Conserving Conservatism By Electing Biden Is A Crusade Or Something

Yeah, yeah, we all watched or read about the townhalls last night, where Trump ended up mostly debating Samantha Guthrie instead of answering audience questions and not getting softballs like Biden did previously, and Biden mostly got softballs and adoration again on another station. But, hey, let’s hear from James Carville at The Bulwark, which is supposed to be conservatives conserving conservatism

A Crusade for Something Noble
Americans are coming together to save our Republic, right now. And it means something.

In 1948, General Dwight D. Eisenhower released an expansive memoir that transcribed his personal account as Supreme Allied commander in Europe during World War II, the single most important American military official in the war. He chronicled the travail of the war in its bitter totality: men sunk beneath waves of bullets and unbroken battle; the immeasurable sorrow levied as hundreds-of-thousands perished for their country; the fateful decisions he took in which he accepted complete responsibility—most importantly the decision for the D-Day invasion. At the same time, Eisenhower also wrote of what was indomitable about Americans, how the country overcame and rang freedom’s bell for a world enveloped by the forces of darkness.

See, Americans who do not actually like America and want to change and/or destroy everything about the nation are coming together with unhinged Never-Trumpers, the latter which only focus on Trump’s personality rather all the conservative things he’s done (judges, anyone?), to stop the forces of darkness. Yet, not one can actually say what freedoms Trump has taken away

I know it’s difficult for so many of us to feel hope in this moment, which seems so incomprehensibly dark. We are a nation deeply wounded from a liberated virus. We’re struggling with systemic racism. And we’ve endured lashing mental abuse, time and again, from the president of the United States. But it is not a darker moment than what Ike saw when he looked across the English Channel on June 6, 1944 at the continent of Europe, dominated by the Nazis.

See, you’re supposed to remember to call Trump voters Nazis

So I see a light ahead. Just days away, a unified and electrified coalition of Americans, coming together like our country did in World War II, standing united to send a message that will be heard around the world to all those who look with expectant hope to the America that led the crusade more than half a century ago: That America has not succumbed to a demagogue and would-be autocrat. That we have overcome. And that Donald J. Trump is not who we are.

In just a short time, America will go from its darkest hour to its finest hour. (snip)

We find ourselves again at such a turning point. Donald Trump’s authoritarian presence behind the Resolute Desk is amongst the gravest threats America has ever faced from within. And Americans have risen to meet this threat.

Again, what freedoms has Trump taken away? Is he ruling with his pen and phone? How about passing massive legislation and implementing massive regulations that have huge government control impacts on the lives of citizens? Using Executive office agencies to spy on and/or harass private citizens and groups? Is he wanting everyone locked down, shutting down churches, and threatening Jews?

My participation on this site, which is operated by many of my former Republican rivals, is evidence of this unity in and of itself.

This article, posted right here, is evidence that this is a moment that carries extraordinary consequences much more profound than victory or defeat for a candidate.

Like the majority of people that read this news site, I am white and affluent and—you know what else?—I love my country. Collectively, what I know to be true among so many like us, is that we understand we have existed on an advantaged and privileged perch in our slice of America.

I had to include the white and rich privilege stuff for a hoot, but, look, there are some days I think that it would be great to give these Never Trumper Republican nuts like the Bulwark what they want, just to see them complain when they’re getting hit with tax and cost of living increases weekly, seeing Single Payer, what Dems call Medicare For All, passed, climate change scam legislation passed, implementing Net Neutrality, which will make the Internet a public utility with government controlling it, a Fairness Doctrine, which is really meant to kill off talk radio, which is dominated by Conservatives, along with outlets like Fox News, OANN, Newsmax TV, and so much more. Will these same Never Trumper Republicans be fine with the massive gun control passed? Will they be shocked if Dems attempt to go for an Australian solution? Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, killing off jobs and businesses, making it harder for those left to work more than 30 hours a week? Make energy and fuel so expensive the average citizen can’t afford it? And so much more, the hit lost continues. And don’t forget, the Lefties will jettison Never Trumper’s and NT groups the minute Joe wins, because they will no longer be Useful Idiots.

And, don’t forget, these NT idiots are making it so that the Dems can keep and even expand the House, as well as win the Senate. How does that help them? OK, great, you hate Trump personally, ignore all the conservative things he’s done while covering their ears singing la la la la I can’t hear you, and want him gone, but, you’re helping Dems at all levels to win. How does that help? These morons should be the first ones to feel the pain, and, if Biden and the Dems win, I’ll be more than happy to let the ones I know in Real Life and on the Internet (including previously long term web-friends who no longer converse with me) “you got what you agitated for, which are you whining? Suck it up, buttercup.”

I have no time for these idiot NTs, who enable electing what they supposedly stand against.

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Climate Cultists Come Up With New Term, “Heat Storm”

It’s also apparently a “boiling poing” (view Climate Depot)

Boiling Point: Climate change is wreaking havoc on the power grid in ways you never knew

If you’re in the habit of reading the president’s tweets, you may have noticed a theme the last few weeks: California is a fiery wasteland. He said as much Tuesday, writing that the Golden State is “going to hell.”

What exactly is wrong with the nation’s most populous state? Why, rolling blackouts, forest fires and water rationing: (Trump tweet here)

Strangely, despite typically having hotter weather for longer during the year, you never hear about all the rolling blackouts and power grid issues from North Carolina down to Florida and east through Texas, eh?

As for blackouts? Well, if Trump wants to keep the lights on, he might consider doing something about climate change. (bold from story)

Or, California could go back to using reliable, efficient, lower cost energy sources. Oh, and deal with their power companies that keep having problems with down power lines and other maintenance failures.

The nonprofit research organization Climate Central analyzed federal data and released a report last month finding that hurricanes, wildfires, heat storms and other extreme weather events caused 67% more power outages in the United States during the decade ending in 2019 than they did during the previous decade. [Climate Depot note: Climate Central did not use the term “heat storm” in its report.] (snip)

“What happened during both of these heat storms was it didn’t cool down at night,” Nancy Sutley, chief sustainability officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, told me. “When it cools down at night — even when it’s really hot during the day — the equipment has a chance to cool down, and it will be OK. But the nighttime temperatures — when it was 111 downtown, it wasn’t 70 at night. It was 80 or 90 at night.”

Marc Morano goes on to note

The term “heat storm” also derives from the Star Wars movie series. The website Starwars.fandom.com defines the fictional term “heat storm” as a “natural occurrence” that raged across the fictional planet Ryloth in the Star Wars film series. “Heat storms consisted of furious cyclonic winds reaching speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour and temperatures upwards of 300 degrees Celsius” and “If anyone was caught in one, they would be incinerated.” 

This sounds horrible for Californians! According to the Los Angeles Times, these (fictional) “heat storms” are now impacting California. The LA Times did not explain when people would be “incinerated” by these fictional Star Wars-inspired “heat storms.”

And, since the LA Times article and cultist Sammy Roth notes in his opinion screed disquised as news says it is primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels, why are climate cultists refusing to give up their own usage?

Anthony Watts writes: “This renaming is just another way the left leaning media wants us to be afraid of normal weather patterns by making it into something that sounds scarier than “heat wave”.” Doomsday Cults always want things to sound apocolyptic.

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If All You See…

…is a wonderful low carbon carriage, which could replace fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on “sexual preference” being struck from the Newspeak dictionary.

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Senate Panels Shows That Hunter May Have Introduced Joe To Burisma Advisor

Let me ask a question: if Ivanka or Eric introduced Donald to an advisor for a company, then, when the company was under investigation Donald threatened to withhold aid to the nation investigating, would that be a big deal?

Senate Panel Investigating Hunter Biden Emails Showing Possible Introduction Between Joe Biden, Burisma Adviser

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is looking into emails that show Hunter Biden introduced his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, to a Ukrainian adviser to Burisma Holdings in 2015.

According to a Fox News report, Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said the committee has been in contact with the person who provided the emails, which first appeared in a New York Post report on Wednesday. The committee is working to verify the information, Johnson said.

According to the report, Joe Biden met with Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi, in April 2015 in Washington D.C., at the request of his son, Hunter Biden, who was on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company from 2014 to 2019 while his father headed the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.

The Post report detailed a collection of documents the paper received from Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, which were reportedly recovered from a laptop computer that had been dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware in April 2019.

An email from Pozharskiy to Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, suggests Joe Biden may have met with the Burisma adviser: “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

If the meeting did occur, it would contradict Joe Biden’s claims that he has “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

The media used to be hardcore into investigating wrongdoing by politicians and high ranking government employees, but, since Joe is a Democrats, they aren’t interested. In fact, they’re working the spin machine to protect Joe.

Joe admitted to using government money, forcefuly confiscated from the U.S. People, to extort a foreign government to fire a prosecutor investigating wrongdoing at the company his son got a cushy job at because his dad was Vice President, and the U.S. media doesn’t care. Perhaps COVID has been around for much longer, because they don’t seem to be able to smell the blood in the water.

Remember, this isn’t about Hunter: it’s about former Senator and Vice President Joe Biden. Hunter’s drug use, infidelity, and out of wedlock baby is only material on the periphery, this is about abuse of power and actual violations of the law by Joe, and, heck, further, what did Barack Obama know? Don’t focus on Hunter, don’t do the “where’s Hunter” stuff, wonder when the media will ask tough questions of Joe.

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Doom: ACB Declined To Answer When ‘Climate Change’ Is Human Caused

If you’re thinking “did the climate cultist senators actually ask Amy Coney Barrett questions on the climate crisis (scam)”, well, yes, they did

Barrett deflects senators’ questions on climate change

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett refused to say whether she accepts the science of climate change, saying she lacks the expertise to know for sure and calling it a topic too controversial to get into.

On Wednesday, pressed at her confirmation hearing by Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Barrett framed acknowledgment of manmade climate change as a matter of policy, not science.

Barrett said Harris, the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee as well as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was trying to get her to state an opinion “on a very contentious matter of public debate, and I will not do that.”

Barrett was responding to a series of questions from Harris, including whether she thinks the novel coronavirus is infectious, whether smoking causes cancer and whether “climate change is happening and it’s threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink.”

The federal appeals court judge responded that she does think coronavirus is infectious and smoking causes cancer. She rebuffed Harris on the climate change question, however, for seeking to “solicit an opinion” on a “matter of public policy, especially one that is politically controversial.”

The first two are established by science, 100%. The latter is simply inferred, and, if it is mostly caused by the burning of fossil fuels, as the article goes on to say, then why do so few Warmists give up their own use of fossil fuels? Perhaps Kamala should lead the way and stop flying all over the country in fossil fueled airplanes, which then require the requisite fossil fueled SUVs to get to campaign appearances.

(Business Insider) The Supreme Court is set to hear a case related to climate change in 2021. More than four in 10 voters (42%) surveyed by Pew Research Center in late July and early August said climate change was “very important” to their vote in the 2020 election.

Ann Carlson, a faculty director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, told The New York Times she found Barrett’s response “disturbing.”

“It’s a dodge that fails to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are causing the planet to warm,” Carlson said.

Got that? It’s a dodge! Except, being a judge isn’t about political policy, it’s about rulings based on the law and Constitution. And consensus isn’t science, it’s politics.

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Gun Grabbing Magazine For Teens Says What’s At Stake On Gun Grabbing For Election

Seventeen is a magazine for, shockingly, teenagers, which is nominally about fashion, celebs, fun stuff, you know, all the things teens care about. Of course, they also run articles on abortion because they push unsafe sex practices, anal sex, and hard left politics

From the direct Seventeen link, rather than where I found it at Yahoo

While nearly 40,000 Americans die from gun violence every year, the Trump administration continues to champion the rights of gun owners and firearm dealers, rather than focusing on the safety of the American people. In a direct response to this, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refuses to bring H.R.8—the most historic piece of gun legislation our country has seen in decades, which requires universal background checks—to the Senate floor for a vote. It’s been sitting on his desk since February 2019.

America’s gun violence epidemic did not originate from the Trump administration, but President Trump has shown no signs of prioritizing gun safety the past four years. In fact, in the early days of the pandemic, while healthcare workers lined up outside of hospitals in personal protective equipment, Americans lined up in front of gun shops after President Trump, a friend of the National Rifle Association (NRA), deemed gun shops as “essential businesses.” While doing so, he tweeted dangerous calls to action like, “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!” The tweet refers to the historic gun safety legislation passed in Virginia, which requires background checks on all gun sales, mandates reporting of lost and stolen firearms, and reinstates Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month policy. Additionally, over the summer, St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey pointed guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter protestors walking past their home. President Trump rewarded their behavior by allowing them to speak at the Republican National Convention (RNC).

If they’re lying about things like the McCloskey’s, forgetting that the “peaceful protesters” broke into a private area, tearing a gate off, threatened the McCloskey’s, and even brandished weapons, what else are they lying about?

We all know that the vast majority of background checks are actually done legally via the FBI system. And we all know that Democratic Party bills have things hidden by their flowing words of saving us all, right? Did anyone think Obamacare would hide what is essentially a takeover of the student loans industry, with loan debt skyrocketing immediately after? What’s Seventeen not telling you?

Even more than that, the bill would outlaw the “transfer” of a firearm without a Brady Check. [See the proposed language for 18 U.S.C. 922(t)(1)(A) in Section 3 of H.R. 8.]

The term “transfer” is nowhere defined, but it’s clear from the bill that handing your gun to a neighbor for as little as one second is a “transfer” unless you’re covered by one of the bill’s so-called exceptions.

So if you hand your firearm to a friend while you both are cleaning weapons, and then go into the kitchen to get another towel, you’re a criminal and can go to prison for up to a year under 18 U.S.C. 924(a)(5).

Many of the exceptions also make you a criminal, like if you hand your hunting rifle to someone without a hunting license.Reason notes

HR8 requires that loans, gifts, and sales of firearms be processed by a gun store. The same fees, paperwork, and permanent record-keeping apply as to buying a new gun from the store. If you loan a gun to a friend without going to the gun store, the penalty is the same as for knowingly selling a gun to a convicted violent felon. Likewise, when the friend returns the gun, another trip to the gun store is necessary, upon pain of felony.

Seems rather burdensome for using your 2nd Amendment Rights, and quickly makes people felons, you can’t possess a firearm. If you are a domestic violence victim, and in quick need of a firearm, you cannot borrow one. You’d have to go through the laborious process and pay hundreds of dollars to purchase.

A clever trick in HR8 effectively bans handguns for persons 18-to20.

Many states do not allow those under 21 to have a handgun. Others do. This is yet another central government takeover of the 10th Amendment.

Regulators may set a minimum fee, but not “a cap on a fee.” The Attorney General is allowed to require that every gun store charge a fee of $30, $50, $150, or more. Even a $20 fee can be a hard burden to a poor person.

What if the Democrat appointed AG/regulators make the fee a couple hundred dollars? Of course, the lawsuits would come fast, but, how many would be unable to get a gun for protection?

It also creates a national gun registry, so, the government will know every single firearm you legally purchased. Back to Seventeen article

Although the issue of gun control has not been spoken about at the presidential or vice presidential debates held thus far (you can see President Trump’s unofficial record on gun reform here), Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris have laid out a clear plan to help end gun violence in America should they be elected in November. This includes, but is not limited to, the following actions:

Well, you can go over and read them, they’re all the gun grabbing and banning and more regulations that you’d expect. It would even have Los Federales searching your social media accounts without a warrant. For a magazine about women, it would put women at a disadvantage and make them less safe by making it so much harder for them to get a weapon to protect themselves.

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Hot Take: We Need A Carbon Tax Otherwise ‘Climate Change’ Will Stop Economic Growth

See, the Modern Warm Period has seen more economic growth, primarily through the growth of technologies, than any period before. But, you like eating burgers and meat from other animals, so, you need to pay a tax

Climate change poses ‘profound threat’ to global growth – IMF chief

Climate change poses a serious threat to global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday, urging the world’s top emitters to agree on a floor for carbon prices.

Got that? Taxation which stifles growth will stimulate growth because too much carbon pollution might maybe possibly threaten global growth which has been doing well during this warm period (and growth tends to occur more during warm periods than cool ones).

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told finance ministers meeting on climate change that countries should also ensure that green investments are included in the money they are spending to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its economic impact.

Doing so, she said, could boost global gross domestic product by 0.7% on average in the first 15 years of the recovery.

“Even while we are in the midst of the COVID crisis, we should mobilize to prevent the climate crisis,” Georgieva told a meeting of finance ministers from 52 countries working to integrate climate change into their economic policies.

The group, launched in April 2019 and led by the finance ministers of Chile and Finland, met virtually Monday on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

In other words, they want to transfer wealth from the nations that are tops to the ones which aren’t. And, it would be ridiculous to think that any of these people have a vested monetary interest in carbon tax schemes, right? It’s all selfless, right?

Georgieva said IMF research showed that policy tools could help achieve net zero emissions by 2050 despite the pandemic, but it was imperative that countries earmarked some of the $12 trillion in fiscal stimulus toward green investments.

Dare I note that the majority of these people pushing this stuff are some of the biggest climahypocrites around? They jet around the world, drive in low MPG limos, and live in giant homes, and more.

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If All You See…

…are pumpkins which will soon disappear from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Datechguy’s Blog, with a post on Seattle, Portland, and California voting themselves into the 3rd World.

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Democrats Call Long Early Voting Lines “GOP Voter Suppression”

Another day, more Democrats going full Barking Moonbat

Long Lines at Georgia Polling Place Prompt Hysterical Accusations of GOP ‘Voter Suppression’

Footage showing long lines of enthusiastic early voters in a Georgia county drew predictable cries of “voter suppression” from Democrats and Twitter pundits, while election experts said such allegations were baseless and lacked context.

A 70-second video of the line to cast early votes at Gwinnett County station on Monday, shared by an Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter, had racked up over 7.5 million views on Tuesday, with plenty using the footage of those waiting to decry the system.

Democrats seized on the opportunity as a PR stunt to promote their own legislation and cast the long line as evidence of Republican voter suppression.

“Republicans have spent decades making it harder for Americans to vote, and we’re watching the results play out in real time,” Senator Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) tweeted, pivoting to promote his own piece of legislation — which would pay voters $100 to wait in line for at least 90 minutes.

“These hours-long lines to vote are the *deliberate* design of gop leaders and rightwing judges to steal the voting rights of communities of color and a threat to democracy in every community,” Representative Bill Pascrell (D., N.J.) added.

It’s a nefarious plot to….make people voluntarily go out and wait in a line?

But none of the reactions made note of the fact that the Gwinnett line formed on the first day of early voting, after months of corporate hype about the importance of early voting, nor that it fell on a federal holiday. Neither was it mentioned that Georgia saw a record 126,876 people vote on Monday — a 41 percent increase over the first day in 2016.

So, a big nothingburger, right? Something that one expects on the first day of early voting? That people didn’t actually have to wait, since there are many more days of early voting? Of course, what none of the unhinged liberals discuss is the speed at which the line moved. And, do those people look like they’re being suppressed?

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Make Old Faithful Less Faithful

Remember back to the socially distanced gathering you had the other month, where people ate burgers, cheese, and ice cream which came from Evil moo cows? This future event is Your Fault

Climate Change Could Make Yellowstone’s Famous Geyser Less Faithful

Yellowstone National Park’s famous Old Faithful geyser is famously reliable, firing a jet of scalding water and steam high into the air some 17 times a day at 60 to 110-minute intervals.

But new research suggests that 800 years ago a severe drought caused this geyser, which was once somewhat hyperbolically known as “Eternity’s Timepiece,” to stop erupting altogether for many decades, reports Colin Barras for Science. When taken with climate model predictions of increasingly severe droughts, the findings could mean that America’s most dependable geyser will erupt less often or stop completely in the future.

Researchers arrived at the new findings, published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, by studying 13 chunks of petrified wood found on Old Faithful’s mound. Trees can’t survive the geyser’s blasts of super-heated, alkaline water, so finding trees growing on Old Faithful’s mound is a sign that its regularly scheduled eruptions were at one point on hiatus. When researchers tested the tree remnants, they dated back to around 1230-1360 A.D., reports Catherine Meyers for Inside Science.

“When I submitted the samples for radiocarbon dating I didn’t know whether they would be hundreds or thousands of years old,” Shaul Hurwitz, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and first author of the new paper, tells Science. “It was an ‘aha!’ moment when they all clustered within a hundred-year period in the 13th and 14th centuries.”

One specimen was large enough to allow Hurwitz and his team to estimate it grew for some 80 years, suggesting Old Faithful stopped erupting for nearly 100 years sometime between the 13th and 14th centuries.

Did that scare you? I’m sure it did, and you’re now willing to give up your use of fossil fuels, pay lots more taxes and fees, and give up your liberty, freedom, and choice, right? Perhaps they could explain what caused the climate change at that time, which was near the end of the Medieval Warm Period, which went from around 900 AD (10th Century) to 1350 (14th Century)? Were they driving fossil fueled vehicles and taking long trips, getting consumer products and practicing capitalism?

Are they saying that the current warm period is mostly/solely natural, just like the MWP?

Today, human-caused climate change is exacerbating droughts in the Yellowstone region, per Inside Science. Hurwitz and other researchers published a paper in 2008 showing decreased precipitation in recent decades may have added a minute or two to the time between Old Faithful’s eruptions. If the climate continues to dry out, as climate models predict it will, the researchers write that Old Faithful’s “geyser eruptions could become less frequent or completely cease.”

If Old Faithful is added to the list of climate change’s casualties, Maxwell Rudolph, a geophysicist at the University of California, Davis who wasn’t involved in the study, tells Science that “the extinction of this natural treasure would be a profound loss.”

It’s always something.

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