…are glaciers that will soon melt because Someone Else drove a fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on a condensed look at Joe Biden’s accomplishments.
It’s girls in nature week.
Read: If All You See… »
Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the always great nation of America. The rain is giving love to the plants, the owls are annoying the mockingbirds, and let’s not discuss that ending to last night’s baseball game, OK? This pinup is by Ren Wicks, with a wee bit of strategically placed help (uncensored here).
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets†calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.
Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!
Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
How many in 2016 checked the box for Trump/Pence, more as a vote against Hillary Clinton than for Trump? Things have changed
2016’s Reluctant Trumpers Are 2020’s Avid Trumpers
Four years ago, the media enjoyed covering the phenomenon of so-called Never Trumpers; Republicans who wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump.
There was speculation that these voters, many well connected to the Washington establishment, would put the icing on the electoral cake for Hillary Clinton. Of course, this notion proved fanciful. The Never Trumpers are back in 2020. They’re no greater in number, but the media has gobbled it up again.
I love all those conserving conservatism unhinged Never Trumpers who are intent on voting for Biden and far, far left Democrats. It’s not so much Biden I worry about, it’s losing the Senate and Biden getting the W. Sure, Biden would do bad things if the GOP still retained the Senate, like Obama did, especially with unhinged Modern Socialist Kamala as VP, and, I just don’t think he has the mental awareness and strength to fight off the super crazy of his political Party. With a Dem Senate, though, we get tons of the Crazy in legislation, a lot harder to get rid of. The Never Trumpers are pushing for this. They don’t even have the integrity to vote 3rd party
But there’s another group of Republicans: those who enthusiastically supported GOP candidates other than Donald Trump before he was nominated. They remained cautious about Trump even after the Republican National Convention. Ultimately, though, they pulled the lever for Trump over Hillary. Call them “Reluctant Trumpers.â€
They’re still around, too. But’s there’s a difference: they are now enthusiastic Trumpers. I know. I’m one of them. (snip)
When I met up with Joe this year, however, I was interested to find that, like me, he’s “all in†for Donald Trump. No longer reluctant in his support, Joe Schmuckler is suggestive of two things: the significant number of Republicans whose support for Trump has moved from tepid to enthusiastic and a growing wave of intensity in overall support for Trump.
“I missed it,†Schmuckler told me, referring to 2016. “It wasn’t until after he was president that I fully understood the power of Donald Trump’s message.†He could have said WE missed it.
Schmuckler is far from alone. His simple explanation – that watching Trump truly put America First convinced him that Trump was action more than talk – is something I’ve heard repeatedly from former Reluctant Trumpers.
Look, I did not trust Trump in 2016. The way he was running his campaign was strange, and many of the bloggers in the circle wondered if he was intentionally attempting to lose. So much of his past discussion on policy seemed to paint him as a NY Liberal. Border wall? Seemed patronizing. He’s still too slimy personally (he’s just overt about it, as most politicians are slimy), but, he get things done that Conservatives/Republicans should be happy about.
In those days, he was a moderate Republican. When 2016 rolled around, Trump was No. 17 of the 17 major Republican presidential candidates on Warren’s dance card. Not this year. “I’m 1,000% in support of Donald Trump,†Warren told me recently. “Even when I was running myself, I didn’t feel as strongly as I feel about this election.â€
Warren believes that Trump will be regarded as a great president, not merely a good one. He also sees Joe Biden’s aggressive move leftward as genuinely frightening. “I fear as I’ve rarely feared anything what a Biden win would do to America.â€
This is what I tell the “well, I could vote Trump, but, I don’t like him folks”: yeah, Trump is Trump, but, being bellicose and stuff is just who New Yorkers are, but, look at his actual record, then think about what Biden would bring. Hold your nose and vote AGAINST Biden, if it soothes your conscience.
For Goodman, Trump’s willingness to challenge China is a huge factor in his support for the president. “He’s the first president to really call China on the carpet,†said Goodman. Likewise on immigration. “We’re now having a real conversation about citizenship. Trump has highlighted the fact that we either have real borders or we don’t.â€
That’s just one reason. Biden would be a disaster for foreign policy. Alone, he could rejoin Paris Climate Agreement, reinstitute the Clean Power Plan, perhaps in a way that the courts do not stop, put back the massive Big Government Waters of the USA rule, restrict drilling and mining operations for oil and natural gas, start working with Iran again, and so much more. And that’s without a Dem Senate. It’s no wonder the media tried to keep this a campaign about personality rather than policy.
Read: The Original Reluctant Trump Voters Are Now Avid Supporters »
This is so 2020’s, but, then, Michele Weldon does sorta actually have a point
During Zoom calls, keep your pants on: It’s not prudishness, it’s white male privilege
No, it’s not prudishness, it’s proper decorum, proper propriety, proper business actions
There have been many moments in the last 18 years when I have said aloud, “Thank God Mom is not here for that.â€
My late mother, steeped in traditional Catholicism and modesty, leaned pretty far right in her values and had strong expressions on what she considered moral and absolute. Jeffrey Toobin and his Zoom incident would have made her implode, or close to it. (snip)
Vice reported this week that Toobin, a lawyer, New Yorker contributor and CNN analyst, was seen masturbating on a Zoom video chat between work colleagues. He has been suspended by the New Yorker. Much of the ongoing media reaction has centered on what Toobin called his “embarrassingly stupid mistake.†Some white male pundits dismiss the uproar as prudish, while others call for the end of his public career.
She is kinda right, because, consider all the white male pundits who were, in fact, dismissing Toobin having his wanker out and wanking it during a business call.
What is not mentioned often is the inherent white privilege and sexism embedded in the defense of his action. I find his public display of his privates not only improper, but immoral — and maybe illegal.
I hate to say it, but, if you ignore the Snowflakeishness, she does have a point, but, then, would a woman have done what Toobin did? It’s more like Liberal Privilege, because you know any Republican dumb enough to do what Toobin did would have been fired on the spot. But, Toobin is a Reliable Media Asset, so, just a suspension.
But then again, a man’s genitals are not deemed a threat but a woman’s breasts are.
A new mother was forbidden from breastfeeding her infant during a virtual stats class at Fresno City College recently. Her professor told her she could not turn off her video during the four-hour session and told the entire class the new mother wanted to do ‘inappropriate things during class.â€
And this is when we run off the rails. Had Toobin whipped it out in public he would have been arrested. Further, what’s the over/under that the professor was actually a Biden voter, considering how overwhelmingly liberal teachers are?
Yes, the New Yorker has suspended (but not fired) Toobin for the time being and CNN says he is taking “time off.†It is his American white privilege and his maleness that protects him from what in other countries has stiffer consequences.
According to News America, Haiti’s Consul to the Bahamas Karl-Henry Châtelier “was fired after a video allegedly of him masturbating surfaced on social media.â€
Liberal Media Privilege. Anyhow, read the rest
Read: Somehow, White Male Privilege Has Entered The Jeffrey Toobin Issue »
…is rising sea meeting a desertified land from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Busted Nuckles, with a post on how the far left is crippling the gun control effort.
Read: If All You See… »
And CNN has found one expert who says US will soon hit 6 digits
The US just marked a harrowing milestone: It recorded its highest one-day number of Covid-19 infections Friday at more than 83,000 — more than 6,000 higher than the country’s previous record set in July.
And as the fall surge continues, the daily numbers will get worse, experts warn.
“We easily will hit six-figure numbers in terms of the number of cases,” Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNN Friday night. “And the deaths are going to go up precipitously in the next three to four weeks, following usually new cases by about two to three weeks.”
This comes as the country’s seven-day average of new daily cases surpassed 63,000 Friday — an 84% increase since the average started ticking back up in mid-September, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Health officials say the steep inclines follow the reopening of schools and colleges across the US and have been largely driven by small gatherings — often family events — that are increasingly moving indoors, where the virus is likely to spread.
But, we were told that if everyone wears a mask we wouldn’t have these type of problems. That they would stop the increase, that they keep people from getting it. Dr. Fauci says they work so well they should be mandated
Dr. Anthony Fauci wants all Americans to wear a mask and — contrary to previous statements he’s made on the issue — he now favors a mask mandate in order to make that happen.
Fauci, a physician and immunologist, and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades, told Erin Burnett on CNN’s OutFront Friday evening: “If people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating.”
“There’s going to be a difficulty enforcing it, but if everyone agrees that this is something that’s important, and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and says, you know, we’re going to mandate it but let’s just do it, I think that would be a great idea,â€Â he said.
And Handsy Joe Biden
Speaking in Wilmington, Del. on Friday, Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden said, “First, I’ll go to every governor and urge them to mandate mask wearing in their states and, if they refuse, I’ll go to the mayors and county executives and get local mask requirements in place nationwide.â€
Again, perhaps Joe missed that 37 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico have mandates. Yet, even in those states numbers are rising. And rising internationally.
Read: Masks Work? US Hits Highest Number Of One Day COVID Cases Friday »
This is totally about science, right?
EU environment ministers strike deal on climate crisis bill
European Union environment ministers have struck a deal to make the bloc’s 2050 net zero emissions target legally binding but left a decision on a 2030 emissions-cutting target for leaders to discuss in December.
The landmark climate change law will form the basis for Europe’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions, which will reshape all sectors, from transport to heavy industry, and require hundreds of billions of euros in annual investments.
It will fix in law the EU target to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and define the rules for reviewing progress towards climate targets.
Ministers struck a deal on these parts of the law at a meeting in Luxembourg on Friday. None of the 27 member countries rejected the bill, although Bulgaria abstained.
A decision on the most politically sensitive part of the bill – a new 2030 emissions-cutting target – was left for EU leaders to agree, unanimously, at a December meeting.
So, reshape all sectors. It won’t hurt these big-shot politicians, but, what of the average citizen, who can’t afford their energy costs, food, clothing, housing, and their overall cost of living to skyrocket? Why are these EU governments not making their own personal lives and government operations “net zero”, as they’re calling it? Let’s see how they like it before slapping this on the average citizen.
But, hey, if these Europeans say they want to Do Something about ‘climate change’, let them be the experimental group, that way we can see the results of the plans. And the Warmists aren’t allowed to complain.
Read: EU Climate Crisis (scam) Ministers Agree On Plan To “Reshape All Sectors” »
When it comes to being a federal employee, it is almost impossible to fire them, even with gross incompetence/wrongdoing. They are highly protected, their unions keep them safe, and their unions have essentially had their contracts backed by elected Democrats, who then receive lots of campaign cash. Why do federal workers even need a union? Isn’t a union meant to protect employees from bad bosses? Democrats say government is awesome! Anyhow, the Washington Post Editorial Board is Upset
Trump’s newest executive order could prove one of his most insidious
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S newest executive order, signed without fanfare this week, could prove one of his most insidious.
The directive from the White House, issued late Wednesday, sounds technical: creating a new “Schedule F†within the “excepted service†of the federal government for employees in policymaking roles, and directing agencies to determine who qualifies. Its implications, however, are profound and alarming. It gives those in power the authority to fire more or less at will as many as tens of thousands of workers currently in the competitive civil service, from managers to lawyers to economists to, yes, scientists. This week’s order is a major salvo in the president’s onslaught against the cadre of dedicated civil servants whom he calls the “deep state†— and who are really the greatest strength of the U.S. government.
The administration grounds its action in the need to rid itself of “poor performers.†Certainly, there’s room for reform to the cumbersome process required to remove those who fall short of standards. But this president’s criteria for determining satisfactory performance begin and end with personal loyalty. The White House admitted last winter to seeking to purge from payrolls those deemed insufficiently reliable — the “bad people,†in Mr. Trump’s words. The protections for career civil servants currently in place at least put some roadblocks on that path, hence this legally dubious plan to erase those protections with a touch of organizational sleight of hand. Not only will politically motivated firing become easier, but it will also be easier to hire those who meet Mr. Trump’s standards: obsequiousness and, more often than not, a lack of qualifications. With no competitive process in place, leaders can appoint whom they please — or rather, who pleases them.
In other words, federal government employees will learn what it’s like to work in the private sector, where doing the wrong thing can get you fired. Where working against your company can get your fired quickly. Federal employees in these positions work at the direction of the president in office, and those the president appoints to head agencies. If they don’t like that, they can leave. If they want to stay, they can do as directed (except if the orders are illegal/against agency mission). If they want to use their positions to get uber-political and hurt the sitting president and their administration, they’ll be fired. That the WPEB is so upset by this EO is proof that it is needed.
The weird part is that not one of these Gen Z folks mention how they refuse to use fossil fuels and live their lives carbon neutral
Inside Gen Z’s fight for climate change action
Jerome Foster II says he first became aware of climate change when he was 6 years old. By the time he was in sixth grade, he was talking about climate change at the lunch table with his friends. Like many of his generation, Jerome has grown up with a visceral understanding that he will face the consequences of a changing climate during his lifetime.
It was probably rather lonely when he’d sit down at a table and everyone would get up and walk away, wanting to be kids and talk kids stuff
“We are racing against time,” he said, pointing to the findings of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “The report says we have 11 to 12 years before we reach key tipping points in our climate system before we start to see increased disasters like we’re seeing now” — disasters like the record-breaking wildfires raging in the West.
“People keep saying our children’s children will see the consequences of climate change, but that was 50 years ago. We’re the children.”
What happens if we make it to 2030 and everything is just fine without all the crazy Cult of Climastrology policies in effect? Do the Warmists like Jerome give up?
Now an 18-year-old college freshman, Jerome grew up in Washington, D.C., and interned for the late Congressman John Lewis. During his internship, he started weekly climate strikes in front of the White House and helped organize the 2019 Global Climate Strike that brought young people around the world out of their classrooms and onto the streets to demand action on climate change.
So, demanding Other People take actions that these kiddies won’t?
“Hope comes from action, and hope comes from elected officials actually taking these things seriously,” he said. And as Jerome prepares to cast his first vote, he hasn’t given up hope.
“People are still underestimating these [youth] votes, but you can’t underestimate us,” he said. “Young people have always been leaders of change. We’ve always been out in the streets. We’ve always been pushing the envelope because we want our future to be better.”
This sounds more like a political movement, especially with none of the little Warmists modifying their own big carbon lifestyles. Then there’s Miguel Escoto
“The climate crisis is first and foremost a human issue. It is first and foremost an issue about protecting vulnerable communities,” he told CBS News. “There is no easy way to do that, but investing and promoting and valuing communities instead of industry, I think that can get us started.”
And there’s no better way to help them than making them reliant on Government, right?
For Miguel, climate justice is where race, migration, economic inequality and other social justice issues all intersect.
“The climate crisis makes racial injustice more unjust; it makes poverty more brutal. Our generation is able to make those connections. I think that’s what gives us strength.”
So when they say “scientists tell us”, what they really mean are social scientists and political science graduates.
Read: Let’s Go Inside Gen Z’s Climate Cult (Brainwashed) Beliefs »
…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on Russia/Bidengate.
Read: If All You See… »
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