Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Willie Soon & Breitbart – Bill Nye wants to “engage everybody”, get everyone on board his global warming action bandwagon by punishing “hillbillies” and imposing economic sanctions on red states which don’t comply with his climate demands.
Bill Nye: Blue States Will ‘Impose Economic Sanctions’ Against Climate Change-Denying States
… Nye said, “Only 40 percent of people in the U.S. think that Congress should be addressing this and that’s because certain conservative groups, especially from the fossil fuel industry, have been very successful in introducing the idea that scientific uncertainty, plus or minus two percent, is the same as plus or minus 100 percent.”
He continued, “There’s a lot of emphasis from conservatives on what are writ-large states rights. Just watch out, conservatives, if states rights include California, Illinois, New York — these places that, where people voted in a progressive fashion — watch out if all those places start to address climate change and then impose economic sanctions, either overtly or by default, on places that have not embraced the work that needs to be done. Then you’ll end up with this states rights working the other way.”
He added, “We’ve got to remind people that we’re all in this together. The people I think about all the time are what are eloquently stated as the hillbillies. We want to engage everybody. Not working to address climate change is in no one’s best interest. It is not in the best interest, especially of your children and grandchildren. …
Read more (includes a video): http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/12/29/bill-nye-blue-states-will-impose-economic-sanctions-climate-change-denying-states/
In the video Bill Nye also said “we’ve got to get everybody working together, the same way people were working together in world war 2“. Bill Nye’s plan for getting people to work together, for achieving unity, is to call people names and threaten economic war against states which don’t embrace his policy recommendations.
My question – if Bill Nye really believes renewables are cheaper and more reliable than fossil fuels, why does he feel the need to make economic threats and call people names?
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I love the juxtaposition in the photo – a supposed refinery plume behind the constipated Bill Nye. Why do these planet savers always look constipated? There’s a theorem hidden in there – use it.
“if Bill Nye really believes renewables are cheaper and more reliable than fossil fuels, why does he feel the need to make economic threats and call people names?” because he is an attention seeking spokesperson for the anti-CO2 political movement. And he makes his living being a celebrity which also dovetails with being sensationalist.
I would suggest a voyage through the Northwest Passage in winter with Nye the Clown as captain.
In this PC world, isn’t Billy’s use of the word “Hillbillies” a racial slur against a specific people group? Isn’t that hate speech? Imagine if he had said some other slurs commonly used against people – for their color, background, religion or origin? Bill Nye is a bigot on top of knowing nothing about science. Bill Nye the bigot guy.
Yes, but ‘trailer trash’ are not worried about what snobs think.
Somebody needs to inform Mr. Nye that the Formerly Great State of Illinois has been imposing economic sanctions against itself for the last umpty years. We don’ need no stinkin’ Climate Change in order to get businesses (and taxpayers) to avoid us to the hilt.
What a nasty scowl on Bill Nye’s face. It looks like he really hates us! Ignoring skepticism in science is a sure way to promote fascism – the Nazis were experts at that. Bill Nye the Nazi guy.
The people I think about all the time are what are eloquently stated as the hillbillies.
Bill Nye
If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion, if we fall for a bunch of okey-doke …then we’re not going to build on the progress we started,
Barack Obama
Bill Nye… ” watch out if all those places start to address climate change and then impose economic sanctions, either overtly or by default, on places that have not embraced the work that needs to be done. Then you’ll end up with this states rights working the other way.”
Heh… seriously Bill Nye?
With no Constitutional authority to regulate commerce between the States, no authority to impose duties on interstate or international commerce, no ability to void the obligations of private contracts, no ability punish those operating legally in other States, no ability to independently enter into any agreement with another State or foreign power, with all U.S. federal laws being the supreme law of the land, and all citizens of the U.S. entitled to the “Privileges and Immunities” provided under federal law, and with the laws of one State having no authority on the citizens of another State (being separate sovereign powers)… How exactly are “Progressive” States supposed to “address climate change and then impose economic sanctions” on the other States or their citizens?
Apparently, Bill, someone forgot to tell you about the limitations of State powers under the U.S. Constitution. Such as :
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 which provides United States Congress shall have power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”
Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 which provides: “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.”
Article I, Section 9, Clause 6 which provides: “No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
Article IV, Section 2, , Clause 1 which provides “The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.”
Article XIV (Amendment 14), Clause 1 with provides “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Article VI, Clause 2 which provides “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
Apparently, Bill, you also forget the U.S. Constitution prohibits States from
1) Passing laws that create a “Bill of Attainder” or impair the “Obligation of Contracts” (Article I, Section 10, Clause 1).
2) “Lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports” without the Consent of Congress. ” (Article I, Section 10, Clause 2).
3) “Lay any Duty of Tonnage” without the Consent of Congress” (Article I, Section 10, Clause 3).
4) “Enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power” without the Consent of Congress” (Article I, Section 10, Clause 3).
Poor Bill… no better at law than he is with science.