extreme, but many people are suffering from what could be called “climate despair,” a sense that climate change is an unstoppable force that will render humanity extinct and renders life in the meantime futile. As David Wallace-Wells noted in his 2019 bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth, “For most who perceive an already unfolding climate crisis and intuit a more complete metamorphosis of the world to come, the vision is a bleak one, often pieced together from perennial eschatological imagery inherited from existing apocalyptic texts like the Book of Revelation, the inescapable sourcebook for Western anxiety about the end of the world.”
“Climate despair” has been a phrase used at least as far back as Eric Pooley’s 2010 book, The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth, but it’s been in wide circulation for perhaps as little as two years. In more progressive Sweden, the term klimatÃ¥ngest has been popular since at least 2011 (the year a Wikipedia article with that name was created). In The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells notes that the philosopher Wendy Lynne Lee calls this phenomenon “eco-nihilism,” the Canadian politician and activist Stuart Parker prefers “climate nihilism,” and others have tried out terms like “human futilitarianism.” (snip)
But climate despair goes far beyond a reasonable concern that a warming planet will make life more difficult and force humanity to make hard choices. Instead of rallying us, climate despair asks us to give up. In a 2009 study in the UK by researchers Saffron O’Neill and Sophie Nicholson-Cole, climate-related data visualizations were presented to test subjects who were urged, in fear-based terms, to take action or else. Most of the time these appeals produced “denial, apathy, avoidance, and negative associations.” Ultimately, the researchers concluded, “climate change images can evoke powerful feelings of issue salience but these do not necessarily make participants feel able to do anything about it; in fact, it may do the reverse.” In other words, if you tell people something must be done or we’re all gonna die, they tend to take door number two, however irrational that impulse may seem.
Sounding more and more like a doomsday cult by the day, eh? This is what the scaremongering from the Warmists has created: a bunch of people freaking out and giving themselves mental illness over nothing.
Read: Bummer: Climate Despair Is Making (Crazy People) Give Up On Life »
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Excitable Robert Kagan thinks he’s on to something
We are all ‘the Squad’ now
President Trump has forced us all to take a position on what kind of America this is going to be — in essence, to define again what American “nationalism†means. Is it a white Christian nationalism (or if you’re Jewish and think you can wriggle yourself inside the Trumpian nationalist tent, you can call it Judeo-Christian), in which immigrants of color or other religions are not really Americans and can be told by the president to “go back†to their ancestral lands? Or is it the universalist nationalism of the Declaration of Independence, based on the liberal Enlightenment principles of equality before the law, the inviolable rights of the individual against the state and the conviction that all citizens — regardless of religion, ethnicity or ancestral roots and the timing of their arrival — are equally American?
This is hardly the first time that Americans have been presented with this question, needless to say, and they have often answered equivocally. The popular willingness to denounce and even persecute the “hyphenated†Americans of German and Irish descent during and after World War I, a frenzy spurred by leaders of both political parties; the imprisonment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, upheld by the Supreme Court; and of course the unending horrific treatment of African Americans — these are more than sad episodes in our history. They are as much a part of who we are as the civil rights movement and other triumphs of individual liberties. White nationalism was never just a fringe phenomenon, and it isn’t today. The South was a bastion of the white-nationalist idea for almost two centuries and with support in the last half of the 20th century from conservative thinkers such as Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley Jr. Today, the American conservative movement proudly nurtures a new nationalism, whose intellectual authors openly call on Americans to reject the universal liberal principles of the Declaration of Independence in favor of a nationhood grounded in religion and culture. It is a growth industry.
Amazing gymnastics, eh? See, this is why Trump is correct. No matter what the subject is, Democrats turn it to raaaaacism.
Yet the fight to define our nationalism has continued ever since. And that is what’s at stake in the current confrontation between the president and “the Squad.â€
As always in such fights, the battle is not being fought on the clear and solid ground we’d all prefer. Trump himself deliberately picked this murky ground. He knows that a great number of Americans in both parties have little sympathy for the Squad, and for all kinds of reasons, ranging from simple racism, Islamophobia and misogyny, to genuine policy disagreements, to unhappiness with the bigotry and insensitivity that members of the Squad have themselves sometimes displayed. Almost everyone has a reason to temper their support. Professional Republicans are silent because they fear their voters; professional Democrats are still angry at the Squad for challenging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Many are inclined to declare a pox on both their houses — they deserve each other.
Yet, somehow, he says we’re all part of The Squad now.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury of equivocation. Trump has given us a binary choice: Either stand with American principles, which in this case means standing in defense of the Squad, or equivocate, which means standing with Trump and white nationalism. It doesn’t matter how you feel about Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). The truth is, they have done nothing and said nothing about the United States or about an ally (in this case, Israel) that has not been done or said thousands of times. When politicians were denouncing “hyphenated†Americans during World War I, German and Irish Americans were not only denouncing their government. Some were actively working for the German government, engaging in sabotage and espionage, often supported by funds paid through the German Embassy in Washington. Yet even that did not justify a national assault on “hyphenated†Americans.
See, it’s cool to slur America and Israel because lots of Leftists have done it before! Except, now, these are four elected members of the United States Congress (along with some other comrades) who are blatantly doing it.
Our nation won’t be undermined by anything the Squad has said or done. It will be undermined if we don’t fight back against this assault on our universal principles. Disagree with the Squad, refute them, argue with them, vote against them. But also defend them, as the founders intended. The essence of our nation is at stake.
At stake! Well, yes, from the very Squad in question, with their ultra hardcore beliefs to radically change America
I Went to a Socialism Conference. Here Are 6 Shocking Things I Learned.
What’s clear from my observations at Socialism 2019 is that traditional Marxists have successfully melded their ideology with the identity politics and culture war issues that animate modern liberalism—despite still being quite far from the beliefs of the average citizen.
Jarret Stepman attended the conference in Chicago over the 4th of July weekend, and, wowzer, what he learned. Such as
Most of the conference attendees appeared to be white, but identity politics were a major theme throughout—especially in regard to gender.
I’ll let you read the majority, worth the 5-10 minutes, but, here are the 6 things he learned (below the fold)
Read: We Are “The Squad” Now Or Something, So Let’s Go Inside A Socialism Conference »
Seriously
You know Democrats are reaching when they try and invoke Ronald Reagan https://t.co/UlHRzWorCn
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) July 16, 2019
They’re really giving this a shot to protect illegals
Since this is the last speech that I will give as President, I think it’s fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love. It was stated best in a letter I received not long ago. A man wrote me and said:
“You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.”
Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it’s the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America’s triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on earth comes close.
The thing is, The Gipper was talking about legal immigrants
A number of years ago, an American student traveling in Europe took an East German ship across the Baltic Sea. One of the ship’s crew members from East Germany, a man in his sixties, struck up a conversation with the American student. After a while the student asked the man how he had learned such good English. And the man explained that he had once lived in America.
He said that for over a year he had worked as a farmer in Oklahoma and California, that he had planted tomatoes and picked ripe melons. It was, the man said, the happiest time of his life.
Well, the student, who had seen the awful conditions behind the Iron Curtain, blurted out the question, “Well, why did you ever leave?” … “I had to,” he said, “the war ended.” The man had been in America as a German prisoner of war.
Those conditions behind the Iron Curtain are what the Democrats are trying to create. Reagan was very much for legal immigration, and wanted people to be able to come in and out of the country to visit and work. The problem is, Democrats keep giving incentives so that people come illegally as well as come legally and never leave.
(Washington Post) Several influential Hispanic leaders, meanwhile, sounded an unexpected alarm, warning that Democratic candidates are risking moving too far left in their quest to woo Hispanic voters.
“I think there has to be some moderation. I disagree with the candidates’ positions about providing health care to undocumented immigrants, when you have Americans who don’t have health care,†said Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), which held its convention here. “I think that was a snap decision by some of those candidates that wasn’t thought through.â€
Cecilia Muñoz, a White House aide to President Barack Obama and a former policy advocate at the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group now known as UnidosUS, said decriminalizing unapproved border crossings would make it harder for Democrats to combat President Trump’s populist appeal.
“It allows him to make a claim that he is already making, which is Democrats are for an open border,†she said. “And it makes it harder to explain why that is not true.†She added that stopping family separations at the border doesn’t require making the crossings civil offenses.
That’s what they want, though. So, they have to attempt to use Reagan to push their extremist agenda.
Read: Hot Take: Democrats Invoke Ronald Reagan To Push Illegal Immigration »
…is a carbon intensive dog causing desertification, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post on Elizabeth Warren being a very bad idea.
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Nothing better to get someone on your side than insulting them, eh?
https://twitter.com/Thongch34759935/status/1150965282296328192
Insane people. Katherine Hayhoe also likes to block anyone who doesn’t 100% agree with her, so, kinda tough to convince people you won’t converse with.
Read: #ClimateBrawl: This Video Will Totally Convert You Climate Deniers Or Something »
Thankfully, we have People Magazine, a rag supposedly about celebrities and such, to tell us these things
Feeling Anxious About Climate Change? Therapists Say You’re Not Alone
Therapist Andrew Bryant says the landmark United Nations climate reportlast October brought a new mental health concern to his patients.
“I remember being in sessions with folks the next day. They had never mentioned climate change before, and they were like, ‘I keep hearing about this report,’†Bryant said. “Some of them expressed anxious feelings, and we kept talking about it over our next sessions.â€
The study, conducted by the world’s leading climate scientists, said that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, by 2040 the Earth will warm by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius). Predictions say that increase in temperature will cause extreme weather events, rising sea levels, species extinction and reduced capacity to produce food.
Bryant works at North Seattle Therapy & Counseling in Washington state. Recently, he said, he has been seeing patients with anxiety or depression related to climate change and the Earth’s future.
Often these patients want to do something to reduce global warming but are overwhelmed and depressed by the scope of the problem and difficulty in finding solutions. And they’re anxious about how the Earth will change over the rest of their or their children’s lifetimes.
There’s an easy answer. Give up their modern lifestyles and make their lives carbon neutral. Boom. Solved.
Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,†“climate grief,†“climate anxiety†or “eco-anxiety.â€
How about “climate nuttbaggery”?
There is no epidemiological data yet to show how common distress or anxiety related to climate change is. But, people say these feelings are real and affect their life decisions.
Apparently not affecting their life decisions, because we do not hear about a mass movement of them giving up their own fossil fueled travel, hand washing clothes, no ice makers, turning the AC up to 80, 2 minute showers, living in tiny apartments in rat warren properties, and so forth.
For Laura, becoming involved with the international activist group Extinction Rebellion has helped her build a network of people who share her values and made her feel as if she’s making a positive contribution to society. With the group, she has participated in nonviolent protests and is organizing the Atlanta chapter’s first grief circle, where people can share their anxiety and grief about the destruction of the Earth.
“Activism is also therapy for me,†said Laura.
Being a lunatic and causing problems for other people is her therapy. Go figure.
Read: Good News: People Going Nuts Over ‘Climate Change’ Are Not Alone »
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There are certainly times when Trump could turn the volume down from 30 to 25, but, admit it, Republicans have been begging for the elected Republicans to fight back against the Democrats and their constant unhinged attacks for decades, especially since the Bush years. Democrats have been able to say whatever they want whenever they want, and Republicans were supposed to just take it, and, for the most part, they did. Politics is a dirty nasty business wrapped in a veneer of civility. Dems have dumped that civility, with the help of the Democrat run media. Trump is just bringing it back to the Dems.
President Trump on Monday defended his racist remarks about four minority lawmakers by alleging that they “hate our country†and should leave if they are unhappy — leading the Democratic congresswomen to respond by offering a competing vision of America that they said was based on inclusiveness.
Right there, this is the media writing a story attempting to defend the Brat Pack, or The Squad, if you like, as well as all Democrats. It’s editorializing in what is supposed to be a straight news piece, in which the Washington Post writers have interjected their opinion that Trump’s comments were raaaaacist.
Trump’s comments, delivered in response to questions at a White House event ostensibly about American products, marked an escalation of a series of weekend tweets in which the president said the four Democrats should “go back†to “the crime infested places from which they came.†Three of the lawmakers were born in the United States, and the fourth is a U.S. citizen born in Somalia.
When asked if he was bothered that many people viewed the remarks as racist and that white nationalists found common cause with them, Trump said: “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. And all I’m saying: They want to leave, they can leave.â€
The four Democrats — Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) — responded with a joint news conference late Monday in which they sought to contrast their efforts on issues such as health care and immigration with the president’s actions.
Interestingly, they barely talked about how they love America. Mostly, they talked about wanting to change America to something else.
Trump said the four lawmakers — informally known as “the Squad†on Capitol Hill — have been “complaining constantly†about the United States. “These are people that hate our country,†he said. “They hate our country. They hate it, I think, with a passion.â€
And he suggested several times that the group should simply leave the United States. “If you’re not happy here, then you can leave,†he said, to applause from those gathered for the business-focused event. “As far as I’m concerned, if you hate our country, if you’re not happy here, you can leave.â€
Perhaps they can take all the celebrities and sports figures and such who promised to leave the U.S. if Trump won, but never did, with them. Seriously, you can’t sit there and say you love something but then say that you want to change everything about the thing you say you love.
“I want to tell children across this country . . . that no matter what the president says, this country belongs to you, and it belongs to everyone,†Ocasio-Cortez said, recounting a childhood trip to the Reflecting Pool on the Mall.
So, it belongs to the America haters, as well?
In a trio of tweets Monday evening, the president tried again to explain what several White House aides claimed was the original intent of his tweets — that individuals who are not happy in the United States are free to live elsewhere — while simultaneously demonizing the four minority lawmakers without naming them.
“We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country,â€Â Trump wrote. “IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!â€
“Certain people,â€Â he added, “HATE our Country. They are anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda, and comment on the 9/11 attack, ‘some people did something.’ â€
Omar, AOC, and Pressley refused to condemn the violent attacks on the ICE facility. AOC called pictures of 9/11 “triggering” and said they shouldn’t be shown. Omar tap-danced around questions about her support for terrorists.
Since the media refuses to provide any context, a thread of statements made by the socialist "squad" in the House:
Ilhan Omar laughing about al Qaeda, wondering why we don't speak of America in the same tonespic.twitter.com/56rsf5dwoo
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) July 15, 2019
Reading that whole thread is worth the time. The Brat Pack wants to destroy America, they hate Israel and Jews, a few seem to be pro-terrorist, they want open borders, want the government to control the economy, and want the government to control your life. Rarely will you hear them talk about loving America. So, they can screech about raaaaacism all they want, which is their default position, but they cannot answer the charges against them.
Read: Brat Pack Says They Country Belongs To Everyone, Including Those Who Hate The Country »
Sounds like a winning plan: you make the appointment weeks to months ahead of time, show up early, your doctor keeps you sitting around past your appointment time, then wants to yammer at you about Hotcoldwetdry before jumping in their expensive low MPG fossil fueled vehicle and driving to their mansion
Has Your Doctor Talked To You About Climate Change?
When Michael Howard arrives for a checkup with his lung specialist, he’s worried about how his body will cope with the heat and humidity of a Boston summer.
“I lived in Florida for 14 years and I moved back because the humidity was just too much,” Howard tells pulmonologist Mary Rice, as he settles into an exam room chair at a Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare clinic.
Howard, who is 57, has COPD, a progressive lung disease that can be exacerbated by heat and humidity. Even inside a comfortable, climate-controlled room, his oxygen levels worry Rice. Howard reluctantly agrees to try using portable oxygen. He’s resigned to wearing the clear plastic tubes looped over his ears and inserted in his nostrils. He assures Rice he has an air conditioner and will stay inside on really hot days. The doctor and patient agree that Howard should take his walks in the evenings to be sure that he gets enough exercise without overheating.
Then Howard turns to Rice with a question she didn’t encounter in medical school: “Can I ask you: Last summer, why was it so hot?”
Rice, who studies air pollution, is ready.
“The overall trend of the hotter summers that we’re seeing [is] due to climate change,” Rice says, “and with the overall upward trend, we’ve got the consequences of climate change.”
Some societies provide patient handouts that explain related health risks. But none have guidelines that explain how providers should talk to patients about climate change. There is no concrete list of “dos” — as in wear a seat belt, use sunscreen, and get exercise — or “don’ts” — as in don’t smoke, don’t drink too much and don’t text while driving.
The should stick with medicine and not junk science
“I have to be honest about the science and the threat that is there, and it is quite alarming,” Basu says.
So alarming that Basu says he often refers patients to counseling. Psychiatrists concerned about the effects of climate change on mental health say there are no standards of care in their profession yet. They suggest a response must be tailored for each patient, but some common responses are emerging.
And, of course, the nutso factor shows up. Surprise?
Read: Say, Has Your Doctor Talked To You About The Non-Existent Climate Crisis Yet Or Something? »
…is a wonderful low carbon bike offsetting the massive footprint from the dog, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is C3, with a post on the accuracy of climate doomer prognostications.
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