Trump To Make A Play For NY, NJ, NM, Va, And Minnesota

By William Teach January 3, 2024 – 7:00 am

Partly, um, why?

Exclusive — Trump Plans Aggressive Expansion of Electoral Map, Says He’ll Make ‘Heavy Play’ for New York, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota

Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that assuming he wins the GOP nomination for president again he will work to expand the universe of battleground states and aggressively compete against whoever Democrats nominate in states like New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota, and New Mexico.

Trump said he thinks he can compete in a number of states that Republicans have not won in many years in presidential elections. He said he plans to do rallies in these states, and work to try to win them—but maybe not as hard as the traditional battleground states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. Trump even threw out a possible idea of renting out the iconic Madison Square Garden to hold a rally in the heart of Manhattan in New York City.

“One of the other things I’m going to do — and I may be foolish in doing it — is I’m going to make a heavy play for New York, heavy play for New Jersey, heavy play for Virginia, heavy play for New Mexico, and a heavy play for a state that hasn’t been won in years, Minnesota,” Trump said in the more than two-hour-long interview at his luxurious seaside Mar-a-Lago resort here.

Asked what he means by make a “heavy play” for states like New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, Virginia, and New Mexico, Trump said he plans to do rallies and speeches in those states as he campaigns for the presidency in the general election.

Yes, he would be foolish to do this in several of those states. Making a play for Virginia makes sense, with a popular GOP governor. Though Trump got blown out in 2020 and lost by 6 in 2016. So, probably a waste of time. A Republican has only won New Mexico once out of the last 8 elections, Bush in 2004. Barely. A Republican hasn’t won Minnesota since 1972, and only 3 times since 1932. It was close in 2016, but, the state keeps importing lots and lots of people from 3rd world Muslim nations who vote Democrat. Perhaps if they refuse to vote Biden, but, it’s best just to leave it alone. Don’t entice them to hold their noses even while they’re upset that Biden supports Israel.

NJ? A Republican hasn’t won since 1988, and it hasn’t been close. Ciattarelli gave it a go in the 2021 governors election, losing by 3.2%. Trump won’t have a chance. NY? Hasn’t been a GOP win since Reagan in 1984. Lee Zeldin gave it a shot in 2022, but, even with people being very upset with Commissar Hochul and her authoritarian COVID policies, he still lost by around 6 points. Trump has zero chance.

The thought is surely “well, I’ll make Biden or whatever Dem is running put lots of time and effort into those states instead of in battleground states.” With a normal candidate that might make sense, and, any candidate has to at least show up and do a little in safe Blue states, but, this is Trump: he might have a tough time winning those states he needs to win. Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Michigan. If he wants to make a play, go for Nevada. It’s just 6 electoral college votes, but, worth it, might give a little buffer. Retake Georgia (16 ECs), Arizona (11 Electoral College votes), and Michigan (16 ECs) and that’s 275 electoral votes if he keeps the states he won in 2020. Pennsylvania is 20 ECs and Wisconsin is 10.

“I’m going to do rallies, I’m going to do speeches, I’m going to work them,” Trump said. “That doesn’t mean I’m going to work them as hard as I work Pennsylvania, where I’m doing very well.”

I damned well hope not. My concern, beyond all the other concerns with Trump, is that he doesn’t focus where he needs to.

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Warmists Are Dealing With Their Unhinged Climate Grief, Plus The New Year’s Climate Change

By William Teach January 2, 2024 – 3:14 pm

Why would they be dealing with grief?

What climate scientists are predicting for the globe in 2024

As a year of surprising global warmth came to a close, a record high annual average temperature was already assured. Now, some scientists are already speculating: 2024 could be even hotter. (snip)

But such climate trends can be difficult to predict with precision. After all, at the start of 2023, scientists predicted the year would end as one of the planet’s warmest on record. They didn’t expect it to set so many new precedents — and by record-wide margins.

“The fact that we are in uncharted territory, we don’t actually know what will happen next,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Funny how they’ve been more than happy to talk about Doom, to predict doom, but, won’t actually make specific predictions for the short term. Long term, they’re happy to do so

(UK Guardian) “Scientists say temperatures could rise by 6C by 2100 and call for action ahead of UN meeting in Paris” – Independent, 2015.

A world that was 6C warmer than it is today would be devastating. And remember, 6C is just the average. Some parts of the world would get much warmer, especially the poles. Crops would fail. Many people would be malnourished. Forests would be stripped back into savannahs. Island nations would be completely submerged. Many cities will have disappeared due to sea-level rise. Climate refugees will be on the move. “Normal” temperatures in many parts of the world would be unbearable. Even the richest, most temperate nations would see devastating floods most winters and baking summers. We would be at very high risk of setting off warming feedback loops – the melted ice would reflect less sunlight, the melted permafrost might unlock methane from the bottom of the ocean, and dying forests wouldn’t be able to regrow to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. A 6C warmer world might be short-lived – it could quickly spiral into 8C, 10C or more. It would be a massive humanitarian disaster.

6C would be 10.8F above. By 2100, of course

Dealing With Grief From Climate Change

In our state, we see the effects of climate change around us seemingly every day — storms, flooding, wildfires, extreme heat waves. Such events are changing the landscape and feeling of California and making a lot of us worried. So how do we handle the anxiety and even the grief that stem from climate change?
Guest: Erica Hellerstein, Investigative Reporter

There’s no article, just a podcast-like thingy, which gets as stupid as you’d expect. When these people are treated to a litany of doom, how else are they supposed to feel? Going back to that Guardian piece, the writer is no longer worried about the 6C thing, just 2C

My perspective flipped quickly after studying the data, not newspaper headlines. I didn’t focus on where we are today, but on the pace that things have moved at in the past few years, and what this means for the future. One organisation – the Climate Action Tracker – follows every country’s climate policies, and its pledges and targets. It combines them all to map out what will happen to the global climate. At Our World in Data, I sketch out these future climate trajectories and update them every year. Every time, they get closer and closer to the pathways we would need to follow to stay below 2C.

The headlines are scaremongering, but, where are they getting that from? The cult scientists. The UN. John Kerry. Joe Biden. Etc

So, really, how about Warmists answer the climate challenge?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 2, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a pine tree being killed by ‘climate change’ bark beetles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Biden turning out military into a laughingstock.

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Pro-Hamas Demonstrators Cause Massive Problems At JFK Airport

By William Teach January 2, 2024 – 10:30 am

Do they think they are winning friends and influencing people with this?

Anti-Israel rally at JFK Airport causes New Year’s Day nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year

Hateful anti-Israel protesters yelling inflammatory chants snarled traffic and caused chaos as they descended upon John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday – creating a nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

The Belt Parkway — a major thoroughfare used by vehicles to travel to the airport — was temporarily blocked off by police near Exit 20 as they tried to stem the flow of the “Flood JFK For Gaza” protest, which was planned by Within Our Lifetime, a Palestinian-led activist group.

“NYPD, KKK, IDF you’re all the same,” protesters inside an SUV screeched through a megaphone, according to video posted to X.

Other footage posted to social media showed more than a dozen cars waving Palestinian flags and honking car horns on the gridlocked parkway shortly before the planned rally at 2 p.m.

Terrorist supporters yelling horrendous things about Israel and Jews, disrupting the operations of an airport

Seven protesters were issued summons, sources said, and 60 flights were delayed at JFK on Monday, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service.

It’s typically a misdemeanor to interfere with airport operations, both at the state and federal levels. Now, just imagine it was a bunch of Trump supporters: they’d probably be charged with terrorism.

The FBI is investigating, but, most likely will arrest no one, as they weren’t wandering around the Congressional building. Letting go of balloons which disrupted planes, and could have taken one down, is no big deal for the FBI.

Then the terrorist group supporter, wearing their Intifada keffiyehs, attempt to go to La Guardia and disrupt that airport. How did the US end up with so many Islamic terrorism supporters?

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Christian Warmists Hold Vigil Or Something

By William Teach January 2, 2024 – 7:15 am

Can they call themselves Christians when they’ve replaced God with a cult?

Climate Vigil aims to channel prayer into action

Autumn leaves settled on the Umatilla River in downtown Pendleton, Oregon, as it rippled gently over rocks one October day. Up an embankment and across a quiet street rose the stone tower of the First Christian Church. “I see churches as being a positive thing for change,” said Bill Aney, a retired U.S. Forest Service employee and church member.

The river was placid that autumn day as Aney walked over the Main Street bridge. But in spring 2020, heavy rains and rapid snowmelt in the Blue Mountains caused a massive flood. A levee in downtown Pendleton broke, inundating nearby streets. Part of Interstate 84 and many local roads closed, homes were evacuated, and one woman died. Climate change is projected to cause more frequent flooding in Umatilla County, according to a 2020 Oregon report. “God told us to take care of the Earth,” Aney said. He interprets that as a moral imperative to aid recovery efforts after floods and other disasters — and to push for broader climate action.

Aney belongs to Climate Vigil, an eastern Oregon organization founded about two years ago. It grew out of a prayer book written by founder Peter Fargo. So far, it’s mainly offered avenues for climate advocacy and reflection modeled on Christian practices, including a worship album and community vigils.

Yes, God did say to take care of our creation. God did not say to replace him with a doomsday cult belief in doom from a tiny increase in global temperatures which has happened multiple times during the Holocene. I’m pretty sure God would be against forcing Other People to practice the climate cult beliefs. Fargo’s book (I replaced the link from the article as it went to “page not found”) isn’t exactly a barn burner, and, I’m not paying $7 for 89 pages to read it. Fargo is a big believer in pushing climate rights amendments, which force citizens to comply with the cultish beliefs of the Warmists.

Since then, Fargo has left his communication job with the Forest Service to work full-time on Climate Vigil. He also began writing an Oregon constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to a safe climate, which he hopes to get on the statewide ballot in 2026. 

These people can’t just live their own lives, and leave the rest of us alone. And these “Christians” are supplanting their belief in God with one in Gaia.

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Bummer: Illegals Take Train From NJ To SCNY After Being Dropped Off By Bus

By William Teach January 2, 2024 – 7:00 am

I’ve actually done this many a time when I was living in NJ, and, even now, if I’m visiting and wanting to go in the city, I’ll drive up to North Jersey, park, and hop the train (sometimes the water taxi). Though I usually park in Hoboken

Migrants taking trains from New Jersey to NYC after bus arrivals restricted: officials

After New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) restricted bus arrivals last week in an effort to curb a surge of migrants, bus operators appear to have found a loophole by dropping migrants off at a New Jersey train station from which they can continue on into the city.

Under an executive order announced last week, Adams is requiring bus operators who are aware they are transporting migrants with fares paid for “by a third party” to provide the city with notice at least 32 hours ahead of their anticipated arrival. However, New Jersey officials say bus drivers have found a way around the new restrictions by dropping off the migrants at Secaucus Junction Train Station — about a 15-minute ride from New York City.

Tyler Jones, a spokesperson from New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) office, said bus operators are also dropping off migrants at train stations throughout the state.

“Our Administration has tracked the recent arrival of a handful buses of migrant families at various NJ TRANSIT train stations,” Jones said in a statement to The Hill. “New Jersey is primarily being used as a transit point for these families — all or nearly all of them continued with their travels en route to their final destination of New York City.”

Did the mayor of Sanctuary City New York think he was going to beat Greg Abbott? Did Adams think the folks coordinating this for Texas wouldn’t find a way around? Why is SCNY not being welcoming of any and all illegals?

And in Illinois

(CNN) A plane with more than 350 asylum-seekers onboard arrived early Sunday morning at an airport near Chicago from Texas, according to officials, part of the state’s monthslong effort to send thousands of migrants to major cities around the country with little notice.

The City of Rockford said in a Facebook post Winnebago County Sheriff Gary Caruana, Winnebago County Board Chairman Joe Chiarelli, and Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara received word a plane carrying migrants would land at Rockford International Airport Saturday night.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter, “there was no communication from Texas” and City of Chicago officials first learned about the flight from San Antonio from Rockford authorities.

Yeah, well, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico aren’t exactly getting a lot of notification, nor are the smaller town around the country who have illegals dumped on them by the Biden regime. Illinois is a declared sanctuary state, so, Rockford can’t exactly protest. Though I hope they shipped them all to Chicago. Or, maybe they can ship them off to Springfield, which is the capitol. It’s around 200 miles, but, shouldn’t the governor and general assembly share the burden?

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Good News: Climate Cult Training Judges To Rule In Their Favor

By William Teach January 1, 2024 – 3:00 pm

That’s really the only way to read this, and that is exactly why the Cult Of Climastrology is doing this

Left-wing climate group is quietly training judges how to handle global warming cases

A little-known judicial advocacy organization funded by left-wing nonprofits is quietly training judges nationwide on how to handle cases related to climate change, according to a Fox News Digital review.

The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Law Institute (ELI) created the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) in 2018, establishing a first-of-its-kind resource to provide “reliable, up-to-date information” about climate change litigation, according to the group. The project’s reach has extended to various state and federal courts, including powerful appellate courts, and comes as various cities and states pursue high-profile litigation against the oil industry.

“As the body of climate litigation grows, judges must consider complex scientific and legal questions, many of which are developing rapidly,” CJP states on its website. “To address these issues, the Climate Judiciary Project of the Environmental Law Institute is collaborating with leading national judicial education institutions to meet judges’ need for basic familiarity with climate science methods and concepts.”

“We are developing and disseminating a climate science and law curriculum and are conducting seminars and educational programs, in collaboration with leading climate scientists and legal experts,” it adds. “The goal of our project is to provide neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science of climate change as it is understood by the expert scientific community and relevant to current and future litigation.”

The goal is to indoctrinate judges on how to rule in the favor of the climate cult in order to force Other People to comply with the Beliefs of the doomsday cult, regardless of whether the rulings have a basis in law and the Constitution. What they want is for the judges to believe that ruling in favor of the cult is legal and Constitutional via massive twisting. Of course, most of the judges are already left leaning, so, it’s not too hard to get them to comply.

Another module is dedicated to discussing “climate justice,” which states that low-income communities have historically been exposed to more environmental harms like “elevated exposure to heat, flooding, vehicular traffic, hazardous materials and pollutants, decaying civic infrastructure, poverty, and crime.”

And, of course, the idea behind here is that the cult, like most Democrats, thinks that blacks and other minorities cannot survive without the government being their benefactor, which is actually a rather racist belief.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 1, 2024 – 2:01 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled motorcycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The O.K. Corral, with a post on a feel good story to start 2024.

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Names On Epstein Documents To Be Released This Week

By William Teach January 1, 2024 – 10:30 am

It should be very interesting as to the names on it, and how quickly the Credentialed Media will circle the wagons around some of those people

Court documents naming Jeffrey Epstein’s associates to be unsealed: What to know

Hundreds of sealed court filings pertaining to the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein are set to be made public this week, and several prominent names — including Britain’s Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton — are expected to appear in the documents.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled earlier this month there was no legal justification for continuing to conceal the ex-president’s name and more than 150 names other “John and Jane Does” mentioned in the records. Preska ordered the unsealing to begin after Jan. 1.

The documents stem from a 2015 civil lawsuit centered on allegations that Epstein’s one-time paramour, Ghislaine Maxwell, facilitated the sexual abuse of Virginia Giuffre, an alleged trafficking victim. Giuffre also accused Epstein and Maxwell of directing her to have sex with Prince Andrew and several other prominent men. Prince Andrew denied the allegations and claimed he could not recall ever meeting Giuffre. He later settled a lawsuit she filed against him.

Most of the prominent names that appear in the documents are already associated in some way with Epstein; for allegations of wrongdoing, for having worked for Epstein, flown on his planes, or visited his homes. Some were mentioned during Maxwell’s criminal trial in 2021. In some instances, the only appearances of the names are in potential witness lists or in proposed terms for searches of electronic records. (snip)

Giuffre made no allegations of wrongdoing by Clinton, and there is no indication the sealed records contain evidence of illegal conduct by Clinton. But Giuffre’s claim that she met the ex-president on Epstein’s private Caribbean island emerged as a contentious issue in the litigation, which was settled in 2017. Maxwell contended Clinton had never been to Little St. James — as Epstein’s island was known — and assailed Giuffre’s claim as a fabrication that shattered her credibility.

And that’s how they will protect Bill, but, what was he doing at Epstein’s island, on his jet (known as “Lolita Express”), and at other places around 50 times? How about the others? They can talk about Epstein’s “charitable work”, but, that really doesn’t fly.

Who else will be exposed?

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Annoying Climate Cult Group Wants Everyone To Go Vegan

By William Teach January 1, 2024 – 7:15 am

Why are this people so irksome?

This group has an idea to help save the planet: Everyone should go vegan

One group says there’s a straightforward way to make big progress in the fight against climate change: Everyone, everywhere should just stop eating meat. And all animal products.

The “Plant-Based Treaty,” first proposed in 2021, is a self-described “global movement that seeks to restructure the entire planet’s food production systems away from animal agriculture.”

The group released its “Safe and Just” report at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai earlier this month. The report featured some of the best practices being rolled out by climate leaders such as New York City, where Mayor Eric Adams has made vegan the default in hospital menus and introduced “Meat Free Mondays” and “Plant-Powered Fridays” in schools.

So far, the Plant-Based Treaty has been signed by several cities — including Los Angeles — and tens of thousands of people. The movement says the world could combat human-caused climate change by reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that food production currently creates.

Well, if climate cultists want to do so, go for it. Otherwise, just leave the rest of us the F alone. Stop trying to force your Beliefs on everyone. Bunch of little Fascists.

Oh, and notice that the wacktards took long, fossil fueled trips to Dubai.

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