Posted on 09/19/2019 4:28:51 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
What is it with leftist politicians and this blackface thing? – Was it just a really big deal among white lefties in the 1980s and 1990s to do blackface parties? Asking because, having never been a lefty, I would have never been invited to their shindigs (all you Millennials and Gen-Zers will have to google that reference).
Anyways, leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has now achieved the Ralph Northam and Hillary Clinton badge of honor, as a photo of him in full blackface (the fawning Canadian press is calling it “brownface” as if that makes it all better) at a party that supposedly took place in 2001. Oh, and check out the placement of his hand, also painted black – it’s like he’s channeling Joe Biden:
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Of course, Trudeau was just 29 at the time, so presumably his defense will be that he was just young and stupid at that time, whereas now he is 48 and still stupid. So, I’m not sure that defense is going to work out for him.
But something had better work, since this new revelation comes in the midst of his campaign for re-election. The incident just add trouble atop an already troubled situation, as Trudeau has been plagued by allegations that he improperly interfered in a corruption case against an engineering company that had been a supporter of his election. Trudeau has denied any improprieties, but two members of his cabinet felt so strongly that his administration had acted improperly that they tendered their resignations.
But hey, Northam’s own blackface photo surfaced a year ago now, and he’s still in office, living fat and happy with no one in the Democrat Party or the U.S. fake news media bothering to talk about him anymore. Given that Canada’s media is every bit as fake as America’s, you have to assume he’ll survive. After all, being a racist is fine if your politics are “correct.” Right? Right.
Kudos to Tony Heller and the Competitive Enterprise Institute – Myron Ebell and Steven J. Milloy, working in conjunction with Climate Realist Tony Heller, have published a wonderful compilation of the last 50 years of failed climate change alarmist predictions at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Everyone should take the time to go through it.
We tend to be lulled by the massive climate scam propaganda industry that climate alarmism is some sort of recent thing. But the truth, as Heller catalogs daily at his RealClimateScience website and Twitter feed is that this has all been going on in our fake news media for a century or more. Ebell and Milloy take their piece back to 1967 because that was the year that the greatest climate fraud before Al Gore, Paul Ehrlich, began to come to prominence in the media, using his dire predictions at the time of a new ice age that was always just around the corner.
One early Ehrlich statement, from 1969, that really grabs the attention is this one from an article in the reliable old New York Times: “The problem with almost all environmental problems, says Paul Ehrlich, the population biologist, “is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead.”
And yet, here we are 50 years later, somehow still alive, and with the fake news media still somehow referencing Ehrlich, who has alternately said we’d all be dead from an ice age, overpopulation, famine, the ozone hole, acid rain and global warming, as some sort of credible figure on the subject.
So, what has really happened over that half-century span, as alarmists have worked to raise public fears over all manner of environmental problems, both real and imagined? Our environment has almost immeasurably cleaner, thanks to the miracle of human ingenuity and technological advancement.
The ice age that Ehrlich predicted to come by the 1990s never came. Nor did the mass famines he said would kill billions by 1980s due to overpopulation, thanks to gigantic advancements in crop yields and food distribution networks. According to data compiled by the World Bank, almost half the global population lived in extreme poverty in 1970. Today, fewer than 10% do.
Remember acid rain? That problem was effectively dealt with and today is almost non-existent. How about that hole in the ozone layer? Remember how that was going to kill everyone when it was discovered over Antartica in 1985? This week it was reported to be the smallest it has been in decades, thanks to technology and human ingenuity.
In the 1970s, due mainly to lax regulation of coal-fired power plants and car emissions, the air in the United States was frankly putrid, dangerous to breathe in places like Los Angeles and New York and Pittsburgh and Detroit. Today, thanks to advancing technology and human ingenuity, our air is light years cleaner. Indeed, the successful removal of well over 95% of all real pollutants from our air was one of the motivations for the alarmist community to shift focus to claiming that CO2 – the very basis for life on earth – is now a danger.
Also in the 1970s, water in the U.S. was a horror story in many parts of the country. Rivers were still used by cities as outlets for raw sewage flows. The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was so dirty and filled with refuse from refineries and other industrial plants that it actually caught fire in 1969. That incident and other horror tales led to the passage of the Clean Water Act shortly thereafter, and thanks to human ingenuity and technological advancement, water all over America is vastly cleaner today.
All of those things and many more have happened in the last half-century, since Ehrlich predicted we’d all be dead because nobody cared.
It turns out that Americans care a lot about the environment. What Americans don’t care much for is being constantly lied to by charlatans and scammers like Ehrlich, Gore and the climate alarmist fear lobby.
Thanks to Ebell, Malloy and Heller for reminding us all of that today.
That is all.
Absolutely stupid. He was playing a part....It offends no one.
They're the ones that invented the "blackface offense game".......not us.
Now lefties Trudeau and Northam have to live by leftie standards.
It’s OK. He apologized.
What about those three guys impersonating women and that woman impersonating Sulu from Star Trek? Did they apologize too? The world has gone totally insane. I think a lot of unemployed climate changers are causing it.
Exactly!!
You are correct. I’m not a Trudeau fan, but making a big deal out of this IS absolutely stupid!
“I’m not a Trudeau fan, but making a big deal out of this IS absolutely stupid!”
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A big time lefty is exposed in an act of blatant hypocrisy, and you want to let him off the hook.
Good grief.
Live by blackface....die by blackface——cackle.
"Climate change made me do it."
It’s not our side that’s making a “big deal” out of this. It’s the leftist outrage machine caught up in their own Alinsky tactics. We’re just enjoying the show.
You’d think that would be a no-brainer, yet a surprising number of FReepers are running interference for Trudeau. Idiots.
Never realized what a shrimpo he was...
I am more offended by his cultural appropriation when he uses false eyebrows...then they fall askew a little bit.
Blackface does not offend conservatives......so you cant fault them.
However, they should realize their appalling defense of Trudeau has consequences.
Napolean complex, no doubt.
I’m looking forward to Mark Steyn weighing in. This is red meat for him.
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