If All You See…

By William Teach November 15, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is carbon pollution world where it’s so hot it snows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on who won and who lost.

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Republicans Look To Axe Billions In “Climate Finance”

By William Teach November 15, 2016 – 10:30 am

Here’s some very good news. Though, not good for the Cult of Climastrology (via Watts Up With That?)

Republicans plan multi-billion dollar climate budget raid

US Republicans are expected to axe billions of dollars in climate finance when they take the White House and Congress in January.

Funds to help poor countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and develop sustainably will be redirected to domestic priorities.

“We are going to cancel billions in payments to the UN climate change programmes and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure,” said President-elect Donald Trump in his 22 October Gettysburg address.1

With a Republican majority in the Senate and House of Representatives, there appears to be little standing in his way.

Because redirecting this money, which, for the most part, has never been allocated by the US Congress, back to the American people and their needs is a Bad Thing in Warmist World.

Notably, the US promised $3 billion towards the UN-backed Green Climate Fund, of which just $500m has been delivered.1 The outstanding sum is a major chunk of the $10bn seed money donated to the flagship scheme.

No, Obama promised that money. He failed to ask the people given the power of the purse to provide it. As David Middleton writes at WUWT?

The U.S. has no “climate finance commitments.”  Outgoing President Obama had a commitment.  He made the promise.  These United States did not make any promises or commitments.  The only ways in which this country could have made such a promise would have been through a treaty or legislation. (snip)

“President Obama’s personal championing of the cause” and his channeling of “diplomatic efforts into persuading G20 allies, for example, to stump up” were his efforts and his alone.  The fact that virtually none of those efforts were sent to Congress for ratification or enabling legislation means that they will be null & void on January 20, 2017.

If Warmists are upset about this, then they should have run these projects through Congress, and Obama could have worked to persuade them to back up his commitments. He didn’t. He didn’t even try. So, now, if Obama and the Cult of Climastrology want this money, they can use their own. Obama can pony up money from his own bank account. Warmists can donate their own money. They can hold fundraisers and stuff. They won’t, though. They’re always fine with this kind of thing till they have to see a hit to their own cash.

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Washington Post Columnist Hopes Trump Fails

By William Teach November 15, 2016 – 7:55 am

Remember when Rush Limbaugh stated that he wanted Obama to fail? Liberal heads throughout the media and the rest of Liberal World exploded. They proclaimed that Rush was now the leader of the Republican party, and that wanting Obama to fail was wishing that the country would fail. Ruth Marcus re-iterated this just the other day, in a missive where she straddled the line hoping Trump’s policies fail but, somehow, his presidency doesn’t. Nationally syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post just hopes for failure

Where I wish President Trump failure

The people chose Hillary Clinton. But it’s the electoral vote that counts, not the popular vote, so Donald Trump will be president. And no, I’m not over it.

Apparently he hates American “democracy.”

If a normal Republican had been elected, I could say the polite and socially acceptable thing, something like “I didn’t support So-and-So, but he will be my president, too, and I wish him success.” But I cannot wish Trump success in rounding up and deporting millions of people or banning Muslims from entering the country or reinstituting torture as an instrument of U.S. policy. In these and other divisive, cruel, unwise initiatives, I wish him failure.

Of course, that’s exactly what so many voted for. Getting rid of illegals and stopping extremist Muslims from entering the country.

But he has not earned our trust or hope. Rather, he has earned the demonstrations that have erupted in cities across the country. He has earned relentless scrutiny by journalists, whom he shamelessly made into scapegoats during the campaign, and he has earned the constant vigilance of the public he now must serve.

See? It’s Trump’s fault that liberals are running riot in the streets, damaging, destroying, and burning, er, their own areas and stuff.

There have been more than 200 reports since the election of harassment and hate crimes, mostly directed at minorities, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. During an interview broadcast Sunday on “60 Minutes,” Trump addressed his supporters: “I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it.”

A goodly chunk of those incidents blamed on Trump supporters were hoaxes and actually done by Trump haters. Why does Eugene not call for Democrats to “stop it”?

If Trump is beginning to confront reality on some fronts, that’s a first step — in a thousand-mile journey toward credibility and respect. But appointing Bannon is a big step backward. We must watch Trump, and judge him, every single inch of the way.

When we did that with Obama, something the media utterly failed to do, we were called racists. Since Trump is white and Eugene is black, does that mean that Eugene is a racist?

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Liberal Derision Helps Explain Why They Lost

By William Teach November 15, 2016 – 7:30 am

What we’re seeing right now is shades of the 2004 general election aftermath, with the added bonus of lots of violence and property damage, mostly by Democrat voters. And liberals do not seem to get why they’ve been repudiated. Before we get to that, let’s consider

Then we get this from Jill Lawrence at USA Today, whining about blue America not being heard, and something else

Poor, poor pitiful flyover country. Never getting the attention or respect or economic consideration it deserves. Never having a president to call its own.

Very unfair!

Right there, you can feel the derision and condescension from Ms. Lawrence, as typified within the Democratic Party base. Already, Democrats have trotted out the dusty 2004 memes of “Dumbfuckistan”, “Jesusland”, and flyover country, that being the nicest. But, it still shows that uber-leftist sneering at people who do not live in the big cities, who live in the suburbs, farming country, and so on. Do you vote for a party that denigrates you and de-values you?

As for having a say, Republicans are now completely in charge — governors and legislatures — in 24 states, up from 20 before the election. They have partial control in many more. These states are in flyover country, in the South, even in New England. If that’s not getting your voice heard, what is?

That’s what happens when you not only revile people as being part of flyover country, but, treat interest groups (blacks, white working class, latinos, etc) as yours, but don’t put the work in.

It’s also a fact that the economy has greatly improved on Obama’s watch, but obviously there are areas that are left behind. Rust Belt voters in particular placed their bets on Trump. This is ironic given that Obama saved their auto industry while most Republicans opposed the bailout and Trump himself was both for it and against it.

The economy may have gotten a bit better post-recession, but, it has tended to be better for those who are rich in the Obama economy. Those same auto industries have seen manufacturing continue to move to Canada and Mexico (while foreign auto makers, not part of the bailout for the most part, have settled in “flyover” country). Rust belt voters apparently think different from the hoity toity Ms. Lawrence.

Give Obama credit where credit is due: he’s a Tier One campaigner, one of the best of all time. He made people feel special and engaged them. He went to the counties and cities. He talked to them. Yet, that did not translate to down-ballot races, partly because Dems didn’t seem to like many of the people who they expected to vote for them. Do not expect this to get better anytime soon, as Dems trot out their continued hatred for flyover country, along with calling all the Trump voters racists, sexists, xenophobes, and so forth.

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Who’s Going To Pay For ‘Climate Change’ Policies Is A Thorny Issue

By William Teach November 14, 2016 – 3:04 pm

Funny how Hotcoldwetdry keeps coming back to things that have nothing to do with science, but money (and politics)

Thorny issue of who will pay for climate damage simmers at UN talks

One of the thorniest issues at the UN climate talks is ‘loss and damage’, which touches on payment for repairing the harm done by climate change. Could the ongoing meeting in Marrakesh deliver some clarity on this controversial discussion?

It comes down to 3rd world shit holes developing countries using that sweet, sweet money forcibly taken from citizens of the 1st world as pushed by 1st world elites who refuse to pony up their own money and have giant sized carbon footprints.

This is exactly the kind of elitism that people rebelled against on Election Day. Even the Bernie Sanders supporters were rebelling against the elites. Brexit was much against the elites. Will the elites get it?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 14, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is snow which school kids will soon never experience, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On the Right, with a post on Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder.

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Global Warming Is Headed Towards The Tipping Point, You Guys!

By William Teach November 14, 2016 – 10:30 am

I thought the tipping point was already here? No? We can add this as another in a long line of unhinged tipping point failed prognostications

As Trump Heads to Washington, Global Warming Nears Tipping Point

Global temperatures continue to shatter records this year, rising to within less than one degree of the level that scientists say would be catastrophic, according to the United Nations.

During the first nine months of the year, temperatures were 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.16 degrees Fahrenheit) above those recorded at the end of the 1800s, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization said in a report Monday. If the Earth warms more than 2 degrees beyond those pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned that climate change could hit an irreversible tipping point, unleashing a torrent of floods, droughts and storms.

Of course, this is all your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle, not handwashing your clothes, using a cable box, and not growing your own food. Oh, and for refusing to give up your liberty and money to Centralized Government. All required despite a lack of scientific proof.

Global temperatures are already more than halfway to U.N. climate target

The planet is now more than halfway to the line scientists say we can’t cross if we’re going to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Catastrophic! So, why aren’t Warmists living the life of a peasant in 1499?

Sweltering 2016 to set heat record, stoked by man-made warming: WMO

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The heat, with impacts such as melting Greenland ice and damage to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, was stoked by an El Nino weather event in the Pacific early in the year and by man-made greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels.

What’s missing is science. The Cult of Climastrology has simply deemed that they are correct, and Everyone Else must comply. And they’ll take lots of fossil fueled trips to demand it!

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Still One Of My Favorite Trump Protest Photos

By William Teach November 14, 2016 – 9:00 am

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Maureen Dowd: Obama Failed To Understand The Obama Revolution

By William Teach November 14, 2016 – 7:14 am

Love her or hate her, the NY Times’ Maureen Dowd often provides interesting reads. She’s never seemed to be a big fan of Obama over the years, and has never shy’d away from taking him to task. Now she provides an interesting take on why Trump won, and puts a lot of blame on Obama

Obama Lobbies Against Obliteration by Trump

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Out of a hailstorm of unfathomable things during the week, one sticks out to me: How can it be that in the end, Barack Obama did not understand the Obama revolution?

He came away from that elated whoosh in 2008 not comprehending that many voters viewed him as the escape hatch from Clinton Inc. It never would have occurred to anyone then — even the Clintons — that President Obama would be the one to brush away any aversions and objections, take us by the elbow, and firmly steer us back to Clinton Inc.

Voters waited in line for hours at those early Obama rallies because they wanted thunderous change. They wanted a newcomer who didn’t look like the old dudes on our money, someone who would bust up the incestuous system and give us, as the poster said, hope.

But Obama lost touch with his revolutionary side and settled comfortably into being an Ivy League East Coast cerebral elitist who hung out with celebrities, lectured Congress and scorned the art of political persuasion.

In other words, all the hopey changey he promised became not only more of the same, but Obama became the very thing he campaigned against.

He was cozy with Silicon Valley and dismissive of working-class voters anxious about globalization, shrugging that “We’re part of an interconnected global economy now, and there’s no going back from that.” He was dismissive of Americans anxious about terrorism after the Paris attacks, noting that you’d be more likely to die from a bathtub fall.

For all his faults, Bill Clinton was able to put forth an attitude that he understood the average American, and that he could not only empathize, but sympathize, an attitude that neither Hillary nor Obama could do. Obama was always the guy on the pedestal, and, once in office, continued to show that He Knows Better, and that all you citizens with concerns are just silly.

The man who swept into the White House in a boisterous rebellion was dismissive of the boisterous rebellions in both the Democratic and Republican Parties. He insisted that an incrementalist and fellow Ivy League East Coast cerebral elitist who hangs out with celebrities would be best to save his legacy.

The elitists in the Executive Branch, from Obama down to the people he appointed, helped create the next revolution, both from the Sanders camp and the Trump camp. Obama said he would drain the swamp. He became King Lizard of the swamp.

As she cuddled up to Wall Street, Hillary forgot about the forgotten man — and woman. Bill complained in meetings that campaign manager Robby Mook was ignoring white working-class voters, according to Politico, but his concern was waved off as the plea of “a talented but aging politician who simply refused to accept the new Democratic map.”

Love him or hate him, Bill tends to have a good finger on the pulse of the voter. These workers had been mostly ignored during Obama’s years, and were now being ignored by Team Hillary.

There’s plenty more in the Dowd piece, well worth a full read, where she takes Obama and Hillary to task for essentially being the very elitists that are out of touch with the common American. The very ones who put Trump into the White House.

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Trump Horrifies Liberals With Plans To Immediately Deport/Jail Up To 3 Million Illegals

By William Teach November 14, 2016 – 6:56 am

This has, as you can guess, sent liberals into apoplexy. The Daily Kos’ Hunter is now referring to Trump as President-Elect Pumpkinführer. Others are following suit

(CBS News) President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration stance was a central part of his campaign message in 2016 — and he said in an interview airing Sunday that he plans to immediately deport approximately two to three million undocumented immigrants.

“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”

Leftists are trying to make a case that there aren’t that many with criminal backgrounds, even when considering that crossing the border illegally is illegal. They forget that roughly 40-45% of the illegals in the country overstayed their visas, which is even more criminal than those who jumped the border.

Regardless, this gives a good view into how Liberals will respond to the era of Trump, meaning meltdowns and severe opposition to everything he proposes, regardless of whether it is good policy or not. Deporting those with criminal backgrounds? How dare he!  A lollipop a day to kids under 8? That’s horrific! Der Fuhrer is trying to ruin their teeth! He’s the most awful thing ever!

He continued by saying that after the border is “secure,” immigration officials will begin to make a “determination” about the remaining undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

“After the border is secure and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that they’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that,” he said. “But before we make that determination…it’s very important, we are going to secure our border.”

Does anyone think this might include a pathway to citizenship? For some, sure, I do think we can look at it, with requirements like they must speak, and preferably read, English. They must pay penalties and fees like those who attempted to become citizens the legal way. Being able to pass the citizenship test (interestingly, something quite a bit of citizens can’t). No criminal history, and this includes misdemeanors.

Remember, though, I told you long ago that Trump was pro-pathway to citizenship. He’s said it, his staff has said it, his son has said it. Once he’s inaugurated, we’ll see what he actually does. Will he change all of Obama’s illegal alien orders? Will he institute policies whereby illegals are almost immediately deported? The best thing he can do is create an atmosphere whereby illegals, whether border jumpers or visa overstayers, don’t. They just do not come. Cross the border and be caught? Put them right back over the border. Overstay your visa? Gather your stuff, you’re being put on a plane, and your bank account will pay for it.

Illegal immigration is one of Trump’s top priorities, and some of his biggest promises. Just 66 days to see how he handles it.

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