Democrats Frustrated Over Losing To Offer Amendment To Kill Electoral College

By William Teach April 2, 2019 – 7:36 am

Democrats are Very Upset over losing in 2016 to Donald Trump. It didn’t matter that they won the previous two presidential elections, losing one is The Worst, so, Things Must Change. The subhead of this NBC News story should tell you all you need to know, namely that this is red meat issue for their base

Senate Democrats to introduce constitutional amendment to abolish Electoral College
The proposed amendment to change the way presidents are elected won’t become law anytime soon, but it will keep the issue in the 2020 conversation.

Leading Democratic senators are expected to introduce a constitutional amendment Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College, adding momentum to a long-shot idea that has been gaining steam among 2020 presidential candidates.

Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii plans to introduce the measure along with Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2-ranking Democrat in the Senate, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to Schatz’s spokesperson.

Also signed on to the legislation is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, one of a growing number of presidential candidates who have called for electing presidents by popular vote, even though changing the Constitution is seen as virtually impossible today.

A constitutional amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds supermajority in both the House (about 290 votes) and Senate (67 votes) and requires ratification by 38 states.

This has the same chance at passing as AOC’s Green New Deal. You have better odds at winning Megamillions tonight. This is about the Democrat whine of stolen elections and how those stupid flyovers dare have input on presidential elections. This is about Trump Derangement Syndrome, because how dare he win by playing the rules!!!!

Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas, Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro are among the presidential candidates who have expressed openness to abolishing the Electoral College.

“We should abolish the Electoral College,” Castro said at a 2020 Democratic candidate forum in Washington on Monday. “It doesn’t reflect the will of the people of the country.”

See, it doesn’t reflect the will of the liberal elites in coastal cities. Seriously, why should someone’s vote in the tiny population state of Montana count when the artsy people in NYC want a Democrat?

Kill the electoral college? Stack the Supreme Court?

Pete Buttigieg wants to abolish the electoral college. Sen. Elizabeth Warren hopes to ban gerrymandering. Sen. Cory Booker talks about limiting terms for Supreme Court justices. Beto O’Rourke is weighing an expansion of the high court.

The Democratic presidential hopefuls, prodded by a frustrated base, are pushing fundamental changes to the American political system. Aimed at changing how presidents are chosen and laws are passed, the proposals go beyond typical campaign issues such as health care and taxes to challenge the basic rules of American democracy. (big snip)

Republicans say these proposals are radical efforts by Democrats to change the rules because they’re losing the game. After years of benefiting from left-leaning judges, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says, liberals now want to pack the courts because Trump is appointing conservatives.

Sometimes Democrats win, sometimes they don’t. When they don’t they throw a hissy fit and then want to change the rules. We saw some of the same stuff when George W. Bush won in 2000 then 2004, but, the insanity seems a bit elevated after the Trump win. Can you imagine what happens if he wins in 2020? Most are just sore losers.

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Good News: Comedy Can Help You Randomly Interject ‘Climate Change’ Into Social Conversations

By William Teach April 1, 2019 – 3:47 pm

When you really, really, really need to just blow into a conversation with something totally different that most people really do not care about without sound like a Debbie Downer

‘How do I talk about climate change at social gatherings?’
A guide to bringing up the topic without turning into Debbie Downer.

Dear Sara,

I feel an urge to talk about climate change bubbling up within me at social gatherings if people talk about trivial things like food or sports for too long. But it is always such a downer and I know people need a certain amount of time to feel safe and ordinary and relaxed.

Any advice on how to handle this and break through the “tyranny of politeness” that makes talking about climate – and many other serious issues – so awkward?

– Matt in Toronto

Matt sounds fun, and his Climarettes means he doesn’t get invited to many parties

Debbie Downer, the Saturday Night Live character played by comedian Rachel Dratch, can ruin anyone’s fun with just a few facts.

In a skit set at Disney World, for example, she announces to her family that she’s given up eating steak. “Ever since they found mad cow disease in the U.S., I’m not taking any chances,” she says. “It can live in your body for years before it ravages your brain.”

Then, she further fouls the mood by reminding everyone that “if this greenhouse effect keeps up, we’ll all be living underwater.”

Debbie’s not wrong for wanting to talk about climate change with loved ones, but the way she brings it up is utterly demoralizing. For guidance on what you can do differently, look to Peterson Toscano, a Pennsylvania-based performance artist who leads workshops on climate communication.

And the solution is comedy! You can talk about it in a comedy fashion! But, what if you’re not a professional comedian looking for applause instead of laughs?

Even if you’ve never taken an improv class, you can still look to comedy for lessons on speaking up about difficult topics.

The first step is to learn from Debbie Downer’s most crucial mistake: She doesn’t listen. Other people’s interests aren’t meaningful in their own right, only as cues for spouting dismal facts.

Good luck with getting Warmists to give up this. But, hey, you can tackle this from a different direction

To break out of that pattern, Toscano encourages people to consider why they care about climate change, beyond typical concerns about the environment and future generations. Ask yourself, how does climate change affect something that you feel personally passionate about?

Yes, how does it affect implementing lots of tax and fees and government controls on Other People?

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Let’s Take It Down A Notch, Shall We?

By William Teach April 1, 2019 – 2:44 pm

I’ve ignored it for too long, and usually only mention when someone complains. Take the personal insults down about 30 notches. No more spoofing other poster’s names. No more nasty personal names. No more epithets. We’re adults here, regardless of political affiliation.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 1, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle causing horrible carbon clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on floundering Democrat candidates.

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Bummer: #MeToo Hits Magic The Gathering Tournament

By William Teach April 1, 2019 – 10:30 am

Which is rather weird, because from what I’ve heard, there are really no women involved in one of the geekiest of geek things

Pro Removed From $1 Million Magic Tournament Accused Of Harassing Women

On Wednesday, one of the most prominent players in the Magic: The Gathering scene was unceremoniously dropped from this weekend’s first-ever $1 million tournament for the strategy card game. Since then, as questions have been raised about the unspecified reasons behind Turtenwald’s removal, sources have told Kotaku that the player has engaged in inappropriate behavior toward female players and fans for years.

Owen Turtenwald has been ranked among the world’s top Magic players for about a decade. In 2011, he won a string of seven Grand Prix tournaments, earning that year’s Player Of The Year award, which he won again in 2016. Today, Turtenwald is a celebrated member of the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame, a sponsored Twitch streamer, and a competitor in the Magic: The Gathering’s 2019 Pro League, where he reportedly receives about $75,000 in contracts per year.

The only shred of evidence that fans had to go on for a reason behind Turtenwald’s removal from the event was a tweet from a Magic player named Mary Louke. “Very pleased with this news,” it read. “If you don’t know why… then you don’t know the best secret kept in Magic.”

Louke is one of three people who told Kotaku that Turtenwald has exhibited a pattern of predatory behavior toward female Magic players that spans several years. Screenshots shared with Kotaku showed that, Turtenwald continued pursuing these women sexually and romantically even after they stopped responding or turned him down.

In other news, there are actually pro’s for Magic The Gathering.

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‘Climate Change’ Could Turn Us All Cannibal Or Something

By William Teach April 1, 2019 – 7:47 am

Since Democrats tend to shy away from owning firearms, guess who gets eaten first? Anyhow, while the point of the study may or may not have been to link what’s going on with the current (and typical) warm period, news outlets and others running articles is meant to invoke a belief among Warmists that this could happen now

A New Study Suggests Neanderthals Resorted To Cannibalism As A Result Of Climate Change

When climate change became too much to endure 120,000 years ago, a group of Neanderthals who were living in the south of France are believed to have become so desperate for food that they resorted to cannibalism, slaughtering and consuming six of their own, according to a new study conducted by Alban Defleur and Emmanuel Desclaux.

As Cosmos Magazine reports, scientists first discovered the remains of the six Neanderthal victims in the 1990s in a cave located near Baume Moula-Guercy in the Rhône valley. The victims were found to belong to different age groups, with two of the Neanderthals found to have been adults, and the remaining four adolescents and younger children.

The bones of these six Neanderthals all revealed very clear and obvious signs of cannibalism, including fingers which look as if they had been ravenously chewed upon, and bones which had numerous cut marks on them which scientists believe were made by stone tools. In some of these remains there was also evidence of dismemberment, which is nothing that would have occurred naturally.

Our coming soon doom because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle and ate a burger based on six skeletons. We need to pass a carbon tax now and give up our liberty to government in order to avoid this!

After scientists dated the floor of the Baume Moula-Guercy cave where the six Neanderthal remains were discovered, they determined that the Neanderthals would have died between 128,000 to 114,000 years ago, which would have been during the most recent interglacial period.

With temperatures much warmer on average than they are today, the Rhône Valley would have changed so dramatically that Neanderthals wouldn’t have had any large mammals to have hunted and eaten, and instead were forced to search for rodents, snakes and tortoises. And while Neanderthals were once used to living in grasslands, their environment also abruptly changed to forested areas.

First, what caused the climatic change? It was all natural, right? Second, there are plenty of large mammals in plenty of very warm areas, as well as forested areas. Regardless, this is all meant to scare us, and since Democrats are so squishy on owning guns, they’ll be the first in the pot.

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Life Under Modern Socialism: Venezuela To Ration Electricity

By William Teach April 1, 2019 – 6:48 am

This only applies to Venezuelans in certain areas who still have working electricity, of course

Venezuela’s Maduro announces plan to ration electricity amid blackouts

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday announced a 30-day electricity rationing plan for the nation, according to the Associated Press.

In an address on national television Sunday, Maduro said the rationing plan would address the nation’s intermittent power outages, which have also affected the water supply and communications, according to the wire service.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who the United States has recognized as president, has called on Venezuelans to demonstrate in response to the outages, which he blamed on government neglect while Maduro has attributed them to deliberate sabotage by the U.S.

“No one can put up with this. We spend almost all day without electricity,” Karina Camacho, a 56-year-old housewife, told the news service. “There’s been no water since (last) Monday, you can’t call by phone, we can’t pay with cards or even eat.” The blackouts have prevented Venezuelans from making electronic payments in several cases.

Venezuela is an oil rich nation, which has been so damaged by the policies of people like Maduro and Hugo Chavez that they can’t keep the power running. Heck, there was a period where it was reported they had no toilet paper nor beer, and zoo animals were being eaten to avoid starvation. This is also what happens when the government controls the power grid.

As the AP goes on

Another day, another blackout.

Power went out across Venezuela on Sunday, just as it did on Saturday, and the day before that.

But while some electricity had returned by Sunday afternoon, jittery Venezuelans weren’t so much celebrating the lights coming on as wondering when the next outages would flick them off.

And that’s where the quite from Ms. Camacho comes into play. People were on their balconies and such banging on pots to demonstrate against Maduro. You know, the dictator whom so many of these new Democratic Party House members support and defend, because he has the right blend of Modern Socialism for them.

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Bummer: Previous Civilization Fell Due To Their Use Of Fossil Fueled Vehicles

By William Teach March 31, 2019 – 3:23 pm

Darned Romans and Mayans

https://twitter.com/ancientpix/status/1112000547597545472

All that climate change was purely natural, so, is the World Economic Forum now claiming that this current warm period is mostly/solely natural? While at the same time demanding carbon taxes and stuff?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 31, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on the details on one of the migrant children who died in custody.

It’s true muscle car week, so, starting out with a Trans Am similar to mine (1979 w/403 Olds engine)

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 31, 2019 – 8:32 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the mockingbirds are mocking, and baseball is back. This pinup is by Romain Hugault with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Deplorable Climate Science Blog features Earth Hour in the Maldives
  2. Jo Nova highlights skinny dipping for renewable energy
  3. American Elephants covers a massive caravan forming
  4. Blazing Cat Fur discusses the grand Jihadi plan of the Muslim Brotherhood
  5. Brass Pills has a feminist unhappy with the phrase “you may now kiss the bride”
  6. Chicks On The Right has good news: farting in the workplace is not a form of bullying
  7. Diogenes’ Middle Finger says that one doesn’t just move on from a coup
  8. DUmmie Funnies has media meltdowns over Mueller report
  9. Gates Of Vienna features food jihad in Sweden
  10. Geller Report has photos of jackbooted leftists raging
  11. Jihad Watch features more RoP activity in Nigeria that doesn’t make the news
  12. Legal Insurrection covers the results of pulling out of the Iran deal
  13. Moonbattery notes that pop culture has hit a dead end
  14. neo-neocon discusses the European car police
  15. And last, but not least, Pacific Pundit covers Ilhan Omar thinking the hijab is feminist

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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