Comrades AOC And Sanders Link ‘Climate Change’ And Housing

By William Teach March 23, 2024 – 7:00 am

This couldn’t possibly be a push to give the federal government even more control over the housing of citizens in the name of Doing Something about Hotcoldwetdry, could it?

AOC and Bernie Sanders Aim to Tackle Housing and Climate Change in One Bill

With a sweeping legislative proposal, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are attempting to place public housing at the center of the green energy transition, tackling the twin crises of global warming and soaring housing costs.

“Public housing should be the gold standard for affordable, environmentally friendly, and safe communities,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an email. “This bill is how we ensure that.”

The Green New Deal for Public Housing aims to decarbonize all of the nation’s public housing units—and build more of them—with an investment of between $162 billion and $234 billion over the next decade. In doing so, it would avert 5.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of removing 1.26 million cars from US roads each year, while creating jobs and public health benefits.

This would put even more citizens into government housing, forgetting that quite a bit of it are cesspools of crime and urban decay. But, they want to keep the low income voters voting Democrat

Instead of allowing the nation’s public housing stock to wither away, the bill seeks to transform it. Units would not only be repaired and freed of contaminants like lead and mold, but also made efficient and green.

The first part is good, the second part is just a pipe dream, and the people who live in them couldn’t care less.

Each would be insulated and weatherized to conserve energy, as well as outfitted with fossil fuel-free electric appliances. Renewable energy would be installed on-site. And developments would be made climate-resilient with increased green space and decreased paved areas, which can help absorb heat and soak up water during heavy rains.

Who thinks that the “renewable” energy on site would be damaged heavily in the first month?

“The Green New Deal for Public Housing is going to change the game for those of us and our neighbors who are being hit hardest by the climate crisis,” said Saul Levin, legislative and political director of the progressive advocacy group Green New Deal Network.

Why don’t those groups spend their own money? Funny how they always want to spend Other People’s money, eh?

Though the bill is not expected to pass, Climate and Community Project says support to expand and improve public housing is growing. In 2021, the report notes, the House voted to repeal the Faircloth Amendment and most Democratic lawmakers supported including $60 billion for public housing in the spending package that later became the Inflation Reduction Act, though both measures ultimately failed to pass.

Really, it would be good to help the homeless, but, this is just typical Modern Socialism, and if government controls their housing government controls them. All in the name of a scam.

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PRC Democrats Try To Solve Crime Without Solving Crime

By William Teach March 23, 2024 – 6:45 am

It’s pretty easy for the elected Democrats in the People’s Republik Of California to muddle around, since most of them are well to do and live in areas which are protected from the average criminals

California Democratic lawmakers seek ways to combat retail theft while keeping progressive policy

crying democratFacing mounting pressure to crack down on a retail theft crisis, California lawmakers are split on how best to tackle the problem that some say has caused major store closures and products like deodorants to be locked behind plexiglass.

Top Democratic leaders have already ruled out reforming progressive policies like Proposition 47, a ballot measure approved by 60% of state voters in 2014 that reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors to address overcrowding jails. But a growing number of law enforcement officials, along with Republican and moderate Democratic lawmakers, said California needs to consider all options, including rolling back the measure.

Here’s an idea: let the people vote. Have a referendum. See if they want to keep Prop 47. Obviously, loony tunes Democrats do not want that, because they’d rather pander to the moonbats who want to be soft on crime, which includes lots of rich people, rather than those citizens who have to deal with crime.

While shoplifting has been a growing problem, large-scale thefts, in which groups of individuals brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight, have become a crisis in California and elsewhere in recent years. California Retailers Association said it’s challenging to quantify the issue in California because many stores don’t share their data.

Urban areas and big cities like Bay Area and Los Angeles saw a steady increase in shoplifting between 2021 and 2022, according to a study of the latest crime data by The Public Policy Institute of California. Across the state, shoplifting rates rose during the same time period but were still lower than the pre-pandemic levels in 2019, while commercial burglaries and robberies have become more prevalent in urban counties, the study says.

That’s the law of FAFO.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a champion of Proposition 47 who has repeatedly argued California already has tools to sufficiently go after criminals, rejected calls to reform the measure in January. He instead urged lawmakers to bolster existing laws and go after motor vehicle thefts and resellers of stolen merchandise. California also is spending $267 million to help dozens of local law enforcement agencies increase patrols, buy surveillance equipment and conduct other activities to crack down on retail theft.

“Not to say everything about Prop. 47 is hunky-dory and perfect,” Newsom said in January. “We want to help fix some of the ambiguities there, but we could do it without reforming or going back to the voters.”

You stupid voters won’t be allowed to have a say.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, who has said he also doesn’t want to repeal Proposition 47, co-authored similar legislation taking aim at repeat thieves and online resellers. It would allow law enforcement to “stack” the value of goods stolen from different victims to impose harsher penalties and arrest people for shoplifting using video footage or witness statements. The measure also would mandate online sellers to maintain records proving the merchandise wasn’t stolen and require some retail businesses to report stolen goods data.

And you know that nothing they pass will make any difference. If they want to make a difference they need to get tough on criminals. It doesn’t have to just be hard jail. How about softer jails, literally set up like camps, which put the low level criminals to work doing things like cleaning roads, community service, painting lines, etc and so on? Corporal punishment would work (it’ll never happen, obviously.) You can’t be slightly less soft on crime and reduce crime.

You know why they’re talking about this? Election season. And once the elections are held the ideas to mildly fix crime will vanish. But, hey, you voted for this, California. Suck it up, deal with it.

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AP Climate Cultists Surprised That Water Can Be Scarce In One Place And Abundant In Others

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 4:02 pm

I’m guessing none of these people have taken STEM classes, or, were taught by people who ignore science. And history

AP PHOTOS: Water, abundant for some and scarce for others, highlights inequalities of climate change

In Soweto, South Africa, residents queue up for fresh water. In a favela in Rio de Janeiro, residents collect it from a naturally-occurring small stream. And in Guwahatai, India, residents collect water from an open drain, filling buckets to the brim.

Fresh water is central to the lives of everyone, but for some, clean and consistent water sources are harder to come by. This World Water Day, Associated Press photographers around the world captured both the lengths that some people must go to source water and the relative ease for others.

Only around 3% of Earth’s surface is covered in fresh water, and much of that is locked up in ice or soil, but the sources that humans and animals draw from are plentiful and varied. (snip)

But as the world warms from human-caused climate change and environmental concerns like waste impact waterways, the availability of the world’s most precious resource is getting increasingly erratic.

In Bangkok, Thailand, garbage clogs the Chao Phraya River, where cranes atop boats help collect waste and clear waterways. In Jakarta, Indonesia, canals are littered with plastic bags and bottles that bob on the surface. And on the exposed banks of the Miguel Aleman dam in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, the ground is so dry from drought and heat that it’s deeply cracked, starved of rain.

Sounds like the first two are caused by poor government and scummy people, while the last is just a part of the natural cycles of the Earth

Even the most pristine-looking sources, like a forest lake near Frankfurt, Germany, aren’t immune to the challenges posed by climate and environmental crises, as a warming world causes tumult across the globe.

Just like always has happened. Wait till a Holocene cool period, where more water is locked up in ice. Regardless, this is a cult, so we can solve this by limiting your freedom.

Seemingly half the photos at the screed show pollution, which has nothing to do with climatic change, natural or manmade.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a deformed fish from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on how many embassies have been evacuated under Biden.

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Massachusetts Allocates $800 Million For Illegal Alien Shelters

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 10:30 am

Every legal resident of Massachusetts could be give over $1 million each. Instead, the money of the taxpayers will be going to people who should not even be in the United States

Mass. Senate passes budget, with over $800M to help migrant shelters

A budget breakthrough in the Massachusetts Senate could be a gamechanger in tackling the Bay State’s migrant crisis. State senators passed its supplemental budget late Thursday night.

With a vote of 32 to 8, senators voted for this one-time use expenditure, allowing Gov. Maura Healey’s administration to spend the $840 million on the issue over these next two fiscal years.

The state currently spends about $75 million each month — or about $10,000 per family — on the 7,500 migrant and local families that are living in emergency shelters across the state.

Read that again: $10K per month. Depending on the source, the average American household spends $5k to $9k a month. And that’s with their own money. Which includes transportation. With their own money. Here we have taxpayers on the hook to pay for people who came illegally. But, in fairness, those who vote Democrat in Mass. voted for the government to spend their tax dollars on this insanity.

It also caps the time families can stay in state-run shelters at nine months, with opportunities to renew their stay in 90-day increments if they are veterans, pregnant women, caretakers for those with disabilities or people enrolled in work programs.

“With the failure of our federal government to act in aide in this crisis, the responsibility unfortunately falls upon our shoulders,” said Senate Ways and Means Chairman Michael Rodrigues. “This supplemental budget before the body today represents a balanced plan to the EA shelter crisis that is proactive.”

Wait, they’re paying for veterans of other nations? And paying for women to have anchor babies? The failure is of Biden, who opened the floodgates. And themselves, for voting for this.

Meanwhile

(NDTV) A Venezuelan migrant has sparked controversy with a viral TikTok video outlining how illegal immigrants can exploit squatting laws in the United States. Identified as Leonal Moreno, the man suggested that under certain circumstances, abandoned properties could be seized and inhabited, potentially leading to their sale, according to The New York Post. Moreno claimed to be considering this as a business opportunity, citing anecdotes from acquaintances who have purportedly occupied multiple homes using similar tactics.

“I have thought about invading a house in the United States. I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it,” Leonal Moreno said in the TikTok video.

Do illegal aliens have those “rights” to squat, which is essentially invading a house owned by someone else? Doing it while someone is on vacation? Of course, most of the lenient squatters laws are in Democrat cities and states, so, they voted for this. Enjoy!

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Your Fault: Easter Egg Prices Rise Due To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 7:00 am

We could fix this by forcing you to get and EV, but, since most can’t afford it, you taking the bus, walking, or riding a bike

Easter eggs costs rise as climate change hits crops

You may have noticed that Easter eggs are more expensive this year.

But did you know that climate change is one of the reasons?

Most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in West Africa, but a humid heatwave has blasted the crops and massively cut yields.

Experts say that human-induced climate change has made the extreme heat 10 times more likely.

Which? found some popular eggs have risen in price by 50% or more.

The shortage of cocoa resulting from the heatwave has seen prices soar to almost $8,500 (£6,700) a tonne this week.

Humid heat waves never happened before fossil fueled vehicles, you know.

I’m not particularly surprised by this article, as the climate cult always looks for way to link their cult dogma with current events.

Another factor impacting the crops was El Niño.

This is a recurring, natural fluctuation in weather patterns in the tropical Pacific that drives up global temperatures and can lead to extreme weather in some places. A strong El Niño has been active since last June.

Yup, natural variability is really the cause, and just being a typical Holocene warm period.

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Let’s Go Brandon Calls For Ceasefire In Gaza With No Requirement To Release Hostages

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 6:45 am

It appears as if the hardcore Israel and Jew haters, who are also hardcore Islamic extremist/Hamas lovers, have finally gotten to Biden

U.S. submits U.N. resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Here’s why it matters.

On Thursday, the United States ended decades of stalwart support for Israel in the United Nations Security Council, submitting a draft resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The U.S., which negotiated the language of the proposed resolution with the governments of Egypt and Qatar, seeks to have the Security Council vote on it on Friday.

An earlier version of the resolution that was circulated earlier in the day Thursday linked the cessation of fighting with the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas, the Associated Press reported. The latest revision, however, makes no such precondition for “the imperative of an immediate and sustained cease-fire.” (snip)

The U.S. move comes at a delicate moment for U.S. and Israeli relations. With more than 30,000 civilian Palestinians estimated killed in Gaza as a result of the Israeli government’s military campaign responding to Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that left nearly 1,200 dead in Israel, the Biden administration and congressional Democrats have recently increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau to change his tactics.

That number comes from Hamas, and is certainly complete crap. A ceasefire without the release of the hostages, some of which are Americans, it is Biden completely abandoning the Jewish state of Israel, abandoning the hostages, and giving a win to the fucking terrorist group which is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department, as well as the United Nations and European Union. No Arab nation wants to take any Palestinians in, because they are all extremists.

In Michigan’s presidential primary, many Democrats protested Biden’s handling of the war, with 13% casting a vote for “uncommitted.” Michigan has the largest Arab-American population of any state, but younger voters have expressed their displeasure with Biden over the U.S. support for Israel across the country.

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board published a piece on Monday that suggested Democrats in Washington had turned on Israel to win over those disgruntled voters.

This is about placating the anti-Semitic Democrat base for votes, many of them imports from hardcore Islamic extremist nations whose values are antithetic to U.S. values.

If they want a cease fire, release the hostages unharmed and disarm Hamas. Hamas broke the ceasefire, fucked around, and found out, pushing Israel too far.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 21, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a bridge that will have to be raised to deal with massive sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post wondering why liberal judges have suddenly become 2nd Amendment absolutists.

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NY Times: Biden’s Defacto Ban On Gas Cars Is Not Actually A Ban

By William Teach March 21, 2024 – 1:00 pm

What’s interesting is that hyper Warmist Coral Davenport failed to ask Biden and those passing these rules if they’re driving EVs themselves

What to Know About the Clean Auto Rule: It’s Not a Ban on Gas Cars

st greta carThe Biden administration’s new regulation limiting tailpipe emissions from cars and light trucks would transform the U.S. automobile market, charting a course away from the internal combustion engine and toward a future of electric cars and hybrids.

Here’s what to know about the measure.

It’s a big deal in the fight against climate change

It’s a big deal in fighting a scam, as pushed by Elitists who won’t practice what they force on everyone else

In terms of lowering the emissions that are heating the planet, this regulation does more than any other climate rule issued by the federal government and more than any measure planned in the remainder of President Joe Biden’s first term.

It’s also weird that Coral forgets to give the actual details of the rule

The rule is not a ban on gasoline-powered vehicles

The rule does not mandate sales of electric vehicles, and consumers can still buy and drive gas-powered cars. Rather, it requires carmakers to meet tough new average emissions limits across their entire product lines; it’s up to manufacturers to decide how to meet those limits.

Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency can limit the pollution generated by the total number of cars each year. EPA officials said that, as long as automakers comply with the emissions rules, they can sell a mix of gasoline-burning cars, hybrids, EVs or other types of vehicles, such as cars powered by hydrogen.

But, the rules themselves will force auto makers to do away with most of their fossil fueled vehicle lines, even standard hybrids, and push EVs. So, it is, in fact, a stealth mandate to make EVs. And the carmakers will, in fact, pass the costs on to consumers

It penalizes carmakers, not consumers, for noncompliance

Starting in model year 2027, when the rule takes effect, car companies will report to the EPA the average emissions associated with all the passenger vehicles they sell. The emissions limits will start modestly and ramp up slowly in the early years of the program, rising sharply after 2030. Companies that don’t meet the emissions limits would have to pay fines that could reach into the billions of dollars.

Which means all vehicles will get more expensive. All while Joe travels in a massive, low MPG limo, surrounded by dozens of fossil fueled chase vehicles.

Whether U.S. roadways fill with nonpolluting vehicles hinges on a central question: Will motorists buy them? Early adopters flocked to EVs, but sales have cooled and carmakers are concerned they need more time to develop the market. That’s one reason the EPA pushed back the most stringent emissions requirements for auto sales until after 2030, so that manufacturers could improve designs and develop more affordable models, and for charging infrastructure to be built.

And what if consumers do not want this? Is there any consideration of We The People? Or, are the bureaucrats in Washington simply Fascists?

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Forced Wage Increases For Lyft And Uber Drivers May Drive Them Out Of Minneapolis

By William Teach March 21, 2024 – 10:30 am

The road to being put out of a job is paved with good government intentions

Minneapolis drivers protested wages – and won. Lyft and Uber are choosing to leave the city rather than pay up

Uber and Lyft claim they will cease operating in the Minneapolis area in protest of a minimum pay ordinance that the city council voted to approve last week.

The bill, to go into effect on 1 May, would establish a minimum pay of $1.40 per mile and $0.51 cents per minute for rideshare drivers, with a $5 per ride minimum. The city council voted to override the mayor’s veto of the ordinance, prompting Uber and Lyft to threaten to leave the region in response.

Minneapolis would be the only city in the US without Uber and Lyft services if the rideshare companies uphold their threat to cease operations on 1 May.

The legislation was backed by groups of rideshare drivers over low pay and high costs amid reports their pay has been declining.

Well, I do feel for the drivers: the cost of gas is much higher now under Biden than under Trump. Auto insurance is higher thanks to the Chinese coronavirus, as well as stupid Democrat policies. Food prices higher. Etc and so on. But, obviously, the government mandate costs for the socialist government won’t work for Lyft and Uber, so, all those driving can kiss those gig-economy jobs goodbye. They wanted change and they got it. Just not the change they thought.

Ali said if Uber and Lyft ultimately leave, they would only be taking software with them and claimed other startups, companies and taxi cab companies have already expressed interest in trying to replace them.

“The drivers are here. Their cars are here. They’re not leaving,” said Ali. “Why I think they’re doing this is if they let the drivers here get what they want in this small market, it will have a bigger effect on their bigger, more lucrative markets. So they have to stop this. That is what their fight is based on. It’s not about the minimum wage, I believe it’s about how it will impact their bigger markets.”

But, will the prices be competitive? Where are those companies? Why are they not pushing to enter the market now? You cannot just force extra expenses on a business and expect the owners/shareholders to simply concede. The market sets the salary/wages for these people: don’t pay enough and you won’t have any drivers, pay too much and you’ll be flooded with people who want to be a driver. You can ask for more, but sometimes the answer will simply be no. Maybe they deserve a bit more, but, hey, maybe those drivers can start their own rideshare/delivery business, see how that goes.

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