Megan Rapinoe Happy To Visit Anyone Who “believes the same things we believe in”

By William Teach July 10, 2019 – 7:07 am

Ah, the tolerance of the Leftist. They’ve completely given up on attempting to persuade, and have become insular and intolerant of any position, person, and entity that disagrees with them in the least

Megan Rapinoe rips Trump WH visit, says she’d accept invites from Pelosi, AOC

U.S. Women’s Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe doubled down in her opposition to visit the Trump White House on Tuesday but expressed that she was open to accept invitations from anyone who “believes the same things we believe in” like Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY.

Rapinoe’s feud with the president began last month when she declared she was “not going to the f—ing White House,” which prompted a response from Trump on Twitter.

“I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women’s Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job!” Trump exclaimed, later adding that he would invite the team to the White House “win or lose.”

Following her team’s victory at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Rapinoe told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that she has yet to receive a formal invitation from the White House nor does she appear to want it.

Interesting. You have the first president who was pro-gay, who didn’t have to change his position on that for political expediency, but, of course, since he’s pro-America she has an issue

“Your message is excluding people. You’re excluding me. You’re excluding people that look like me. You’re excluding people of color. You’re excluding Americans that maybe support you,” she told Trump. “We need to have a reckoning with the message that you have and what you’re saying about ‘Make America Great Again.’ I think you are harking back to an era that was not great for everyone.”

Yet

“This is such a special moment for us and to be able to sort of leverage this moment, talk about the things we want to talk about and to celebrate like this with the leaders of our country is an incredible moment,” Rapinoe continued. “So yes to AOC, yes to Pelosi, yes to a bipartsan Congress, yes to Chuck Schumer, yes to anyone else that wants to invite us and have a real substantive conversation and that believe in the same things we believe in.”

How does one have a substantive conversation with people who only believe what you believe? You’re having a reinforcing conversation. She has an opportunity to talk to the most powerful man in the world, and perhaps change his mind on some things, or get him to help on something. If she wants equal pay (they actually get 20% of revenue vs the men’s team which gets 7%) she could attempt to convince Trump to back her and the team.

Her message is excluding people while projecting that blame on Trump, and, by extension, the 61 million who voted for him. It’s helpful to not diminish and dismiss the opinions of people you need to get support from.

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HotCold Take: Comrades Bernie And AOC Look To Declare “Climate Crisis” And Emergency

By William Teach July 9, 2019 – 4:52 pm

Would this be the same AOC who refuses to demand a vote on her Green New Deal, and threw a hissy fit when the Senate voted on it? And Bernie Sanders who voted “present” on it? And neither refuse to give up their own massive fossil fueled carbon footprints?

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez move to declare climate crisis official emergency

A group of US lawmakers including 2020 Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders are proposing to declare the climate crisis an official emergency – a significant recognition of the threat taken after considerable pressure from environment groups.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman from New York, and Earl Blumenauer, a Democratic congressman from Oregon, plan to introduce the same resolution in the House on Tuesday, their offices confirmed. Sanders’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Climate activists have been calling for the declaration, as data shows nations are not on track to limit the dangerous heating of the planet significantly enough. The UN has warned the world is experiencing one climate disaster every week. A new analysis from the economic firm Rhodium Group today finds the US might achieve less than half of the percentage of pollution reductions it promised other countries in an international agreement.

It will probably pass the House, though the debate, if allowed, would be rather inconvenient for Warmists as Skeptics show that all the solutions are about taxes, fees, and more big Government control. There’s zero chance it will pass the Senate

Even if the resolution passed and was signed by the president, it would not force any action on climate change. But advocates say similar efforts in Canada and the United Kingdom have served as a leverage point, highlighting the hypocrisy between the government position that the situation is an emergency and individual decisions that would exacerbate the problem.

So, it’s all about being feel good?

The draft resolution is below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 9, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil dog causing massive carbon pollution, which hangs as a haze over cities, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Megan Rapinoe’s hot take on gays in soccer and science.

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Special Snowflakes Get Confederate Railroad Removed From Illinois State Fair

By William Teach July 9, 2019 – 10:47 am

There’s literally nothing SJWs won’t freak out about and attempt to ruin for everyone else

Fans furious after Confederate Railroad dropped from state fair lineup: ‘This political correctness thing is totally out of control’

Fans of the country rock group Confederate Railroad are outraged after the band was dropped from the lineup at an Illinois state fair.

The band was slated to perform at the Du Quoin State Fair in Du Quoin, Ill. on Aug. 27 for “90s Country Reloaded Day,” but have since been removed from the fair lineup. While it is not immediately clear what the rationale behind the change was, some believe the decision was made because the band’s name was deemed inappropriate.

Fellow country artists Charlie Daniels and Joe Bonsall, a member of the Oak Ridge Boys, took to Twitter to speak out about how “political correctness” is “out of control,” and how it’s unfair to cancel a group of talented artists because of their band’s name.

Fans echoed the same thoughts on social media, emphasizing how people need to focus on the music and not whether people will be offended.

“Confederate Railroad plays some very good music! I’m so disgusted with all this politically correct nonsense. I don’t care what one does, someone wont like it and possibly be offended by it,” one person wrote. “That’s life. Whoever’s offended needs to put on their big kid pants and move on.”

Would this be a case of censorship?

The Du Quoin State Fairgrounds is owned and operated by the state. Illinois Department of Agriculture public information officer Krista Lisser confirms to Yahoo Lifestyle that Confederate Railroad was removed from the 2019 Du Quoin State Fair grandstand lineup.

She declined to clarify the reasoning or provide additional information behind the move.

“While every artist has a right to expression, we believe this decision is in the best interest of serving all the people of our state,” Lisser says.

Owned by the state. I wonder if Lisser asked the people of the state what they think? Also, you have to wonder if this violated the contract surely signed by both the state and Confederate Railroad. The band may be getting paid to not play.

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David Attenborough Says We Need To Get Radical To Solve ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach July 9, 2019 – 8:55 am

Sir David Attenborough makes some wonderful programs, does he not? Blue Planet was incredible, as are his others. Unfortunately, he’s gone 100% around the bend to become a Warmist. But, hey, in recommending we become radical, he’s going to tell people he’s given up his massive use of fossil fuels and energy to make all his documentaries, right? Because it takes a lot to travel around the world. And tell other Warmists to do the same, right?

David Attenborough on climate change: ‘We cannot be radical enough’

The UK must take radical action to meet its climate change targets, David Attenborough told a UK parliamentary committee today. But he warned ministers must carry the public with them because of the financial cost of meeting the goals.

“We cannot be radical enough in dealing with these issues,” he told MPs when asked if the UK should bring forward its new target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, as some campaigners have called for. But he said the real issue was what is politically possible.

“Because it costs money in realistic terms, dealing with these problems mean we have to change our lifestyles,” he told the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee. “The question of how fast we can go is how fast we can carry the electorate with us.” Getting to net zero within three decades was a “tough target” but he “hoped to goodness” the UK could achieve it.

Attenborough compared changing morality towards slavery in Britain in the nineteenth century to changing attitudes on climate change today. “I suspect we are right now in the beginning of a big change. Young people are the stimulus bringing that about,” he said.

Notice that this is all about, once again, empowering Government to force change on citizens, whether they want it or not. The use of slavery is intentional, designed to do the old “wrong side of history” schtick for those who oppose these forced changes. Of course, most in Britain were not opposed to doing away with slavery. Now, go ahead and run big polls, or, heck, put ‘climate change’ solutions up for a vote, noting how much it will cost and how much freedom it will take away, and see how that goes. Which is exactly why he wants Government Force involved.

In a wide-ranging hearing in parliament, he said climate change would cause “huge immigration” to the US and Europe in future, it will be a “sad day” if Donald Trump succeeds in withdrawing the US from Paris Agreement in 2020, and warned of future pressures on food production. “We are going to have to look for new sources of food unless we do something about population,” he said. The naturalist said his “most vivid” firsthand experience of climate change was seeing the damage it had wrought to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

And there’s the old “population reduction” belief for the extremists. Probably aimed at those “migrants”, who tend to be Africans and Middle Easterners.

Kids and young folks buying into this, sit back and think deeply on what it actually means politically and for your life. Set aside the scary prognostications for a moment, and wonder why all the policies take away your money, choice, and freedom and give it to Government.

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Washington Post Wants Democrats To Stop Embracing Losing Issues To Beat Trump

By William Teach July 9, 2019 – 8:36 am

Poor Richard Cohen. This dude infused with Trump Derangement Syndrome has finally realized that what the Democrats are running on doesn’t actually help in the focus on defeating Trump. And actually helps Trump win

Democrats, stop embracing losing issues and focus on getting rid of Trump

The bevy of Democrats running for president seems determined to test my silent vow never to vote Republican, especially for President Trump. The truth is that I cannot imagine that happening, but I can imagine entering the voting booth with about a colonoscopy level of enthusiasm. Please, can we get this over with?

At the moment, the party is squabbling over what is called forced busing to achieve school desegregation. It seems the party has forgotten that, with the possible exception of the Civil War draft, no program has been more hated by working-class Democrats — more whites than blacks, but plenty of blacks as well. In large U.S. cities, busing was seen as an effort by liberals to send white kids to schools they would not, for a moment, send their own kids to. In Boston, the spiritual home of the antibusing movement in the 1960s, the populace had not been as furious since King George III bivouacked his unwashed redcoats in the tidy homes of American patriots.

Yeah, that’s pretty much an issue that almost no one cares about, being 2019.

But the Democratic Party is on a tear. One by one, its candidates have embraced losing issue after losing issue. First came reparations for slavery, a noble idea lacking only popular support and practicality and possibly amounting to yet another attempt to right a wrong with money. Before that, the various candidates raised their hands in support of Medicare-for-all, which could strip millions of people of their private insurance plans. That is sure to be characterized by Trump as socialized medicine with the sick growing old and dying, covered in cobwebs while waiting to see the doctor. GOP strategists must be hyperventilating over all the goodies arrayed before them. This is a campaign even Trump could win.

The Democratic Party has a possibly fatal inability to prioritize. The urgent challenge is to rid the nation of Trump, not to mollify this or that identity group or wrestle over issues that could not be solved when they were relevant — such as busing. As it is, the candidates are campaigning in an America of their own imagination — a bit to the left of Sweden and as racially unified as one of those old Coke commercials. They pander to the extremes of the early caucus and primary states, thinking they can seduce the middle later on down the road or, in my case, giving me a choice of one of them or Trump. Sedate me first.

Cohen is not wrong. What Democrats are campaigning on panders to a small subset of America, the one that tends to be urban based and unhinged. This hyper-leftism might even drive average Democrats away. They probably won’t vote Trump, but, they won’t be voting Democrat. It won’t play well in swing states. And while many things might poll well in theory, in practice, not so much.

Of course, here’s the problem for Cohen: he offers no ideas for Democrats to defeat Trump. But, then, to do that would require that Democrats give up a goodly chunk of their beliefs set. They’d have to start loving America again, stop hating on the military, stop trying to control every citizen’s life at the federal level, stop trying to essentially control everything.

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The UK Needs To Ditch The Free Economy To Stop Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 3:00 pm

Members of the Cult of Climastrology are getting more and more bold (and unhinged) in announcing their true goals. Here’s Richard Partington in the UK Guard, and just about all you need to know is in the sub-head

To ensure a green future the UK needs to ditch free market economics
The scale of the climate emergency requires nothing less than full government engagement

With just 11 years left to prevent irreversible damage caused by the climate emergency, there are still options to wean the world’s economy off its reliance on fossil fuels. However anything less than putting Britain on a war footing will not be enough.

The government response so far has been timid. Theresa May introduced a net-zero carbon emissions target for 2050, but there are reasons why the Conservatives haven’t gone further: her party is hard-wired to fail. Clinging to a belief in the power of free markets, it neglects the fact that to decarbonise the economy greater investment from the state is required.

Free-market advocates detest big government. But faced with the scale of the challenge, only government has the weapons powerful enough to tackle the crisis. So far May and her allies have been held back by their unswerving belief in the market economy and the mobilisation of private capital.

So, we can generously call this a “command economy”

A command economy is a system where the government, rather than the free market, determines what goods should be produced, how much should be produced, and the price at which the goods are offered for sale. It also determines investments and incomes. The command economy is a key feature of any communist society. Cuba, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union are examples of countries that have command economies, while China maintained a command economy for decades before transitioning to a mixed economy that features both communistic and capitalistic elements.

Or, we can just refer to this as Modern Socialism, because not only will the government run the economy, they will own sectors, as well as control your lives. Funny how Warmists never thing this will effect them negatively.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled grill cooking horrible carbon pollution meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on all the times Democrats said they were against illegal immigration.

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Mayor Pete Wants Democratic Presidential Contenders To Move Further Left

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 10:30 am

For the most part, what they really mean on the political science scale is moving further right, further into authoritarianism. To the left is less government. But, let’s not quibble, we know what they really mean

From the link

Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that Democrats need to veer left of center in 2020, if they want to beat President Trump.

“He is deservedly unpopular, but he could win again,” Buttigieg said of Trump at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa. “I think he wins again if we look like we’re offering more of the same. I think the way he wins again, is if we look like defenders of a system that hasn’t worked.”

“And what that means is, surprisingly, the riskiest thing we could do is try so hard to play it safe, that we continue to walk down an establishment path that has Americans believe that we’re not speaking to them,” he continued.

The large Democratic field showed off an array of far-left positions in the first Democratic primary debates in Miami last week. A majority of the candidates expressed support for decriminalizing border crossings, providing taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants, unlimited access to abortion and drastic economic changes for the sake of preventing climate change.

If Pete thinks that’s “playing it safe”, I look forward to him and the others taking risks.

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We Need To Dismantle The U.S. Military For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 7:03 am

Let’s face it, the majority who are members of the Cult of Climastrology here in the U.S. vote Democrat. And they have long despised the U.S. military, and have tried many times to reduce, even eliminate, its funding. Since that wasn’t working and didn’t play well with voters, they started infiltrating it to ruin it from the inside. But, hey, what if they could use the “climate crisis” to do the dirty work? The uber-leftist Common Dreams gives it a whirl

Why We Can’t Ignore U.S. Military Emissions

The U.S. military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks, and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change.

Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use. But recent work, including our own, shows that the U.S. military is one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries. If the U.S. military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal. (snip to the end after much whining)

Our study shows that action on climate change demands shuttering vast sections of the military machine. There are few activities on Earth as environmentally catastrophic as waging war. Significant reductions to the Pentagon’s budget and shrinking its capacity to wage war would cause a huge drop in demand from the biggest consumer of liquid fuels in the world.

It does no good tinkering around the edges of the war machine’s environmental impact. The money spent procuring and distributing fuel across the U.S. empire could instead be spent as a peace dividend, helping to fund a Green New Deal in whatever form it might take. There is no shortage of policy priorities that could use a funding bump. Any of these options would be better than fueling one of the largest military forces in history.

Good luck with this notion, chumps. Maybe you can get a few of the Democratic presidential candidates to repeat this, see how that goes.

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