Posted on 12/04/2018 5:06:13 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
This made my eyes water up a bit. – Here is a poem Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote to George and Barbara Bush in January 2013:
For those who can’t read the handwriting, here is the text:
You are resplendent in years and worth all the tears as we worry and hurry Through each eventful day in this great land made greater still by God’s firm hand and your strong will that searched for the better way every day
Orrin G. Hatch
Beautiful.
Speaking of Bush 41… – All Americans should commend the late President and his family for not using this week of mourning and remembrance as an occasion for lashing out and settling of grudges, as the McCain family did a few months ago. But then, the Bushes are just a different class of people, aren’t they?
Never one to hold a grudge, Bush 41 insisted that President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump be invited to attend his funeral, for the simple reason that that is the gracious and proper thing to do. You can be sure that the eulogies delivered at the service will not be filled with bitterness and potshots taken at the current President, because that is not how the Bush family has ever done things. Again, just a different class of people.
The same cannot be said for our fake news media, sadly. It is as tiresome as it was predictable that the very same media outlets – and many of the same ageing on-air personalities – who demonized George H. W. Bush while he was Vice President and President have taken the occasion of his passing to pretend to have loved him while using it as an excuse to take shots at Donald Trump.
Even Fox News is participating in this sham. I had to just turn the television off yesterday evening as Bret Baier decided it would be a great idea to spend 10 minutes letting the execrable hacks Juan Williams and Mara Liasson go on and on about how “gracious” they always thought Poppy Bush was. That’s certainly a far cry from the despicable things Williams had to say about him while he was in office serving this country.
The reality is that Bush 41, like every other Republican in modern times, had an extremely contentious relationship with the media, which was almost as fake 30 years ago as it is today. At one point in his 1988 campaign he went so far as to ban Newsweek from traveling on his campaign plane due to that particular outlet’s absurdly biased coverage of him. And who will ever forget Poppy’s on-air shouting match with then-CBS News anchor Dan Rather in January 1988?
These were not people and organizations who loved and respected George Bush then, and they only feign love and respect for him now as a cheap means of attacking the current President.
That’s a truth that we all should keep in mind as this week rolls along and the rank hypocrisy emanating from our TV screens turns increasingly putrid.
Paris Burning Watch:
Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro .@ABCWorldNews and @NBCNightlyNews mislead viewers about the truth behind Macron's so-called 'fuel tax' http://bit.ly/2EcQje1
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ABC/NBC Hide How Paris Is Burning in Opposition to Climate Change Bill When President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord the liberal media had a global warming sized meltdown. But for three weeks now, the people of Paris have shown they’re
newsbusters.org 136 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy What? Our fake news media misleading the public on the reasons for all the rioting? How can this be? Oh, wait, nevermind.
NBC attempted to cast the rioters’ rage as class warfare over policies that favor the rich over the poor. ABC told its viewers the riots were caused by a simple “fuel tax”. Neither network dared mention the truth about these riots, which is that they are a backlash against taxes on carbon being imposed thanks to the French government’s commitments made under the Paris Climate Accords.
And guess what? The French are not the only people who are rejecting government efforts to seize their money and property as a fool’s means of “doing something” to fight the nebulous concept of “climate change.”
One of the main reasons why Angela Merkel is stepping down as Chancellor of Germany in the coming months is because the population there has become enraged by the massively higher utility costs imposed on them by Merkel’s Energiewende initiative that attempted to transform the country’s power sector from burning coal to getting electricity from hundreds of thousands of giant windmills.
In Canada, the province of Ontario is suing to halt the imposition of a federal carbon tax that child Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is attempting to impose, a tax that threatens to destroy that country’s economy. Just a few weeks ago, the voters in Washington State resoundingly rejected the Democrat-controlled government’s attempt to impose what would have been the first statewide carbon tax in the United States.
The riots in Paris are just the latest signal that we are coming to a real inflection point in the global climate scam. The Globalist community latched onto what they first called “global warming” and later shifted to “climate change” 30 years ago as their newest rationalization for the imposition of worldwide socialism. It is no accident at all that literally every proposed “solution” to “climate change” for the last three decades involves seizing the money and property of individuals so that the ruling class can “do something” about the “problem,” a problem which constantly evolves and which they can never seem to quite describe in a way the average person can understand.
But despite their increasingly shrill and desperate efforts at brainwashing, the public has never embraced this “climate change” as an issue of major concern. In every poll taken that asks voters to list the issues they are most concerned about, “climate change” always, without exception, ranks at or near the bottom.
And in reality, the globalists don’t even buy into their own rhetoric. As I pointed out yesterday, not one single signatory nation to the Paris Accords has met its emissions reductions obligations as of this point. Not one. Most of those countries – which includes every country on earth except the United States – have in fact seen their emissions rise significantly. They don’t even buy their own BS.
So, as all the elitist globalists flew on their carbon-emitting private jets into Poland for their latest multi-million dollar climate conference boondoggle, they were faced with 30 years of frustration at their efforts to impose socialist “solutions” and a growing backlash coming from those being imposed upon. This is where things become dangerous because history tells us that when leftists become frustrated, their sense of entitlement tends to turn them violent. We have certainly seen that here in America over the last two years, with the Democrat Party basically creating the violent Antifa movement following the 2016 elections.
Make no mistake about it: A few election losses and some riots in Paris will not deter these people. They believe they basically have a “divine right” to rule, and in their minds, any means are justified by the ends.
Stay vigilant.
Ocasio Cortez Watch:
Ocasio-Cortez: We Could Pay For Two-Thirds Of Medicare For All With That $21 Trillion We Spent On The Pentagon
Ok, now, pay attention here, class: She just admitted that her bright “Medicare for All” idea would cost about $31 TRILLION dollars. You seriously just cannot make this stuff up.
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they first called “global warming” and later shifted to “climate change”they first called “global warming” and later shifted to “climate change”
Correction - they first claimed CLIMATE COOLING, the next Ice Age was around the corner. When that did not work, they switched to GLOBAL WARMING, and when that did not work they switched to CLIMATE CHANGE which can mean anything since, the climate does change.
Macron is in deep do.
Similar to the quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958
"… this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
The Climate scam wasn’t really created until 1988, when Gore and others decided to use it to pursue socialist policies. The global cooling scam of the 1970s was not adopted by the globalist movement for socialist purposes.
If you see a recent photo of NYC one thing you'll see is construction cranes around the city. If they really believed in their own BS they would stop issuing construction permits and start building some kind of dike system-like Holland.
The patent (what a scam the USPTO has wrought)
on this nonsense is OWNED by the DNC.
Surprise? not.
One wonders if the French are STILL laughing at Trump for wanting no part in the plan to SAVE THE WORLD.
The French fell for a pretty face and ignored his plans to eliminate dependence on petroleum.
“The Climate scam wasn’t really created until 1988, when Gore and others decided to use it to pursue socialist policies. The global cooling scam of the 1970s was not adopted by the globalist movement for socialist purposes.”
Yep, I’ll never forget the timeline, and that was before I had the Internet, Rush, and Alex Smith (or whoever he is) to tell me what to think. It was CLEAR AS DAY, even with only (mostly) left-wing newspapers to read. So the timeline went like this:
Prior to the 1960s, environmental concerns basically didn’t exist. The US was considered a huge dumping ground, particularly regarding water and air. But as the population grew and became wealthier it started to become obvious that there were limits to how much could be dumped without consequence, and thus started the environmental movement (and it was definitely needed, in my opinion).
So they went after the low-hanging fruit - for cars, cut tailpipe emissions by 90%, which was doable, thanks to the catalytic converter...and so it was done. For water, clean up the obvious messes, such as rivers where life couldn’t exist anymore - still not too much of a hit as the really bad polluters were limited in number and could often be addressed with relatively cheap pollution control equipment.
And so those were the ‘good days’ of the environmental movement - the fixes were relatively low costs, and the improvements were amazing. There was also a small scare about global cooling, but overall, the environmental movement was low-key, getting some good stuff done, maybe going overboard a bit here and there, but not end of the world crap. However, they were controlled by the Left and by the 1980s the intent of the movement had shifted from cleaning things up to tearing down the economy (by over-regulating to the point of driving out industry), but the Left still wasn’t spending most of their time on it.
At the time, the Left was MUCH MORE CONCERNED with trying to get the United States to lose the Cold War (i.e., having the Soviets win), and that was where their primary efforts were - if you doubt that, find ANY offensive weapon (or even potentially offensive weapon) that they didn’t fight tooth-and-nail against.
But then TRAGEDY hit - the Soviet Union collapsed, and, almost to the day, THE EARTH WAS DOOMED due to Global Warming - which lines up closely with your 1988 date (by then, it was obvious that the days of the Soviet Block were numbered). And so, without a missing a beat, without ever apologizing for being on the wrong side of the Cold War, the Left IMMEDIATELY took to saying that the planet is doomed and the only way to save it is to effectively shut down Western Civilization.
Which leads us to where we are today. If you look at pictures in Egypt, once among the poorest countries in the world, where most of the apartments now have air conditioning, and if you visit China, where virtually every city now is more modern, safe, and prosperous than any city in the United States, but the air in the country reeks, you see where the Left now is. They essentially give, China, India, and the Third World a free pass on everything environment-related, while continuing on their mission to bring down the West - all one has to do is look at the Paris Climate Agreement - for China and India, its terms are voluntary and are being ignored, but for France, it now means $7.00 Diesel, and that will likely have to double to even come near reaching the goals that they are REQUIRED to obtain.
...and millions still believe and trust the Left. Go figure.
If you see a recent photo of NYC one thing you'll see is construction cranes around the city. If they really believed in their own BS they would stop issuing construction permits and start building some kind of dike system-like Holland.
What a scam, when the democrats blame conservatives for the weather. No one is satisfied with the weather.
Along in there somewhere from the 1960s, was THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT.
Always something to keep the public frightened of an imaginary hop goblin....
I beg to disagree but they are more likely a rejecting personally bearing the costs of socialism. It is almost certain they these rioters are still on board with socialism where others bear the costs and they reap the benefits.
Once a socialists moron it seems very difficult to depart, but easier to drift into new flavors of the same stupid.
Call back with the thread title when productive middle age people are rioting.
When rich liberals stop buying beach front property or private islands you know they finally are really worried.
*Blackmon bump*
It’s the late 1960’s riots in France all over again. We could see Macron fall within the next 3-4 months.
Yeah but but but but....
We can only hope.
Of just plain old vanilla socialism.
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