Warmists Very Excited To Use Courts To Force Someone Else To Pay For Hotcoldwetdy

By William Teach January 29, 2021 – 3:00 pm

I still maintain that fossil fuels companies should refuse to provide their products and services to those who sue them, as well as make big deals. Joe is unhappy with fossil fuels over ‘climate change’? Fine. No fossil fuels sales to the Marines and Air Force out of Andrews AFB. No sales for Joe’s limo.

The one question about climate change only the courts can answer

President Biden has taken important steps to put the United States on the path to addressing our escalating climate crisis. In his first week on the job, Biden rejoined the Paris climate agreement, canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and announced a new ban on oil and gas drilling on public lands.

But when it comes to the immense, billion-dollar costs that climate change will continue to force on American communities, there is one question that executive orders and much-anticipated legislation from Congress is poorly positioned to answer: Who should pay for it all: taxpayers or the polluters who knowingly caused the crisis?

How about “no one”? The Constitution provides no answers, and without duly passed legislation, what would the courts be ruling on? It isn’t within their power to essentially make up law. Not that they sorta haven’t already. But, Warmists think they have the way

From tobacco and opioids to asbestos and lead paint, matters of justice and liability for harms caused by products sold to the public have and always will be decided by the courts. Climate change is no different. Global warming is a problem largely caused by one single industry: fossil fuels. Major oil and gas companies spent decades lying to the public about the catastrophic damage they knew their products would cause, and they are now rightfully facing a flood of climate liability lawsuits in courts that seek to hold them accountable for their lies and the cost of ensuing climate damage from flooding, wildfires, sea-level rise, heat waves and more severe storms.

If someone continues to smoke even knowing the dangers, that’s on them. If people continue to use fossil fuels even though they screech in Cult that they’re killing the Earth, well, let them pay. Because they obviously aren’t too concerned if they refuse to give up their own use, right?

Lawsuits seeking damages from climate polluters are not about solving climate change. They are about survival and justice. That’s why President Biden, while promising to work with Congress to transition the U.S. to a clean energy economy, has separately pledged that his Department of Justice will “strategically support ongoing plaintiff-driven climate litigation against polluters.” Each branch of government has a role to play. While it’s important that Biden and Congress do their job to advance climate policy, it’s just as important for the courts to do theirs: hold the multibillion-dollar fossil fuel industry accountable for paying to clean up its own mess.

So, this is a shakedown? Good to know.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 29, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turned to desert because other people ate burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on making America California.

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Political Crazy: Censure, $20 Bill, And D.C. Wall

By William Teach January 29, 2021 – 10:30 am

Three different pieces of crazy. Let’s start with

Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress. It’s a Sign of Disrespect

The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era initiative to put Harriet Tubman’s face on the U.S. $20 bill. Her image would replace Andrew Jackson, the notoriously racist President, known both for owning hundreds of slaves and for his brutal and genocidal policy of Indian removal. Based on current designs, a statue of Jackson would remain on the back of the bill, while Harriet Tubman would grace the front. Many Americans, across the racial spectrum, are excited about this tribute to Tubman. They view it as progress, as a necessary and long overdue disruption of the American Founding Fathers narrative. I do not.

I know in a country that worships at the altar of capitalism–an economic system made possible by the free Black labor procured through the Transatlantic slave trade–a Black woman’s face on our currency seems like the highest honor we could bestow. But what a stunning failure of imagination. Putting Tubman on legal tender, when slaves in the U.S. were treated as fungible commodities is a supreme form of disrespect. The imagery of her face changing hands as people exchange cash for goods and services evokes for me discomfiting scenes of enslaved persons being handed over as payment for white debt or for anything white slaveholders wanted. America certainly owes a debt to Black people, but this is not the way to repay it.

You just can’t win. Now it’s a case of wondering whether this become the big view of the SJWs.

Capitol Police Chief: U.S. Capitol Needs ‘Permanent’ Wall to Protect Congress

The United States Capitol needs a “permanent” security wall around it to protect members of Congress, Acting U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Yogananda Pittman says.

In a statement on Thursday, Pittman said the security at the Capitol building must include a “permanent fencing” barrier — a similar barrier to the one halted by President Joe Biden’s administration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“As I noted earlier this week, even before September 11, 2001, security experts argued that more needed to be done to protect the U.S. Capitol,” Pittman said in a statement. “In fact, a 2006 security assessment specifically recommended the installation of a permanent perimeter fence around the Capitol.”

You just know that the Democrats are going to approve of this, right? They love walls to protect themselves, but, not the border.

And here’s the kicker

Senators are working on a bipartisan resolution to censure Trump as it becomes more likely he’ll be acquitted in impeachment trial

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said on Wednesday that he’s drafted a censure resolution against former President Donald Trump.

Kaine told reporters that there “maybe a little more interest now” in a censure resolution after an overwhelming majority of Republican senators hinted on Tuesday they are likely not going to convict Trump in an impeachment trial. GOP Sen. Rand Paul argued on Tuesday to dismiss the trial, claiming that it goes against the Constitution as Trump has already left office. He was joined by 44 Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who voted to declare Trump’s impeachment unconstitutional. The motion ultimately failed as 55 senators, including five Republicans, voted to kill it.

If the Democrats had been smart that would have done this to start with. But, they’re unhinged, so, now it’s on to Plan B.

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Texas Gov Abbott Pledges To Sue The Heck Out Of China Joe Over Climate Crisis (scam) Orders

By William Teach January 29, 2021 – 8:02 am

The great thing about Texas Governor Greg Abbott is that he doesn’t make baseless threats: he will sue, and his Attorney General, Ken Paxton, is simpatico. In fact, Paxton already sued China Joe over one of his illegal immigration orders

Texas Governor Vows To Sue Biden Over Climate Change Orders

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state is ready to sue the the Biden administration over new environmental regulations, signing an executive order against what he described as “regulatory overreach” by the federal government one day after President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping order on climate change.

Biden has taken swift action on climate change: he’s directed the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, revoked permits for the Keystone XL Pipeline, told federal agencies to review the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks and signed an executive order Wednesday with a range of climate-related measures.

The executive order includes a directive to freeze oil and gas leasing on federal land, which the oil industry and even some Texas Democrats have heavily opposed.

Abbott said at a press conference that Texas will pursue a “litigation strategy to fight back against any efforts by the Biden administration” that threatens the energy sector or its jobs.

Abbott’s executive order directs state agencies to “use all lawful powers and tools” to oppose federal actions they believe threaten the state’s energy industry—including “identify[ing] potential litigation”—and criticizes Biden’s measures as showing “extreme hostility toward the energy industry.”

The governor described the order as a “homework assignment” for agencies and said he would fire officials who do not follow it.

Abbott went on to point out that Texas is largely not affected, since Los Federales do not own that much land. Almost 3 million acres is owned by the federal government, but, that’s only 1.8% of Texas, and a lot of that is borderland and military bases. Abbott sued Obama 31 times when he was attorney general, and more while governor. And, many of those Obama enviro/climate crazy executive orders/rules were killed or put on hold by the courts. Because they went too far. Because they had no statutory authority. This should get fun.

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CNN: Congress Is In Total War, And It’s All Trump’s Fault

By William Teach January 29, 2021 – 7:46 am

This “analysis” piece, as in, it’s total opinion, is the top story on CNN at the moment, so, not actual news is #1. Surprise? It also looks like CNN just can’t give up on Trump Derangement Syndrome, but, then, that’s a lot easier than explaining why Joe is blowing off wearing a mask and, oh, yeah, destroying American jobs

Trump’s legacy of mistrust sends Congress into total war

Former President Donald Trump may be gone from the White House but his legacy of catastrophic mistrust is poisoning Washington, dimming hopes of a unified effort to crush the pandemic before mutant viral strains take root.

Nine days after newly sworn-in President Joe Biden told America that “every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war,” recriminations between the parties and the Republican meltdown are consuming Congress.

It’s now clear that the January 6 mob attack on Capitol Hill, while failing in its bid to reverse Trump’s election loss, has utterly fractured the basic level of trust needed to make a political system function — at a critical national moment.

In the quarter century of bitter political battles since former speaker Newt Gingrich’s Republican revolution, Washington has never been this inflamed.

At times on Thursday, it appeared that the whole of Congress was fixated on its own civil wars, cut off from behind its high iron fence from the reality of America’s darkest modern winter.

Interesting. Democrats have been at total war since Bush was elected with the backdrop of Clinton’s impeachment, and CNN had zero problem with the invective launched at Bush, Dick Cheney, and the whole administration. Condi Rice, a black woman, was treated disgustingly. Barack Obama did a very good job at dividing us, especially since he was so untrustworthy. He would negotiate in good faith, then renege and/or demand more. That’s what led to the big shutdown. We’ve seen Democrats go Category 5 Moonbat since Trump won election, willing to go to war on everything, but, hey, now that Republicans are being the dissenters, and willing to fight CNN has an issue.

Oh, hey, perhaps attempting to impeach then convict a guy no longer in office, a quixotic attempt when they know they can’t get 67 votes, isn’t helping. I’m sure there are lots of examples of Dems starting it you can offer, right?

And with more than 432,000 Americans dead from Covid-19 and the economy in ruins, hopes are fading — amid the acrimony — of a bipartisan effort to beef up the crucial vaccine drive.

Remember how Democrats held off on doing a second big stimulus for almost eight months because they wanted to hurt Trump, and couldn’t have cared less about the American people?

The magnitude of that death toll has much to do with Trump’s neglect when he was in office. The tumultuous forces now rocking Capitol Hill are, in most cases, linked to Trump or the extremism of his acolytes who have fully bought into his alternative reality that rejected truth and democracy itself.

Told you this was opinion. I don’t think it was Trump putting COVID patients in nursing homes, etc and so forth. You know this all.

In another sign of the toxicity paralyzing Congress, House Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York lashed out at Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who had appeared to agree with her on the need for an investigation probing chaos on Wall Street. The New York Democrat, who has said she felt her life was in danger during the insurrection, tweeted that “you almost had me murdered.” Just before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, Cruz had objected to the certification of Arizona’s electoral votes, embracing the baseless allegations from Trump of an improper election.

Strangely, no words of admonition from CNN for AOC going unhinged. (as usual)

The pandemonium on Capitol Hill contrasts with the methodical calm that now prevails at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue just over a week into Biden’s presidency.

That’s right, CNN is fan-boying. I’ll stop on this big of lapdog.

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China Joe Once Again Blows Off His Own Mask Requirement

By William Teach January 28, 2021 – 8:45 pm

Here in North Carolina we are required to wear a mask at all times in our own places of work, even in separate offices. But, NC is not D.C., right (thank God)? The order from the mayor says at all times. Just like Joe’s order!

(Breitbart) President Joe Biden on Thursday abandoned his precedent of wearing a mask in the Oval Office as he signed executive actions on health care.

“Since we are socially distanced, I think I can take my mask off and make this very brief announcement,” Biden said after reporters entered the Oval Office.

The president spoke to reporters for about three minutes as he signed executive actions, clearing his throat and even coughing into his hand at one point.

https://twitter.com/Charles28973069/status/1354955809969598470

If he can have that exception, then why shouldn’t the rest of us do that while on federal property?

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Good News: Pentagon Has Gone Full On Climate Cult

By William Teach January 28, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Protecting the United States? Projecting power? Deterring other nations from getting frisky with our people, public and private entities, and sovereignty? Pfft! We have some climate cult virtue signaling to do (along with other SJW garbage like letting people with mental health issues, ie, transgenders, around military grade weapons)!

Pentagon declares climate change a ‘national security issue’

The Pentagon will now consider climate change when planning war games and will incorporate the issue into its future National Defense Strategy, according to a Wednesday announcement.

“There is little about what the [Defense] Department does to defend the American people that is not affected by climate change. It is a national security issue, and we must treat it as such,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

“The Department will immediately take appropriate policy actions to prioritize climate change considerations in our activities and risk assessments, to mitigate this driver of insecurity.”

OK, so, Austin, along with the high end leadership of the military, will immediately forgo all use of fossil fueled vehicles, planes, ships, and helicopters, right? You aren’t running the military without massive amounts of fossil fuels. Seriously, when the Elites have problems with their big yachts, do they want the Coast Guard coming to save them in sail boats?

Austin announced the change after President Biden earlier on Wednesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at addressing the climate crisis.

The shift means the Department of Defense (DOD) will now “include the security implications of climate change in our risk analyses, strategy development, and planning guidance,” according to Austin.

Great, turning our national defense into a joke. I wonder what’s next, demanding that all members and recruits proclaim their allegiance to ‘climate change’, or they’re not allowed in?

Democrats have long wanted to destroy the U.S. military, since the 1970’s. They couldn’t defund it, so they infiltrated it, plus did things like the ‘climate change’ schtick.

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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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