Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Billionaire Climate Activist and Democrat Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer has suggested the climate crisis is more frightening than what he perceives as threats to US Democracy.
… Well, let me say this. I know this is going to sound a little strange, kind of: I don’t want to be president. But I do want to do things as president. You know, I am running because I thought — until this week, I was the last person to get in. And I got in because I thought, “My God, no one’s going to tell the truth to the American people. And we’re not going to actually deal with the critical issues in front of us, and we have to.” So the two things I can tell you, for sure: one is, if I’m not the Democratic candidate, I will be supporting the Democratic candidate. Full bore. Any one of those people on that stage is a thousand times better than Mr. Trump or any of the Republicans. Really. I believe that, and I will, there is 100% probability that I will be supporting that person as hard as I can. The second thing I’d say is this: if I’m not the Democratic candidate, that doesn’t mean we aren’t in a climate crisis! We are! I’ve been fighting it for a decade and more! I’m not going to suddenly go, like, “Wooo! Hawaii, here I come!” No. And I’m not going o suddenly thing that — look, if you had told me, when I was a kid, that I thought that American democracy was at risk, and it wasn’t the scariest thing ever, I would have said, “You’re crazy! That’s the worst thing I can imagine happening. I can’t imagine anything worse than that.” That’s because I couldn’t imagine the climate crisis. But there is no way, having seen what I’ve seen, and talked to the people that I’ve talked to, and seen the cruelty exhibited towards the American people, that I’m going to stop fighting these people. No way! I don’t think of myself as a tough person, but I can tell you: I don’t like mean people. They don’t scare me. And I’m very angry about it. There is a playbook here that is cruel to Americans. Intentionally so. …
Source: https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/11/25/tom-steyer-to-iowa-voters-i-dont-want-to-be-president/
The following is a video of Steyer speaking the words quoted above;
One thing you can say about Steyer, he is refreshingly open about his intentions.
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Why apocalyptic claims about climate change are wrong: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/#6df0821312d6
Coming from someone who believes in AGW, that’s a pretty good article.
NASA/RSS has measured water vapor (TPW) monthly since Jan, 1988.
Measured water vapor increase trend is higher than the highest possible WV trend from CO2 feedback. This demonstrates WV increase is a driver of temperature change and CO2 is a follower.
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I’m scared alright, just not with the message but the messenger and the cult and the after effects of the over reach Obama administration. The more I learn about over reach methodology the more I resist.
There are two ways to get rich.
1 – Make stuff that people want.
2 – Manipulate money.
Steyer is #2, a hedge fund manager.
There’s a real good chance he doesn’t actually understand the productive economy.
He is not open about taking billions doing what he says destroyed the planet, now running for dictator and taking everything from Americans, keeping his blood money and leaving Americans in a banana republic resembling Venezuala. HE is the threat to democracy, which he LOATHES, by the way. He is a DICTATOR, pure and simple.
Golly Steve Case! Why haven’t I heard this astonishing piece of news on the BBC?
Beware of the Green Menace Society. Carbon tax shysters and cult members wearing tin foil hats.
Steyer’s SuperPAC Need to Impeach, is the game.
Just look at the funding, and $230 million for the Dems over 3 election cycles.
He challenged Bloomberg to use “emergency powers” on Day 1 for the “climate crisis”.
Is he comparing the so-called “climate crisis” to the Reichstagsbrand, the world is burning, for Ermächtigungsgesetze?
I think he should be bit clearer there on his intentions.
You mean, the Reichstagsbrand of 9/11 just didn’t cut it?
Then there is NextGen.
It sure looks like a concerted assault on the US constitution from the usual suspects, to force a Parliamentary system, based on guess where – London.
Mind you, that Westminster Parliament is not really functioning at all right now, in total disarray. Which is likely desired orchestrated chaos.
“Well, let me say this. I know this is going to sound a little strange, kind of: I don’t want to be president. But I do want to do things as president. ”
I think it is obvious Steyer wants to be Prime Minister of the U.S.A.
Bloomberg, being especially Anglophile, could run the District Cabinet office.
I am sure Her Majesty would approve of the overture, polishing the CBE’s in readiness?
Does the “Need to Impeach” actually mean President Trump could be the last US President?
“Mind you, that Westminster Parliament is not really functioning at all right now, in total disarray.”
What, the American government is functioning well? It is also in total disarray. Congress will never again do anything useful. Each president will use executive orders more and more until you simply have an elected 4 year dictator.
D.C is in a state of total hysteria. Isn’t it interesting how it mirrors London?
Surely it must be Putin personally /sarc.
Prime Minister Steyer would fix all of that, better give Buckingham a call.
What is even scarier are those who would use climate change as an excuse to end Democracy.
Fortunately, we have the advantage in numbers and intellect. These people are insane.
Yes, but they have empathetic appeals and diverse bullhorns. Think of the [unplanned] children!
“Fortunately, we have the advantage in numbers and intellect. ” You didn’t watch the Dem debates, did you? About half of “us” are idiots, voting for idiots. I demand a retraction…
No, I just need to better define my, ‘we’. ‘We’ would be the vast majority of those reading this site, and the any others who agree with us. The insane are those voting for any Democrat. ‘We’ have more guns and greater intellect. Of that I have no doubt.
When bubble-gum loses its flavor, just been beaten up with a lemon-scented wet-wipe.
My take on democracy and climate policy: https://holoceneclimate.com/democracy-make-your-choice.html
I don’t want to be president
Well, that’s good because seeing as you’re only polling at a tenth of what the parties front runners are polling at, odds are extremely likely that you are not going to be president.
That’s the worst thing I can imagine happening. I can’t imagine anything worse than that.” That’s because I couldn’t imagine the climate crisis.
I do have to agree with Tommy here, but not in the way that he means. The “climate crisis” is the scariest thing out there. Not because the climate is in crisis, it isn’t. But because of the policies idiots like him and all his fellow nomination seekers are pushing to combat this imaginary crisis.
Totalitarian Climate Alarmists taking power are the greatest threats to Democracy.
Russia will love Tom as President.
Russian Agents; The Real Russian Collusion – Kill Fracking Save Russia
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/russian-agents-the-real-russian-collusion-kill-fracking-save-russia/
Steyer puts the “loon” in ecoloon, and the “tard” in both ecotard and libtard. That makes him a loonatard. There are plenty like him, but he’s got money and a microphone, so that makes him a danger to democracy.
That’s because I couldn’t imagine the climate crisis.
Well, there’s his problem — an over-active imagination…
It is democracy that Steyer and other anointed lefty/democrats fear, not climate change. The proles and plebs cannot be allowed to continue to make decisions.
Mr. Steyer, the threat to democracy, comes from your side.
Steyer is living in the CAGW bubble. Ignoring the fact that the science is 100% incorrect.
If you were super rich:
What would concern you more: Climate Change or a Wealth Tax?
The Billionaires are about to run from the Democrat party.
Democrats (socialistic branch) have found out that Democrats and a large portion of the general population (particularly young people who believe the system is rigged and have nothing to lose) supports taking money away from the rich to pay for all the stuff Democrats (socialistic branch) promise.
The logic is the rich are so rich and voters like stuff voters can get (pay off their university loans and/or universal health care for example) with no increase in their taxes.
“Labor Department Chief Economist Betsey Stevenson, and Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, wrote that Warren could pay for her program “without imposing any new taxes on middle-class families.””
Both Bernie and Warren are purposing a wealth tax. A wealth tax is different than an income tax.
A wealth tax is a new proposed tax that applies only to those whose net worth is more than $50 million.
A wealth tax, is a yearly tax on the estimate value of everything that you own (home, yachts, paintings, property, jewelry, and so on . To pay for their wealth tax the super rich will need to sell some of their assets every year.
This is mixture of responses from conservative and Democrat sources.
If Senator Warren’s wealth tax had been in effect since 1982, Warren Buffett’s 2018 net worth would have been $14.5 billion, rather than the $88.3 billion it actually was. Jeff Bezos would have had about one-third of his current wealth. Bill Gates’s wealth would have been 81 percent less.
Former IMF Chief Economist Simon Johnson, former Labor Department Chief Economist Betsey Stevenson, and Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, wrote that Warren could pay for her program “without imposing any new taxes on middle-class families.”
“Warren’s tax could cut roughly in half the fortunes of the very wealthy over its first 10 years. The aggressiveness of her plan should not be understated,” he wrote as part of a series of tweets on Tuesday. “All Americans deserve protection from the tyranny of the majority, including the very rich.”
P.S. The Justice Department is about to release a report that shows there was document tampering and an organized conspiracy in multiple government department (including the FBI) to attempt to stop Donald Trump campaign, during the administration of Obama.
Doesn’t everyone actually know yet that all this climate policy heartburn is moot, academic? Take this to the bank: With the new massive unstoppable coal energy development galloping through Asia and Africa where three quarters of humanity dwells, CO2 is going to rise even quicker than before throughout this century.
We are helpless to avoid progressing through this unbridled CO2 experiment. We will learn what the climate sensitivity of CO2 unequivocally is, to several decimal places. We will know the naked cost benefit figures of CO2 emissions. (I’m betting on a Garden of Eden Earth^тм of plenty, peace and prosperity for all. Ive hammered on this obvious theme for half a dozen years since the “greening” discovery and the bumper harvests. I have never had these thoughts commented upon. The scientific proofs of sceptics I mainly agree with and they served their purpose well. But they too are now moot in the face of the big experiment and, in a way, keeping the climate sham alive. I think realists should get past this fading historical phase and start talking about the big experiment. Gather data on it. Debate it and make it the new conversation on climateu ).
Hopefully we can reach an optimal 800-1200 ppm.
I always learn a lot (of bad things) about how fragile the system is from Democrats setting new precedence and new interpretation of the Constitution, court loopholes, and institutions. I just don’t want Steyer to be at the head of the new precedence learning experience.
“Well, let me say this. I know this is going to sound a little strange, kind of: I don’t want to be president. But I do want to do things as president. ”
Prime Minister Steyer has a certain ring to it, the first Prime Minister of the U.S.A. Sounds even historic.
Although future historians will surely give precedent to Obama.
But first The Need To Impeach, at any cost, even spelling the end of the Dems. Then Bloomberg could be Ambassador to London, and Schiff could run the District Cabinet instead. Prime Minister Steyer could then do a Churchill and go after Russia. Biden gets his job back as Viceroy of Ukraine. Climate, CO2, what was that all about?
How dare the Founding Fathers separate powers like that! Preposterous, what?
The term Democrats in reference to the current group of candidates is you classic oxymoron with the emphasis on the ‘moron’ part. The prospect of any one of these Climate Czars getting to power is too horrendous to even think about. He’s right democracy is under threat.
Botox faces of aged public figures are unexpressive & make what they say lack the emphasis to their pronunciations. Aged public figures should arrange not to be seen speaking & just have their words come out as if from the etherworld. After all they want to dictate, so they might as well get the satisfaction of playing a divinity; Presidents aren’t all powerfull enough.
Gang Green attracts all sorts.
Fools and Bandits especially.
I suppose, at least, it is new and refreshing when someone like Tom Steyer comes right out and tells people directly that he is an idiot and wants to rob them, deprive them of their jobs and comforts and waste all their taxes on nonsense.
Steyer doesn’t really want to be President.
He wants to own the President.
His campaign is merely a ploy to bypass US campaign finance limits (of $35.K/year/donor) and place several hundred million dollars directly into the Democrats’ campaign committees next summer.
Joel,
I think you are spot on. Take a look at his initial flurry of ads: all negative attacks on the president, but nothing about what makes him a good candidate. He wants all the power, but none of the responsibility of being president. He (and others like him) are the real threat to our republic. And they are what I fear most.