just for using the 'trigger' approach.
Posted on 02/09/2019 6:05:39 AM PST by edwinland
Pity poor Ed Markey. He’s 72 years old, has been in Congress since 1976 – at this writing, 42 years, 3 months, 6 days. A United States senator for 5 years, 6 months, 23 days.
And yet yesterday he felt the need to get his picture taken with and endorse any and every word uttered by a 29-year-old first-term member of Congress who has lost her mind, if she ever had one – all so he won’t get taken out in 2020 by someone as nutty as she is.
Markey is the U.S. Senate sponsor – read: riding shotgun – of a U.S. House of Representatives resolution put forward by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bellevue) spelling out the goals of the Green New Deal, which is supposed to decrease the increase in global temperature since pre-industrialized days to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030. (That’s 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, for those of you who speak American.)
Neither one will tell us how they intend to accomplish these goals.
“We are open to whatever works,” Markey said Thursday during a press conference with the new object of his admiration, whom he earlier called “the great” and “my phenomenal partner.”
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Since they won’t tell us, it’s only fair for us to try to figure it out on our own.
How? Let’s go to the resolution:
“meeting 100 percent of the power demand of the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources”
Translation: No oil (which means no gasoline), no natural gas, no coal.
Further translation: Far fewer cars, no airplanes, no furnaces running on oil or natural gas providing heat and hot water, no factories running on any of these.
(Excerpt) Read more at newbostonpost.com ...
Excerpt only -- worth reading the whole thing.
They are all rushing to get on her bus before they are left at the depot.
Someone pointed out that for a long time, radical leftist environmentalists have been called “watermelons”, because they are green on the outside and red on the inside.
However, he then said the term needs to be updated, that there are now enough of them that they should be called “watermelon people.” Those who want to use anti-scientific environmentalism to advance totalitarian communism, which they still try to pass as “democratic socialism”, or “anti-fascism”, while behaving just like Stalinist communists and Nazis.
In any event, so that the world doesn’t quickly reach “Peak Pixel” by treating such parasites to their preferred euphemisms, we should get into just calling them “watermelon people.”
has been in Congress since 1976
Term Limits, please!
I enjoyed it.
Thanks for posting.
Logically, that would be exploring nuclear power sources from Deuterium through Plutonium, but to SLC and her friends, it means ineffective, heavily subsidized sources owned by friends.
Before he was elected to congress, Markey owned and operated an ice cream truck.
A bartender is a step up for him.
Radicals always want to design a better way. They ruined the education system for years with all their new ideas. Even Michelle thought she knew how to feed everybody.Amazon and Fedex will be backrupt without planes and trucks.
Then along comes Bernie, who, perhaps motivated by senility, has the guts to speak the dreaded "S-" word (socialism), and suddenly madness is the order of the day, as insanity rushes in to fill the void.
Bernie's mistake is being old, white, ugly, and from Vermont. AOC is the preferred torchbearer because she checks more of the boxes: hispanic, female, attractive (if you're an opthalmologist or a dentist), and from uber-cool New York.
That is the goal.
“They are all rushing to get on her bus before they are left at the depot”.
Hopefully they will end up under the bus.
That she was a bartender is insignificant.
AOC was a community organizer who campaigned tirelessly for Bernie Sanders.
That's the previous occupation of hers that matters (and the one the media rarely mentions).
And yet they hounded Kavanaugh because he drank beer.
I cracked up at the opening description of Markey, because I thought the same thing when I saw a photo of the event. He plays second fiddle to a kook kid. Makes me laugh.
Catch 22, with term limits you get green behind the ears newbies who will listen to the bureaucrats who “know” how to get things done in DC. Then the country is effectively run by Comey, McCabe, etc.
We seem to be damned if we do or damned if we don’t. An IQ test for these idiots might help.
How about a legislative session of about 6 weeks and then go home? I don’t have the answers but I have grave concerns about any of the proposed solutions.
I live in MA and I guarantee that 75% of the MA population don’t even know who he is.
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They are all rushing to get on her bus before they are left at the despot depot.
No plastics.
No paint.
No medicines.
No concrete.
No asphalt, no roads, no new buildings (much less replacing every building we do have to “make it energy efficient).
No new insulation for the new buildings she wants.
No new glass windows in the new buildings she wants.
No food transportation, food storage (refrigeration during shipping), no food shipping, no crop harvesting, no field plowing, or tree planting.
No fertilizer.
No new paper. No new books.
No new ink.
Cotton cloth. Linen. Silk. No other clothes.
No zippers.
No new metal products. No new knives. No new cans. No new pots.
No new batteries.
No satellites for her propaganda networks. (And you thought there were no advantages!)
No snowblowers. No winter jackets except fur.
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