Posted on 09/05/2019 4:24:36 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
There’s a reason why the Democrat National Committee desperately avoided demands from fringe candidates like Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee to schedule a debate focused solely on “climate change,” and you saw that reason on CNN last night. – The simple fact of the matter is that, whether the problem is real or not, it inevitably highlights just what a bunch of nutjobs the Party is offering to the voters in this cycle.
Andrew Yang wants the government to force you to buy electric vehicles, even though the EV industry has no capability whatsoever of meeting such a demand, and forcing such a change would do nothing to address the alleged problem in any event.
Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the building of new buildings starting in 2028. No really, she does.
The Commie wants to throw everyone in the oil, gas, and coal industries in prison. Because science.
Irish Bob O’Rourke wants to wave his arms around crazily and propose to spend $5 trillion on a bunch of stuff that will do nothing to address the alleged issue, and he wants to cuss about it.
Kamala Harris wants to do this, but not this, and that, but not that, borrow this idea from Warren and that idea from Mayor Pete and another idea from AOC, and then take the other sides of those issues all at the same time. And then she wants to get into a fight with the Commie about all of it. Which is why she has fallen into Irish Bob O’Rourke territory in the latest round of polls.
Joe Biden has no clue what he wants to do other than to spend a bunch of money on stuff that doesn’t matter. So, standard operating procedure for the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator, who is exactly who Irish Bob is going to become 35 years from now.
All of them claim hurricanes have become more frequent – they haven’t. All of them claim hurricanes have become stronger – they haven’t. All of them want you to believe Dorian is the most powerful storm of all-time – it isn’t.
All of them want to blot the American landscape with millions of 500-ft. windmills that require 8 acres of land apiece and gigantic solar farms and decimate our bird populations in order to provide very high-priced energy to about 2 percent of us so that they can claim to be “doing something” about a problem none of them has any real knowledge of.
The fact of the matter is that “climate change” is a global socialist political religion. Every proposal to address “climate change” inevitably becomes a top-down, command-and-control socialist-model “solution” that would do nothing to make the climate better but do everything to command and control the lives of everyday people. Every proposal would be incredibly destructive to the national and global economy. Every proposal would effectively work to keep the 2 billion or so human beings living in squalor in 3rd world countries today living in squalor in 3rd world countries forever.
This is the dogma, the commandments of this global religion. See, the nasty secret of this religion is that its followers believe economic growth is actually evil and must be stopped. People living in squalor produce less carbon emissions than people who have decent standards of living, after all. That at least is an actual fact.
Thus, the religion’s dogma demands that any and all “solutions” have the impact of destroying economic growth and human prosperity. This is real, folks. This is what Bill McKibben, Al Gore and other Cardinals in this global church write in their books and say in their speeches. You don’t have to make this stuff up. Who could?
Such a debate could only take place on CNN, as it did last night, or some other Democrat propaganda fake news outlet to ensure that no difficult questions would ever possibly be asked. Because these politicians have no good answers to any difficult questions, such as, if “global warming” is such an emergency, why is it that NOAA can find no warming in the continental U.S. over the last 14 years?
Or how about, if the U.S. is the root of the global problem – it isn’t – explain how it is that the U.S. by far leads the world in reducing its carbon emissions, which have now fallen to levels not seen since 1985? And if oil and natural gas are such a problem, how is it that that fall in U.S. carbon emissions is mainly attributable to the increased use of natural gas in our power generation sector and in reductions in gas-powered car emissions?
And if getting back into the Paris Accords is the answer, why is it that those accords do nothing to force the real causes of rising carbon emissions – Europe, China and India – to affect reductions similar to those the U.S. has achieved?
And if command-and-control regulatory actions and confiscations are the answer, how is it that the U.S. has achieved these dramatic carbon reductions and also produced the cleanest water and air in any developed nation without resorting to such measures?
Last night’s climate change dog and pony show on CNN was global socialist nutjobbery and nitwittery at its finest. And the hilarious thing about it is that the far-left anti-development activists and lunatic politicians like AOC will all be out on their Twitter feeds this morning bashing the candidates for only resorting to half-measures and not going far enough.
All of this hooplah is taking place around an issue that always ranks at or near the very bottom when pollsters ask Americans about the issues they are really concerned about.
That, friends, is why the DNC did not want to travel down this road to begin with. Who can blame them?
That is all.
Does anyone on this site know of any TV viewer numbers for this CNN “Climate Change, Town Hall” last evening....looks like the Democrat controlled Media is sitting on them as ordered by CNN and the Democrat Party leadership?
I’m still waiting to die from the “acid rain” they warned me about in the 70’s...
The writer doesn't get it. IT'S A HOAX! Nobody cares about reducing CO2 emissions. CO2 is not a pollutant.
And the electric generation and distribution system couldn't possibly meet the demand without a huge investment in infrastructure. But, of course, the need for vehicles would be much lower in a Yang administration because of the economic collapse and hyper inflation spurred by his racist (only for citizens) $1K/month giveaway. No one would need to have a job.
...50 million plus votes...
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Whether valid and legal or not.
Yesterday, someone who has been a staunch D (career in State Social Services)and who doesn’t like Trump (sic)told us she thinks he’s done some amazing things and the Ds scare her.She and her husband are thinking of voting for him.
She’s retired and has to continue working in the private sector. Her state pension is meager. The economy matters. China matters.
To me, the progs don’t even seem confident they can cheat their way to victory. It’s braggadocio.
“the terrifying aspect of this is that anyone of these clowns would still get 50 million plus votes. the country is doomed.”
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Wondering what the viewing audience number was? I know I wasn’t one of them.
You are exactly correct!
People who say they believe in man-made climate change are idiots, liars, or both.
Love this line!! Who cares if it's a run-on sentence..
The #LetThemEatCake plan to “save” the planet!
20+ Democrat candidates promising to literally CRUSH us! Every aspect of what used to be normal life slowly strangled! Any and all (soon to be “peasant”) life regulated, permitted, taxed, licensed and tightly controlled by a tyrant state of hyper-bureaucrat mega-nannies! Earth will be “saved” but we the people will be sacrificed. You’ll need a permit and pay a fee to have a backyard BBQ. If you’re even allowed a backyard. #Dem2020NoThanx!
“...Democrat solution for man-made climate change:
Take all of man’s money
Restrict man from all activity
Spend man’s money on....whatever...”
Yeah. We “old timers” have a name for that: COMMUNISM.
Ping!
Every FReeper should bookmark this OP and have it printed on flyers.
Then go stand on a street corner in Liberal Wokeville, handing them out, while demanding they hand over their house keys, car keys, cellphones & whatever other accoutrements of civilization they might own.
Did anyone actually tune in to watch this thing?
Everyone here should click on the “AP via Yahoo” article posted on FR at 3:44:35am and go to the “comments” section.
I thought I was reading a post written by one of FR commentators, because the comments TRASHED the debate, and pointed out how expensive and STUPID the candidates’ plans are. Am really encouraged because if the comments offer an accurate reflection of what the majority of Dem voters think about their candidates, Trump will win the 2020 election in a LANDSLIDE!
The only question I have is what happened to cause Joe to bear down so hard he ruptured a subconjunctival blood vessel? It might be interesting to rewind back to just before that started and see why.
Agreed. Even if Trump wins a second term, I fear its just a finger in the dike. There's no overcoming the the wave of leftists and their socialist agenda.
Then Barack & Michelle went shopping for real estate.
Good post Liz.
Everyone should look up the Green Climate Fund.
Obviously a US Treasury-robbing and money laundering scam.
If ANY of our Congresscritters was worth a plug nickel’s worth of toilet paper, they’d be investigating THIS.
Instead they’ve wasted 2 years & millions of dollars investigating “Russian interference” that at most supposedly put a few political ads on the internet which voters either did or did not look at, and either believed or did not believe.
The author (Blackmon) is guilty of the same chest-thumping, finger-wagging assertions and conclusions that the Dem candidates are. He makes numerous statements of hyperbole, many of which cannot be easily supported, or are at best, debatable. Of course, one can say he is preaching to the choir, but preaching to the choir is all he does. So I dismiss him as a blowhard, just like the Dems.
Except, instead of cyanide, they need to use a nice plant-based poison, like hemlock.
Also, they need to recycle their nylons, polyesters and other non-natural clothing items, and wear all natural hemp robes.
And finally, they should go to the redwoods forest to drink their hemlock. Their rotting corpses can feed their forest giant brothers.
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