If All You See…

By William Teach November 17, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle creating heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on the mental malfunctions of liberals.

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Kerry On ‘Climate Change’: No One Should Make Decisions For Billions On Ideology

By William Teach November 17, 2016 – 10:44 am

After taking long fossil fueled trips to Antarctica and New Zealand, current Secretary of State and uber-Warmist/climahypocrite John Kerry has gone all announcey

(Huff Post) The United States on Wednesday announced an ambitious new goal to rapidly reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury, despite the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, a man who has called the phenomenon a “hoax” invented by the Chinese. (snip)

Under the newly released strategy, which aims to rapidly “decarbonize” America, emissions would be slashed about 80 percent by 2050, compared with levels set in 2005. The U.S. has already promised a 26 percent to 28 percent cut in emissions by 2025 and would build on those pledges through a transition to renewable energy production, carbon removal technology and efforts to curb emissions from agriculture and other sources.

Good news: President Trump will axe these goals and projects. Here’s where it gets really fun

Kerry used his speech to urge those in power to “do your own due diligence before making irrevocable choices.”

“No one has a right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology or without proper input,” he said. “Anyone who has these conversations, who takes the time to learn from these experts, who gets the full picture of what we’re facing ― I believe they can only come to one legitimate decision, and that is to act boldly on climate change and encourage others to do the same.”

Sounds like he’s making these decisions for billions based on a cultish ideology and with only the facts from that narrow viewpoint. He says to do your own due diligence, then trots out the Warmist viewpoint. This is what they do.

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Who’s Up For A 12 Step Program For Responding To President Trump?

By William Teach November 17, 2016 – 7:57 am

NY Times hyperventalist Nicholas Kristof provides this for all those who have been traumatized by the election of Donald Trump. Missing is anything on liberals stopping their violence, stopping their creation of hate crime hoaxes, stopping their vandalism

A 12-Step Program for Responding to President-Elect Trump

1. I WILL accept that my side lost, but I won’t acquiesce in injustice and I will gird for battle on issues I care about. I will call or write my member of Congress and express my opposition to mass deportation, to cutting 22 million people off health insurance, to nominations of people who are unqualified or bigoted, to reduced access to contraception and cancer screenings. Better yet, I’ll attend my representative’s town meeting and put him or her on the spot.

Here’s a phrase that Obama used early on: “I won.” And “the election is over” to John McCain, meaning McCain lost, as did his policy prescriptions. And “elections have consequences.”

2. I WILL try to do small things in my own life, recognizing that they are inadequate but at least a start: I will sign up on the Council on American-Islamic Relations website, volunteering to fight Islamophobia. I’ll call a local mosque to offer support, or join an interfaith event. I will sign up for an “accompany my neighbor” list if one exists for my area, to be an escort for anyone who is now in fear.

Full stop: Kristoff is advocating that people join CAIR, a group that is linked to the radical Islamist group Muslim Brotherhood, which is recognized in many nations as a terrorist group, and is the base of so many terrorist groups around the world. They want the destruction of Israel, just like Iran. They want to force their hardcore Islamic beliefs, the same things groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah believe in, on the United States.

3. I WILL avoid demonizing people who don’t agree with me about this election, recognizing that it’s as wrong to stereotype Trump supporters as anybody else. I will avoid Hitler metaphors, recognizing that they stop conversations and rarely persuade. I’ll remind myself that no side has a monopoly on truth and that many Trump supporters are good people who want the best for the country. The left already has gotten into trouble for condescending to working-class people, and insulting all Trump supporters as racists simply magnifies that problem.

We could really end this right here, because it is entirely too late for this. Heck, it was too late back in 2004. Progressivism is all about intolerance for the viewpoints of people who do not vote Democrat. Excepting those who are Islamic extremists in other countries, who can’t vote in our elections. Liberals love protecting them.

5. I WILL support groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that fight hate groups, and back the center’s petition calling on Donald Trump to disavow bigotry. Depending on my interests, I’ll support an immigration rights group, the A.C.L.U. or Planned Parenthood. And I’ll subscribe to a newspaper as one way of resisting efforts to squelch the news media or preside over a post-fact landscape — and also to encourage journalists to be watchdogs, not lap dogs.

LOL! He wants you to subscribe to the NY Times, because their circulation is collapsing, and now he wants journalists to do their jobs. Where was this attitude 8 years ago?

6. I WILL support refugees, one of the most demonized groups in the world.

Hey, Nick, why don’t you offer to host these same refugees? Have them in your town? How about recommending that for your peeps? Oh, you don’t want your town turned into a 3rd world shithole, with all sorts of rape, violence, crime, abuse, denigration of women, and such that we see in Europe? Huh.

8. I WILL resist dwelling in an echo chamber.

Too late. This entire piece is an echo chamber.

9. I WILL do what I can in my own life to make sure that the needy aren’t forgotten in the next four years amid paroxysms of tax cuts for the wealthy.

No, they won’t. Liberals are chincy when it comes to using their own money to support charity. That’s The Government’s job.

11. I WILL take on sexism and misogyny, which in forms like domestic violence, sexual assault and sex trafficking affect women and girls across the country.

Weird how most of this occurs in areas run by Democrats, such as college campuses.

12. I WILL not lose hope. I will keep reminding myself that politics zigs and zags, and that I can do more than shout in the wind. I can fight for my values even between elections, and even at the micro level I can mitigate the damage to my neighbors and attempt to heal a social fabric that has been rent.

Good thing liberals aren’t using demeaning words/phrases like “Dumbfuckistan”, “Jesusland”, and “Flyover Country” in an attempt to heal. And, Kristoff seems to give liberals the ability to get out in the streets and fight. Which they are more then willing to do.

Here’s an easy 3 step process post election for liberals, based on the words of Barack Obama early on: “sit down, shut up, and we’ll drive. You can come for the ride, but you have to sit in the back.”

 

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Executive Power: What Obama’s Pen Giveth, Trump’s Sharpie And Twitter Can Take Away

By William Teach November 17, 2016 – 7:31 am

In the immediate aftermath of Trump’s historic win, Sean Dean wrote a piece about 10 things that will be cool again. Things like making jokes about the president, gridlock and obstruction, war protests, and, get this executive power.

A Trump presidency will do wonders in restoring beliefs in limits on executive power. The unitary executive is old and busted. The new hotness is bipartisan compromise across each branch of government.

Liberals are going to be shocked when Trump uses executive power to roll back the Era Of Obama

Washington’s massive about-face on executive power is underway.

Donald Trump’s election has triggered a whiplash-inducing role reversal in D.C. legal circles, as liberals who spent the past eight years defending President Barack Obama’s use of his executive authority prepare to challenge Trump’s plans on issues like immigration, the environment and transgender rights, while conservatives who railed against Obama for acting unilaterally on those fronts seem ready to back the new president’s moves.

Republicans are all-in on using that power to roll back Obama’s executive orders, all the things Obama did via executive power that avoided the constitutionally elected legislative branch. If he starts going beyond that, well, he might find a bit of pushback.

“Whatever Obama’s pen and phone giveth, Trump’s Sharpie and Twitter can taketh away,” said Josh Blackman, a conservative law professor at the South Texas College of Law. “Obama has set all these dangerous precedents….All the shortcuts Obama took are now coming home to roost.”

Of course, Democrats will manufacture reasons to suddenly say that Trump can’t do the same things Obama did, such as

Obama’s defenders say executive action was rarely the president’s first choice, but effectively his only one, in order to pursue policy priorities in the face of a recalcitrant Congress.

The problem here is that Obama was doing this while the Democrats owned Congress during 2009 and 2010. He often simply ignored Congress during that time period, as well, and often didn’t even bother attempting to work with Congress. He would say he wants this piece of legislation, but fail to follow through in discussing it with Congress, even people of his own Party. There was no attempt to do a bit of the old give a little get a little. He would announce something he wanted to do, immediately demonize Congressional Republicans, then go ahead and do it through executive orders.

Trump will use his sharpie to whack a goodly chunk of Obama’s EO’s and federal regulations. Some in total, some partly. His picks for leadership of federal agencies can force through rulemaking changes to counter those from Obama’s minions. They can make things like killing the Clean Power Plan and the Waters of the United States, approving Keysone XL, and so much more, happen. Stopping the abuse from the Dept of Education which used mob tactics when they told school that refused to allow the gender confused to use the opposite sex bathrooms “be a shame if something happened to your federal funding.”

In many things Trump would have the support of the Congress, such as pulling federal funding from cities that shelter illegal aliens, the sanctuary cities. In other cases, all Trump has to do is tell the Executive Office agencies to follow existing federal law.

All in all, it will be fun watching Liberals suddenly be against all they loved during Obama’s time.

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Liberal Cities Are The Only Hope For Climate Change Action Or Something

By William Teach November 16, 2016 – 3:58 pm

This is supposed to be in rebuke to soon-to-be-inaugurated President Trump, but, it really says something different

America’s Cities Are the Only Hope for Climate Change Action

Last week’s U.S. election makes clear that subnational actors—especially cities—are America’s only hope now in terms of climate action. Climate policy cannot take a sabbatical and wait another four years or another election cycle for more aggressive action.

What follows is a lot of whining about Trump and his potential policies, as you can imagine, leading to

This is why cities must be—and will be—at the fore of climate action going forward. This is increasingly clear, from the U.S. to the U.K., as new leaderships abdicate responsibility in protecting their populations from fossil-fueled harm to our health, our economies and our environment.

Since cities are responsible for nearly three-quarters of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions, and the majority of the world’s population lives in cities, cities are the right places to focus, and some are stepping up to demonstrate this leadership. Leading cities, like the cities of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, are stepping up and moving fast and furiously towards more livable, sustainable cities, irrespective of national government support or lack thereof.

Making America great is about ensuring that its people are healthy and happy, its economies and environments are thriving, and its security is sound. One of the clearest and most present dangers that is poised to undo this greatness is dirty fossil fuels. They harm health, they’re costly to our economy, they kill our environment and they undermine our security. Any claim to the contrary is not supported by the facts.

Here’s the thing: why haven’t these cities, which are essentially hotbeds of hardcore Progressivism and ‘climate change’ belief, already doing all these things regarding climate action? They take lots of little steps, which don’t amount to much beyond “spreading awareness.” They really aren’t putting their money, and liberty, where their mouths are. They can talk the talk, but, not walk the walk. Why don’t they ban fossil fueled vehicles, and require that all power be derived from renewables? Institute carbon taxes? Require that all food be local? And so on? Why? Because it would be inconvenient for these Warmists, plus, expensive as hell, not too mention reducing their own lifestyles, increase their cost of living, and reduce their liberty. The negative parts of their beliefs should always be on Other People.

Let’s start the whole thing by banning fossil fuels of any type in the big cities.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 16, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…are icicles created by carbon pollution melting, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on Democratic Party anti-Semitism.

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Are You Ready For The “Suck It Up, Buttercup” Bill?

By William Teach November 16, 2016 – 10:20 am

This should be proposed at the national level, as well

(Daily Caller)  A state legislator In Iowa has announced his plan to introduce a bill intended to prevent public colleges and universities in the state from using taxpayer money to fund protest events, safe spaces and “cry zones” for students who are traumatized that Donald Trump won last week’s U.S. presidential election.

The lawmaker is Bobby Kaufmann, a Republican from the tiny town of Wilton, about 30 miles east of Iowa City.

Kaufmann has titled his bill the “suck it up, buttercup bill” and will introduce it when the state legislature convenes its regular session in January, reports The Des Moines Register.

One would think that it would be too late, come January, however, you know that the Safe Space crowd is still going to be going strong, and will surely last for as long as Trump is president.

“If you want to do this on your own, that’s your democratic, First Amendment right,” the Iowa lawmaker declared. “But I’m going to find out exactly how many taxpayer dollars are being used for these cry zones and for all these different safe zones — you can talk about your feelings — and I’m going to take whatever that number is, and we’re going to triple it and cut that from the university budget. If you can afford that, then your budget is too big.”

“I have decided to officially call this the suck-it-up-buttercup bill,” Kaufmann added.

He should probably include a provision to make sure no live animals are involved, because, really, how safe can a puppy or kitten be around unhinged Special Snowflakes?

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NY Times Totally Wants Trump To Help Heal The Planet’s Climate

By William Teach November 16, 2016 – 8:28 am

Members of the Cult of Climastrology are starting to get the idea that Donald Trump is actually going to do the things he said he would do in attempting to kill of ‘climate change’, at least as governmental policy goes, and are hoping against hope that the Cult can dissuade him. Here’s the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman giving it a while

Donald Trump, Help Heal the Planet’s Climate Change Problem

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However, I’m not going to spend every day hoping you fail. Too much is at stake. Since you’re clearly rethinking some of your extreme campaign promises, the right response for me is principled engagement. So let’s start now: Please revisit your claim that climate change is a hoax. (snip)

At the same time, please understand, if you appoint a climate-change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency and walk America away from the Paris accord, which committed 190 countries to reduce their emissions of the carbon dioxide pollutants that warm the planet, you will trigger a ferocious reaction by young people in America and across Europe. The backlash in Europe will totally undermine your ability to lead the Western alliance.

And as the climate physicist Joe Romm put it to me, do you really want to risk “going down in history as the man who killed the world’s last, best chance to avoid catastrophic warming”?

Catastrophic! Doom! Here’s an interesting question: what if Trump kills off as much governmental genuflecting to the Cult of Climastrology, and nothing happens? The CoC has been proclaiming doom for decades, yet, it has not come to pass, so, rather than reconsider their hypothesis, they change the data. Oh, and put out even more dire prognostications.

There is a better way — for you. You can frame the entire shift in your position in terms of free-market economics.

And everything Thomas discusses revolves around governmental use of power, which is the opposite of free market economics. Without government, solar and wind would be nowhere. It would be great if the free market would work towards a higher use of renewables, but, there is no profit in it.

Then we have Special Snowflake Geoff Dembicki

Trump Has Declared Climate War. But My Generation Will Win.

Donald J. Trump’s positions on climate change amount to a declaration of war on young people like me. But millennials have a stronger position in this fight than it may first appear.

Your generation can barely get out of the house, and are mesmerized by things like taking photos of coffee, food, and themselves. Your generation needs safe spaces filled with coloring books and stuffed dolls. Your generation is getting itself into massive student loans debt while taking classes that preclude actually getting hired, as those degrees not only provide no life skills, but are deemed threats for lawsuits. Your generation is apparently, according to your own talking points, one of rape culture. You’re delicate Special Snowflakes who shriek like a 2 year old when things don’t go your way and/or you’re exposed to views that are different from yours.

I turned 30 a few months ago. I was in Paris last year for the historic climate agreement Mr. Trump now wants to abrogate. As I watched Mr. Trump win the presidency, I was tempted to abandon all the hope I’d felt in France. He is ready to sacrifice my generation and all the others that will follow it for the limited, short-term economic payoff that comes with burning more fossil fuels.

How did Geoff get to Paris? He spends a lot of the article providing whines about fossil fuels. Why is he using them?

But I know something Mr. Trump doesn’t, which lets me feel a glimmer of hope: People my age may be able to prevent him from making us pay for his mistakes. We have more power to stall, and perhaps defeat, his climate plan than our elders seem to be aware of.

Yeah, you can do a lot from your safe spaces.

For Mr. Trump to succeed with his destructive environmental policies — and endanger my generation’s future — he will have to reckon with this profound generational shift. If millennials continue to reject careers in oil and gas, swell the ranks of the divestment movement and do everything we can to keep fossil fuels in the ground, Mr. Trump’s plan to repudiate the Paris agreement and expand drilling in the United States will become unfeasible.

If Trump does what he says, and gets the economy running on all cylinders, most of these Millenials will ditch their Hotcoldwetdry beliefs as they enjoy the prosperity that ‘climate change’ policies have helped stifle.

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Latest Trump Outrage: He Went To Dinner Without The Press Pool!

By William Teach November 16, 2016 – 7:58 am

I first heard about this when I walked in from work, turned the TV on, and, being that it was still on MSNBC, I was treated to uber-leftist host Rachel Maddow (who rails against income inequality while getting paid a huge salary) having a meltdown over Trump going to dinner without the press pool. This was terrible! Terrible! Then, this morning, they were still having a tizzy on Morning Joe. Seriously, if this is a Big Deal, the next 4-8 years is going to be a hoot

(NBC News) In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.

The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.

The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.

OMG, no press! It’s anti-Democracy! It’s against the 1st Amendment! I’m not making that up. That’s what one of Morning Joe’s guests actually stated (don’t ask me which one, I was listening, not watching).

(CBS News) President-elect Donald Trump has broken with protocol by leaving his Trump Tower residence without taking along his press contingent.

Protocol! The worst ever!

(CNN) For the second time in a week, president-elect Donald Trump has abandoned precedent and traveled without the “press pool,” a small group of journalists assigned to cover his movements.

His surprise trip on Tuesday evening was met by sharp criticism from some journalists.

Oh, poor babies. Seriously, some are actually calling themselves a “protective pool,” like they are there to protect the President and President-elect, rather than being vultures.

Seriously, there are stories all over the media, all apoplectic over Trump going to dinner without telling them. Which is hilarious, considering the way the media was treated by Obama over all these years. Going back to the NBC fable, we read

A week after the election, Trump hasn’t yet held a press conference, the longest any recent president has waited to speak to the press. That continues a weeks-long drought that’s been going on since mid-summer, when Trump last answered questions from the press.

Obama rarely held press conferences, and went months and months without one. Hillary did the same while she was running for POTUS. The media acted more like slobbering sycophants rather than being Very Upset over this lack of transparency. My goodness, if this riles them up into Level 7 Moonbattery, I can’t wait till he takes office and does something of actual consequence, like approving Keystone XL pipeline, whacking many Obamacare provisions, killing off the Paris climate agreement, etc.

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Obama’s Paris Climate Agreement: The Lowest Form Of Commitment That Can Be Made

By William Teach November 15, 2016 – 6:03 pm

Why yes, yes President Donald Trump will easily be able to axe the Paris climate agreement. This follows up with the climate post this morning about commitments

(Jo Nova)  The UNFCCC were trying a weak bluff last week that Trump “would not derail Paris”. Turnbull rushed to sell Australia out to the Paris deal on Nov 10th for no purpose at all even after the US election guarantees two of the largest economies in the world will not be committed to carbon reduction, all of which was obvious from November 9th, 2016. (China — the other “largest” economy has promised to do nothing.)

In a letter to John Kerry on November 3rd,  fourteen US senators explained that Obama’s commitment to the Paris deal is the legal equivalent of him  giving a speech — the “lowest forms of commitment the United States can make…”. It’s worthless.  The Senators explained that everyone knows the Paris deal was done to avoid going through Congress (it’s printed in The Guardian) because Congress would never approve it.

Here’s part of the letter sent

And there’s this

When you read the whole thing in full, putting it all in context, you come away with the concrete idea that both the Paris climate agreement, along with Obama Clean Power Plan, which was mentioned, are both about to be burnt toast. Done. Gone. Outa here. Eliminated.

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