Good Grief: Could Coronavirus Be Trump’s Katrina?

By William Teach March 9, 2020 – 3:00 pm

No, seriously, Credentialed Media folks and Democrats, along with #NeverTrumper nutballs, are actually going down this road. Her’s CNN’s Chris Cillizza

Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?

What sunk President George W. Bush and Republicans in his second term wasn’t the war in Iraq. It was his administration’s mishandling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Whispers have begun that President Donald Trump’s handling (or mishandling) of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic has the potential to have political consequences just as devastating for the GOP.

“Viral Katrina,” tweeted “Never Trump” Republican Rick Wilson over the weekend.

The problem for the administration at the moment is an inability to stay on message. The White House and/or experts on the coronavirus task force say one thing that is then publicly contradicted by the President.

Except, see, the problems with Katrina weren’t due to the Bush administration: states like Alabama and Mississippi, which saw a direct strike from Katrina, did much better because they had Republican governors who took appropriate action pre and post hurricane, working with Los Federales. Louisiana’s Democrat governor refused to declare a state of emergency in time, despite Bush begging Kathleen Blanco. Further, the Democrat run government of New Orleans was utterly incompetent. Remember the buses (the article is charitable) that weren’t used? The failure to declare an emergency in a timely fashion (they waited till 24 hours out). Most of the rest of the state actually did well.

What the Media, Dems, and #NeverTrumpers want is Americans being harmed, hurt, and killed for their political purposes.

More: And, then I look and see this

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 9, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled boat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on people avoiding public places.

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We Can’t Ignore The Risks From Hotcoldwetdry And Coronavirus Or Something

By William Teach March 9, 2020 – 10:51 am

Hey, should we be calling it Wuhan virus, or would that be raaaaacist? Regardless, the doomsday Cult of Climastrology continues to jam its cultish beliefs into everything. This is from Axios, hence the formatting

Coronavirus and climate change are obvious risks we ignore

Forget black swans. We’re getting run over by two gray rhinos: coronavirus and climate change.

The intrigue: A gray rhino is a metaphor coined by risk expert Michele Wucker to describe “highly obvious, highly probable, but still neglected” dangers, as opposed to unforeseeable or highly improbable risks — the kind in the black swan metaphor.

The big picture: The novel coronavirus spreading infections and fear around the world is prompting black swan references from the media and investors alike, as is climate change’s impact on financial markets.

  • But epidemics like the coronavirus and the slower burn problem of global warming are actually gray rhino risks, because there have been plenty of warnings for those who were paying attention.

Why it matters: Understanding what kind of risk you are facing — as an individual, country, company or world — is essential to make sure you’re prepared before, during and after a moment of crisis. Mistaking a gray rhino for a black swan suggests you’ll be ill prepared.

CO2 is not a danger. A slight uptick in the global temperature is not a danger. These cultists just can’t help linking the two issues together

Where it stands: For most people on the street — or a cruise ship — it’s probably OK if they haven’t been paying attention until now to a potential epidemic.

  • But governments, companies and experts around the world should have seen it coming because epidemics are not new and are likely to become more common, Bill Gates says. Other experts agree, per the WSJ.
  • In the same vein, it’s OK if individuals aren’t losing sleep trying to cut their own carbon footprint — but governments, financial institutions and companies should be taking action, both to adapt to an inevitably warmer world and to reduce heat-trapping emissions.

See, it’s OK if individuals don’t do anything to make their own life compliant, but, governments and such should. Which means the cost of living goes up and government controls more of people’s lives.

  • Coronavirus is a more immediate threat, and the amount of uncertainty surrounding it feels limitless. We don’t know how many people in any given area are infected, and because we don’t know that, questions persist about the accurate mortality rate.
  • Climate change is one massive systematic risk that will unfold over decades and centuries. It increases the risk for an infinite number of distinct weather events and patterns.

The former is real, the latter is not. But, the CoC won’t quit on linking the two. Because cult.

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Extinction Rebellion Protests About “Climate Rape” While Topless

By William Teach March 9, 2020 – 8:46 am

Remember when climate scientists were telling the other members of their cult to not be crazy, because it makes it really hard to get people on board? XR tends not to listen

Topless Women Protest ‘Climate Rape’ in London on International Women’s Day

A group of 31 women formed a topless human chain in London to protest against climate change on International Women’s Day. (Warning: explicit images.)

Members of the climate change alarmist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) took off their shirts on Waterloo Bridge, blocking traffic in an protest against the supposedly disparate impact that climate change has on women. The protestors painted slogans on their chests such as “climate rape” and “climate murder”.

A former teacher who took part in the protest, Sarah Mintram, explained the rationale behind the topless protest, saying: “It’s mainly women in poorer countries in the global south that are experiencing the increase in violence but this will be the reality for all women if the climate and ecological crisis continues to go unaddressed.”

Well, that’s interesting, since none of these women are underprivileged or live in poorer countries. Nor does a tiny increase in carbon dioxide nor a minor 1.5F increase in 170 years cause violence against women. Oh, and the same type of uber-leftist multicultural/diversity type people blocking the bridge topless and yammering about violence against women are the same ones who cause the UK government to turn a blind eye to the rape and grooming gangs in the UK, the ones from Muslim nations.

“We are here to raise the alarm about what is happening to our sisters around the world and to tell women in the UK the climate and ecological emergency is your issue – it will affect you as a woman if we do not persuade our government to take urgent action starting now,” Mintram told the Metro.

If that was true, what will this protest do? Instead of yammering and taking their tops off (and some really needed to leave them on) why not do actual work to help? Why is it always Someone Else who must do this?

The climate change protest group has plagued London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for years, costing the capitol’s police force an estimated  £37 million last year alone. The cost associated with policing Extinction Rebellion was more than double the annual budget for the Violent Crime Taskforce, which is only £15 million.

Imagine what $48.5 million could have been used for to help women in the UK.

Photos under the fold, since they are somewhat NSFW

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Totally Moderate Joe Biden Receives Endorsement From Biggest Gun Grabber Group

By William Teach March 9, 2020 – 8:30 am

They keep telling us that Joe Biden is a moderate Democrat. Compared to Comrade Bernie, perhaps. But, it’s like comparing Castro to Stalin.

Major gun safety group endorses Joe Biden’s presidential bid

Joe Biden has received the endorsement of one of the nation’s largest gun control advocacy groups, Everytown for Gun Safety, in the latest sign that Bernie Sanders’ spotty record on guns may be weighing him down in the presidential primary.

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund plans to spend $60 million on electoral activities this cycle, some of which will go toward trying to elect Biden. An Everytown spokesman said the group typically airs advertisements and engages in grassroots organizing for the candidates it endorses, though it’s unclear when the group will begin to spend on Biden’s behalf. The group also boasts 6 million supporters and more than 375,000 grassroots donors, numbers that could help boost attention and support for Biden’s presidential bid nationwide.

In an interview with The Associated Press, John Feinblatt, head of Everytown for Gun Safety, said the group chose Biden because working for gun control is “his past, it’s his present, it’s his future.” Asked if Sanders’ record on gun control factored into the group’s decision, Feinblatt said that the group looks at a candidate’s “total record.”

“You can’t confine yourself to just what somebody says they’ll do in the future. You have to look at what they’ve done in the past,” he said. “Unquestionably, Joe is a person who’s dedicated much of his life to the issue of gun safety.”

Would this be the same Joe Biden who told everyone to just get a shotgun, and shoot it through the door? Or the one who served as VP to a guy who ran a gun program, Fast and Furious, which lost over 2,000 guns to Mexican gangs, which were used to wound hundreds and kill many more, including two U.S. federal agents? And showed up in the hands of jihadis in France?

Second, is this legal within the framework of a 501(c)(3) designation? Political endorsements and essentially campaigning for them is not allowed.

Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes.

They cannot claim it is for “educational” purposes: this is directly supporting a candidate. And they are not gun safety, they are gun control. They are for taking away the gun rights of U.S. citizens. And, they are all backed by Mike Bloomberg.

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Totally Principled “Reagan Republican” Joined Democrats And Wants Others To Come Over

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 5:25 pm

This is the unhinged #NeverTrumper attitude in a nutshell. This piece is by “Gabriel Schoenfeld, an adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and a recently registered Democrat”

Trump & Sanders drove me to become a Democrat. Other disgusted Republicans should join me.

For many years I’ve loathed the Democratic Party. I still do. But I recently registered as a Democrat myself. Now that the Democratic nomination contest is on the verge of crystallizing, it is a critical moment for Republicans and ex-Republicans to join me in my seemingly incongruous act.

I became a Republican with Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980. This was the party of the Constitution, of limited government and a forward-leaning American posture around the world. It was Reagan who helped topple Communism in the Soviet Union and shepherded countries like South Korea and Taiwan into the democratic fold. It was Reagan who enshrined an intelligent brand of originalism by appointing the great constitutionalist Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court.

But on the day Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, I was out the door. As a lifelong New Yorker until quite recently, I know that three-card monte is a scam. I would never lend an iota of support to Trump and his shills. I immediately registered as an independent and devoted my efforts as a writer to exposing Trump’s flimflammery.

The party that I once regarded as a pillar of our constitutional order is now eating away at that order like termites, indulging every one of Trump’s transgressions against longstanding constitutional norms and against decency itself. The party that once stood against dictators is now led by a man who admires Russia’s Vladimir Putin and says he fell in love with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. As much as I loathed the Democrats, I loathe these craven Republican cowards even more.

Many of us were highly skeptical of Donald Trump, but, with a choice of Hillary or Donald, we held our noses and voted against Hillary. At the end of the day, Trump has done great. Several excellent Supreme Court picks, lots and lots and lots of great lower court picks, a great economy, and so much more. Notice, though, that Gabriel didn’t even wait to see what Trump would do before switching to a party he loathes. Gabriel, like pretty much all the #NeverTrumpers, has abandoned all their beliefs because of Trump the person, rather than what he has actually done. No, he’s not perfect, but, then, neither was Reagan. Amnesty, anyone?

I still have grave misgivings about the Democrats. The party has made a cult out of abortion rights and driven right-to-life Democrats from its ranks. This is wrong on the merits and extraordinarily foolish as an electoral matter. It means turning away an untold number of voters who would stand with it on other issues, voters whom it treats in a contemptuous and supercilious manner.

The Democratic Party is also rife with politicians hostile to the state of Israel, beginning with the “Squad” and extending outward on its left flank. Mirroring the British Labour Party, the Democrats have tolerated left-wing anti-Semitism, including time-honored tropes about Jews wielding undue power and control. This even as it practices a form of identity politics that divides Americans by race and ethnicity, celebrating some groups while remaining largely indifferent to the plight of others.

But, Orange Man Bad.

But that is not the whole story. In the inverted world that Trump has brought about, the Democratic Party is becoming the party of the Constitution. It stands for the separation of powers, for independent courts, for an apolitical Justice Department, for a law-abiding presidency. In foreign affairs. It has become the party of NATO and alliances, of law enforcement and the intelligence community, of protecting the integrity of the FBI and the CIA.

I’m going to stop here and let you read the rest, because my sides hurt from laughing and eyes from rolling. These people are nuts.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise up and kill us all, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit (who I rarely link), with a post on a Comrade Bernie supporter doing crazy things at a rally.

It’s Australian week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 10:23 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and waking up at 830am when it would have been 730am yesterday actually makes me feel like I overslept. This pinup is by Earl Moran, with a wee bit of help. It’s in honor of Liz Warren getting booted out of the race by the sexist Democrats. You deserved better, Liz!!!!!!1!!!!

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. JoNova notes that Wikipedia has deleted the list of scientists who are climate skeptics
  2. 357 Magnum wants people to stop being idiots in regards to going places with a virus
  3. America’s Watchtower covers the DNC changing the rules to keep Tulsi out
  4. American Elephants discusses the difference between Dems and Republicans
  5. Blazing Cat Fur notes that The Squad wants the TSA to hire sex criminals and terrorists
  6. Chicks On The Right covers over 25% of Italy’s population under a Chinese style quarantine
  7. DaTechGuy’s Blog has mixed feelings over Tulsi being excluded from the debate
  8. Diogenes’ Middle Finger covers Comrade Bernie hiring a big 9/11 Truther as a senior advisor
  9. Free North Carolina discusses a fact checker warning the NY Times over their 1619 Project
  10. Geller Report News notes the cost to each taxpayer per refugee brought in
  11. Grouchy Old Cripple highlights Democrats really hating their opposition. Not political hate, real hate
  12. Hogewash features a cosmic black eye
  13. IOTW Report notes ICE flooding the streets of sanctuary jurisdictions
  14. Just One Minute highlights a new front in the Culture Wars
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection crushes the “Liz Warren lost because of sexism” myth (Dems are still sexist, though)

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?

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Jaguar Land Rover Boss: St. Greta, Extinction Rebellion Offer No Ideas

By William Teach March 8, 2020 – 9:08 am

Outgoing Jaguar Land Rover boss Ralf Speth is free to have Real Talk, since he is leaving JLR, so, he doesn’t have to worry about the typical verbal and written assaults and threats from members of the Cult of Climastrology which would occur against himself, his family, and JLR

Jaguar Land Rover boss says Greta Thunberg’s criticism ‘not justified’

The boss of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has hit out at Greta Thunberg, saying that climate activists like the Swedish teenager and Extinction Rebellion make “no contribution” and have “no ideas”.

Speaking to the Sunday Times (which is behind a paywall), Ralf Speth, JLR’s outgoing boss, described Thunberg’s campaigning as “doing wrong in many areas” by raising issues but not coming up with solutions on climate change.

Speth, whose decade-long tenure at the top of the luxury carmaker has seen the UK automotive industry battle the twin headwinds of Brexit and climate change, said her criticism was “not justified” because businesses had also created a better world.

“Greta created the wake-up call for many companies and people. But on the other hand, this kind of very populistic criticism — we destroyed her life, killed this and that — is not justified because we also created a better life. Wealth, health, education — the world is getting better”, he said.

Think quick: what has St. Greta offered to solve the (fake) climate crisis? Very, very little. She screeches quite a bit, as do her disciples, but, they demand that adults Do Something. Because coming up with ideas would be too much, apparently.

Speth is certainly correct that companies and people have made the world a better place, as have fossil fuels. No need to go into long details, because you’ll either immediately understand this, or you are a Warmist who will never believe any evidence.

“There is still a lot to do. But populism should be combined with ideas to make it better. There is no contribution, no ideas, just: ‘You’re all stupid.’ ”

She’s pretty much on a long “how dare you” moment, but, if you aren’t offering ideas and solutions, you’re just whining. St.Greta and her disciples run around, holding signs, chanting, marching (destroying the grass and leaving trash), but, they do not offer solutions for the crisis they believe is real and the apocalypse. Nor does Extinction Rebellion. But, then

It may have started with St. Greta attempting to do something about her anxiety by attempting to force her ideas on Everyone Else (instead of taking up a hobby or sport or something. Someone buy her a guitar), but, she has now learned that the CoC is not about climate, but hardcore Stateist politics. Extinction Rebellion isn’t much better.

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Bummer: Our Pursuit Of Happiness Is Killing The Planet

By William Teach March 7, 2020 – 4:20 pm

You know, if these doomsday cultists would restrict their fearmongering to actual environmental issues, they’d have a point. Consumerism certainly causes damages. Disposable everything that ends up in landfills isn’t exactly the greatest, right? Smartphones are designed for you to get a new one every 1-3 years. They aren’t made to last like they used to. Today’s TVs are meant to be replaced every 4-5 years. I just too an old 30 inch square TV from 1988 to the recycling center, having replaced it with a small 1080p flat panel in the spare bedroom. The 30 inch TV actually still worked.

But, the cultists make everything about ‘climate change’

Our ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ Is Killing the Planet

As the coronavirus continues to spread, the chances that any one of us will be placed in quarantine goes up considerably. I know that being locked away like that would drive me nuts. Two weeks subtracted from my life! Still, I’d accept the justice of my confinement because I would recognize that my liberty had come to pose a real danger to my fellow humans.

Now, let’s ratchet up the sacrifice: Suppose you were required by law to turn the thermostat up to 75 in the summer, and down to 66 in the winter, in order to reduce your carbon footprint. The principle is the same: Your freedom to live as you wish turns out to jeopardize public well-being. I, for one, would bristle; I can’t stand being hot in summer. Maybe you wouldn’t mind. But what if you were also told that you had to eliminate most or all of the red meat from your diet? What if Greta Thunberg persuades President Sanders that we need to ration jet travel? At some point you’ll begin to think that the increasing globalization of bad things like climate change and infectious diseases is threatening liberal society.

Of course, that’s what the CoC wants: government telling you how to live your life, but unhappy when government tells themselves the same. Anyhow, writer James Traub talks about John Stuart Mills and the foundation of Classical Liberalism, vegetarian and vegans diets, about “The First Amendment doesn’t protect your right to eat steak”, and many other things, all warmups to get to the meat

Constant wasn’t thinking of Marie Antoinette’s right to play at shepherdess while her subjects starved, but the right to open a shop and build yourself a home rather than be drafted into Napoleon’s army spreading republicanism across the face of Europe. We moderns build institutions, and establish tacit norms, to guarantee the security of such private pleasures. That’s liberal individualism. But what do we do once we see that some of those choices threaten the health and lives of others? We will have to strike a new equilibrium between what society has the right to demand of us and what we have a right to retain for ourselves.

One is reminded of the old maxim “be careful what you wish for: you might get it.” Anyone thinking that giving government a bit more power won’t see government taking even more power is a fool.

The Dutch can reach consensus on painful social questions because they’ve spent the last thousand years working cooperatively to build dikes; the climate accord adopted last year came after a full year of discussion among representatives of all interest groups. That’s not how American democracy works, and especially so in recent years. We allow those interest groups to wage a pitched battle using all the money and influence they can muster against one another. Legislation emerges only after a war of attrition. That’s a very self-defeating way of doing business when all parties must be called on to sacrifice. At some point, presumably, things will get so bad that President Ocasio-Cortez

manages to ram a green-enough new deal through Congress. Then we’ll adjust our thermostats and go two-thirds vegan the same way we got used to the chaos and tedium of airport security check-ins: We’ll have no choice.

James seems rather taken by AOC and the Green New Deal. You can’t talk about freedom and choice in the same sentence as the GND, as it is all about Authoritarianism. But, then, that’s what the ‘climate change’ movement is about. Amazingly, after discussing Classical Liberalism and freedom, James fails to acknowledge how dangerous the movement is to freedom.

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