Pirate's Cove

Is this like how the Biden-Harris administration is forcing the peasants to get EVs? Or doing away with gas stoves? Making air conditioners more expensive? Targeting heavy duty trucks? Forcing companies to include ‘climate change’ in the SEC filings? Trying to get everyone to ride the train or bus? Trying to force citizens to get heat pumps?

On climate, a short riff grows in Chicago

There’s a striking consistency in the way Kamala Harris and Tim Walz offered just glancing references to climate change in their DNC speeches.

Why it matters: The framing in the context of “freedom” could preview their strategy for the balance of the short campaign.

Driving the news: Harris’ speech very briefly touched climate in a much wider riff on what she called “fundamental freedoms at stake” in November.

It’s the “freedom to breathe clean air, and drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis,” she said.

That’s the same construction that Tim Walz used a night earlier, when he said the election is about “freedom.”

He didn’t even mention climate but tucked in the allegation that Republicans want corporations “free to pollute your air and water.”

Their version of freedom is government dictating your life, because without government control everything is polluted, you know. Except by the Elites, who drive around in big fossil fueled SUVs and take private jets

#KamalaHarris had her plane circle over Chicago for about 10 additional minutes to watch her husband speak.
These liberals/woke lecture others about caring for environment and climate change https://t.co/Qz1Cd2FNIB

— #SengeSering ???? (@SeringSenge) August 21, 2024

Yep1downtown Chicago is busy with the Kamala Harris show in town.We stumbled upon her hotel last night and there was a huge policepresence as her motorcade arrived shortly before 9pm Central. That could be Bill Clinton waving through tinted glass in the second SUV with the flags pic.twitter.com/kIu32I4gKD

— Jonathan Hall (@JHall7news) August 19, 2024