By now, I’m sure almost everyone who reads WUWT has seen the ridiculous CNN screencap with the FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTEST title while flames and burnt out cars inhabit the background. Josh did, and provides his take on it, along with a detour into the guillotine protest culture that has shown up lately as well.
The question is, do you vote for the party of the guillotines or not?
Seems like an easy choice. Choose wisely.
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Ne crache pas dans le panier.
“What do you need a gun for?”
….asked the terrorists with the guillotine.
Do they think we’re stupid? I mean, seriously, how much does the press really think ‘spin’ can change reality?
I’ve been calling the modern press Goebbels on steroids but I think I’ve been lowballing.
Good cartoon, deny the assault and damage then when the polls go against it blame others for it.
Still Baghdad Bob came to mind but faked news was his business.
The fire in the background reminds me of that Naked Gun scene … “nothing to see here move along”
Anthony’
Methinks the Lamestream urinalists would call the Uruk-hai and orcs of Middle Earth peaceful protestors if they were doing the DemoKKKrats bidding of dividing and destroying! I’m also thinking that the black and independent voter is starting to look at the Pantifa and Burn/Loot/Murder rioters as exactly that!
There is NO WAY the DemoKKKrats can win this election without massive amounts of voter fraud and if they keep pushing normal, sane people away with their madness they may not be able to pull it off!
Thanks for the morning laugh and such a great place to with others!
The shooting has begun. If the local authorities don’t get a handle on this soon, it’s going to get even worse.
Full on propaganda has replaced news. The Left thinks everyone is gullible and believes them but it only draws more people to the truth. In today’s information age it’s impossible to totally disappear the truth. Trump’s trite phrase “fake news” resonates with more people than they know.
For those outside the U.S. and those inside the U.S. that only listen to CNN, Jacob Blake had an outstanding felony warrant for his arrest for sexual assault. He had returned to that same woman’s home when she called the police. They arrived and tried to arrest him, he resisted and began fighting with the police. Tasers were used without success. He either had a knife or went to retrieve a knife when he was shot.
Making a hero out of a sexual predator felon is the mindset of America’s left.
The official Democratic party positions on this, which are quickly adopted by the party faithful, have evolved from mostly peaceful, to “there is no rioting”, to these are Republicans who are doing the looting and burning. At times it descends into an incoherent mumbling like “183,000 dead” or “economy ruined” as if these phrases had some meaning in and of themselves — or as if they had some magic behind them.
When Obama was President the Democrats often spoke of nuance, as if only they understood the complexities of life, but now they want no nuance at all, just one-dimension explanations of everything; and, those explanations had better serve political needs.
I am stunned were this country appears to have gone in two terms of Obama, then three years of infantile tantrum over an election gone wrong, to the past six months or so of magical thinking indistinguishable from that of stone age peoples. Scary!
I missed the news this weekend – had to help out getting 90litres of diesel out of our starboard water tank. It’s a funny way to run an election campaign.
A.F. Branco captured this news parody in his cartoon:
https://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2020/08/31
Off subject- sorry- but, James Hansen will soon be publishing a new book. After having an email discussion with him about forestry (with me being a forester for 47 years)- I got on his email list and he’s been sending out drafts of chapters for that book. You can see most or all of the drafts at: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
The latest that he’s released is Ch. 30, “How Well Did our 1988 Model Do?”. Of course he claims it did very well. I read it but most of it is over my head. Some of you may find it interesting and worth deconstructing. I’d like to see what you say- perhaps this web site could start a new thread on Hansen’s book.
So what your saying is fires can not be peaceful? Have your ever sat around a campfire during a cold night? I would have thought that all you warming deniers would love a nice warm fire now and then. Besides they also produce CO2 which all of you love, come on man.
Reason #1 why businesses need to leave liberal infested cities…
https://m.startribune.com/skyrocketing-demolition-costs-for-riot-damaged-properties-delay-rebuilding/572269302/
One day after rioters destroyed the Sports Dome retail complex in St. Paul, a construction crew hired by the city knocked the building down because it was dangerously unstable.
Then the city presented the property owners with a $140,000 bill for what it would cost to haul away the debris.
“We were really upset about that,” said property owner Jay Kim, whose insurance policy covers a maximum of $25,000 in demolition costs. “We thought that was high. But we didn’t know how much demolition would cost at the time.”
Like dozens of other investors whose properties were severely damaged in the May riots, the Kim family was stunned to discover that the money it would collect from its insurance company for demolition won’t come close to the actual costs of doing the job. Most policies limit reimbursement to $25,000 to $50,000, but contractors have been submitting bids of $200,000 to $300,000. In many cases, the price of the work is not much lower than the actual value of the property, records show.
Reason # 2 to leave liberal infested cities…
Junk-Muni Boom Sets Up Historic Distress For Billions Of Debt
https://www.fa-mag.com/news/junk-muni-boom-sets-up-historic-distress-for-billions-of-debt-57491.html
Gotta love those rioters!
Interesting stuff, considering James Hansen is one of the fathers of this CAGW meme. I would have thought he would have learnt from his own predictive failures and changed his mind on negative conclusions from climate change by now. We now live in a new Warm Modern Period which supports almost 8 billion people. Maybe ask him to write a chapter on the miracles of growing trees on the good Earth, specifically the Trillion Tree Initiative.
The one thing I think we should all get behind is the Trillion Tree Initiative. At least it would be something useful as trees and forests are a net beneficial for ecosystems and wildlife and even communities and cities where we see massive urban forests even on the prairie cities, and everyone likes trees as they bring a lot of good when managed properly. It maybe only temporarily locks up terrestrial carbon and releases it again the scheme of things, but I will go along with that and as long as we do it for a 1000 years on a rotational basis, we will lock up some carbon, which would be meeting the alarmists part way with something useful. And we have a lot more timber to assist a growing world.
Politics is the art of compromise, so if we do anything, it should make sense. Hardening the grid would be another good measure as there is noting better than electricity for the long term future. How we get that electricity is another issue. I don’t advocate trying to replace fossil fuels with biomass but with 1.5 Billion m3 of trees being milled annually all over the planet every year, that is a lot of wood waste to deal with. Some biomass makes sense especially to utilize all these millions of tons of wood waste from commercial forestry globally.
I have planted over 1 million trees commercially with my small forestry company since I have also maybe harvested a million trees over my 41 years in the biz. It would only take a million little guys like me to get a trillion new trees growing. Who could argue with a trillion new trees? Probably a DemoKKKrat.
One Trillion Tree initiative
“In 2015, there were about 3 trillion trees in the world and later it was also estimated that planting 1.2 trillion more trees would counteract 10 years of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.”
“The 2020 World Economic Forum, held in Davos, announced the creation of the One Trillion Tree Initiative platform for governments, businesses, and civil society to provide support to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2020-2030), led by UNEP and FAO. Forum participant Donald Trump, president of the United States, announced that the government of the U.S. would commit to the initiative.
As of 4 February 2020, 13.6 billion trees have been planted. I just planted 50,000 trees this spring on my 2000 acres of privately managed lands and woodlot. Everyone and every living thing is happy with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_Tree_Campaign#:~:text=One%20Trillion%20Tree%20initiative,-In%202015%2C%20there&text=Forum%20participant%20Donald%20Trump%2C%20president,billion%20trees%20have%20been%20planted.
I liked the older harmless days of reporting on dangerous storms from the bottom of a flooded ditch. They have moved to the next level….again.
Animal House has a scene for every occasion…
Violence by the “peaceful protesters” isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
49% violent is still “mostly peaceful”. I guess that is CNN’s logic.
One quote from Dementia Joe sort of sums up how ignorant he is.
Dementia Joe: “Instead of standing there and teaching a cop, when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something, you shoot them in the leg instead of in the heart is a very different thing. ”
unarmed with a knife. Joe Biden clearly isn’t very bright.
CNN also had a chyron that said “Violent protests happening now”… then someone obviously made a phone call, and the “Violent” part disappeared in real-time!
2020… The year we’ll wish we could forget, but will remain in memory as “that pivotal year in history”.
If basic rights can be suspended because of a non existant pandemic, and governors can forever ignore the law (and congress) and govern by oukases, like Tsar… with the excuse of defending a non existent entity called “public health” (only individuals have “health”, not “the public”) … then surely the President can reject and dismiss any electoral result from a region (state, county, municipality…) that is under the control of rioters, their enablers, enemies of the State (esp. those who supported people who have links with Putin (wink wink) like one major (phony, illegal, imaginary) “impeachment” witness – like Fiona Hill)…