Posted on 04/24/2024 5:21:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats have already made it clear that they will stop at nothing – nothing – to prevent Donald Trump from winning in November. So, we aren’t surprised to read reports that President Joe Biden might declare a “climate emergency” this year in hopes that it gooses his reelection odds. Never mind that such a declaration would put the U.S. right on the path to a Venezuela-style future.
Late last week, Bloomberg reported that “White House officials are weighing whether to declare a national climate emergency several months out from the 2024 election.”
Bloomberg goes on to report that:
White House advisers are divided over the idea of declaring a climate emergency, with some saying it wouldn’t provide Biden with enough newfound authority to make substantial changes, the people said. Others, however, argue such an announcement would galvanize climate-minded voters.
Read that again. Inside the White House, the only reason being given for not declaring an emergency is that it wouldn’t give Biden enough dictatorial powers.
That’s a stunning admission from an administration that is supposedly devoted to “protecting democracy.”
Let’s leave aside the entirely fatuous notion that there is anything even remotely constituting a climate “emergency.” What would be the basis for such a declaration? The number of hurricanes, fires, floods? None of these has been trending upward. Death rates from natural disasters are a tiny fraction of what they were 60 years ago, and lower than they were 20 years ago. Food production is way up.
But Biden has already used the “climate crisis” as an excuse to impose a draconian electric vehicle mandate on the country, attack a host of household appliances, pour billions into “clean energy” scams, and more.
As Bloomberg notes, declaring a climate emergency “could enable the president to halt or limit crude exports for at least a year at a time, suspend offshore drilling, and throttle the movement of oil and gas on pipelines, ships, and trains.”
Apparently all that is not enough “newfound authority” for Biden’s minions.
As we just learned from the three-year COVID national emergency, the left will eagerly use a climate emergency declaration to strip Americans of basic rights.
Whatever you think of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he is one of the few who has been outspoken about the dangers the COVID precedent set.
“We’ve now established a precedent in this country – they suspended the First Amendment: religion; freedom of association when they did the lockdowns,” he told Fox News.
“[They restricted] freedom of speech. They banned jury trials against vaccine companies – that’s [a violation of] the Seventh Amendment. They abolished property rights [which violates the] Fifth Amendment [when] they closed 3.3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation, although there was no pandemic exception in the United States Constitution.”
Way back in 1973, a Senate report noted that emergency declarations give the president the ability to “seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.”
Three years after that report came out, Congress passed a law designed to put some guardrails around these powers.
But COVID showed how little these guardrails mean when Democrats are in charge. And Biden has already shown that he couldn’t give a hoot about legal or constitutional limits to his authority – especially when he thinks it will help his reelection chances. Just look at the repeated attempts to undermine the Constitution with his student loan bailouts.
Declaring a climate emergency would give Biden the ability to control anything that uses energy – which means literally all human activity – in the name of fighting this emergency.
If Biden were to declare a “climate emergency” and if – God forbid – it helps him win reelection, there will be little hope for the future of this nation.
“Is Biden About To Declare Himself Climate Dictator?”
Is Biden About To Declare Himself USA Dictator?
There, fixed it.
Biden doesn’t have the Brains
“Biden doesn’t have the Brains”
No, but his string-pullers have the colossal gall, ballz and arrogance to, and they now have the power to declare whatever they please. They have a clear pathway, from all outward appearances, to do whatever. I mean... it’s not like there’s any official opposition party any more that might actually seek to stop them.
Biden is one dangerous individual.. Even in his shape.
He has been in the senate so long. He thought he was important enough to be a real nasty guy
No one is as important as Joe. He has used his position and he has left a trail.
What about all of us that understand that there is NO climate emergency, we could do little or nothing about it if there was a climate emergency, & the whole thing is just some political mumbo-jumbo? Maybe it is just that we the public are not that stupid or fooled that easily.
Biden being a 100% loser he only addresses issues that other losers care about he has no idea about reality he’s never had to deal with it his entire life he’s crazy Jim.
for day old bloomberg article says it’s based on “according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named” ... anonymous sources again ... wake me when there’s someone besides the guy who runs the floor buffer in the white house ...
So now a president is allowed to make himself a dictator by Executive Order? The framers would have been surprised to learn that.
and you thought COVID lock downs were bad , execution squads murdering in the name of Climate
They have not thought this through. If this were to happen the US is done.
Off to buy more “supplies”.
Can’t have everyone driving to the polls, contributing to globull warming, can we now? Mandatory mail in voting! Better yet, on-line voting!
Old school Commies wanted to control the means of production. Globalists want to destroy them, and are quite open about this.
There was a verbal protest. It was censored.
If it was a crisis, the elites would not like in multiple mansions, nor fly private jets. There were 1500 private jets at the Masters, for crying out loud!
This is b.s.
There will be NO hope for the future of this Constitutional nation.
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