People Not Blaming Trump For GM Plant Closures, Washington Post Hardest Hit

By William Teach November 30, 2018 – 6:50 am

I can just picture Washington Post writer Jenna Johnson going to her editor and stomping her feet as she tells him/her that her story is a bust as no one is Blaming Trump, and the editor says “meh, go ahead and run it, You Tried”

Many hurt by GM cuts blame others, not Trump: ‘It’s a business. We’re numbers.’

Eight miles northwest of the General Motors assembly plant expected to close next year, two workers and a customer at an auto-parts store pointed fingers: Americans just don’t want to drive small cars like those produced at the plant. Gas prices are low, making big vehicles even more attractive. And GM can get cheaper labor elsewhere.

But none of the three men pointed a finger at President Trump, who had promised residents here and throughout the industrial Midwest that he would stop the closure of factories. At one political rally in the area last year, he even urged residents to stay put and not sell their homes.

“It’s a company. Why should the president of the United States be allowed to tell a company what to do?” said Michael Hayda, 64, a former factory worker and a driver at the store who is registered as a Democrat and voted for Trump in 2016.

His co-worker Bill McKlveen, another Democrat who voted for Trump, agreed and noted that auto-industry workers have been getting pink slips for decades, long before Trump took office.

And even a customer who would like to see Trump impeached said he doesn’t fully fault the president.

“There’s only one law we all obey, and that’s the law of supply and demand,” said Paul Niemi, 68, who fixes wood pallets for a living and was motivated by Trump to vote for the first time earlier this month, selecting a straight Democratic ticket in the midterm election.

Bummer. Not Trump blame from the workers, even as the media tries to Blame this on Trump. Look at ABC News, as they discuss the soon to be signed trade deal between US-Mexico-Canada

When President Donald Trump signs the revised North American trade agreement Friday at the G-20 summit in Argentina, he will get a step closer to delivering on a campaign promise — to replace NAFTA or terminate it — after a week fraught with negative economic headlines.

Just Tuesday, General Motors announced that, in light of the new deal, it was laying off 15 percent of its workers and shuttering five plants in the U.S. and Canada.

I’ve tried, but, I cannot find any article which shows GM specifically saying that. Most even stay away from the potential tariffs costing GM a lot of money due to steel costs. And those are literally the first two paragraphs of the article.

Why is GM doing this? Because their sedan lines stink. For quality and such they just cannot compete with the likes of Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, and Hyundai. If someone wants a lower price, go with Kia. This is why Ford and Dodge are dumping most sedan lines.

Anyhow, it’s funny that the Washington Post went looking to blame Trump, and failed.

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Brazil Cancels Hosting Of 2019 UN IPCC Climate Change Conference

By William Teach November 29, 2018 – 6:07 pm

This is being positioned as a cost saving solution, but, it certainly seems as much to be about the new leadership saying they won’t be part of this silly cult

Brazil cancels hosting climate change summit

Brazil has pulled out of hosting next year’s United Nations global summit meeting on climate change, the latest signal that Latin America’s largest nation no longer aspires to be an influential player in efforts to mitigate the effects of a warming planet.

The decision leaves the United Nations scrambling to find a new venue for the conference, which was scheduled to take place next November. It comes about a month before the inauguration of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to empower commercial ventures in the Amazon and other Brazilian biomes while weakening enforcement of environmental laws.

Bolsonaro’s incoming foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, a career diplomat, has called the movement to reduce global warming a plot by “Marxists” to stifle the economic growth of capitalist democracies while lifting China.

Brazil in 2009 set ambitious goals to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and took drastic steps to rein in deforestation in the Amazon. Those initiatives were met with international acclaim and positioned Brazil as one of the most consequential and engaged nations in the effort to reduce climate change.

In a statement, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said the decision was made to save money. It also cited the “transition process” as Bolsonaro prepares to take office.

As Eric Worrell notes

In my opinion Brazil’s very public snub of the United Nations climate cabal sends a strong message that the Bolsonaro government’s priority is attracting investment and maximising economic growth.

Becoming a world leading economic power provides hope and opportunities to the poor. Being an “environment leader” not so much.

I think Bolsonaro is way off in terms of it being a plot to stifle economic growth by Marxists to lift China. It certainly is a plot by global elites to tax people and put them more under the thumb of government while controlling more and more of economies.

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Unhinged Leftists Notice Problems With Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer

By William Teach November 29, 2018 – 3:09 pm

Remember the days when most of the stupid thoughts you had in your head stayed in there? Things that were so dumb that you didn’t want to tell your significant other, your kids, or your friends? Heck, even your bartender would give you that Look.

This is slightly better than when they said that the show had a gay subtext back in 2016, but, still, liberals always go unhinged in an attempt to ruin everything, and of course this is at the HuffPost

Viewers Noticed Some Very Disturbing Details In ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer’
Some of the scenes in this Christmas classic raise all kinds of issues.

Issues, you guys!

https://twitter.com/Liz_Prato/status/1067634947756675072

https://twitter.com/NewEng_DadLife/status/1067586796270350342

More like teaching kids that the liberal adults are nutjobs and buzzkills

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 29, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise and swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the notion that TDS and ruined marriages.

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Obama Backed Solar Plant Leaves Behind Heavy Pollution, Wasted Taxpayer Money

By William Teach November 29, 2018 – 10:30 am

Yet another example of what dumping enormous amounts of taxpayer money into an industry not ready for prime time brings

FAILED OREGON SOLAR EQUIPMENT PLANT LEAVES BEHIND MILLIONS IN TAXPAYER LOSSES

A multi-year effort by federal, state, and local agencies to prop up an Oregon solar-panel manufacturer has ended in a shuttered factory, millions of taxpayer dollars down the drain, and a heavily polluted manufacturing site.

In 2010 SoloPower Systems (SoloPower) claimed it could manufacture “flexible” solar PV cells and modules that were light and thin enough to be installed on buildings that couldn’t support regular solar panels. Promising to employ hundreds of people at its 225,000-square-foot manufacturing plant, SoloPower attracted millions of dollars in loans and tax credits from government agencies.

In 2010 the U.S. Department of Energy loaned SoloPower $10 million. Business Oregon, a state agency, granted SoloPower $20 million in tax credits. The City of Portland agreed to cover half of SoloPower’s debt to the state, provided the solar-panel factory was located within the city’s limits, while Multnomah County, where Portland is located, declared the company’s factory site was in an enterprise zone, freeing the company from paying property taxes as long as it met certain job creation requirements.

By August 2011, the Obama administration increased is commitment to the project, furnishing $197 million in DOE loan guarantees to the company, and the California Energy Commission loaned the company nearly $5 million.

And what happened?

In April 2013, the company shut down its factory and laid off most of its workforce. By July 2013 it stopped making payments on its state loans and shortly thereafter, California sued the company for failing to make payments on its loan.

Subsequently, the U.S. Energy Department withdrew its $197 million in loan guarantees, and in the fall of 2017, the Trump Energy Department declared SoloPower in default of its original $10 million loan.

And the local, state, and federal taxpayers will not see the money for the loans returned. Even better, the taxpayers are on the hook for more

In an audit of the company Oregon’s Secretary of State pointed out although “Multnomah County had the legal right to seize the borrower’s equipment for delinquent taxes,” it was unlikely to do so because the plant was heavily polluted with cadmium and hydrochloric acid.

Seizing the equipment may not be an option given the level of pollution at the plant.

This stuff is very caustic,” Michael Vaughn, Multnomah County accessor told Oregon Live. “And there’s lots of it. It’s one big mess.”

Cleaning up the plant is estimated to cost more than $500,000.

It would have been better had Obama dumped tons of federal money into research and development, rather than just into businesses that said that they could make this work. Most of the recipients seem to have failed. But, hey, Obama had lots of campaign donors to hook up.

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Trump To Soon Announce Ban On Bump Stocks, Which Is Now Considered “Meaningless”

By William Teach November 29, 2018 – 7:35 am

Remember when the nutjob shot up a music crowd in Las Vegas while using a bump stock, and ever gun grabber out there immediately called for their abolition? Well, here’s this

Trump to Announce Bump Stock Ban, A Largely Meaningless Gesture

The Trump administration will soon ban bump stocks, the aftermarket devices allowing semi-automatic weapons to fire multiple shots in rapid succession, CNN reported Wednesday.

The move will come nearly 14 months after Stephen Paddock used bump stocks to help him kill 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas. Days after the shooting, President Trump said he would look into banning bump stocks. And for a moment, it looked as if he might have had the National Rifle Association on his side. The group said at the time that “devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.” (snip)

Trump, however, forged ahead. On March 23, weeks after the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, and one day before the March for Our Lives, he announced a new regulation to ban bump stocks. At the time, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the move a “critical step in our effort to reduce the threat of gun violence.”

That’s nonsense. The bump stock ban is, and has always been a smokescreen. Making these devices illegal will do nothing to reduce gun violence in the U.S. That’s why they’ve become an easy target for the Trump administration. Banning bump stocks won’t make people safer, but it’s a simple way to pretend to.

Bump stocks are a novelty. Few people knew what they were before the Las Vegas shooting, and those who did largely considered them unreliable and impractical. There are also other devices that have the same effect on semi-automatic weapons. Making bump stocks the boogeyman made perfect sense for gun rights advocates. Focusing on them takes attention off of the weapons themselves, and banning them would take away only one method of bump firing a semi-automatic rifle.

Now, just imagine that it was Barack Obama who was banning bump stocks: do you think this article would be dismissive of banning them, or would Obama be lauded? Trump is implementing a regulation on bump stocks exactly as the gun grabbers asked for, but, now, it’s not enough. Had it been Obama this would have been seen as an small, but important, step forward.

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Surprise: MS-13 Member Found Among Caravan, Planned On Filing For Asylum

By William Teach November 29, 2018 – 7:22 am

Say, I wonder if all the Democrats who support this nonsense, along with some unhinged #NeverTrumpers, think he should get an asylum hearing

U.S. BORDER AGENTS ARREST MS-13 GANG MEMBER ‘INTENDING ON FILING FOR ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES’

U.S. border patrol agents arrested an MS-13 gang member at the Calexico Port of Entry on Saturday the Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday.

Jose Villalobos-Jobel, 29, a Honduran citizen, was arrested by Border Patrol agents assigned to El Centro Sector around 6:00 pm that day, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release.

It read, “After a short interview, the man told agents he is a Honduran citizen and active gang member with the notorious Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) international crime organization.  The man also told agents he traveled to the United States border with a large group of people from Central America intending on filing for asylum in the United States.”

The statement also said that Villalobos-Jobel will be sent back to Honduras. It’s unclear if Villalobos-Jobel was the only gang member arrested at the border.

Nope, not getting an asylum hearing. Nancy Pelosi won’t get a chance to see if he has a “spark of divinity.” We also find

“As President Trump and Secretary Nielsen warned, over the last few weeks we have identified over 600 known criminals and gang members in the caravan,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement provided to Fox News. “We are now predictably seeing members of the caravan – which includes criminals – show up at the border and claim asylum. These threats are only going to increase in light of illegitimate judicial injunctions and loopholes created by Congress.”

Meanwhile, the caravaners were bringing all sorts of health issues

Migrants who came with the caravan are suffering from respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox and other serious health issues, Tijuana’s Health Department warned on Thursday morning.

The spokesman told Fox News that out of 6,000 migrants currently residing in the city, over a third of them (2,267) are being treated for health-related issues.

There are three confirmed cases of tuberculosis, four cases of HIV/AIDS and four separate cases of chickenpox, the spokesman said.

At least 101 migrants have lice and multiple instances of skin infections, the department’s data shows.

We’re still waiting for the Democrat supporters of this to offer to take the migrants in while they await an asylum court date.

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Study: White Liberals Dumb Themselves Down When Talking To Blacks

By William Teach November 28, 2018 – 2:48 pm

We’ve seen it again and again that white liberals think that African Americans belong to the Democratic Party, and pander to them and treat them as chattel. They like to keep them down on the urban plantations, living in poverty and crime, throwing them so bones, all so they can get their votes. And now this

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1067444215582531587

Yup

White Liberals Present Themselves as Less Competent in Interactions with African-Americans

Racial bias can put people of color at a disadvantage when interviewing for a job, buying a house, or interacting with the police. New research suggests that bias may also shape daily interactions between racial minorities and white people, even those whites who tend to be less biased.

According to new research by Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale SOM, white liberals tend to downplay their own verbal competence in exchanges with racial minorities, compared to how other white Americans act in such exchanges. The study is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  (snip)

Dupree and her co-author, Susan Fiske of Princeton University, began by analyzing the words used in campaign speeches delivered by Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to different audiences over the years. They scanned 74 speeches delivered by white candidates over a 25-year period. Approximately half were addressed to mostly-minority audiences—at a Hispanic small business roundtable discussion or a black church, for example. They then paired each speech delivered to a mostly-minority audience with a comparable speech delivered at a mostly-white audience—at a mostly-white church or university, for example. The researchers analyzed the text of these speeches for two measures: words related to competence (that is, words about ability or status, such as “assertive” or “competitive”) and words related to warmth (that is, words about friendliness, such as “supportive” and “compassionate”).

The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in speeches delivered to mostly white audiences. The difference wasn’t statistically significant in speeches by Republican candidates, though “it was harder to find speeches from Republicans delivered to minority audiences,” Dupree notes. There was no difference in Democrats’ or Republicans’ usage of words related to warmth. “It was really surprising to see that for nearly three decades, Democratic presidential candidates have been engaging in this predicted behavior.”

The study goes on to find that white Democrats tend to do this to blacks as well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 28, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is the skull and crossbones symbol of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on a poll on how Mexicans feel about the migrant caravan.

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Bummer: Most European Union Nations Are Not Meeting Their Paris Climate Agreement Commitments

By William Teach November 28, 2018 – 10:30 am

The U.S. under Donald Trump is actually seeing a reduction in the carbon footprint per citizen, much of it due to the expansion of the use of natural gas. It wasn’t intentional, just a byproduct. And Trump has pulled the U.S. essentially out of the Paris Climate Agreement. How about the nations that are super enthused about the PCA?

The U.S. Isn’t the Only Major Country Not Meeting Its Climate Goals

Three years ago, world leaders from nearly every country around the world laid out specific plans to fight climate change that included strategies to slash their greenhouse gas emissions. Those commitments generated optimism that the world might finally address global warming and helped seal the deal on the Paris Agreement.

Now, the majority of G20 countries aren’t following through on their promises, according to a new report from the United Nation Environment Programme. And, even if countries followed through, the world would fall short of limiting temperature rise to safe levels.

“Countries are not doing enough,” says UNEP official Phillip Drost, who coordinated the report. “We need to mitigate more emissions.” (snip)

The report looks specifically at G20 countries and shows that the vast majority, including the United States, the world’s second largest emitter, are not on track to reduce their emissions in line with their 2015 commitments. And some of the countries that are — such as Russia and Turkey — have been criticized for setting unambitious targets. China is one notable exception to the trend: the country’s greenhouse gas emissions will likely begin to decline before 2030 as it promised even as it continues its breakneck economic growth.

It’s easy to sign a document, a Historic Document!!!!!, proclaiming that they will Do Something. It’s a lot harder to force citizens to pay through the nose, see their cost of living rise, and also see that money go to people in other countries. Not too mention giving up lots of freedom and choice. All while these same elites never give up their own money or big carbon footprints.

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