If All You See…

August 20, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on a Hawaii utility delayed infrastructure upgrades for ESG goals.

It’s cleaning the folders week.

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11 Responses to “If All You See…”

  1. H says:
    August 20, 2023 at 2:42 pm

    Yes Teach the company that delivers the electricity is privately owned and driven by profits. It is beholden to its share owners and puts them ahead of its customers. We saw other examples like this in the Cali wildfires which were caused by the utility not cutting/clearing tree limbs from overhead wires.
    Of course the extent of the fire was caused by other factors.

  2. david7134 says:
    August 20, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    John,
    Please explain how a company that is driven by profits can be so sloppy as to not deliver its product in a satisfactory manner or have unsafe practices. It is known that the company had to pour money into the useless, fake climate crap. That could have gone to infrastructure improvements.

    But you work for UPS, you must work night and day to prevent them from making profits.

  3. Elwood P. Dowd says:
    August 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm

    Conservative scholars are giving the GOP an out…

    Legal scholars William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, conservatives themselves and members of the conservative Federalist Society, have recently published a paper declaring that under the 14th Amendment, Trump’s actions render him ineligible to hold office.

    Abstract
    Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion. Because of a range of misperceptions and mistaken assumptions, Section Three’s full legal consequences have not been appreciated or enforced. This article corrects those mistakes by setting forth the full sweep and force of Section Three.

    First, Section Three remains an enforceable part of the Constitution, not limited to the Civil War, and not effectively repealed by nineteenth century amnesty legislation. Second, Section Three is self-executing, operating as an immediate disqualification from office, without the need for additional action by Congress. It can and should be enforced by every official, state or federal, who judges qualifications.Third, to the extent of any conflict with prior constitutional rules, Section Three repeals, supersedes, or simply satisfies them. This includes the rules against bills of attainder or ex post facto laws, the Due Process Clause, and even the free speech principles of the First Amendment. Fourth, Section Three covers a broad range of conduct against the authority of the constitutional order, including many instances of indirect participation or support as “aid or comfort.” It covers a broad range of former offices, including the Presidency. And in particular, it disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election.

    Why are conservatives wanting to toss Trump aside? The scholars seem to agree that Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 election.

  4. Jl says:
    August 20, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    “Hillary makes landfall, destroying over 30,000 emails….”
    “Biden awards Hawaii official Medal of Honor for saving water during fire..”

  5. Elwood P. Dowd says:
    August 20, 2023 at 9:24 pm

    Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said Sunday that he thinks Donald Trump should drop out of the 2024 presidential election as the former president faces criminal charges from four indictments.

    “I think so,” Cassidy said when he was asked in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he thinks Trump should drop out.

    “But, obviously, that’s up to him. I mean, you’re just asking me my opinion,” he added. “But he will lose to Joe Biden if you look at the current polls. I’m a Republican. I think any Republican on that stage in Milwaukee will do a better job than Joe Biden.”

    • CarolAnn says:
      August 21, 2023 at 8:15 am

      Everyone’s entitled to his own opinion at least in the Republican Party. As we’ve pointed out before we don’t walk in lockstep we don’t demand that everybody agree 100% with everything, unlike you communists and Nazis on the left.

      Let’s face it you’re gonna vote for a child predator a liar and a cheat who spends all his time in the basement of one of his mansions or on vacation. Then you’re gonna claim that he won by 250 million votes. Then when we complained that it’s illegal and it’s fake you’re gonna refuse to let it go to court you refuse to audit it or even investigate it. Because that’s how you liars operate you’re election deniers that’s all you are.

      • Elwood P. Dowd says:
        August 21, 2023 at 8:46 am

        I voted against a child predator, a serial sexual assaulter, a liar, a loudmouth braggart and cheater whom I thought was bad for America… and I was right. Millions of Americans voted against Trump and his chaos. His support was deep but hardly wide. BTW, he tried to overturn the 2020 election by illegal means.

        We understand how devoted you are to Trump which requires you to “believe” he was invincible and could only lose because of cheating. You would have voted for him 10 times if you could have. You, and people like you, fantasized a vast conspiracy where dark forces, so powerful they can not be seen, used satellites and space rays and computers and Black women creating votes to defeat the “peoples choice”!! Your plot requires honest, brilliant patriots being outsmarted by an 80 year old with dementia and Black folks. BTW, Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election by illegal means.

        Donald J. Trump has driven the weaving Republican Party into the ditch. But Trump is a symptom of the rot in the nation, not the cause. He is taking advantage of and stoking a fascist thread that exists within the American far right. “Hang Mike Pence!” “Jews Won’t Replace Us!” “Build the Wall!”

        Senator Cassidy is a conservative Republican but is right about Trump being a threat to the nation. Honest, genuinely patriotic American Republicans know this.

        • Jl says:
          August 21, 2023 at 8:51 am

          Any proof Trump tried to overthrow the election by illegal means? Or do crazy libs think saying “protest peacefully and patriotically” as illegal?
          Wait….of course they do…

          • Elwood P. Dowd says:
            August 21, 2023 at 6:05 pm

            The evidence that Donald Trump tried to overturn the election is extensive, but you know that. The prosecutors and witnesses will describe his efforts in some detail during testimony at Trump’s trials.

            You can read the indictments.

  6. Jl says:
    August 21, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    Just like the Dems tried to overturn the election by impeachingTrump? Or the phony “Russian collusion”?
    In both instances, if they succeeded, the result would have been overturning the election

    • Elwood P. Dowd says:
      August 21, 2023 at 7:42 pm

      Impeachment is a legal procedure as was the investigation into the involvement of Russia in the 2016 election.

      If Mr Trump had been convicted by the Senate he would have been removed from office and VP Pence would have become President.

      Lest one forget or actually believe what Trump and AG Barr claimed…Regarding the Trump-Russia Special Counsel investigation:

      The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity
      The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice.

      Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.

      A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.

      Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016
      Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”
      Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.
      Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.

      The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks’s releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton”
      In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President. Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent.

      Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

      Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.” A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.
      The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faced trial for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering.

      The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election.

      The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.
      .
      Special Counsel Mueller declined to exonerate President Trump and instead detailed multiple episodes in which he engaged in obstructive conduct.
      The Mueller Report states that if the Special Counsel’s Office felt they could clear the president of wrongdoing, they would have said so. Instead, the Report explicitly states that it “does not exonerate” the President and explains that the Office of Special Counsel “accepted” the Department of Justice policy that a sitting President cannot be indicted.

      The Mueller report details multiple episodes in which there is evidence that the President obstructed justice. The pattern of conduct and the manner in which the President sought to impede investigations—including through one-on-one meetings with senior officials—is damning to the President.

      Five episodes of obstructive conduct stand out as being particularly serious:
      In June 2017 President Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to order the firing of the Special Counsel after press reports that Mueller was investigating the President for obstruction of justice; months later Trump asked McGahn to falsely refute press accounts reporting this directive and create a false paper record on this issue – all of which McGahn refused to do.

      After National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was fired in February 2017 for lying to FBI investigators about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, Trump cleared his office for a one-on-one meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and asked Comey to “let [Flynn] go;” he also asked then-Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland to draft an internal memo saying Trump did not direct Flynn to call Kislyak, which McFarland did not do because she did not know whether that was true.

      In July 2017, the President directed former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to instruct the Attorney General to limit Mueller’s investigation, a step the Report asserted “was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct.”
      In 2017 and 2018, the President asked the Attorney General to “un-recuse” himself from the Mueller inquiry, actions from which a “reasonable inference” could be made that “the President believed that an unrecused Attorney General would play a protective role and could shield the President from the ongoing Russia Investigation.”
      The Report raises questions about whether the President, by and through his private attorneys, floated the possibility of pardons for the purpose of influencing the cooperation of Flynn, Manafort, and an unnamed person with law enforcement.

      Congress needs to continue investigating and assessing elements of the Mueller Report
      The redactions of the Mueller Report appear to conceal the extent to which the Trump campaign had advance knowledge of the release of hacked emails by WikiLeaks. For instance, redactions conceal content of discussions that the Report states occurred between Trump, Cohen, and Manafort in July 2016 shortly after Wikileaks released hacked emails;[18] the Report further notes, “Trump told Gates that more releases of damaging information would be coming,” but redacts the contextual information around that statement.
      A second issue the Report does not examine is the fact that the President was involved in conduct that was the subject of a case the Special Counsel referred to the Southern District of New York – which the Report notes “ultimately led to the conviction of Cohen in the Southern District of New York for campaign-finance offenses related to payments he said he made at the direction of the President.”
      The Report also redacts in entirety its discussion of 12 of the 14 matters Mueller referred to other law enforcement authorities.

      Further, the Report details non-cooperation with the inquiry by the President, including refusing requests by the Special Counsel for an interview; providing written responses that the Office of the Special Counsel considered “incomplete” and “imprecise” and that involved the President stating on “more than 30 occasions that he ‘does not recall’ or ‘remember’ or ‘have an independent recollection.’”

      Special Counsel Mueller agreed with the DOJ that a sitting President could not be indicted. Now, Mr Trump is being indicted, but not for crimes committed during his lone term (except of course related to his hush money paid to Stormy Daniels).

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