Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Jerry Brown thinks we all need a total brainwashing to avoid the extinction of all mammalian life due to climate change.
Jerry Brown, President of the Independent Republic of California
As he crusades across Europe, the governor is acting like the leader of a sovereign country—an alternative to the United States in the Trump era.
By DAVID SIDERS November 11, 2017
Bonn, Germany, this week, Jerry Brown stopped over at the Vatican, where a doleful group of climate scientists, politicians and public health officials had convened to discuss calamities that might befall a warming world. The prospects were so dire—floods and fires, but also forced migration, famine and war—that some of the participants acknowledged difficulty staving off despair.
California’s doomsayer governor did not express much optimism either. Seated between an economist and an Argentine bishop at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Brown leaned into his microphone and said, “It is despairing. Ending the world, ending all mammalian life. This is bad stuff.”
“There’s nothing that I see out there that gives me any ground for optimism,” he went on. Still, he promised action: “I’m extremely excited about doing something about it.”
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In one sense, Brown’s fixation on climate change would seem unremarkable, the predictable conclusion of a career steeped in the ecological and environmental movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, early Earth Day rallies and the Stockholm conference on the environment weighed heavily on the public consciousness when Brown was starting out in politics, and observers of a certain age will still recall him mystifying audiences with pronouncements about “planetary realism” and the “spaceship Earth.” He was still talking about the need for a fundamental shift in lifestyle when he said at the Vatican that confronting climate change will require “a transformation of the relationship of human beings to all the mysterious network of things.”
“It’s not just a light rinse,” Brown said. “We need a total, I might say, brainwashing. We need to wash our brains out and see a very different kind of world.”
But in his climate diplomacy today, Brown is performing a more urgent, final act. For nearly all his public life—from secretary of state to governor, to mayor of Oakland and state attorney general before becoming governor once again, at age 72—Brown’s near-constant state was to run for public office. Now, for the first time, he is not. Term limits will chase Brown from the state Capitol in January 2019, and today he calls climate change his “campaign,” dismissing the idea that after running unsuccessfully for president three times, he might try again in 2020. “I’ve thought because people like you ask me,” he said in an interview before leaving for Europe. “But no, I’m not running.”
Now, Brown’s future rests on a family ranch in Northern California, where he is nearly finished building a remote, off-the-grid home. These days, he talks more about rattlesnakes and wild boar than the presidential election, and he has turned his focus from electoral politics to more existential concerns.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/11/jerry-brown-california-profile-215812
Perhaps retirement is what Brown had in mind, when Jerry Brown instructed state regulators to survey his Northern California ranch for oil in 2015. Despite the disappointing results of the survey, income from Brown’s land holdings, his governor’s pension and whatever other investments he has accumulated should make for a comfortable retirement.
Brown just washed his brain and can’t do a thing with it.
Too much conditioning.
“observers of a certain age will still recall him mystifying audiences with pronouncements about “planetary realism” and the “spaceship Earth.” Maybe there is some truth to the science that says too much marijuana use kills brain cells. Actually, when you think about it, most of the people smoking pot are the leftist types that support the whole notion of CAGW. Apologies in advance to those of you who use it medically.
He should know about “wild bore.” 😉 Do any of these nutters actually READ any of the DATA? Or do they just read each others’ science fiction and scare each other to death? Particularly fitting that Moonbeam’s busily running around the Vatican–because that’s historically been the font of Scientific Truth! /sarc.
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I don’t know if it kills brain cells or not, but it does distort the “data” brain cells use to “compute”.
(Back in the day, I remember stopping at a stop sign. I stayed stopped for five minutes or so before I realized it wasn’t going to turn green.)
40 Million years ago, temperature was a few degrees warmer than today’s, CO2 was approaching 2,000 ppm, and large mammals thrived — no extinctions.
Whatever he’s smoking, he should increase the dosage. At some point, he’ll become completely incoherent, like one of those animatronic things at Disneyland.
He is coherent now?
High pressure hose. all that is left is oozing green sludge.
Objection! Assumed organ not in evidence!
More likely they did a brain scan and it came out negative.
I think Brown is the one that needs a brainwashing, but he may be too far gone for it to do any good. There is a profound lack of knowledge concerning the “Scientific Method”, as it relates to cause and effect of the dynamics of climate change. Serious scientists have know for centuries that the Sun controls the climate for the entire solar system. How that dynamic works out is still under study, but to assume without evidence, that CO2 is the driver of climate is the height of absurdity…claims are not evidence, they are political agendas with the goal of controlling societies, globally.
“There’s nothing that I see out there that gives me any ground for optimism,”
…I’ll take that as a win
He is just an old, scared of death, 72y man. Who won’t even enjoy his new ranch.
Yes, because there Is No oil on it.
clearly he only wanted to know whether there was any oil there so he could make a stand and “keep it in the ground”.
He was 72 when he took office the last time. He will be 80 in April of 2018.
These old hippies are becoming way past tedious.
…and to think I used to wonder where he got his nickname…
Would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a mule
A mule is an animal with long funny ears
He kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny – and his brain is weak
He’s just plain stupid with a – stubborn streak
And by the way, if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule
Would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a pig
A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
His shoes are a terrible disgrace
He ain’t got no manners when he eats his food
He’s fat and lazy – and extremely rude
But if you don’t care a feather or a fig
You may grow up to be a pig
There is more:
Would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a fish
A fish won’t do anything but swim in a brook
He can’t write his name or read a book
And to fool the people is his only thought
Though he slippery – he still gets caught
But then if that sort of life is what you wish
You may grow up to be a fish
And all the monkeys aren’t in a zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So you see it’s all up to you
You can be better than you are
You could be swinging on a star
Swinging on stars is only possible due to gravity but it is useful to imagine the transfer of energy via high frequency e-m radiation (light) for the ultimate purpose of mankind as “carrying” any kind of beam home.
A**hole.
How does he get to build an off the grid abode when everybody else is attacked for trying to be off the grid? Hypocrit in spades.
He probably has a few big deisel generators for back up.
Communist Arse!
Wash Rinse Repeat…. Go Govner Moonbeam Go… to your ranch!
CAGW gives its devotees a reason to have Power (control over others’ lives), Pelf (other peoples’ money) and Position (reason to consider themselves better than others). PPP is the holy trinity of the parasite class; CAGW can’t possibly be a lie.
But a parasite is never satisfied; taking stuff from the people who make stuff is their job and their joy; they will do it ’til the end of the world and never have enough.
I know a horse vet who could do a number on these parasites. They’d end up all crinkly and pale and wiggly.
“California Gov. Jerry Brown to protesters during climate speech: ‘Let’s put you in the ground'”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/california-gov-jerry-brown-to-protesters-during-climate-speech-lets-put-you-in-the-ground/article/2640410
The catholic church has trained some remarkably like-minded seminarians … Joseph Stalin and Moonbeam spring to mind. A mass murderer and a wannabe.
catholic church? Staline’s was Orthodox church.
And i rather see it as an illustration to the old point “the world is foul of perverted christian ideas”.
When young Joseph Jugashvili (Stalin) was a seminarian, he was studying within the confines of the Georgian Church, which is separate from both Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches.
@bobburban
Looking for ‘correlations’?
* Napoleon was an immigrant from Corsica
* Stalin was an immigrant from Georgia
* Hitler was an immigrant from Austria
So during a period of unrest, a foreigner can step in and ‘make the country great again’.
One of the powers behind the throne must have had a bright idea.
* The Governator could not run for President because he was born in Austria. Instead a man born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia got the job.
* The last time there was a Cuban and a Canadian. But the guy who married a Czech honey trap won.
There was no unrest before, but there sure is a lot of it now.
RLu,
A swing and a miss. You’re out! Thanks for trying.
Napoleon wasn’t an immigrant because Corsica was part of France (even if many Corsicans were unhappy about that). Likewise Stalin with Georgia.
Sounds so much like …
“We will bury you!” (Russian: «мы вас похороним!», translit. “My vas pokhoronim!”).
A phrase that was used by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.
Brown is the Governor of Calizuela.
And one of the dumbest humans on the planet
What are we going to do when the climate change legislation refugees start streaming across the borders?
Simple. Tell them they’re heading in the wrong direction. Point them directly west, tell them ‘second star to the right and straight on until morning.’
Do you mean going South to escape the cold?
He is Governor of Dumbfuckistan.
The catholic church has trained some remarkably like-minded seminarians … Joseph Stalin and Moonbeam spring to mind.
The catholic church did not train these people. They freelanced all on their own.
Go away, just go away
Yesterday, Stanford University had a big football shindig. Thousands upon thousands of people came to campus. Cars were parked cheek-by-jowl under the trees in every field, family-sized caravans were scattered everywhere. Large crowds walked the lanes, and tailgaters were cooking up storms.
How much CO2 was produced by the literally thousands of purely whimsical trips to that game? How many fans flew in? The University of California has 9 campuses. They all have sporting teams, including football.
Those teams produce a) huge incomes for the campuses, and; b) huge amounts of fun-associated CO2.
Jerry Brown is deadly serious about CO2. He wants to legislate all internal combustion engines off the road. He thinks it’s a dire emergency that could end all planetary life.
“It is despairing. Ending the world, ending all mammalian life.” So he says.
If it’s such a big emergency, why hasn’t he ended all those UC California football games, and all those unnecessary CO2-producing trips? He could do it with a stroke of his pen.
And end all the UC public basketball games, and baseball games, too.
Put up or shut up, Jerry Brown. End unnecessary sporting trips.
And then let’s see how the California progressive elite squeals when their fun is affected. And how the academic virtue posers wither when their sports money dries up.
And don’t forget to ban private passenger aircraft, too, Jerry. So Leo DiCap and all the rest can really feel your angst.
You have a point.
If he really beieved in what is is sayed, he wouldn’t just talk about it, he would act. he would be building another Noah’s Ark instead of a new ranch, to begin with. Or suicide himself out of despair, the quick or slow way (alcohol)
Whoops, are we talking about Algore right now? I forgot. Oh yeah… his wannabe protege, BrownBeam
Mr. Frank, i think you’ve nailed it in that nothing will ever change the quest for the affluent life. As soon as politicians actually start cutting into the status quo, they will not be politicians for long. That’s why, i think, paris was created as a paper tiger. Because if it had real teeth, the folks would just rise up and get rid of not only the treaty, but the politicians that made the treaty. Politicians ain’t stupid. Therefor, all the best that they can/will do is pay lip service to agw all the while accomplishing little to nothing. People forget this when they say that the greens are winning. In the overall sceme of things they aren’t even coming close to winning. Life goes on, and will continue to go on (one football game at a time)…
post script~ i’m of too humble an estate to call you by your first name. you are a professor, no? (maybe i can call you “Professor Frank” instead… ☺)
Fonzie, we should be objecting to the horrendous waste of resources being expended against the shadow puppet monster of theoretical human interference in global climate. Politicians and bureaucrats are the ones who should have “their feet to the fire” over squandering our money on something that we can do nothing to change anyway.
Just Pat, afonzarelli, thanks. 🙂
” In the overall sceme of things they aren’t even coming close to winning. ”
That could change very quickly, with no opportunity to undo it. We came perilously close with His Obamaness.
The greens may not be winning, but the rest of us are losing, big time.
Its always someone elses job to make the lifestyle sacrifice Pat – especially if you are one of the climate aristocracy, reluctantly imperilling your purity with fossil fuel use to bring the green message to the world.
Oh, come on! Don’t you guys recognize a false flag when you see it?
Guvner Moonbeam seems to be straying in the general direction of — well, I want to say mild dementia, but that would imply that he ever had a working brain. I don’t know how much pot he’s smoked or how much acid he dropped in the 1960s, but these ridiculous statements he’s making may indicate that the side effects are VERY long term and irreversible. He seems to have successfully fried his gray matter.
Personally, I think he’s incompetent. But that’s just me. I think it’s time he retires.
Hmm… It’s a wonder that the whole population over 56 isn’t flipped out from the devil weed we smoked in 1975. Why did it only affect Moonbeam?
Some of us got delivered.
The rest voted for Hillary. 😎
The man is mad enough to admit he would mass brainwash people if he could. For the greater good, of course.
Now, if he could only lead his own little democratically socialist country… for the greater good of the world…
The dude is a megalomaniac, boys and girls. No drugs or alcohol to blame.
No one can use the ‘privileged white, climate denying old male’ accusation against me as long as that pillock is still around.
WASP: Weening Alarmist Scared Person
just remember…this is a career politician that thinks and says these things
A career politician who is re-elected again and again. People in CA apparently approve of his whining and crying like a little girl, not to mention massive spending of their money, statements about brainwashing and hugging undocumented beings. That says more than Moonbeam being a career politician.
What a sicko!
“Ending the world, ending all mammalian life.”
Certifiable. Belongs in an assylum.
Yeah. You’d think he would be more worried about reptilian life.
So the birdbrains would be OK?
Is that what he’s counting on?
CA must be rolling in money to bankroll this trip.
He may be spending money from the resent gas tax increase.
I am deeply ashamed to admit I voted for him once.
It happens. A moment of weakness, missed cues that the speaker is not sincere, etc. You have apparently come to your senses and that’s what counts.
Don’t feel too low, I voted for Obummer the first time around. I was a union guy in public education who thought the Dems could make it back like it was when Hillbilly Billy was in office. Little did I know he would later call me a denier.
“I am deeply ashamed to admit I voted for him once.”
I have eaten my share of humble pie but the memory of having voted for McCain was one of my biggest slices.
Who was he running against? Jeffrey Dahmer?
Brown’s opponent was under indictment at the time (part of the Watergate scandal), but I was such a leftist at the time I would have voted for him anyway.
who was the alternative?
The really sad, sad thing for the Once Great State of California is they will very likely elect a new Governor who is even more mentally deranged than MoonBeam: Gavin Newsom, the current Lt Governor. This guy makes Moonbeam look like a John Birch Society founder.
Anyone who can get out of California who hopes to save themselves from some savage tax increases, better get out now before Newsom becomes governor.
You mean Noisome?
On this side of the ditch – I had literally never heard of him.
I am not the greatest follower of political trivia, but thought I was reasonably aware – at least for the USA.
Not so much.
We all know the Wiki can be changed – even by me! – but Newsom seems to be fairly well connected – Browns, Gettys [‘Getties’ looks wrong to me!], Pelosis [think Nancy], in his or his father’s entries.
There must be a slew of up-and-coming politicos in the US, one of whom will become President in 2024-5.
Any tips?
Auto
As to who the Democrats are going to run for President, no one in the US has any idea either. Most of the leadership is quite old, and most of the people groomed for office, like the Castro brothers, did not get any traction.
Identity politics are the rule in Democrat Party.
That is Women, minorities candidates, and LGBTQ even better. Straight white guys need not even bother. Biden will get zero traction in his party.
California Senator Kamala Harris checks two of those boxes and is the current best guess for Democrat candidate for POTUS2020. She’ll have to work for an endorsement from Barry, but I’m sure like most Democrats, she’s up to the task.
Democrats would like to run Oprah, since she is all three, ie a black Lesbian, and like Trump, rich.
But she wisely seems to have no interest.
At this point, it’s really hard to guess whom the Democrats might nominate in 2020. The list is long, but might well still not include the nominee. Who would have suggested Bernie Sanders in Nov 2013?
No science here, pure politics — Brown wouldn’t do this on his own ‘dime’, THAT’S the test.
I won’t stand still long enough to let Jerry Brown wash my brain. The elites on the right have told me that it is not good to be brainwashed. And I always listen to the elites on the right. /Sarc
Chemical dry-cleaning counts. So too late for you.
Brown doesn’t appear to be aware that the most concentrated brainwashing ever conducted has been going on for decades in the West with total commitment by K-12 in public schools, every University in the Western World, all scientific institutions and publications, government agencies, research grant providers for a one sided issue, and all but a few news media. Yet, remarkably, there is that minority that can’t be brainwashed under the most coercive conditions. That minority that exercises critical thinking. That minority that won’t compromise their integrity though it may cost them a career, impoverish them, put them up to vilification, threats and organized efforts to silence them.
Even the Soviet Union with a 70yr unremitting campaign of brainwashing, coercion, long incarceration and extirmination, was unable to purge brave dissidents (sceptics) as a defiant resistance to totalitarianism. Indeed it is the few percent only who have always kept freedom alive at great personal cost. It is a fact that most will go along, most can be brainwashed, coerced or bought.
Jerry Brown, should be ashamed to even speak of using this most insidious of tools honed by the ugliest despots of the past century for garnering ‘consent’ and obedience. Jerry Brown should know that it works on the majority but it doesn’t snuff them all out. He should know that more sinister methods are then adopted to deal with those who are stubborn resisters. Shame on him. I believe when this destructive campaign fully collapses, the principle of freedom to be a sceptic becomes a protected human right. Free speech isn’t enough. We’ve seen how it gets manipulated, corralled, subverted, by idеолоgs.
Why do such as Jerry Brown fear this small percentage. Shouldn’t a massive majority be sufficient to do what they will? The answer is they fear this thinking minority that can articulate its position, debate their experts or even show the fear of these experts to engage in debate. Gavin Schmidt caught on camera fearfully skulking out the back of the TV stage when Roy Spencer was called in will be a go to link in perpetuity for analyists of this egregious age.
Well articulated, Gary!
Brainwashing is a favorite “debating” technique for autocrats. Jerry is showing his true colors.
I recommend Chapter 11, “The End of Truth,” in Friedrich A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom. In it he explains how under socialism truth no longer describes how an individual – as sole judge of evidence or its proponent’s credibility, according to experience and good conscience – decides if a fact warrants belief. The “truth” becomes something laid down by authority, something that must be accepted in the interest of the organized effort (which, of course, may need to be altered as exigencies require).
He adds that it is not enough to deprive most people of independent thought. The minority inclined to criticize must also be silenced. Every detail in the central plan, and every act of the government, must become sacrosanct and shielded from criticism. To ensure that people will support the common effort without hesitation, they must be convinced that both the end and the means to achieve it are right. Therefore to enforce adherence to the Official Creed as the only view of the facts important to the plan, criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed for threatening weakened public support.
Hayek was writing about Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
YIKES!
“Comrades, Embrace our naked propaganda…. and march!”</b
That's gonna really convince those darn conservative skeptics, right?
Dang…. mods – please close the bold.
Better idea: find that Cuban sonic brain wiper thingie and point it at Brown.
Maybe they tried and it didn’t work…
I’d say it did work. Better than they could have hoped for in fact.
A pea is a pretty small target !!
You can’t decrease the extent of the null set — or maybe Brown already has!
Cuban sonic brain wiper thingie
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the beam already has one. its has “HAT” written in big letters on the outside.
There’s hope after Hill and the Bern craze. Bring forth the brainwasher man.