Majority Oppose Getting Rid Of Mt. Rushmore

By William Teach July 4, 2020 – 7:08 am

Will those Democrats drinking the hateraid give up their their calls to get rid of Mt. Rushmore? Or double down?

(Breitbart) The overwhelming majority of likely U.S. voters, including a majority of black Americans, oppose the tearing down of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial featuring Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, a poll finds.

While rioters, as well as some Republican and Democrat lawmakers, have sought to remove monuments, statues, and flags associated with the Civil War and the nation’s presidents, the overwhelming majority of Americans say they are opposed to such plans.

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds 75 percent of likely U.S. voters oppose closing or changing Mt. Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota. Less than 20 percent said they support the removal of Mt. Rushmore.

By a 56-percent majority, black Americans said they oppose tearing down Mt. Rushmore, while only about 35 percent said they support removing the monument. Likewise, more than six-in-ten Democrats, 76 percent of swing voters, 82 percent of white Americans, and 88 percent of Republican voters said they oppose tearing down Mt. Rushmore.

So, even blacks and Democrats oppose the push to get rid of Mt. Rushmore. What now, moonbats? The same poll found that a huge majority are against tearing down Washington and Jefferson monuments and renaming buildings. Bummer! What now?

Well, of course you have all those calling to get rid of the Star Spangled Banner before sporting events (by people who probably do not watch sporting events). And then

Stephen Jackson Calls for #BlackOutDay on 4th of July: ‘We’re Not Wearing Red, White and Blue’

As we head into Fourth of July weekend, Stephen Jackson has urged his followers to make a political statement through their clothing.

“This 4th of July we’re not wearing red, white, and blue. We’re wearing all black,” read a post on his Instagram this week. “Independence Day is another Black Out day so they know we’re still in this together. Pass this on so the whole world knows Black Lives Matter.”

Perhaps Stephen should spend some time in Chicago, where blacks are killing each other, including children. Some folks just keep showing they hate the U.S. But won’t leave.

And then there were the unhinged “Conservatives” at The Lincoln Project whining about Trump saluting at Mt. Rushmore

I can find, as you can, tons of presidents saluting.

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Climate Cultists Consider New Ways To Get Other People To Give Up Their Freedom And Money For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 5:52 pm

They have several new buzz phrases

How to close the gap between public opinion and public policy on the climate crisis?
Introducing the concepts of “finite pool of worry” and “fear vividness”

This is from the National Catholic Reporter, which should probably be more worried about Catholic stuff and governments eroding religious freedom

As the country deals with the crises of pandemic, police brutality and racism, the ongoing climate crisis continues to loom directly overhead. Despite the temporary easing of pollution in many parts of the world as a result of the lockdown, the long-term outlook will remain grim unless and until public policy catches up with public opinion.

When it comes to public opinion, there is some reason for modest optimism. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found in a survey conducted April 7-17 that a majority of registered voters (61 percent) believe global warming is caused mostly by human activities.

What I found most interesting about the program’s report, titled “Climate change in the American Mind,” was its discussion of “the finite pool of worry.” Social scientists describe it as the tendency for worry about one issue to decrease worry about other issues. Despite a pandemic killing a staggering number of people, the survey found concern about the climate crisis as high as or higher than earlier findings.

Of course, it all breaks down when it comes to actually paying and losing freedom and choice. This is all theoretical, not in practice.

But there remains the critical question of how best to talk about climate change – and, for journalists, the challenge of how best to report the issue – in ways that result in significant change in public policy.

That was the topic of the first story I wrote as NCR’s climate editor a year ago. A new book by Australian researcher Rebecca Huntley, How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference,” explores the relevance of “risk vividness” to the actions we take or don’t take as a result.

That’s not journalism: that’s activism. That’s blogging. Journalists simply report a story. This piece is advocating for spinning their beliefs. I bet “journalists” wouldn’t be so gung ho if they knew all the policies would hit their own businesses, eh? Let them practice what they preach by Government force.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise to swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Never Yet Melted, with a post on how easy it is to lose a job in an age of PC hysteria.

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Minneapolis Paper Recommends National Soul Searching On July 4th

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 10:30 am

Well, you know, Modern Socialists have to Modern Socialist. We’ve long know that Democrats hate America, so, they hate Independence Day with a passion and will find any way to ruin it

This July 4th calls for national soul-searching

For July 4th observances this year, President Donald Trump plans a reprise of last year’s “Salute to America” in Washington. And on Friday, he will attend a fireworks display and military flyby at Mount Rushmore, where pyrotechnics have been banned for years. Environmentalists, Native groups and public health experts are objecting, but the celebrations appear likely to proceed as planned.

It’s unfortunate, because this year the nation could use a more sensitive and inclusive observance of its identity. It’s a year to take stock and reflect on the spasms that have convulsed the country — namely, the virus that has killed more Americans than were lost in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and the horrendous events that began on Memorial Day with a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck. This Independence Day is an opportunity for soul-searching. It’s a time to ponder how well the country has succeeded at the goal passed down in the preamble to the Constitution: to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” Whether we can do that depends on who we mean when we say “ourselves.”

A good place to begin the soul-searching is Frederick Douglass’ speech of 168 years ago, titled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” As a man born into slavery himself, the abolitionist leader knew that when the Founders said “ourselves,” they were not talking about him. His entire speech is worth reading, but here is a bit of it:

Does the Star Tribune’s Editorial Board understand that slavery is abolished? And has been abolished for quite some time? And that it was the Republican Party which abolished it? The party which was created specifically to oppose slavery? While the Democrats were the party of slavery?

GOP senators propose replacing Columbus Day with Juneteenth as new federal holiday

Two Republican senators have filed an amendment to a piece of legislation that would replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a new federal holiday.

“Juneteenth is a day in our history that redefined the meaning of freedom and equality in America,” Sen. James Lankford, of Oklahoma, said in a news release. “Throughout our history, we have strived to become a more perfect union and Juneteenth was a huge step in attaining that goal.”

Lankford and Sen. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, filed the amendment to Sen. John Cornyn’s bipartisan bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

I’m actually good with this. Consider that Columbus never once set foot in the territory that would go on to become the United States Of America (and there’s lots of evidence that Vikings did). And it would be great to have a yearly federal holiday that represents the Republican Party freeing the slaves from the Democratic Party run Confederacy.

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Because Reagan Recognized Ozone Layer Issue Conservatives Should Acknowledge The Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 8:03 am

These are the same people who constantly and consistently hate on Ronald Reagan, you know

Reagan recognized the threat to the ozone layer; conservatives today should respond the same way to climate change | Column

As folks across Florida don bikinis or swim trunks and head to the pool or the beach this holiday weekend, they probably don’t realize that they have President Ronald Reagan to thank for being able to do so safely.

As odd as that sounds, it’s true. In the 1980s the world was facing a big problem. Scientists had discovered that chemicals used in air conditioners, refrigeration equipment, and aerosols—such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)—were rapidly depleting the earth’s stratospheric ozone layer. (snip)

Instead, [Reagan] became the world’s first head of state to personally approve a national negotiating policy on ozone protection. He then led the effort to push through the Montreal Protocol treaty to phase out the use of CFCs and HCFCs.

Reagan’s success with the Montreal Protocol was a point of pride for the Republican Party. Its 1988 party platform heaped effusive praise on the treaty and called for a similar approach in solving other complex global problems such as tropical forest destruction and climate change.

That would have been nice, but special interests —mainly fossil fuel companies—swooped in and swayed the party away from tackling those problems.

In reality, Republicans were able to get information from other sources, and started seeing that this was less about the climate and mostly about hardcore Modern Socialist policies.

Today, climate change is a much more visible and advanced threat than it was in 1988, and we could use Reagan’s brand of conservative leadership in tackling that problem.

Raise your hand if you think Reagan would be pushing for bigger and bigger government, for more governmental control of people’s lives, liberty, and choice. And controlling more and more of the economy. And taxing the hell out of citizens and private entities.

Two of Reagan’s top cabinet officials, James Baker and George Shultz, are pushing for a carbon fee and dividend approach to address climate change, which is a market-friendly solution long preferred by economists and business leaders.

Reagan would not support this: it is destructive, raises costs for companies and citizens, and then makes citizens more dependent on the government with the “dividend” payout.

When faced with a similar threat, President Reagan felt a moral duty to heed scientific warnings and do what is necessary to protect the public. Florida and the nation need our leaders to do the same today.

When faced with Commies being Commies, Reagan fought back and refused to give in. You know what’s missing from the opinion piece? Any shred of science proving the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. And Reagan would dare the Warmists to practice what they preach if they believe.

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NFL Reportedly Set To Play Black National Anthem Prior To National Anthem

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 7:47 am

Will the NFL be surprised by terrible ratings for the 1st game? Low attendance? Low merchandise purchases? Hey, it’s not like Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization, you know

Are you psyched for the season? From the link

NFL games in Week 1 may be starting a little differently this season.

According to ESPN, the league will have renditions of “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” traditionally known as the Black national anthem, played before “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the NFL’s regular season gets underway.

The NFL is also considering other ways to recognize the victims of police brutality during the upcoming season, which is slated to start on Sept. 10. Among those ideas is listing the names of victims on helmet decals or jersey patches, per ESPN.

I’m waiting to hear how the millionaires who play the game and coach the game will be donating their time and money to help out. Anyhow, they might have gotten away with playing it after the Star Spangled Banner, but not first. Will they even play the SSB? These same leftist forces hate American and say the SSB is raaaaacist due to the 3rd stanza. Certainly, Francis Scott Key was potentially a racist, but, he was a man of his time in Maryland. Oh, and a member of the Democratic Party. Also

Will the NFL pay homage to the officers killed on duty specifically? They do pay homage to first responders. Will police provide security? They are being dishonored by the NFL, especially if they “recognize victims of police brutality.” Police should refuse to work at the venues. Let the millionaires and billionaires in the NFL pay for their own security.

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Having Solved All Their Other Problems, Portland Votes For A Climate Emergency (scam) Declaration

By William Teach July 2, 2020 – 3:22 pm

Climate cultists always gotta do climate cult

Portland city leaders vote to adopt climate emergency declaration

Portland city leaders have voted to adopt a climate emergency declaration, a step they say will strengthen the city’s climate action approach to focus on climate justice and equity.

Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioners Eudaly, Hardesty and Fritz voted to adopt the resolution on Tuesday.

The Climate Emergency Declaration “acknowledges the Portland metro area faces a human-made climate emergency and frontline communities as being the least responsible for, but most impacted by, climate change,” according to a city spokesperson.

The city says the resolution commits Portland to using a new climate justice and equity-focused approach that centers Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color and youth from those communities in the next chapter of climate action planning and implementation.

Three of the four are uber white. Jo Ann Hardesty is the only black person. Most of Portland city leaders are very white. Portland is just 2.9% black, well below the national average.

Here are a few of their bullets points in the declaration

  • Establishes a new, ongoing climate justice initiative that will provide a framework for government and community to work together as equal partners to identify and implement strategies that will advance a shared vision for climate justice and action. (Modern Socialist babblespeak. Seriously, what does this mean in the Real World)
  • Advances efforts focused on expanding community ownership of renewables and driving down emissions from commercial and multifamily residential buildings. ​ (and those efforts are?)
  • Requires transportation justice, where projects and policies will reduce carbon emissions while advancing racial equity. (That’s a new one. WTF is transportation justice?)
  • Commits the City to work with Metro and TriMet to find resources to fund a year-round transit pass for all Portland youth. (Taxes go up)
  • Commits the City to adopt new policies to reduce carbon from buildings and the transportation sector, including becoming an EV-ready city, that prioritizes action, benefits and protections for renters and low-income residents. (Let’s see the City itself do away with all fossil fuels for running the government)
  • Commits the City to adopt new policies that prevent further expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in the City, and quicken the transition to clean, renewable fuel options that are also good for air quality. (why not just forbid the use of fossil fuels in the city? Let’s see how that goes)
  • States the City Council’s expectation that the two electric utilities, PGE and PacifiCorp, deliver 100% clean, renewable electricity to all Portland residents and businesses no later than 2030, and calls on NW Natural to fully decarbonize its gas pipeline no later than 2050. (Have fun running your homes and businesses, Portland residents. Who will move to the suburbs when their cost of living skyrockets)

The city should practice what they preach. The document says that the “science is indisputable”: if that’s the case, there is no reason to wait till 2030, they should institute stuff right now.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 2, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a world made hazy from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on yet another reason Trump should be re-elected.

Switching to patriotic babes with the 4th coming up.

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NY Times Freaks Over America’s Caste System, Just Like The Nazi’s Had!

By William Teach July 2, 2020 – 10:58 am

This is interesting, considering the NY Times built their current office building by getting the property development company to get the government to use eminent domain to take away property from People Of Color

Right, right, they’ve never heard of things in old Egypt, the Roman Empire, etc and so on. I’m sure you can think of more, because you aren’t a Progressive wackadoodle. But, this is really about hating on America. Seriously, this seems to be what Democrats are going to run on: how horrible and bad America is. Here we go

A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant caste, whose forebears designed it. A caste system uses rigid, often arbitrary boundaries to keep the ranks apart, distinct from one another and in their assigned places.

Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The lingering, millenniums-long caste system of India. The tragically accelerated, chilling and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. And the shape-shifting, unspoken, race-based caste pyramid in the United States. Each version relied on stigmatizing those deemed inferior to justify the dehumanization necessary to keep the lowest-ranked people at the bottom and to rationalize the protocols of enforcement. A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations.

There was a lot of denigrating of America prior to getting to the above. And you know the NY Times author Isabel Wilkerson (who’s part of the crazy 1619 crew), and the editors who allowed this, were thrilled to put America in the same boat as Nazi Germany (BTW, by the Times’ own standards, this would be racist towards India). The more interesting thing here is that most of this caste stuff happens in cities, counties, and states run by Democrat. Where are blacks and other “People of Color” held down the most? Democrat run areas.

BTW, if this were Nazi Germany, the Times would be shut down. And it was India that banned multiple blogs (including mine) and news outlets for various reasons.

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Democrats Pass Infrastructure Bill Which Is All About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 2, 2020 – 8:18 am

They know it won’t pass the Senate. They know it won’t even be brought up in the Senate. This is all about ClimaVirtue Signalling to their unhinged base while refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels

Passing infrastructure bill, Democrats go all-in on climate

The $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill the House passed 233-188 on Wednesday has little chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled Senate. But it fired a political warning shot: Democrats view climate change as a top issue for an already turbulent election year.

“This bill, as audacious as it is, will do one thing for sure: give Democratic candidates talking points for their campaigns this fall. It also sets the agenda for a big infrastructure push for a possible future Biden administration,” said Ross Baker, a Rutgers University political science professor.

In the middle of a pandemic that underscores the value of science and public health, Democrats are carving out territory on climate change and pushing it as an election issue for November and a threat that intersects with voters’ daily lives.

In other words, they wasted House time voting on a bill with no chance of becoming law which focuses on a low hanging issue while people are suffering, physically, mentally, economically from the pandemic which they initially said was less than the regular flu.

The bill, which passed the same week Democrats on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released a 547-page report laying out a strategy for tackling climate change, would require states to commit to reducing greenhouse gases and other climate measures in order to receive federal dollars. It includes measures that would increase federal dollars for projects built with materials that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

How about we just stop sending so much of our hard earned money to Los Federales so they can spread it around for stupid crap? It’s long past time for States to reclaim their 10th Amendment powers and independence within the framework of the Constitution.

It would devote federal dollars to installing charging stations for electric and alternative fuel vehicles. And it would create a $250 million per year grant program to support local investments in reducing greenhouse gases.

How in the hell does this help infrastructure? And why aren’t all Democrats driving electric vehicles themselves?

Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said climate change is a significantly more critical issue for Democrats than for Republicans. Still, Hamel said it lags behind health care, the economy and the coronavirus — even among Democratic voters.

“There’s so much for people to be concerned about and worried about and outraged about right now that to break through to those who weren’t already extremely concerned about climate change, it’s difficult,” Hamel said.

Democrats apparently want to run on the climate scam, tearing down everything America, and defunding the police. Good luck!

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