Democrats Have Hissy Fit, Threaten To Pack The Supreme Court

By William Teach September 20, 2020 – 8:39 am

It’s not the first time, they’ve threatened to pack the Supreme Court back in 2018 and 2019, because they’re sore losers.

Democrats Threaten To Pack Court If Republicans Vote On Ginsburg Replacement This Year

Prominent Democrats are threatening to expand the size of the Supreme Court to cancel out President Donald Trump’s court picks if Republicans vote on late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement this year.

Left-wing activists have been pushing Democratic politicians to endorse court-packing since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 2018 retirement cleared the way for Justice Brett Kavanaugh to join the high court. Some congressional Democrats embraced the idea following Ginsburg’s death Friday night.

“If Sen. McConnell and @SenateGOP were to force through a nominee during the lame duck session—before a new Senate and President can take office—then the incoming Senate should immediately move to expand the Supreme Court,” House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote on Twitter Saturday.

“Filling the SCOTUS vacancy during a lame duck session, after the American people have voted for new leadership, is undemocratic and a clear violation of the public trust in elected officials,” added Nadler, a Democrat from New York.

“Congress would have to act and expanding the court would be the right place to start,” he said.

“If he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021,” Democratic Mass. Rep. Joe Kennedy tweeted on Saturday. “It’s that simple.”

Well, not that simple. They’d have to pass a new law to do so, and the last time they tried back in 1937 because they were pissed off they lost a Court ruling it didn’t go so well for them. FDR tried to use all sorts of flowery language at the time to do it, and American citizens were not biting. Seriously, we’re still operating under the Judiciary Act of 1869 for having nine Justices.

You have all sorts of Dems, including Ed Markey, Chuck Schumer, Richard Blumenthal, and so many more having a breakdown, threatening to pack the court, and they should remember that if they win and manage to do it, they won’t always be in power. A GOP congress and President could reverse the law, fill the court with conservatives, pass a law to pack it more.

Republican Tennessee Rep. Chuck Fleischmann warned that packing the court would be “dangerous” and undermine the court as an institution.

“Court packing is a dangerous and shortsighted idea that will delegitimize our institutions — and that’s what the Dems are threatening to do if they don’t get their way,” Fleischmann wrote in a tweet.

Democrats do not care: it’s all about power, and forcing citizens to act and think in a certain way.

(Breitbart) On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) stated that voting on D.C. statehood and Puerto Rico statehood, expanding the size of the Supreme Court, and eliminating the filibuster will be “on the agenda” in discussions among Senate Democrats on how to handle Republicans moving forward with filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat.

Hirono said, “There will be a conference call. But a lot of us are already thinking about what we can do, whatever tools we have. But at the same time, what’s really important is for everyone out there for whom Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant something…that they need to be parallel organizing. I know they’re already doing that. And everybody better vote. … In the meantime, we are going to explore every avenue to stop Mitch McConnell from stealing yet another Supreme Court seat.”

Apparently, having riots isn’t working for them. Bunch of sore losers.

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Only Joe Biden Is Serious About The Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach September 19, 2020 – 3:00 pm

The Obama admin, with VP Joe Biden along for the ride, really didn’t do much, other than signing the non-binding Paris Climate Agreement and jacking up CAFE standards, eh? Oh, a push for hybrids and EVs, but, both Joe and Barack took lots and lots of fossil fueled trips, and Obama had to be shamed into putting solar panels back on the roof of the White House. But, Joe totally Believes

Tomlinson: Only one presidential candidate is serious about climate change

“It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch.”

President Donald Trump summed up his global warming mitigation strategy in just seven words, spoken days before the rest of the world kicks off Climate Week on Monday.

So, really, this is mostly about whining about Trump, eh? As for Climate Week, I’m pretty darned informed as to what is going on with the Cult of Climastrology, and have never heard this, nor do I see other climate realists mentioning. Or Warmists. If it’s so important, why does no one seem to know about it? Anyhow, after lots of TDS, finally we get Handsy Joe

Democratic challenger Joe Biden is indisputably more committed to burning less fossil fuel and using nature’s limitless energy from the sun and wind. What’s up for debate is how fast he’ll move and whether he can rally public support to succeed.

Biden suffers from the moderate’s curse, buffeted by impatient environmental activists on the left and middle-class workers worried about jobs and energy costs to his right. No policy will be without winners and losers. (snip)

Biden has an actual energy policy to use available lower-carbon resources until he can rally Americans to spend trillions of dollars to put people back to work building an advanced energy grid. One promises life support for dying industries, while one wishes to move forward pragmatically.

Of course, if you do not believe the climate is changing, or that humans can do anything to slow it, then your choice is only slightly more difficult. The United States can either lead the world in energy innovation or fall inextricably behind, which is not much of a choice if you care about the country’s future.

Joe’s plan is what? To force the peasants to buy $35K and up EVs or ride the bus/train? Bike to work? Walk like it’s 1780? Make the energy situation in the country like California, with rolling planned and unplanned blackouts and brownouts? It’s not really much of a plan, just platitudes

(Breitbart) During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden said that he doesn’t think that the Green New Deal is “too much” but that he has his “own deal” that he has laid out.

Biden was asked by a participant in the town hall, “Are you a firm supporter of the Green New Deal, and how [will you] make sure our communities are protected?”

Biden responded, “I have laid out in detail what I’ll do.”

After Biden discussed his plan and ambitions, host Anderson Cooper asked, “Let me just jump in though, she was asking about the Green New Deal. Do you back that or do you think it’s too much?”

Biden responded, “I don’t think it’s too much. I have my own deal. I’ve laid it out in great detail. The Democratic Party’s adopted it as a platform.”

When will Joe lead the way and give up his own use of fossil fuels and make all the other Democrats do the same?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 19, 2020 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Maryland’s sanctuary policy leading to murder.

Doubleshot under the fold, check out hogewash, with a post on bad science and even worse theology.

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Los Angeles School System Has Plan To Remove All Police Officers From Schools

By William Teach September 19, 2020 – 10:30 am

It’s for the kids, you know

A dramatically diminished L.A. school police force under proposed cuts

Two months after a divided Los Angeles Unified school board slashed funding for its police department by more than a third, the contours of a dramatically diminished force emerged this week.

Under a plan presented to the board on Tuesday, police officers would be removed from school campuses and weekend patrols meant to protect schools from vandalism would be eliminated, among other cuts.

The debate over the proposed cuts, set for later this month, marks a wide split on the board over the role that armed, uniformed officers should play in providing security to hundreds of thousands of students enrolled at more than 900 campuses.

This would work out well, wouldn’t you say? Vandalized schools, graffiti everywhere, fights all over the place, theft, weapons being carried, kids blowing off teachers and wandering the halls, drugs everywhere, large groups of kids beating on individuals. Hey, every Modern Socialist initiative needs an experimental group, right? We can see the results of their ideas.

And in a signal of how unresolved the issue remains for many, a district task force said it intends to survey high school students, parents and employees around the district to evaluate opinions on school police.

It’ll be interesting to see how that works out, right? The more criminal kids and the cop hating parents from bad neighborhoods voting against the police, those from good schools voting for. And, what of employees? The dogmatic ones will be against police, no matter how dangerous their schools are, the realistic ones wanting police.

George McKenna, the board’s lone Black member, said he strongly supports efforts to end police brutality but believes school police are being unfairly maligned.

“The school police were never a danger to the students,” McKenna said. “Are you under the assumption that there are no Crips, no Bloods, [that] there are no gangs out there and we’re going to do this with social workers?”

He added: “I’ll invite you to the first funeral that we have to have of a child [because] we don’t have anyone protecting them on that campus.”

But, Modern Socialists and the BLM folks have a narrative, George, and they will Cancel you if you keep this up.

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CNN: All The Carbon Pollution Reductions During Lockdown Didn’t Make A Difference Or Something

By William Teach September 19, 2020 – 7:31 am

CNN is kinda giving up the game with their spin, basically saying that reducing carbon dioxide doesn’t matter

The pandemic didn’t solve climate change. This week’s disasters are proof

If you thought Covid-19 restrictions, like enforced lockdowns and social distancing, would put a lasting dent in our collective carbon footprint and save the world from warming, you were mistaken.

Earlier this year, in the midst of a horrific news cycle and a rapidly mounting death toll, that notion was a welcome silver lining to the pandemic.

As people around the world stayed at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus, greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport industries plummeted, dropping to record lows.

But it may have given some a false sense that the worst effects of climate change were being mitigated.

They’re not.

So, of course, they blame all the fires (which were set mostly by humans, accidentally and on purpose), tropical storms (which have always happened), and glacier breakup (it’s called an interglacial period for a reason) on you driving a fossil fueled vehicle and eating a hamburger.

All of these extreme weather events can be linked to global warming, caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from humans burning fossil fuels.

If there was a huge drop in CO2 output during lockdown, shouldn’t there be some change noticed if, as they say, CO2 is the control knob?

The climate change that we’re experiencing today — evidenced by extreme weather events like the West Coast wildfires — is the net result of our cumulative emissions since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

So, even if annual carbon emissions go down in any given year, as they have during the pandemic, as long as we are adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the planet will continue to warm.

See? There’s always some Excuse. If the weather people at CNN (this is in the straight weather section) really care, they’d demand CNN stop using fossil fuels to gather and disseminate the news

Under the 2015 Paris climate accord, countries committed to reduce their carbon output and halt global warming below 2 degrees Celsius — and if possible, below 1.5 degrees Celsius — to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Trump announced in 2017 he would pull the US out of the accord, a move that that will lead to a complete withdrawal just after this year’s presidential election.

But, this is written as an opinion piece, because you know they want Biden to win, and this is advocating that. Because this whole movement is a doomsday political cult.

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Ruth Bader Ginsberg Dead At 87: McConnell Promises Quick Vote On Replacement

By William Teach September 19, 2020 – 7:16 am

The liberal icon has gone to meet her maker, let her rest in peace. Because down here on Earth we get

McConnell: Trump’s Supreme Court nominee ‘will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said unequivocally Friday night that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”

Ginsburg, 87, died Friday from complications surrounding metastatic pancreas cancer.

“The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life,” McConnell said in a statement Friday.

“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise,” McConnell continued. “Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.”

McConnell added that “by contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary.”

“Once again, we will keep our promise,” he said. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”

Gauntlet thrown down, eh? McConnell knows that there is no possible way to do this before the election. There would be no time for hearings, and too many are campaigning to do it properly. Plus you have crazies like Susan Collins who is doing her RINO stuff already. Win or lose, Senate and or President, they can do it after the election. McConnell could lose Collins and Romney, who would show their true leanings, and even one more GOP senator for the vote, with Pence giving the tie breaking vote to install a Trump pick.

Ruth herself went a little unhinged prior to her passing

Vox notes that Ginsburg had her last word on Trump last year, admitting during a talk on stage at Amherst College that she thought Trump was “an aberration.” That’s what we all hope against hope, right?

As NPR reports, Ginsburg reportedly dictated a statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera a few days before her death saying, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”

But, really, what McConnell is doing is reminding people why elections are important. If Biden wins and gets his pick, the nature of the court doesn’t change. But, just imagine replacing RBG with a stalwart Constitutionalist justice, which would keep the court from being nutty leftist for decades to come. McConnell wants this fight, he wants the media focused on it, he wants squishy Republicans, Independents, and even old school Democrats who aren’t unhinged Leftists to talk about this and understand what’s at stake for this election.

And he’ll be happy if this exposes Democrats for the unhinged, violent tools they are

https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

There’s more where that came from at the link, and you know plenty more are writing the same. There’s plenty of Barking Moonbat Level 10 under the tweets, in comments sections at places like the Democratic Underground (BTW, suddenly Dems are good with religious music) and mainstream sites that still allow comments.

And then there’s this, below the fold

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Surprise: Eco-Fascists Are Now Far Right

By William Teach September 18, 2020 – 3:00 pm

This is some Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil spin here, folks

How Far-Right Extremists Are Using the Climate Crisis to Go Mainstream

Oregon has been a hot bed of far-right activity for years, but the wildfires have cast the militias in a new light. Misinformation has been rampant as unprecedented fires lit up the state. False rumors of “antifa” igniting fires and coming to loot people’s homes have raced across Facebook.

Except for all the Democratic party voters setting many of the fires, Gizmado is totally correct!

The right’s relationship with climate change is complicated. Rampant climate denial has been the norm for more than a decade, and any attempts at climate action have faced vehement opposition. In Oregon, state senators ran away to block quorum on a pretty milquetoast cap-and-trade bills. Twice. Militias offered their help, and at least one state senator threatened violence once Gov. Kate Brown dispatched the police to look for the legislators on the lam.

Another emergent ideology, known as ecofascism, takes the warnings of the climate crisis at face value and twists them to violent, exclusionary ends. The alleged shooters who perpetrated both El Paso and Christchurch shootings last year adhered to this belief system, falsely arguing that developed countries had to lock out asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants because the world doesn’t need any more Western consumers. The “we are the virus” meme that emerged at the start of the pandemic also has roots in ecofascism, advocating for humans separate from the natural world and implying it’s OK to wipe out some of us. The end goal for ecofascists, though, is to uses the climate crisis as a means to racist ends.

Sure looks like this is trying to pin ecofascism on far-right folks, eh? These people are insane.

“The far right will no doubt try use such disasters for their own interests,” Hartmann said. “In many ways, environmental disruption and climate disaster fit into their world view and political strategy, especially of those who are ‘accelerationists’ and want to see a new civil war in this country.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 18, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post on Democrats being worse than European socialists.

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Democrats Hot To Kill Off Filibuster, Which Is Raaaaacist, Despite Using It Constantly

By William Teach September 18, 2020 – 10:30 am

Democrats keep using the filibuster to stop GOP legislation in the Senate, because they love the notion of the minority party having some power in the system, because we are not a democracy, we are a federal republic. It’s not just voting for president. But, they want to kill it if they’re in power. They should remember that they won’t always control the Senate

Please, Democrats: Kill the Filibuster

The persistence of the filibuster is one of the deeper political mysteries of the age. As a legislative tool, it has a profoundly dishonorable history. People remember it as the tool that Sen. Jefferson Smith used to defeat Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine and his corrupt political machine. But Jeff Smith and Joe Paine never existed; they were fictional characters played by Jimmy Stewart and Claude Raines in Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Jeff Smith was based loosely on Montana Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, a Democrat who became the victim of a sham investigation after he exposed corruption in Warren G. Harding’s Justice Department; but no filibuster figured in that tale.

The filibuster’s true pedigree is as an instrument of white supremacy. It was used throughout the first half of the 20th century by Southern senators to block federal anti-lynching legislation, and, later, to delay passage of the 1957 and 1964 Civil Rights Acts. When people think of the filibuster, they shouldn’t think of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; they should think of Billie Holliday’s haunting recording of “Strange Fruit” (written by Abel Meeropol, who would later adopt the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after they were electrocuted for violating the Espionage Act of 1917; but I digress).

BTW, which party were those Senators who block the Civil Rights Acts?

The filibuster has been dying over the past decade, but it’s been dying way too slowly. The Democrats in 2013 eliminated the filibuster for all presidential nominations excepting nominations to the Supreme Court. This was decried as “the nuclear option,” but its effect was entirely salutary. The Republicans in 2017 then eliminated the filibuster for nominations to the Supreme Court. The move was decried once again as “nuclear,” yet life went on.

It’s long been assumed that if the Senate goes Democratic in November that the last remaining filibusters—those for legislation—will get “nuked” as well. At John Lewis’s funeral, former President Barack Obama rightly called the filibuster a “Jim Crow relic” and called for its elimination.

See? Protecting the minority is now a relic of Jim Crow. Now, just imagine what Obama would have said if the GOP could have jammed through their own legislation, including nuking Obamacare, when they had control of the House and Senate with ease. Bet Obama liked the filibuster at that point, eh?

All sorts of Democrats are hot to trot to do away with the filibuster. Remember, what goes around comes around.

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New Zealand To Require Climate Risk Reporting Or Something

By William Teach September 18, 2020 – 7:09 am

This is cute. New Zealand would have a tough time surviving without fossil fuels. 5.8% of their economy depends on tourism. It’s an island, so, people come on fossil fueled airplanes, and they take fossil fueled helicopter tours and boat tours. Their economy is highly dependent on imports and exports. I think they should just ban all use of fossil fuels, ban cars and trucks, no more helicopters and airplanes. It’s to save the world for future generations, you know

New Zealand Plans to Become First Country to Require Climate Risk Reporting

New Zealand could be the first country in the world to require its major financial institutions to report on the risks posed by the climate crisis.

This means that about 200 of the country’s biggest companies and banks would have to report on the impact that extreme weather events or climate polices will have on their business, Stuff explained.

“Today is another step on the journey this Government is taking towards a low carbon future for Aotearoa New Zealand and a cleaner, safer planet for future generations,” said Minister for Climate Change James Shaw Tuesday, Scoop reported.

The move builds on New Zealand’s emerging legacy of climate action, such as its historic Zero Carbon Bill that committed the country to honoring the goals of the Paris agreement and achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050. (snip)

If it passes, every New Zealand bank, building society, credit union, insurer or Crown Financial Institution with more than $1 billion in assets will have to report annually on the risk climate change poses to its business or explain why it cannot, according to Stuff. That report would include what the risks are, how the institution is managing them and how it is working to address the impacts of climate change.

You know what would be funny? If they all started reporting that the weather isn’t causing them any more problems than before. Because it’s weather, and weather happens. Or that bad weather is bad and government should stop using fossil fuels to make Bad Weather less. Or say “piss off, we’re moving to another country.”

Meanwhile

Patagonia Has A Fiery New Tag For Climate Crisis Deniers: “Vote The Assholes Out”

In the interest of preserving the planet, sportswear company Patagonia, known for its social and environmental activism, is selling shorts with a tag that says: “Vote the assholes out.”

The tag went viral this week on Twitter, leading many to wonder whether it was real. The text is actually sewn into the brand’s Regenerative Organic Stand-Up Shorts for men and women.

How much product is shipped using fossil fueled airplanes and trucks, Patagonia?

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