Joe Biden Admits His National Mask Mandate Would Be Unconstitutional

By William Teach September 8, 2020 – 6:46 am

You’d think this type of information would be somewhat news worthy, wouldn’t you? Yet, the only outlets covering this are a few Conservative leaning ones, including Breitbart, but nothing from the ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, LA Times, NY Times, or other big outlets

Joe Biden walks back his national mask mandate, admits it would probably be unconstitutional

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared on Aug. 13 that he would call for a nationwide face mask mandate. “Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months, at a minimum,” Biden said in August. “Let’s institute a mask mandate nationwide starting immediately, and we will save lives.”

Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), eagerly approved of Biden’s mask mandate. “That’s what real leadership looks like,” Harris said on the same day. “We just witnessed real leadership. Which is Joe Biden said that as a nation, we should all be wearing a mask for the next three months, because it will save lives.”

During Biden’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, he firmly declared that he would implement a national mask mandate if elected president.

“We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask — not as a burden, but to protect each other,” Biden said on Aug. 20 at the 2020 DNC. “It’s a patriotic duty.”

Of course, if he wins, he wouldn’t be able to do this till January 21st, 2021, and we all know that COVID19 restrictions will disappear the day after the election if he wins. And there is some data suggesting that the explosion of confirmed cases occurred after the mask mandates in states, cities, and counties exploded. And some data to suggest the opposite. Regardless, the one thing I don’t like is that people feel emboldened to get close since they are wearing a mask. Stay back. Anyhow, I digress

However, Biden walked back his national mask mandate on Sunday, admitting that it would probably be unconstitutional.

Dennis Welch, political editor of the Arizona’s Family publication and host of “Politics Unplugged,” asked Biden about instituting a stronger federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, such as a national mask mandate.

“Here’s the deal, the federal government…there’s a constitutional issue whether the federal government could issue such a mandate, I don’t think constitutionally they could, so I wouldn’t issue a mandate,” Biden said.

Oops? So all the rage-whining at Trump for refusing to institute a national mask mandate is based on a lie? He continued on (from the Breitbart article)

He said he would ask governors, mayors, county executives — anyone in authority — to impose one.

“I’m a constitutionalist,” Biden declared. “You can’t do things the Constitution does not allow you the power to do.”

He can ask, but, those who were going to do so have done so. As for being a constitutionalist, what did he tell Barack when he signed an order for DACA? How long do they want us wearing masks? On the bright side, they can hide our facial expressions from people, if you can work on keeping your eyes out of it.

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Warmists Trot Out Knew Thing: Climate Alignment

By William Teach September 7, 2020 – 4:23 pm

Once you get beyond all the Duckspeak and “we’re all in this together”, it’s really just another form of government forcing the private sector to act in a certain manner

The Way The World Needs To Move Forward On Climate Action: Climate Alignment

To make fundamental breakthroughs in addressing the causes of climate change, we need to dramatically shift the way we think and act on climate. To date, the world has primarily — and understandably — tackled the issue as a project of nations, leaving countries to formulate their action plans in silos, sometimes even in secrecy. But business doesn’t stop at the border, and neither do emissions.

What’s this “we” stuff? Why don’t climate cultists practice what they preach themselves?

India, China, and the United States may appear as individual entities in the climate dialogue, but their steel, chemicals, and cement industries have a lot in common. To go far enough fast enough, we need the Paris Agreement’s nationally determined contributions, but we also need an equally strong focus on cross-cutting industrial transformation. The bottom line is that we won’t solve the climate crisis without solving industry, but our current approach is not enough.

It’s clear that if we are to have a future that avoids the worst-case climate scenarios while also being just and environmentally sustainable, and providing equitable access to opportunities for global citizens, we need to target net-zero emissions by 2050. But while 2050 sounds like it’s far away, we need to be on track for our 2050 goals by 2030. That means we only ten years (or nine and a half at this point) to drive past economic tipping points and cut emissions by half. Therefore, the 2020s have been referred to as “the decisive decade.”

Dramatic change in these sectors is possible, but it requires engaging the real economy and working directly with the leaders in the most carbon-intensive sectors in a way that hasn’t been done before. In that spirit, the emerging concept of climate alignment is critical. Climate alignment focuses attention on the disciplined stewardship of the limited carbon budget we need to work within if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C.

A climate-aligned sector or company has specified a science-based transformation pathway to net zero emissions, the metrics needed to measure progress, and the range of stakeholder commitments from industry, finance, customers, suppliers, and governments needed to move down that pathway. It is a term that’s gained traction in the financial community where banks and investors are seeking to align near-term activities with technical and economic pathways that are needed to stay under the 1.5-degree target.

And it would really be government setting those metrics, and forcing the private sector to comply. Surprise? The question is, will this become one of the next things for the Cult of Climastrology?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 7, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is heat snow from other people driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on European deforestation due to CO2 targets.

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Cancel Culture Comes For Charles Darwin

By William Teach September 7, 2020 – 10:30 am

Charles Darwin has long been a favorite of Leftists, especially those who are anti-religion, which has long been hated by Leftists (technically, Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Progressivism, etc, are far to the right in the Authoritarian and Dictatorship models per Political Theory 101, but, let’s not quibble) who want to make The State the official religion. They love bring up the theory of evolution. But, sooner or later, the cancel culture alligator comes for everything

Now Charles Darwin gets cancelled: Natural History museum will review ‘offensive’ exhibitions about the Father of Evolution because HMS Beagle’s Galapagos voyage was ‘colonialist’

The Natural History museum is conducting a review into potentially ‘offensive’ collections including its Charles Darwin exhibitions.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, museum bosses have ordered an audit into certain collections that some staff believe are ‘legacies of colonies, slavery and empire’.

Rooms, statues and collected items in the museum that could be ‘problematic’ may be renamed, relabelled, or removed.

The review into the museum’s links to slavery and colonialism could result in a potential overhaul of the museum’s collections and public spaces.

In documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph, museum staff were told that as a result of the Black Lives Matter protests, the museum would undertake a review of room names, statues and collections that ‘could potentially cause offence’.

The executive board of the Natural History museum is said to be ‘very engaged’ with the issue and circulated an academic paper to staff which claimed ‘science, racism, and colonial power were inherently entwined’.

The paper proposes publicly acknowledging the past to create ‘less racist’ museums.

Once they are all labeled, the SJWs will then demand that they be removed

According to the academic paper shared with museum staff, the HMS Beagle was cited as one of Britain’s many ‘colonialist scientific expeditions’.

It wrote that one of the purposes of the voyage was ‘to enable greater British control of those areas’.

The paper also argues that ‘museums were put in place to legitimise a racist ideology’.

Other collections that could come under scrutiny by the anti-racist review are specimens gathered by botanist Sir Joseph Banks who sailed with Captain James Cook, as well as items gathered by Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus who thought Africans were ‘crafty’, ‘indolent’ and ‘negligent’.

Science and exploration are raaaaacist. So are museums. So, museums will soon be cancelled.

The flora collection of Sir Hans Sloane, one of the British Museum’s founders, may also come under review.

He was labelled him a ‘slave owner’ by the British Museum in August and his bust was removed from a pedestal.

The ceiling of the main Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum – where ‘Hope’, a skeleton of a blue whale is hanging (pictured) – could also be ‘problematic’ due to paintings of colonial exports such as cotton, tea and tobacco.

A statue of Charles Darwin that sits in the museum’s main hall could also come under questioning as well as a statue of scientist Thomas Henry Huxley because of his theories of five ‘races’ of human.

It’s hard to end a post when you keep reading about the insanity of cancel culture, eh? And, yeah, there’s even more. Hit the link.

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Shocking: Extinction Rebellion Has Been Infiltrated With Marxists

By William Teach September 7, 2020 – 8:31 am

I’m gobsmacked. They just seemed so reasonable in their demands and actions

Extinction Rebellion at war with itself after infiltration by Marxists

A bitter battle is raging for control of Extinction Rebellion, with claims that the organisation is being infiltrated by far-Left groups who want it to adopt a more overtly militant socialist agenda.

More militant than it already is?

Evidence is emerging that Marxist groups such as the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Young Communist League (YCL) have instructed members to join the ranks of XR with a view to exerting a strong influence on its strategy.

The SWP has encouraged its members to attend Extinction Rebellion protests and blockades in order to recruit members to its own ranks and influence the organisation away from its original aim to tackle environmental threats towards a more Marxist direction.

Matters came to a head last week when members of the YCL, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain, were photographed at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Parliament Square holding a banner that read “Socialism not Extinction” alongside a hammer and sickle.

XR had this to say

But…

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Say, Why Aren’t We Talking ABout Guns After Kenosha And Portland Or Something

By William Teach September 7, 2020 – 8:11 am

In the wake of the George Floyd shooting, the point was supposed to be about policing reform, right? It didn’t last long before all the Leftists started mixing in all their pet peeves/causes, like LGBT, ‘climate change’, mail in ballots, and more. Not to mention the riots, looting, plundering, assault, etc. Now it seems to be gun grabbing

After Kenosha & Portland, Why Aren’t We Talking About Guns?

The killings on the streets of Kenosha, Wis., and Portland, Ore., by gun-toting, self-appointed ministers of justice bolster one of the main arguments made by gun control advocates: widespread access to guns leads to needless death.

In both cases, confrontations between political opponents quickly escalated, shots were fired, and people died. Further, the Kenosha shooting involved a semi-automatic “assault” rifle, in a state with an open carry law (though the 17-year-old shooter, Kyle Rittenhouse, is one year short of being able to legally open carry in the state).

Yet the shootings have not sparked a fresh dialogue about gun control. We are not spending much time at all debating background checks, assault weapons bans or open carry laws.

Why aren’t we talking about guns? Chiefly, because the presidential candidates aren’t talking about guns. Donald Trump is busy blaming Joe Biden and Democratic mayors for failing to crack down on rioting and looting, while Biden is blaming Trump for fueling divisiveness.

Interesting. Far left Bill Scher, a contributing editor to Politico Magazine, fails to mention that the left wing shooter, Michael Reinoehl, actually stalked Aaron Danielson before murdering him. Nor does Scher mention all the shootings in the Seattle CHAZ area when Democrats were showing what mob rule looked like. Or that shootings in Democrat run cities have skyrocketed. Nor that all these left wing groups are showing up armed, when they typically call for people to be disarmed. I guess it’s a matter of them wanting Other People disarmed.

Yet if they don’t emphasize gun control now, they can’t easily argue next year that they have a broad mandate, cutting across political and cultural fault lines, to act. Any newly elected Democratic senators may not be so eager to sign on to gun control legislation, especially partisan legislation, for fear of losing tenuous support at home.

He’s telling you that Democrats want to take your guns. Are you listening?

Still, Biden is probably wise to put first things first. Erasing the political and cultural divide with a geographically broad victory is a necessary, if not sufficient, first step for creating a climate conducive to bipartisan cooperation and ultimate legislative success. If that means putting the gun issue on the back burner, even when gun deaths are in the news, so be it. But Biden and his fellow Democrats should be aware that any attempt at passing specific gun control measures in 2021 will be a heavy lift without first proving their popularity at the ballot box in 2020.

How did that “bipartisan” stuff work while Biden’s boss Barack Obama was in office? And, perhaps we should be talking about left wing violence, how Democrats resort to violence, arson, looting, assault, etc, quickly. Which is why so many people are buying their first firearms.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 6, 2020 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Datechguy’s Blog, with a post listing 20 reasons they hate Trump.

With Labor Day tomorrow, it’s time to start thinking about winter.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 6, 2020 – 9:36 am

Patriotic Pinup George Petty

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, birds are singing (OMG, going nuts on the porch this morning), and the Dodgers are still leading. This pinup is by George Petty, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Lid says people must stop defending John McCain
  2. The Other McCain has the case of the non-compliant motorist
  3. The People’s Cube notes a mayor getting snippy with the cops, who have handcuffs
  4. The Right Scoop covers “protesters” attacking restaurants, diners, and homes
  5. This ain’t Hell… discusses really large EVs
  6. Weasel Zippers notes Antifa marching and screaming “Death To America”
  7. Climate Change Dispatch covers an isolated island showing zero warming
  8. Green Jihad notes California begging other states for batteries
  9. Not A Lot Of People Know That covers British MPs tabling a climate emergency bill
  10. Powerline notes something that should get Trump re-elected
  11. Never Yet Melted covers the latest cancel victim, which is a ….. rock
  12. neo-neocon says now we have fake news conferences
  13. Moonbattery has bad news: the wordy “happy” is raaaaacist
  14. Maggie’s Farm has a thought on why everything has become about race
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection notes that Democrats are saying they won’t accept the results if Trump wins

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Mostly Peaceful Protesters Throw Molotov Cocktails At Police In Portland

By William Teach September 6, 2020 – 8:01 am

We’re at 100+ days of riots in the People’s Republik Of Portland, so, perhaps CNN, NBC News, CBS News, NY Times, and Washington Post can be excused for not bothering to offer any coverage of this, right? Though CBS does have a story on serial rapist Jacob Blake saying it’s hard to breathe.

Portland ‘riot’ declared after Molotov cocktails tossed

At least three Molotov cocktails were tossed in the direction of Portland, Ore., police late Saturday, prompting yet another night of unrest in the city to be declared a riot, according to reports.

Video posted on social media showed people scattering after a fiery object hurtled through the air and crashed on the ground, resulting in a huge fireball and smoke.

In another video, a rioter is seen scrambling for help after his feet catch fire while trying to escape flames.

Late Saturday local time, police posted on Twitter that the crowd near Ventura Park – about 10 miles east of downtown — was “engaging in tumultuous and violent conduct thereby intentionally or recklessly creating a grave risk of causing public alarm.

“This is a riot,” the message declared.

Portland mayor Ted Wheeler has no comment. Literally not comment. There’s nothing in the Portland news sites nor on his Twitter feed about these violent protests. Eh, he’s probably moving house, since the violent protesters showed up at his house the other day. No word on arrests Saturday into Sunday, but there were 27 Friday into Saturday. For which the District Attorney will let most, if not all, go. An with the Portland Police engaged with these idiots, crime has spiked elsewhere throughout the city. There have been 488 shootings in this super progressive, gun grabbing/hating city this year, compared to 299 all of 2019.

Meanwhile, anti-Trump nutters are proving this is really all about left wing politics, not about black lives mattering

An anti-Trump group called for nationwide protests on Saturday — seeking to fuel the left-wing protests that have roiled the country throughout the summer.

The left-wing group “Refuse Fascism” was organizing nationwide events, in places like New York City, Cleveland, Philadelphia and the Hatfield Courthouse in Portland — where protests and riots have hit the federal property for more than 100 days.

So, a bunch of Democrat voters in Democrat run cities are having a Democrat cryfest with other Democrats? Good luck. Just wondering, can anyone of these moonbats calling Trump a Fascist name any policy of Trump’s that limits their freedom, liberty, and choice? San Francisco’s mayor London Breed, who isn’t particularly concerned with people pooping in her streets, and who would have you arrested if caught opening your hair salon, wouldn’t condemn Pelosi but did call Trump a dictator. How so? Dems never say.

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Apparently, The Climate Crisis (scam) Is Sexist

By William Teach September 5, 2020 – 3:48 pm

Hey, remember all the articles about a lack of black people in the Cult of Climstrology, especially in leadership positions (let’s face it, the CoC is primarily composed of middle to upper class white people)? Well, looks like the CoC is also sexist

Q&A: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible

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She is, thus, a fitting historic figure for Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson to cite in opening their new book, “All We Can Save,” an anthology of essays, poetry and original illustrations on climate change by a diverse range of women, to be published Sept. 22. (snip)

“The climate crisis is not gender neutral,” Johnson and Wilkinson write in the book’s preface. “Climate change is a powerful ‘threat multiplier,’ making existing vulnerabilities and injustices worse. Especially under conditions of poverty, women and girls face greater risk of displacement or death from extreme weather disasters.”

Are they saying that women aren’t actually as strong as men? Not very Feminist, is that?

Wilkinson: The inspiration for this book came from the women who are in it. Ayana and I were in Aspen together for a conference and [felt] a bit of frustration about how much the public discourse on climate is still dominated by primarily older white male voices, and how many brilliant innovative, hardworking, committed women are not getting the megaphone. We went on what Ayana has now deemed a “rage hike” in Aspen, really putting our heads together on, “How can we get women in climate the attention and resources they need to really be able to have the change that they’re capable of making?”

So, the older white climate cultists blew them off? Oh, and going on a “rage hike” doesn’t exactly scream “competent and serious adults”, does it?

Johnson: We knew that these women who were leading climate work were out there. They just weren’t visible. They weren’t household names, and because of that, they weren’t getting the resources or support they needed.

So, the CoC is sexist? Good to know.

Wilkinson: My observation is that it tends to be a strength of women in the movement to be able to hold multiple things at the same time—to understand that this is about health, and this is about justice, and this is about good jobs, and this is about science, and it’s also about story and the kaleidoscope through which we need to see and try to understand the climate crisis. … That comes through in lots of different ways in these pieces. 

Sounds like this has little to do with anything other than politics.

What is the significance of your book coming out so close to the 2020 election, given the larger role climate now seems to be playing in U.S. electoral politics? 

Johnson: We specifically made sure the book was coming out before the election in the hopes that it would be able to seed some conversations around the importance of the candidates’ climate platforms at all state and federal levels and in the upcoming election. So that timing was deliberate. In fact, it was a total sprint to get the book done in time to make that possible.

Yup, politics.

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