Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate advocate Leonardo DiCaprio has called for climate “deniers” to be banned from public office. President Obama, sharing a stage with DiCaprio, did not object – Obama’s words in my opinion appear to actually lend some support to DiCaprio’s outrageous demand, for limiting the US people’s freedom to choose leaders who represent their views.
DiCaprio: Climate change doubters shouldn’t hold public office
Politicians who don’t believe in climate change should not hold public office, said actor Leonardo DiCaprio Monday at the White House before the screening of his new climate documentary.
“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” DiCaprio said at the White House’s South By South Lawn event.
“If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office.”
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“Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you,” Obama said.
“The political system in every country is not well-designed to do something tough now to solve a problem that people will really feel the impact of in the future.”
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Read more (includes a video): http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/leonardo-dicaprio-barack-obama-sxsl-climate-change
How many tyrants and dictators through history have used the pretext of an imminent disaster to seize control, to deprive people of their freedom?
It is one thing for a hypocritical jetset climate clown like DiCaprio to say something outrageous and anti-democratic. But it is an entirely different issue, when the serving President of the United States, who took an oath to defend the US constitution, fails to discharge his duty by speaking up against a high profile verbal attack against the liberty of the people he swore to protect.
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THIS ACTOR SOUNDS LIKE HIMMLER…OR THE GESTAPO!!!
Seig Heil, Fuhrer Leonardo!
And stupid Actorvists shouldn’t be allowed to speek Publicly
Bryan
Actorvist. + lots!
Auto [I once played joseph in a school Nativity. Can I be an Actorvist, too? Even a baby one?]
Only those who believe and practice witch-craft can be President.
Or any other illiterate ghe nutter.
Throw the scumbag out of Hollywood
EE-YUP.
Come on…this guy has a GED.
Send him to Mars
Oh wait, amazing news 🙂
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3823210/Leonardo-DiCaprio-reveals-s-planning-trip-Mars-climate-change-talk.html
http://storycartoons.com/big/global_warming_skeptics.jpg
I will never watch a movie with DiCaprio in it. He is a traitor to the Constitution. President Obama is a disgrace for remaining silent.
Maybe he should play Stalin in his next film. This was good practice.
Actually Dicaprio looks much more like a young Lenin.
Either way Obama just sitting there and not even laughingly interjecting says it all. The guy is a grade A weasel. “Being There” main character Chauncey Gardner had more substance. more gravitas than this dribbledick. No wonder a piece of utter crap like Trump has such wide appeal.
Obama will be remembered as the man who presided over the evacuation of America from iys international standing. He has done more damage than that final, panicked flight from Vietnam in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he even started the job but rather than actually bringing ‘peace in our time’ he has just pissed on our time. Duterte’s contempt is simply a measure of what Obama has actually achieved.
If anyone decides to make a movie of “The Snow Goose” we all know which part De Crapio would be best suited for.
Obama is a disgrace for much more than just this. In fact, I’m actually surprised he didn’t openly agree with the other idiot.
He’s probably got a ninth-grade education; he almost certainly doesn’t know much about the Constitution.
Mssr. DiCaprio is a distinguished, um, achiever of an, ah, 11th grade education.
You only need a grade 7 education to understand basic science and certain facts like CO2 is plant food.
Nor science.
He’s placed himself with Sean Penn as an actor whose movies I refuse to watch.
President Obama is a disgrace for remaining silent.
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Obama and Clinton both recognize that the First Amendment limits Congress, not the President. The President is free to shut down freedom of speech thru Executive Order. Don’t like what someone has to say, drone them.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Global News, Canada, January, 22, 2016
Justin Trudeau tells Leonardo DiCaprio inflated oil rhetoric ‘doesn’t necessarily help’
http://www.globalnews.ca//news/2471905/justin-trudeau-tells-leonardo-dicaprio-inflamed-rhetoric-doesnt-necessarily-help
Also a Canada basher.
Correction:
http://www.globalnews.ca/news/2471905/justin-trudeau-tells-leonardo-dicaprio-inflamed-oil-rhetoric-doesnt-necessarily-help
Personally, I don’t watch DiCaprio movies because they’re almost always bad. Not that he’s a bad “actor” if you enjoy the single personality he plays, but he chooses poor scripts.
I like Harrison Ford even though he always plays the same character in different settings. Like DiCaprio, he’s not all that versatile, but he has better taste in scripts I think. At least, I can say his taste in scripts is closer to mine.
DiCaprio was OK in “Titanic”, which was a good script. He got lucky. He’s done nothing more of note. I wouldn’t call him an actor, a ham is closer to the mark. He’s a “one trick pony” in the classic sense.
I partially agree with your point. However, Harrison Ford is much more versatile (but I do not disagree on your analysis of his talent). He has done movies such as Sabrina and Regarding Henry. In your defense, he did look out of place in both.
The Constitution bans religious tests for office.
…as demonstrated by the fact that CAGW is, without a doubt, a religion.
(trigger alert ; )
Science is a religion, though philosophic rather than theistic in nature, and “Climate Change” is just a cult, it seems to me. We’ve been indoctrinated, I believe for decades, with the underlying objective of moving us into an “elitist” technocratic dictatorship, with Big Siants (just sounds like science ; ) replacing theistic religion as the source of moral standards/justification and behavioral norms, and givers people “something bigger than themselves to be a part of . . which hands down ultimate truth and prophecy as needed to justify whatever the ruling elites (highbrow criminals, basically) want us to do/accept/obey.
Big Siants includes “social science” in a big way, and hence we get treated to dorky crap like SJWs and virtue signaling celebrities like this clown here . .
To sell the Siants god, they had to discredit/demonize the Christian God, and religion, so they could indoctrinate the young into their synthetic replacement. (which is not science in the classical sense). And, tellingly I feel, if you check you’ll find that virtually all the famous religion/God bashers we’ve been highly exposed to for decades, are members of the CAGW clan . .
John, maybe that’s true using some ancient sense of the word “religion”, but it doesn’t jive with the modern definition. Especially in the monotheistic West, exclusivity is a major component of religion. This is why it is common to refer to Confusianism and Taoism as “philosophies” rather than religions, because their practitioners also follow a variety of other religious practices .
As for your “going to a technocracy led by scientific overlords”, you are going way out of line and out of evidence. I don’t really think that’s worthy of a response.
Real science is not a religion, it is a methodology developed to try to keep us from making the more obvious mistakes in our thinking. It is not a machine that you feed data into and crank out the right answer at the end, as some seem to believe. Can you make mistakes using science? Sure, it happens more time than not. Can you overcome those mistakes by using science? Yes.
JohnKnight…”Science is a religion, though philosophic rather than theistic in nature, ”
Proper science, of the objective, and not subjective sort has (or should have as much as practical) nothing to do with “belief” and religion or philosophy. Objective science is hard to find these days (cue psychology or any number of -ologies than can never be measured or objectively described).
Perhaps we need to find a way to separate actual science. This is unfortunately muddied by “atheists” attempting to supplant religion with science, when the two should serve entirely different purposes.
I think you guys are just being dogmatic . . because we’ve been indoctrinated to react to the term ‘religion’ . . and other terms like ‘belief’, and ‘philosophy’ . .
“Real science is not a religion, it is a methodology developed to try to keep us from making the more obvious mistakes in our thinking.”
Mr. Newton called it the “experimental philosophy”, and the point of the methodology is, as you say, to try to keep us from mistakes in our thinking . . which is what philosophy is all about; careful and “transparent” thinking . . right?
.”Proper science, of the objective, and not subjective sort has (or should have as much as practical) nothing to do with “belief” and religion or philosophy.”
Proper science has EVERYTHING to do with belief, I say. What would be the point of conducting science if it didn’t result in ideas and techniques and so on, that we could believe in? You can’t even do science without belief in a great many things . . including of course stuff like many “natural laws”, which is a concept directly taken from the Judaeo-Christian concept of a Creator God who established the universe including strict “rules” that material stuff obeys.
Other civilizations didn’t have that foundation belief, and on atheism, it has no rational justification at all that I can imagine . . why would one assume that “laws of nature” exist and are the same in all places at all times, as a starting point, if we are in a happenstance universe? Christian intellectuals did, and began what we now call science.
Later (after much successful experimental philosophizing ; ) others took up the idea of universal natural laws and proclaimed (essentially) that God can’t exist because He would be a violation of the very laws the Christian intellectuals assumed based on the Book and attributed to Him . .
And the modern anti-theists use a simple word game played with ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’, to justify much verbal persecution of “Believers” on the (to me) obviously fallacious grounds that science somehow knows that nothing above nature/natural law can occur/exist . . with occasional convenient exceptions like hypothetical “strings” that can spawn whole universes . . by the gazillions, so as to render the unspeakably conducive one we happen to inhabit; plausibly not designed . .
But I digress, my point is that conducting science demands faith/belief in a great many things, and adherence to many well established “doctrines” and “rituals”, with high moral standards rigorously maintained throughout . . or we don’t accept the results as legitimate scientific truth/understanding. Ergo, the CAGW apostasy . . ; )
JohnKnight has advanced his science is religion views several times on WUWT. John comes across as trained in postmodernist twaddle, without having been able to see its obvious and utter failure to achieve anything; except of course, to couch the complaints of intellectual impostures.
Any port in a storm, I suppose . .
JohnKnight: Laurie Anderson wrote a compelling song on the subject titled “Big Science” in the early 80’s, I had the privilege of seeing her perform it at the Kabuki Theater in San Francisco during her tour following the album release. It’s very good, perhaps even outstanding, and very much in support of your point. If you haven’t heard it (or of her) I highly recommend correcting that.
Thanks Bartleby . . haunting stuff . .
Nice one
“empirical truths”? That’s the LAST thing the warmistas have going for them! For them, it’s models…all the way down!
My feelings exactly.
De Capriato obvious does not understand the meaning of the word empirical.
Dont think I will watch his movie though. Just be like Al Gore’s I suspect.
Check this of AL Gore. Note he does not mention any time lines. I 5000 years maybe his prediction may come true but there would be no money in mentioning that little fact .
https://youtu.be/1KkrlhoFbBM
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
DiCaprio has obviously never read Article VI, Clause 3 of the US Constitution.
Are we sure he’s not really Canadian?
Don’t blame the Great White North for this idiot! He’s all yours and he sounds to me like he wants to be president!
Sadly, that is not as bizarre as it sounds. If Reagan can and Trump might…… why not Leo taking the baton??
Hey, . thats showbiz!!
Reagan was first president of the Screen Actors Guild, then a very successful governor of California, before running for office. He had been giving well written and received political speeches for years prior to his run as well. There is nothing surprising in the fact that he was able to run and win.
I think, as a Canadian, you should amend that to say, “Are we sure he’s not really a Canadian “LIBERAL” The previous (Conservative) PM of Canada (Stephen Harper) had no plans to implement a Carbon Tax. In contrast, the Liberal premier (Kathleen Wynne) of Ontario, the province I live in, is going to institute a Cap & Trade system joining California and Quebec starting in January, 2017. It will NOT be revenue neutral and the cost has been estimated to be about $490 per family per year.
The new idiot in Ottawa (PM Justin Trudeau – he has very pretty hair and an empty head) just announced a Federal Carbon Tax starting in 2018. No word yet whether it will be revenue neutral – I wouldn’t count on it. It will start at $10 per tonne, increasing to $50 per tonne by 2022. When the federal Carbon Tax was announced during a recent meeting between the federal and the provincial finance ministers, three of the latter got up and walked out saying their provinces weren’t consulted. Neither “Liberal” (Trudeau or Wynne)mentioned a Carbon Tax (or Cap & Trade) in their last election campaigns – Wynne in 2014 and Trudeau in 2015.
Along with the foolish entry into Wind & Solar by the Liberal government in Ontario, the prime reason for the doubling of electricity rates over the last ten years, more people in this province are going to be freezing in the dark before long.The number of families unable to pay their electricity bills has jumped from ~185,000 ($292 average owing) in 2013 to ~225,000 ($487 average owing) in 2015. The province has also shed 300,000 manufacturing jobs over this period, including Heinz, Kellogg and Caterpillar. All of this, of course, is to “Save the Planet”, and to hell with the people.
I know Americans don’t pay much attention to what goes on up here in the Great White North, but you should in this case. The Shape of Things to Come for these United States of America.? Come November you will find out! Vote for Trump (warts and all) or you may suffer the same fate!
Are Ontario and South Australia sister states? Sure sounds like it, and identical twins.
@ur momisugly John in Oz, the two might not be twins but as far as Ontario is concerned the first time an “Globull” warming event happens , (that is the next snow fall and the the accompanying power outages) it will be. I predict that to happen in the next 4 weeks , it is after all Fall there and those November storms are quite regular and can be devastating because the sheep are not prepared for them ( Well okay at least sheep have a winter coat).
. . . and if the estimate is $490, you can be sure it will turn out to be at least double–ballooning like JT’s out of control deficit spending. Your electricity bills already include about $113/month in green-related fees. And now with DiCaprio and Suzuki cheerleading, it’s going to be inflicted on ALL of us. Until 2019. . . .
@ur momisugly 3 c : I’ll guess that the Climate Before Citizens (CBC) poll must have missed you in the Poll that stated (paraphrased) All Canadians pretty much agree with our front man, this “Just-In” that Canada Loves the Tax.
I am Canadian, why would you say something like? Still waiting.
Perhaps Canadians didn’t know how they fit into this situation until recently.
Brian: Re the constitutional restrictions on what DeCrapio said: Wasn’t Obama a lecturer (he said) in Constitutional Law at Harvard? (Or is that just another one of his mis-statements?)
U of Chicago. Alongside his community organizer gig.
No one outside of the “inner-circle” has a clue as to what Obama actually accomplished at Harvard …… simply because his transcripts and other personal info/data are “sealed” from any inquiry.
And the only reason that I can think of as to why Obama’s submitted Freshman Application Forms, Student Loan Forms, Student Grant Applications and/or Obama’s Grade Transcripts are all under “lock n’ key” at Harvard University is that there is some highly sensitive personal information on one (1) or more of said “sealed” papers that the US public should never be made aware of.
And “HA”, …… Kaine attempted to pull an “Able” on Pence Tuesday night to “kill” Pence’s chances of becoming VP ……. but Caine, …. I mean Kaine failed miserably and accomplished little more than to “shoot himself in the foot”.
He is definitely not one of us! If he was then he would realize he was mocked by some Alberta cowboys. When he asked about the Chinooks, the locals told him it had never happened before. I know his real name is Leonardo, but, I think Dick would be appropriate.
Bill Lee writes: “I know his real name is Leonardo, but, I think Dick would be appropriate.”
How do you feel about Nardo?
porkchop…not canadian
Once the truth is finally accepted, it may end up that climate alarmists are the ones that get banned from public office.
DiCaprio really is a hypocritical tool.
I think “stool” fits better.
And we all know where stools come from!
How bout Decrapio is really a communists tool.
I think freedom is more important than defeating the greens. With freedom you have the people have the option of walking back political mistakes.
The fact that DiCaprio flies everywhere in a private jet says it all. Too many of these idiots have the “Do as i say, not as I do” mentality
How adorable he is, I want one.
With or without?
With talent there’s an extra fee. Get on the waiting list.
Looking at the featured picture, I think his facial hair is “Mannish”. Perhaps if he lost some hair too…
“Mannish” LOL!,
But as usual he has prepped notes in his hands, an actor all the way, he couldn’t talk his way out of a paper bag.
You can have him. Just keep him off my lawn.
When only 5% of the people in the US are employed in a technical field, its no wonder why so many people are easily swayed by a bunch of lefties playing computer games with predetermined outcomes.
If “so many people” were really swayed, the matter would have already been settled, it seems to me, and there would be no need for talk of banning those still unswayed from public office.
It’s like the candidacy of Ms. Clinton, I believe, virtually no “grass roots” support.
People are swayed enough to elect leftist governments pushing the green agenda. That is the best indicator of public opinion and the momentum of the ideology, as the matter is being settled incrementally in this fashion. Unless CAGW is widely publicized as bunk and becomes a deal-breaker for voters, they will continue voting for lefties and capitulated “conservatives” because that’s what good people do (sarc). The conflict of interest between government power and scientific objectivity is what has driven the agenda, and ambitious politicians will continue to use the agenda to their own benefit. Whether or not the gordian knot of green lies can be unwound depends on the power and influence of government, which continues to grow in western democracies abetted by those very lies.
If you are both a Denier and a Deplorable, do you get a double-D patch to wear in public?
“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
Michael Palin
Wow, what with Ms Angelina Jolie Pitt, or whatever she calls herself now, berating anyone who doesn’t welcome millions of refugees into their homes (not any of hers mind you) and dear little Leonardo taking over democracy, who needs universities. Obviously acting school offers a great deal more than advertised.
Ever notice that the progressive elites are not exposed to the location of refugees, only the common person. How many refugees have been relocated in Chappaquiddick, Chappaqua, Nantucket, or places like Obama’s favorite vacation spots. The elites have decided that the peons must live with the risk of crime, poverty, and disease while paying for housing, schooling, etc.
Ah, an ignorant bitter lefty trolling along.
Ronald Reagan was a patriot who believed in America’s greatness.
It really is sad the way leftists feel the need to go out of their way to show how stupid and intolerant they are.
Yes, then he left acting and the Democrats. I’m sure there is a correlation.
Hi Forrest:
Just FYI, and nothing else, OK?
Reagan spent many years as a Democrat, back when, it could be argued, that Democrats may have had big hearts for the “little guy” (which, BTW, would include me; a full- and a part-time job, just to put beans on the table; sole support from those jobs for my wife and our four grandchildren; my AGI in 2015 was just under $32,000, and we cannot afford ObamaCare, so we just pay the fine; it’s much cheaper).
Reagan eventually figured out that the Democrats no longer cared about the “little guy”, and instead only cared about Democrats. At one point he declared, “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me.”
To head off the inevitable reply from you, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me. I am a Conservative, and I am not a Democrat, or Republican, because neither of those two parties has any semblance I what I stand for, which is Constitutionally limited government (which, since I doubt you understand it, is what our Founding Fathers set up for us).
I’m the littlest of the little, Mr. Gardner. The Democrats are killing me, and thousands upon thousands of others just like me. They are working to send the ‘middle’ class into the ‘lower’ class, just as Alexander Tyler forecast, in the early 19th Century.
You didn’t know that Reagan was once a Democrat; you’ve missed some History. Maybe you’ve heard that those who fail to study History are doomed to repeat it.
I’d prefer that you repeat it on your own; I don’t think I have to learn that lesson. Please include me out.
Regards,
Vlad
Hi Mr. Gardner:
Just not up on my “Australian” History, except as applied to its subsurface. The political parties down under make no sense to a decent share of NH residents, except that the ideologies seem to mirror the ones we have in other parts of the world. (This is not a good thing)
And the outcome(s) are always the same, so it would seem that the lessons of History are lost on far to many.
Also confused on this “high horse” business. I think I mentioned something about being the lowest of the low, and in the death spiral induced by certain political elements who are out of my control. I would urge caution on riding high horses, otherwise “Ronnie Ray Gun” just might come a-ridin’ in, wearing his white hat, a pair of Colt .45 six-guns a-blazin’ an’ takin’ them bad guys out!
His name, Mr. Gardner, was Ronald Wilson Reagan, not Ronnie Ray Gun, and he was my President. I’d be happy to enlighten you further on the merits of Constitutionally-limited government. Surprisingly enough, it works every time it’s tried!
Regards,
Vlad the Impaler (moniker bestowed upon me by another like-minded individual to yourself)
Seems to me the high horse was what you rode in on, with your “Ronnie Ray Gun” denigration.
‘It may interest those living in the land of the free and the home of the brave that mocking political leaders past and present is something of a national pastime in Australia’
Well, perhaps you missed the point where it stopped being funny.
We see the attitude of the “government” if Hillary gets elected, radical minds will decide everything, even what you allowed to eat, drive, believe, think, or have learned what is correct science or morals.
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Obama already does not currently follow the laws as passed by congress or the rights afforded us in the Constitution.
One could call it a dictatorship as Venezuela has with the same results.
Sounds like a little dictator. I’ve often found it funny that “fans” are so star struck by actors, who really just lie for a living. They’re really good at pretending to be someone else, but they don’t know much about freedom or science.
Sounds like a little d¡ck
Evan Sayet – Not the best audio but you’ll get the message.
Useful idiot.
Useful???
Two bloviating twits on a stage- Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber. Eff ’em both.
Motion picture making should be monitored for all CO2 & methane emissions related to a movie, including direct in-place, ancillary prior to usage, consequential to subsequent release, viewing procedures & end-user access. The “Hollywood” style of tax credits should be revoked since children, who will suffer as a result of those emissions, in the future will be forced to live with any effects occassioned by motion picture industry behavior. An immediate change in tax laws should be enacted which retroactively codifies a higher tax bracket for movie actors whose net worth is more than 2 or 3 times the average income in the place of the actor’s primary residence. /
I think we need a 200% tax on fuel for private jets..
Leonardo’s hot air just caused a Chinook on stage.
If profanity were allowed here I would post an expletive implying that Mr. Di Caprio is an xy chromosomal offspring of a female canid, but since such posts are not permitted I shall relunctantly refrain from such.
Or ‘son of a dogs sister’
This guy is a real worry.
Leonardo de Caprio now espouses the most erudite and irrefutable argument (not) for a Carbon Tax.
I paraphrase
“most scientists see the Silver Bullet as being a Carbon Tax”.
Ah what about horses for courses? Economists and other financial modellers might just have some input or do we just hang our whole future on the same guys I see as bastardising Science! If it weren’t so naive it would be funny.
Thanks, famous actors:
It’s marvelous how Hollywood liberals attempt to dictate how us “little people” should live, while they enjoy all the perks of being above the herd. We have to lower our heat to cut CO2 while they flit about in private jets. They decry the second amendment while cranking out an endless parade of “action” movies filled with gun violence. How about we tax private jets, and ban movies with firearms? They can ride the bus, and try to sell animated children’s stories.
Well, as you know, everyone is equal but some are more equal than others.
What would be cool is if just once an alarmist would answer a “denier ” with reality instead of calling for censorship. Anytime I hear the words hate speech or denier it just means leftiy lacks a coherent counter perspective.
“I’m not a real climate scientist, I just play one in the movies… well I want to play one anyway.”
Too bad his script writer is so stupid.
It looks to me like we’re near the end of the Climate hustle. Perhaps we should be grateful that these two fellows came together to drive the final spikes into the religion of “Climate Change”.