Gallup Poll Shows Democrats Super Excited For Socialism

By William Teach May 21, 2019 – 6:49 am

Well, of course they do, because they’re very interested in Other People’s money (not their own, of course) and Social Justice Warrioring

70% OF DEMOCRATS SAY SOCIALISM WOULD BE GOOD FOR AMERICA: SURVEY

Seventy percent of Democrats say “some form of socialism” would be a “good thing” for the U.S., according to a new Gallup survey.

While socialism is popular among Democratic voters, a majority of voters overall, 51%, say embracing it would be bad for the country, the Gallup survey found.

Just 25% of Democrats said some form of socialism would be “a bad thing for the country as a whole,” according to the survey, which Gallup released Monday.

Among Republicans, 84% of respondents said that embracing some form of socialism would be bad for the U.S.. A plurality of independents, 48%, said the same.

Gallup’s writeup of the survey did not note that it showed 70% of Democrats supporting some form of socialism, which was included in the full results.

Establishment Democrats, meanwhile, have attempted to distance their party from socialism ahead of the 2020 election.

“I do reject socialism as an economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last month.

Yeah, well, Nancy and the few remaining less lunatic Democrats are being over-ridden by people like AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, etc.

The survey that year found that 57% of Democrats had a favorable view of socialism. That survey also marked the first time that Democrats had a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism.

They’ll have that favorable view right up till the money starts streaming from their pockets and their freedom starts being seriously impacted. Apparently, they do not see what has happened in places like Cuba and Venezuela, but, then, they try to spin the Bad Things away.

But, what do they mean by “Socialism”? From the Gallup link

Previous Gallup research shows that Americans’ definition of socialism has changed over the years, with nearly one in four now associating the concept with social equality and 17% associating it with the more classical definition of having some degree of government control over the means of production. A majority of Democrats have said they view socialism positively in Gallup polling since 2010, including 57% in the most recent measure in 2018.

That socialism link leads to

When asked to explain their understanding of the term “socialism,” 17% of Americans define it as government ownership of the means of production, half the number who defined it this way in 1949 when Gallup first asked about Americans’ views of the term. Americans today are most likely to define socialism as connoting equality for everyone, while others understand the term as meaning the provision of benefits and social services, a modified form of communism, or a conception of socialism as people being social and getting along with one another. About a quarter of Americans were not able to give an answer.

So, they do not necessarily understand what it truly means. They’ll be surprised as hell if they get it. What they’re really describing is Progressivism (nice Fascism), whereby the government is really in charge of everything, not just the economy.

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Guy Whose Company Has Massive Carbon Footprint Says His Generation Has Failed On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 20, 2019 – 3:49 pm

So, hey, I’m wondering if Tim Cook will give up his own massive carbon footprint

Tim Cook: My generation has failed in climate change debate

Apple CEO Tim Cook says his generation failed on climate change.

“We spent too much time debating,” Cook told Tulane University graduates during a commencement speech in New Orleans on Saturday. “We’ve been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress — and you don’t need to look far to find an example of that failure.”

During his 15-minute speech, Cook, 58, called on the students to do better for humanity and to ignore the political noise around the climate change issue in order to make a real difference.

“This problem doesn’t get any easier based on whose side wins or loses an election,” he said, adding that people should stop and think about why some deny climate science. “It’s about who has won life’s lottery and has the luxury of ignoring this issue and who stands to lose everything.”

So, I’m guessing Tim rode his bike or walked from his home in Palo Alto, California, to New Orleans, right? Hey, give him props for living in a 2,400 square foot house rather than a giant mansion, but who wants to bet that he flew on a private jet, then took a big SUV limo from the airport? What this guy, who is worth over $1.3 billion, is proposing these students do is ignore reality, be activists, and essentially be low wage workers, because no one of consequence wants to hire a pain in the ass who’ll cause problems. He doesn’t want them to have the same life as he does.

And, what will he do about Apple’s carbon footprint? All the products produced in China and around the world then shipped around the world? The mining of precious metals (using fossil fueled machines)? That iPhones and such are not made to last long, so people have to buy another, leading to massive waste? And so much more. But, hey, it’s easy to be rich off the backs of capitalism then call for Other People to do different, right?

The Apple CEO also briefly commented on the tech industry. He said the algorithms that run our digital lives can keep us wrapped up in ideas we already agree with rather than exposing people to alternative viewpoints. He challenged the students to seek out information from the other side.

Which would be very dangerous to the Cult of Climastrology. Once you start exposing people to the counter-culture view, you might lose them to reality. Do you think I was always a Skeptic? No. The modern Internet with the ability to see other information was one of several things that changed my mind from being a Warmist.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 20, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a hill drying out due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Wizbang, with a post on pervasive spying by the previous administration.

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Shellshocked ‘Climate Change’ Groups Remain Resolute In Australia Or Something

By William Teach May 20, 2019 – 10:26 am

At what point do they realize that they’re beliefs may be popular in theory, but not practice?

After the climate election: shellshocked green groups remain resolute

The environmental movement drew first blood on election night by helping independent Zali Steggall oust Tony Abbott but, in the end, the Coalition – which rated a miserable 4% on the Australian Conservation Foundation’sclimate change scorecard – won.

After the unexpected result environmentalists have questioned whether their campaign tactics need revision or whether the progressive side of politics was let down by other factors.

The Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive, Kelly O’Shanassy, told Guardian Australia climate “was definitely a top issue in the election … but it didn’t convert to votes in all the places it needed to”.

It rarely does. Again, Labor was utterly destroyed in 2012 in the Queenland elections. You see high profile Warmist initiatives and politicians losing around the world. When given a chance to vote on ‘climate change’ policies, the People more often vote against them than for them, especially when those policies have been in place and people realize that they hurt their own lives.

But, hey, Warmist groups are attempting to spin their loss

Peter McCallum, the coordinator of the Mackay Conservation Group, rejects the suggestion, noting the LNP had made gains in places with no stake in coalmining, like Tasmania and Western Australia.

But he said the “lie” that Labor would shut down the coal industry pushed by Clive Palmer and News Corp had hurt.

O’Shanassy said the “myth” that there is a binary choice between jobs and the economy is persistent and was “a very strong part of the Coalition campaign”.

But there were “too many moving parts” in the campaign to say that high-profile tactics like the Stop Adani convoy may have contributed to the disappointing result.

O’Shanassy cites the Coalition’s negative campaign on tax, Bill Shorten’s unpopularity and Palmer injecting “millions and millions of dollars” into the campaign as other possible causes.

See, it wasn’t really that they lost, it was just all lies and those pesky Queensland people. And money! Because the pro-climate crazies didn’t poor tons of money into their own elections, right? Right?

“Climate change is complex issue and people are confused by it and where the parties stand – it’s up to the ACF to help Australians understand that better,” O’Shanassy said.

O’Shanassy said the ACF will also need to “learn and adapt” and “seriously consider our strategies” but she believes rising concern about climate, particularly among the young, makes action inevitable.

“We must continue to build people power – there’s no way we’re going to move politics unless people demand it.”

In other words, they aren’t giving up on what doesn’t work. They’ll continue with their doomy prognostications and demanding of policies that increase citizen’s cost of living and remove liberty, while taking over even more of the private sector, the energy sector, and making government bigger and bigger.

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Who’s Up For Some “Green” Union Jobs?

By William Teach May 20, 2019 – 7:28 am

It’s always interesting how the so-called science issue of ‘climate change’ ends up being mostly about left-wing politics, eh?

New York aims to fight climate change by creating green union jobs

As global warming has worsened in recent years, environmentalists and union members have often protested against each other, whether over fracking, oil pipelines, coal production or the Green New Deal.

But an innovative new labor-environmentalist effort in New York – to build offshore wind turbines to power up to 6m homes – is a sharp departure from all that feuding and shows that these two groups can work together to advance renewable energy and reduce dependence on carbon-based energy.

Giving this plan a vital boost, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has announced plans to have the state’s energy authority invest billions of dollars to build hundreds of offshore wind turbines. For Cuomo, this plan is key to New York state’s ambitious mandate to obtain 70% of its energy from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, by 2030.

As a sidebar, you can bet that there will be a lot of groups, mostly environmentalists and leftists, which will file lawsuits to stop the wind turbines and the transmission lines.

Pushed by a professor at Cornell University, more than a dozen unions came together to develop what they call Climate Jobs New York, a plan that they say will create more than 10,000 jobs; jobs that they agree should be middle-class, union jobs.

“We brought together more than a dozen unions, and said things are not good at the national level in terms of how unions are relating to environmental organizations and the climate movement,” said Lara Skinner, the labor relations professor at Cornell who spearheaded this effort. She noted that several unions were furious at environmentalists for opposing fracking and the Keystone and Dakota Access oil pipelines, which many unions viewed as a boon for job creation. (snip)

In an unusual move, more than a dozen unions and labor federations developed the climate plan, without inviting environmental groups to participate in the early discussions. One fear was that if the two sides were together from the start, there might be fights over fracking and pipelines that blew up and prevented progress on other fronts. One union leader involved in the effort said: “The labor movement and environmental community agree on probably 90% of things, so we shouldn’t focus on the things that are going to destroy goodwill.”

And the union will donate money to NY Democrats to make sure that the jobs only go to the unions, locking out individuals and small companies that are not part of the union. But, remember, this is science, not politics. Or something.

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NY Times Suddenly Concerned Over Presidential Pardons

By William Teach May 20, 2019 – 7:08 am

Let’s face it, all presidents in the modern era have used pardons that left people shaking their heads. You can find lots of examples for Republicans and Democrats. But, have you heard the NY Times Editorial Board complain? Well, that’s because Trump is now in office

The President and His Power to Pardon

The Constitution assigns to the president the “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”

On its face, this authority appears unquestionable, and the Supreme Court has called it “unlimited.” But in his more than two years in office, Donald Trump has found ways to wield or dangle the pardon power in a manner that departs from any established practice and even calls into question the principles of justice that undergird it.

The full pardons of Conrad Black, a wealthy friend of Mr. Trump’s who has written charitably about him, and Patrick Nolan, a former Republican Assembly leader from California who has criticized aspectsof the Russia investigation, are the latest examples in what seems to be a new trend in presidential clemency: mercy for lawbreakers in the mold of disgraced politicians, media personalities and political allies who have flattered, defended or curried favor with the president.

Then came news that the president may mark this Memorial Day with pardons for outlaws in a category all their own — war criminals. The Times reported on Saturday that Mr. Trump has asked the Justice Department’s pardon unit to begin processing paperwork for what could be serial pardons for service members accused or convicted of war crimes. This month, Mr. Trump already pardoned Michael Behenna, a former Army lieutenant who was court-martialed and convicted of killing a detained Iraqi man whom he was interrogating. The American Civil Liberties Union said the pardon represented “a presidential endorsement of murder.”

This may leave you asking: What have these people done to merit a presidential pardon?

See, when Trump hands out pardons it is Bad. Where were the complaints from the NYTEB when Obama was handing out a pardon (technically clemency) to Bradley Manning? Or how about Oscar Lopez Rivera, a terrorist member of the FALN? All the drug dealers?

But, you know, Orange Man Bad, and no matter what Trump does Liberals will throw a fit. When he provided a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, Democrats found a way to spin this as being bad.

President Bill Clinton’s 11th-hour pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich caused its share of controversy and even led to congressional and criminal inquiries in 2001. At the time, The Times reported, senior government officials in the Bush administration said “the investigation would try to determine whether anyone acting on behalf of Mr. Rich in effect sought to buy his pardon or obtain it by fraudulent misrepresentation.” It is past time for Congress to display a more robust appetite for exploring this president’s use of the pardon power — if only to assure the public that he is pursuing his constitutional duties rather than his political interests.

And that last bit (along with some other pardons the NYTEB do not like) was thrown in to make it seem like this isn’t all about Trump Derangement Syndrome. The Constitution gives the POTUS the power to do this, for good or bad. George Washington pardoned those involved in the Whiskey Rebellion. Andrew Johnson pardoned the citizens of the Confederate States. Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam war draft dodgers. And there are others. The Times is just calling for House Democrats to use this as another means to investigate Trump.

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Thanks To You Using Air Conditioning, Tigers Will Now Eat More Humans

By William Teach May 19, 2019 – 4:33 pm

It’s not satire. Stupid beyond belief, but, not satire

Another thing that [“man-eating” Indian tigress] Avni’s story makes clear is the role of human policies in exacerbating, if not actually creating, human-animal conflict. There is a very high probability that a controversial ban on slaughtering cattle in the state of Maharashtra, where Avni lived, had a big role to play in the creation of this so-called man-eater.

Perhaps Avni was attracted to villages for the potential prey of defenseless humans, which are becoming more and more attractive in the context of animal extinction and a rapidly depleting prey base. But as several news outlets have noted, what is much more likely is that she was attracted to human settlements to hunt the plentiful cattle available. A direct effect of the beef ban, then, is the horrifying fact that humans have become the prey of a predator in lieu of cows.

The same Warmist lunatics want to get rid of cows (and other farm animals), so, now, their ban is causing tigers to hunt humans. The article doesn’t get any better, either. In reality, this is man-made, but it is not through global greenhouse gases, but, land use, where humans are spreading into areas where the big cats live, and, sometimes, they like to spread out, too. But, we get

When a tigress keeps hanging around people and, unfortunately, develops a taste for human flesh, this isn’t just one aberrant big cat. Avni and other big cats are symptomatic of what climate change is doing to our present. Categories and distinctions that we took for granted—such as tiger land versus human land—no longer apply, if they ever really did.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 19, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean rising up dozens of feet sooooon, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on yet another reason Trump was elected.

It’s sundress week!

BTW, since tonight will be the final Game Of Thrones episode, who wins the throne? Not that it isn’t now destroyed or buried. Does someone whack Daenarys? My bet is that there will be no ruler of the 7 Kingdoms, but that they will be broken up, with Sansa ruling the north, Jon Snow just going about his business, and Arya just being Arya. Further, Sam Tarley will stab Dany through the back. Hey, he’s already a lover of ladies and killer of White Walkers. Why not Mad Queen-slayer?

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 19, 2019 – 8:41 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I’m loving my new water heater after the last one kicked the bucket (had cold showers for 4 days). This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova discusses the big ‘climate change’ loss in Australia
  2. Ice Age Now covers windmill feasibility
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That notes the lie of the coming mass extinction
  4. 357 Magnum offers up another failure of the victim selection process
  5. American Elephants discusses free speech vs preferred pronouns
  6. Blazing Cat Fur notes Trump’s golf scores being hacked
  7. Brass Pills isn’t impressed by the new SJW Batwoman film trailer
  8. Chicks On The Right shows AOC trying to quote the Bible
  9. DaTechGuy’s Blog wonders if he’s the only one who likes the SI burkini message
  10. DC Clothesline has a list of Islamists on the 2020 ballot
  11. Flopping Aces highlights proof of Hillary and the DNC’s collusion with Russia
  12. Geller Report shows what the world’s most influential Imam has to say about conquering Europe and the West
  13. Jihad Watch notes what happens in places with no 1st Amendment
  14. Legal Insurrection covers Democrats looking to purge pro-lifers
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery highlights what Comrade de Blasio is blaming for black attacks on Jews

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Loses Yet Again In Australia’s Elections

By William Teach May 19, 2019 – 7:36 am

Almost every time that ‘climate change’ is on the ballot it loses, whether it be initiatives to implement a carbon tax/fee scheme or politicians who made it all about ‘climate change’. Go back to 2012, and we see that the Queensland elections saw the ruling Labor party losing so badly that they did not have enough seats (7) to be considered an official party (10). This was primarily due to ‘climate change’ policies implemented by Labor. And now

THEY CALLED IT A GLOBAL WARMING ELECTION. IT WAS. THEY LOST

This election is huge. Consider.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale:

This is a climate change election.

Labor leader Bill Shorten:

This election is all about climate change.

Guardian Australia editor Katherine Murphy:

2019 is the climate change election.

It was indeed, and they lost.

The Liberals look like being returned in a miracle come-from-behind performance, although they will have to form a minority government.

Yes, the did, and the NY Times seems a bit shocked over the whole thing, like so many Warmists

It Was Supposed to Be Australia’s Climate Change Election. What Happened?

The polls said this would be Australia’s climate change election, when voters confronted harsh reality and elected leaders who would tackle the problem.

And in some districts, it was true: Tony Abbott, the former prime minister who stymied climate policy for years, lost to an independent who campaigned on the issue. A few other new candidates prioritizing climate change also won.

But over all, Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers. On Saturday, in a result that stunned most analysts, they re-elected the conservative coalition that has long resisted plans to sharply cut down on carbon emissions and coal.

What it could mean is that the world’s climate wars — already raging for years — are likely to intensify. Left-leaning candidates elsewhere, like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, may learn to avoid making climate a campaign issue, while here in Australia, conservatives face more enraged opponents and a more divided public.

Are Democratic politicians running for President listening? Because most of them have made ‘climate change’ a big campaign theme. A few, like Excitable Jay Inslee and Comrade Bill de Blasio, have made it their primary issue. Jay should remember that his carbon tax schemes have lost multiple times on ballots in Washington state.

Even for skeptics, the effects of climate change are becoming harder to deny. Australia just experienced its hottest summer on record. The country’s tropics are spreading south, bringing storms and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever to places unprepared for such problems, while water shortages have led to major fish die-offs in drying rivers.

The problem there, like in the previous excerpt, is warming doesn’t mean that it is mostly/solely anthropogenic. Just warming like has happened many times in the Holocene.

https://twitter.com/akm29727083000/status/1129780546488418304

In the real world the issue rarely comes up. And, while I enjoy a good debate in real life, if I trot out “what are you doing in your own life” it tends to shut it down and makes the person very upset and tongue tied looking for the Talking Point to rebut, ending with them being mad at me and walking away. If you approach the debate in a manner of “what are you willing to pay and do” the answer tends to be “very little and not much” in their own lives.

Remember, most Americans are unwilling to pay $10 a month for ‘climate change’. So, every Democrat should push the political issue of ‘climate change’ hard. I’ve failed to get around to discussing Jay Inslee releasing part two of his climate plan (mostly because Jay has zero chance of winning the primaries), but, if you read it (here and here), you’ll see that it is less about ‘climate change’ and more about government controlling people and raising their cost of living. Citizens get this. Just like the did in Australia, no matter how many excuses Warmists make.

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