“… While we have lost friends in Congress, we are gaining them in the streets …”
Eric Worrall writes: The President of the Sierra Club is confident of widespread and growing public support for the environmental movement, explaining apparent setbacks for the green movement, in the recent US midterm elections, as a conspiracy of corporate interests and bolstered by sinister voter suppression tactics.
According to Michael Brune, president of the Sierra Club;
“Despite the climate movement’s significant investments and an unprecedented get-out-the-vote program, strong voices for climate action were defeated, and candidates paid for by corporate interests and bolstered by sinister voter suppression tactics won the day.
This election marked a pivotal change in how candidates confront the climate crisis, We’re not backing down.
Public support is solidly behind action to tackle the climate crisis. While we have lost friends in Congress, we are gaining them in the streets, as our movement grows stronger and broader”
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/223028-did-climate-change-win-at-the-ballot-box
What can I say – I hope you receive the help and counselling you may in my opinion need Mr. Brune. Coping with rejection and loss can be deeply traumatic. Regardless of our political differences, I have no wish to see you suffer undue emotional pain, during this potentially difficult period of personal adjustment.
I would dearly appreciate specifics on the “sinister voter suppression tactics”.
“Voter suppression” = The dead were only allowed to vote once.
And so are aliens. Please provide evidence.
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The Sierra Club spokesman knows there were no “sinister voter suppression tactics”. The Sierra Club is doing what they always do… “sinister voter propaganda tactics”.
He knows that there was voter suppression because his voters didn’t vote.
He knows that the suppression was sinister because they spent millions and still their voters didn’t show up to vote, so it had to be sinister since they can’t figure out what the heck happened.
He knows they are gaining in the streets because all of those voters who didn’t vote were their voters, and most voters did not vote!
Obama, too, believes it and said it clearly; he sees a mandate for his actions based on the number of voters who didn’t vote. He claimed them as obviously supporting his policies, “the silent majority.”
To relieve their pain and suffering, I suggest they find and hug those cuddly polar bears and gray wolves they purport to love and care about. But then, if they are eaten by said loving creatures, am I responsible for the beats having been poisoned by such toxic people?
It sounds like the president of the Sierra Club is happy to lie. It’s amazing what high-information voters can do to the fortunes of a devious organization like the Sierra Club.
I don’t know what you are talking about. Why, Mickey mouse, Super (and Spider) Man, Batman, and Ranger, Lone are proud registered democratic party voters in Ohio. Who are we to dispute the wisdom of the nation’s greatest superheroes?
Les Misérables Brune also added:
2014 looks like a failure, not a success. The very well paid efforts to spread their message seem to have fallen the deaf ears of a numbed public, fed up with the endless gloom and doom of the Sierra Club. Shame. The Sierra Club used to do useful things. Now its a “mff” as Brune put it.
Does this brainiac ever even consider the possiblity, that, just maybe, if you “raise awareness” and “elevate the issue” and “make candidates change they talk about the issue”, that if you do ALL of that and then LOSE massively, it means that your issue maybe, just maybe, ISN’T ANY GOOD????
Ya think there’s a possibility of that?
(yeah, he doesn’t dare go there because up til now, their entire schpiel was that voters were too ignorant and uneducated about “the issue”. Well, where do you go once you do all of that edumacatin’ and you still lose???
You go home and give it up, that’s what you do.
Brute, the “specifics” that explain it are — psychological projection. All they’re doing is lamenting that their tactics weren’t enough this election.
There were fewer than normal dead Democratic voters.
Not here in Maryland. Although some of the dead were replaced by illegal aliens. 400 IA’s in Frederick county who have voted previously, were summoned for Jury duty and they submitted they were not required to show up because they aren’t citizens!
@PeterinMD says: November 10, 2014 at 7:54 am
Hmmm, 400 IAs, and they actually submitted that they weren’t require to show up for jury duty? Wow, they should have been summarily rounded up and deported. Of course, in the current environment, I don’t think they have much to worry about. Next January, maybe so…..
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker’s quote about Calvin Coolidge, how could they tell?
When the models don’t work, it’s because the data needs “correcting”. When the election doesn’t work it’s because voters have been “suppressed”, the polling data needs correction. I think I see a pattern forming here.
Now I’m not a trained psychologist, but I think this is what is known as being “in denial”.
Eric Worrel’s short post sums it up very nicely.
@guest, thanks. Now my smile after last Tuesday is even bigger, add to the fact that the billionaire from CA spend millions to support the same losers almost give me lock jaw from smiling and I sure would like to know as well about the “sinister voter suppression tactics”, ( I wonder if that means the GOP kept the lids on the coffins?)
Presumably they themselves know as those that employ such tactics (i.e. dirty tricks) always accuse their opponents of doing so when they lose.
“Our movement grows stronger and broader”. I think he is refering to his recent ablutions.
So…. they are recruiting the homeless? That would be a step in the right direction: they can open shelters, provide food and warmth for the winter. They certainly have the money to do so. Oh, but absolutely NO proselytising…. that would be a violation of ‘separation of church and state.
And the warmth will be based on fossil fuels.
And so is the food. You won’t get even remotely close to two fishes and five loaves of bread using “renewables” in the cold, still, dark, of winter.
There is a winter of the mind in these people.
To call this lad Brune delusional – doesn’t quite cut it does it?
Mind you, the left spend most of their lives denying reality, and for a length of time it works – until you grow up……………………
So is there going to be a legal challenge to the election results?
If not, he really shouldn’t besmirch your democracy in that way.
Constitutional Republic, actually.
Beyond the races where the margin of victory allows for or requires a recount, I don’t know of any grounds for a legal challenge.
All they can do is claim an imaginary victory. Kind of like climate models’ claims don’t match reality.
(Besides, investigating voter fraud and such just might find even more of those voting machines like the two in the Chicago area and Maryland with the same “calibration error”. That error changed a vote for a Republican into a vote for a Democrat.)
M Courtney says: November 10, 2014 at 1:33 am
…and bolstered by sinister voter suppression tactics won the day.
So is there going to be a legal challenge to the election results?
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Of course not, that would require investigations which might turn up actual vote fraud (committed by those on their side of the political isle) which would lead to even more voter ID laws which would lead to more alleged “suppression”. Better for them to just bluster in public without actually doing anything about it.
And behind the evil conspiracy of corporate interests is… Hydra, Spectre… and the most notorious international organisation of evil… Kaos.
Not mention the evil organization Kochaos…
Not Kraw … Kraw!!
So the Climate Change Alarmists are the Conspiracy Theorists now.
Not now. From the start. Read back.
“Sierra Club declares Victory” – waiting for the Monty Python Black Knight scene…
o.k., ask and you shall receive…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZI_aEalijE?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D
Oops, sorry about that, let’s try that again….
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjEcj8KpuJw?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D
Petulant children i how they strike me. Petulant little brats who just don’t know why they feel so uptight but any adult can tell them that they just need to do a poo.
” we are gaining them in the streets, as our movement grows stronger and broader”
Tell them they are dreaming.
Shades of “The Castle”, Jack?
In addition to the worries of the world falling in, there is also the current problem of how to finance the debacle known as the Ivanpah Solar Plant.
And you reckon you’ve got problems?????
“Defeat is VIctory.” – Big Brother
“De feet is OK”- Idi Amin’s chiropodist.
(Sorry.)
Glad I have a cover in case of spritz.
“…we are gaining them in the streets..”
I have news for the Sierra Club. Road kill doesn’t pay dues or vote.
Errrr . . . .
Even here in the UK, following the changes in voter registration brought in under PM Blair (a Socialist eager for power, if unsure what to do with it), I’m not convinced that roadkill doesn’t vote.
Historically, I’ve always understood that, at least in Daley pere’s Chicago, any resemblance between the population and voter rolls were not co-incidental, but rather evidence of sinister voter suppression ((c) Brune) [i.e. some roadkill was prevented from voting].
It’s better in Putin’s new-look Russia, he tells me!
[Mods – that last sentence is /Sarc. You probably guessed!]
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Well, voting maybe.
Brings a welcome sense of perspective to the phrase “in denial”.
this Michael Brune? i’ve bleeped out the naughty word:
7 Nov: Motherjones: Kate Sheppard: How Environmental Groups Are Reacting to Tuesday’s “Miserable F**king Failure”
Climate deniers won big in the midterms. So where do green groups go from here?
Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, was even more blunt in an interview Wednesday morning. First, he recounted some of the ways 2014 was a success…
But when it came to electing a slate of pro-environment candidates, which environmental groups spent an unprecedented amount of money on this year, “on that,” Brune said, “there’s been a miserable f**king failure.”…
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/environmental-groups-election-2014-climate
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving f**king group, too.
Nice catch pat.
It’s actually very educational for the younger people in my life, as they watch the left’s “throw money” attempts fail one by one, falling to common sense and intelligence. Sadly, they left’s “throw money” tactics work in some circles and for some causes. We really need to be vigilant on the civic and local political front.
CodeTech – Your earlier comment along the lines of 1960’s hippies/commies growing up and influencing current events – those are my conclusions as well. Regarding this comment – Be vigilant on how current lefty Washington State governor Jay “I’ll Pass a Carbon Tax on my Watch” Inslee is planning on forcing his will over the entire State (not just those like-thinking souls in the County of King) – Executive Order, anyone? With a modest shift in the State legislature (thanks, Eastern Washington voters!) Jay-man will not be able to forcibly shove a “Carbon (is that black soot – or the gas Carbon Dioxide?) Tax” down the throats of his constituency. I also noticed a shift in the local left-leaning newspaper yesterday. The Opinion section is on a Sunday usually peppered with articles of the left regarding “tackling/fighting/paying for Climate Change” – those were notably absent – except for one glaring article on the Carbon Tax issue. History: In this State back in the early 2000’s (when the “Globull Warming” scam was still in it’s infancy) the voters of this State passed one of those ill-informed, Agenda 21/Sustainabilty goals: “By the year 2020 this State will regress to carbon emission levels of 1990” or some such thing (can’t recall the exact language, but you catch my drift). In yesterday’s article, not only was the author writing that the “Carbon Tax” would serve to lower emissions of that “Evil Carbon”, but it would also serve – and $$ US along the lines of several BILLIONS were bandied about – to “Provide $$ US for another federal mandate to lower State K-12th grade School class sizes”. What’s not to like? It also stated a “Carbon Tax” was inviting because it would “tax polluters” while creating ample revenue for other unfunded mandates. Crazy thinking, what???????? I’ll post that article here soon, a great read……Wake Up, Evergreen State Coast Voters!!.
My earlier post is apparently still in moderation. In that missive I promised a link to a referenced article, and here it is for your reading pleasure: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/11/08/3476855/election-fallout-leaves-gov-inslee.html
Should this post pass moderation sooner and be shown prior to the earlier post, my apologies – wonder what I wrote that kicked it over to the moderators?? I try not to create additional work for you guys when I post.. it would be enlightening to know what was said so I may reword or avoid the trigger statements???
[Don’t worry about trying to avoid “key words and trigger phrases” … Everybody gets their turn in the queue. Life happens. Then you – the physical leftovers at least – either get recycled into someone else here on earth, or get shot into space. 8<) .mod]
@ur momisugly pat one error: There’s been a “Miserable F***ing Failure” Should read : there is been a “Fantastic F***ing Failure!” Oh right Brune said the first sentence, I said the last one!
In the past the Sierra Club wasn’t shy about receiving over $25 million from fossil fuel interests.
As for losing friends in Congress and gaining supporters in the streets, I hope next time the street people will vote in large enough numbers so Sierra can gain friends in Congress. What a nutter.
The mid term result restored my faith in the common sense of the American people or at least enough of them to win. Still nearly 50% show that they lack common sense and are still dangerous. Same here unfortunately. Conservatives have a very fine margin and are up against a tax and spend opposition. The left love spending other peoples money and a great many love receiving other peoples money so they vote for ——— you get the drift and realise what an uphill battle we must wage.
It’s a cycle. See the Mise theory of ‘computability’ (?). Socialist economies can’t effectively figure how much of what is needed where and when, so their efforts can’t break even. They make it up by spending the past’s built up resources and capital (OPM – other people’s money). As Thatcher noted, eventually it runs out. Then the prophets of profit regain power for a time, till there’s enough for the freeloaders to try to confiscate once more, and round we go. Rinse and repeat.
P.J. O’Rourke – I think – quoted, or mis-quoted, [in ‘Parliament of Whores’, a well-thumbed copy of which lives in my ‘Favourites shelf] one of a number of political philosophers – perhaps Tytler, perhaps de Toucqueville, perhaps neither, thus: –
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
Does this need to be more widely publicized?
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I think I am seeing it more clearly now. The ‘common’ voter only listens to the powerful messages of undemocratic sinister ‘corporate interests.’ If only they listened to the democratically elected and run non government organisations such as the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and WWF. Organisations untainted by the stench of corporate money, run by people that only have the interest of the planet at heart. Organisations who are fully accountable to … Wait, who are they accountable to?
Accountable to whom? It is the moral superiority of being accountable to all of humanity.
Accountable to Tom Steyer
Tom Seyer does nor give a F,,k, He has so much money it does not mean a thing, What these Billionaires are doing is a game much beyond our grasp They buy sport teams , big companies changing hands to them is a game because it is the only thing that provides them with adrenalin and excitement is playing with people lives and countries ( Ala Soros).
Slight disagreement. It is not beyond OUR comprehension, just our ability. We do not have billions to play the hypocrite with.
Maybe people are waking up to the reality that the green movement is too similar to the Nazi movement in terms of ideology and tactics for comfort. Even their lies are done Nazi style- make the lie big, tell it often and people will come to believe in it.
Hear Hear. But not just the Nazis take a look at communism. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge also comes to mind, close down all industry and revert to an agrarian economy, and those who don’t agree you simply remove on a permanent basis – 25% of the population were exterminated in that particular case.
Thee are some extremely unhealthy thought ‘processes’ within the climate-activist industry which seem to parallel some of Pol Pot’s thinking. I refer to some of the Warmists who call for the trial and execution of so called ‘deniers’.
That’s right. And the Sierra Club has been using hysterical, Goebbels-style propaganda to try to drive their points home. The big lie is one of the worst recent phenomena of American politics, particularly in the Leftist environmental movement.
Such is the logic of climate alarmists and how climate science is practiced today:
Black is white, unless of course it is black, but then it is still white.
Jeeez!! Brune sounds like a refugee from Pravda.
Reblogged this on the WeatherAction News Blog and commented:
Wow. This flips from rampant paranoia to denial. Please don’t show them a map of 3year+ ice in the Arctic it might send them over the edge they are desperately clinging to.
“Please don’t show them a map of 3year+ ice in the Arctic it might send them over the edge they are desperately clinging to.”
Actually, please do.
Somewhat a predictable response. The alarmists continue to claim warming even in the face of the fact that none has taken place for over 18 years, so it is only “logical” that a defeat is a “victory”. Additionally, one of the key post-election talking points for the left has been the so-called voter suppression. Refer to the wave of news articles on these suppression claims (with no facts) in the days that followed the drubbing last week.
The voice from the grave. The “climate change” alarmism is political poison and don’t you know the Democrats have learned that the hard way. The Greens will not recover from this spectacular flop. Let’s see if Brune keeps his job. Fat chance that his “street” friends will be able to help him out.
I believe Brune’s wider support in the streets is a prophetic statement about where he and his high living friends are going to end up! Hey if your voter suppression tactics are not as good as your opponents you should resign voluntarily. He better grab up a teller or garbage man job before the 100,000 unemployed climate scientists hit the streets, too.