Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The victory of President Trump is a gift not just for America but for the world.
As WUWT recently reported, the last few days has seen a growing panic amongst the inner core of the Climate movement, currently partying at taxpayer’s expense in Marrakesh, about what they hoped was the unlikely possibility of a Trump Victory. Now their worst fears are realised.
Many years ago, Lord Monckton predicted America would be nation to lead the world to freedom from the anti-humanist greed of the green movement. Lord Monckton’s prediction has now come to pass.
In my native Australia, in Europe, across the world, in the bleak halls of the United Nations, the climate elite were gathering for one final great push to claim the future. Their plans are now in ruins.
God bless the United States of America. God bless the next President of the United States, Donald J Trump.
Update (EW) fixed a typo (h/t Dodgy Geezer)
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Curing the current President’s failed healthcare, domestic spending, energy, foreign affairs, race relations, immigration, climate and his other incoherent anti-American policies will be a great challenge.
In Holland the public as shown on tv appears mainly shocked as the media tried hard to vilify Trump and idolize the Clintons. Many believe some eccentric if not dangerous idiot is now in charge int the US. Even our minister of foreign affairs Bert Koenders was struggling for words in his first reaction, clearly just as deceived by the media as the “intellectual elite” in general. The Brexit vote should have been a wake-up call for them, but they slumbered on still dreaming their fairy-tales. Now they are bitten again by the poisonous snake they nurtured for so long. The hopeless naive and one-sided picture the media created about what is going on in this world may have deceived many of their followers, it may have been the perfect tool for the green mob, but it blinded themselves as well. I see them falling into their own trap. That is good news.
My congratulations to Trump for a well fought victory. I pray for the realism and wisdom the GOP will need to answer the responsibilities that come with this victory.
…the green mob…
B I N G O !
You got it right (-:
The Green Mob isn’t going away anytime soon, but they are going to start losing battles.
With any luck, Holland will follow with Geert Wilders. Good luck to Holland, Jurgen.
I could use here in Finland exactly the same words as you Jurgen. It is amazing how the red-green filth has spread all over Europe.
I’d love to see Trump’s first act as president to ostentatiously cancel the EPA’s “endangerment finding.”
Wouldn’t that be sweet?
Some very extensive house cleaning is in order.
Yellow, crime-scene tape is in order.
even sweeter is nullify the executive order used to create the epa.
It was created via an executive order, however a later bill by congress formalized it’s creation.
It would take an act of congress to disband it now.
Until today vegetables were often refereed to as greens, but from today the Greens may be known as vegetables..
Be careful.
The first casualty of post election government is the claims pre election.
Trump isn’t necessarily going to anything we’d like.
So looking forward to Trump’s climate backflip next August as we get the first blue water Arctic since humans were hunting mega fauna.
I know, I know. That will just be evidence of infiltration of the evil greenie/elite/scientist/communists.
dang…you guys are so good with your predictions
Tell me tony, what be be so bad about an ice free arctic ?? Do you have a naive fascination with ice ? Should we all desire to be living in “Little Ice Age” conditions ? What is the perfect temperature that you seek and where on the planet should it be ? I am an American living in Canada and I can tell you clearly, Most thinking Canadians DO NOT want it to get colder…Simple reality…
Dear Mr. McLeod,
Are you related to any of the above McCleods (who spell their name with two “c’s”)?
See above brief discussion beginning here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/11/09/the-end-of-the-green-age/comment-page-1/#comment-2336060
Kindly reply just below. Thank you.
Janice Moore 🙂
Next August, completely ice free?
Are you totally delusional or are you just paid to make a fool of yourself.
I hope its a lot of money. To be that stupid deserves a fortune except the socialist greens would tax it heavily
There is a revolution happening in which WUWT is as much part of that revolution as Trump. That revolution is a communication revolution in which powerful unrepresentative elites can no longer control public discourse through their control of the press, media and even scientific journals
See; The Internet Revolution for Numpties
And the result for us in climate is going to be profound. Immediately we can say COP22 is dead as it will now turn into a hang wringing workshop. Likewise when Trump gets his feet under the table, the Paris agreement is dead. But best of all very soon NOAA will have a knock on the door forcing it to obey the subpoena to release correspondence emplaning why they “upjusted” the temperature data. And then when that investigation escalates to NASA, to the EPA, Mann, etc., the entire global warming scam will be dead.
And just to rub salt into your wounds – it snowed last night in Scotland. I would have smiled, except it started after my middle child had gone out for the first time after passing his driving test. And they said: “Soon children won’t know what snow is”
As an Englishman, just wanted to say my congratulations to all our cousins in the US. Astounding!
We have won but a single battle, but we have not yet won the war. The Democrats are still alive and as evil as they have ever been – Obama, Hillary, Reid, Pelosi, Soros, Algore, Biden, and many others are still here and still working to put us back in chains! I realize this sounds strange but, now that we have a Republican President, House, and Senate, we must do whatever we can to HELP the government achieve our goals! But now the shoe is on the other foot – for years Democrats and elites and the media have scrambled hand over foot to throw their money and blood at the feet of the government – so do we do the same? I am a Sovereign Citizen – an independent, free thinking, American Patriot – but do I now embrace my former oppressor? Or do we continue to work against them?
The Democrat loss is self inflicted. They abandoned the working people and took it for granted that those people had nowhere else to cast their votes. The result was that even the staunchest union supporters of the Democrat party finally abandoned it. They finally figured out that, in spite of the Democrats’ fine words, and facts, and logic, somehow the working people always ended up being shafted.
Here’s an article by Thomas Frank that explains what happened quite nicely.
Spot on. The Dems should make the best of their stint in the wilderness and embrace the chance to finally rid themselves of the Clintons and their corruption, to rediscover how to serve the people, not just themselves.
It’s deeper than the Clintons – they, like Obamas and the other dems, are owned lock, stock, and barrel by Soros. Remember his famous quote about the democrats after the Billy Jeff’s win: “I bought it, I own it.” And he is truly evil.
A great day for science, thank you America
Trump won BUT, even better…
Ding Dong the &itch is dead, the wicked &itch is dead…. and all the evil she would have wrought for 4 years.
especially the supreme court (Scalia’s replacement, Ginsberg? etc.)
Musk is in trouble now.
The EPA is in trouble.
Musk is in trouble now
Musk has been in trouble for a long while, this just seals his doom. Tesla and SolarTown will be dead before year end, next year at the latest. The guy has never shown a profit on Tesla or SpaceX (the latter is unfortunate in my opinion, I was rooting for him there). He lives off the gubmint teat and he had a right to in some sense; the taxes he must have paid after selling PayPal probably could have bought Nigeria lock, stock and barrel. I don;t blame hime for trying to get a little of his own back, but the party’s over.
Vesta windmills shares crashed today as well
Enter stage right, Myron Ebell of CEI to the head of the EPA. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
UK media, liberal commentators and politico’s in absolute meltdown. Multiple MP’s spitting with fury. First Brexit, now Trump. Total and utter humiliation has been visited upon the global liberal elite. Christ on a bike this is a glorious, beautiful and hilarious day.
+ a million!
Double it
Triple it! 🙂
Pearl clutching
Red, please don’t call them Liberal. We don’t have to do that anymore. They’re authoritarian socialists. Marxists. Stalinists. The Rusians threw them out, the Czechs threw them out, the Brits threw them out, today the Americans threw them out.
Time to have a beer and celebrate. Real Liberals have regained their name.
All we need now are the Canadians and the French.
Maybe the Germans too.
I sure as heck hope globalism is dead now. I hope it stays that way for a very long time.
I like English, Irish, French, German, Italian and Mexican food. I can’t say I like Scottish food, never had a taste for haggis, but I enjoy their culture. I don’t ever want those cultures to “blend”. I like them just the way they are, thank you very much. I enjoy listening to an learning other languages. I don’t want everyone on the planet to be the same.
Maybe it’s just me.
And Chinese. I love Chinese food. Let’s not forget Vietnamese , Philippine, or any of the rest except Australian, I don’t think Australia has a cuisine yet. But they’ll get there! They just need more time.
Don’t the Australians call is BBQ?
There’s probably not much hope for the Scots though…
Or the Dutch. I’m half Dutch. We just boil everything. Except oysters, which we eat raw.
Non asks: Don’t the Australians call is BBQ?
I think they call it “the Barbie”? But I don’t think they actually invented cooking over an open fire and I wouldn’t consider it a real cuisine even if they had. Sort of like hanging your wet clothes in the wind; not a true invention.
Never realized they were putting dolls on the grill. Live and learn…
Well, after all, they are Australians?
What about Vegemite? Or is that something you use to lubricate the gears in a big truck?
To some people that’s the stuff to get in the reverse gear of their stomach quickly…
Love it or – hate it.
I, too, greatly prefer the real diversity of the many distinct cultures of the world, to the totally abstract “diversity” of the so-called progressives. Where everybody has a different means of “self-expression”, different “non-binary” gender, different persons/animals/things they have sex with, etc, yet all think the same, all speak the same jargon, all eat the same cuisine, all share the same worldview, all express the same prejudices (and indignantly deny they have any), all possess that grating tone of unearned moral authority, all consider themselves to be on “the right side of history”, ad nauseum.
To the plank with the lot of ’em, says I. Arr!
True Janice, there is Vegemite. Made famous in the US only recently by Men At Work (300 years ago?) I’d forgotten about it.
300 years ago is only recent by European and Asian standards.
Vegemite is good for you, it’ll put hairs on your chest. Personally, I like it when it’s been sitting around for a long time… a year or more… gets real chewy then. Go on… guess my nationality. 😛
“Go on… guess my nationality.”
Well OK, but you asked for it. I’m going to say you’re a Scotsman? Nothing quite settles the stomach like something old you found fermenting in a stump…
I could be sure if you told me you boiled it over a fire made of dried sheep dung and bog moss. That would make the identification positive; you’d have to be a Scot.
The first step should be detoxification of the language.
We must refuse to use their terms.
As example, look at the title: “The End of the Green Age”.
How can fight against plant food be described as “green”?
If we still allow them to control the language, we will lose in a long run.
I like your idea, very Confucian of you. “The Rectification of Names” is the first step towards restoring an unhealthy society, according to the teachings of Confucius.
or to quote a more recent thinker, Orwell, “In a time of universal lies, truth-telling becomes a revolutionary act.”
Absolutely right. There’s nothing bad about green or environmental concerns. There is something bad about the people who’ve used those terms to take control of our lives.
Absolutely. Start at home. There are so many things to do: stop squandering food and water, burn wood instead of electric heating, etc etc etc
Agreed, Bartleby. That’s why I call them Gang-Green – but I’m willing to change the spelling to reflect more honesty. Gangrene they will be to my mind from now on (and should be treated as such). Just my opinion, of course. 🙂
Yes. We do most of our thinking within the context of language. Control of public discourse doesn’t fully equate to control of the public, but certainly makes it easier.
Over time, restraints on what you may express and stay socially “respectable” will restrain what you can actually think, because you eventually forget, through disuse, the linguistic context that made thinking in those terms possible.
This process is actually part of being a social creature, and is not necessarily malevolent. Morality is rooted in it. Most of us are not robbers or murderers, and so never learn to think in the same “language” as robbers or murderers (and be disciplined if we start). Teamwork requires it, to an extent. A reasonable amount of control of language is part of how the human community works.
But the unwritten PC speech codes we know and loathe are eminently unreasonable. Refuse to be restrained by them.
Hanna Pitkin famously wrote a book on that subject I consider a definitive work titled “Wittgenstein and Justice”. It explores Wittgenstein’s theory of language and how it effects cognition. It’s not to be missed.
people ensconced in epa (thanks nixon….) for decades, will be hard to drain that swamp w/o totally disbanding epa.
And exactly what would be “wrong” with disbanding the EPA? I suppose you’ll need to tell me one more time…
nothing wrong with disbanding it.
that was sort of my point
I only mentioned it because it seemed you considered completely disbanding the EPA an extreme action. I agree there’s probably no way to “fix” the EPA, it’s developed its own culture and can’t be fixed. It needs to be de-funded, disbanded and re-created from the ground up with a clarified mission. I believe it’s job is to enforce environmental regulation, not make them; that’s the sole purview of Congress. The people employed by that agency have lived too long under a completely different mission statement, one they seem to have developed internally.
Other commentators have informed us that the EPA has the force of law, but I doubt that the law specifies the size of the EPA. It could presumably be one person and their dog to satisfy the word of the law. as far as reducing the size of the EPA, just send every person currently employed on fact finding tours, such as how the “lessor spotted striped flying newt” is doing in Death Valley in response to “climate change”. To protect the environment only renewable transport may be used and only renewable accommodation during the 6 month long deployment. Of course no damage to the environment could be permitted so any wastes (including digestive ) would have to collected and removed by hand. Any employee that resigned would not be replaced, any that did not would be sent on a 2 year deployment to study the greater tweetle bird on Kodiak Island. Risk of harm to the environment preclude the carrying of firearms so the EPA personel would have to take their chances with the bears.
By such means the EPA could be contained to a useful size and costing whilst not requiring any changes to the law.
A baroque approach but certainly humorous. I favor just not paying them and waiting for them to find other jobs.
Not so much OT: Some months ago Willis did a post arguing the pros/cons of Free Trade. I’ve searched WUWT but can’t find it. Can anyone here help, or point me to the article? TIA.
1Saveenergy,
As long as that vagrant from Skid Row also won The USA Senate and Reps I am Happy as it means the Public Purse is closed to the climate scam.
That in itself is beyond fabulous but A Trump Admin not only has both Houses as Republican but, and I call upon my American Friends and Allies to verify, does it give The Trump People the Call for appointing 1 if not 2 Supreme Court Judges?
Add to that the concept of people rejecting the Overwhelming and Overbearing Media Bias and The Trump victory is extraordinary.
What will he make of it? Who knows but I think he may surprise a few.
Australia voted for a Conservative Government in 2013 (they won but later knifed their leader for a liberal type) but we did not actually get one and while Donald is not your typical Conservative he would never fall for legislating the Luvvy nonsense that has blighted Western Governments this century.
Bye Bye Miss American Pie. Bye Bye To The Climate Change Pie.
What do readers think will be the Mainstream and Internet Media response.
Our Aussie Media of nearly all types went feral and histrionic when Labour lost in 2013 and we know that the media had no love for Donald before The Election.
Also is it to soon to tell if Hillary will be back in 2 years to go for it again?
Will she return to being Hillary Rodham and…is it too early for Bill to start dating again?
And going for it again too…sorry Mr Watts…I shall put myself in the Bad Boy Corner…Again.
..More likely 4 nominations for The Supreme Court…IF he gets elected for a second term, which is almost always a given…
For a concise Progressive (not Liberal) response to Trump’s unanticipated victory, see Epps’ essay at The Atlantic. Something about breaking the Constitution. It’s truly epic.
YES!
Hard to imagined what is about to happen. Trump must not use the bully pulpit to be a bully. But that would mean he has to change his tone. He can accomplish great things, but far better to accomplish them through congress legally, by building long-lasting coalitions of republicans and democrats, and eschewing the route of executive mandates like Obama. This goes for Obama’s signature healthcare. Get rid of it, and all the lousy EPA mandates, but do it legally. There will obviously need to be serious personnel changes, but let it be accomplished transparently, and in a way that doesn’t trash the system. Trump has had to waste a lot of time fencing with the press. It will be interesting to see what tone he takes now with a notoriously curve ball media that has been so busily declaiming his legitimacy. IMO, he just needs to prove them wrong. He’ll soon be on taxpayers’ time. It would be a mistake for him to start looking for revenge and sniping back at his detractors.
Isn’t he the world famous author of “The Art of the Deal”? I suspect trying to teach Trump about coalitions would be a lot like teaching your Grandmother to suck eggs.
You’re fired.
Had to chuckle at this particular insight into the lefty mindset-
“Fourteen percent of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said they had blocked a family member or close friend from social media because of the election. For Democrats, this rises to 23 percent compared to 8 percent for Republicans.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-division-insight-idUSKBN13419A?utm_source=34553&utm_medium=partner
Finally some good news!
BTW @Eric Why ask god to bless only one country and one man? Aren’t we all blessed?
(I’m not into religions that’s why I’m curious)
I remember when Ronald Reagan was elected and all the prophecies of doom and gloom were made about an actor in the White House. He was the best President of the USA within my lifetime, like Donald Trump many people believed in what he said, but didn’t like the way he said it.
Well, congratulations y’all.
Bill, thanks. I am not happy with Donald J Trump, but clearly many people were even less happy with the establishment. Call it an American Brexit.
Well spoken. Many voters must have thought exacty that when ticking Trump’s box.
This is the beginning of the end for Leftists’ CAGW agenda, which Trump has called a ho-x.
The Paris “agreement”, draconian and economically crippling CO2 sequestration regulations, CAGW research funding, wind and solar plants,etc. will all be trashed.
A great day for freedom and science.
A great day for common sense!