Are Republicans Really Fleeing Trump And Trumpsim?

By William Teach November 10, 2020 – 5:50 pm

Well, no

Republicans aren’t fleeing Trump or Trumpism. That’s the tragedy of Biden’s limited win.

The silence is deafening.

Days after vote counts and media projections declaring Joe Biden the president-elect, only a few Republicans have stepped forward with congratulations and offers to work with the soon-to-be 46th president.

Former president George W. Bush said he thanked Biden “for his patriotic message.” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, no fan of President Donald Trump, wrote a gracious column in the Wall Street Journal. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, praised Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as “people of good will and admirable character.” Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she’ll be “ready to work with their administration when it takes office.”

But the top Senate Republican, majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, declined to acknowledge Biden’s win in a floor speech Monday and defended Trump’s legal fights. Trump is “100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,” he said. Senate Judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., pledged to investigate voting irregularities and misconduct. (snip)

Trump’s on the way out. He’s got 10 weeks left. Why are Republicans sticking by this one-term washout and refusing to acknowledge that we’re about to have a new president?

There are over 71 million reasons why. That’s the number of Americans who voted for Trump, and that total will rise as votes continue to be counted. We’re in a second wave of the pandemic — the worst public health crisis in a century. Nearly a quarter-million people have died, over 11 million are unemployed, families are shattered. And yet the president who presided over this grotesque calamity, downplayed it, said it would go away quickly, still got more than 71 million votes.

If we were ready to abandon him, even with faults (hey, who doesn’t have faults? Which president didn’t?), why did 71 million vote for him? Why are most refusing to concede? We know that it is a long shot to retain the White House with the cheating, because the media is excusing the cheating. But, we aren’t giving up and moving on. Yes, we’d like Trump to tone it down a bit, stop the friendly fire, and tell us more of the good conservative things he’s done. Also, try and cut the spending. Really, who thought this NY liberal would be, in action, one of the most Conservative presidents ever? He’ll never be Ronald Reagan, but The Gipper would be proud of Trump’s actual record.

Of course, this article is written by Paul Brandus, the founder and White House bureau chief of West Wing Reports and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, so, as usual a so-called reporter who does opinion

Trump’s a loser, thank God. But even in defeat, his hold on voters is impressive. This means that while Trump himself will soon be gone, Trumpism — and all the destructiveness the term conveys — will endure. Republicans have 71 million reasons not to break free of his toxic spell. That’s a tragedy. And a warning for the future.

You know what Trumpism is? Fighting back and enacting Conservative policy. Again, Trump turns that amp up to 11 too often, but, other Republicans could learn something, name, to stand firm and fight back.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 10, 2020 – 3:50 pm

…is an area flooded by extreme rain from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on Dems turning on minorities for straying from the plantation and voting Trump.

Thanks for your patience. Dreamhost did a big server update, and it just wouldn’t even start. Had to spend time on chat with them, then, when it started, something was wonky so couldn’t get into single posts, Jetpack not working, and the plugin I use to create folders for photos was erroring. It is amazing how simple the fix was for those last things. Please let me know if see anything wonky. Thanks.

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Good News: Wall Street Is Concerned Over Climate Crisis (scam) Regs From China Joe Admin

By William Teach November 10, 2020 – 1:36 pm

Sure, sure, we can all hate on Wall Street, but, people have a ton of their money in the markets, especially for retirement. And banks that hold our money. This should mess them up

Wall Street braces for climate change scrutiny under Biden

Big Wall Street banks, facing the prospect that Democrats will impose new rules to force lenders to deal with natural disasters and rising sea levels, are positioning themselves as eager allies with a Joe Biden administration in fighting climate change.

Banks are accelerating efforts to get ahead of the issue and make clear to Biden’s team that they want a place at the table when decisions are made. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are among the firms that have committed to hundreds of billions of dollars’ in investments that they say will reduce carbon emissions. The head of the Institute of International Finance, which represents global financial firms, pledged to Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein that the industry would be “a willing and active partner” on climate.

But Biden’s win would expose U.S. banks to intense scrutiny for their role in providing billions of dollars of financing each year to fossil fuel production that contributes to climate change. Leading Democrats want to go even further by forcing lenders to abide by disclosure rules and stress tests to make sure they aren’t the source of a new crisis. The fear is that destructive climate events – as well as a costly transition to a lower-carbon economy – will wreak havoc on the banks’ portfolios and destabilize the financial system.

“Their customers shouldn’t bear the burden of risky loans made to yesterday’s technologies and power sources,” Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the top Democrat on the Banking Committee, told POLITICO. “The market can’t fix this. Congress must step up and work to combat our climate crisis.”

All these banks and such should not bow to the Cult of Climastrology, because it’s just going to make them easier marks. Once you give in once, they’ll ramp up the pressure for you to give in more.

Further, anything these banks and such do will just be passed on to the consumers at higher costs. They won’t bear the cost.

Democrats had a chance in 2009, when they controlled Congress and the White House, to Do Something. Instead, they jammed through Obamacare. Why doesn’t Sherrod give up his own use of fossil fuels and go net zero, and get his Democrat buds to do the same?

Bankers see an opportunity in potentially helping Biden’s goal of investing $2 trillion in clean energy projects as president.

They see themselves getting lots of that money.

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China Joe Calls For Bold Bat Soup Virus Action, Starting With Giving Virus To Other Countries First

By William Teach November 10, 2020 – 12:46 pm

China Joe being China Joe

Biden Calls for ‘Bold’ Action on Novel Coronavirus While Offering Few Specifics

Former Vice President Joe Biden argued on Monday that “bold action” was required to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic over the next few months, but stopped short of offering specific recommendations. (snip)

During the press conference, which lasted less than 11-minutes and was not open to questions from the media, Biden did not offer any new proposals for the “bold action” that would be required to prevent the spread of the virus. In fact, only at the end of the event did the former vice president broach a specific recommendation for how to stop the spread of the virus. Even that point — that people should continue wearing masks and practice social distancing, though, was made in a larger political context about needing to end the “politicization of basic responsible public health steps.”

In all fairness, Joe does have lots of stuff on his website, but, really, we’re asking quite a bit if we’re asking him to recite specifics with his mental decline. Really, most of the stuff is being done here in the U.S. and around the world, yet, COVID rates are still going up up up even in nations that were the most restrictive.

Joe Biden Coronavirus Adviser: Vaccine Should Be Distributed Globally, Not to America First

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who was named to Joe Biden’s coronavirus advisory team on Monday, published a paper in September arguing that any coronavirus vaccine should be distributed globally according to something called the “Fair Priority Model.”

Emanuel, the lead author on a paper in Science called “An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation,” argued that there should be a “fair international distribution of vaccine,” rather than what he and his co-authors call “vaccine nationalism.”

Will anyone in the media ask China Joe about this?

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Iran Is Super Excited For A Biden Presidency

By William Teach November 9, 2020 – 6:30 pm

Let’s see: the nation that constantly chants “death to America” hated Donald Trump, but loved Barack Obama with Joe Biden as VP, and is now happy that Joe (most likely) won

Iran’s president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal

Iran’s president called on President-elect Joe Biden to “compensate for past mistakes” and return the U.S. to Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a state-run news agency reported Sunday.

Hassan Rouhani’s comments mark the highest-level response from Iran to Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris clinching the Nov. 3 election.

“Now, an opportunity has come up for the next U.S. administration to compensate for past mistakes and return to the path of complying with international agreements through respect of international norms,” the state-run IRNA news agency quoted him as saying.

Under President Donald Trump, tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated, reaching a fever pitch earlier this year. One of Trump’s signature foreign policy moves was unilaterally withdrawing the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal in 2018, which had seen Tehran limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

Yes, limit. Because the deal allows Iran to resume attempting to make nuclear weapons in under 10 years from now. Obama gave Iran hundreds of billions of dollars, and through the relaxation and removal of sanctions allowed the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorist and an avowed hater of the U.S. to garner even more money for their operations.

Also Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif tweeted that “the world is watching” to see if the new Biden administration would depart from Trump’s approach toward Iran and seek international cooperation.

You mean the approach of not coddling Iran? Will China Joe help Iran? We’ll see, but, you can pretty much bet that Joe will return to the deal (a former aid says he will), for which Iran will demand more since Trump took us out of it, and Joe will give them what they want.

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TDS: Trump’s Policies Have Accelerated ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 9, 2020 – 5:15 pm

Realistically, even with the stuff Barack Obama put in place there was nothing substantive to actually reduce so-called carbon pollution. But, you know, TDS, this from hyper-Warmist Coral Davenport (who fails to demand that the NY Times give up their own use of fossil fuels and make the company net zero)

What Will Trump’s Most Profound Legacy Be? Possibly Climate Damage

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will use the next four years to try to restore the environmental policies that his predecessor has methodically blown up, but the damage done by the greenhouse gas pollution unleashed by President Trump’s rollbacks may prove to be one of the most profound legacies of his single term. (snip)

Moreover, Mr. Trump’s rollbacks of emissions policies have come at a critical moment: Over the past four years, the global level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere crossed a long-feared threshold of atmospheric concentration. Now, many of the most damaging effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, deadlier storms, and more devastating heat, droughts and wildfires, are irreversible.

So, wait, does this mean that other countries are still putting out emissions and not doing much of anything to reduce them? I know you’re thinking “China and India”, but, really, most nations are only making pledges, not really doing much.

And abroad, the influence that the United States once had in climate talks was almost certainly damaged by Mr. Trump’s policy rollbacks and withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Those actions slowed down international efforts to reduce emissions and prompted other governments to follow the American lead in weakening emissions rules, though none have followed the United States out of the agreement.

Why couldn’t they do stuff on their own? They weren’t really doing much more than pledges while Obama was around.

“We’ve lost very important time on climate change, which we can ill afford,” said Richard Newell, president of Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan energy and environment-focused research organization in Washington. “There is severe damage. To ignore climate for four years, you can’t put a price on that. It’s a huge issue that needs to be confronted with long-term momentum and extreme dedication, and we have lost that.”

Why lost time? Certainly those who Believe could have made changes in their own lives, and in other countries, right? But, hey, TDS is fun!

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 9, 2020 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on a weird choice for a Trump press conference, and what it could mean..

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China Joe Disciples Recommend A “National Day Of Reconciliation” Or Something

By William Teach November 9, 2020 – 10:30 am

So, how will this work out?

8 things our next president needs to do right away

(blah blah blah)

  • COVID-19 – they want to work with the WHO again, who protected the lying from China
  • Reach across the aisle – good f’ing luck with that, he really has never done that in 47 years
  • Stimulus – we tried, Democrats blocked and wanted all sorts of left wing pork
  • The Federal Reserve – they don’t want China Joe to criticize it
  • New taxes – they recommend none.
  • Infrastructure – how’d this work out when Joe was in charge of the Stimulus? Not good
  • Re-engage allies – kowtow to China

On that last one, they write “As for Russia, Biden sees them for who they are: Not our friends.” Forgetting all the sanctions and such Trump put on Russia.

Anyhow

National Day of Reconciliation

I know, this is kumbaya, but hear me out. We need to set a day for parades, marches, picnics, whatever—let every town and city decide—where people from both sides come and celebrate America together. Call it a National Day of Freedom or some such, everyone likes that. Proud Boys and Antifa are invited, in fact we really want them to come, as long as they don’t bring guns (I can’t believe I have to say that in America today.)

Liberals and Democrats, since they won the presidency, in particular need to listen to what conservatives are saying and try to understand their grievances. I’m not asking anyone to compromise their values, just hear the other person out. By the way, the left wing of the Democratic Party needs to understand this was not a victory for them. They’re at the table, but not at the head of it. Ours is not a radical country. (This reminds me of an American explaining our two parties to a Brit: “We have the Republican Party in the U.S. which is like your Tory party. And we have the Democratic Party, which is like your Tory Party.”)

Conservatives in the U.S. too need to move off their dime. Want to understand racism in America? Talk to people like New York Knick legend Walt Frazier. I remember being told that he was the best basketball (and football) player in the city of Atlanta his senior year of high school. I met Frazier a few years ago and we had a very nice chat. “Why did you go to Southern Illinois University,” I asked him. “Why not North Carolina or Duke?” Frazier, who’s just 14 years older than I am, looked down at me. “Because they didn’t allow Black athletes to play in the ACC then,” he said. That was a powerful moment for me. Understand that someone like Walt Frazier couldn’t go to the college of his choice. And then extend that to millions of Americans and to every other institution in our country. In your lifetime.

So, let me ask how this works: they’ve been calling us racists, Islamophobes, homophobes, gender confusedphobes, Fascists, and Nazis since Bush 43 was president. They refused to work with us or give Trump a chance. They hated America when Bush 43 was president and when Trump was president. They only fly the flag when a Dem is in office, though, of course, they still want to change everything about America. Why would they want to celebrate and America they actually hate?

And what happens after this day? They’ll go right back to calling us Nazis and racists and such. Why waste time when all the Democrat base knows is hate? They won’t change? You can’t have a conversation with most because it is all feelings based with their visceral hatred.

As for Frazier, he went to college in the mid-60’s. I wasn’t even born yet. Democrats ran the South at that point, and were responsible for the segregation and such policies. It was not Republicans doing this. And it was over 50 years ago. Things change.

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St. Greta Suddenly Realizes World Leaders Are Climahypocrites

By William Teach November 9, 2020 – 7:07 am

Congrats, Greta, you’re finally noticing this stuff. Of course, you won’t take the same lesson I did, that the people pushing the climate crisis scam the hardest are full of mule fritters, and that this isn’t about the climate but control. If Warmists aren’t willing to practice what they preach, and actually have bigger carbon footprints that everyone else, might this be a scam?

‘Hypocrites and greenwash’: Greta Thunberg blasts leaders over climate crisis

Greta Thunberg has blasted politicians as hypocrites and international climate summits as empty words and greenwash. Until humanity admits it has failed to tackle the climate crisis and begins treating it as an emergency like the coronavirus pandemic, society will be unable to stop global heating, she said.

In an interview with the Guardian, Thunberg said leaders were happy to set targets for decades into the future, but flinched when immediate action to cut emissions was needed. She said there was not a politician on the planet she would vote for: “If only,” said the teenager, who will turn 18 in January.

Funny, us Skeptics have noted the same thing, namely, that setting these targets far out allows politician Warmists to say they are Doing Something while not really doing the big things which would destroy their economies. Where’s St. Greta getting her money from? She’s not working. The rest of us have to earn a living.

A vital UN climate summit had been scheduled to begin on Monday in Glasgow but has been postponed for a year because of Covid-19. Thunberg, however, said she was not disappointed by the delay: “As long as we don’t treat the climate crisis like a crisis, we can have as many conferences as we want, but it will just be negotiations, empty words, loopholes and greenwash.”

She is also unimpressed with pledges by nations including the UK, China and Japan to reach net zero by 2050 or 2060. “They mean something symbolically, but if you look at what they actually include, or more importantly exclude, there are so many loopholes. We shouldn’t be focusing on dates 10, 20 or even 30 years in the future. If we don’t reduce our emissions now, then those distant targets won’t mean anything because our carbon budgets will be long gone.”

Many countries, including ones who are already kinda Warmist, won’t go full Jim Jones climate cultist. But, St. Greta is entirely correct about all the empty words, loopholes, and greenwashing.

Thunberg said there were no politicians she would vote for when she reaches voting age: “If only. I wish there was one politician or one party that was strong enough on these issues. Imagine how easy it would be if you could just support a politician.”

Justice is at the heart of her campaigning, Thunberg said. “That is the root of all this,” she said. “That’s why we are fighting for climate justice, social justice. They are so interlinked, you can’t have one without the other.”

And she proves that a) this is a cult, and b) it’s not really about the climate.

“The climate crisis is just one symptom of a much larger crisis, [including] the loss of biodiversity, the loss of fertile soil but also including inequality and threats to democracy,” she said. “These are symptoms that we are not living sustainably: we have reached the end of the road.”

Well, she is right on one thing: the Cult of Climastrology is a threat to the Democracy Model, as the people attempting to put all these plans in action essentially want to do away with people having a choice, having a voice, having a vote.

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China-Unity Joe To Make Good On “Incredibly Progressive Agenda

By William Teach November 9, 2020 – 6:51 am

Well, sheesh, you would have thought China Joe would have at least waited a few months after Inauguration Day (if it happens) before suddenly ditching any notion of building unity, because how do you create unity when you are going to push legislation, executive orders, and rules that are far, far Progressive (nice Fascism)? Does he think the 71 million Trump voters will join him in backing things they are 100% against? It should be interesting watching the conserving conservatism Never Trumpers realize just what they advocated is coming. No whining, NTs!

Biden campaign manager says he’s ‘going to make good’ on ‘incredibly progressive’ agenda

President-elect Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said Sunday that the former vice president would follow through on his promises to implement what she characterized as a progressive policy agenda.

During an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press,” Bedingfield responded to comments from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who told The New York Times in a wide-ranging interview that many activist communities who support Democratic candidates often feel left behind when politicians don’t come through and fulfill their promises.

“I think that Vice President Biden campaigned on an incredibly progressive and aggressive agenda,” Bedingfield said on Sunday before pointing to the campaign’s plan to tackle climate change developed with advice from supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders‘s (I-Vt.) presidential bid, including the New York congresswoman.

“He’s going to make good on those commitments,” she continued. “I mean we, you know, he spent time during this campaign bringing people together around this climate plan. He was able to get the endorsement of groups like the Sunrise Movement and the endorsement of labor for this plan.”

“It’s a big, aggressive plan,” Bedingfield continued. “It’s a perfect example of the kind of, you know, big effort that he is going to make to meet this moment and to meet these crises that we’re in.”

Despite getting tweets from Team Joe like this

We stand together as one America. We will rise stronger than we were before.

And

With full hearts and steady hands, with faith in America and in each other, with a love of country — and a thirst for justice — let us be the nation that we know we can be.

And

And other kumbaya coming together stuff (which he never offered Trump, nor offered opposition while he was VP, or while he was trashing the Iraq war and Bush 43), we know that he will govern from the far, far left, kowtowing to the Nancy Pelosi to AOC wing of the Democratic Party. Good luck with that unity stuff.

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