Senate rejects Bernie Sanders’s effort to stop US arms sales to Israel

Washington Examiner

The Hamas men who did this act need all the help Democrats can give them. TD

"The Senate failed to advance resolutions of disapproval brought by progressive members to block the sale of certain offensive U.S. weaponry to Israel.

"The result was expected, but the vote sent a signal that opposing military aid to a longstanding ally is no longer a fringe position in the Democratic Party. More than a third of the Democratic senators voted to block arms to Israel a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on the Jewish state.

"Wednesday’s vote was the first of its kind in Congress and the only legislative remedy available to senators opposed to the Biden administration’s efforts to sell $20 billion in military aid to Israel over concerns its counterattack has gone too far and created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

"Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) sponsored a trio of resolutions, which were privileged, allowing them to force the votes without the consent of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). 

"The resolutions were to block the sale of 120-millimeter mortar rounds, joint direct attack munitions (JDAMs) also known as bomb guidance kits, and the sale of tank rounds.

"The first resolution, S.J. Res. 111, to block the sale of tank rounds failed 18-79, with the majority of Democrats joining all Republicans in voting no. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) voted present.

"Eighteen Democrats voted in support, including the sponsors of the resolutions and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus King (I-ME), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Ed Markey (D-MA), Tina Smith (D-MN), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Chris Murphy (D-CT)." . . .

But you all do look fabulous in your designer Keffiyehs as you stand beside Greta Thunberg.

Muslim voters who helped elect Trump upset with ‘pro-Israel’ and ‘pro-war’ cabinet picks   "PBS Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, nominated for secretary of state, has opposed a ceasefire in the war, stating that he wants Israel to “destroy every element of Hamas they can get their hands on.”

"Trump’s pick to be his ambassador to the United Nations, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, led the questioning of university presidents over antisemitism on campuses. She has also opposed funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which oversees aid to Gaza.

"Pete Hegseth, an Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host, was chosen by Trump to head the Department of Defense. Hegseth has publicly opposed the two-state solution and advocated for rebuilding a biblical Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites.

"Then there’s Trump’s pick for Ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Huckabee has consistently rejected the idea of a Palestinian state in territories seized by Israel, strongly supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposed a two-state solution, claiming “there really isn’t such a thing” as Palestinians in referring to the descendants of people who lived in Palestine before the establishment of Israel.". . .

Having Learned About The Horrors Wrought By Biden’s Border, Silence Is No Longer An Option

Perhaps Sharon Stone will have a righteous pronouncement on the following:

  Jeff M. Lewis

"What all that means is that the Biden-Harris administration has been using taxpayer dollars and has been providing the worst evil known to civilized society: open access to the most vulnerable in our midst—the unaccompanied (and unprotected) children who are crossing our borders."

"Like many of American Thinker’s devoted readers, I voted for Donald J. Trump all three times he has been a presidential candidate. I have been quietly enjoying the days since America’s voters decisively elected Trump again as president. I have many family and friends who detest Trump, but I desire to co-exist peacefully and quietly with them, so we have kept an uneasy peace by refraining from political conversation. Over the years, it has become obvious that our diametrically opposed political views are not likely to change.

"Since the election, the incoming administration’s rapid-fire announcements of Cabinet member nominations, along with the various nominations to head numerous positions and agencies, have captured the nation’s attention and triggered Trump’s opponents to fits of rage. I must confess there has been an element of entertainment to it all, watching our liberal/progressive/leftist neighbors get all twisted up. However, hiding behind the nominations are equally important stories that explain why Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party lost the election so badly.

"Each the following information has been a catalyst and a springboard for me and has incited within me a deeply visceral motivation. I will no longer be quiet about my support for Donald J. Trump. Moreover, I will remain silent no longer about my joy in witnessing the Democrats’ electoral loss and disgrace." . . .

Biden-Harris HHS secretary testifies about missing illegal migrant children, and his admissions will sicken you 

. . ."Yesterday, Becerra testified at Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, and his admissions will sicken you—when Texas’s Chip Roy quizzed Becerra on whether or not he could account for the roughly 400,000 UACs whose whereabouts are reportedly unknown, requiring he respond with either a “yes” or a “no,” Becerra sidestepped and launched into a filibustering word salad. See below, around 02:18 elapsed time: 

“Mr. Secretary, how can you credibly claim that HHS is working to protect these children? …A ‘vetted sponsor’ that rapes and murders the people that they're entrusted to? ...That's what you think is appropriate care for these children?” pic.twitter.com/WaqezbLQ6c

— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) November 20, 2024

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra eviscerated for mishandling of unaccompanied children   . . ."House Republicans pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday to provide an answer for losing track of thousands of unaccounted migrant children and fumbling the vetting process that allegedly has allowed some minors to be sent to gang members and even a strip club.

"Becerra testified that his agency follows “child welfare best practices” with “extensive” background checks that would not allow a child to be placed with someone “engaged in criminal activity.' ” . . .

From Play-Doh cologne to a bread pillow: Here’s Dave Barry’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Miami Herald

"Dave Barry presents his annual Gift Guide, full of gifts no one asked for and probably never would."

 PISTOL-SHAPED FRIED-EGG MOLD  $18.99 plus shipping from amazon.com

"What is more boring than a fried egg? Nothing, that’s what. “As boring as a fried egg” is an expression we have all heard too many times to count. And that’s why we’re so pleased to present this exciting gift idea. This is a fried-egg mold that is shaped like what the package describes as a “Wild West Pistol,” so that instead of an old-fashioned ho-hum round fried egg, you can serve a “Rough And Ready Breakfast” in the form of a fried egg that looks like a firearm. It allegedly also does pancakes."

HANS GRUBER FALLING TO HIS DEATH ADVENT CALENDAR

$9.99 plus shipping from amazon.com; many versions available

"The holiday season is a time of traditions, and few are more cherished than watching the traditional holiday movie “Die Hard,” in which New York police detective John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, engages in a taut and suspenseful game of cat and mouse with the Ghost of Christmas Past. No, sorry, that’s a different holiday movie. In “Die Hard” John McClane engages in a taut and suspenseful game of cat and mouse with evil diabolical criminal mastermind Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman. In the movie’s climax, a bloodied but triumphant McClane watches as Gruber falls to his death from the Nakatomi Plaza office tower. It’s a classic scene, and it inspired some imaginative person—we are using “imaginative” in the sense of “deeply disturbed”—to create this Advent calendar, which enables you to count down the days to Christmas by gradually moving a Hans Gruber figure down the side of the Nakatomi building.

BREAD PILLOW

$25.99 plus delivery from amazon.com

"Here’s the ideal gift for anyone on your gift list who would enjoy having a home decor element that resembles a baked good. This is a pillow made to look like a very large loaf of bread." . . .

HIDEOUSLY UGLY PANTS

$26.95 plus shipping from temu.com, suggested by Ralph Kirshner of New Hampton, N.H.

"Here’s a great gift for the young, fashion-conscious person on your list who wishes to become visually less attractive. Ugly pants are a popular fashion trend, dating back to the invention of “distressed” jeans. What happened was a malfunction at a clothing factory caused the machines to spit out a bunch of jeans that were full of rips and holes. The workers were about to throw them away, when one of the executives—let’s call him Bob—had an idea. ”Let’s sell them!” he said. The other executives were skeptical. ”But Bob,” they said, “why would people spend good money for jeans that appear to have been attacked by irate wolverines?” ”Because people are stupid,” said Bob. He was in marketing. And he was absolutely correct: Distressed jeans were a fashion hit. Soon millions of people were walking around wearing jeans that were 20 percent denim and 80 percent holes.

STD COLORING BOOK; $5.99 plus shipping from amazon.com

"Every now and then we come across a gift item that not only grabs our attention, but also makes us want to spray a powerful disinfectant on our eyeballs. This is such an item. It’s a coloring book containing explicit line drawings of a variety of venereal diseases, including, according to the publisher, “Genital Warts, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and More!” Talk about a fun and heartwarming holiday activity! But it’s not just entertaining: It’s also educational. As one Amazon reviewer wrote: “I had an STD but didn’t know which one I had but this book helped me figure it out! Turns out it was genital warts!” What a happy story! Yes, this truly is a unique gift, a gift that says to that special someone on your holiday list: “When I saw these illustrations of disgusting infections, I thought of you.”

Read the full article with more illustrations and descriptions.

Includes: PLAY-DOH COLOGNE, VOICE DAMPENER, TWO-PERSON PEANUT HEADPIECE.

The Enemy of My Enemy Is RFK

Ann Coulter   

"The whole lot of them — the public health bureaucrats, the phony scientists sucking up grant money, the pharmaceutical and food industries — must be punished, and RFK is the man to do it."

"Remember when Anthony “I Am the Science” Fauci showed up for congressional hearings wearing two masks, knowing full well that masks didn’t prevent the transmission of COVID?

"With great leadership like that, for two years, most of the country dutifully (or by legal sanction) walked around masked all the time — indoors, outdoors, on playgrounds, beaches and bikes. Day care centers tortured infants by forcing them into the completely useless masks; fist fights broke out on airplanes because the government was requiring flight attendants to make everyone over the age of 2 wear a mask; and public school teachers sadistically taped masks to kids’ faces.

"To this day, you still sometimes see the 6-foot markers on floors at airports, post offices and government buildings, mementos of the made-up distancing rule that “just sort of appeared,” according to Fauci. They’re like phrenology skulls or Aztec human sacrifice temples — artifacts of an odd and discredited belief system.

"In the face of 100 years of scientific knowledge, “I Am the Science” Fauci stubbornly denied the existence of natural immunity. Although studies consistently showed that prior COVID infection provided better protection than the vaccine — something even the E.U. recognized — our public health mandarins remained studiously ignorant of the science. (Not to be confused with “The Science,” which apparently is a small, egotistical Italian man with a godawful Brooklyn accent.)

"Nearly alone in the world, our government’s medical “experts” recommended repeated vaccine shots for healthy young people, age 5 and up, despite their facing near-zero risk from COVID, but serious risks from the vaccine, such as anaphylaxis, myocarditis, pericarditis and/or early death. Ask your doctor if the COVID vaccine is right for you!

"Fauci and Francis Collins, then head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), were so devoted to the scientific method that they conspired to manufacture a “quick and devastating published takedown” of scientists who dissented from their demand that the entire country be shut down — specifically, the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued against universal shutdowns, advocating instead for focused protection for the elderly, i.e., the only people at risk of death from COVID.

Stupid liberal tricks

Might these people be the ones we saw wearing stylish Hamas scarves, cheering "Free Palestine!"?

OMG! CNN and MSNBC ratings have lost out to Hallmark. Hallmark has more viewers than CNN or MSNBC.

🤣🤭😂 pic.twitter.com/wWehMvTSJv

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) November 24, 2024

See below..... 

Kimmel Further Humiliates Himself by Banging His Drum About Increase in Vasectomies After Trump's Win  

The ironic hilarity (or would that be "hilarious irony"?) from left-wing women "bravely" shaving their heads and defiantly pledging not to have sex to "We'll show you!" left-wing men ridiculously getting vasectomies is super OK with conservatives.

"What's that thing about Charles Darwin awards? 

           Former comedian Jimmy Kimmel offers tearful lecture after Trump’s big win. Clapter ensues.pic.twitter.com/WnWngWAymn

— Tyler Carditis (@TyCardon) November 7, 2024

" Hold the bus, Jimbo.  Just a One Problem" Actually, several problems. First, "all their healthcare" is not going to become "illegal." 

"Second, people who decide not to have children -- not to raise a family -- because they don't like the politics of Trump, or any politician? That says far more about about such people than it does about Donald Trump.

"Third, at no point has Donald Trump or any Republican suggested that vasectomies should be illegal. If I'm wrong, Jimmy, show me the receipts. I'll wait.

"Here's more:" . . .

Parody: Elon Waiting For Black Friday Half-Off Sale So He Can Buy MSNBC For Just $30   . . ." 'I'm always on the lookout for a good bargain," Musk reportedly told his inner circle. "I'm open to the idea of buying MSNBC, but nobody wants to pay full price for anything around this time of year. This week is Black Friday. If I can land the opportunity to hold Rachel Maddow's fate in my hands for a killer deal, I'm here for it.". . .

Buttigieg: The Peter Principle on wheels   . . ."Buttigieg will be sold as a polished product of the technocratic elite — a man who can speak at length about problems he never solves.  Because with Pete, it’s always the same: a lot of talk, a lot of spin, and very little delivered.

HOW AWKWARD: CNN and MSNBC Just Got Beaten in the Ratings by… The Hallmark Channel  

"How bad are things at CNN and MSNBC? So bad that they were both recently beaten in ratings by the Hallmark Channel. We are just three weeks off of one of the most contentious and historic presidential elections in recent history and more people are watching the Hallmark Channel than the supposed journalists and political analysts of CNN or MSNBC. One has to wonder how CNN justifies Anderson Cooper’s $20 million dollar salary when people would rather watch Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story."

Trump plots stunning White House briefing shake up that's set to change media landscape forever

 UK Daily Mail

• The president-elect is considering a new audience for the press briefing room

No more of this guy, maybe?

Donald Trump is considering giving the likes of Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly a seat in the White House press briefing room instead of mainstream media journalists in a plot that will 'blow up some heads'.

"The stunning plan was revealed by the president-elect's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. on a recent episode of his podcast 'Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.'

"Speaking to his co-host Michael Knowles, Jr. admitted that the incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt may rework the briefing room seating arrangement to make way for Trump's new podcast 'bro' buddies.

" 'I wonder now, as your father is assembling his team, as maybe Karoline Leavitt is looking at the new press briefing room chart, maybe it's time to reorder that chart and maybe take away some people's seats,' Knowles inquired. 

"The future president's son quickly shot back: 'We're gonna break some news here.'

" 'I literally had this conversation with—I was flying back, I was on the plane with my father, I think it was coming back from the SpaceX launch with Elon [Musk] last week,' Jr. said. 

" 'And we were talking about the podcast world and some of our friends and Rogan and guys like you.'

"Then the 46-year-old Trump revealed the podcaster plan was met with great enthusiasm, 'That's a great idea, Don.' . . .

The Morning Briefing: Jack Smith's Pathetic Jihad Comes to a Fitting, Inglorious End

Stephen Kruiser

"Those two questions are very important. The Democrats may have failed to interfere with the election and keep Trump off the ballot by perverting the law, but that doesn't mean they've lost the appetite for getting crooked judges and prosecutors to go after him — well, judges and prosecutors who aren't employed by the Department of Justice, anyway. Smith and his crew are getting out of Dodge because they know that new sheriff Pam Bondi will not be a fan of theirs."

. . ."Victoria writes that we need to find a way to "stop this weaponization of the law to change elections, deprive people of their liberty, run information operations to lie to the American people, and try to bankrupt innocent people." I didn't vote for Trump this year just to see a revenge tour but, as Victoria points out, discouraging the lawfare insanity isn't about revenge. 

"Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing Trump get some kind of revenge. Yes, he's got a lot of work ahead of him to fix the damage that Biden has done, but there are a lot of bad people running around on the Democratic side of the aisle in the Swamp and they shouldn't be allowed to feel comfortable after what they've been up to the last four years. 

"We live in an age when politicians and the people who do their dirty work not only get away with doing bad things but are rewarded for them and often fail upward. Heck, that practically describes every Democrat in Washington. It's time for a correction. If the Trump 47 administration is able to take a hatchet to the federal bureaucracy, it would reintroduce some people to the concept of consequences. 

"For the moment, we will all just have to get delight from the knowledge that Jack Smith will be slinking out of the Justice Department having failed to stop the Trump Train."

 Adam Schiff Copes and Seethes After Jack Smith Drops Trump Charges, but There's More to His Crying  "One of the most dishonest, slimiest members of Congress is speaking out after news broke on Monday that DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith is moving to drop all charges against Donald Trump. Adam Schiff, who California saw fit to elect to the U.S. Senate recently, blew up on social media, attacking the Biden administration and the court system for supposedly failing to uphold the rule of law." 

Phyllis Chesler: My Letter to President Trump

  Phyllis Chesler; Substack 

 "The United Nations has never stopped a genocide; how rarely they ever tried to bring the evil perpetrators to justice. They have just done one thing well, namely, legalize antisemitism, legalize antiZionism.  

"Dear President Trump: Please, please, oh pretty please--pull America out of the United Nations. Tell them to take their hypocrisy, incompetence, corruption, and Jew-hatred, to the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland or to the golden deserts of Qatar. Maybe they can house their headquarters more appropriately in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Let the anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-democracy tyrannies pay their own way. Perhaps Europe can either increase their funding for the UN--or pull out as well.

"I can think of many better uses for the 17-18 acres in the luxe Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, right on the East River, that the UN headquarters currently occupies. I bet you can too.

"I know that the UN is a colorful place that draws many good woman(sp) of many colors, who are often wearing colorful, native dress. Women come there because they hope to meet others good women like themselves, or in the hope of finding employment. These are the members of NGOs which have absolutely no power whatsoever. But coming to Manhattan and speaking there looks good on their resumes, and it is also a way for them to mix it up with glamorized folk, get invited to yet another conference, impress their families.

"Oh, what a good idea the UN once was! Read Australian-American, Shirley Hazzard, on how it had already failed its mission by the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Read her excellent short stories, based on her time as a clerical employee at the UN ("People in Glass Houses), and her superb non-fiction titles about the UN: "Defeat of an Ideal" (1973) and "Countenance of Truth" (1990).

"I once also worked at the UN and saw, with my own naked eyeball, the sexual harassment and rape that was rampant among some high-ranking employers; how they also treated their home country servants as slaves; how much they spent on perks for themselves; and, with some exceptions, how dreadfully pompous, arrogant, and conformist many of the diplomats really were, and how cowed their employees had to be.

"The United Nations has never stopped a genocide; how rarely they ever tried to bring the evil perpetrators to justice. They have just done one thing well, namely, legalize antisemitism, legalize antiZionism. They lack the power to enforce a Western view of woman's humanity, on non-Western or even on Western countries with a large Muslim and/or tribal population.

"The International Criminal Court is a proxy of the UN. In issuing arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and former Minister of Defense only, but no such warrants for a single genocidal terrorist or for their paymaster, Iran, Douglas Murray explains what they've really done. He writes: "It is like a foreign judge at the end of World War II saying that since the Nazi leaders were all dead he really ought to issue arrests warrants for Harry Truman and Winston Churchill--the other guys being otherwise engaged. After all, didn't FDR, Truman, Churchill and others end up having to kill people in their pursuit of victory in a war started by their enemies?"

"Mister President: Get rid of the UN on behalf of We, the People."

"Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, and a retired psychotherapist. She has lectured and organized political, legal, religious, and human rights campaigns in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, Central Asia, and the Far East."

“You're not the media!” is a compliment

Don Surber

"Such is the state of the news media that one of the nation’s top journalist looking back at his 30-year career can only unleash an angry tirade against Musk. VanderHei didn’t reflect on his own accomplishments. He just seethed."

. ."Incentivized to lie? That describes Morning Joe and his network to a T. Has anyone apologized for the Russiagate lie that tried to thwart Trump’s first term? Has anyone been fired? Has anyone gone to jail?

"But how dare we criticize the press! Those little flying monkeys work so hard to achieve so little. They could not get Hillary elected and she spent a billion bucks on her campaign. They could not get Kamala elected and she spent a billion-and-a-half bucks on her campaign.

"These lousy liars told us Trump had stolen classified material and given Putin our nuclear codes. He wanted to start World War 3 they exclaimed.

"Well, FJB is doing that right now and the media is silent.

"The other side of the story — yes, there are two sides; imagine that — comes from Tucker Carlson, who said, “The people who work at NBC News will not have careers in journalism 10 years from now. And the reason they won’t is not because of the technology. It’s because they have no credibility.” . . .

The Tapper/CNN lawsuit and the decline of American media

Mike McDaniel  

"To be sure, the media isn’t entirely responsible for the sad state of our representative republic, but their contribution to our current tribulations is enormous and destructive." 

CNN talking head Jake Tapper has done at least one good thing: his book “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor” was made into a movie. Both are compelling examples of American bravery against military/political stupidity and overwhelming odds. Other than that, Tapper has proven himself a stereotypical Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) media shill.

Normally, the media is pretty much invulnerable to lawsuits for their reckless, D/s/c opinions badly disguised as news, but amazingly, Tapper and CNN face a defamation suit brought by Navy veteran Zachary young. Tapper’s false claims about Young and his efforts to rescue innocents from Joe Biden’s Afghanistan debacle obliterated Young’s private security career. The suit has been allowed to proceed, and is in the deposition stage. Tapper and CNN are stonewalling: . . .

"Perhaps the media and D/s/cs in general will take the time necessary for introspection, for reflecting on the fact that when they abandon American values and try to tear down what far better men and women have built, they destroy themselves as well. Maybe they might rediscover humility and our common humanity…nah."

Democrats and the media campaign against Trump’s cabinet picks by attaching the ‘compromised’ label

No matter who President Trump picks, the media and other Democrats seek to trash and besmirch their character and name. If they succeed in taking down one, they just move on to the next target. Trump is obviously (personally and painfully) aware that Democrats are the party of personal destruction.

. . ." Basically, the media and other Democrats have had the goal to destroy Trump for nine years. They clearly don’t care about the best interest of America, and that couldn’t be more obvious."

Should Biden Resign And Make Kamala Harris The First Woman President? I&I/TIPP Poll

Issues & Insights 

“There’s a sense that we tried to jam Vice President Harris down voters’ throats instead of hold an open primary,” one official said. “This certainly wouldn’t make that feeling go away.”

"Both before the November 5 presidential election and after, there’s been plenty of talk about President Joe Biden stepping down and making Vice President Kamala Harris America’s first female president. Despite ardent backing from Democratic Party stalwarts, the idea isn’t a popular one, as the latest I&I/TIPP poll indicates.

"Some Democrat activists, humbled by the Electoral College drubbing they took from former (and soon to be current) President Donald Trump, have pushed hard to have the age-hobbled Biden step down from the office of the presidency so that Kamala can take over and make history — and also, perhaps, to make a big noise that would steal some of Trump’s pre-inauguration thunder.

"To find out who supports the idea, the online national I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,436 adults the following question:

“Which of the following do you believe is in the best interest of the country?”, followed by these choices: “Biden should finish his term,” “Biden should step down and hand over the presidency to Harris,” “Biden should be removed from office using the 25th amendment,” and “Not sure.”

"The poll, taken from Nov. 7 to Nov. 8, has a margin of error of +/-2.6 percentage points.

"A majority of Americans — 54% — say they do not want Biden to leave office, they want him to finish his term.

"And only 16% say he should voluntarily step down and let Harris become president.

"For the first time since we started asking this question, more than half of all voters want Biden to finish the 10 weeks remaining in his term." . . .

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Day 2: Dump The Paris Climate Agreement

 I & I Editorial Board 

 "It is simultaneously meaningless and dishonest, a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t exist."

"During Donald Trump’s first successful presidential campaign, he promised to pull the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. He was unable to do so until the day after the 2020 election he lost, and the reprieve lasted only a little more than two months because Joe Biden rejoined the pact the day he was inaugurated. It’s another one of the many of Biden’s messes that Trump has to clean up.

"The U.S. should have never been a part of the Paris Agreement. Committing our country to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which means reductions in fossil fuel use, is foolish. Reaching the made-from-thin-air global temperature target: requires government mandates, restrictions and increased spending on politically trendy but expensive and unreliable renewable energy; stunts economic growth; limits our choices, leaving many of them to be made by globalist elites; and is an abdication of our national sovereignty.

"It is simultaneously meaningless and dishonest, a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t exist.

“ 'The Paris Agreement has always been an expensive farce, a symbolic gesture masquerading as a global solution,” writes Charles Rotter in the Watts Up With That? blog. “Its main purpose? To transfer wealth from productive nations to the politically corrupt under the guise of ‘climate justice.’ Of course, China — the world’s largest emitter — sits pretty with vague promises and no actual obligations. Trump’s exit from this scam is as much common sense as it is a necessity.”

"Trump couldn’t withdraw the first time from the Paris deal until November 2020, because he was handcuffed by the previous administration, which wanted to fundamentally transform this country and saw the agreement as an instrument of destruction.

“ 'President Obama’s negotiators wanted to ensure that it would take time for the U.S. to get out if there was a change in leadership,” the BBC explained. So “no country could give notice to leave the agreement until three years had passed from the date of ratification,” and then it had to provide a 12-month notice to the United Nations. Trump served that notice on Nov. 4, 2019, signaling that the U.S. would formally withdraw on Nov. 4, 2020." . . .