All actual evidence to the contrary, CNN determined that our climate is in such a state of crisis it was imperative that they host a town hall on Wednesday, enabling the Democrat presidential candidates to enlighten us with their vast wisdom on the issue. The sparse audience they managed to attract was subjected to a 7-hour exchange of radical, progressive fixes for a non-existent problem.
The Dems appeared to be competing for top prizes in the categories of authoritarian actions, and outrageous spending plans. Their proposed solutions were even more absurd that the phony problem they’re meant to solve. Here, from the Daily Caller, were seven standout moments from the reality-free event ~
1: Biden Applauds The Green New Deal
2. Harris Says She Would Ding The Filibuster To Implement The GND ~ “If [Republicans] fail to act, as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal,” Sen. Kamala Harris of California said to audience applause.
3. Yang Won’t Talk About Electric Cars ~ Yang skirted questions about whether every American will need to drive electric cars in the future. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Yang why he would promise federal funds for “potentially risky” and experimental means of energy production.
“We’re here together because we can. This is a crisis. In a crisis, all solutions have to be on the table.
4. Sanders’ One Word Answer To A Question About Light Bulbs ~
“The Trump administration announced plans to overturn requirements on energy-saving lightbulbs. … Would you reinstate those requirements?” CNN’s Cooper asked Sanders, who has described himself as a self-avowed democratic socialist.
The Vermont senator answered with one word: “Duh.”
5. O’Rourke Wants To Bring The U.S. Back Into The Paris Climate Accord ~ Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke promised that he would re-enter the Paris agreement on “day-one” of his presidency. The Texas Democrat announced his climate plan in April, which will cost $5 trillion over 10 years to build out renewable energy and infrastructure, among a host of other pet projects.
6. Klobuchar Says No To New Coal Power Plants
7. Buttigieg Likens Climate Fight To WWII ~ “This is the hardest thing we will have done — certainly in my lifetime. This is on par with winning World War II. Perhaps, even more challenging than that.”
Describing David Harsanyi at the Federalist didn’t mince words ~ CNN’s Presidential Climate Change Town Hall Was Insane ~
Democrats were not merely proposing massive societal upheaval but mass coercion.
CNN says it’s a “crisis,” though, so Democrats were free to offer one insane Nostradamus-like prediction after the next. Not only is every weather event now a manifestation of global warming, but Beto O’Rourke says our communities will soon be “uninhabitable,” and Pete Buttigieg says the challenge of warming is on par with World War II, a conflict that took more than 400,000 American lives and tens of millions of others […]
As Joel Pollak notes, at this point climate change “is primarily experienced as a mass hysteria phenomenon,” a collective illusion of a massive threat. Just listen to audience members earnestly asking questions based on the risible premise that we’re on the brink of extinction. It’s really one of the tragedies of our age that so many anxious young people have been brainwashed into believing they live on the cusp of dystopia when, in fact, they’re in the middle of a golden age — an era with less war, sickness, poverty, and suffering than any in history.
The Democrats answer to this imaginary, apocalyptic crisis is apparently an extremely expensive return to the horse & buggy days ~
Candidate Elizabeth Warren, who’s now adopted Jay Inslee’s plan to force every American to surrender fossil fuel and nuclear energy in 20 years, claims solar panels are the way forward. To put this in perspective, remember that natural gas makes up about 23 percent of our energy consumption while renewables make up about 11 percent. Only 8 percent of that 11 percent is solar energy — much of it both already subsidized and mandated by government.
Americans use about 19.96 million barrels of petroleum products per day. To replace it, we’d have to create millions of unproductive taxpayer-funded jobs, layer every inch of available land with solar panels and windmills, and then pray to Gaia that every day is simultaneously sunny and windy. All for the low cost of $93 trillion.
What’s truly frightening isn’t the ridiculous thought that the climate on earth is a.) in some sort of existential crisis; and b.)something puny humans can impact in any measurable way, it’s the idea that one of these crazed totalitarians might actually be in a position some day to destroy America’s economy, prosperity and freedom with their wild schemes.
I suppose we should be grateful that none of these presidential hopefuls have gone full Soylent Green yet like this lunatic ~ Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ ~
A Swedish behavioral scientist has suggested that it may be necessary to turn to cannibalism and start eating humans in order to save the planet.
Appearing on Swedish television to talk about an event based around the “food of the future,” Magnus Söderlund said he would be holding seminars on the necessity of consuming human flesh in order to stop climate change.
