Biden’s Climate Plan Is Serious—About Green Pork. If the price is right—$2 trillion—greens will overlook his apostasy on fracking and nuclear power.

A Joe Biden presidency would guarantee one thing. We might be finished with Donald Trump, but we’ll still have the problem that gave us Mr. Trump. I’ll borrow a term from an analyst of the European Union: sophisticated state failure.

Take Mr. Biden’s climate speech this week. Its most quoted line: “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is ‘hoax,’ When I think about climate change, the word I think of is ‘jobs.’ ”

Who knows what Mr. Trump really thinks, but the full quote from a 2016 ad lib was indisputably accurate when he said of the climate lobby, “It’s a money-making industry, OK? It’s a hoax, a lot of it.” A human impact on climate seems certain to exist in some measure, but even ardent greens now realize they harm the cause with exaggeration. Meanwhile, confirmed liberal Michael Moore has decided the moment is right for a documentary film about the climate movement’s takeover by corporate handout artists (with Al Gore at the top of the list).

Mr. Biden offered no real thoughts on climate science or policy. His speech was a triangulation of hot buttons, an invitation to spend money, lots of it.

That’s why greens climbed aboard despite its defense of nuclear, its call for carbon capture (which would keep oil, gas and coal in business), its refusal to denounce fracking. Mr. Biden promises to spend $2 trillion over four years. That’s all they needed to hear. And forget the part about the U.S. electricity sector being carbon neutral by 2035, when Joe will be safely out of office. President Obama proposed 54.5 miles per gallon as the target for the U.S. auto fleet in 2025.

solyndra was just a trial run.

libs are gonna get RICHER THAN GOD if biden gets in.

2 posted on 07/18/2020 2:43:21 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)

Did somebody mention green pork?

Watermelons, get your watermelons here! Every one is green on the outside and guaranteed red on the inside!

4 posted on 07/18/2020 2:56:50 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)

The Great Leap Backwards

6 posted on 07/18/2020 3:12:48 PM PDT by buckalfa (Please forgive my feeble attempts at humor, Appalachian education, and condescending snarkiness.)

That’s serious dough, even by Washington standards. The good news is that a lot of it, rather than get used to trash American businesses, will get siphoned off by crony politicians and corporate fat cats.

7 posted on 07/18/2020 3:32:54 PM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)

$2 trillion dollars for #FakeScience. A hoax. Sounds like a lib plan.

8 posted on 07/18/2020 4:03:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Covid is over. We have been conditioned by it. The Cultural Revolution has begun.)

Avoiding green pork is a good way to say healthy.

He’s like AOC’s sock puppet. I wonder if AOC is doing Biden and Bernie to get them to say everything she wants.

10 posted on 07/18/2020 5:15:55 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Systemic liberalism is the problem.)

Biden wants all the money for himself.

11 posted on 07/18/2020 7:09:52 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)

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12 posted on 07/18/2020 7:38:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

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