Democrats Upset Biden Was Allowed To Speak “Late At Night”

By William Teach February 9, 2024 – 3:00 pm

This is delicious

From the link

For years now, President Biden‘s advisers have carefully choreographed his every move to avoid what exploded into view over six hours Thursday: a vivid display of an elderly, irritable man struggling on a public stage.

Why it matters: Days after repeatedly referencing talks with dead world leaders, Biden, 81, went before cameras to bash a just-released special counsel’s report that portrayed him as feeble and forgetful — and then confused Egypt’s president with Mexico’s. (snip)

One House Democrat called Biden’s verbal slip-ups “awful,” and wondered why the president’s staff allowed him to hold a press conference — then field reporters’ shouted questions — “that late at night after a full day,” instead of Friday morning, when he’d be “fresh.”

I wasn’t aware that 7:45pm was “that late at night”. I guess if you get up to do the 6-9/10 radio show it might be late. But, considering his “full day” started at 245pm Thursday in Leesburg, Va, which is not that far up the road from D.C., then back to the White House, and Joe didn’t have to drive at all, doesn’t seem like he did much. And, since he’s going back to Delaware this afternoon, he gets to relax all weekend. Again.

I suspect his handlers are going to start hiding him again, like in 2020. Can they trot him out there for even scripted events, because he messes them up.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 9, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible extreme amounts of heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on the 1st Amendment being dead like the rest.

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NY Democrats Get Tough On Immigration Or Something

By William Teach February 9, 2024 – 10:30 am

I’m quite confident that they will offer some excellent ideas on securing the border and discouraging people from coming illegally, right?

New York Democrats finally get aggressive in border fight

Democrats in New York are finally going on the attack over border security and crime — just in time to test the strategy in the first House election of the year.

It took cinematic levels of dysfunction in Washington — from the scuttled impeachment inquiry into the homeland security secretary to failed attempts at a border deal — for Democrats to get mobilized around the politically volatile issues after years of playing defense.

Just this week, both centrist Democratic politicians and liberal coalitions put forth strategies to try to recover ground. Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded the migrants who attacked police officers in Times Square be jailed and New York City’s police commissioner lamented a “wave of migrant crime” in efforts to show spine on the matter.

Progressives sharpened their own message, writing in a memo: “There is no connection between immigration and crime,” while blaming Republicans in an email for “the same xenophobic playbook we’ve seen countless times from Donald Trump and others before.”

Nope, no crime

No crime

OK, let’s see them getting aggressive

The left-leaning [NY Working Family Party] and its allies have been scrambling to combat the political onslaught from the right with nuance and statistics: The memo that Archila’s party released Tuesday stressed that the Times Square violence is an anomaly — a claim backed up with academic studies — and argued newcomers have for centuries enriched communities.

1199SEIU, the politically influential health care workers union, proffered similar points.

“You have to keep saying nobody is for chaos and disorder,” interim Political Director Helen Schaub said in an interview. “But the alternative to chaos and disorder has to be an orderly legal immigration process versus just shutting it down because, frankly, that hurts all of us.”

Basically, it’s all about messaging. No offerings for actually dealing with the illegal alien problem. That’s them getting aggressive. I wonder how this will play in the SCNY areas overrun with illegals, especially those committing crimes.

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Your Behavior Must Be Changed To Stop Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach February 9, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s strange: one would think that Warmists would voluntarily change their behavior, not have Certain People within the Cult of Climsastrology find ways to force that change. If they really believe

Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Abstract
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people’s initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.

Unsurprisingly, government force is required

The second outcome was support for climate change mitigation policy (nine items; e.g., “I support raising carbon taxes on gas/fossil fuels/coal”). Given that successful climate mitigation requires large-scale policy reform (1) and the public’s support for climate policies is the top predictor of policy adoption (27), this outcome variable reflects the importance of impactful systemic change, rather than private mitigation efforts based on individual decision-making (28–30). Recent work argues that individual-level behaviors should be targeted alongside structural changes (31), especially since framing climate change as an individual level problem can backfire, leading to feelings of helplessness and concerns about free riding (32, 33).

This is a long, long, long paper, which, much like the new Roadhouse movie, did anyone ask for it? Or, is it just a matter of government gave them lots of money or they wanted to find a way to get lots of money from government, which is happy to piss taxpayer money away on cult science?

Here, climate change beliefs were strengthened most by decreasing the psychological distance of climate change. Support for climate change mitigation policy was increased mostly by writing a letter to be read in the future by a socially close child, describing one’s current climate change mitigation actions. Willingness to share climate change information on social media was increased most by inducing negative emotions through “doom and gloom”–styled messaging about the consequences of climate change. Last, while half of the tested interventions had no effect on the effortful tree-planting behavior, the other half of the interventions reduced the number of trees participants planted. Beyond revealing the utility of harnessing a multioutcome approach, these results also highlight the need for tailoring interventions to target outcomes.

I’d love to see what they wrote. “Hey, I changed a few lightbulbs.” “Hey, I drove a fossil fueled vehicle to a protest.” “Hey, I threw soup on artwork and glued myself to something.” “But, the hell if I’m going to give up my own massive 1st World carbon footprint.” Seriously, why should anyone make any changes when the Elites don’t, and the biggest climate cultists do not?

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LOL: Special Council Report Refers To Biden As Elderly With Poor Memory

By William Teach February 9, 2024 – 6:45 am

This has sent Democrat supporters into apoplexy

‘A nightmare’: Special counsel’s assessment of Biden’s mental fitness triggers Democratic panic

President Joe Biden sidestepped any criminal charges as the investigation into his handling of classified documents concluded, but the political blowback from the special counsel’s report Thursday could prove even more devastating, reinforcing impressions that he is too old and impaired to hold the highest office.

If it were you or me we would have been charged. If it was some low level federal bureaucrat or staffer they would have been charged. But, a guy who really, truly, should have known better, no biggie. Which is the reverse, where the higher you go the more accountable you should be

Biden Brain SuckerSpecial counsel Robert Hur’s portrait of a man who couldn’t remember when he served as Barack Obama’s vice president, or the year when his beloved son Beau died, dealt a blow to Biden’s argument that he is still sharp and fit enough to serve another four-year term.

In deciding not to charge Biden with any crimes, the special counsel wrote that in a potential trial, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

It was tough enough for Biden to reassure voters about his heath before Hur’s report hit like a thunderclap Thursday afternoon, prompting members of his own party to question whether he could remain the nominee in November.

“It’s a nightmare,” said a Democratic House member who asked to speak anonymously to provide a frank assessment, adding that “it weakens President Biden electorally, and Donald Trump would be a disaster and an authoritarian.”

I’m rather surprised the news media is even mentioning it, and, I’m not seeing many shy away. The Big Three cover it, NY Times, Washington Post, and so many others, so, either they’re trying to figure out how to counteract this, or, they want to replace Biden. You can bet Trump will be repeating this again and again and again. If he’s smart. No need to throw out his normal insults, just read the relevant part of the report.

(Breitbart) “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the report states. “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.”

“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

Hur’s report is riddled with examples and assessments that Biden’s mental faculties and memory have deteriorated, saying, “Mr. Biden’s memory also appeared to have significant limitations.”

Yikes. And

In his interview with our office… He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013, when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”).

If the GOP is smart (but, we know their messaging tends to be garbage) they’d focus on this, but, wait till Biden is the nominee so it would be tough to replace him

That would be falsifying a federal document.

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Ford Reassess Their EV Strategy

By William Teach February 8, 2024 – 3:00 pm

What happens when you rush pell mell into manufacturing vehicles only a small number of people actually want?

Ford is reassessing its EV plans, including vertical battery integration

Ford Motoris rethinking its electric vehicle strategies, including “reassessing” the need for in-house production of batteries, CEO Jim Farley said Tuesday.

The Detroit automaker previously confirmed plans to delay or cut $12 billion in spending on all-electric vehicles, but the comments made Tuesday are the most detailed about Ford’s changing plans for EVs, sales of which are growing at a slower-than-expected rate.

“One of the things we’re taking advantage of in taking some timing delays is rationalizing the level and timing of our battery capacity to match demand and actually reassessing the vertical integration that we’re relying on, and betting on new chemistries and capacities,” Farley said during the automaker’s fourth-quarter earnings call.

Farley reiterated the company still believes EVs will grow, but noted widespread adoption for mass-market consumers won’t happen until the costs are more in line with traditional vehicles. EVs are typically thousands of dollars more expensive than their gas-powered counterparts.

Even if they were in line with fossil fueled vehicles, people will still opt out. They do not want vehicles which do not go very far, take a long time to charge, and have a higher auto insurance cost, hence why the low cost ones are not selling well either. Heck, people still opt out of hybrids because of the cost/benefit.

Overall, Ford did make money, however

The company’s EV business, known as Model e, lost $4.7 billion last year, including $1.57 billion during the fourth quarter of 2023, offset by profits in the company’s fleet and traditional internal combustion engine units. Both businesses earned more than $7 billion each last year.

What’s selling? Fossil fueled trucks and SUVs. Not EVs.

As Ford pulls back and reevaluates the EV business, it intends to lean in on sales of hybrid vehicles, specifically trucks. The company expects its hybrid sales to increase 40% this year. It sold 133,743 hybrid vehicles in the U.S. in 2023.

That makes more sense. But, will those who want big trucks want hybrids?

Auto companies are learning that the market dictates what people want, not the companies.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 8, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are giant high carbon producing homes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on Michael Mann saying that Everyone Else is the problem.

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SCOTUS To Hear Trump Case On Being Removed From Colorado Ballot. When Is Biden Removed?

By William Teach February 8, 2024 – 10:30 am

Not sure why he’s bothering: he won’t win the state, and Trump voters can write his name in. But, I suppose the forms must be followed

Supreme Court to hear Trump ballot removal case out of Colorado

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon debate whether former President Donald Trump should be removed from Colorado’s primary ballot, the first of what could be several legal challenges by Trump to confront the nine justices.

At issue is whether Trump committed “insurrection” by inciting a crowd to storm the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, and whether that would make him constitutionally ineligible to be re-elected president. That, in turn, could block him from appearing on a state primary ballot as a candidate for that office.

Oral arguments are scheduled for Thursday at 10 a.m. ET, and an expedited ruling could come within days or weeks.

The issues have never been tested at the nation’s highest court and are framed as both a constitutional and political fight with enormous stakes for public confidence in the judicial system and the already divisive electoral process.

What does the 14th Amendment state on the subject?

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

So, when is Biden booted from ballots? It’s pretty rebellious when he opens up the border and allows people who hate America to come into the U.S. willy nilly. People from China, Iran, and lots of countries which are Islamic extremists. Gang members, such as MS-13. He’s put Americans at risk.

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Will Bring Megafloods To California

By William Teach February 8, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s pretty easy to make this prognostication after California has been hit with a few huge rain event storms. It’s funny, though, because not that long ago we got

That last one was from 2022

Climate change will bring megafloods to California

Climate change is making it a matter of time before a megaflood hits the state.

The Santa Barbara police car blocked access to the bridge, lights flashing as the thundering, swollen brown river rampaged below. The water was running so high in this Southern California county that it gushed through the railings of the bridge, and poured out onto the road.

This region is familiar with water scarcity – usually battling extreme heatwaves, wildfires, and drought. Now, Southern California is confronting an overabundance of water, in the form of torrential rain and life-threatening floods. (snip)

And experts say that the frequency and intensity of these kinds of events will only increase. These severe floods in California are a “broadly underappreciated risk”, according to a 2022 paper, co-authored by Daniel Swain and Xingying Huang, scientists at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. (snip)

Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood, Swain’s study warns. This extreme storm scenario would produce runoffs 200-400% greater than anything seen before in the Sierra Nevada, the sprawling 400-mile (650km) mountain range that traverses 24 of the 58 counties in California.

California does, in fact, have a long history of flood years, with a record going back to 1605 (that was during the Little Ice Age), just like with drought years. It’s the nature of where it is located on the Pacific Ocean. There was nothing anthropogenic about that 1605 flooding, right? That had 45 days of flooding in December 1861-January 1862. It’s just nature. You’re making it more dangerous now because of land use. All those buildings and roads.

But, as they start blaming the flooding on you, will it now flip back to drought, which they will also blame on you?

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Bummer: SCD Out Of Space, SCB Almost Out Of Space

By William Teach February 8, 2024 – 6:45 am

Well, these declared sanctuary cities need to find a way to make it work. Perhaps they could force Democrat voters to take some in to their own homes?

Democrat City Raises Red Flag on Surging Migrant Population: ‘Out of Space’

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is pulling the alarm on housing migrants, saying that shelters within city limits have run “out of space.”

On Monday, the largest city in Colorado began a multi-week process of discharging what has been described as the largest per-capita surge of migrants into one area in the entire United States. More than 120 migrant families were affected at the beginning of the week, the first of some 800 families consisting of upwards of 3,000 individuals being forced to find new refuge. Denver has spent more than $42 million already in addressing the crisis.

The city is also whining that other cities which are not declared sanctuary cities are refusing to help. Why should they? They didn’t ask for this. Sanctuary City Denver did.

Boston mayor says Roxbury migrant overflow site reaching capacity

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the overflow site for migrant families at a Roxbury recreation center is quickly reaching its 400-person capacity, two weeks after it was opened by the state.

Wu said most of the families who had been sleeping at Logan International Airport were brought in right away when the state-owned Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex was converted into a safety-net site on Jan. 31, and now families from other temporary housing situations including a Revere hotel are being brought in.

Bummer. They voted for this. If you leave the milk out on the counter for too long and the whole house stinks, well, that’s on you. You fix it. You deal with it.

$2.4 Billion Is Not Enough for New York’s Migrant Crisis, Adams Says

With the migrant crisis continuing to roil New York City, Mayor Eric Adams appeared to score a win last month when the governor vowed to commit $2.4 billion — more than double last year’s proposal — to cover the costs of caring for the tens of thousands of people who have arrived in New York to seek refuge.

But on Tuesday, Mr. Adams said even that would not be enough.

Testifying at the State Capitol in Albany, the mayor told lawmakers that the state would need to pony up at least half the cost of caring for migrants to keep the city from making drastic budget cuts, a figure his team put at $4.6 billion.

Strange how supporters of unfettered illegal immigration always say that it not only costs nothing, but, illegals actually are a net monetary benefit.

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