Could We Maybe Replace Cheney With A Real Conservative?

By William Teach May 7, 2021 – 7:27 am

This The Hill article is hilarious in that it is positioning the House GOP picking Stefanik due to loyalty to Trump, forgetting that loyalty is rather important in politics, and that House Dems won’t get money if they do not show their loyalty to Nancy Pelosi. That there was basically a cult in support of Obama. That almost no one will criticize Biden among elected Democrats. But, they do have a point about Stefanik

Loyalty trumps policy in Stefanik’s rise, Cheney’s fall

Some conservative groups are arguing that Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) is too liberal on policy to replace embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) as the third-ranking House Republican.

The 36-year-old Stefanik has emerged as the leading contender to fill Cheney’s spot as GOP conference chair.

But FreedomWorks this week lamented Stefanik’s “dismal” 37 percent score on the group’s vote scorecard, arguing it would be a mistake to put her in charge of messaging in place of the staunchly conservative Cheney.

The Club for Growth has also gone on the attack.

“Elise Stefanik is NOT a good spokesperson for the House Republican Conference,” the group said in a in a Wednesday tweet.

“She is a liberal with a 35% CFGF lifetime rating, 4th worst in the House GOP,” the group added, referring to her score on the group’s own voting scorecard.

“House Republicans should find a conservative to lead messaging and win back the House Majority.”

Yeah, they should find one. Cheney has a 53 rating from Freedom Works.

Such complaints are unlikely to matter in a vote next week that has little to do with policy or conservative orthodoxy. The vote instead is shaping up as more of a loyalty test to former President Trump, the most powerful force in GOP politics despite his loss of the White House, and GOP losses of House and Senate majorities under his leadership.

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.) say they’re fed up with Cheney’s attacks on Trump and are already throwing their weight behind Stefanik to replace her.

And Trump likely sealed the contest on Wednesday, hailing Stefanik as a “far superior choice” to the “warmongering” Cheney — one who will advance his populist “America First” agenda.

She should be replaced with a real Conservative, but, loyalty is important. The question is, can we have someone who is less conservative per their voting record (remember, Stefanik is from NY), but isn’t going to constantly throw Republicans under the bus, as Cheney does? She was another with Trump Derangement Syndrome, and would rather battle Trump than battle Democrats. She would rather have uber-Leftist China Joe as president and lose the Senate than keep Trump who was doing pretty darned well in advancing a conservative agenda.

Some Republicans are holding out hope that there’s still a chance to block Stefanik’s rise this month. One conservative GOP lawmaker is trying to pump the brakes on what he called a Stefanik “coronation.”

Why yes, they do feature a couple of un-named Republicans with comments supporting Cheney over Stefanik, because of course they do. But, Cheney has become a liberal darling, telling you all you need to know about her loyalties

Cheney won’t move on from Trump, and is really not helping the show

(Spectator) Liz Cheney certainly did her best to advance that narrative and repay political benefactor Kevin McCarthy with perfidy in the process, in Wednesday’s op-ed in the Washington Post (a curious place for a conservative to gain a forum).

It is curious, as she’s speaking to Democrats. She could have done this in the Washington Times. She isn’t helping the Republican Party with her TDS, and needs to go. She has become a liberal media darling, like other Never Trumpers, and needs to go.

More: Here’s from the Daily Caller

Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney “secretly orchestrated” an op-ed in the Washington Post from all living former secretaries of defense slamming former President Trump’s handling of the military in January, according to the New Yorker.

Eric Edelman, a friend of Cheney’s, reportedly told the New Yorker that Cheney had personally met with all 10 living former defense secretaries, including Trump’s first defense secretary, Jim Mattis, urging them to participate in the op-ed. The report comes as Cheney is facing an onslaught of criticism from pro-Trump factions in the Republican Party who want to see her removed from the GOP leadership in the House of Representatives.

She’s an unhinged Never Trumper who won’t move on and would rather go after Trump than take on Democrats.

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Hotcold Take: Pennsylvania To Warm 5.9F By 2050

By William Teach May 6, 2021 – 3:00 pm

The doomsday climate cult has to doomsday, you know

Pennsylvania projected to warm 5.9 degrees by 2050, state climate report says

The Wolf administration issued a report Wednesday projecting that the average annual temperature in Pennsylvania will rise 5.9 degrees by 2050, posing increased risks to the environment and human health.

Officials from multiple state agencies announced Wednesday the findings of the 2021 Climate Impacts Assessment report, saying it underscores a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The state Department of Environmental Protection makes the periodic assessment under orders by the state’s Climate Change Act. The last assessment in 2015 anticipated a 5.4-degree average statewide increase from a baseline period of 1971 to 2000, so newer data suggest warming has accelerated.

The world has warmed just 1.5F since 1850, so, prognosticating a 5.9F increase in the next 30 years is beyond wackadoodle (that’s a scientific term, you know). Using that short baseline period allows the unhinged doomsday cultists to ignore the long term data. But, then, this really is all about attempting to scare people.

Rafiyqa Muhammad, an environmental justice community leader in Harrisburg, mentioned at the Wednesday news conference “crazy storms coming out of nowhere” that have impacted her area.

It’s called weather. Get a real job.

“We need to take action immediately,” Muhammad said. “We can’t wait until midcentury.”

You’re welcome to take action in your own life. Stop trying to force more government control. And that is the point of the scary report: get people to give up their money, freedom, and choice.

The report placed particular importance on environmental justice, given that not all residents will be affected equally. Age, race and ethnicity, income, lack of transportation, having to work outdoors, or living close to toxic sites or hazardous facilities all play a role in worsening outcomes from heat and wetter weather.

So, this really isn’t about science.

Wednesday’s report came a day after the Wolf administration proposed a rule to lower carbon emissions through a program that sets an emissions cap by giving power plants allowances, which they can buy and sell on the market. Companies that reduce emissions benefit; those that don’t, pay a price.

No, they pass that price on either way.

The rule is needed for the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an effort by 11 states, including neighboring New Jersey and New York, to lower power plant emissions 30% by 2030. The Wolf administration wants to join the group, but the GOP-controlled legislature has been fighting it.

Interestingly, neither the Wolf admin nor the admins in those 11 states are giving up their own use of fossil fuels or reducing their own carbon footprints, just forcing others to do so.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 6, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful area for solar panels and wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Woodsterman, with a post Libturd Thursday.

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White And Jew Hating Black Hammer Group “Liberates” Property In Colorado Mountains

By William Teach May 6, 2021 – 10:30 am

Nothing like liberating property back which is incompatible for raising your own food, eh? And by liberating, they mean purchasing scrubland of little value for $65,000. Lots of people are making fun of them for this stuff, but, the Black Hammer hatred for whites and Jews is rather insane

‘Jonestown 2.0, racism edition’: Radical anti-Semites crowdfund $65,000 for doomed city in Colorado mountains

A band of “anticolonial” and racist activists have “liberated” land high in the Colorado mountains to build a utopian city for minorities. Commenters are expecting a rerun of the Jonestown cult, but with more anti-Semitism.

Openly communist, overtly anti-white, and proudly anti-Semitic, the ‘Black Hammer’ organization isn’t afraid of a fight. The group’s Twitter account fires off hourly invectives against the “cave beast” white race it sees as “colonizers,” and against the Jewish people it accuses of funding the “pig departments and prison systems that mass incarcerate and kill us everyday.” Bizarrely, the group has taken a fix on Anne Frank, calling the Holocaust victim a “bleach demon,” whose death – to them – overshadowed the suffering of colonized people worldwide.

Black Hammer members have taken part in rallies and protests across the country, but the scant media reports on their activities don’t mention the racism and the apparently pathological fixation on Jews. Instead, they praise the “activist group” for holding vigils for coronavirus victims and handing out masks, food and clothing to their fellow people of color.

If a white group acted this way the activists would demand an FBI investigation and the Credentialed Media would be constantly talking about their extremism.

But while they’ve been pushing Farrakhan-style racism on Twitter and getting stuck into charity work on the streets, Black Hammer’s members have been stockpiling cash. A GoFundMe campaign organized by the group has pulled in nearly $65,000 since last July. The group wants $500,000 to build a city of their own, with free healthcare, free rent, and no cops. White people and Jews are presumably not welcome.

This is what it looks like

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It’s Good Sense That Warmists Are Giving Themselves Anxiety Or Something

By William Teach May 6, 2021 – 7:58 am

I was having a conversation with someone about how they have a chemical imbalance that can cause anxiety. She can’t just not get that way. It’s real. As opposed to some people claiming non-medical conditions as real ones because they’ve made themselves that way. Just because you get anxious because you’re potentially reading some signs (right or wrong, we’ve all done this), because a customer, friend, relative, has made you that way, doesn’t mean you have a real medical condition. Or if you’ve been indoctrinated to a doomsday cult that is always yapping about doom

Climate Anxiety Makes Good Sense

Even as we begin to emerge from the stress of the pandemic year, mental-health professionals are noting a steady uptick in a different form of anxiety—the worry over climate change and the future that it will bring. The latest survey research from Yale and George Mason universities shows about forty per cent of Americans feeling “disgusted” or “helpless” about global warming; a poll from the American Psychiatric Association last autumn found that fifty-five per cent of respondents were concerned about the effects of climate change on their own mental health. The effects seem particularly harsh on new mothers, and, indeed, a fear of adding to the climate problem and of the disintegration it might cause seems to be deterring large numbers of young people from having kids of their own. Understandably, the fear of a wrecked future increases as you descend the age scale: a March survey of Gen-Z Americans aged between fourteen and twenty-four found that eighty-three per cent are concerned about the health of the planet (although nearly half said that they have been feeling a little better since Biden took office).

Realistically, they’re making themselves crazy over slightly more than a nothingburger. It’s utterly normal for the climate to warm during the Holocene (and other periods over the last 4.5 billion years). It gets warm, then it’ll flip to a cool period, then back to warm. And it’s not even as warm as previous Holocene warm periods. But, hey, if climate cultists are so anxious, why are they not changing their own lives and doing their part? Oh, and it’s apparently mostly a white thing

Perhaps there are ways in which this fear is a luxury—Sarah Jaquette Ray, who literally wrote the book on climate anxiety, noted recently that it is an “overwhelmingly white” phenomenon. Not because people of color care less about the climate crisis (in fact, they care more), but because they’ve faced other existential crises. “The prospect of an unlivable future has always shaped the emotional terrain for Black and brown people, whether that terrain is racism or climate change,” Ray wrote. “Exhaustion, anger, hope—the effects of oppression and resistance are not unique to this climate moment. What is unique is that people who had been insulated from oppression are now waking up to the prospect of their own unlivable future.” Eric Holthaus, in his always interesting Substack newsletter on climate, echoed some of these thoughts, after describing his own anxiety as so crippling that, during attacks that lasted weeks, he’d “been unable to write, unable to interact with friends, unable to function normally.” But, he said, since those “who have already been marginalized by centuries of oppression will be hurt the worst  . . . our job, as the climate anxious, is to repair that oppression, repair that marginalization, to make sure you’re not offloading your anxiety onto someone else in ways that are causing more harm.”

Let’s be honest: it’s mostly white, middle and upper class Leftists who are claiming they have climate anxiety. It is rather a privileged thing, or, as Bill McKibben, who wrote this piece, calls it, a luxury.

All of which is to say that we are right to be anxious. There are profound reasons to hope that we’re about to make serious progress: the sudden arrival of cheap renewable energy; the shifting zeitgeist. (As is often the case, Rebecca Solnit sums them up with particular power.) Even if we catch some breaks from physics, though, it’s going to be a tough few decades. And what will make it toughest may be the (very American) assumption that we have to endure the anxiety by ourselves, in our own heads. I’ve found the simple solidarity of movements at least as useful as the opportunities for action that they provide; just knowing that lots of other people are at work on the same problem is a solace, and a goad to keep working. It’s one reason that I’m glad that vaccinations are proceeding apace. It’ll be strategically useful to be back in the streets, but it will also be psychologically useful: we are shoulder to shoulder on Zoom, but it’s not quite the same.

A tough few decades, folks. Nothing like fear mongering and doom talk to help out the fellow climate cultists, eh?

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China Joe Admin Looks To Waive Intellectual Property Protection For Vaccines

By William Teach May 6, 2021 – 7:41 am

What could possibly go wrong with this?

US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines

The Biden administration on Wednesday joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic, a shift that puts the U.S. alongside many in the developing world who want rich countries to do more to get doses to the needy.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the government’s position, amid World Trade Organization talks about a possible temporary waiver of its protections that would allow more manufacturers to produce the life-saving vaccines.

“The Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines,” Tai said in a statement.

She cautioned that it would take time to reach the required global “consensus” to waive the protections under WTO rules, and U.S. officials said it would not have an immediate effect on the global supply of COVID-19 shots.

So, it essentially would do very little anytime soon, but, it would annihilate the intellectual property of the companies that developed the vaccines. Not too mention the profits. Supposedly, the companies have made billions. But, that’s their gross profit: what’s their net profit? How much did they spend to develop the vaccines? Even if it is billions, that’s fine, they stepped up and created vaccines in short order to deal with a global pandemic not of their making (a classified study says that COVID may well have escaped from the Wuhan labratory)

The WTO’s General Council took up the issue of a temporary waiver for intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines and other tools, which South Africa and India first proposed in October. The idea has gained support among some progressive lawmakers in the West.

More than 100 countries have come out in support of the proposal, and a group of 110 members of Congress — all fellow Democrats of Biden — sent him a letter last month that called on him to support the waiver.

Do any of these people calling for the waiver have skin in the game? Let’s see about a waiver when it’s their IP on the block. Oh, and do any of these people have potential skin in the game, meaning they’ll make money off of the waiver?

Opponents — especially from industry — say a waiver would be no panacea. They insist that production of coronavirus vaccines is complex and can’t be ramped up by easing intellectual property. They also say lifting protections could hurt future innovation.

What if they arbitrarily decide to waive IP protections on other developments from pharmaceutical companies? Here’s CNN

In a decision on Covid-19 vaccine patents, Joe Biden chose humanity

President Joe Biden was between a shot and a hard place. In the end, he chose humanity.

The World Health Organization, countries like India and South Africa, and many within Biden’s own Democratic Party have long called for the temporarily loosening of pharmaceutical giants’ patents on Covid-19 vaccines. They argue that private profits should not take precedence over sharing critical knowledge that could save millions of lives. As America’s top infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, put it in an interview with The Hill: “I believe we have a moral obligation … to make sure that the rest of the world does not suffer and die, as it were, from something we can help them with and help them prevent.”

What happens when it’s other drugs for the sake of humanity? What happens to development? Why not simply send the shots to India? Oh, wait, they’re doing that. After Joe restricted sending materials which could be used to make COVID vaccines to India.

And it’s very easy to talk about waiving Other People’s IP, right? Back to original article

The companies have made some efforts to provide vaccine doses to poor countries at prices well below what they’re charging wealthy nations.

For instance, Johnson & Johnson agreed last week to provide up to 220 million doses of its vaccine to the African Union’s 55 member states, starting in this year’s third quarter, and agreed in December to provide up to 500 million vaccines through 2022 for low-income countries via Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance.

So, why waive it? What’s happening with the vaccines made in European countries? How about China, Russia, and Iran (even though theirs supposedly are garbage)? Are they getting waived?

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Canadian Cult Youths Not Giving Up On Their Lawsuit Attempts

By William Teach May 5, 2021 – 3:00 pm

What they aren’t willing to do is modify their own lives to accord with their Beliefs, so, they’ll continue attempting to force courts to force Other People, even though they already lost in court

15 youths not backing down in their fight to sue Ottawa over climate change inaction

Fifteen Canadian youths are asking Ottawa to hear their collective plea – greenhouse gas emissions have caused serious harm to children, they say, and it’s time the government is held accountable.

Ranging from 11 to 20 in age and representing seven provinces and one territory, the plaintiffs are appealing a Supreme Court decision that saw their lawsuit dismissed last fall.

The group alleged decades of climate inaction by the government have caused them “physical and psychological harm” due to unsafe levels of carbon emissions.

“If emissions are not reduced urgently, catastrophic impacts will be inevitable,” reads their May 3 filing in Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal.

One of the plaintiffs, Zoe from Vancouver, said she doesn’t want climate change “to take over (her) entire life or for future generations to suffer.”

Yes, it is a laughing matter, because these doomsday cultists are just loony tunes

The group is being supported by the David Suzuki Foundation, U.S. non-profit group Our Children’s Trust and Victoria’s Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation.

As the David Suzuki Foundation states, “the federal government is violating their rights to life, liberty and security of the person under Section 7 of the Charter and failing to protect essential public trust resources.”

“The government’s conduct violates their right to equality under Section 15 of the Charter since youth are disproportionately affected by the effects of the climate emergency.”

So, pretty much astroturfed. By people who won’t give up their own big carbon footprint lives.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 5, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a beach being inundated by massive rising seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on how the media are limiting reporting to change people’s minds.

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Newly Opened Raleigh Brewery Does Away With Tipping, Will Pay “Living Wage”

By William Teach May 5, 2021 – 10:30 am

As we all know, going Woke tends to not help a business thrive and survive. This one is giving it a shot

North Raleigh brewery ditching tip system for livable wage salaries

unintended consequencesRestaurants might be open and allowed to serve more customers, but it doesn’t mean they are back to normal.

Heyday Brewing in north Raleigh opened up about eight weeks ago. General Manager Harrison Lassiter says they are trying out a new method to pay staff.

Employees here don’t get tips, instead, they make more than double the state’s minimum wage.

“A lot of excitement over the place, the community that we have here has been really excited,” Lassiter said.

One of the first things you’ll notice when you walk in is a sign that reads, “a 15% living wage service fee will be included on every check.”

So, they’re paying workers $15 an hour, but, not giving them tips. But, oh, there is a required tip, which supposedly offsets the doubling of wages. So, guess what? There are still tips. But, will that 15% offset that massive rise in wages? Or, will we see the prices rise? Maybe the owners will take the hit. They say it is strictly going to pay for labor, but, something has to take the hit to a doubling of labor costs.

“We were upfront when they signed up with us,” he explained. “It’s a different model. A lot of restaurants in this industry, especially in Raleigh, are playing around with different models and I think everyone is trying to figure out what’s best for them right now. So far, I think our employees have been completely open to it and enjoying it.”

Will the patrons get the same service that a tipping system creates? Maybe I’ll see one day, since it is rather near work. I had no idea there were even businesses in that area, thought it was all development for homes. The menu is short, but, then, I suppose it’s mostly about the beer. They do want $7 for hushpuppies, $13 for a pork BBQ sandwich, so, that’s rather above normal prices. I wish them the best, but, it might not last long.

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Bummer: World Will See Disastrous ‘Climate Change’ Despite World Pledges

By William Teach May 5, 2021 – 8:03 am

Remember when we were told that the Paris Climate (scam) agreement was historic? That it would lead to big changes? That nations would go big with their pledges? And were mad when Trump finally pulled the U.S. out? And got a thrill up their leg when Biden rejoined? Yet, we keep getting articles like this (which includes a photo of the 2013 Morgan fire (Contra Costa County), which they think was caused by an individual)

Climate change will be disastrous even after latest world pledges, report finds

The recent pledges made by world governments to limit carbon emissions will not be sufficient to meet the goal of keeping global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new report concluded. Instead, those nonbinding commitments will result in a rise in the average global temperature to a potentially catastrophic 2.4 degrees Celsius.

The Climate Action Tracker, an independent network of scientists that tracks the commitments made on cutting emissions, released its findings Monday, just weeks after President Biden convened a climate summit with world leaders. The report notes that more robust targets made at the summit “have improved the Climate Action Tracker’s warming estimate by 0.2°C,” but that the net result would still mean the world is poised to blow past the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold set in 2018 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

“While all of these developments are welcome, warming based on the targets and pledges, even under the most optimistic assumptions, is still well above the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C temperature limit,” the report states.

Despite the initial commitments made by world leaders in the Paris climate accord, temperatures have already risen by more than 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to a report released last month by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization, a finding that led U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to declare, “We are on the verge of the abyss.”

Hmm, why have all these Warmist nations failed in creating pledges that comply with the climate cult? Are they paying lip service? Sure, the 3rd world nations have their pledges, which are to receive lots and lots of free money and good, with absolutely no obligation to the 1st world nations, because, in their minds, the 1st world owes them.

While keeping the average rise of surface temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible, the Climate Action Tracker said doing so will require a massive, unified effort from world governments that would transform life as we know it.

More and more Big Government? Surprise! Strange how it always seems to come to big, controlling government. And if you refuse to agree, then the planet is doomed.

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