Is McCarthy Getting Squishy On Impeachment Inquiry?

By William Teach July 26, 2023 – 6:45 am

Or is he just measuring his words?

McCarthy edges back from the brink of a Biden impeachment inquiry

Kevin McCarthy edged back from the brink of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday, less than a day after suggesting his party was close to announcing one.

The speaker set off a Washington kerfuffle Monday night when he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he believed the House GOP’s investigations into Hunter Biden’s business dealings were “rising to the level of [an] impeachment inquiry,” presumably into his father.

But during lengthy Tuesday question-and-answer sessions with reporters, McCarthy said his televised remarks were not meant as an announcement of any new steps. Instead, the California Republican clarified that the myriad of allegations he is seeing from Republicans’ investigations “could” eventually merit an impeachment inquiry.

“I wasn’t announcing it,” McCarthy said of his Fox News comments. “I simply said that the actions that I’m seeing by this administration — withholding the agencies from being able to work with us, that would rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry.”

“We … still have a number of investigations going forward now. The committees are working in good faith. They’re finding new information all the time,” McCarthy added.

He later took to Twitter with a similar dialing back of the tone he took on Fox, writing: “If evidence continues to rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry, House Republicans will act.”

So, Washington-speak, or, getting squishy? Is he trying to set up a 2024 impeachment hearing and vote? Lord knows there’s way more information on Biden’s criminal actions than there ever was on Trump. All these GOP insiders must have seen this over the years and decades. But, is McCarthy reading some tea leaves from the GOP squishes? Only a few Democrats voted against impeaching Trump both times: what’s the chance that at least 10-15 Republicans vote against impeaching Biden? Heck, will they vote against an actual inquiry? There are just too many in the GOP who do not understand that politics is a dirty, nasty game with a veneer of civility, and that Democrats dropped all civility during the Bush years, and have only gotten worse.

What it looks like McCarty is attempting to do is put together a ton of different issues, like border security, bribery, extortion, double dealing, violating the Constitution, and more, when he should just focus on 1 or 2 issues, especially Biden’s graft and shady deals. McCarthy wants to make it too complicated, and, sure, there are not enough votes in the Senate, but, if the simple case is rock solid, you never know.

Meanwhile, some people are whining over Grassley releasing a *checks notes* unclassified document on Biden’s shading dealings

(The Hill) Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is in the political spotlight as Democrats and critics attack him for releasing a lightly-redacted document detailing unfounded allegations of Biden family corruption and bribery and conservatives praise his move in the name of transparency.

The eight-term senator has had a storied career, particularly on investigative matters, where he has long been considered a champion of whistleblower protections.

But critics say his decision late last week to release the tip to the FBI, memorialized in an FD-1023 form, put a chink in that armor. The FBI admonished Grassley and other senators for releasing the form, saying it “risks the safety” of the confidential source, who claims the Bidens “pushed” a Ukrainian oligarch to pay them $10 million.

Blah blah blah, that’s what these critics are worried about, not Biden’s criminal activity.

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Climate Doom Today: Atlantic Ocean Current Might Maybe Possibly Collapse In Two Years

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 2:52 pm

You do know this is your fault, right? If only you had simply Complied. Anyhow, the talking points have gone out

Atlantic Ocean current could collapse soon. How you may endure dramatic weather changes.

Now this could be something to really worry about.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – a large system of ocean currents that carry warm water from the tropics into the North Atlantic – could collapse by the middle of the century, or possibly any time from 2025 onward, because of human-caused climate change, a study published Tuesday suggests.

Such a collapse could trigger rapid weather and climate changes in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. If it were to happen, it could bring about an ice age in Europe and sea-level rise in cities such as Boston and New York, as well as more potent storms and hurricanes along the East Coast.

Wait, what? The last time this happened it brought on the Little Ice Age, and sea levels went down. That’s what happens during cooling periods. As far as storms and hurricanes, there really is no data on the effects of a long term cooling period. We do know that hurricane activity was pretty bad during the slight cooling between the 1950’s and late 1970’s.

Earlier studies about the AMOC collapse drew comparisons to the scientifically inaccurate 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which used such an ocean current shutdown as the premise of the film.

If you’re using a movie as reference, you’re not playing with science.

“We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions,” the study authors write. (snip)

Using new statistical tools and ocean temperature data from the past 150 years, researchers calculated that the AMOC will stop – with 95% certainty – between 2025 and 2095. “Using new and improved statistical tools, we’ve made calculations that provide a more robust estimate of when a collapse is most likely to occur, something we had not been able to do before,” said study co-author Susanne Ditlevsen, a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

That’s a pretty wide range, hence why the URL for the USA Today article says “atlantic-current-collapse-possible-in-two-years-study-suggests”, which means they changed the headline at some point to not be too alarmist, unlike that Daily Beast one. The New Scientist also pushes as soon as 2025. The Washington Post one is amusing in they a “sign” has been seen, as if this was Madame Zelda at the carnival….oh, right, that’s exactly how their “science” works.

Who pays the price when this doesn’t happen? Of course, eventually it will. That’s the nature of the natural forces on the Earth. I wonder if the “scientists” are seeing that the Earth will soon flip to a cooling period, and want to Blame it on Mankind.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon travel method, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on green policies in the UK shifting.

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Surprise: More Americans Think Political Violence Is Justified

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 10:30 am

This must mostly be about Trump supporters, since it is in the UK Guardian, right?

‘Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified

The June federal indictment of Donald Trump is “radicalizing” support for the use of force on behalf of the former president and current presidential candidate, according to the author of a recent survey about threats to democracy.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, support for violence to restore the federal right to an abortion has also increased over the last few months, researchers found, although there’s little indication that any organized groups support acting on this belief.

The Dangers to Democracy report indicates that a growing number of Americans support the use of political violence as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up and further indictments of Trump are likely imminent.

“The indictment is radicalizing support for Trump, but that’s not the only source of radicalization,” said Robert Pape, a University of Chicago professor who led the research. “You’re seeing growing anger and radicalization on the left as well.”

I like how it’s position as “oh, yeah, some democrats are supporting it, but, hey, those Trump folks!”

The number of Americans who believe the use of force is justified to restore Trump to the White House increased by roughly 6 million in the last few months to an estimated 18 million people, according to the survey conducted by the university in late June and shared exclusively with the Guardian.

Of those 18 million people, 68% believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and 62% believe the prosecutions of Trump are intended to hurt his chances in 2024. An estimated 7% of Americans now believe violence could be necessary to restore Trump to the presidency, up from 4.5%, or 12 million people, in April.

Seven percent! That’s horrible!

The university’s Chicago Project on Security & Threats (CPost) research center has been conducting Dangers to Democracy surveys of American adults on political violence and attitudes towards democracy since shortly after the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

The Chicago Project is a pretty darned left wing center, and should probably take a drive through parts of Chicago to see real violence. After a few more paragraphs on Trump

Democrats, however, expressed support for political violence for a different purpose. The survey found support for the use of force to coerce members of Congress to “do the right thing” grew from 9% in January to 17% – an estimated 44 million Americans – at the end of June, with the sharpest rise among Democrats. Support for violence to restore the federal right to an abortion also increased during this time.

Seventeen percent. Talk about burying the lede. That’s a whole heck of a lot more than 7%. But, not surprising. Democrats have always been willing to use violence for their political beliefs. We saw this in 2020 with all the BLM/Antifa riots. We saw this at so many protests prior to January 6th when Democrat supporters were present.

But, that’s all glossed over in favor of more discussion on Trump and his supporters. One would think that 17% would be a pretty important number.

The survey also found that nearly 90% of Trump’s most radical supporters believe the federal government is run by a “deep state” of immoral people.

I’m not sure about immoral people, but, those in the federal bureaucracy and high ranking positions are definitely leftists willing to use their government positions to push their leftist agendas. Something I’ve said for a long time is that Progressives had long term plans going back to the beginning of the 20th Century about capturing sectors. First, they captured the government bureaucracies. And they did that. There aren’t a whole heck of a lot of Republicans working in government, and the hardcore leftists force the non-hardcore leftists, Independents, and even Republican leaners to comply. Among the others that the Progressives captured were the entertainment industry, news industry, and unions (who started out willing to use violence), hence, they can push the hardcore agenda and whip leftists up to commit violence.

Then they went after the FBI and CIA, because they couldn’t abolish them, but, did not like things like the way they went after Communists. And the US military. They couldn’t kill off the military in the late 70’s, so, they slowly infiltrated the military, and now they support people with severe mental illness, the trans folks. They infiltrated the church, so many support things that are against the Bible, and have gone all SJW. They’ve made the environmental movement radical, and many of them and their climate cult folks are fine with political violence. They gather the sports and music folks, who live 1%er lives but are happy to push the government line. Push that government is great.

All these leftists are supporting political violence to support government tyranny.

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Making Hurricane Season Longer

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 7:15 am

Is there anything it can’t do? Is there any length the climate cultists won’t go to in order to fearmonger?

Hurricane season is getting longer because of climate change, researchers say

Hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, is getting longer because of climate change, researchers say.

“Seven of the last eight years we’ve had named storms form before hurricane season officially began on June 1. We technically had a named storm in January of 2023,” Barry Keim, Louisiana’s state climatologist and an LSU professor, said in a press release.

Keim and other researchers analyzed historic storm data and found hurricane season is starting earlier and ending later. He worked with other researchers from LSU, the University of New Hampshire, Colorado State University and the Southern Climate Impact Planning Program, a research collaborative.

Changing the official timeline of the season might allow coastal residents to be better prepared, the experts said.

“It makes sense to start thinking about hurricane season beginning before June 1 to help residents and emergency officials plan and prepare for storms,” Keim said. “We need to wrap our heads around that hurricanes are arriving earlier in the season.”

This couldn’t possibly have anything to do with it simply being a typical Holocene warm period, right? Not in climate cult world, where this is your fault. Yet, for all that, NOAA predicted a normal hurricane season. So far there have been just 5 storms, 4 which were just tropical storms, and one category 1 hurricane.

They cannot help injecting fear

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Media Very Upset Texas Is Using Disaster Declaration To Secure The Border

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 7:00 am

Really, Greg Abbott should ship many busloads to the leading news outlets. Drop them off at the home offices, see if ABC News, CNN, NY Times, etc will offer to feed and shelter the illegals. And at the US home office of the Associated Press, 200 Liberty Street, NYC

Texas is using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border

Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America’s southern border.

For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries with a go-it-alone bravado along the state’s 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) border with Mexico. Now blowback over the tactics is widening, including from within Texas.

A state trooper’s account of officers denying migrants water in 100-degree Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius) temperatures and razor wire leaving asylum-seekers bloodied has prompted renewed criticism. The Mexican government, some Texas residents along the border and the Biden administration are pushing back. On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department sued Abbott over the buoy barrier that it says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns, asking a federal court to require Texas to dismantle it.

They can get their own water. They voluntarily trekked through Central America to show up. If they’re worried about getting hurt, don’t try and cross into the U.S. at non-designated points. This is on them. It’s the government’s job to defend the nation from invasion

Abbott, who cruised to a third term in November while promising tougher border crackdowns, has used disaster declarations as the legal bedrock for some measures.

The article spends pretty much no time explaining the declarations, but, they go back several years, such as the one he renewed in 2021. Texas counties have declared them, as well. How many laws has Biden broken with his open borders policy? Since he won’t enforce these laws the governor of Texas should have the right to use any means necessary, short of armed conflict, to keep illegal’s out. Why should Texas have to foot the bill for Bidens illegal policies?

Anyhow, many illegal aliens supporters, like the ACLU, are very upset with Abbott, but, aren’t offering to shelter and feed the illegals themselves. Regardless, the goal here is to control the border, a core duty of the government. Especially the Congress. It’s written in the Constitution, and, since they make the laws, it’s up to the Executive Branch to enforce those laws.

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Electricians Are Now Apparently Climate Workers

By William Teach July 24, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Everything will now be a climate cult job

Need a job? Hiring to flourish in these fields as humans fight climate change.

Climate change is reshaping the employment landscape, whether you want a career that helps the planet or just want a job in a growing field.

Environmental and sustainability studies are booming in colleges, with Millennials especially wanting to work for companies that are making a difference. A survey of Gen Z and Millennial workers found more than 40% either have or plan to change jobs due to climate concerns.

Well, most are still probably better than whatever is available for the degree they put themselves $100k in the hole for, especially things ending in “Studies”.

Truth be told, in the coming decades every job will have a climate component, whether it’s financiers, doctors and nurses, farmers, accountants, sustainability officers or policymakers, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

“It’s hard to imagine a field of employment that won’t need at least some expertise on climate change,” he said.

A job title doesn’t need to include the words “green,” “climate,” “sustainable” or “environment” for the work to be important to efforts to both stop global warming and deal with its effects.

This is a cult. And they want everything to be part of their cult, whether people like it or not. What are some mentioned?

  • Electrician
  • HVAC tech
  • Plant breeder
  • Building trades
  • Traffic engineer
  • Prescribed fire technician (these are people who do controlled burns, which, last time I checked, the extreme-enviros won’t allow to happen)
  • Hydrologist
  • Gardner
  • Disaster preparedness coordinator

And the stuff that goes with all these is just as wackadoodle, such as for Gardner

As droughts and excess rainfall increase, America’s lawns, gardens and public spaces will need to be redesigned to deal with the new realities. People will be needed who know the right plants for the right space, who can design drip irrigation systems and who can build landscape features that channel water to the right places. “A landscape transformation is coming and gardeners will be key,” said Pincetl.

In other words, people who will be empowered by government to tell you what you can and cannot do with your property. It’s all just nuts. Really, though, how many of these entitled kids will do any of these manual labor jobs? They’ve been taught that they’re better than that. They expect some sort of spreading awareness/supervisory job making big bucks to do nothing except tell other people what to do while they take selfies and TikTok videos.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 24, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Greenie Watch, with a post on the “warming” in Antarctica.

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UK Guardian Claims Never-Trumpers Get Brutal Wakeup Call

By William Teach July 24, 2023 – 10:30 am

The Never Trumpers are odd birds. They claim to be Conservative stalwarts, that they believe in the standings of Ronald Reagan, that they are the True Conservatives, yet, they’re enabling the election of Democrats, many are mouthing Democrat policies and slogans, and are truly unhinged in Democrat fashion over Trump and those who support him, along with the truly outspoken Republicans. And the UK Guardian says they’re getting a wakeup call

Never Trumpers get ‘brutal wake-up call’ as Republican candidates flounder

For Asa Hutchinson, former governor of Arkansas, there were boos and chants of “Trump! Trump!”. For Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami, there were jeers and cries of “Traitor!” And perhaps most tellingly, there was no Florida governor Ron DeSantis at all.

The recent Turning Point USA conference brought thousands of young conservatives to Florida and there was no doubting the main attraction: former president Donald Trump, who made a glitzy entrance accompanied by giant stage sparklers. In a less than rigorous poll, 86% of attendees gave Trump as their first choice for president; DeSantis, who polled 19% last year, was down to 4%.

Events and numbers like this are cause for sleepless nights among those Republican leaders and donors desperate to believe it would be different this time. The Never Trump forces bet heavily on DeSantis as the coming man and the premise that Trump’s campaign would collapse under the weight of myriad legal problems.

But six months away from the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, none of it seems to be working. DeSantis’s campaign is flailing and leaving some with buyers’ remorse. Hutchinson and Chris Christie, outspoken Trump critics, are polling in single digits, sowing doubts about voters’ appetite for change. Never Trumpers have reason to fear that his march to the Republican nomination may already be unstoppable.

“They’re experiencing a brutal wake-up call that the party is not interested in hearing critiques of Trump,” said Tim Miller, who was communications director for Jeb Bush’s 2016 campaign. “The Trump challengers’ candidacies have been astonishingly poor and learned nothing from 2016. When the leading candidate gets indicted and all of his opponents besides Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson just echo his fake persecution complex talking points, it’s going to be hard to beat him.”

These Never Trumpers are crazy. Always have been, always will be. It’s pure Trump Derangement Syndrome. They’re only interested in the man, and, I’ll happily admit Trump is really not a good person. But, then, most politicians aren’t. Trump is just more open. They rarely talk about Trump’s policies, and have never attempted to drive policy. In fairness, Trump is almost as bad on those who oppose his agenda within the GOP, but, at least that is mostly about policy.

The NTs yammer about principles. If you’re enabling the election of today’s wacko, uber-Leftist Democrats, how does that help your principles? Unless you just want to be grifters like the Lincoln Project, the Bulwark, Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, etc. Some Republicans can get all sorts of squishy, like on support for McCain and Romney. They sat out the elections. Would it have been better for McCain to defeat Obama for Conservatism, and especially spending? How about Romney? 2012 was the time to kill Obamacare. It’s never going away now. Is it better to have Trump or Biden (or whomever they replace Biden with) for Conservatism? Seriously, these NTs are so unhinged that they find ways to slam the people Trump put on the Supreme Court when they had their abortion and affirmative action rulings, among others.

Do you think I really wanted McCain or Romney? I hate voting for Thom Thillis, who became a Squish. Or Richard Burr? I was happy when Burr retired. If Christie or Hutchinson, or a GOP ultra-squish like Larry Hogan, somehow wins the primaries I’ll hold my nose and vote for them. Really, in my mind, I’m voting against Hillary, against Obama, against whomever. That’s what these NTs have to remember. They’re enabling Democrats. Politics is often a choice between bad and worse.

It’s also about putting up the person with the best chance of winning, and, I don’t think Trump can win the general election, but, that’s a separate blog post.

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The Earth Is Scream At Us Or Something

By William Teach July 24, 2023 – 7:00 am

This is per Climate cult member Jay Inslee, who couldn’t even get his own climate cult agenda through in his own state which votes overwhelmingly liberal

Washington’s governor on climate: ‘The Earth is screaming at us’

st greta carWashington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday that this summer’s record-setting heat is proof that climate change is harming the planet.

“The Earth is screaming at us,” the Democrat said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that the impact of climate change is being felt two decades earlier than scientists had expected.

June and July have seen scorching heat waves in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, with July 6t h having been identified as the hottest day in the world’s history.

“The fuse has been burning for decades and now the climate change bomb has gone off,” Inslee said Sunday.

No matter what’s happening, it always proves their cultish beliefs. In their world, there is zero way to disprove it. Hence, not a science. At least Scientology and most cults leave everyone else alone.

“We need to stop using fossil fuels,” he said, adding: “We do have the ability to restrain fossil fuels.”

Inslee said that individual states can be the leaders on the U.S. response to climate change, which needs to be “further and faster” than it has been. “States can act,” he said and added that his state has been a leader on the issue.

When does Jay stop using fossil fuels to travel himself? How about banning their use for all state operations? He could get a referendum on the next ballot which would ban all fossil fuels in the state. Think they would vote for that? How would that work for all the airports and seaports? Trucks bringing goods into the state? See, it’s easy to make this pronouncements, a lot hard in practice. Especially when you won’t do it yourself.

Remember, also, that weather is climate when it suits the cult.

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