Surprise: AOC’s Chief Of Staff Admits Green New Deal Not About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 12, 2019 – 6:49 am

Who’s surprised? Anyone?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Chief of Staff Admits: Green New Deal About Socialism, Not Climate

Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief of staff and former campaign mastermind for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), reportedly admitted that the “Green New Deal” was not originally about climate change, but changing the economy.

That claim comes from Sam Ricketts, who directs climate change policy for for Washington Governor Jay Inslee, one of the two dozen candidates for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Ricketts met with Chakrabarti this spring to make acquaintances after Ocasio-Cortez called Inslee’s climate change plan the “gold standard” in policy.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday:

Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

Now, you might be thinking that this was Ricketts making it up or getting the quotes wrong, but, in fact, the Washington Post’s David Montgomery was there during that meeting, and was recording it all. This is all exactly as we’ve said: using ‘climate change’ as a front to change everything to Modern Socialism.

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ACLU Sues To Stop ICE Raids On Illegals Ordered Deported By Judges

By William Teach July 12, 2019 – 6:38 am

Are we at the 100% proof positive point where Democrats just need to stop with their talking point that they only want to keep the good illegals? That they respect the rule of law?

ACLU Files Lawsuit To Stop ICE Raids On Sunday That Would Target Migrants

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday calling for the cancellation of raids reportedly planned by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) that would take into custody thousands of undocumented migrants.

The lawsuit, filed in district court for the Southern District of New York, argues that the majority of undocumented immigrants facing arrest have not been given proper notice to appear before legal proceedings to make their case for seeking asylum.

“Even when the government sent notices to the right address for a real hearing, it repeatedly sent them too late, for locations unreasonably far from immigrants’ homes,” the lawsuit says. “Notices thus arrived either after the date set for a hearing or just a few days before, requiring indigent families to immediately travel across the country to hearings in distant states.”

Defendants in the lawsuit include acting ICE director Mark Morgan and U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

The raids are expected to take place in at least 10 cities “over multiple days,” The New York Times first reported. The crackdown would come a few weeks after President Donald Trump tweeted about raids that he later delayed.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement Thursday that she would “stand up against any threatened incursions on our state’s civil rights because, in America, we value our immigrants.”

Good grief. The majority, if not all, who are on ICE’s targeting table have been through the entire immigration process and ordered to leave the U.S. or be deported. Seriously, the system is generally nice enough that the illegals are not taken into custody immediately and deported in so many cases, giving them time to wrap up their affairs. These illegals have been given more than enough notice. And then there’s NY AG James, who thinks we respect illegal aliens. That’s because she’s isolated in the Liberal Bubble, rather than reality, and, further, doesn’t seem to want the law enforced on illegals. I bet she goes hardcore on people engaged in lawful ownership of firearms, though, eh?

Attorney Brad Philipps, whose Los Angeles-based firm is involved in the lawsuit, said raids by ICE would be “inhumane.”

“The Trump administration’s plan to send families and children who came to this country seeking refuge from violence and abuse in their home countries back to those places, without so much as one opportunity to show a judge they are entitled under U.S. law to stay, is fundamentally at odds with what this nation stands for,” Philipps said in a statement. “We hope by this lawsuit to stop the administration’s unjust and inhumane plan in its tracks.”

See, this is where they brazenly lie. Even when they pick up some non-targeted illegals as collateral, they will still get their day in court. People like Philipps know that the Open Borders advocates are dumb enough to believe things like his statement, despite, again, all the targeted illegals having exhausted their legal methods and ordered deported by federal immigration judges.

Chicago Mayor Permanently Bans ICE From Accessing Police Databases Ahead Of Raids

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday that her city has permanently banned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from accessing the Chicago Police Department’s databases ahead of looming ICE raids to detain undocumented immigrants.

Chicago police “will not team up with ICE to detain any resident,” the mayor said after meeting with business leaders and immigration rights advocates at Lurie Children’s Hospital. “They’re not going to be facilitating or otherwise providing any assistance in any raids ― whether it’s traffic stops [or] additional support. … We have also cut off ICE from any access from any CPD databases and that will remain permanent.”

Remember, we aren’t supposed to call them open borders.

Again, they have been ordered deported by federal judges. Omar sure seems like she’s endorsing Open Borders, eh?

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New Prognostication: London To Be As Warm As Barcelona In 30 Years

By William Teach July 11, 2019 – 3:08 pm

Another day, another prognostication of Doom

By 2050, London’s climate will be as warm as Barcelona’s, says new study

In 2050, London’s climate will feel more like Barcelona’s, according to a new climate change study.

If this sounds like a pleasant warming — think again. London could be facing severe drought, as Barcelona did in 2008, when it nearly ran out of drinking water and reservoirs ran close to dry.

Hundreds of other major cities worldwide could be facing droughts, flooding, storms, and other climate catastrophes, said the study, which was conducted by the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich university.

Some of these climate effects aren’t even known or predictable yet — a fifth of cities, including Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Singapore, are facing conditions so extreme they don’t currently exist anywhere in the world, according to the study.

The study predicted the future climate conditions of 520 major cities worldwide, and pairedthose predictions with the conditions of cities today. By 2050, Madrid will feel more like Marrakesh, Seattle will feel like San Francisco, and New York will feel like Virginia Beach, according to the report.

OK, so focusing on London, they claim that the average temperature will be up by 2.1C, which is 3.8F, despite global temperatures only having gone up 1.5F since 1850.

But, if we look at the graphs, Barcelona is anywhere from 8F to 13F higher daily by month for highs than London. So, they’re saying that it’s going to average 84F in July by 2050. Good luck with that.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 11, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful wind turbines which are fantastic when they are far away from the cities, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a California imam praying for the extermination of Jews.

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Democrat To Sue AOC Over Blocking Him On Twitter

By William Teach July 11, 2019 – 12:04 pm

This comes in the wake of a judge twisting like a tornado to determine that Trump and any government official cannot block people on social media

AOC to be sued after court rules Trump can’t block people on Twitter

After a federal court ruled Donald Trump could not constitutionally block people on Twitter, Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was threatened with a lawsuit for allegedly doing the same.

The court found Mr Trump’s blocking infringed on first amendment rights to free speech and that people had a right to see his posts, reply to his tweets, and send him messages.

The second circuit court of appeals stated that because Mr Trump uses a non-private Twitter account to communicate with the public about his administration and its policies, blocking violated a constitutional free speech protection as it was deemed government discrimination against specific viewpoints.

The court affirmed the designation of Mr Trump’s Twitter account as a “public forum”.

Former Democratic New York assemblyman Dov Hikind, then announced plans to Ms Ocasio-Cortez. Mr Hikind, who has been blocked by the freshman representative on Twitter, told Fox News he was exploring where he would be filing his suit and if there would be any other plaintiffs.

In an email to Fox News, Mr Hikind stated: “Most likely we will be [the] only plaintiff, but [we will be] citing other examples.”

He added: “The claim is [the] same as [the] one against Trump. She uses that account for political/policy commentary, so to shut a citizen off from her statements is a problem – as well as blocking me from petitioning her or seeking redress.”

Well, it seems that someone else is also suing

https://twitter.com/JoeySalads/status/1148654321896251394

Gabriel Malor argues that it was a really bad decision, because Trump isn’t actually in control of Twitter, but, now all the Democrats in the Resistance who fought to sue Trump over this will now find themselves recipients of the same treatment. And, I wonder, would this decision extend to those who are paid by the government, such as all the “climate” scientists like Michael Mann who like to block people?

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HotCold Take: We Need A Green New Deal To Defeat Fascism

By William Teach July 11, 2019 – 7:47 am

I think they mean that they need a GND to get fascism, but, you know, projection by the Cult of Climastrology over at Truthout

We Need a Green New Deal to Defeat Fascism and Reverse Inequality

In the debate about what strategy to adopt to combat climate change, the Green New Deal has quickly become the new buzzword on the left. Is it an insufficient social-democratic response to the present crisis, or is it, in fact, the only realistic project we have to save the planet? Robert Pollin, distinguished professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is a leading proponent of a green future and he shared his vision of the Green New Deal in the interview below, which appeared originally in Swedish in the left paper Flamman.

Jonas Elvander: You are one of the most well-known scientific spokespersons for a so-called “Green New Deal.” Can you explain what that means?

(Pollin spends a lot of time explaining, including the parts where Government is running things, banning things, controlling things)

Your proposal does not only not question growth as such, but it also does not question the capitalist version of growth. Do you therefore think it is fair to characterize the GND as a social-democratic or Keynesian alternative to Marxist or other anti-capitalist climate strategies? Or are these distinctions irrelevant?

I don’t agree with your characterization of my position. As I said above, I certainly do not advocate economic growth for its own sake. Rather, the Green New Deal offers the only approach to climate stabilization that can deliver an expansion of good job opportunities and rising mass living standards. In all the literature on de-growth, I have not seen a single credible presentation as to how you expand job opportunities and raise mass living standards under a de-growth scenario. The Green New Deal is therefore the only viable climate stabilization framework that can also reverse the rise in inequality and defeat both global neoliberalism and ascendant neo-fascism.

Um, OK? That is pretty much it. There are two mentions of fascism: the headline and in that paragraph. That’s it. There’s really no discussion of what he means by reversing it. And, really, it is his buddies in the Cult who are the neo-fascists. Or call them Modern Socialists, who are Progressives, who are what’s called “nice Fascists.” This doesn’t mean they are nice, it means they are doing all this “for your own good.” Funny that they never do this in their own lives, though, eh?

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Former Obama Officials Warn That Push To Decriminalize Illegal Immigration Could Cost Democrats The Election

By William Teach July 11, 2019 – 7:21 am

They need to shut the heck up and let the 2020 Democratic Party nominees keep going. But, then, it actually doesn’t matter, because in just 2 1/2 years the Democratic Party has become so extreme that they won’t listen. Also, it is too late, that cat has been let out of the bag, and even if they change their tune, Trump will use it too bash them

Democrats warn push for border crossing decriminalization will prove costly in 2020

Top former Obama administration officials are warning Democratic presidential candidates to back off from their proposals to decriminalize border crossings, saying that it’s bad policy and a surefire general election loser that gives President Trump an opening on immigration.

In an op-ed in The Washington Post this week, former Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that decriminalization would attract hundreds of thousands of new migrants to the southern border. He described the proposal as “tantamount to declaring publicly that we have open borders.”

Several of former President Obama’s top homeland security officials interviewed by The Hill went on the record to express shock and dismay after eight of the 10 Democratic presidential contenders on stage at the second night of the debate raised their hands when asked if they support the decriminalization of border crossings.

“We can’t go too far to the left for what people could describe as open borders,” said Marsha Catron, a former deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration.

“I think all of those people onstage who raised their hands will have to walk it back if they make it to the general election or the White House. I understand the emotion involved, we want for people to be treated humanely and with respect, and that’s not happening with the Trump administration. But Jeh Johnson, [former Homeland Security Secretary] Janet Napolitano, these people who have worked in these situations understand, you just can’t have it this way. It’s unworkable.”

Again, even if they walk it back, Trump will hit them up on Twitter, in interviews, in campaign ads, and on the debate stage with their original position of decriminalizing illegal entry.

At the heart of the issue is Section 1325, a statute in the law that makes crossing the border illegally a federal misdemeanor.

Castro is calling for repeal, arguing that those who cross the border illegally can still be deported if they are charged with a civil offense. He has pointed to the origins of the law to describe it as racist, noting that it was passed in 1920 after being promoted by former Sen. Coleman Blease (D-S.C.), who supported segregation.

The thing is, even though 1325 authorizes fines and/or incarceration, we usually do not impose jail on those who are unlawfully present for a first offense. Just deportation, which is authorized under 1227 (and a few others). Further, Democrats freak out and try to protect illegal aliens charged with felonies, much less an illegal charged with DWI, minor drug offense, and other “civil” violations. We’ve seen sanctuary jurisdictions protect illegals who are arsonists, robbers, possess weapons illegally, murderers, child sex abusers. So why would we believe that they would allow deportation for any illegal?

1325 really is about being caught entering illegally. Do we even impose a fine of $50 to $250? We would prefer to simply put them back across the border. What Castro and the others want is to release them into the U.S. with a promise to return for a court date, then, years later when they are still here, say they’ve broken no laws and give them amnesty.

Regardless, Open Borders Democrats are going to Open Borders Democrat. This plays well with their uber-moonbat base, including all the Hollywood and other moneyed nuts who give them a lot of campaign funding, and all live in their own bubble world. It won’t play well in the general election, and plays right into Trump’s hands.

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‘Climate Change’ Is A Poor People’s Issue Or Something

By William Teach July 10, 2019 – 5:01 pm

I agree with the headline from the always very far left Common Dreams. Just not the reasoning

Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue

If you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe.

Recently in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, more than 40 people were killedby a severe heat wave in just one day. A study by UNICEF suggests that “in the next decade, 175 million children will be hit by climate-related disasters in South Asia and Africa alone.” Closer to home, Miami’s steady sinking is depleting useable drinking water at an alarming rate.

The truth is, vulnerable communities have been dealing with the effects of climate change and environmental pollution for decades now.

The 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — aptly nicknamed Cancer Alley — is a stark example. Thanks to petrochemical pollution there, Louisiana at one point suffered the second-highest death rate from cancer in the United States, with some localities near chemical plants getting cancer from air pollution at 700 times the national average.

This is no accident: Corporations deliberately target places like Cancer Alley because they’re home to socially and economically disadvantaged people whom the corporations assume can’t fight back.

Notice that they’ve mixed actual environmental issues with the notion that the minor increase in global temperatures since 1850 is mostly/solely caused by Mankind

While this study only tells part of the story, it does a lot to explain why poor communities face the worst consequences of climate change and pollution. These inequities cut across racial lines: As Hochschild’s study shows, “least resistant personalities” include small town, working-class white communities in the South and Midwest, as well as poor black people in places like Cancer Alley.

The problem isn’t just corporations, but government at all levels.

See, the thing is, ‘climate change’ is a poor people’s issue. And a middle class issue. Because the powerful, and usually rich, people in and out of government are the ones who are pushing all the restrictive, liberty and choice reducing policies along with all the taxes and fees that will skyrocket the cost of living. These same Elitists are then promising to “refund” a portion of the taxes and fees back to the same low and middle class folks, making them even more dependent on the same government that jacked up their cost of living.

And, these same schmucks harm the real environmental movement by mixing actual real world issues with this ginned up ‘climate change’ scam, which makes it harder to address the real underlying environmental issues.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 10, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is beautiful field that would be perfect to be covered in solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on Cow Appreciation Day.

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To Jam Through Unpopular Climate Legislation The Filibuster Must Be Destroyed Or Something

By William Teach July 10, 2019 – 7:27 am

See, if the Cult of Climastrology can’t convince people to approve of their radical Big Government plans, they’ll just force it through

Ambitious Climate Plans Might Need a Radical Legislative One: Ending the Filibuster

Democrats running for president are promoting historically ambitious plans to fight climate change.

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. wants to put a price on greenhouse emissions with the aim of eliminating the United States’ net planet-warming pollution by 2050. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas has proposed spending $5 trillion to promote clean energy and to help communities adapt to global warming. Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington has centered his entire campaign on addressing climate change, with policies designed to eventually freeze the nation’s fossil fuel production entirely. Tom Steyer, the California billionaire who entered the race on Tuesday, plans to focus his campaign in part on climate change.

But even if a green-minded Democrat wins the White House, dramatic action to reverse climate change could very well require another radical change in Washington: the elimination of the Senate filibuster.

Climate legislation is hardly the only issue that might lead either party to do away with the filibuster, which allows a minority of senators to block most legislation from receiving a vote unless 60 senators agree to cut off debate.

In most cases, if you cannot convince 60 Senators to agree to legislation than it is not good legislation, and the filibuster is there to protect the minority from tyranny

But climate change, with its high stakes, is increasingly being viewed as one of the issues that could finally push Democrats, who remain deeply divided over the filibuster, to kill it off for good, if given the chance.

“Climate change is an existential threat, and there is just no way to deal with climate change without getting rid of the filibuster,” Mr. Inslee said. “You cannot allow an arcane, antebellum, antiquated procedure to block progress.”

Funny, Democrats have been screeching about the threat to democracy since Trump was elected, yet, they want to kill off one of the main methods in protecting the minority in our Constitutional Federalist Democracy to pass legislation that is opposed by half the country. Perhaps more. Doing Something may be popular in theory, but, not in practice.

John Kerry, the former secretary of state and Massachusetts senator, was the lead author of the last major climate change bill that Democrats tried to push through the Senate, in 2010. Despite having majorities in both chambers of Congress and a champion of the bill in the White House, Democrats were forced to abandon the legislation when it became clear it could not muster 60 votes.

Mr. Kerry, who as secretary of state served as a lead broker of the Paris climate change accord in 2015, said he has been reflecting on whether the filibuster needs to be retired — specifically, to clear the way for a climate change bill.

“The Senate’s pretty broken, and this is not a moment to be stuck in the old ways,” he said. Still, he allowed that should the filibuster be dissolved, “It could quickly become a moment of, ‘Be careful what you wish for.’”

The filibuster is not a bug, it is a feature. It is mean to make sure that parties cannot jam through legislation. It is supposed to be very hard to pass legislation. And, yes, Kerry is correct, be careful what you wish for. If the filibuster wasn’t present Obamacare would already be gone, for one.

But, hey, if you can’t convince people, just change the rules, right?

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