Oh this is precious. California’s senator Dianne Feinstein is facing criticism over a video showing her responding to a group of children and teenagers asking her to support the Ocasio-Cortez backed Green New Deal.
The video clip, which was posted on Twitter, shows Feinstein meeting with some kids that are part of the Sunrise Movement. The kids were asking her to support the “Green New Deal”.
Feinstein rebuked the young activists’ request, in the video, one kid says:
“The government is supposed to be for the people, by the people, and all for the people.”
Feinstein responded:
“I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’ve been doing,”
“You come in here and say it has to be my way or the highway. I’ve gotten elected. I just ran. I was elected by almost a million vote plurality and I know what I’m doing. Maybe people should listen a little bit.”
The conversation continues:
“I hear what you’re saying,” “But we’re the people who voted you, you’re supposed to listen to us.”
“How old are you?” Feinstein asks her.
“I’m 16,” the kid responds.
“Well, you didn’t vote for me,” Feinstein says.
LOL I don’t know what’s worse; kids being used for propaganda, or an old political crony more concerned about votes than issues.
But, at least senator Feinstein realizes the “Green New Deal” is an unworkable fantasy, and rightly rejects it.
Feinstein’s office issued a damage-control statement Friday evening, saying:
Apparently, “real and meaningful” doesn’t include the AOC fantasy Green New Deal.
As mayor of San Francisco she paid lip service to the restoration of the Hecht Hecthy Valley. This beautiful valley comparable to Yosemite was flooded to provide water to her city. The Reagan administration called her bluff by agreeing to it. She did a 180. What are you gonna do. She’s a hack politician.
Back in Lenin’s day the slogan was:
“From each according to his ability;
To each according to his need”
Well as time progressed human nature took over and the number of people becoming needy increased over those who were able.
Senorita Ocasio Cortez take note.
Here’s hoping someone can stop cows from jumping over the moon. That is seriously unsustainable.
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Worse yet, all this belching at the Moooon. It’s driving the coyotes batty.
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The Dish had a plan that would have stopped the cow, but that vixen the Spoon enticed the Dish to run away.
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You realize, of course, that the Sunrise Movement is the organization that engineered the words of the Green New Deal, and that this oranization’s slogan is:
These children are part of this “army of young people”. These children are pawns par excellence of the Sunrise Movement. They are hosts that the Sunrise Movement parasitizes.
The Sunrise Movement, like all climate alarmist factions, prey on emotionally vulnerable people via one of the most emotional viewpoints possible, which is child welfare and future security. It’s a low-life strategy.
Why not use puppies? — they’re a lot cuter.
Have a look at the good ol’ money funding the hapless youth :
https://capitalresearch.org/article/sunrise-movement-wont-let-the-sun-go-down-on-the-green-new-deal/
Tides Foundation, Rockefeller, …
I cannot conceive of multi-millionaires or better having made their fortunes without some ties to the basics of civilization that require fossil-fuel manufacturing processes, fossil-fuel-enabled transportation, distribution, and information-handling technologies.
No money is fossil-fuel untainted, and this is where the hypocrisy lies — in the ignorance of those people representing organizations who have no clue where there funding ultimately originates.
OMG a Feinstein article followed by an ad about Alzheimer’s. Priceless.
I’d forgotten that !
Feinstein meets some of her “grandkids”.
Priceless.
These kids are being brainwashed like my generation was in the early 70s. Remember being told the Earth was going to run out of oil in a few years and we would have to shiver in the cold and walk everywhere. I didn’t realize it was the government that was causing the oil shortage because of price regulation. These poor misinformed kids want the government to take over and solve a nonexistent problem. Government will only make matters worst. Free market will solve the problem.
VP Pence is imposing the “free market” with his invisible hand, Pompeo, on Venezuela. Bit like the Iran-Contra of Central America in the ’70’s, ’80’s all over again. Same ol’ recipe, same ol’ neocons, same ol’ disastrous bungling.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
—Albert Schweitzer
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Maybe she (Feinstein) was just having a bad day.
To the extent that left leaning couples have fewer children than right leaning couples, they feel it their duty to indoctrinate as many little heads full of mush as possible.
Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochran
I’m gonna raise a fuss, I’m gonna raise a holler
About a-workin’ all summer just to try to earn a dollar
Every time I call my baby, try to get a date
My boss says, “no dice son, you gotta work late”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
Well, my mom and pop told me, “son, you gotta make some money”
If you want to use the car to go ridin’ next Sunday
Well, I didn’t go to work, told the boss I was sick
“Well, you can’t use the car ’cause you didn’t work a lick”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
I’m gonna take two weeks, gonna have a fine vacation
I’m gonna take my problem to the United Nations
Well, I called my congressman and he said “whoa!”
“I’d like to help you son but you’re too young to vote”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
Songwriter: Eddie Cochran / Jerry Neal Capehart
Songtext von Summertime Blues © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
https://youtu.be/YXcYZsqkZ-g
Feinstein does have a point.
Theoretically government is supposed to be about all the people. (In reality government is for the majority and will always trample on the rights of a minority.)
Regardless, these kids talk about the government being of the people, but they want government to only listen to and cater to them.
Government exists at the pleasure of the populace.
The occasional reminder/threat of that fact, keeps everyone civil.
At least that was the plan.
Thus the need for the 2nd amendment.
Never heard of the Electoral College, then? Hamiltons Federalist Papers show how to avoid the tyranny of the majority. The Government is there by consent of the people, not their pleasure.
While the Electoral College buffers against the will of the majority, that’s all it does.
When a majority of people vote to have government take money from a minority of the people and pass it out to the majority, what exactly is the minority to do? Especially when it’s a small minority?
Government exists to enforce the will of the majority onto everyone else. The bigger and more powerful the government, the more areas of enforcement it is able to cover.
For all that I made a joke earlier about “evil clown characters scaring children”, I wish to note that this has become more than a joke. The kids shouldn’t be blamed. Rather, it’s the older, alarmist, people (older than teenagers, generally older than, say, 25 years, even) who deserve to be called out for gross malfeasance for exploiting and scaring children this way.
The particular scene that we are presented with in the article – and I did watch a bit more of the extended videos of the lady politician, the teacher, the “green” kids, etc — was a scene of adults behaving very badly. In effect, Feinstein and the teacher having an argument over the heads of children.
Won’t touch Rockefeller or the Soros funded Tides Foundation and 350.org?
The only one in that photo who knows some of this is Feinstein.
The top teen was a big hit at the billionaires Davos club this year.
The queen bee green teen, Greta Thunberg of Sweden, protested this week in Brussels, on Feb. 21, following a COP24 and Davos appearance.
More green teen celebrity stunts :
Yesterday, 13-year-old Alexandria Villasenor continued her commitment to Friday protest for “climate action,” which she has done outside the UN for 11 weeks straight. Her collaborator celebrity teen is 15-year-old Isra Hirsi, daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI).
You know….nobody has addressed this whole, “we’ll all be dead in 12 years.” thing to the adults. In 12 years? Really? You’re selling that load of garbage to kids who think that Christmas in December is an eternity in January? To an adult, 12 years is not a long time at ALL. Especially for someone that just bought a house or is thinking about buying a house. Who came up with 12 years and why is it so scary? It’s greater than 10 but less than 20. In 20 years some people are thinking about retirement, in 10 years others are envisioning paying off 1/2 or most of their mortgage, but 12! NOW 12 YEARS! That’s……omg, no real reference…it’s just an arbitrary number.
If you are going to sell the snake oil, then dang it, sell IT. Don’t throw out this crap about 12 years….get it to 10 or expand it to 20. Adults understand decade references, we have experience with it, perspective on accomplishments or detractors during that time. But 12 years? It’s like going to hell in a Chevy instead of a Caddy. Even the message sells itself short. Go for broke dudes…you’ve got nothing to lose anyway.
As a marketing ploy it falls short of the mark (or oversteps it, depending on the 1 or 2 decade thing) and fizzles into meaningless time. 12 is not scary. 10 is scary. 20 is concerning. And don’t split the difference at 15, at 15 years people are paying off a mortgage or 1/2 way there.
Either way, I’m giving real consideration to just spending my 12 remaining years tripping through Italy, wearing beautifully made shoes while walking off all the good food trooping through vineyards and olive orchards. You all can do whatever you want with your time, I’m going to use mine that way.
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TBH, she’s teaching them something about how politics really works. She’s no amateur.
This is what the greens and other global warmers don’t understand every time they run off at the mouth about their schemes being sabotaged by unnamed oil industry lobbyists. Real politicians may give vocal support to some crazy ideas (and people) without the slightest intention of ever implementing them.
I just saw on twitter a very interesting take on the “Global Warming” as a movement. Check this out.
“No one is suggesting legislative force to comply with Christianity. Your religion of global warming however…”
https://twitter.com/ChrisStigall/status/1099711184700346369
Selfish little dictators.
Look at it this way. This kid is 16. I am older. Let us assume we both live to 100, just to make the maths simple.
Our lives will overlap by 70 years but this kid wants to be in charge for 54 of them.
Selfish entitled idiot.
Feinstein rebuked the young activists’ request, in the video, one kid says:
“The government is supposed to be for the people, by the people, and all for the people.”
First off kid, the phrase you are looking for is “government of the people, by the people, for the people” but semantics aside,
Secondly if it’s for all the people, that “all” includes skeptics and economic realists who want nothing to do with your green raw deal. They have a voice that needs to be heard too you know.
They occupied “Cocaine” Mitch’s office today. Got arrested.
Naturally she couldn’t simply console them with ‘you don’t have to be afraid.’