If All You See…

By William Teach July 25, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on the Mueller hearing debacle.

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Good News: Democracy Is The Biggest Enemy Of Dealing With ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 25, 2019 – 10:53 am

Once again proving that the Cult of Climastrology wants to destroy everything and replace the system with an authoritarian one, because they can’t get their way

DEMOCRACY IS THE PLANET’S BIGGEST ENEMY

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Thunberg’s remarks showcased the profound gulf between younger and older generations when it comes to climate politics: the clash between those with the power to act and those who must live with the consequences if they don’t. The climate crisis is an issue that requires long-term thinking across the generations, yet electoral politics is geared toward responding to immediate grievances. Politicians can talk about taking the long view, but without institutional changes to the way we practice democracy, they are unlikely to look beyond short-term political gains. (snip)

Nevertheless, climate change has become a contest of worldviews split along generational lines—and it’s a contest that older voters are winning. That should be no surprise. After all, they are both more numerous and more likely to vote than their younger counterparts. When Thunberg speaks for the generations yet to come, she has the numbers on her side—the unborn limitlessly outnumber the currently living. But when it comes to actual voters, the math favors the climate skeptics or at least the people who have other priorities. Our world hasn’t just warmed rapidly in recent decades—it has also aged even faster.

Funny, because these same youths supporting Hotcoldwetdry actions refuse to reduce their own carbon footprints.

If democratic politicians are to make good on their promises to Thunberg and her peers, one of the largest barriers in their way are their own electorates. And citizens may become more antagonistic as governments push forward on new policies. Tackling climate change is going to require significant behavioral change: in what we eat, where we live, and how we travel. Current patterns of food and energy consumption are unsustainable. If we and the planet are to survive, that will mean less meat, smaller homes, and fewer cars.

That sounds like the writer, David Runciman, is pushing for government to become dictatorial, Authoritarian, rather than following the will of the people. And here we go

Bridging the generational divide is likely to require other kinds of institutional change. The evidence of the last 30-plus years of climate politics suggests that electoral democracy is not well suited to reaching a consensus on what is to be done. The inevitable partisanship of this form of politics reinforces wider social divisions. Different perspectives on the long-term future get turned into polarized positions on climate change, making it harder to reach a shared perspective on carbon emissions and renewable energy. Party politics drowns out the pursuit of common ground.

If electoral democracy is inadequate to the task of addressing climate change, and the task is the most urgent one humanity faces, then other kinds of politics are urgently needed. The most radical alternative of all would be to consider moving beyond democracy altogether. The authoritarian Chinese system has some advantages when it comes to addressing climate change: One-party rule means freedom from electoral cycles and less need for public consultation. Technocratic solutions that put power in the hands of unelected experts could take key decisions out of the hands of voters.

This really is what David means. He goes on to attempt to downsize this notion, because he doesn’t want to scare people off too much

What’s needed instead are democratic reforms capable of moving past the generational impasse in electoral politics. One alternative is more deliberative democracy, which would allow individuals with different points of view to engage with each other directly, free from partisan representation…..

So partisans discussing issues would be free from partisan representation?

Another alternative would be more radical direct democracy. Politicians who are unmoved by electoral threats, and citizens otherwise committed to status quo policy, can sometimes be jolted into action by street protests, especially if they are sustained over long periods of time.

The Modern Socialists love pushing Direct Democracy (which includes lowering the voting age), but, are very unhappy when they lose the vote, and sue to overturn.

As Steven Hayward notes

As I’ve been pointing our for more than a decade, the most ominous contradiction of the environmental left these days is the way in which they champion the rights of nature while going along with the rest of the left in denying human nature, let alone the natural rights of humans—which is the central premise of democratic self-government. The result, as I have been warning, is the increasingly open anti-democratic and pro-authoritarian stance of the climatistas.

All their solutions require Big Big Government which is domineering and controlling. It’s just an extension of their normal belief set, they’re just using the Coming Doom Of The Earth as their platform. Yet, all the little idiots agreeing with them never seem to realize that this will impact their own lives.

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‘Climate Change’ Is Now A Black Issue Or Something

By William Teach July 25, 2019 – 7:28 am

I wonder if this means that the uber-white people leading the Cult of Climastrology should bow out, otherwise they will be guilty of cultural appropriation?

Black Women Are Leaders in the Climate Movement
Environmentalism, in other words, is a black issue.

Before the first Democratic debate, I watched one of my favorite shows, MSNBC’s AM Joy, excited to see not one, but three people of color tapped to talk about climate change and how candidates were discussing it along the campaign trail. My heart dropped when Tiffany Cross, a guest commentator on the show, stated that while climate change disproportionately impacts communities of color, it’s an issue only in very “niche groups” of those communities. She wasn’t claiming that the issue wasn’t important, but that your average black person didn’t see it as an everyday thing.

Despite stereotypes of a lack of interest in environmental issues among African-Americans, black women, particularly Southern black women, are no strangers to environmental activism. Many of us live in communities with polluted air and water, work in industries from housekeeping to hairdressing where we are surrounded by toxic chemicals and have limited food options that are often impacted by pesticides.

Environmentalism, in other words, is a black issue.

This comes from Heather McTeer Toney, the national field director of Moms Clean Air Force, a group that has hijacked the notion of continued reduction in air pollutants and made it all about a trace gas necessary for life on Earth. Her group, really, is a niche group, and, it’s not just black people who do not see Hotcoldwetdry as an everyday thing. Particularly when the Democratic Party is keeping blacks in cities down on the plantation, patronizing them to keep their votes. It is interesting, though, that Toney talks about polluted air and water, work in industries surrounded by toxic chemicals, then limited food options, and wants to make real environmental issues with the climate change scam.

Rarely do we see or hear black voices as part of national conversations about policy solutions, the green economy or clean energy. We’re relegated to providing a comment on environmental justice issues like the water crisis in Flint; or we’re the faces in the photos when candidates need to show that they’re inclusive when talking about climate solutions.

It sounds like the Cult of Climastrology is rather racist.

Our elders and ancestors lived through emergencies. The 1928 Hurricane of Lake Okeechobee is rumored to be the greatest loss of black life in one day before Hurricane Katrina. At least 2,500 souls perished in that flood, mostly black migrant workers from the Caribbean. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the Eastern Seaboard Heatwave of 1911 both saw significant loss of life, but also the survival of those who made it through.

Wait, so hurricanes and heatwaves and floods today are nothing new, and have nothing to do with “carbon pollution”? Huh.

Despite hearing the Republican rhetoric of “climate change ain’t real,” people knew that something more than a rising river was changing and amiss. Deer and duck seasons weren’t the same as in years past. Cotton and soybean crop yields were different; increased heat, droughts and floods meant more pests and decreased yields. The river waters were coming faster and stronger from the increased snow from the Northeast. It felt like no one was listening to the voices of the poor, of rural folks, of Southerners. We knew then just as we do now: Climate change is a threat to black life.

It’s great how she’s making this a racism issue. This will go one of two ways: the non-black big wigs in the Cult will shut this line of thought down, or, they’ll just co-opt it and create talking points that patronize black people, attempting to get their support, while not really helping them. Heck, we’ve already seen this over the past few years (also using women and poor people, along with other groups in boxes), yet, interestingly, the Cult also talks of population reduction, particularly in 3rd world nations, which tend to be full of Black and brown people. Planned Parenthood is something Warmists love, because it reduces black babies from being born.

It’s now our responsibility together as black women — but even more so as black people — to continue sharing the messages of not only climate but also our expertise on what can be done. We must make our voices heard by contacting our congressperson and senator, and by voting for climate candidates. These actions will get us to the larger goal of passing the kind of big, ambitious federal laws like those requiring 100 percent clean energy that we need to rein in our carbon and methane emissions.

Interesting how the answer from Toney and her comrades is to attempt to get more laws, rules, and regulations passed. More government. Weird that that is always their answer, right?

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Washington Post: Mueller Failed, Democrats Should Try The Elections Route

By William Teach July 25, 2019 – 7:07 am

Even before Donald Trump won the 2016 general election, Democrats were floating the notion of Russia Russia Russia, showing they would not be willing to except the outcome of the election if he won, which, of course, everyone thought he wouldn’t. Be, he did, so they ramped up the Russia collusion stuff, because they aren’t able to accept election results when they lose. They always have to have some excuse. They’ve kept this going, throwing in obstruction, because that’s all they have. No matter what some Lefties are saying in the media and within the ranks of the Democratic Party, the Mueller hearing was a disaster for them. So…

Democrats now have one option to end Trump’s presidency: The 2020 election

Many Democrats long have considered Robert S. Mueller III a potential savior, as the agent of President Trump’s eventual undoing. Wednesday’s hearings on Capitol Hill probably shattered those illusions once and for all. If Democrats hope to end the Trump presidency, they will have to do so by defeating him at the ballot box in November 2020.

In reality, that has been the case for months. Still, scheduled testimony by the former special counsel before two House committees offered the possibility that he would say something that would suddenly change public perceptions and dramatically jump-start long-stalled prospects for an impeachment inquiry. That was certainly the Democrats’ goal. If anything, things could move in the opposite direction.

Regardless of the evidence of obstruction contained in Mueller’s report, impeachment is a fraught strategy for the Democrats, given public opinion and the dynamics in the Senate. After Wednesday, the prospects for impeachment appear more remote, which means it will be left to the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, with the help of the party, to develop a comprehensive case against the president, one that can win 270 electoral votes. To date, that hasn’t happened.

Democrats won’t give up on Russia Russia Russia, of course. Too many have invested too much. Even after seeing the vote go way against them in the House, they won’t stop. Nancy Pelosi may continue to attempt to tamp down the impeachment talk, but, the nutters will continue their push. Eric Swalwell and Jerry Nadler will continue their idiocy, along with AOC, Ilhan Omar, and the rest of The Squad. Don’t be surprised if Democrats now attempt to call other people involved in the Mueller inquiry to testify in an attempt to find something, anything, to hurt Trump. Many Democrats, such as Excitable Ted Lieu, certainly came away with the wrong impression, and won’t quit.

Most would be smart to move on. It would have been wise to move on once the big nothingburger of the Mueller report was released. They can’t, and they won’t. And, the fact that they won’t will make it that much easier for Trump to win in 2020, especially with what the Democrat candidates for president are pushing.

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Post Mueller Wrapup

By William Teach July 24, 2019 – 5:24 pm

But, they won’t. The Lefty #Resistance and the right side #NeverTrumpers just can’t move on. Won’t move on. The saddest are the Never Trumpers, who abandon all their Republican/Conservative beliefs over their Trump Derangement Syndrome, proclaiming themselves “Libertarians”, but, taking Democrat points of view in their derangement. They’d rather see Democrats win and implement their Modern Socialist agenda than see Trump and those supporting him win.

But, really, I don’t want them to stop: it just makes it easier for 2020.

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Bummer: We Now Only Have 18 Months To Save The Planet From Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach July 24, 2019 – 3:55 pm

Next month it’ll be 1 year

The BBC’s Matt McGrath seems a bit upset. Or, is that “unhinged“?

Do you remember the good old days when we had “12 years to save the planet”?

Now it seems, there’s a growing consensus that the next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the global heating crisis, among other environmental challenges.

Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that to keep the rise in global temperatures below 1.5C this century, emissions of carbon dioxide would have to be cut by 45% by 2030.

But today, observers recognise that the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year.

The idea that 2020 is a firm deadline was eloquently addressed by one of the world’s top climate scientists, speaking back in 2017.

“The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can’t be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020,” said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus of the Potsdam Climate Institute.

We can solve this with a tax meeting

The first major hurdle will be the special climate summit called by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which will be held in New York on 23 September.

Mr Guterres has been clear that he only wants countries to come to the UN if they can make significant offers to improve their national carbon cutting plans.

This will be followed by COP25 in Santiago, Chile, where the most important achievement will likely be keeping the process moving forward.

But the really big moment will most likely be in the UK at COP26, which takes place at the end of 2020.

Almost no country has plans in place to achieve their signing of the “historic” Paris Climate Agreement…which you’ll remember is voluntary…and almost none is close to meeting their stated goals nor those of Paris. No one should be surprised, because almost no country came close to the Kyoto Protocol goals. Fortunately, tens of thousands of Warmists will take long, fossil fueled trips to discuss this. Otherwise, doom in 18 months.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 24, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a big city that needs to grow much bigger to save us from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on the race baiters losing on the police shootings narrative.

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Resolution Against BDS Passes House 398-17

By William Teach July 24, 2019 – 10:30 am

That would be the anti-Semitic “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement, not Bush Derangement Syndrome. CNN thinks the vote was “divisive”

The vote was 398-17

The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to approve a non-binding resolution that opposes the boycott movement against Israel, a measure that won broad bipartisan support but faced pushback from some high-profile progressives.

The vote was 398 to 17.

The resolution was introduced in March, not long after Democrats faced a bruising internal debate over how to handle comments and tweets by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar that were criticized as being anti-Semitic, exposing the divide within the Democratic Party over Israel and US policy towards the country.

Oh, they meant it was divisive because a few of the people who voted against it are high profile Israel haters, including Ilhan Oman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib. Most of the rest who are Israel haters, and, in some case, Jew haters, were wise enough to not vote against the resolution

(CNS News) Sponsored by Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), and co-sponsored by almost 80 percent of the House (175 Republicans and 174 Democrats), H.Res. 46 passed by 398 votes to 17.

The measure opposes the BDS movement, calls on Israelis and Palestinians to resume direct negotiations, reaffirms support for the so-called “two-state solution” to the conflict, and – in response to a key complaint of opponents – affirms U.S. citizens’ constitutional right to free speech.

Schneider has called the BDS movement anti-Semitic (it is) and stated “There are a lot of people who support the BDS movement, but they may not necessarily understand the intent or the expression of … the BDS movement.”

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Newest Cult Of Climastrology Leaders Understand Individual Actions Won’t Solve Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach July 24, 2019 – 8:01 am

This is all about pushing the Green New Deal (something AOC refuses to demand a vote on) to control your life

A new generation of leaders understands that individual actions won’t fix our environmental problems

The media coverage of the Green New Deal, a plan unveiled by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of Congress to overhaul the U.S. economy by investing in renewable energy and green jobs, focused as much on its reception as on its substance. Republicans panned it as socialism. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mocked it. Many columnists, such as the New York Times’ David Brooks, criticized its heavy reliance on public spending and government-provided jobs. Other critics questioned the plan’s broad focus. What, they asked, did provision of medical care have to do with overhauling America’s energy network?

The casual observer could be forgiven for dismissing the plan and the response to it, especially because it has no chance of passing in the current Congress. But the plan is a sign of a larger shift in environmental thinking. There is a growing recognition of the need for structural changes to address the climate crisis and other serious environmental problems. An increasing number of influential office holders and thinkers are calling for policies that go far beyond mere tinkering. To overhaul our energy system and preserve threatened ecosystems, they recognize that we must aggressively disrupt the status quo.

It’s not a shift, the Cult of Climastrology has long been advocates of massive Big Government control. It’s just that, now, the big wigs and lawmakers and such are willing to admit it and push it.

The best part of the Green New Deal is its insistence on bold steps to slow climate change and develop an economy based on renewable energy. As its name suggests, the plan is predicated on the idea that individual behavioral change will not lead to sharp reductions in greenhouse emissions or deliver meaningful environmental progress in other areas. We must, its authors insist, overhaul our economy to meet our environmental responsibilities. Even those who question this premise should celebrate the plan’s audacious goals.

Strange that the word “Fascism” never appears in this piece. Or anything about this being the system authoritarian government use.

Other environmental thinkers echo this skepticism about behavioral change. David Wallace-Wells, author of a recent bookon climate change, concludes, “The effects of individual lifestyle choices are ultimately trivial compared with what politics can achieve.” While Wallace-Wells may find fault with some aspects of the Green New Deal, including its silence regarding nuclear power, he enthusiastically endorses the need to think big.

Which is an excuse for Warmists to never practice what they preach. And, because almost none practice what they preach, Government must force people to live a certain lifestyle, take their money, and take their liberty.

The emphasis on the need to overhaul our economic, technological and social systems is a welcome departure from the fixation with individual behavior that often dominates popular environmental discourse. The furor over use of plastic straws, which became a litmus test of environmental responsibility in some circles over the past couple of years, suggests the limitations of this preoccupation with individual action. Americans concerned about excessive use of plastic should worry much more about laws recently passed by several states that ban municipalities from imposing bans on plastic bag distribution in retail stores than about whether the diner at the next table is using a plastic straw. To make substantial environmental progress we must get beyond environmental narcissism — excessive concern about the consumption habits of ourselves and our family and friends. We must focus our efforts not on changing our individual behavior but on far-reaching communal changes.

Nothing spine-chilling about that, eh, unless you aren’t a fan of freedom, liberty, choice.

This continues on for a bit, ending on

Ultimately, the most important thing that we can do as citizens is to change the systems that pollute the Earth. Those in the vanguard of the environmental revolution that we so desperately need will not spend their waking hours discussing the finer points of eschewing plastic straws. They will be pounding on the doors of their congressional representatives to demand the wide-ranging changes that only government, directly or indirectly, can deliver.

“Please, Government Person, take my money and control my life.” These people are nuts.

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Leftist Center For American Progress: Trump Winning On Rule Of Law For Illegal Immigration

By William Teach July 24, 2019 – 7:44 am

Well, now, this is a real shame. Who would have thought that painting illegal immigration with the rule of law would resonate with American citizens, and would make Democrats look bad?

Top liberal think tanks says Trump’s ‘rule of law’ message on immigration is winning

A top liberal think tank has warned that President Trump’s immigration message is actually winning among most voters and makes Democrats appear weak on enforcement.

The Center for American Progress has released a new report arguing that as Democrats drifted away from the “rule of law” message, it allowed Republicans to rebrand their party as the sole party of rule of law.

This created “the false dichotomy of America as either a nation of immigrants or a nation of laws” that then makes Democrats seem weak on enforcing the nation’s laws, according to the Daily Beast that first obtained the report.

Tom Jawetz, vice president of immigration policy at the think tank, added that those supporting humane immigration policy “have ceded powerful rhetorical ground to immigration restrictionists, who are happy to masquerade as the sole defenders of America as a nation of laws.”

Obviously, the hardcore leftist CAP has to put a spin on the reality of the situation, but, I’d expect nothing less.

Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, meanwhile, have been struggling to find an effective message that counter Trump’s rhetoric and without appearing as embracing extreme policies.

But according to the report, radical proposals such as nationwide amnesty or the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) only “fuels louder calls for maximum enforcement, which then strengthen calls for abolition, ad infinitum.”

Those calls from Democrats for Open Borders also makes it impossible to even consider working on any type of fix, especially one that includes some sort of pathway to legalization, because we know what Democrats want. The old “give them an inch they’ll take a mile” is in play, and they’ve hit those miles already for what they want.

Over to that Daily Beast article we read

Jawetz—a former immigration attorney and chief counsel on the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, differentiates “the rule of law” and Trump’s “law and order” rhetoric, calling the latter “an enforcement-heavy vision of social control that is generally used as a racially coded dog whistle.” For Democrats to achieve a fair and functional immigration system, they have to patch the immigration system’s fragmented legal framework, Jawetz writes—instead of “relying increasingly upon administrative discretion to save the system from itself.”

Everything is raaaaacist with these folks. Also, calling for Open Borders isn’t exactly patching anything. But, wait, wait, we can’t actually have the rule of law itself, per the opening of the the report.

…The fundamental problem with this debate is that America is, and has always been, both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. Debates over a liberal immigration policy actually predate the start of the nation itself; they infused the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, America’s founding document.6

Indeed, it is precisely because these two visions of the country are intertwined that America cannot be a nation of laws if those laws are antithetical to its history and ideals as a nation of immigrants. Put another way, the U.S. immigration system can, and must, recognize both the need for movement and the need for defined borders; it must have clear guidelines but also clear guardrails; and it must live up to the best of the nation’s past while working for its present and future.

Democrat candidates for office and those in already pay great attention to CAP, and they will be reading this, which essentially lays out a path for Open Borders while telling politicians to lie about it.

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