Who’s Up For A New Democratic Party Slogan?

By William Teach July 19, 2018 – 7:46 am

Democrats are taking a page out of hyper-Socialist (who wears capitalist created clothes, travels in capitalist created vehicles, and uses capitalist created devices to get her message out) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s playbook: attempt to sound awesome, yet have have nothing behind vapid talking points

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S NEW MOTTO SAME AS A USED CAR DEALERSHIP, PERSONAL INJURY LAW FIRM

House Democrats revealed their new slogan for the upcoming 2018 elections, but whoever was behind it probably forgot to check that it’s identical to the one used by a used car dealership in Texas and a personal injury law firm in Florida.

The motto, “For the People,” debuted at a private meeting with members Wednesday, according to Politico.

Yet Democrats probably won’t like to know that their new message for American voters is the same used by some of the sleaziest businesses in the country, namely used car dealers and ambulance chasers.

Forthepeople.com is currently registered by Morgan & Morgan, a “leading personal injury law firm dedicated to protecting the people, not the powerful” ran out of Orlando.

Elder Mitsubishi, owned by Scott Elder in Austin, declared itself the “car dealer ‘For the People’” in 2011. Check out its TV ad below.

As the Daily Caller points out, this is the 4th slogan that Democrats have run up the flagpole. Vacuous, meaningless, and allows them to avoid discussing their real agenda

Seriously, for the people? Which people, the illegal aliens? Sure seems like it.

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People Upset About Russian Meddling Cool With Giving Unlawful Foreigners The Vote

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 1:36 pm

Here’s a good point

Pretty weird, eh?

(ABC7) Monday the Department of Elections Issued Voter Registration Forms for non-citizens who are eligible to vote for members of the San Francisco Board of Education in the November 6th 2018 election. The measure passed in 2016 with a close vote of 54 percent to 46 percent following two failed previous attempts.

San Francisco is the first city in the state to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.

“As a parent myself and a former member of the SF Board of Education it is critical that the voices of all parents are at the table particularly those that have historically been denied a voice in the process,” said Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer who represents District 1.

“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” said Supervisor Norman Yee who represents District 7.

The operative phrase is the last: they do not care about parents and such, that’s just an excuse to give illegal aliens the ability to vote. Perhaps San Francisco should worry about cleaning up all the feces, urine, people doing drugs openly in the streets, and needles everywhere.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea quickly rising to meet the desertified land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on your utopian idiocy of the day.

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‘Climate Change’ Will Kill Your Internet In 15 Years Or Something

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 10:33 am

Maybe. Possibly. We think. But, this can all be solved with a tax (the bold is theirs)

Study: Climate change could kill your internet in 15 years

Want to get a whole bunch of people to really, really care about climate change and rising sea levels? Tell them their internet is at risk.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon found that thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable are at risk of drowning under the rising seas. This isn’t something that will happen in the distant future, but could be a reality in just 15 years, the study suggests. Better backup your Tumblr.

The peer-reviewed study combined data from the Internet Atlas, the map that keeps track of the physical internet, and projections of sea level incursion from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It found that more than 4,000 miles of the conduit that carries the internet to much of the United States could be exposed to seawater by 2033. While the buried fiber optic cables are designed to be water-resistant, they are not waterproof, and that means potential trouble for coastal residents who like the internet (a.k.a. everyone but Luddites, infants, and my grandma).

And, it’s totally locked in!

(NY Post) The data showed that vast sections of the physical internet will be underwater in 15 years.

“The 15-year predictions are really kind of locked in,” said Carol Barford, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

None of the articles I’ve read through actually say how much the seas will rise, but, the NY Post one does mention

“So much of the infrastructure that’s been deployed is right next to the coast, so it doesn’t take much more than a few inches or a foot of sea level rise for it to be underwater,” study co-author Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told National Geographic.

And that NG article

Cities like New York, Miami, and Seattle are likely to see up to 12 inches of extra water by 2030—well inside the time range of a mortgage on a house, or the planning horizon for big public infrastructure projects. A foot of extra water wending through some of those cities, the researchers say, would put about 20 percent of the nation’s key internet infrastructure underwater.

Good grief. The sea rise for the 20th Century was 7-8 inches, which is exactly average for the Holocene, and should be much greater for a warm period. To think that we’ll suddenly see 12 inches of sea rise in the next 12 years is beyond alarmism. This is people standing on the corner with a sign saying to repent.

Of course, there are lots of weasel words like might, may, possibly, could, suggest.

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Warmist Is Totally Bummed To Be Raising A Child In A ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Doomed World

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 7:48 am

The other day we learned that a Warmist was bummed because he was too dumb to turn on the AC and his child apparently had trouble sleeping, because it would be a huge difference between 85F and 85.6F. Then we have this in the NY Times opinion pages by Warmist Roy Scranton

Raising My Child in a Doomed World
Some would say the mistake was having our daughter in the first place.

I cried two times when my daughter was born. First for joy, when after 27 hours of labor the little feral being we’d made came yowling into the world, and the second for sorrow, holding the earth’s newest human and looking out the window with her at the rows of cars in the hospital parking lot, the strip mall across the street, the box stores and drive-throughs and drainage ditches and asphalt and waste fields that had once been oak groves. A world of extinction and catastrophe, a world in which harmony with nature had long been foreclosed. My partner and I had, in our selfishness, doomed our daughter to life on a dystopian planet, and I could see no way to shield her from the future.

I guess he’d prefer the time when 600 women died in childbirth per 100,000 births a century ago. Or when it was double that in the 1600’s and 1700’s. Versus 15 per 100,000 now. Or when “Even in the middle of the 1800s, a quarter of all babies born in many European countries died before their first birthday.” Welcome to the modern world, Roy!

Anyone who pays much attention to climate change knows the outlook is grim. It’s not unreasonable to say that the challenge we face today is the greatest the human species has ever confronted (yes, it is unreasonable. And crazy). And anyone who pays much attention to politics can assume we’re almost certainly going to botch it. To stop emitting waste carbon completely within the next five or 10 years, we would need to radically reorient almost all human economic and social production, a task that’s scarcely imaginable, much less feasible. It would demand centralized control of key economic sectors, enormous state investment in carbon capture and sequestration and global coordination on a scale never before seen, at the very time when the political and economic structures that held the capitalist world order together under American leadership after World War II are breaking apart. The very idea of unified national political action toward a single goal seems farcical, and unified action on a global scale mere whimsy.

How dare people have different beliefs!!!!1!!!! How dare they not buy into the Cult of Climastrology!!!!

Barring a miracle, the next 20 years are going to see increasingly chaotic systemic transformation in global climate patterns, unpredictable biological adaptation and a wild spectrum of human political and economic responses, including scapegoating and war. After that, things will get worse. The middle and later decades of the 21st century — my daughter’s adult life — promise a global catastrophe whose full implications any reasonable person must turn away from in horror.

Some people might say the mistake was having a child in the first place. As Maggie Astor reported, more and more people are deciding not to have children because of climate change. This concern, conscious or unconscious, is no doubt contributing to the United States’ record-low birthrate. Some people can’t bear the idea of having a child whose life is going to be worse than their own. Others, struggling with the ethics of living in a carbon-fueled consumer society, consider having children selfish and environmentally destructive.

See above graphic. And it doesn’t get less screwball as it continues on and on, ending with

I can’t protect my daughter from the future and I can’t even promise her a better life. All I can do is teach her: teach her how to care, how to be kind and how to live within the limits of nature’s grace. I can teach her to be tough but resilient, adaptable and prudent, because she’s going to have to struggle for what she needs. But I also need to teach her to fight for what’s right, because none of us is in this alone. I need to teach her that all things die, even her and me and her mother and the world we know, but that coming to terms with this difficult truth is the beginning of wisdom.

There are going to be some seriously neurotic and mentally damaged kids being raised.

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NY AG, Governor File Suit Over “Unconstitutional” Tax Cuts

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 7:31 am

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, who replaced disgraced and unhinged NY AG Eric Schneiderman, thinks she on to something, but could be opening a huge can of worms that she might not like, nor will those in NJ, CT, and Md, which are part of the suit (via Twitchy)

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1019220295851229190

From the press release as linked in tweet

Today, New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced a lawsuit to protect New York and its taxpayers from Washington’s drastic curtailment of the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction. The lawsuit argues that the new SALT cap was enacted to target New York and similarly situated states, that it interferes with states’ rights to make their own fiscal decisions, and that it will disproportionately harm taxpayers in these states. Click here to read the lawsuit.

The 2017 federal tax law, which resulted from a hyper-partisan and rushed process, drastically reduced the deduction by capping it at $10,000. An analysis by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance shows that the cap will increase New Yorkers’ federal taxes by $14.3 billion in 2018 alone, and an additional $121 billion between 2019 and 2025. As set forth in the complaint, the law flies in the face of centuries of precedent, which establishes constitutional limits on the federal government’s ability to use its tax power to interfere with the sovereign authority of the states.

For the entire history of the United States, every federal income tax law protected the sovereign interests of the states by providing a deduction for all or a significant portion of state and local taxes. This uninterrupted history demonstrates that the unprecedented cap on the SALT deduction is unconstitutional, as the lawsuit notes.

First off, things change. Welcome to life, Democrats! Second, this mostly affects high tax earners. Are Democrats suddenly in favor of “the rich” after years of scapegoating them? Third, the Constitution provides (unfortunately) the federal Congress the means to enact tax policy, and doesn’t say it has to have a SALT deduction capped. Fourth, suddenly Democrats are interested in States’ Rights. Fifth, I thought Democrats were invested in people “paying their fair share”? No?

As Daniel Darling tweets: For those scoring at home: NY is mad that the federal government doesn’t have a tax break to cover their high state taxes. And Phillip Klein: “This is a completely idiotic lawsuit. Idea that limiting a federal tax deduction in a way that applies equally to all states is a violation of state sovereignty is absurd.”

Which brings to mind the final point about taxes: Does she mean like how NY targets tobacco users with extra (punitive) taxes not applied to other products? How about on the products lawful gun owners purchase? Or that the state gives tax breaks to some businesses and not others? That some people pay a higher tax rate than others because they earn a lot of money, which seems like unequal protection under the law? Did she consider the can of worms that this could open? This might be a great can of worms to open, to make taxes equal across the board.

At the end of the day, this frivolous, foolish, wasteful suit will be thrown out quickly.

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Good News: We’re Standing At The Crossroads Of Our Very Humanity From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 17, 2018 – 4:27 pm

I’m thinking that perhaps Mary Robinson, past president of Ireland, which is one of the worst EU nations on “carbon pollution”, and who spends a lot of time taking fossil fueled trips, might not be the best messenger of doom

Climate Change: standing at a crossroads for “our very humanity” says Mary Robinson

The existential threat of climate change has left the world standing at a crossroads for “our very humanity”, Mary Robinson said at a UN conference last weekend.

Speaking at a side meeting of the ongoing high-level UN forum on the Sustainable Development Goals in New York, Mary Robinson said that expert warnings of a potential three to four-degree increase in global temperature are “very scary”.

The former President, who runs her own climate justice foundation, said in her opening comments that we are now “living through challenging times” due to the “existential threat” posed by climate change.

“As such, we stand at a crossroads for our very humanity,” she warned. “In the face of a challenge so great, it is easy to feel helpless… We need to support each other in order to move forward.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a fence meant to keep out climate refugees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on freedom of speech being a right wing conspiracy.

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ZOMG, Was That Russian Spy Maria Butina In The Oval Office?

By William Teach July 17, 2018 – 10:08 am

Today in #resistance, lefties getting punked

(The Week)  Just one day after U.S. prosecutors unsealed criminal charges against Mariia Butina, an alleged Russian agent, eagle-eyed readers noticed a 2017 Oval Office visitor who looks mysteriously like the Russian national.

In a photo published last year by The New York Times, Russian officials and Russian media are gathered in the Oval Office with President Trump. Skulking in the background of the photo is a woman who some people say is Butina, who was accused Monday of conspiracy against the United States. Back when Trump was a presidential nominee, the Justice Department said, Butina tried to broker secret meetings between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, allegedly at the behest of Russian officials.

Not everyone is convinced that the photo constitutes smoking-gun evidence that Butina managed to infiltrate high-level meetings with Trump; some skeptics, like Talking Points Memo‘s Josh Marshall, say the image isn’t definitive. Others, like pollster Matt McDermott, noted that the only reason this photo is available to the public in the first place is because it was released by Russian state media.

Until the photo is confirmed one way or the other, take a look for yourself below.

It’s totally unconfirmed, but they still ran with it.

Daily Kos ran with it, as did so many others, especially on Twitter. They were all just so wanting for this to be real

https://twitter.com/jfmccauley/status/1019215032872263680

but, just a short time later at The Week

Update 9:25 a.m. ET: After this article was published, several journalists confirmed that Butina is indeed not pictured in a widely circulated photo of President Trump meeting with Russians in the Oval Office. The woman in question is an NSC staffer. Our headline has been updated, and our original article appears below.

Maybe you shouldn’t have ran with it before confirmation. You know, because Journalism. And, despite being confirmed as a big hoax, there are still leftards running with it.

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Elephant In Room: Trump’s Press Conference

By William Teach July 17, 2018 – 7:20 am

There’s so much reporting and analysis and commentary and such on a tiny portion of the press conference that’s it really is hard to get to the base detail. Should Trump apologize, not apologize, clarify?

(CNS News) President Trump’s press conference remarks in Helsinki are drawing fire from Democrats and Republicans at home, but one thing he did not do publicly was announce any concessions or tempering of administration policies that have arguably been tougher on Russia than those of his predecessors.

While Trump is being harshly criticized for his response to questions about President Vladimir Putin’s denials of meddling in the 2016 election, there were no indications of a softening in key areas of foreign policy differences – relating to Ukraine, Syria, Iran and ballistic missile defense in Europe.

“What Donald Trump says and what his administration does are not necessarily things that are closely related,” Danielle Pletka, senior vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told the BBC after the summit.

She said the Trump administration “has in fact been very aggressive in pushing sanctions against Russian bad economic actors, Russian intelligence actors and others … who have played a bad role on the international stage.”

Pletka pushed back on the charge that Trump had raised little in public about Russian malfeasances.

“That’s the kind of accusation that I find the least sympathetic,” she said. “The Obama administration was completely indifferent to the suffering of the Syrian people, including when Russia got involved,” she said. “The Obama administration was completely uninterested in defending Crimea from Russia.”

She goes on to talk about the “moral equivalence”

Let’s not forget that the Obama administration, while Hillary Clinton was Sec of State, attempted to interfere in Russian elections, as well as Israel elections, Brexit, and others during Obama’s time in office.

One has to wonder if this was a planned statement from Trump, or an off the cuff gaffe? If people think Trump doesn’t plan almost everything using a giant SMART action plan (even down to things like screwing with Lefties on Twitter, up to intentional misspellings), you’d be wrong. And, while it’s important to consider the silly statement, also consider the full transcript of the post meeting statement

As president, I cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to appease partisan critics, or the media, or Democrats who want to do nothing but resist and obstruct.

Constructive dialogue between the United States and Russia afford the opportunity to open new pathways toward peace and stability in our world. I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics. As president, I will always put what is best for America and what is best for the American people.

Yeah, you should be upset about his answer to the question, but you should also consider everything else. And, don’t forget, most Democrats and media folks had zero problem with Obama’s cozy relationship with Iran, and all the money and stuff Obama gave them. Even Rand Paul is referring to Trump Derangement Syndrome regarding the over the top responses to the whole meeting.

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