by Tilak Doshi
An article I wrote for Forbes about J.D. Vance published on July 18th began as follows:
Within a day of ex-President Trump’s announcement of “climate denier” Mr. J. D. Vance as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the climate industrial complex and supportive mainstream media had the knives out.
Little did I know that within a day of publishing that article, the knives would come out for me.
The editors of Forbes deleted my article, stating that “we had to take down your latest Forbes article about J.D. Vance because it did not meet our editorial guidelines which we take seriously”. This was followed by a short note stating that I was sacked as a contributor. Similar complaints of not abiding by the magazine’s guidelines were made by an editor on a couple of previous published articles.
What editorial guidelines? “Avoid advocacy, opinion, polemic and rumour-mongering.”
I have yet to read any Forbes piece that avoided opinion, given that Forbes contributors are opinion columnists and not journalists who are hired to merely report the news. The contributor’s role, one would have thought, is to offer opinions and advocate certain lines of argument about current affairs or topics of interest based on a reasonable reading of verifiable data. Otherwise, what is the contributor’s purpose?
But here is the catch. It depends on whether you are “on message”. Are you with or against the accepted narratives? If against, you are cancelled. That is how the establishment operates – within Forbes and in the mainstream media – as I found out.
“Avoid Advocacy”
Here is the lead paragraph of a recent article in Forbes entitled “GOP Platform: Back To The Carbon Age” in the weekly column “Current Climate” by two “Forbes Senior Editors”:
Ahead of the Republican Party’s National Convention that kicks off today in Milwaukee, the GOP released its official platform of key priorities for a second potential Trump Administration. As with any such political document, it’s long on platitudes and slogans, but very short on detail. But there’s at least one clear takeaway in the document: it prioritises increasing energy from fossil fuels while ignoring the carbon-fuelled climate crisis that’s triggered record-setting heatwaves and earlier and more intense hurricanes.
The authors assert that the GOP official platform “prioritises increasing energy from fossil fuels while ignoring the carbon-fuelled climate crisis”. They further claim that the “carbon-fuelled climate crisis” has “triggered record-setting heatwaves and earlier and more intense hurricanes”. By these leading statements, the reader is led to believe that both constitute “settled science”.
Here is another example of writing from another recently published Forbes article that allegedly does not constitute advocacy or opinion:
Imagine not being able to get the warning about the approaching hurricane or tornado. How would you know when to evacuate to stay safe or board up your home or business? Or make sure your staff is protected? It’s not a bad dream, it could be the reality if Donald Trump takes office again.
My suggestion that the policy positions of J.D. Vance in support of fossil fuels and sceptical of climate alarmist claims are consistent with the verities of physics and economics got me cancelled. But arguing that if Donald Trump takes over, it would be “a bad dream” is perfectly fine in a Forbes world allegedly devoid of advocacy or opinion.
Settled Science
To suggest that fossil fuels have “fuelled the climate crisis” is, we are led to believe, neither an opinion nor advocacy. Forbes’s readers are told to accept “the carbon-fuelled climate crisis” as established science, though it is nothing of the sort. There is no “settled science” – an oxymoron to begin with – regarding climate change. It is apparent that Forbes would have cancelled John Clauser, a Nobel Laureate, for Physics in 2022 – like the IMF did – since he does not give obeisance at the altar of climate change as Forbes staff evidently do along with their preferred contributors and senior editors.
Indeed, if Dr. Clauser were to write, as he did, that the climate emergency narrative is “a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people”, he would have received a termination letter pronto from the senior editors of Forbes. And if he had said, as he did, that “climate science has metastasised into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience”, that would certainly have sealed his fate.
The Forbes editors seem oblivious to the fact that the latest IPCC assessment report, by finding little support for the much-proclaimed link between climate change and extreme weather events, “is badly out of step with today’s apocalyptic zeitgeist” as Roger Pielke Jr. puts it.
What is even more remarkable is that Forbes’s senior editors seem out of step with their own Editor-in-Chief and grandson of the magazine’s founder, Steve Forbes. Mr. Forbes said in his column last month that some $6 trillion had been spent on “so-called renewables” such as solar and wind over the past two decades which “barely made a dent” in the use of fossil fuels in the global economy. Yet in the linked Forbes article above, the authors criticise the GOP platform for not making specific references to solar and wind (along with geothermal and hydropower). Perhaps they should have checked with their own Editor-in-Chief before indulging in “climate groupthink”, which Mr. Forbes warns his readers against.
Au Revoir Forbes
My first Forbes article was published more than five years ago in April 2019 entitled ‘The World Bank’s Misguided Green Energy Policies To Persist’. Since then, I have published a range of pieces on climate, energy and public policy. Readers often remarked in personal comments to me that they found it surprising that a mainstream business magazine such as Forbes allowed such contrarian and sceptical writing to be published. My response was to say that Forbes was exceptional in providing a broad range of informed opinion to their readers.
Alas, that is no longer true, and climate groupthink has captured yet another media outlet. Newer hires at the Forbes editorial office from a younger more “woke” generation of journalists may well have tipped the balance in support of the climate alarmist narrative. Gone are the days when informed analysts such as Roger Pielke Jr., Michael Schellenberger, Diana Furchtgott-Roth graced the pages of Forbes.
Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is an energy consultant, member of the CO2 Coalition and an ex-Forbes contributor.
Below is the article that Forbes memory-holed.
Trump’s VP Pick Is A Climate Sceptic And the Knives Are Out
By Tilak Doshi
Within a day of ex-President Trump’s announcement of “climate denier” Mr. J. D. Vance as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the climate industrial complex and supportive mainstream media had the knives out. A few headlines of the past 24 hours are an indication:
New York Times – “J.D. Vance Is an Oil Booster and Doubter of Human-Caused Climate Change”
Independent – J.D. Vance: “Climate Activists Alarmed by Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Pick for Vice President”
Guardian – “Climate Advocates Fear Picking J.D. Vance for VP Is ‘A Dangerous Step Backward’”
The umbrage taken by media commentators is familiar. CNBC laments that “the former venture capitalist though is a known critic of climate change and renewable energy [italics added].” U.K.’s the Independent newspaper reports that “[c]ampaigners are responding with alarm to the selection of climate denier and Ohio senator J.D. Vance as Donald Trump’s Vice Presidential nominee, with activists warning he represents a “dangerous” voice for the U.S.” Mr. Vance’s “eagerness to please Donald Trump” adds to the image of the Vice-Presidential nominee as an unprincipled politician seeking office.
Climate advocacy group Fossil Free Media spokesperson Cassidy DiPaola asserted that “This [VP] choice signals that a potential Trump-Vance administration would likely double down on fossil fuel expansion at a time when we desperately need to transition to clean energy.” Communications Director Stevie O’Hanlon of Sunrise Movement, a climate activist organisation, said that “Like Donald Trump, J.D. Vance has proven that he will make it a top priority to roll back climate protections while answering to the demands of oil and gas CEOs.”
Does Mr. Vance have a principled stand and is his stance on climate and energy policy worthy of consideration?
Climate Denialism
As the highly polarised debate over climate change over the past few decades has amply demonstrated, the discourse often descends into ad hominem attacks and name calling. “Climate denier” is a charge that is often used by proponents of climate alarm to shut down critical debate and to deplatform climate sceptics. Lena Moffitt, Executive Director of the environmental advocacy group Evergreen Action, said this of Mr. Vance: “Donald Trump has chosen an avowed climate denier as his running mate who has used his time in Congress to vote against the environment and shill for fossil fuel corporations at every opportunity.”
The “denier” accusation is among the more pernicious if popular epithets used to denigrate sceptics of the so-called “consensus science”. It invokes a comparison to those who engage in Holocaust denial. To be sure, most observers would consider it ludicrous to suggest that questioning the accuracy and predictive power of scientific models is like questioning the historical fact of the genocide of Jews in Europe.
What Is Mr. Vance’s Position on Climate?
Putting aside epithets and journalistic hit-pieces, it seems a fair question to ask just what do politicians sceptical of the climate alarmist narrative believe? And what are their policy positions regarding the Paris Agreement’s “Net Zero by 2050” target? This policy target is an imperative, at least nominally, for most current governments in North America and Western Europe.
Mr. Vance – lawyer, businessman, former Marine and writer of the bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, arisen from the humblest working-class background – places himself firmly in the populist Right movement. It now looks very likely that Mr. Trump will be the next U.S. President. The assassination attempt on Saturday, his miraculous split-second turn of the head which saved him and the iconic picture of his raised fist with the U.S. flag in the background seconds after being injured make him almost irresistible. Thus Mr. Vance will likely join the Donald Trump next year as his VP in an administration that will seek to rapidly unwind the myriad policy and regulatory constraints that the Biden administration has imposed to shackle the U.S. oil and gas industry at every turn.
Vance has also criticised the “green energy fantasy” of the Biden administration, pointing out that “solar panels can’t power a modern manufacturing economy” and “that’s why the Chinese are building coal power plants”. He has similarly called out wind power turbines. At the Turning Point Action conference last year, he said “they’re hideously ugly. They kill all the birds. And they’re mostly made in China.” The Biden administration’s all-out support for EVs comes in for the same critique. In a July 2022 radio interview, he said: “The whole EV thing is a scam. If you plug it into your wall, do these people think there are Keebler elves back there making electricity in the wall? It comes, of course, from fossil fuels.”
Mr. Vance’s climate scepticism goes beyond encouraging U.S. oil and gas dominance in global markets once again – a strong theme of Trump’s first term in office – if the Republicans get elected to office. He has come out fiercely against the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) movement. In an interview with Breitbart in 2022, he said: “ESG is basically a massive racket to enrich Wall Street and enrich the financial sector of the country, at the expense of the industries that actually employ a lot of Ohio’s workers for middle-class jobs.” The push against ESG occurring through the red states in the U.S. and the increasingly evident lack of success of ESG-focused firms and investment advisors suggests that Mr. Vance has probably got a better finger on the pulse than his critics would care to admit.
Who’s More Credible?
As a climate change sceptic, Mr. Vance stands in good company. For instance, the 2022 Nobel Laureate in Physics John Clauser exposed in a recent lecture how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models and analyses do not meet basic standards of scientific enquiry. IPCC models have been used as “proof” of scientific consensus by politicians and activists to support claims of a “climate crisis”. Another example would be Richard Lindzen, an American atmospheric physicist and Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who published an assessment of the global warming narrative in 2022. Prof. Lindzen finds climate alarmism “a quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd ‘scientific’ narrative. The policies invoked on behalf of this movement have led to the U.S. hobbling its energy system.” Whatever one’s views on climate science, it is apparent that Mr. Vance is not a wild-eyed outlier in his scepticism of the claims of climate policy advocates, as asserted by his many critics.
J.D. Vance’s criticisms of subsidy-supported renewable energy and EV sectors accord with the empirical evidence emerging in the current context of higher inflation, higher interest rates and a deep slump in renewable energy stocks. For instance, an Associated Press report last November described the travails of the Biden administration’s ambitious plans for offshore wind: “The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, jeopardising the Biden administration’s goals of powering 10 million homes from towering ocean-based turbines by 2030 and establishing a carbon-free electric grid five years later.” This news was preceded by earlier reports of developers cancelling three offshore wind power projects in New England. They said their projects were “no longer financially feasible” despite the ample subsidies on offer.
The news on the EV front, called out as a “scam” by Mr. Vance, is just as dire for green technology enthusiasts. As David Blackmon, a keen observer of the renewable energy space, notes: surveys show that the vast majority of U.S. car buyers will not purchase an EV even at “bargain basement” prices (and despite Government subsidies); the overall growth in private EV sales in the U.S. has slowed “to a trickle”, just as is happening in the U.K. and EU; and the market for used EVs is practically non-existent. “Pure play” EV maker Fisker recently declared bankruptcy while Rivian approaches the same fate. Giant U.S. automakers GM and Ford have turned to gasoline-powered vehicles to sustain their profits as the global EV sales slowdown force them to delay investments and cut costs in their EV production lines.
Partisans may criticise the man all they want, but the realities of thermodynamics and economics support J.D. Vance. He may prove to be the best Vice President in a Republican administration geared towards supporting the country’s oil and gas industries and ‘Making America Great Again’.
Obvious heresy!
Cancelling my Forbes Subscription NOW
To those presently in power, there is no more feared or powerful weapon than truth.
Forbes ceased being a trustworthy, adult publication about serious topics and serious people decades ago.
It has demonstrated itself to be an Establishment publication which means that the editorial board takes its directions from the WEF and supports the corrupt 2 Party political system that has taken root, in our country, since the 1st Bush Administration. It is a root system that has chocked out individual thought and independent non-establishment collectivist thinking along with individual initiative and achievement. Forbes works hand in hand with mainstream media to give off the impression there is a cold war between the socio/political Left and Right in the country when in fact it is the”Have’s” vs “have not”‘s warring with each other.
The old money and industrialist millions have been turned into Billions by the investor class and subsequently handed down to silver spoon nepotists who have hire the intellectual class to pit citizen against citizens so that we won’t notice their inherited upper class power, perks and privilege. In essence the University Intellectual Class has co-opted and join forces with the Inheritance Class. It is so bad that even self made Billionaires like Trump and Musk are calling them out and as a result cancelled by this Elite Jabbering Class that has control of the message board and the volume switch.
This 21st century upper class do not want us, the ‘Great Unwashed” using up their fossil fuels and other limited resources. all the while THEY need an army of “ILL Eagles” to run those gas powered mowers and leaf blowers that keep their Muli-Mansions pristine and powered, to wash the occupants of their 4 car garages, and to clear the barnacles off their McYachts not to mention clean below decks, and deposit the used champagne bottles into the recycle bin in order to “Save the Planet.” Seems the welfare classes are making too much off of middle tax transfer payments to lower themselves to work for a living. AMIRITE Steve Forbes.
Bill, we have had a two-party political system in the US since about 1850. Ross Perot tried do make a dent in that in 1992 running against Bush II (not Bush I.) He did make a dent but did not succeed overall as you might know. Other minor parties have been long around since 1850 but none have succeeded. There are plenty of haves and have nots in both parties and among those who are not affiliated with either. From what you write, you might be happier in Russia or, best of all, North Korea.
Perot ran against Bush the Elder, not the younger.
Didn’t one of our Founding Fathers, who was also President, have some serious concerns about a party system?
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
— John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780)
Co-founder of the Federalist Party.
Most of them did. Then some became leaders of factions.
While I cannot get fully on board with Bill’s class warfare arguments, his original assertion that our party political system is rigged is very well founded. There have been numerous analyses from well respected economists and lawyers (see link at the bottom of this post to a Harvard Business School report from Michael Porter) that if our political system were treated as a private industry, it would clearly violate many anti-trust laws as an illegal duopoly. Considering the billions of dollars that flow through campaigns and lobbyists, how could anyone not see it as an industry. Not to mention the trillions of USD that flow through the federal budget. The two parties collude with each other to prevent (or make very difficult) entry to the market. Access to ballots, fundraising laws, etc. They pretend to compete, and do to a degree, but the main goal is to strategically divide the market and ensure they remain in power. So why is this illegal duopoly allowed to operate? Well they happen to be the only industry who has complete regulation of themselves, and don’t you know they are special. It’s letting the fox guard the hen house. Don’t take my word, read this.
https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf
Jason, thanks for your contributions. I had not thought of the description of the US as being governed by a “duopoly.” The report you reference is worth a close read but I have noticed some flawed assumptions like, “Most individuals who seek and hold public office are genuinely seeking to make a positive contribution.” This ignores human nature and the reality of selfishness and greed that are so prevalent especially among those in power.
Unfortunately many politicians also approach their task as if they were playing a game of Monopoly. In the process they are destroying the livelihood and lives of many Americans. I believe in the need for law and order with good governance but I despise the politics we see across Western countries. I was struck this week reading “America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy” by Bernard Dobski. We have to find a way to elect competent and principled leaders. This also has implications for both the study of weather/climate and for political actions. Clearly we have major problems when we democratize science and impose egalitarianism.
https://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-democracy
Well, nothing could have been more predictable…
Aren’t all these media moguls the same “elite political donors” that stopped donating to Joe Biden because he wouldn’t withdraw from the presidential race?
Apparently, Joe is unable to think quickly enough for their liking. However, he quickly endorsed Kamala Harris and nobody asked why we should believe him.
Joe Biden is either capable of making decisions or he is not. You can’t have it both ways.
Chinese interests acquired Forbes 10 years ago.
It seems that Steve Forbes acts a part, but it is unclear what part he is acting.
The recent failed ownership acquisition/transfer, is said to not involve Russian interests (just before it failed.)
Stop looking for enemies. Look in the mirror. Forbes acts on behave of global banking industry that decided to launch an perpetuate climate industrial complex. And US system-defining banks have major control in this. Chinese are merely taking the opportunity to make money when they can, but why blame them for being opportunistic capitalists?
My defn of capitalist and your defn of capitalist is very different.
(by your defn, when the British were enforcing a free market for opium (in China), they were merely taking the opportunity to make money as they welcomed China into the world market.)
And Forbes and the rest of the legacy media keep wondering why their circulation keeps dropping.
Financial magazine sacks CO2 lobbyist for failing to disclose conflict of interest.
What else is new ?
What conflict of interest, can you elaborate? Either prove your charge or hold your tongue.
Without fossil fuels there will be mass starvation, poverty and probably war.
Everyone has a clear conflict of interest, unless they are on the green gravy train.
“unless they are on the green gravy train.”
And if fossil fuels are disrupted.. that gravy train comes to a crashing halt !
They are just too dumb to realise that.
I hate green gravy.
I hate green eggs and ham.
That Sam-I-Am…..
The East Pole appears to be a moron. But there may indeed be a conflict of interest worth investigating. Forbes sold out a majority share in 2014 to Hong Kong investors, and evidently the company was sold in 2021 to another Hong Kong company, Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited (but incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843121/000110465921109797/tm2125497d1_ex2-1.htm. This is a company just form as an acquisition vehicle. As I understand it, it’s chiefly owned by Fir Tree Capital Management LP
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843121/000117266124001595/firtree-opa123123.htm.
The founder of Fir Tree Capital Management is
Jeffrey Tannenbaum, who’s
Titan Grove is the private capital vehicle that he uses to
focus on @building businesses that have a positive influence on clean energy adoption”
https://www.titangrove.com/ourstory. So he may have a personal financial interest in suppressing information about the folly of current “green energy” policies.
At the time of the acquisition, 5.8% of Magnum Opus was owned by the China Investment Corp (CIC), the sovereign wealth fund with more than US$1 trillion of China’s foreign-currency reserves under management. China would have an interest in American destroying its manufacturing base by eliminating reliable and inexpensive energy while buying Chinese wind turbines, solar panels and EVs/batteries.
Forbes is destroying itself as a responsible news organization, like most of MSM. Wish there was an actual investigative journalist out there who could investigate further.
Drive-by enviros hurl unsupportable accusations, it’s what they do. Corner ’em in front of an audience of a hundred CAGW skeptics and/or otherwise disinterested people, hand ’em a microphone and ask ’em to defend their accusation, and they’ll flee in terror. They feel safe when hurling these accusations in their own little echo chambers,* but if there is one bit of cancer that has the potential to eat those places alive from within, it’s how these accusers are unable stand and deliver on evidence which actually verifies their accusation to their own friends. “Wait a minute,” one of their bravest pals would say, “you said he’s paid to lie. I could hit him with that the next time I encounter him … but what is the evidence you have on that? You do have that, don’t you?”
*(Luv Desmogblog. Absolutely nowhere in their profile of me do they prove I work for the Heartland Institute – I don’t; never have – nor do they even offer a word to dispute what I say about them or their co-founders.)
Basically every anti-CO2 lobbyist has strong ties to the renewables subsidies scam, through funding from eco-businesses or direct association.
Yes, they should be fired as they are incapable of being unbiased.
or is a useful idiot there of.
I have a conflict of interest.
I rely on fossil fuels for nearly EVERYTHING in my life.
And guess what.
SO DO YOU !!
not abiding by the magazine’s guidelines
Failing to adhere to the narrative. A climate hooligan. Etc.
Forbes is a global media company…
Forbes represents yet another example of a media outlet that does not need any constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press. They have their own editorial censorship policy to restrict and control what is disseminated, and it is based on the political ideology and belief systems of those in charge.
Such editorial censorship serves a similar purpose to govt censorship in non-free societies. If journalistic integrity is not exactly dead, one could argue that it is slowly dying.
Who couldve imagined that investigative journalism would be frowned upon in this supposedly free western world? I mean, ive never seen such dogmatic reactionairy hold on the complete msm. And i was born in 1964. Diversity has been killed. I think Trump triggered the binaries, Covid clinched it and Climate Change sealed it. Let us pray the light will eventually get through the cracks..
Bad boy, bad boy, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Will trump even keep vance? Neither party nor voters seem to like him.
Speak for yourself, Useless….
CNN? Are you for real?
He’s a wind up merchant
You beat me to it.
Technically both are real, sorta – this anonymous ‘myUnusableName’ commenter really is a person who believes something is true simply because it feels like it may be true, and CNN really is hardly more than a propaganda arm of the far-left. My impression of Forbes has long been that they lean to the conservative right, but I guess that’s permanently out the window now. I’d have to assume Davd Blackmon is next on the chopping block at that place for daring to question any part of the CAGW orthodoxy.
Why do you care; the being from ‘anywhere’ rather than somewhere
Looks like Fake News to me
Near as I can tell, Vance is willing to make a 180° turn to attach himself to someone who appears to have power. His past comments about “childless cat ladies” and what not are going to provide the impetus for a thousand memes and comedians across the country. I’m not sure if cat ladies vote, but I bet a lot of childless ladies do.
The things he said about abortion that also don’t add to his appeal – especially after trump tries to distance himself from the republican anti-abortion agenda.
Except it isn’t an anti-abortion agenda.
Vance’s comments were about rich scumbag billionaires sending planes to pick up black women to get abortions in California.
That is creepy.
Vance was totally correct. !
Tell us, Luser, what period do you think abortions should be allowed to. (select one)
a… 15 weeks
b… 25 weeks
c… 35 weeks
d… 45 weeks
trump thinks post birth abortion exists…but maybe he just means school shootings
I notice you were too cowardly to answer the question.
Tell us, Luser, what period do you think abortions should be allowed to. (select one)
a… 15 weeks
b… 25 weeks
c… 35 weeks
d… 45 weeks
It does, in big cities.
The opposite of the Democrats, who want to destroy as many babies as possible.
Destroy babies
Remove reproductive ability at the child level
Render Male/Female society Neutral (neutered)
He/him She/herIt/It’sAllow rapi$t$ into girls locker rooms and bathrooms
“Allow rapi$t$ into girls locker rooms and bathrooms”
What, when??? Is Trump allowed into girls locker rooms now. Oh wait, that’s right he does just stroll in doesn’t he.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing
He isn’t claiming to be a she is he!!?
Nor is he rubbing girls arms inappropriately
Nor is he sniffing girls hair
Nor is he sniffing babies
Trump isn’t the one to watch out for, Biden is!
A rapist is a rapist. I’m not really concerned with the flavour of them. Lock em all up I say.
“Nor is he rubbing girls arms inappropriately”
How dare you imply he would be so weak as to attempt to rub a girls arms. No…. Trump is a man who knows what he wants. He just grabs their pussies. Arms and hair be damned.
But, all joking aside. In all Trumps sexual offending it has been forgotten that in 2016 a young girl came forward to press charges(that she later withdrew) that Trump and Epstein raped her at age 13. At the time it seemed unlikely, but now knowing what we do about both of them….. not so much.
https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/
Anyway if it was my daughter, I think I would take the hair sniffer.
More baseless far-left fakery.
But you are capable of nothing else.
“How dare you imply he would be so weak as to attempt to rub a girls arms.”
He was talking about hair-sniffer Biden, you gormless twit. !
“Lock em all up I say.”
You need the company !
Sorry but this is a court article. Nothing left or right about it. This is why you have no filter for what is real and what is not.
So this young woman who accused Epstein and Trump of raping her has got me thinking……
There is one person who would know for sure if this was true. Ghislaine Maxwell the partner of Epstein who is now serving her 20-year sentence for luring and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused, raped and exploited by Epstein. Then I remembered Trump said the weirdest thing when asked about her…. he said “I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is,”
Then a week later he doubled down when asked “Yeah, I wish her well,” he said. “I’d wish you well. I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty.”
That’s weird don’t you think. Why would you wish someone well who had been an accomplice in the sexual assault and rape of numerous young girls?
Then there is this interview with Trump. Not so keen to declassify the Epstein files….. Why not I wonder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJorAVgHy7Y
Hmmmm …. I think we may hear more of this one. Just saying.
LOL.. More far left LIES, that the simpleton falls for every time.
Bryan was referring to your deviant, degenerate transgender buddies..
… pretending to be female so they can prey on young girls in locker rooms..
… maybe even sniff their hair. !!
“pro life” but letting women die to preventable and forseeable birth complications.
“pro life” but let the children starve by destroying school lunch and other social programs
“pro life” but the next school shooting is inevitable.
“pro life” but no health care for everyone
because he doesn’t give a * after he forced women to birth.
Still refusing to answer..
Trying to inflate the question to other areas of leftist fake news.
And massive leftist misrepresentation.
LUSER !!!
Tell us, Luser, what period do you think abortions should be allowed to. (select one)
a… 15 weeks
b… 25 weeks
c… 35 weeks
d… 45 weeks
1) Name one.
2) how many children have “starved” due to republicans “destroying school lunch programs”? I’ll bet the same number as “climate refugees”, zero.
3) non-sequitur
4) Everyone has access to healthcare.
Idiot.
Nothing wrong with protecting those that can’t protect themselves is there??
And then there are polls.
So for all voters it was a draw before and after the convention.
And trump supporters in the “never heard of” group got the info where to march in lockstep.
So much for CNN junk.
No moron… they saw JD Vance at the conference.
And made the rational conclusion. (something you are incapable of doing)
Will make a great VP, and an even greater future President.
LOL, you didn’t watch the RC Convention where he was very well accepted and has been popular everywhere he speaks at.
CNN is fooling you too easily.
According to the far-left media, who are genuinely scared of him.!!
There will be a lot of desperate and manic lies flowing from the fantasy media leading up to the USA elections…
And you will always fall for it every time because you don’t have the intelligence to do anything else.
“There will be a lot of desperate and manic lies flowing from the fantasy media leading up to the USA elections…”
No doubt about that. If their lips are moving, they are lying about Republicans.
Tim Ryan doesn’t like him but Ohio voters do.
He’s ignorant. His joke about the Labour Party being Islamist shows he’s not competent to be VP of the USA.
But that doesn’t matter, in the short term.
If he is popular in at least three rust belt states he will get Trump back in the Oval Office.
And the fact that he’s not capable of holding down the VP job is good news for Trump. Trump is already the senile side of 75.
He needs a VP who cannot possibly replace him at the top.
Labour has indeed had a lock on the “Muslim vote”, but ironically lost ground to Independent candidates in 2024. From Dawn, the English language Pakistani national newspaper:
https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/1845811
“His joke about the Labour Party being Islamist “
True, he should have been more serious about it.
It is no joking matter.
The Labour-Islamist link is a real problem for all of the UK, and for every other country around the world.
Labour lost several expected MPs to the Islamists. And they were very close to losing others, but kept those Islamists out,
Labour is the opposition to the Islamists.
I can only speak for myself, and so far Vance adds credibility to Trump.
Who will add a brain to Harris?
The only way a ditzy slut gets elected is by manufacturing 10 million ballots. Which means the airhead could win.
Just like how Biden was elected then
What you don’t think brain damaged Biden really got 16 million more valid votes than rock star Obama and prospective first female President Clinton?
Nope he got the Invalid vote
That last one from the Cracker jack box has cracked and spoiled.
She doesn’t need one… the msm already has her deified.
So true.
Having a someone as solid as Vance behind him is great for Trump.
The fact that Vance is a climate realist is a massive plus for the American people..
Maybe there is a chance of saving the USA from most of the degradation due to “climate” nonsense.
But Americans have to find the intelligence to want to save their country.
Leftists – always with the “like” factor.
POLICY is all that counts in effective, beneficial governance.
Absolute assholes often prosecute the most effective policies that benefit the majority of their nation’s citizens for the times they’re facing.
Why, because they d.g.a.f. about whether citizens “like” them or not.
Results / outcomes are ALL that matters.
I agree that Vance was a poor choice and could cost Trump the election for his abortion views. Vance is Trump 2.0 and is from a state that Ttump would have won without Vance.
As of today, current polls show Trump will lose. Kackling Airhead Kamala is close enough for state registered voter roll fraud to close the gap i every swing state. She merely needs to pick a VP from a swing state where she needs the electoral votes. Such as PA. Or Michigan.
Kamal’s father was a real communist. and so is she, but the media has revised her into a middle of the road tough on crime former DA.
Trump has a serious problem of being unable to read a teleprompter and not go off message. Kamala can read a teleprompter.
If Trump character attacks a half black woman, he will lose female votes and lose the election. If he educates people on Kamala’s far leftist record, Trump will win. That will take discipline which he does not demonstrate at his rallies.
She’s not “half black”. Her Jamaican Communist dad probably isn’t even of half African descent. He reminded his daughter that her ancestors were slave owners.
great grandma Oprah (married to a Finegan) looks just like her.
Great grandma Miss Chrissy (Daughter of Irishman Hamilton Brown).
So, a bit of Irish slave owners.
Hamilton Brown (Irishman) was gggrandfather.
The British gov paid off the slaveholders through their program to free the slaves. Hamilton Brown was paid approximately $3.7 million (today’s $), through the 1837 Slave Compensation Act to reimburse him for his losses.
Question for Kamala: How much should she, and people like her, receive in terms of reparations?
There is a need for an article that describes the ownership and recent performance of the major scientific publishers from Nature, Science, The Lancet etc down to some of the lesser known ones.
By “performance” I mean how the publishers allow publication of peer reviewed new papers on climate change that have different conclusions to those of the latest IPCC report, the scientific part and not the bastardised Summary for Policy Makers.
After that, the conduct of gossip publishers like Forbes will become easier to understand.
(I am too old and unwell to do it. How about some energetic young volunteers?). Geoff S
I have read the Forbes daily website for summaries of issues they think important. I have never subscribed. Now I will delete myself from their daily summaries as well. One really cannot believe what they say it seems.
It is not surprising but still shocking the length to which the ‘unbelievers’ are attacked for their opinions. Like heretics/ blasphemers of old. Pretty much the same that happened during Covid. Ive never seen such narrowmindedness, especially from left leaning liberals who are supposedly freedom loving, inquisitive, non dogmatic and open, or supposed to be anyway. Maybe i was mistaken all along being an old lefty myself and brought up in a red household w a commie grandfather. We have to fight for the little guy against the moneymen was the idea. Anti fascist at least, against dogma, we read 1984 and the Gulag archipeligo. But now i feel like the few still sane people in The Bodysnatchers. Everyone seems to be ‘taken’ and utterly vicious against anyone daring to object. It is so odd given the amount of accessable information that runs counter to the mainstream narrative.
I was warned about “commies” back in about 1979, thru my father and the John Birch society, I thought they were daft, but then I did not understand leftism and partisan politics, etc. I do now and they were right! Now I know what they were worried about, and I share the same concerns.
Kamala is about as close to a communist as we have ever had running for president.
Kamala, in every speech she has given so far, has called Republicans extremists. That’s the heart of the Democrat argument. They want the gullible to believe that all Republicans are extremists and Donald Trump is the worst of the bunch and the only solution is to vote for the Democrats.
I think Trump and the Republicans should tag Kamala with the “radical” tag, every time they talk about her and her policies. She is the most radical Democrat to run for the presidency.
I see some Republicans are calling Kamala the most liberal Democrat in the U.S. Senate. Don’t call her a liberal. She is not liberal, she is a radical. Call her what she is.
“Call her what she is.”
Bat-S**T crazy !
“Kamala is about as close to a communist as we have ever had running for president.”
Close! She is a full fledged Communists!!!
“ It is so odd given the amount of accessable information that runs counter to the mainstream narrative.” This IS the puzzle, isn’t it? (google is far too powerful, and, it seems, people are lazy.)
I’m a blog editor who recommends 12 to 18 climate and energy articles every morning. Almost all climate and energy articles from The Daily Sceptic are recommended unless they are only of interest in the UK
This is why I rejected this Doshi article:
(1) Conclusions not backed by data
(2) Political support of Trump that is biases and off topic. The conclusion that Trump is irresistible is not supported by recent polls, unfortunately.
“The assassination attempt on Saturday, his miraculous split-second turn of the head which saved him and the iconic picture of his raised fist with the U.S. flag in the background seconds after being injured make him almost irresistible.”
DOSHI
(3) Using John Clauser as a reference. Clauser is a climate “scientist” with no peer reviewed published papers. He has been saying there is no climate crisis, which is correct. But in 2024, in Climate, The Movie, he was quoted as saying:
“There is no correlation between temperature change and carbon dioxide – it is all a crock of crap.” CLAUSER
That statement, if quoted correctly in the movie, makes Clauser a climate science denier, and a fool.
I’m surprise Forbes published this mediocre Doshi article in the first place. My editing standards are higher.
I don’t recommend articles on my blog and then delete them later. Anything written on the internet can be deleted or revised later. I don’t believe in doing that or in banning a writer simply because I didn’t like one of his articles.
It isn’t quoted correctly, Clauser said the climate crisis is a crock of crap.
I don’t recommend any articles from RG’s blog.
They are biased by his anti-science opinions and other nonsense he constantly goes on with.
eg Clauser has several magnitudes more scientific understanding than RG will ever be capable of..
… but RG doesn’t like the absolutely correct statement from Clauser… diddums !!
RG is a manic anti-science AGW “believer”, despite never being able to produce any empirical scientific evidence of warming by atmospheric CO2.
“despite never being able to produce any empirical scientific evidence of warming by atmospheric CO2”
There is that.
He’s doing like the climate alarmists do: Speculating, assuming and asserting unsubstantiated claims.
He calls someone a fool for saying “there is no correlation between temperature change and CO2”, yet he cannot show such a correlation.
Clauser is just stating the obvious.
And correlation is not necessarily causation.
Nitwits like BenNasty2000 are why I have never allowed comments on my blogs.
Over 840,000 lifetime page views without repeated piles of steaming farm animal digestive waste products better known as BeNasty comments
My blog presents a daily recommended reading list of 12 or more conservative author article titles and links refuting CAGW and Nut Zero.
AGW is not refuted because AGW exists.
except in the BeNasty fantasyland.
My blog is free with no ads and no requests for donations.
I invite you to view a daily recommended reading list and then try to find a better recommended reading list anywhere on the internet.
Within a minute or two you will see that BeNasty’s character attacks and the truth have nothing in common:
The Honest Climate Science and Energy Blog
“840,000 lifetime page views”
So… there are now an lot more DUMB, mal-informed people in the world…. Why brag about it !!
Show us where AGW exists in the UAH data ? Still waiting !!!
Or will you use surface data, again showing you are still clueless about the difference between AUD and not-AGW.
Still waiting for empirical scientific evidence of warming by atmospheric CO2..
Why do you keep FAILING ??
Your credibility, already well negative, drops every time you FAIL to produce evidence.
As to your blog, garbage is always free. !
There is nothing “Honest” about your blog.
It is a scientific wreck, twisted by your own scientific ignorance and petty arrogance.
Clauser was correct, and you have shown you are totally incapable of providing a single bit of scientific evidence to show he was not.
I’ve said it before in WUWT comments, one of the hallmarks of leftists is their insatiable need for upvote approval and/or other forms of braggadocio to bolster their lousy self-esteems. Regarding alleged ‘page views,’ has this guy really gotten an additional 147k page views at his ‘blog’ since mid-January? I highly doubt it.
All hail Greene The Messiah!
We are not worthy of your omniscience, Lord.
Please continue to bestow upon us the sacrament of your insights and guidance.
(or, just fvck off!)
Well said 😉
You may kiss my ring
Or my a–
https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-wants-interview-donald-trump-shooting-injury-assassination-attempt-report-1930517
IRRELEVANT..
There was nothing between the shooter and Trump to cause any shrapnel.
The FBI came out later and said it was a bullet that hit Trump’s ear.
One wonders why Wray even brought it up that way. It sounds like Wray has TDS and was attempting to discredit Trump and throw doubt on Trump.
Makes absolutely no difference anyway !!
Even a piece of shrapnel to the head is likely to kill you.
Fortunately the bullet just grazed the ear, but it would have still hurt like crazy !
Wray knows if Trump is elected, then on day one he’s gone.
And bullets did not kill and gravely injure three rally goers in Trump’s line of fire nor rupture a hydraulic line?
Another idiot.
Wray will be fired on the first day of Trump’s new administration.
Wray is a liar and engages in Election Interference with his lies.
The Hunter Biden laptop was a serious subject in the 2020 election. Biden and the other Democrats claimed Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation and was a pack of lies.
Wray, and the FBI had Hunter’s laptop in their possession since 2019, and knew good and well it was real and was not Russian disinformation, and had damning information on it for Hunter and Joe Biden.
But Wray remained silent while the Democrats lied about the laptop, even though he knew they were lying. He said nothing and let the lie stand as the truth.
After the election, about 10 percent of those polled said that had they known the laptop was real, they would either have voted for Trump or not voted at all, and this would have made Trump president, instead of Biden.
Wray is just another Swamp Critter that needs removal from the levers of power.
About six more months for you, Wray.
And then maybe a majority Republican Congress will want to look into your activities while in office.
We need a Swamp Removal Committee in Congress.
I’m certain the people sitting in the stands behind the line of fire (to the left of the.podium) would disagree with your fake news source
Richard Green says “I put newdie pictures on my blog so I can entice the pervs to visit me; I look at the pics with my wife”.
Clauser says ““There is no correlation between temperature change and carbon dioxide – it is all a crock of crap.”
(both of the above are mis-quotes.)
Clauser’s quote is the statement of a climate science fool
Your comment is the comment of a fool and a liar.
There are no nude pictures on my blog.
The quote is false.
You need a lobotomy.
Clauser’s comment was from a scientist that knows several magnitude more about science than you would ever be capable of.
His comment was totally correct.
Now.. where’s that empirical evidence of warming by atmospheric CO2
Don’t FAIL yet again. !
As I stated, both quotes are incorrect.
You either mis-quoted (physics nobel laurit) Clauser for effect, or you are incompetent.
When you are quoting someone in an attempt to denigrate them, you need to get it right … the editor of a blog with 800,000 clicks (not viewers) should be aware that misquotes and exaggeration makes you look foolish.
You do not, however, dispute the presence of the photos of women at your blog, do you? (archive link for WUWT comment section readers to the blog here for the avoidance of malware/viruses – do a screensearch for the word “Bonus“). What description to you apply to those photos … and how do you defend that they are not straying into soft porn territory? Or have you deleted them all by now?
Do you additionally not dispute that – your words – “my Climate Centerfolds blog [ OnionBloggle2012 I won’t post the Internet Archive link, but can provide it if asked]: no nudity, but not for office viewing” is a significant part of the figure for your collective approaching 1 million page views?
You are an idiot and no one cares what you recommend.
You seem to care enough to read my comment and respond to it.
Laughing material only !
We are all here for fun.
You certainly provide the “village idiot” aspect.
An honorable position in this village 😛
Lowest of the low… dragging yourself out of the sewer to make comments…
Then sinking back into your fetid ooze to be with your fellow single brain cell organisms.
Primeval fear is what consumes “progressives”.
It’s their fear of writing, saying, doing anything that might possibly be construed by their “woke” cult associates as being “un-woke”, or not compliant with the “progressive” agenda.
Which leads to being canceled, ostracised, humiliated, not by the broader world, just the “woke-ists”.
(whose opinion of the miscreant matter above all else to “progressives”)
There is only one other “absolutist” ideology that “progressives” will tolerate, and that is Islamism.
At the Turning Point Action conference last year, he said “they’re hideously ugly. They kill all the birds. And they’re mostly made in China.”
Beauty is in the eyes of beer holder. I do not find them inherently ugly, and in some settings I do not care much about their aesthetics. Who really cares about these turbines in the vast planes of the US West where hardly anybody lives? I would not object them, if I did not know how much damage they do to the environment, how useless they are, how they drive electricity prices up, etc. But none of this is based on their looks. Where they are made is irrelevant. A lot is made in China, so what?
And yet another idiot.
Trump says if they build a windmill within sight of your house, your house loses 50 percent of its value.
I guess Trump knows. He’s a real estate guy.
Would you like to live next to a windmill? That would be about the last thing I would want.
The last thing I would want, would be to have KH living anywhere near me.
“Who really cares about these turbines in the vast planes of the US West where hardly anybody lives?”
THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE CARE.
Keep shilling for the Orientals … if that is what makes you happy.
Where they are made in not irrelevant, it ties back in with the other negatives that you listed.
Nobody with a functioning brain cell denies that earth has a climate.
“Climate Denier” is an incredibly stupid accusation.
That’s why it’s “climate change denier”
Luser Idiot.
No, the term is always “climate denier”
Which of course, nobody is.
You haven’t got the vaguest clue what you are talking about.. ever.
Let’s see if you can answer a simple question..
—
Apart from a slight and highly beneficial natural warming since the coldest period in 10,000 years…
…in what way has the “global climate” changed ?
Present scientific evidence to back up your claims..
From the red thumb, I’m guessing have no answer. ..
So sad !…. But totally expected. 🙂
Always making my point for me. Thanks.
No one denies that climate changes.
Most scientists in relevant disciplines deny catastrophic man-made climate change.
Most people who believe in a climate crisis believe it is usually in stasis.
No-one on earth denies the Climate Changes. Always has, always will.
130,000 years ago it was warmer than today (per GISP ice core data) then the climate changed and vast ice sheets formed, and CO2 dropped to near extinction levels for over 100,000 years. Then the climate changed and the Ice Sheets melted and glaciers retreated and increasing CO2 brought back plants. Then at about 1350 the Climate Changed and glaciers grew covering trees and villages and rendering Greenland untenable for Viking settlements and causing mass famines in Europe. Then at 1770 the Climate Changed and things started warming and crops started producing such that over 8 billion could be served today and still leave food to be fuelish with.
Climate Changes…always has…always will.
Man can’t cause Climate Stagnation (which is the opposite of Climate Change)
The common terms are climate denier and science denier. They are used to character attack CAGW deniers.
But science denier is also correct for conservatives who claim there is no greenhouse effect, there is no AGW, CO2 is 97% natural and El Ninos control the climate. … such as BeNasty2000 who claims all four ant-science myths are true. He is a rare four star science denier.
Again, little child….
Show us the non El Nino warming in the UAH data.. or FAIL again.
Produce your empirical scientific evidence for warming by atmospheric CO2.. or FAIL again.
You have never produced anything remotely related to actual science on either point.
And now I live rent free in your head.. vacant possession, so to speak.
And yes, little child, human emissions ARE about 4% of the total CO2 flux.
Actual data shows that the rate of CO2 growth closely follows ocean atmospheric temperatures.
That rate of CO2 increase even jumps at the El Nino transients, and settles down to a slightly higher rate afterwards.. just like the ocean and atmospheric temperature do.
There is also no isotopic evidence of human CO2 in the atmosphere, because there is just too little of it.
You have shown that you have zero science to back up any of your little AGW-mantra conjectures.
Now.. can we have another little tantrum, please.
They are so funny to watch. ! 🙂
I do. And that is because the Earth does NOT have a climate. (unless you believe you van have an average Earth climate)
Earth does have a global climate as well as regional climates. Its climate has ranged from molten lava covered surface to frozen water ice ball.
“the climate industrial complex and supportive mainstream media had the knives out.”
Seems a little pugnacious to me.
A Stalinist business magazine. Only in progressive America.
Malcolm Forbes is probably turning over in his grave.
Forty years ago Forbes was a real magazine, 30 years ago the only thing worthwhile was Tom Sowell’s editorials, cancelled my subscription. Now it’s nothing. I get the same treatment on Quora when I post anti-sunshine, breezes and battery nonsense or democrat corruption. “Deleted, spam”. Have we already arrived at 1984? I say, yes.
Science is not fundamentally either Left or Right. But, periodically, the Left goes to war against science.
In the mid-20th century Trofim Lysenko was the communist point man in the Left’s war against science:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/
Thankfully, the pendulum swung away from Lysenkoism in the 1960s.
Unfortunately, it has now swung back. The Left is again at war against real science.
The fake climate crisis and crazy gender politics are symptoms. It’s the widespread antipathy toward science, itself, which is one of the main causes of the illness.
It is disheartening that even the U.S. National Academy of Science is piling on. Here’s what they tell educators to teach K-12 students about the primary foundation of science, the Scientific Method:
That’s just wrong. The Scientific Method is the one thing which distinguishes science from other scholarship. Without it, there is no science. (Maybe that’s the point of opposing it.)
That first screenshot, “Colonialism”.
Just what is that?
When Japan’s or China’s emperors conquered and united those nations, was that “colonialism”?
If not, why not?
Ancient Babylon? Assyria? Persia?
(Assyria’s MO when they conquered a nation was to deport the native people and replace them with people from other areas they’d conquered to destroy the native cultures and any national identity.)
The Greeks? The Romans? Carthage?
How about the early days of Islam when they “converted” via the sword?
History is history. It happened and what happened can’t be changed.
But it can be twisted just like science can and has been twisted to support “The Cause”.
Editorial guidelines? My rosy red …