Well, Duh

Here’s one we all knew about — and by “we”, I mean anyone with the faintest degree of rational thought — and therefore it should come as no surprise to us:

Skepticism about climate change has resurfaced, as some experts claim the exact causes of global warming remain unclear and that the policies addressing it are motivated more by money than by science.

And in other breaking news, we can report that Gen. George Custer is experiencing some difficulty with various Indian tribes in Wyoming.

But to return to our main story:

Lindzen explained the basic math behind what he called ‘climate alarm.’ He said the emphasis on lowering specific emissions like carbon dioxide (CO₂) simply doesn’t produce the worldwide temperature changes advocates say it will.

The scientist noted that the planet’s temperature has fluctuated significantly throughout recorded history and science still can’t definitively prove what the exact cause of both extreme warming and cooling events has been.

‘We don’t understand the glaciation that occurred in the 15th century. You know, so what was going on then? Inadequate CO₂?’ Lindzen said of the event in the Northern Hemisphere known as the Little Ice Age.

It was caused by all those 15th-century SUVs and trucks, you idiot.  And of course they had SUVs and trucks back then, but they were called “carts” and were powered by horses (and oxen) — a major source of methane pollution, as we all know.

And:

Lindzen said the financial implications of controlling the multi-trillion-dollar energy industry have been the true motivation for politicians to support flawed research that argues small temperature increases will lead to immediate disasters.

‘The fact that you have a multi-trillion dollar industry and you have an opportunity to completely overturn it had a great appeal to a lot of politicians,’ he explained. ‘They go wild on it. Another half degree and we’re doomed, and so on. The public knows this is nonsense.’ 

I leave it for you to decide which political parties have supported the eco-panic most rabidly, and why.

I find it interesting that this article comes to us courtesy of the dreadful muckraking rag Daily Mail, a newspaper which has provided us with panic-stricken apocalyptic warnings of ecological doom for well over twenty years.  (Because “scare” headlines sell newspapers, also duh.)

And the only reason that they’ve decided to publish this little article is that people no longer believe the climate alarmists, and are starting to rebel against all those idiotic and destructive “NetZero by 2030” political goals.

Wrong Approach

Here’s an interesting development:

A hunting stand with a sight line to President Trump’s Air Force One exit area was found at Palm Beach airport.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau is investigating the situation.

“Prior to the President’s return to West Palm Beach, USSS discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone,” Patel said, according to Fox News. “No individuals were located at the scene. The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene, and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities.”

And here’s where I would have parted ways with Kash & The Gang.

What I would have done is upon discovery of the stand is completely the opposite.  Instead of making a big splash about it, I would have kept shtum, and booby-trapped it so that if some scrote tried to use it, there would be a ‘splosion — just a small one, so as to incapacitate as opposed to dissolving said scrote into hamburger.

Of course, this action may be against some law, which just goes to show how wet and stupid our laws have become.

Our Real Enemy

This article suggests that the real enemy of America is not called the Chinese Communist Party, or the Russian Menace, or the Muslim Invasion.  Who is, then?

There are two irrefutable and intertwined realities that the citizens of any constitutional republic must recognize and understand. First, any group or entity that espouses ever greater power for the central government, socialist-centric economic policies, and continual erosion of individual freedom is an existential threat to that nation as founded.

Second, the leaders of these factions and their disciples will lie incessantly, and under no circumstances will they alter their policies or tactics, as they can never be wrong in their pursuit of unbridled political power. They must be soundly defeated at the ballot box, or civil strife will inevitably ensue.

Steve McCann lays out the most egregious scenario in recent memory where the Powers That Be did just that.  Here it is:

Nothing better defines this mindset of infallibility, arrogance, and pathological lying to achieve political power than the most malicious exploitation of the citizenry in American history: The deliberate manipulation and mismanagement of the Chinese Coronavirus “pandemic.”

Beginning in March 2020, the ruling class/Democrat party and their accomplices in the medical establishment knowingly regurgitated innumerable falsehoods and were responsible for a variety of catastrophic actions that caused not only massive economic and societal dislocation but also countless deaths. The Democrats still have not acknowledged the errors that they made and, of course, will not admit that those errors were compounded by abject refusals to change course.

I have a simple take on all this.  As time passes and memory fades, we run the danger of forgetting not just the consequences of this bastardy, but the suffocating effect of what was essentially mass house arrest, as well as the fear of shortages — from frigging toilet paper to essential drugs like insulin — and the massive overreach of the police state to enforce all those restrictions on our liberty.

And just remember that the enforcement of the restrictions was selectively enforced:  churches were closed, but the Antifa/BLM riots went ahead without a strong response from the police.

Read the whole article above, be reminded, remain angry, and let’s not let it happen again — ever.

Cascade Options

Following from the Quote Of The Day above comes this observation about the political scenarios following Charlie Kirk’s murder, in order of awfulness:

  1. Popular revulsion against aboveground leftists
  2. A period of Caudillismo
  3. Low-grade civil war

Read the article to have each explained.

I’m not so sure that the last two options are realistic in the United States, because at the end of the day I think that the non-hysterical-Lefties (i.e. most of the country’s population) is too civilized for the second scenario (the appearance of a Franco/Pinochet type as the head of government), and indeed the Constitutional subjugation of the Armed Forces to civilian authority is a great deal stronger than in other countries, especially the volatile Latino ones.  I’m aware that Hitler’s rise to power came in an ordinarily-orderly society (Germany), but then again we’ve not just lost a World War and had to pay crippling reparations either.

In fact, I would suggest that Donald Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to a “strongman” head of state, and compared to (say) Augusto Pinochet, Trump is a complete softy.  And I think he’s unlikely to turn into a modern-day tyrant because he has only three more years in power and he’s getting old.

As for the third scenario (when the switch gets flipped, so to speak):

…it’s not gonna happen.  If the second scenario is unlikely, the civil war thing is exponentially less likely.

I know, I know, it’s a little disappointing as we all want to experience the Glorious Day (as Mr. Free Market describes it), but let’s be honest here:  it’s been over a hundred and fifty years since our last exposure to that little game, and frankly, I think we’re out of practice.   We still vote, for one thing, instead of manufacturing fake ballots.

Plus we have jobs to do, families to raise and laws to obey — unlike those assholes on the Dark Side.

But “highly unlikely” does not mean “impossible”.  Something the Left needs to be aware of.

Scrambling

After years of calling conservatives “Nazis” and “right-wingers” and “fascists”, and then shooting at conservatives they disagree with, the Left are now urging restraint?

David Axelrod said Thursday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that conservatives saying we are at war in response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk were being “despicable.”

Wait… I thought we were “deplorable”?  Anyway:

Political commentator Dave Urban said, “It’s incumbent on every American. Don’t sit back on social media. Don’t don’t gripe about your neighbors. Reach out to people you disagree with, talk to them.”

What, and get murdered, like Charlie Kirk?

Ah don’ thank so, Scooter.  The time for polite engagement and civilized discussion is over.  Y’all have sown the wind — now prepare for the fucking whirlwind.