Posted on 01/02/2020 5:43:02 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Remember, Quid Pro Joe is the “moderate” among the leading Democrat presidential contenders. – Earlier this week, Joe Biden promised to imprison fossil fuel executives for the alleged impacts their companies have had on the climate in a clear effort to pander to the Democrat Party’s radical base. In making the pledge, Biden – the so-called “moderate” in the Democrat field of candidates – joins leftist radicals like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth warren in promising not to just further regulate coal, oil and natural gas in the U.S. but to imprison executives from those key U.S. industries.
As reported by Joshua Caplan at Breitbart, Biden made the remarks during a campaign event attended by dozens in Peterborough, New Hampshire:
“If we don’t stop using fossil fuels–” an attendee began a question to the candidate.
“We’re all dead,” Biden interrupted.
Earlier in the event, Biden vowed as president to hold energy giants liable for global warming and made a pledge to even jail executives.
“We have to set sort of guide rails down now, so between the years 2021 and 2030, it’s irreversible – the path we set ourselves on. And one of which is doing away with any substance for fossil fuels – number one,” Biden said.
“Number two, holding them liable for what they have done,” he said of fossil fuel executives, “particularly in those cases where your underserved neighborhoods and – you know the deal, okay. And by the way, when they don’t want to deliver, put them in jail. I’m not joking about this.”
Here’s a video clip:
Tom Elliott @tomselliott .@JoeBiden on fossil fuel execs: “We should put them in jail” for pollution
Embedded video 789 4:27 PM - Dec 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,232 people are talking about this Ok, so, he’s “not joking” about putting people who run companies in fully-regulated industries in jail for doing things their companies all had local, state and federal government permits to do. Let’s be clear about this: Both the coal and oil and gas industries are regulated by all of those levels of government. Literally every action any company in either industry makes requires a permit by some government agency to make.
Local governments regulate their traffic, truck sizes on specific roadways, their dust and noise creation; state governments regulate their surface mining, pit mining, drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations. Oil and gas pipelines that do not cross state lines are fully regulated by state agencies; those that do cross state lines are regulated by both state and federal agencies. Refineries and import/export facilities are regulated by agencies/commissions/councils at all levels of government.
This has been the case since these industries were conceived and instituted, and yet now every leading candidate for the Democrat Party’s presidential nomination proposes to toss company executives into prison for undertaking the production of the fuel sources that drive the U.S. and global economy, all of which was permitted and licensed in advance by a vast array of government entities. This is what Quid Pro Joe and the other leading Democrats propose now to retroactively turn into crimes.
This is full-on fascism, folks. It is brutish, unthinking, moronic thuggery. And of course, it’s exactly where the global religion of Climate Change wants to take our society: Into the pits of socialist fascism.
You could never make this stuff up. Not in a million years.
That is all.
Wow
And they complain about Trump’s tweets. /eyeroll
Like his son Hunter who was on the Board of Directors of Burisma.
So much for moderate Joe.
Joe must be serious! His son resigned as a fossil fuel executive just a few months ago!
LOL
This policy goes hand-in-hand with putting man-made climate change deniers in prison as well.
“Survival is the exception, extinction is the rule.” - Carl Sagan
Romney loves to appease these idiots...
they need to bee defeated, for good... House, Senate, SCOTU and POTUS.
For at least two generations.
This policy goes hand-in-hand with putting man-made climate change deniers in prison as well.
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First they come for the climate deniers and after that the “heretics” who don’t share their extreme views. Its all about absolute power and control.
The difference between Socialism and Communism:
Socialism uses the weapons of the State to force you to obey.
Communism takes you out back and executes you if you don’t obey.
Biden a moderate?
Maybe a moderate Communist.
Byedone.
>> putting man-made climate change deniers in prison
Wrongthink. Doubleplusungood.
Prison seems on his mind these days.
I was watching Cspan and saw/heard Biden make these remarks.
This man, this party, are true fascists/communists/totalitarians.
They must be defeated in every arena at all costs.
It is going to take all of us digging deep to support candidates that can defeat them or we as a free nation are over.
This is no idle threat. Seeing what bammy did to the head of BP, I don’t doubt that bammy’s VP would jail executives. biden is no better than all the others - socialist/fascists.
Slow Joe has this list of CEOs so he can pick his cell mate.
C’mon man. Everyone knows Joe isn’t serious, is bribe-able, and is a few cans short of a six-pack.
He will say anything to gain a perceived political advantage.
That’s because Mitt Romney is a punk ass bitch.
I cannot imagine why anyone on earth would vote for this slimy smear of feces, and I include myself in that remark, because I voted for him in one of the greatest mistakes of my life.
Joe Biden seems to have jail on his mind. Wonder if the fact that his son sat on the board of a fossil fuel company and faces jail time for corruption explains these comments. Perhaps he is worried that he himself faces jail time.
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