Here is my take on Trump’s backing out of the Paris Accords and the response by the Left.

There is little accuracy in predicting what the Paris Accords will accomplish in terms of climate change.  Will it lower temperatures by 1.9 degrees or only 0.2 degrees a century from now.  In a century, what will the effects be? 

The reality of the situation is this: central planning vs. the free market.

Paris is central planning of the environment.  A group of European bureaucrats decide who spends how much on what technology where.

Pulling out of Paris means that the free market can create new, more efficient and cost effective technology to reduce energy consumption to save money.  That’s ultimately what will drive green technology, cost savings.  

If a semi truck gets better milage it costs less to operate and is more profitable.  FedEx has been covering the roofs of its distribution hubs with solar panels because the long term energy savings pay for themselves.

There is a lot we can do without staying in Paris.  The idea that we are either beholden to the accords or we suffer the environmental apocalypse is a false dichotomy.

What this is are Leftists who have a hardon for central planning losing their minds that America decided to go it’s own free market way. 

If there is one thing we know about economics, nothing works when it is centrally planned.  The free market isn’t perfect but it evolves out the most functional ideas over time.

It was the Soviet central planners who starved 10 million Ukrainians to death in the Holomodor.  Chinese central planners starved 50 million in the Great Leap Forward.  We’re seeing that play out again in Venezuela right now.

American farms feed this nation with less than 2% of the population working as farmers.

There are very few guarantees in politics, but if there is one about Paris, it is that central planning of the environment will fail as badly as central planning of an economy. 

That of course won’t stop the Left and their love of central planning.   They will once again explain how their idea was right it just wasn’t implemented correctly and next time will be better.

This whole kerfuffle has nothing to to with the environment and everything with the central planners no longer being able to include America in their (doomed) plans.

All the screaming you hear is the anguish of petty tyrants having a plaything ripped from their hands.

This was a story my dad told me about my parents wedding.

My dad’s mom’s side of the family is Polish and Russian Jews.

My mom’s side of the family is all Polish Catholics.

My dad’s grandmother’s brother (his great uncle) was from the same region of Poland as my mom’s mom’s side of the family.  They were from practically the same town outside of Warsaw.  One side was Catholic and on the other side of the river that ran through town was the Jewish side.

At my parents wedding, my dad’s great uncle was speaking in Polish to my mom’s grandmother.  My mom’s grandmother asked him how he spoke fluent Polish.  He said “I’m Polish.”  My mom’s grandmother said (quite loudly) “you’re not a Polish, you’re a Jew.”

That right there explains the Holocaust so well.  The Poles, Germans, French, and so many other Europeans never though of the Jews as their fellow countrymen.  They were always strangers, outsiders, in nations that have lived in for generations.

Fast forward to yesterday (6/1/2017) where Keith Olbermann tweets this:

There you have it.  According to resistance leader Reichsführer Olbermann, Republicans are not Americans.

Olbermann goes on a 7:44 rant in which he clearly states that Republicans are traitors who will be “damned by history” for Donald Trump.  To him, Republicans are an insidious force bent on destroying America, and maybe the world, for money.

I’m surprised he didn’t come out and call Republicans untermensch.

I’m getting a whiff of historical precedent of a man ranting into a TV camera, saying that all those who oppose his vision for his nation are subversive traitors.

Republicans are not Americans, they are “the other.”

(Illegal immigrants on the other hand are totally embraced as Americans and deserving of all sorts of free stuff.)

This is not the language of “resistance” or unity.

A few of his followers seem to understand that.

This will only embolden the violent on the Left.

For the first time in my life, as I stand on my tip toes to try to see if there is a gas chamber in my future over the horizon, I’m not sure if it is there because I’m Jewish, or because I’m not a Democrat.

In the last 48 hours:

Hillary Clinton lashed out and blamed the DNC for her loss in the 2016 presidential election.  This was, of course, the same DNC that rigged the primary for her against Bernie Sanders.

PolitiFact is investigating if  Trump’s nonsensical “covfefe” tweet was a secret Arabic message, while others try to determine the extent of the “covfefe” conspiracy.  (My guess is that is that it was typo which 4chan is trying to make the media look stupid with the way they did with the OK hand symbol.)

Trump pulled us out of the Paris Accords, because raising our energy costs to those of most European states , is a bad idea.  (Who doesn’t want an electricity bill that costs as much as a mortgage payment?  When the average European home is one half to one third the size of an American home, paying three times as much for electricity isn’t as bankrupting).  Well, according to the left, this was an act of “war” and “treason” and will cause the world to “burn.”

Lastly, after Kathy Griffin’s disgusting stunt got her fired from CNN, she’s now claiming to be the victim of Trump bullying.

So here are my two questions:

1 – How much further will this crazy train go before it gets all the way to Jonestown?

2 – Can I buy stock in Kool-Aid?

I saw the same article in The Portland Mercury that many bloggers did – This Week in Appropriation: Kooks Burritos and Willamette Week.

To recap.  Two white women vacation in Mexico.  They fall in love with the local tacos.  They watch the locals make them to figure out why they are so good.  They go back to Portland and do their best to duplicate the Mexican tacos in a taco truck.  Business is booming.  They get accused of cultural appropriation for being white women selling tacos.  They go under because SJWs are assholes.

I should blog about how awful this is and everything.

Instead, I’m having one of my terrible ideas.

I’ve always wanted to to go Portland for the Kershaw end of the year warehouse sale.

If I go, I’m going to go to every hipster coffee shop and throw a shit fit over every cinnamon raisin, cranberry, Asiago cheese, and jalapeno bagel I see.

See, my grandfather started and ran a Kosher Jewish Delicatessen.  Real bagels are boiled before baking, that’s what gives them that authentic texture.  Crap bagels are steamed during the baking process.

Authentic Jewish bagels are plain, egg, onion, garlic, salt, poppy seed, sesame seed, pumpernickel, or everything (salt, onion, garlic, poppy, and sesame).

Cinnamon raisin bagels are for goyishe women in yoga pants who buy their bagels from Panera Bread.

I wonder how much I can extort out of these hipster douche bags making a scene about how they are culturally appropriating Ashkenazi Jewish culture for breakfast.

I have to figure out how to draw some parallel between them baking and not boiling their bagels and sending Jews to the ovens because they are a bunch of Deli appropriating antisemites.

If I can get a hipster coffee shop shut down, it will be an ultimate victory.

Back a while a go a posted a response to Cocks Not Glocks on why I believe in campus carry.

At the time I made that post, it was suspected than an Antifa rioter who had hit a man on the head with a bike lock was a professor.

Well it was confirmed by Berkeley police during his arrest that Eric Clanton was a professor at Diablo Valley College, and was responsible for not one, but three bike lock beatings at Berkeley.

We’ve been berated by the Left saying that we can’t have campus carry because (even if there is no history of college kids with CCW’s shooting professors over their opinions) guns on campus will have a chilling effect on free speech* and dissuade professors from discussing certain topics.

After the Berkeley riots that shut down Milo Yiannopoulos, school papers across California were quick to defend or outright justify the use of violence to end Right Wing free speech.  Miguel covered that here.

Keep in mind, college campuses are overwhelmingly the new type of “intolerant” liberal.

Now I really understand why professors and students make the ridiculous claim that campus carry will restrict freedom of speech.

Because it will.

It will make professors think twice about exercising their right to silence “Right Wing hate speech” by bashing people in the heads with bike locks.

An armed society is a polite society, as the aphorism goes, and The Resistance has no desire to be polite.

The next time some professor is on TV shilling against campus carry saying it will affect what he says on campus, what he means is “I can’t be free to beat up a Republican student if I think he’s going to shoot me.”

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*I love this anti-Camus Carry article from the Atlantic.

Here are two quotes from it:

They’re the kind of comments you wouldn’t think twice about—just typical college students communing over a tough professor. Unless, that is, you also knew that those students might be permitted to carry concealed firearms on campus. Then their words might take on a different tenor, even if just hypothetically….

Yet in giving in to that temptation, we pay another price, too. It’s harder to see but even more pervasive. It is the quiet, constant apprehension of the idea of the gun in the room, the truly silenced barrel of the firearm that probably doesn’t exist but might, and whose possible existence alters the way we think and behave.

They admit that their fear is all hypothetical and isn’t based on reality, but they still have “the feelz” and that is enough to deny you your rights.

I’m copying the text of this letter from No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money, because he received it and I can’t find an original copy from Brady.

It may seem all eyes are on Trump’s Russia drama right now, but the gun industry has stayed laser-focused on profits and pushing the myth that more guns make the country safer.

Dan

No Lawyers chose to focus on the “Zimmerman” aspect of the letter.  Go read his analysis.

I noticed something different.

This bill would create a system with no standards, no rules and no borders.

I thought as a woke progressive I was supposed to be in support of no borders.  That’s what my intellectual superiors at HuffPo tell me.

After the Manchester Bombing, Katy Perry (and you know celebrities are never wrong about this) said that the best way to fight terrorism is by having no borders.

So is no borders good or bad?

I guess when it allows terrorists who misunderstand that Islam is a religion of peace or members of a drug dealing street gang with a fondness for gang rape to come into our nation to do us harm, no borders is the moral position.

When it allows law abiding citizens with concealed carry permits to lawfully exercise their Second Amendment rights more freely across this nation, no borders is a dangerous fantasy that must be stopped.

I think I understand now.

It’s been just under two days since the bombing in Manchester, UK.

I’m starting to see the usual “the bomber was not a Muslim” OpEds that follow a radical Islam attack.

I’m getting a little tired of the same people who tell me that all a biological man has to do to become a woman is identify as one; but a man from a religious Muslim family, who regularly attended Mosque, whose brother is a teacher at sn Islamic school, who traveled to the Middle East to train with al Qaeda, isn’t really a Muslim.