I recently wrote a column about why I believed Trump should not run in 2024. I was wrong. I allowed my distaste for Trump’s personality to override his virtues, which are considerable.
Some people want Trump without his vices. I was among them — until I watched and listened to Tom Klingenstein’s speech titled “Trump’s virtues.”
It was masterful and shamed me that I did not make the distinction between Trump’s character and his virtues, the former being deeply flawed, the latter being almost perfect.
I need to man up in my defense of the former President’s virtues. The speech was among the most pointed I have heard and deserves some exposure. Klingenstein says:
Other Republicans say some version of: “I like Trump policies but I don’t like the rest of him.”
This gets it almost backwards. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the ‘rest of him’ that contains the virtue that inspires the movement… Trump was born for the current crisis, a life and death struggle against a totalitarian enemy I call woke communism… that controls all the cultural and economic powers in America…
Trump revealed, not caused, the divide in this country.
In war, you must make a stand…
Trump is a manly man… traditional manhood, even when flawed, is absolutely essential… Trump plays to win… There are no clean hands in a fistfight…Trump is unreservedly, unquestionably pro-America… Trump is a refreshing break from the guilt and self-loathing that marks our age…
It is [the left’s] anti-Americanism that makes so many of us very angry: The Left have trashed America’s Founding and her history to the point where some believe it virtuous to hate America. Rather than advocating forgiveness for sins, the Left are advocating hair shirts, self-flagellation, and perpetual guilt. It is un-American and certainly un-Christian.
Trump thinks we can vanquish all comers if we just put our minds to it, and he’s right… Courage never demands perfection… Trump over and over said exactly what political correctness prohibits one from saying…
Trump said Haiti is a shithole and that representative Maxine Waters has a low IQ. These were not racist lies. They were uncouth, politically incorrect observations that most of us would agree with but would not dare say.
In 2016, we loved Trump for his outspokenness. But many seem to have changed their minds without cause; Trump is the same today as he was before he was elected. The very things we disdain today are the things that made him the man for our time.
From morning to night, we were told that Trump is a racist. But endless repetition does not make it true. It isn’t.
Trump’s contempt for political correctness showed patriotic Americans that its ever-tightening grip could be loosened… It is difficult to overestimate the significance of Trump’s fight against political correctness, a fight which most Republicans are reluctant to engage…
Trump treated the woke media with the same contempt he treated political correctness, provoking their outrage and revealing their utter corruption… it must be defeated.
I take back my unwillingness to engage Trump on his own terms. It is the Left, not we, who are politically correct. They are the ones restricting speech, cancelling and censoring, not we on the Right.
Unlike most politicians, when Trump sees a problem, he goes out and fixes it. He fixed our porous borders. He moved our Israeli embassy to Jerusalem after decades of inaction. He eliminated hate-America critical race theory in his administrative agency. He developed a vaccine in record time. He achieved energy independence and much, much more.
His accomplishments far outweigh his personality quirks. No other president did so much in so little time.
Trump smoked rats out of hiding places. Because of Trump we know our intelligence agencies are corrupt. We know also that the mainstream media is not just biased, that it is the propaganda arm of the Democratic party.
Had it not been for the vehement and irrational hatred of Trump, we never would have discovered that our own security and intelligence structures are compromised.
I blame Never Trumpers for corrupting these Agencies. This unprecedented breach of the very security of this nation is unprecedented and deeply dangerous, leaving us open to the espionage of courtesans who prey on politicians who think with their private parts.
A large part of Trump’s appeal was that he was a bona fide outsider. He distrusted the experts who believe they knew better than the average American how to run the country. This distrust was appealing to Trump’s base who believed, and with good reason, that is the experts who created the despotic mess in which we find ourselves.
We always knew but never had anyone champion that we, not the Swamp, knew better how to manage our money, our time, our personal lives, our resources and our families. In their authoritarian mindsets, the Left wanted to take over all these very personal, uniquely American functions and replace it with governmental overreach. They nearly got their wish, had it not been for COVID’s home zoom classes where we found out that very young children are being sexualized, perverted, deliberately alienated from their parents and taught to hate America and white people.
…They know that Republicans will lose all further elections until they get to the bottom of the last one.
This most sensitive area of politics is a disaster. I believe the election was stolen and millions of others do. We now have evidence from many quarters that this is so. It cannot be permitted a repeat or there will be severe repercussions that will dwarf the current ones.
Some will say that Trump is a bad man and that disqualifies him. I do not think Trump is a bad man, but for those who do I remind them that a bad man in some circumstances can be a good president. If you’re dying of thirst and there is only one person offering you water, you accept the water gratefully without much concern for the character of your rescuer.
We wanted Trump not only to fix things; we wanted him to be perfect while doing it. That is unrealistic in the average family, the average relationship, the average business and the average political or cultural milieu. Yet some of us wanted Trump to be perfect enough to invite to tea. He is not that man. But he is the man for our tumultuous times.
This enumeration of Trump’s virtues does not fully capture his uncommon courage and firmness of purpose. Trump is the most towering political figure in living memory… Trump inspired a movement. If properly deployed this movement might challenge the woke-comms, and God willing, save the country.
These very things are what the Left hate, yet it is not their favor we need to care about. They will not embrace anyone on the Republican ticket and certainly not one they cannot bully. We need to stop worrying about acceptance of our candidates by the Left or they will have won.
Republicans, however, should not forget that it is his support and the spirit they embrace that have become the life force of the Republican party. Among the talked-about alternatives to Trump I have not yet seen anyone who possesses or even understands Trump’s virtues. Nor have I seen anyone with his backbone and fortitude. One does not appreciate the strength of relentless gale-force winds until one is in the eye of the storm.
…which is exactly where Trump and we are at this moment. We have to prepare for the gale-force winds we will encounter. To not do this is to ignore the lessons of the recent past and it will be forever to our sorrow to ignore them.
His virtue must be the standard by which we judge other candidates.
Amen and amen. We don’t have to like his personality but his virtues far outweigh it. I humbly stand corrected and offer my mea culpa.
How did President Trump respond?
“Wow! What a great honor to have this written about me. We must Save America, and will! Thank you, M.B.”
That’s my President!
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@Sebastien Zorn
You are confusing me with yourself – it was you who posted about the Israeli CO2-eating bacteria.
@peloni
During the pandemic corporations were also buying up real estate, and the private medical offices keep disappearing with their doctors becoming employees of some large entities.
@Reader
Hey, make up your mind. You can’t have it both ways. 😀 Or am I confusing you with Felix (easy to do, you know.)
@Reader Yes, I am well aware of that. Most if it is today Lithuania and Belarus which seceded during the Russian Revolution and rejoined the Soviet Union. Poland took Vilna which was returned to Lithuania after WWII, though LIthuania was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Ethnicity/nationality was by family descent not by borders back then in the days of multi-ethnic empires in which the borders kept changing.
All that I know about it came from my mother’s first cousin who lived in Karnei Shomron and died at age 100 this year, Gil Lleberman. And all he knew came from the introduction to their grandfather’s book about the history of Kashrut in America. His name was Abraham Koplowitz and he was ordained at Volozhin which is today in Belarus but which was in the Vilna District which was split in two when Belarus seceded long after my family left. My grandfather was born in Vilna on the 3rd candle licht of Chanukha in 1887. His mother, my great grandmother, whose family name was Braun, and her whole family were from a town which is now in Belarus called Smargon or Smarhon. The Jews of Lithuania and Belarus were all Litvaks descended from the Grand Duchy of LIthuania. They were apparently German Jews who were invited as a community by the founder in the 14th or 15th century.
90 percent of the Jews of Lithuania and 95 percent of the Jews of Belarus were murdered by the Germans and their Christian neighbors.
The movie, “Defiance” starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schrieber is about that.
The Jews of those countries today, are Jews who came from other parts of the Soviet Union after the war.
I once asked my mother’s aunt if she could tell me anything about the old country. She said, Who knows? The borders kept changing.
On my mother’s side, I am a fourth generation New Yorker. I never knew any of my grandparents except for my mother’s father, the one who came here when he was a year old in 1889 probably and grew up in different parts of New York who died when I was 13 at the age of 87 .
My paternal grandparents and great-grandparents died at Auschwitz and my maternal grandmother died from medically induced (too much radiation for something) Leukemia before I was born. My father and his first cousin-in-law escaped from Hungarian fascist labor camps for Jews and joined the Jewish resistance, saving Jews. My father’s first cousin survived Auschwitz. Everybody else in the extended families of all three were murdered except for a few relatives in America.
I do know that two branches of my mother’s extended family, the Schlesingers’ and the Koplowitz’s formed a family organization in the early 19th century to bring to America from Lithuania every one they could a few at a time. It was awful and they saw the handwriting on the wall. They used to have reunions. When was little I went to one with my mother at the Hotel Windermere in Manhattan. I was told it was the last. It was called the SK link.
Gil Lieberman was an electrical engineer who grew up in Brooklyn and made aliya in 1967. He worked on the first generations of robot planes. He had many descendants. Over 80 he said, though that may include those of his second wife. His first died.
My mother told me her father had been born in Poland, which is what he told her, and which it was in the 20’s when she was born, though he was born in the 1880’s when it was all Russia. (And before 1800, it was part of the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth. I once looked at an academic map of the Russian empire in the 19th century and it drew Belarus as part of Lithuania, Lithuania as part of Poland and Poland as part of Russia like Russian nesting dolls.)
I first learned that he was born in Lithuania in the 80s, I guess, when I rode with a Polish cab driver and I said my grandfather had been born there, too and he said, what’ part? I said Vilna. He said, Oh, that’s Lithuania.
Apparently, the Jews called it Vilna, the Poles called it Wilno, and the Lithuanians call it Vilnius. It’s their capital.
My parents and my mother’s brother supported Israel but they didn’t want to be Jewish when they grew up. Can’t imagine why.
@Reader
Well of course the plants and farms are a great target of these enviornmental loons. This is the reason why Gates and his billionaire allies have been steadily buying up the farm lands of the US.
@Sebastien Zorn
CO2 is essential for plants – zero CO2 will first kill all the plants and then – everybody and everything else.
They better keep that bacteria safe and secure so it doesn’t escape from the lab.
@Sebastian Zorn
Jewish Lithuania is not limited to the borders of the modern state of Lithuania, rather, it covers the area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which also included areas that are now in Poland and Belarus.
@Sebastien Zorn
Paris Agreements were designed to slow down the development of the “developing” countries.
It is not true that India and China are exempt or get a reprieve from the Agreements.
The greatest CO2 producer (before China) is the United States.
I have the references, and will supply them later because I am too tired now.
I’ve noticed that substantive comments tend to go into moderation after 1am or so Israel time – when Ted Belman is asleep?
added reply in moderation
@Felix, Reader
Disputed theories about what could happen in the far future are not a good reason to hurtle toward destruction now by dismantling what we have especially when we would be the only one’s doing it to the benefit of our enemies.
This is in the same category of Malthusianism and Lysenkoism, crank science that, moreover, discounts the development of new technology in the future to counter whatever side effects technology brings.
For example:
“C. testosteroni first caught researchers’ attention with its natural ability to digest synthetic laundry detergents. After further analysis, scientists discovered that this natural bacterium also breaks down compounds from plastic and lignin (fibrous, woody waste from plants).Feb 6, 2023”
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/02/new-external-story/#:~:text=and%20sewage%20sludge.-,C.,%2C%20woody%20waste%20from%20plants).
“Israeli innovation turns trash into electricity
By David Shamah
April 30, 2008, Updated September 13, 2012”
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-innovation-turns-trash-into-electricity/
“ISRAELI CO2-EATING BACTERIA COULD HELP SAVE THE PLANET
Scientists’ new cultured bacteria may lead to net-zero fuels, alternative food production and other green technologies to conquer climate change.”
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-co2-eating-bacteria-could-help-save-the-planet/
“The garden that climbs walls and feeds you
‘The future is edible landscaping,’ predicts CEO of Israel’s GreenWall.”
https://www.israel21c.org/the-garden-that-climbs-walls-and-feeds-you/
And now for some irony
“Water from air: Israeli firm helps bring drinking water to Gaza
A machine developed by an Israeli firm that can turn air into water using only the power of the sun is helping to bring much-needed drinking-water to the Gaza Strip, where a lack of rainfall and poor infrastructure is leading to a worsening water crisis.
Issued on: 05/01/2021 – 18:33
Modified: 05/01/2021 – 18:38”
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210105-water-from-air-israeli-firm-helps-bring-drinking-water-to-gaza
@Felix, Reader
Disputed theories about what could happen in the far future are not a good reason to hurtle toward destruction now by dismantling what we have especially when we would be the only one’s doing it to the benefit of our enemies.
This is in the same category of Malthusianism and Lysenkoism, crank science that, moreover, discounts the development of new technology in the future to counter whatever side effects technology brings.
For example:
“C. testosteroni first caught researchers’ attention with its natural ability to digest synthetic laundry detergents. After further analysis, scientists discovered that this natural bacterium also breaks down compounds from plastic and lignin (fibrous, woody waste from plants).Feb 6, 2023”
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/02/new-external-story/#:~:text=and%20sewage%20sludge.-,C.,%2C%20woody%20waste%20from%20plants).
“Israeli innovation turns trash into electricity
By David Shamah
April 30, 2008, Updated September 13, 2012”
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-innovation-turns-trash-into-electricity/
“ISRAELI CO2-EATING BACTERIA COULD HELP SAVE THE PLANET
Scientists’ new cultured bacteria may lead to net-zero fuels, alternative food production and other green technologies to conquer climate change.”
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-co2-eating-bacteria-could-help-save-the-planet/
“The garden that climbs walls and feeds you
‘The future is edible landscaping,’ predicts CEO of Israel’s GreenWall.”
https://www.israel21c.org/the-garden-that-climbs-walls-and-feeds-you/
“CULTIVATED MEAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE OUR WORLD
Israeli food-tech startup Aleph Farms can produce cultivated meat using a fraction of the land, water and time.”
https://www.israel21c.org/lab-engineered-meat-is-about-to-change-our-world/
And now for some irony
“Water from air: Israeli firm helps bring drinking water to Gaza
A machine developed by an Israeli firm that can turn air into water using only the power of the sun is helping to bring much-needed drinking-water to the Gaza Strip, where a lack of rainfall and poor infrastructure is leading to a worsening water crisis.
Issued on: 05/01/2021 – 18:33
Modified: 05/01/2021 – 18:38”
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210105-water-from-air-israeli-firm-helps-bring-drinking-water-to-gaza
And let’s never forget that the 2000 year old man (Mel Brooks) told us in 1960 that the greatest invention of all time was Saran Wrap. 😀
@Felix
😀 Why? Do you imagine I have a choice? Do you think any of this is about lifestyle choice?
Reminds me of a joke – actually factual – I wrote some years ago:
“I used to play viola in a string quartet that backed up a famous Calabrian-Canadian singer a number of times throughout the tri-state area, on radio and possibly a recording — he always promoted and sometimes sold his family’s olive oil in his concerts. MIchael Castaldo.
He was so nationalistic as a Calabrian, know Calabrian history, listen to the Calabrian language, hear Calabrian songs, buy my family’s Calabrian olive oil, here are samples — and I had also played in a band for a Puerto Rican singer who was so nationalistic, he unfurled the Puerto Rican flag as a cape while he was singing at a park in Atlantic city, that I made a joke about it.
The quartet was all women except for me. The first violinist was American of Russian Jewish descent, the cellist was American of German Jewish descent and the 2nd violinist,sitting next to me, was Japanese, by way of background.
I am of LIthuainian Jewish descent on my mother’s side, which is a pretty obscure little country, but many LIthuainian Jews became famous in various fields, especially the ones who came here, if you google it, there are lists, even Elvis and Bob Dylan were of Lithuainian Jewish descent, and I said this to a cousin of my mother’s who responded, “so what, everybody’s from somewhere.”
But, wanting to get in on the flag-waving fun, I turned to the Japanese 2nd violinist and I said, “you know what binds Jews together as a people? The single most unifying principle?” “What,” she said. I replied, “It’s that we all desperately wanna be Asians.”
And — I kid you not, this really happened — a young guy from the Southern Jersey area where we were playing who just happened to be backstage for some reason in the resort or something where we were playing exclaimed, “I thought it was just me!
But, thank you for supporting Israel, just the same. I don’t care where people are from or what they believe so long as their guns are pointed in the right direction, so to speak.
But, that’s just me.”
“Monty Python- Life of Brian – Name one thing the Romans ever did for us.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
@FelixQuigley
Try BookFinder.com – type in the author’s name, and you can even choose the country to search on the home page – there are many of them available in the US, and if you choose a used one, it is inexpensive.
Amazon has it, too, but there it is impossible to tell which edition it is (maybe you could contact the seller(s))?
Make sure to get the 2nd edition.
He studied various climate and geology theories and concluded that when the Earth (which is actually a huge magnet) periodically changes its polarity (a fact), i.e., a compass which now points North, after the change would now point South, is accompanied by huge extinctions and another Ice Age.
When this change happens, the Earth loses for that (short, apparently) period of time its protection from radioactivity coming from the cosmos.
Anyway, what I am trying to get at is that there will be a Global Cooling no matter what, fairly soon (in historic terms) and another Ice Age in another cycle whether it is going to happen fast or slow, and that human and animal generation of CO2 or lack thereof cannot do anything about the climate change.
@Sebastien Zorn
Why don’t you read the book first instead of just googling the author’s name and finding out he is a “crank”?
Sebastien
Reading what you write below. You need to decide are you an Israeli and Jew or are you an American Imperialist.
I think this has no connection with being a Jew.
We have to use what we’ve got. If alternative technologies get more productive then they will naturally replace fossil fuels anyway in the natural course of things. And, there’s been a lot of improvement.
Trump advocated using everything we have. And if we do that, we are the most energy rich country on the planet. He transformed us from an energy importer to an energy exporter and Biden turned back the clock.
Sebastien and all
I just ask you to tell the truth not BITS of the truth
No cherry picking.
Sebastien did you miss…it was his .moment of brilliance and honest science and THEIR crookery
You missed the essence .
THEY KNEW. WHAT A CRIME.
But now so so hard
Sebastien glad you caught that his calculation very impressive
Reader it is difficult to find that book. Is he saying the sun heats the earth. It is a steady burner. But the sun heats earth in combination with the very delicate atmosphere GHGs…it must be other than sun. THE EARTH IS HEATING
@Felix Well, Teller was pretty close in predicting how many parts per million it would be in 1990. He said 360 and it was 340. But, Nuclear explosions release a lot and he remained a big advocate, in fact an extreme advocate of their non-military use, even to dig for oil. 😀
But, he did advise and help Israel develop her nuclear program for 20 years so I like him. And, he was Hungarian Jewish! 😀
But, You see, we have no choice. Teller obviously understood that. We have to use what we’ve got. If alternative technologies get more productive then they will naturally replace fossil fuels anyway in the natural course of things. And, there’s been a lot of improvement.
Trump advocated using everything we have. And if we do that, we are the most energy rich country on the planet. He transformed us from an energy importer to an energy exporter and Biden turned back the clock.
We can’t abandon what keeps us alive today for a dream of technology that doesn’t exist yet, at least not affordably and on a scale to support the current population of the earth or even the United States. And, most importantly, requires the importation of parts and minerals that are only available in other countries, notably China. America First is an impossibility without energy independence. We will have our enemies dictating our foreign policy.
For an individual in the woods? Even a small community? Sure thing. 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller
And the progressives I’ve encounted when I said China, India and other third world countries are on the same planet but got a reprieve from the Paris Accords which makes no sense if the situation is so dire and can be repaired by ending carbon emissions. You know the reply I got? Well, they need it. They have to develop.
Oh, the hypocrisy. 😀
https://www.efootage.com/videos/44048/oh-humanity-hindenburg-explosion
Anybody remember Solyndra?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/09/solyndra-fraud-andrew-c-mccarthy/
@Reader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Sun_(The_Twilight_Zone)
I think the important thing is to keep to hard science and quit weaponizing natural phenomena (the fault of the politicians and of the super-rich psychotics who control them), and to quit going to extremes.
Imagine, when the Global Cooling starts – and it will, fairly soon, lasting for many generations including a new Ice Age and a slow warming back up, and no one will be able to stop it or to slow it down – imagine the Earth population without or with a very limited access to the accursed fossil fuels (of course, other sources must be in development also).
Read Robert W. Felix Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs… and Why It Could Soon Kill Us
Sri Lanka seems these environment people are unreal. Made silly choices.
But Irish agriculture is very much on the wrong tracks. And it is precisely that heavy reliance on artificial nitrogen that poisoned the rivers etc.
The greatest culprit the EU
Re Jessica Tierney what she does is issue a warning through her study and awareness of past climate on Earth.
Just a warning. She is apolitical as most scientists are.
This is a very well written article and it is a true story
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17036731709051&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fenvironment%2Fclimate-consensus-97-per-cent%2F2018%2Fjan%2F01%2Fon-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming
To Sebastien Reader Peloni
@Senastien Zorn
Donald and Trump are two English/Scottish names. (bad)
This isn’t serious. And, yes, I know he devolved into an Israelophobe. But, it’s hilarious. One of the greatest American humorists. I grew up on his rants. And most importantly, He’s Irish!
https://youtu.be/Kmo8sh77G6Y?si=k9rHkBYew3BJ6ehY
https://fee.org/articles/sri-lanka-crisis-reveals-the-dangers-of-green-utopianism/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAkKqsBhC3ARIsAEEjuJitSffZVkcD-Pjd3Mx1R-2rdaOq072iUSM5Ko3wlF_2boeOEvFSTpcaAq3hEALw_wcB
@Felix, i watched part of one of her videos. She is idolizing the pre-industrial past when there weren’t many people and lifespans were short and brutal and using simplistic computer models to say what the future brings. Do you realize that there is no alternative energy that can support this many people? Billions would die if the Green New Deal nonsense were ever actually implemented everywhere, which is to say, if we go back to the pre-industrial era. And Co2 doesn’t go anywhere. It stays up there for a very long time. It can’t be reversed. And we’re not all going to die. Unless we were to implement this suicidal bull which the globalists and knee-jerk third-worldists are trying to guilt-trip the rest of us except for China and India into committing.
Watch the video I linked. It’s short.
Anybody remember this hilariously surreal campaign moment from the last Dem primary for president?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/michael-bloomberg-china-pbs-climate-xi-dictator.html
Still cracks me up. 😀
@Felix https://www.prageru.com/video/is-there-really-a-climate-emergency
Although one must admit that having an Irish name is a powerful scientific argument.
@Felix
Climate nonsense is a hoax. Even if this were not true, nobody is serious about doing anything about the climate. Instead they use it as a vehicle to soak the people and crash Western markets in preference of China. No offense intended, but the entire climate charade is based on bogus science and false solutions. There are few things which I consider with as much disdain, but, yes, you are correct, the Covdid scam would be one which I hold in even greater disdain as it has led to the murder of millions of people.
Sebastien Reader Peloni
Jessica Tierney is Professor in Arizona. That is a. Irish name.
Why I like her videos. Her attitude is kinda casual.
Main point…to understand where we’re heading we have to go back and that is her training.
My point…we can go back very far
1. Ice cores
2. Ocean sediments
Very readily available
@Reader https://youtu.be/e7E9SS-X4YY?si=DLvy0N2B2c5_7Rv_
@FelixQuigley
I agree.
That is why I don’t vote – there is nobody to vote for, in my opinion.
My two cents on Global Warming:
1) it exists but not because the living creatures breathe, poop, and emit too much CO2;
2) it is temporary (cyclical – depending on what the Sun does and has been doing for eons) and we are at the very peak of the most recent warming cycle, and our generation’s grandchildren or great-grandchildren will live long enough to start freezing their butts off due to Global Cooling which will culminate in another Ice Age before slowly warming back up.
They make no sense from an environmental standpoint because we all live on the same planet.
So, once again, do you disagree with Trump leaving the Paris Accords, which I might add, make no sense even if you believe in the man made Global Warming Theory. It exempted China and India, all the worst polluters and just gutted the U.S. economy. The U.S. has the highest emissions standards in the world. It was obviously just a trick to transfer U.S. wealth to third world and make us dependent
In our enemies.
@Felix How is this a non-sequitur? You said,
And, yes, I agree with Trump tgat it’s a hoax.
Peloni and Reader
It is very simple and I understand it.
TRUMP was proving to be quite the liar (Global Warming which is kind of same lying as over the virus)
I repeat proving a liar with the world at stake.
And after the election what lies from Biden.
And those Biden lies was the creation of a false flag against Trump by the CIA and FBI.
A truly evil situation on both sides.
Desperate situation in America.
Peloni read the Mother Jones article before you go further.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/trump-climate-timeline/
Sebastien you ask me
“Felix Do you think Trump should have remained in the Paris Accords?”
That is leap into nowhere because I need to know if you deny global warming
You were denying it a week ago
Where do you really stand?
The article I referred to
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/trump-climate-timeline/
@peloni
I didn’t ask,
I asked,
Giuliani said
Then he explained that they need 10 days to get more evidence that election fraud took place (this is why the transfer of power cannot take place today and that Pence can postpone it) and two minutes later he said
Court trial and combat are two vastly different things, and having a court trial by combat is a contradiction in terms.
Antifa rumor comes from Fox News whose hosts were horrified and begged Trump to go on TV and tell the people to stop what they were doing and then did some damage control on-air:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/dec/16/how-fox-news-hosts-jan-6-texts-air-comments-told-d/
Things didn’t happen the way Trump supporters like to think they did:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/politics/fact-check-capitol-insurrection-january-6-lies/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/20/politics/cnn-capitol-riot-videos/index.html
@Sebastien Zorn
What “vision” speech?
I don’t recall using this term.
@Reader
They were calling on the people to peacefully demonstrate their very strong objections to being turned into a heard of cattle, led by a force of will not of the people, but of the establishment elites. The constitution carries in it the right of assembly and protest, in case you are not familiar. Hence, such demonstrations are not insurrections but rather completely within the rights established under the constitution. Yet, along with the consent of the governed, the right of assembly, petition, and protest were selectively removed from those who assembled in Washington, no matter what, if anything, they did while they were there. You have previously noted the ills of Stalin, yet you seem to lose track of the fact that what has taken place with regards to the January 6 defendents, which distinctly DOES include Trump and Giuliani, are a rehashing of the Stalinist tactic of political show trials, meant to demean, vilify, impoverish, imprison and silence all political dissent to the established junta in Washington. If you can not reconcile this simple and obvious truth, you would prove yourself to be less skilled at research and simple deduction than I know you to be.
@Reader But, you specifically referred to his “vision” speech but didn’t provide a link.
@Felix Do you think Trump should have remained in the Paris Accords?
Reader
I suspect they were driven by the volume of lies from Biden. They were set up.
And the thing is Trump etc. led them straight into it…a trap
If you bother to read up on Trump on global warming issue you will see how crisis prone he is.
This ain’t a personal thing so much as a system thing.
It extends across the board of their anarchic class…to Netanyahu as well pre October 7
Sebastien leave to one side the virus but Trump took many many positions on Global Warming. Most on Israpundit are not aware of that and I wasn’t until yesterday. I was referring to that.
@peloni
If some evil people
, what were the good people like Trump and Giuliani doing enabling the evil people’s plans on January 6?
@Reader
To this point alone we agree. In fact, the people who should have been jailed were those who stole the election, those who certified the fraud, and those who planned and participated in the faux insurrection of January 6 which was manipulated to mislead the world into believing that the real insurrections never took place at all. After all, the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
@peloni
@Sebastien Zorn
I merely posted the transcripts of both speeches.
Your opinions are your opinions – this is how YOU interpret their speeches when you read them in the privacy of your homes, and maybe if you were there, you wouldn’t get all excited and march on the Capitol with Trump supporters.
The crowd, obviously, interpreted them differently, being in the moment, plus they heard a lot more than a couple of selected quotes you posted here, and both Trump and Giuliani had reasons to believe that the crowd had to interpret the speeches a certain way.
In my opinion, this was nothing less than an attempted coup but wrong people were jailed for it (after being cynically used).