Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Tom Steyer makes no secret of his desire to expand the power of the executive to address the climate emergency, so his authoritarian presidency will have the power to override Congress.
Tom Steyer’s Facebook Money Bomb Worked — the Billionaire Is About to Qualify for the Democratic Debates
Steyer has dropped nearly $2.9 million on Facebook ads alone in the last month, according to Facebook’s ad archive.
By Cameron Joseph and David Uberti
Aug 14 2019, 1:36amWASHINGTON — Money can’t buy you love, but it looks like it can buy a spot on the presidential debate stage.
Billionaire presidential candidate Tom Steyer’s campaign announced that he’d secured the 130,000 donors necessary to qualify for the September Democratic presidential debates. That’s a remarkable achievement since he’s only been in the race for a month — and one fueled by a massive amount of ad spending.
“Since entering the race five weeks ago, our priority has been getting Tom’s message out to the American people,” Steyer Campaign Manager Heather Hargreaves said in a statement. “Tom reaching this milestone just five weeks into his campaign is proof that his message is resonating with people across the country.”
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Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7yjy/tom-steyers-facebook-money-bomb-worked-the-billionaire-is-about-to-qualify-for-the-democratic-debates
Tom says he has jumped into the race to save the world from climate change;
The Energy 202: Tom Steyer says 2020 race needs him for urgent action on climate change
By Dino Grandoni
August 15 at 8:50 AMTom Steyer’s eleventh-hour bid to run for president left many Democrats stunned. Why the change of heart? It’s partly because Steyer believes he’s the best on climate change in the crowded field.
The billionaire financier and Democratic donor said in an interview that he is the only 2020 candidate willing to declare climate change a national emergency. Doing so, he claims, will allow him to bring the full power of the executive branch to bear on what he sees as an economic and ecological crisis that for years has defined his public and philanthropic persona.
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But Steyer argues that he’s needed in the race because global warming is “an urgent emergency” and the other candidates haven’t proved they’re serious enough about it.
“The question is what is going to make everyone come to the idea that not a problem, but it’s an emergency,” Steyer said. “It’s sort of like, this is 1940. We have a problem but we haven’t had Pearl Harbor.”
Trump’s embrace of executive actions has whetted the appetites of Democrats eyeing the White House. Steyer and other Democrats are openly talking about how they would harness and further expand the power of the executive branch instead of working with Congress.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/08/15/the-energy-202-tom-steyer-says-2020-race-needs-him-for-urgent-action-on-climate-change/5d54365a88e0fa79e5481fa1/
Laugh now, but I believe Steyer has a good chance of defeating the other low energy Democrat candidates.
Steyer’s ideas might seem outrageous, maybe even a little crazy, but I don’t think he is a fake – he really seems to believe in what he is saying.
I personally think Steyer’s climate ideas if implemented would lead to great suffering, and his plans to make the executive even more powerful, well we have all seen where that can lead. But if Steyer convinces enough people to join his crusade to save the world, it is not my concerns which will count.
Steyer going for the nomination is good.
Dems want him for his donations–only.
This will be contentious.
Then he is another name in a crowded field.
Which is already dividing the Dem Party.
Then, the Four Furies have pulled the party far to the left.
Further dividing the pack from the main stream Democrat voter.
Lovely.
Who among the current socialist candidates will be the first to call Tom $teyer’s purchase of a candidate slot an example of ‘white privilege’? Kamala Harris? Elisabeth Warren? Bernie Sanders?
Yeah…tell Americans that you want to turn the President of a tripartite Constitutional Republic into an unfettered dictator who can simply declare a national emergency and decree a command economy to counter climate change.
Yeah…that oughta do it.
Snort.
Tom Steyer is exactly all the things that the left claims Trump is – a power hungry billionaire that thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. First question he should be asked is about his comment about a nuclear war.
He’s unlikable and certainly not electable.
Remind me, what executive actions has Trump taken, other then to cancel out the ones Obama took? I honestly can’t think of anything.
Mind you, it’s hard to keep track of what Trump is actually doing. The MSM is nothing but a constant stream of ‘Orange Man Bad’. And if they somehow do manager to do some real reporting for a while, you know they’ll just go flying off the moment Trump tweets something about one of the Dems.
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Shhhhh! First rule of fight club.
Since I’m having a fairly optimistic day, I’m siding with those who said yes, they do know it’s all crap and are not insane in any clinical sense. Yes, it’s all about grasping for power, and no, they will not enact any legislation more potent than throwing a token bone to the activists and workaday numbskulls who put them in power, just like 99% of these swine once they take office. Sucking up to Greta is the 21st-century equivalent of kissing babies in front of photographers.
I hope I’m right, because the alternative – the possibilities I consider when I’m not feeling optimistic – is really too awful to contemplate.
When the Democrat field of candidates is so weak, everyone thinks they have a shot. Hell, Babs should probably run, and definitely Oprah, oh, and Miley….
…and Nicki Menaj, and Lil Pump, and oh, I dunno – Juan Corona? He was an illegal and a migrant laborer, good poster boy I’d say.
And if that doesn’t qualify as the single most leftist-baiting thing I’ve written in my life, I’ll just have to try harder. Surprised even myself with that one. Quick note for the hard of thinking: “illegal immigrant” is not a RACE, jackasses. You want to do away with the rule of law, form your own country and call it The Idiot Death Zone or something.
That’s what they said about Bill Clinton.
Heck– even Jimmy Carter should toss his hat in the ring and try again for a delayed second term.
I wish Steyer every success,may he be the “Candidate”.
Imagine the campaign, a Climate Alarmist up against a pragmatic businessman.
One has succeeded in life by working the market the other by building large infrastructure.
Who would the truly loonie left vote for?
Rich man bad?
So which rich man is less bad?
how does the “victimology” rate here?
Timing is everything and Steyer is too little too late,his proxies/agents mostly all failed to get elected last election so now he figures he will impose his panic from on high?
Just as the decline of the Cult of Calamitous Climate is becoming obvious everywhere.
“Climate Emergency”, panic now,do nothing…
It is possible that Steyer is as gullible as he appears, but in “Climatology” why assume incompetence when malice is so clear?
We must throw away our luxurious living and return to the”dark” ages..Pay our Climate Indulgences to those more worthy..shame and scare our children over the future we have bought them..
It does not sell.
Do as I say,insists Mr Hedge Fund Billionaire, but not as I do?
Yup he belongs in the “leadership” of our progressive comrades.
This past June WUWT ran this post:
A National Narrative for Media on Climate Change
Kip Hansen / June 22, 2019
Journalists around the world are being contacted by email by CJR with a message that includes this appeal :
“Our ask of you is simple: commit to a week of focused climate coverage this September. We are organizing news outlets across the US and abroad—online and print, TV and audio, large and small—to run seven days of climate stories from September 16 through the climate summit UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres hosts in New York September 23. The stories you run are up to you, though we can offer ideas and background information and connect outlets looking for content with content providers looking for outlets.
We’d be happy to schedule a phone call to discuss this further.
Sincerely,
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
Looks like they’ve started early
It is irrelevant, other than for entertainment value, who enters the Democrat field. The DNC will decide on who their candidate will be, just as they did in 2016. My money is on this: After all the debate and primary mudslinging is over, they will choose Michael / Michelle O. to save the party. Using this approach, he / she will appear pristine.
I saw the ads on Facebook, read the comments, and he was getting flamed from the right (“you’re an idiot”) and the left (“don’t get in the way of better candidates who understand the climate crisis and might win”). I don’t see how he’ll get the necessary support, especially in a crowded field.
From the article: “Steyer said. “It’s sort of like, this is 1940. We have a problem [CAGW] but we haven’t had Pearl Harbor.”
Steyer should examine the years around 1940, and if he did he would see it was just as warm then as it is now, which means we are not currently experiencing unprecedented warming, and that means there is no CAGW to worry about, so Tom Steyer can save his money and go home now.
I thought Stever needed to get 2% in 4 separate polls in addition to bribing 130,000 distinct donors to qualify for the 3rd debate? Has he done that? And seriously, wouldn’t it be simple for a guy with his $$ to fake donors?
On another not, it’s hilarious (especially for those of us who live in the Socialist Feminist Republic of Martha Washington) that Klimate Kandidate WA Gov Jay Insleep is being eclipsed by the megalomaniac Steyer.
Unfortunately Insleep’s failure as a Klimate Kandidate means that he’ll likely end up running for (and winning) a 3rd term as Governor, continuing to inflict the misery of Warmunism on our once-free State.
From the article: “Trump’s embrace of executive actions has whetted the appetites of Democrats eyeing the White House. Steyer and other Democrats are openly talking about how they would harness and further expand the power of the executive branch instead of working with Congress.”
For one thing, Trump isn’t issuing any more executive orders than previous presidents.
What wets the Democrat’s appetites is the thought of expanding their powers.
Fortunately, there is still a U.S. Constitution, and executive orders cannot rewrite laws established by Congress. Exective orders can interpret laws in many ways and can cause harm if used the wrong way, but that harm can be fixed if Congress decides it needs to pass specific laws to address abuse fostered by a presidential executive order.
In other words, becoming president does not give Steyer a blank check to act. He is bound by the U.S. Constitution, just as Trump is bound.
I want the Democrats to try to sell to Americans that they give up their gasoline cars, their airplanes, their cattle, and they have to have a windmill on every corner. I can tell you right now, Americans are *not* going to buy it. It’s a sure loser.
Oh good … if Steyer is elected (a big if), then the U.S. can show the rest of the world just how destructive following the climate cult is. I was beginning to think we in the UK would have that dubious “pleasure”.
Germany before you.
Or Australia…
It’ll soon be a “very urgent emergency” … meanwhile in the real world where satellites show no meaningful change in temperature in 20 years and no trends in extreme weather …
There is no climate crises. Currently climate change is so slow that it takes networks of sophisticated sensors decades to even detect it. We must be careful to not mix up weather cycles which are past of the current climate with true climate change. But even if we could somehow stop the climate from changing, extreme weather events and sea level rise would continue because they are part of the current climate. So there is nothing to be gained by stopping the Earth’s climate from changing.
Based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, the reality is that the climate change we are experiencing today is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero.
Lowering CO2 emissions by decreasing the use of fossil fuels in the USA will have little effect on global CO2 emissions. For those who believe in the radiant greenhouse effect, the effect is dominated by H2O most of which comes from the oceans and other bodies of water. The CO2 contribution is trivial. No way are we going to reduce total greenhouse gases and hence have any effect on the total radiant greenhouse effect.
The AGW conjecture sounds plausible at first but a more detailed examination uncovers that the AGW conjecture is based on only partial science and is full of holes. For example, the AGW conjecture depends upon the existence of a radiant greenhouse effect in the Earth’s atmosphere provided for by trace gases with LWIR absorption bands. Such a radidnt greenhouse effect has not been observed in a real greenhouse, in the Earth’s atmosphere or anywhere else in the solar system for that matter. The radiant greenhouse effect is hence science fiction so hence the AGW conjecture is science fiction as well. Apparently Steyer is basing his campaign on science fiction.
“expand the power of the executive branch”
I seem to remember reading that some German guy did that in 1933. He leaned on his legislative chamber (the Reichstag) to pass a bill called the Enabling Act. It essentially gave him and his cronies absolute power. The move was portrayed as necessary because of an urgent emergency in the condition of the German people (which, to digress, was a lot more real than the alleged climate emergency we’re supposed to be facing today, and that’s probably what made it so easy, people wanted a leader to get things done in a hurry. People were hungry). He was working in what was more like a parliamentary system, and he had to contend with a head of state, who happened to be a doddering old fool, so it was easy enough to lean on him too, to sign the bill.
With a compliant legislature, it’s easy.
If it happens in your exceptionally large, rich, diverse, powerful country, it won’t look anywhere near so ugly or obvious, and there won’t be men in brown shirts marching through the streets breaking windows. It will all be smooth, polished and PR-ed to the point where it will look like a picnic for everyone. It will probably be done incrementally, so no one will really notice how bad it is until it’s too late.
Impossible? No. Unlikely? Yes, very, but don’t get too complacent. Please.
“because of an urgent emergency” Idem as in the actual climate scam putative urgencies.
We and the world, still bear the stigmates of these (not so) remote times.
And even today, when things are supposed to have settled, our nation is still regarded as, well, “Germans”. The guys who managed to start 2 devastating world wars.
As it seems, public never learns from history. If it looks like, smells like, then it probably is, numerous references available.
By comparison of ideologies censorship, intellectual terrorism, propaganda methods, liberticide policies and regulations, the eventuality of a third world war fueled by climate insanity becomes a tangible outcome.
Steyer is mad. He’s like Ulysses plowing the beach and planting salt in the furrows to convince his enemies he’s insane. Except Steyer is not faking. He’s actually nuts.
Steyer hasn’t qualified for the debates. 130,000 donors was just one criteria. He also has to get 2% in four polls.
Fools and their money are soon parted.
Does anyone remember the name of the wealthy person that financed the campaign against Gay Davis in California, and then ran for governor on his own money?
Tom Sayer wants to “”Save the World””. Snag is that the World is not just the USA. Its not even the so called “”Western World””
What about the big ones who are in the “”Get out of Jail free lot.”” Of
the original Kyoto. India and China, plus South East Asia. How does Tom deal with that lot ?
MKR VK5ELL
Steyer has bought the Democrat party for years and it’s about time he showed his red face .
I love how a guy that made money off the fossil fuel industry is now a climate crusader .
Is he playing with a full deck ? He gets in now because even he knows none of the alt -left
Democrat candidates have a snow ball in hell chance .
Geez just when you need James Comey to do an shady sting/leak operation he is collecting book royalty cash .
All the Democrats will be auditioning for second banana .
Steyer has bought the Democrat party for years and it’s about time he showed his red face .
I love how a guy that made money off the fossil fuel industry is now a climate crusader .
Is he playing with a full deck ? He gets in now because even he knows none of the alt -left
Democrat candidates have a snow ball in hell chance .
Geez just when you need James Comey to do an shady sting/leak operation he is collecting book royalty cash .
All the Democrats will be auditioning for second banana pretending to out green one another .
How can any union back a loon who wants to wipe out fossil fuels under the false pretense of a climate
emergency .