If All You See…

By William Teach January 28, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turned to desert because Other People drove fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Biden’s next land grab, using the Monument’s Act.

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Biden DHS Warns Of Scary People Daring To Protest Being Locked Down

By William Teach January 28, 2021 – 10:30 am

We’re at the one week mark, and Biden’s Department Of Homeland Security is already making moves to turn average Americans engaged in Wrongthink as domestic terrorists. Should this be concerning for the future? Will the federal government and state government’s ramp up their attacks using the legal system and other systems to take away the Constitutional Rights of those people?

DHS warns of heightened risk posed by domestic violent extremists

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday warned the U.S. may face heightened threats from “ideologically-motivated violent extremists” in the wake of President Biden’s inauguration.

DHS warned that domestic violent extremists (DVEs) would continue to express opposition to COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 election results and “other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.”

“DHS is concerned these same drivers to violence will remain through early 2021 and some DVEs may be emboldened by the January 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. to target elected officials and government facilities,” the agency wrote in a bulletin, using shorthand for domestic violent extremists.

The bulletin was issued by acting Homeland Security Secretary David Pekoske, as Biden’s pick to lead the agency, former Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, has seen his nomination stall in the Senate.

The bulletin, which will be in place until April 30, is the lowest-level type of advisory issued by the department, warning of general trends rather than specific credible threats.

99.9% of the COVID protests were peaceful, unlike 99.9% of the BLM/Antifa protests. There was one incident of protesting the 2020 elections that got a bit violent, most of it was peaceful. Other grievances? Perhaps DHS should take a look at the 1st Amendment. But, DHS barely mentioned BLM and Antifa, which specifically use violent methods. BLM even says it: “no justice no peace”. That’s a call for violence. Much like under Obama, the apparatus of the federal government will be used for significant partisan activities. If DHS mentions you by name, you can kiss your job goodbye, and no one will hire you. And, perhaps Government will find creative ways to go after you

Seriously, the state of New York is going after a Florida resident (I remember this guy from Twitter, till he got the ban hammer) over a meme (more on this at Twitchy). If someone is to stupid to understand you can’t vote by text, they shouldn’t vote, eh? But, this flies squarely in the face of the 1st Amendment, and New York’s Article I Section 8. But, Vaughn will have to spend himself into oblivion to defend himself. It’s too bad one cannot simply appeal directly to the Supreme Court on such a blindly obvious Constitutional violation.

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Climate Czar John Kerry Says Oil Workers Should Learn To Code

By William Teach January 28, 2021 – 7:58 am

John Kerry, whose family owns multiple homes, multiple fossil fueled vehicles, and even their own private jet, and doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to give up his own use of fossil fuels, has some words for oil workers

Senator Cruz, like most of the people losing their jobs, was not amused

(Fox News) Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ripped Biden climate czar and former Secretary of State John Kerry on “Fox News Primetime” Wednesday over what Cruz described as degrading comments about blue-collar workers whose jobs were abruptly cut when President Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline permit.

At a White House press conference earlier Wednesday, Kerry claimed industrial and energy sector workers are victims of a “false narrative” based in Trump-era economic policy.

“They have been fed the notion that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense,” Kerry said. “No, it’s not. What is happening to them is happening because of other market forces are already taking place.”

“It is not a unifying message, and it is not doing the job we should be doing [in] fighting for working men and women in this country,” said Cruz. (snip)

“What an arrogant, out-of-touch statement for a centimillionaire to say,” Cruz shot back. “You know, ‘You little people, you know, I don’t like the choices you’re making, and so your jobs go away,’ as John Kerry said right there. Quelle surprise that the Democratic elites have decided that blue-collar workers, that union members, that men and women with calluses on their hands, they’ve made the wrong choices, in John Kerry’s words.”

“I’ve asked multiple Biden nominees what they would say to the union workers who just lost their jobs because Joe Biden decided they didn’t deserve a job,” Cruz told host Maria Bartiromo. “And essentially nominee after nominee after nominee has said, ‘Well, tough luck.'”

It’s nice when Government decides to destroy jobs for their Beliefs, eh? The same people who do not have to worry about their own jobs, about losing their income and homes and cars. People who live a cushy lifestyle on the taxpayer dime. And we are only entering week two of the China Joe administration.

Let’s also not forget how much of the solar panel industry comes from China.

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Bummer: COVID Is Just Very Inconvenient To China Joe’s Agenda

By William Teach January 28, 2021 – 7:42 am

I’m sure we’ve all noted that the Credentialed Media is no longer letting us know about COVID related deaths and infections to the degree they were before January 20th. The news is not a lead thing on television, and bottom of the page/page 2 news in the papers. Because it totally wasn’t used as a political tool, right? And it is just so inconvenient for Joe (who wouldn’t have been elected without it)

The Memo: Biden faces risks as COVID optimism stalls

The wave of optimism that followed the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccines is receding — and that could spell trouble for President Biden.

Let’s not forget which president spearheaded the operation to get the vaccines in record time. His name ain’t China Joe.

U.S. deaths from the virus hit 80,000 in January, making it the nation’s deadliest month. And new strains are worrying scientists, including a mutation emanating from the United Kingdom that is more contagious, and potentially more deadly, than those previously seen.

On Wednesday, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said total U.S. deaths from the virus will hit around 500,000 on Feb. 20 based on the current trajectory. More than 425,000 people have died so far.

There have also been problems with the rollout of vaccinations, with state-level officials complaining that they are not getting clarity on how many shots will be available at any given time.

While the new administration has been in power for just one week and cannot reasonably be blamed for many of the current issues, the problems are reverberating in the economy — posing a sizable political risk to Biden.

Joe said he Had A Plan

(NY Post) A few days ago, President Biden gave a speech on the “American Rescue Plan.” In it, he admitted “the crisis is only deepening. It’s not getting better; it’s deepening.” He also finally stated that “there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” So no magic plan.

If you say you have a plan, you should have a plan. Joe has no plan

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the broader-based S&P 500 each fell by more than 2 percent on Wednesday, the latter having its worst day since October, as the Federal Reserve left interest rates near zero.

Retail sales have been below expectations for the past two months. The latest monthly employment report showed the nation experienced a net job loss for the first time in eight months in December.

Any further deterioration could sap Biden’s political capital with abrupt speed.

Well, the market probably doesn’t appreciate the job and capital killing policies of China Joe. But, this is all just so bothersome for Joe’s agenda of implementing Modern Socialism. He’s pretty good at killing jobs, not so good at doing anything other than more of the same when it comes to COVID.

Will the same media blast Joe for not really doing anything, especially when the economy starts going down?

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Biden To Sign Another EO On Hotcoldwetdry, And Fight Like No Other President Has

By William Teach January 27, 2021 – 3:00 pm

That sound you hear is the “Trump has mean tweets so I’ll vote for Joe” folks groaning when they go to the gas pump

Biden to sign executive order on climate change

President Joe Biden is set to take a series of actions on climate change on his seventh full day in office, fulfilling campaign promises such as freezing new oil and gas leasing on federal land and kicking off his ambitious agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — making tackling climate change a priority across the federal government.

Biden’s actions Wednesday will follow up on several climate-related executive orders he signed in his first few days in office, including rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate, and revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

In addition to Biden’s domestic policy priorities on climate, the order would set climate change as a key consideration for U.S. national security and foreign policy. (snip)

Wednesday’s executive order will start the process for the U.S. to determine its new, more ambitious goal for how much to reduce carbon emissions alongside Biden’s goal for a net-zero carbon economy by 2050 — a goal meant to be even loftier than those laid out in the Paris Agreement.

A key component of Biden’s climate agenda has been to create clean energy jobs, with particular focus on manufacturing electric, zero-emissions vehicles. One of Wednesday’s orders would direct the federal government to purchase these types of vehicles for the government’s enormous fleet, and requires they be made in America.

Good news! Gas will go up, the cost of living will go up, and your taxes will have to go up to pay for replacing huge numbers of federal vehicles with EVs.

Biden will also announce that the U.S. will host an international climate summit on Earth Day this year, April 22, and task former Secretary of State John Kerry with “enhanced climate ambition” to increase the U.S. commitment and push other countries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions even more in the fight against climate change. Kerry in his position as special presidential envoy for climate will sit on the National Security Council.

So, upwards of, if we go by the UNIPCC COPS (climate change conferences), roughly 10k people taking fossil fueled trips, including on fossil fueled airplanes and private jets? Huh. But, see, China Joe will fight the climate crisis (scam) like no other President!

Biden Plans To Fight Climate Change Like No US President Has Done Before

Joe Biden is preparing to deal with climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before – by mobilizing his entire administration to take on the challenge from every angle in a strategic, integrated way.

The strategy is evident in the people Biden has chosen for his Cabinet and senior leadership roles: Most have track records for incorporating climate change concerns into a wide range of policies, and they have experience partnering across agencies and levels of government.

Those skills are crucial, because slowing climate change will require a comprehensive and coordinated “all hands on deck” approach.

On one hand this is correct: he will do more than others. But, like the rest, he won’t practice what he preaches in his own life.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 27, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing the planet to dry out, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on how that affordable bail thing is working (and part 2 and part 3)

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WRAL Demands People Accept That China Joe Won

By William Teach January 27, 2021 – 10:30 am

The ownership corporation of local Raleigh news outlet WRAL is very upset that people are denying that China Joe won the election

Editorial: Biden won. Time for the deniers to declare it, too

It is time, well past time really, that our members of Congress – particularly those representing North Carolina who have been arguing otherwise – declare that Joe Biden got the most legally cast popular votes and got the most properly assigned Electoral College votes. He is the constitutionally elected president of the United States.

No on is asking anyone that they must be happy with the results. No one is asking anyone that they must agree with all the duly elected president stands for or says. Just state simply that Biden won the election fair and square.

(a bunch of complaints about what Trump has said)

The election wasn’t stolen. Of 62 lawsuits filed in state and federal courts around the nation challenging voting and election procedures and processes, 61 failed. The lone victory, in a Pennsylvania court, affected a very few votes and had no impact on the election outcome in a state where Biden received 81,660 votes more than Trump.

Rep. Greg Murphy of Greenville, says he objected to the Electoral College votes from Pennsylvania because of a “constitutional breach.” What knowledge and expertise does he possess, what FACTS does he command, that state and federal judges – including members of the nation’s Supreme court – lack?

It takes more than simply declaring, as Rep. David Rouzer of Wilmington did that: “There are just too many aspects of concern, too many irregularities and clear violations of the U.S. Constitution by several of the states in question, which is why so many instinctively have little confidence that the presidential election was fair.”

There’s a bunch more complaints along those lines from the Capital Broadcasting Company’s editorial board, which ends thusly

Quit it already. There’s no requirement for anyone be happy with the outcome of an election.

But when the results are tallied, and when they are as thoroughly examined as the results of the 2020 presidential election have been, members of Congress in particular should be happy that democracy prevailed.

They must state, without qualification, that Joe Biden is the duly elected president of the United States.

Interesting. I’ve looked back in their archives, and I cannot find anything telling Democrats to do the same while Dems were caterwauling about Russia Russia Russia. Not in the time period between the election 2016 through February 2017. Nor in the months after the Mueller Report was released, which basically stated that Democrats were full of mule fritters. We were treated to four years of Democrats denying that Trump legitimately won the election.

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UN: 64% See Climate Crisis (scam) As Global Emergency Or Something

By William Teach January 27, 2021 – 7:47 am

I don’t actually find this that surprising, since people are weak minded and have been indoctrinated via schools and a constant bombardment of negative news “stories”, so, they think Doom is coming

Climate change seen as global emergency by 64 per cent of people

The biggest ever poll of climate change views has found that 64 per cent of people think the issue is a “global emergency”.

The UK, which is hosting the COP26 climate summit this November, had the highest level of concern, at 81 per cent, of the countries polled. Among high-income countries, the figure is lowest at 65 per cent in the US, where president Joe Biden has made climate change one of his top priorities. The average for low-income countries is 58 per cent, although it rises to 74 per cent for small island developing states, many of which are at risk of rising sea levels.

At a global level, conserving forests and land was the most popular way to tackle emissions, with 54 per cent choosing it out of 18 policy options. The “Peoples’ Climate Survey”, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme, had 1.4 million responses in 50 countries. That gives it the biggest response rate of any climate poll so far, although others have covered more countries.

The Axios article notes that people as young as 14 could vote, and

Some 550,000 people aged 14 to 18 took part in the survey, which had a margin of error of +/- 2%.

So, over one third of the responses were by children, and we’re supposed to listen to them, you know. And here is what everyone thinks should be done

Four climate policies emerged as the most popular of the 18 proposed to respondents in the Peoples’ Climate Vote (see Figure 9). These were to conserve forests and land (54%) and use solar, wind and renewable power (53%), climate friendly farming techniques (52%), and investing more money in green businesses and jobs (50%).

Strange, there’s nothing about changing their own lives, giving up their own use of fossil fuels, making their own lives carbon neutral. But, they’re happy to tell farmers how to do their jobs, right? A job most of these Warmists won’t do themselves. You can see the full survey in the Axios link or here. Below the fold is a screenshot of the policy solutions

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Shampeachment: 45 Republicans Vote That Trump Impeachment Is Unconstitutional

By William Teach January 27, 2021 – 7:23 am

This is dead on arrival

Forty-five Republicans vote against proceeding with Senate impeachment trial

Move OnSenators were sworn in as jurors to President Trump’s impeachment trial Tuesday as the Senate voted 55-45 to end debate on Sen. Rand Paul’s point of order arguing that the impeachment trial is unconstitutional now that Trump is out of office.

Five GOP senators voted not to dismiss the impeachment trial of President Trump: Susan Collins, Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Ben Sasse, Neb., and Pat Toomey, Pa., and Mitt Romney, Utah. They voted with all 50 Democrat senators to table the point of order.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has indicated he has an open mind on whether Trump should be convicted, voted against ending debate.

Paul, R-Ky., had told reporters earlier that he would make a point of order alleging that the trial is contrary to the Constitution — an argument that multiple Republican senators have made. That forced a vote on the point of order, requiring senators to go on the record about whether they believe the trial is constitutional.

It would be nice to say “we know who to primary”, but, those 5 RINOs with Trump Derangement Syndrome are very popular in their home states. Regardless, there aren’t enough votes to convict

Tuesday, in an appearance on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to the 55-45 vote in the U.S. Senate earlier in the day, which paved the way for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment to proceed on a constitutional basis.

Paul insisted the process was still unconstitutional and pointed out that Chief Justice John Roberts was a no-show. He said that given there were 45 votes against proceeding showed that impeachment was “dead on arrival.”

“We put forward a motion that said that basically, you can’t impeach a private individual. You can impeach a president, but this is why the chief justice didn’t show up. If it was the president, the chief justice shows up. The fact that the chief justice wouldn’t come and refused to come means that this is a private citizen, but the Constitution doesn’t allow for impeachment of a private citizen. So, we put this issue forward, but the most important takeaway from the issue is they don’t have the votes to convict. We have 45 people, 45 Republican senators say that the whole — the whole charade is unconstitutional.

Democrats had to have known that there was zero possibility that they would get to the 67 votes needed to convict. So, what’s the point? Will they try to bring in other evidence? Demand stuff like Trump’s taxes? What’s the point of this quixotic quest? What if Team Trump introduces evidence that is embarrassing to Democrats? Heck, what if they offer the mythical evidence of election fraud?

(Fox News) On Tuesday night, during an appearance on “FOX News Primetime” with Maria Bartiromo,” Paul addressed what he saw as a double standard by Democrats.

“One of Bernie Sanders’ supporters came to the ballfield, nearly killed Steve Scalise … but nobody talked about impeaching Bernie Sanders. Maxine Waters has said, ‘Get up in their face’ — so has Cory Booker — ‘Become a mob, we want you to mob them at restaurants and cause mayhem.’ That sounds like an incitement to violence but nobody’s talking about impeaching Maxine Waters, nobody’s talking about impeaching Bernie Sanders or Cory Booker for saying ‘Get up in their face.’

That article goes into more detail on what Rand was saying. Remember, leftists surrounded him and his wife, threatened them. Booker and Waters should be impeached for that, and, that would be constitutional.

Really, those 45 Republicans, along with Trump and his defense team, should just refuse to play. Don’t show. Maybe have a golf outing for everyone or something.

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Doom: Sea Rise From Melting Ice Prognostications Way Too Conservative

By William Teach January 26, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Seriously, how often do you see a piece from the climate cult that says “yeah, things are OK”? Because it is a doomsday cult, they continuously have to make things worse and worse and worse. Kinda like celebs, such as a Miley Cyrus, who do something a little crazy. Then have to top that. And top that. And top that. Etc

Surging global ice melt suggests sea level rise predictions are far too conservative

The world’s ice is melting so fast that sea level rise predictions can’t keep up.

In the 1990s, the Earth’s ice was melting at a rate of about 760 billion tons per year. That has surged 60 percent to an average of 1.2 trillion tons per year in the 2010s, a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere estimates. And as another study published earlier this month in Science Advances makes clear, the problem is feeding into itself.

Climate change is largely responsible for the huge ice melt surge, the Cryosphere study reports. In fact, about three percent of all the energy trapped within the Earth’s systems because of climate change has gone toward that ice melt, the study estimates. “That’s like more than 10,000 ‘Back to the Future’ lightning strikes per second of energy melting ice around-the-clock since 1994,” William Colgan, an ice-sheet expert at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, told The Washington Post. “That is just a bonkers amount of energy.”

“Together, the two studies present a worrying picture,” the Post writes. The first study found “the ice sheets are now following the worst-case climate warming scenarios set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” study author Thomas Slater said in a statement. But the second reveals that the panel’s sea level projections, which were already criticized as too conservative, may have underestimated the role of glacial undercutting in accelerating ice melt even more. Read more at The Washington Post.

First, this is all your fault. You know that, right? That big steak you had the other day, remember that? Second, let’s hit the Washington Post

Together, the two studies present a worrying picture

The first finds that the current ice losses, which are accelerating quickly, are on pace with the worst scenarios for sea-level rise put out by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That expert body found that ice sheets could drive as much as 16 inches of sea-level rise by 2100.

Well, if that happened, that would actually be on the high side of what is expected during a Holocene Warm period. So, no big deal. This has happened numerous times, and I don’t think they were driving fossil fueled vehicles in 30BC

“It is no surprise that the ice on our planet is melting,” said Robin Bell, an expert on the polar ice sheets at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “We have turned up the temperature, and just like you can watch an ice cube in your glass melt on a hot summer day, our actions are melting our planet’s ice.”

The weird part is that there is not one shred of scientific proof offered in the piece that would show that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for any of this. They don’t think they need it, because doomsday cults do not actually need proof for their beliefs.

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