From the New York Times: New York’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, has resigned, hours after multiple women accused him of being physically abusive.
Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general who rose to prominence as an antagonist of the Trump administration, abruptly resigned on Monday night hours after The New Yorker reported that four women had accused him of physically assaulting them.
Read it all here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/nyregion/new-york-attorney-general-eric-schneiderman-abuse.html
WUWT readers may recall he’s the bozo (along with Bill McKibben and Al Gore) that dreamt up the “Exxon Knew” libel outfit, and got a bunch of other Attorney Generals to sign on to the scam.
Al Gore had his masseuse incidents:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/two-more-women-accuse-al-gore-of-assault-2010-7
Pachauri left the IPCC over sexual harassment issues:
Eric Worrall notes in an email to me:
“Quite a string of high profile alleged sex abuse cases associated with leading climate figures. “Moral License” in action?”
These climate chumps can’t seem to contain themselves, be it ego or their pants.
James Woods on Twitter:
May be under FBI investigation for bank fraud or beat the shit out of women, but at least these clowns care about “climate justice,” whatever the f*** that is. pic.twitter.com/RvwJy1nED2
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 8, 2018
Moral licensing
The Left has some sort of a sickness.
Individuals are anxious about something, which may be taught or natural.
The next step is that they believe it can be relieved by forcing someone else to something they would not have done otherwise,
Case in point is anxiety about climate, which has been taught. And you must endure greater taxation and regulations.
The sad thing is that it never works. But fortunately, they seem to have only one anxiety at a time.
Forty years ago it was “acid rain”. Then, horror of horrors, it was Alar on apples.
In order to get off climate-altering as a means of relieving Leftist anxiety, another one will have to be found. Hopefully less harmful to real science and the wallet.
Any ideas?
Bob Hoye
subtle2 (Bob Hoye) – Try the next thing on the horizon – PFOA/PFAS:
https://www.epa.gov/pfas
Regards,
MCR
G. K Chesterton had a great quote on this topic:
“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in everything.”
Correction: “… they believe in anything.”
A marxist lawyer? They have to look up to see worms…..
Next up we have the Rockefeller Foundation tax exempt schemers to review.
From the article: “WUWT readers may recall he’s the bozo (along with Bill McKibben and Al Gore) that dreamt up the “Exxon Knew” libel outfit, and got a bunch of other Attorney Generals to sign on to the scam.”
It has also been reported that Schneiderman was involved in meetings in Washington DC with disgraced FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two of the principle FBI agents involved in both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the investigation into President Trump.
The report I heard implied that this meeting involved colluding on some level to resist President Trump.
Schneiderman looks vulnerable legally on several fronts.
Perhaps Congress or the Special Cousel will look into Schneiderman’s collusion with rogue FBI agents. He is not only abusing women, he is abusing the power of his office and the U.S. Constitution. And btw, there are psychopaths like Schneiderman in all walks of life and all political parties. They claim that about 10 percent of any group of people you see are psychopaths to one degree or another. And they hide it so well. Unfortunately.
Got to love those U.S. Federal Judges sometimes, like the one who has called into question the Special Counsel’s mandate, Judge Bliss! The right judge can be very valuable in defending our Constitutional rights (just as the wrong judge can take our freedoms away: A judge that can’t read the U.S. Constitution). Trump is appointing conservative federal judges in large numbers.
The leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, should make the Senate stay in session 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until all of President Trump’s nominees have been given a vote in the Senate.
The U.S. Senate is where the logjam is located. The Republcian Senate leadership has the ability to remove these logjams. They should do so in order to allow President Trump’s government to get in place and if they do not do this, then conservatives should work to oust every one of these useless Republicans and replace them with Trump supporters.
It is estimated that at the current pace in the U.S. Senate, it will take nine Years for the Senate to vote on all of Trump’s nominees. This is Sedition! The Democrats are underming the governing of this country. The Republcian Senate leadership has in its power the abilty to stop this slow-motion coup, and they better do so.
And where does the DOJ and the FBI get off refusing unredacted documents to Congress? Can’t they read the U.S. Constitution? It says Congress has oversight over the DOJ and the FBI and the entire Executive Branch and part of that oversight is having ALL the information those agencies have available. Security clearances are not an issue as those members of Congress involved have just as high a security clearance and those refusing to supply the documents.
Attorney General Sessions and his deputy better start turning over the unredacted documents to the American people, and if he doesn’t, then he and anyone else who is standing in the way of tranparency should be removed from office and replaced with someone who will follow the law and the U.S Constitution. The DOJ and the FBI are not just keeping these documents from Congress, they are keeping them from the people of the United States. We aren’t going to let them do that.
Demanding the documents is not extortion as the Deputy Attorney General claims, it’s the job of Congress to see the documents, and it is the duty of the Deputy Attorney General to turn them over to Congress, whether you like it or not.
Think Mitch McConnell. Ask what Mitch McConnell is doing to fix this stonewalling situation. Where’s Mitch McConnell?
+100 #where’sMitch
The Republican leadership has no interest in seeing Trump be successful.
That’s because they’re part of the swamp that needs draining.
Global warming is political fraud and much more needs to be done to stand against it at all levels.
Not just a terrible AG then…
Trump should either pardon or commute Anthony Weiner, hope that he and Huma get back together, in so far as sharing a condo + laptop. Also allow Weiner to resume internet “dating” with discrete FBI monitoring. Its the gift that keeps on giving.
What is the statute of limitation for having improper access to an illegal email server and storing classified information?
It wasn’t until the eighth paragraph in the The New York Times article where they indicated that Schneiderman is a Democrat. Funny, that. ;->
The rule of thumb in journalism is that not very many people read past the headline, and those that do, not manly of those read past the lead.
Theoretically, that’s supposed to prompt reporters to put the ‘who, where, what, why, and how’, all in the first paragraph.
If, on the other hand, this is used in modern propaganda messaging, it means ‘if you wanna bury something, but still have plausible deniability, put it in the eight paragraph.”
Then you can say, ‘see, I reported it… in a place where statistically very few people will see it.”
Tricks of the trade. These sort of shell games are all over.
“It wasn’t until the eighth paragraph in the The New York Times article where they indicated that Schneiderman is a Democrat. Funny, that”
Yeah, for something like this it’s come to the point that if they don’t mention the party affiliation within the first couple of paragraphs I assume they are talking about a Democrat. Most of the time my assumption proves correct.
And just think – these are the people preaching the moral high ground.
I find the alleged actions of AG Shneiderman abhorent. At this point in time, they are alleged.
Let’s not engage in trial by journalism. That is not how the USA justice system is supposed to function.
Immediate resignation does not have good optics, but we don’t know the whole story.
The fact that Shneiderman no longer has the bully pulpit to attempt to extort oil companies is a simply bonus points to this episode.
Well, he sure got the hell out of Dodge pretty fast. People’s reactions to accusations are usually telling.
“Immediate resignation does not have good optics”
OMFG PLEASE don’t abuse the word “optics” in this millennial manner.
it the current zeitgeist, it’s not good optics to be against the use of the word optics. #itsnotgoodoptics #whydoweneedhastagsforeverything #bafflegab 😉
If he was using his office to wire tap any of these women as suggested by one of them he has even bigger problems .
The new AG motto … AG’s United for Clean Sex .
Never understood how these AG’s were allowed to act as lobbyist’s while on the government payroll .
What a flame out .
When the story broke last night my first thought was, “I wonder what Exxon knew?”
… and when did they know it 😉
They were probably aware (through their nasty corporate slime division research) that Schneiderman was a threat to women. AND they didn’t do anything about it. EXXON is corporate anti women.
The four women that were harmed should sue EXXON for its blatant, obviously harmful, lack of action.
(maybe we could even get some children in Oregon to file a separate lawsuit with Jeff Merkely as a sponsor?)
When the news of this sexual creep came on the telly I said to my wife, “I’ll betcha ten bucks he’s a graduate of Harvard Law.” I won the bet. What is it about that school that produces so many political types who seem determined to hate the nation and do all they can to destroy it. Think Barack Obama who’s a Harvard Law grad too. Or how about Bill McKibben who’s a English major from Harvard?
AGs United for Clean Power. See what they did there? Some are Attorneys General, some are Al Gore, all are abusive geezers. Litigiously and/or sexually abusive geezers.
If you only follow a handful of tweeter feeds, follow Katica; you know her most important discovery: Paul Combetta/stonetear Bleachbit story, that may have been the single most significant scandal of the election cycle, possibly the key to victory (“Hillary acid washed emails”).
https://twitter.com/GOPPollAnalyst/status/993706407362007040
Katica is right, as usual.
Still, it’s fun when a bully is humiliated. It doesn’t have to be for any good reason.
Study: Climate skeptics engage in more eco-friendly behavior than climate alarmists: Whenever I hear of liberal men treating women badly I think of the principle at work in the above named study. By believing in causes that are for the greater good of all, these men think they have moral license to treat the women around them like dirt. Is it only true of men? Maybe the woman think the same way. What we need is a religious/moral leader who teaches that it is not what you believe that matters but what you do? Wait! I think that’s been done.
Riiight. Because religious leaders NEVER do stuff like this. Nope! No sirree!
It definitely is a ‘moral license’ aka entitlement issue. I commented on this during the short heyday the Me too# had until it turned out it was largely the left that had been enjoying this license. This is similar to abuse that tends to occur in women’s prisons and other disenfranchized situations (underlings without power).
The withdrawal of a large segment of society from religious observances, most notably the left, without replacing the institutionalized ‘discipline’ with a strong self discipline could be the crux. Disclaimer: I’m not a church goer but self discipline, old fashioned honesty and moral character seems to be built into me.
Being good these has become an accounting exercise where abuses can be squared with the conscience by virtue signaling, supporting global warming or social justice or … helping some group in Africa that 60 yrs of help hasn’t helped. Africa is the virtue signalling gold standard for such types. Building a water treatment facility for a poor American community, or enhancing literacy and good health among inner city disadvantaged groups just doesn’t have the sexy pizzang that a perennially worthless project of the kind that seem designed to fail in Africa possesses. I guess without your Bible you can’t know that charity begins at home. There is a certain- what’s in it for me aspect, too.
I’ve also mentioned that corrupted sociologists and social psychologists don’t have a clue they are in the richest environment for real research in their fields and this is why an old mining engineer has to record a few notes on the phenomenon.
Top Bankers, People in Oil, Politics, Abuse of Women, Sex with Children, Slaves, Occult Satanism…
Welcome to the Club the Big Club!
All Psychos!
oh and they get involved in everything just look at all the people that go to the Bilderberg Group.
Don’t worry this includes everyone! Even that silly Trumped up Save us Trump and is lie
Make America Great, Make Israel Great?
CIA, FBI, Mossad, M15, M16, 5th Corridor, etc they are all involved. Once in a while someone will resign or get busted but it’s business as usual in the Big Club.
Brianj, is that you?
Idea for Josh cartoon:
A person freezing outside their house with no power, broken wind turbine in the background and a billboard with picture of Schneiderman with the caption “#ExxonKnew”. Freezing person is holding a cardboard sign saying “#MeToo”.
Trump already knew this in 2013:
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/07/prescient-trump/
American politics is high stakes poker at the moment.
For those of you that understand how much Chaos is caused by SOROS,
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Well at least all his electronic communication will be open and WIKIleaks didn’t even have to do it .
My oh my . Flying high to a complete disgraceful face plant in under 4 hours .
Why do all these jerks end up in photos with Hillary ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartuffe
“As a result of Molière’s play, contemporary French and English both use the word “tartuffe” to designate a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue.”
“and got a bunch of other Attorney Generals to sign on to the scam.”
Minor nit, should be Attorneys General.