Dem Sen. Whitehouse is very upset that the State Dept didn’t pay for his junket to UN climate summit in Brazil

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Ron Long
November 26, 2025 2:11 am

Watch Hakeem Jeffries face, it looks like he wishes he was someplace else.

strativarius
November 26, 2025 2:24 am

In contrast it was trebles all round for mad Ed Miliband – even managing to attend, return home and attend a second time.

For such a backwater as Belem rooms at £1,250 a night must be rather opulent.

Neil Pryke
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 2:28 am

Where there’s an Ed, there’s graft…

strativarius
Reply to  Neil Pryke
November 26, 2025 2:35 am

Can’t get rid of him – quite literally.

Bruce Cobb
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 2:56 am

They should call him “Mr. Ed”. He sounds like a horse’s patootie.

strativarius
Reply to  Bruce Cobb
November 26, 2025 3:10 am

A horse makes more sense.

starzmom
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 2:10 pm

My horse thinks it will very cold this winter. She usually knows.

Bryan A
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 5:57 am

Being in the red light district there’s a premium charge as each room comes with it’s own hooker.

strativarius
Reply to  Bryan A
November 26, 2025 6:44 am

Which explains why they chose Glasgow for COP #26

Ron Long
Reply to  Bryan A
November 26, 2025 9:20 am

COP: Collection Of Prostitutes

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 9:25 am

New Start Trek episode: The Trouble with Trebles.

Neil Pryke
November 26, 2025 2:27 am

An impecunious Democrat Senator..? Sounds like one of Alice’s five impossible things to believe before breakfast…

Reply to  Neil Pryke
November 26, 2025 2:54 am

That was good, I learned a new word and after looking it up, what the original five things were (-:

Scissor
Reply to  Steve Case
November 26, 2025 4:01 am

I thought it meant he was a tiny pecker as Whitehouse’s family could comfortably live off their 1800’s railroad fortune. Nevertheless, he’s leveraged his government position to put millions more into his wife’s hands.

KevinM
Reply to  Steve Case
November 26, 2025 8:33 am

I couldn’t get to the list…
“The correct quote, spoken by the Queen of Hearts, is “sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. The phrase is not about a specific list of five things, but about the importance of creativity and the suspension of disbelief, a concept that has been widely adapted and discussed in modern contexts”

KevinM
Reply to  KevinM
November 26, 2025 8:34 am

Aha!
“The six impossible things Alice counted as she was fighting The Jabberwocky were:

There’s a potion that can make you shrink.
And a cake that can make you grow.
Animals can talk.
Cats can disappear.
There is a place called Wonderland.
I can slay the Jabberwocky.”

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  KevinM
November 26, 2025 9:27 am

Is the Jabberwocky the new name for the Climate Syndicate?

KevinM
Reply to  Neil Pryke
November 26, 2025 8:29 am

“im·pe·cu·ni·ous /ˌimpəˈkyo͞onēəs/
adjective
having little or no money.”
(before being elected?)

Bruce Cobb
November 26, 2025 2:49 am

It turns out that virtue signaling at a global clown show doesn’t come cheap. Who knew?

Rick C
Reply to  Bruce Cobb
November 26, 2025 8:54 am

He should have hit up Gavin Newscum for the money. As I recall Gavin claimed he was leading the US delegation and we all know he has access to unlimited amounts of other people’s money.

Rod Evans
November 26, 2025 3:12 am

What a clown he must be. Not only did he attend a complete waste of time junket in Brazil he is also complaining the tax payers didn’t pay for his jolly?
Clearly “there will be no Whitehouse in the Whitehouse” thank our lucky stars.

Reply to  Rod Evans
November 26, 2025 3:20 am

And now he is complaining about a lack of White Privilege. 😉

Bob Armstrong
Reply to  Rod Evans
November 26, 2025 9:47 am

Among the most corrupt of the NE Dim mafia .

Reply to  Rod Evans
November 26, 2025 11:19 am

And the people of Rhode Island elected him.

TBeholder
Reply to  Rod Evans
November 26, 2025 1:18 pm

Well, the tax payers would pay for it one way or another, but expecting the International Community State Dept to pay? To someone in the American Professional Wrestling circus where they usually figure out how to collect on their own? For participation in a mostly discontinued sideshow which itself has entire industries of kickbacks still running?
It was rather silly even for this crowd.

Bob B.
November 26, 2025 3:54 am

I believe Sheldon misspoke. He probably meant to say “that’s how good President Trump has become “

Gregory Woods
November 26, 2025 4:56 am

Story Tip:

Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths — ProPublica

Attention KMart shoppers:

New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

strativarius
Reply to  Gregory Woods
November 26, 2025 5:24 am

I’m reminded of the man who was killed when he was run over by a bus. Cause of death? Covid.

Dave Burton
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 7:00 am

That actually never happened, strativarius. However, a lot of bus drivers died from Covid-19. Public transportation contributed greatly to the spread of the disease:
https://people.com/health/detroit-bus-driver-dies-coronavirus-after-video-complaint-passenger-coughing/

But “climate crisis” promoters are not shy about blaming ridiculous things on “climate change.” I recently encountered a peer-reviewed paper which claimed that climate change contributes to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). (Sams-Dodd & Sams-Dodd, 2025)

The late Prof. John Brignell used to maintain a “complete list of things [said to be] caused by global warming,” but it was so much work to try to keep it up to date that several years before his death he stopped trying. This was the last version of his list:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180626062347/http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

strativarius
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 7:13 am

It actually happened in at least one case with a RTA involving a motorcyclist in 2020. It didn’t end there, hence the joke.

Whether those who have died from a car accident with COVID-19 will be counted in ONS statistics – ONS

Anyone with any faith in the ONS should think again…

The governance of the UK’s statistics system has come under fierce scrutiny as a senior MP accused top officials of leaving the former head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to run his organisation like “a hybrid of a Medici prince and Blofeld” without challenge. The UK Statistics Authority governing board had shown no urgency in addressing problems with the output and internal running of the ONS that had developed over five years. – Financial Times.

It pays to do your own critical thinking.

Dave Burton
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 7:45 am

1. A motorcycle is not a bus, and driving a vehicle is not the same as being struck by one.

There was no documented case of a “man killed when he was run over by a bus” whose cause of death was listed as Covid.

2. There was one (1) infamous case in Florida in which a man ill with Covid died in a motorcycle accident, and Covid was was initially listed as a contributing cause for his death. However, federal (and international) guidelines say that trauma deaths should not be attributed to disease, so his death was reclassified as non-Covid-19. Here’s an article about it:
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/florida-covid-19-fatalities-data-included-man-who-died-in-motorcycle-accident/

3. Some anti-vaxers pretended that the number of Covid-19 deaths was exaggerated, because of widespread misclassification of causes of death. That is untrue.

strativarius
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 7:54 am

“There was no documented case of a “man killed when he was run over by a bus” whose cause of death was listed as Covid. “

Are you blind?

It actually happened in at least one case with a RTA involving a motorcyclist in 2020. It didn’t end there, hence the joke.

Whether those who have died from a car accident with COVID-19 will be counted in ONS statistics – ONS

Anyone with any faith in the ONS should think again…

The governance of the UK’s statistics system has come under fierce scrutiny as a senior MP accused top officials of leaving the former head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to run his organisation like “a hybrid of a Medici prince and Blofeld” without challenge. The UK Statistics Authority governing board had shown no urgency in addressing problems with the output and internal running of the ONS that had developed over five years. – Financial Times.

Have you checked with ChatGPT? Don’t bother, I know a jester when I encounter one.

Editor
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 12:41 pm

Grok: “Yes, There Were Such Cases, Though Specific Details Are Limited Due to Reporting Practices”. Grok cited CDC guidance as affecting the reporting of deaths:
April 2020 CDC FAQ for Death Certifiers
“Question: “Should COVID-19 be reported when the patient tested positive but clearly died of something else (e.g., trauma)?”
CDC answer (paraphrased in training webinars and widely circulated):“If the patient had laboratory-confirmed or presumptive COVID-19, list it in Part II (contributing conditions) even if it did not directly cause the death.”.
Note: Grok’s “such cases” do not include one explicitly of a person killed by a bus.

Derg
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 10:48 am

When I had Covid, I went to the ER literally scared to death. I never saw a bill. Covid paid the bills for the healthcare system. Insurance companies made out like bandits as few would go to the Dr for anything other than Covid. Less claims Interesting that no hospital system filed for bankruptcy during that period 🧐

Dave Burton
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 7:22 am

But according to ChatGPT, “The IPCC identifies “modal shift” from private vehicles to public transit as one of the most effective demand-side mitigation strategies [for fighting climate change] in the transport sector (IPCC AR6 WGIII, Ch. 5 & 10).”

What’s a few lives, to save the planet, after all?

strativarius
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 7:27 am

But according to ChatGPT, “

I don’t do AI – aka glorified exceedingly fast and sophisticated [and biased]… pattern matching.

I prefer to do it myself.

Dave Burton
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 7:54 am

AI tools are useful, but you have to treat them like President Reagan treated the Russians:

Доверяй, но проверяй (“Doveryay, no proveryay” which means “Trust, but verify.”)

https://www.c-span.org/clip/5158643

That’s what I did, and I included a link to IPCC AR6 WGIII chapter 10, which discusses that “modal shift.”

strativarius
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 8:01 am

Tools are useful..

Politics has certainly proven that to be the case.

But thanks for the laugh. You can go your own way. The IPCC is a laughing stock.

Russell Cook
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 8:26 am

Commenter Dave Burton is one of the good guys on our side, I’ve had occasions to interact with him directly for years. He is sometimes subtle in using IPCC trash as a weapon against them, same with using other other tyrannical edicts against the tyrants out there. I can be subtle, too, by agreeing that Chat GPT is useful, but I’d have to expand on that to point out how in my Jan 2024 blog post I demonstrated how the thing is not intelligent after all, it’s little more than an aggregator of unsupportable info. I’m certain Dave would agree with me that the IPCC serves a purpose of showing just how science has been corrupted into a political agenda by the Algore mob, but also how particular IPCC bits actually can be used to undermine the eco-zealots out there who make much more extreme climate assertions than what’s actually in those IPCC bits.

strativarius
Reply to  Russell Cook
November 26, 2025 8:58 am

I’m glad you and Dave agree. I suppose that’s something.

Derg
Reply to  strativarius
November 26, 2025 10:42 am

I think a guy was shot in CO and cause of death was Covid. Covid paid the bills.

starzmom
Reply to  Derg
November 26, 2025 2:04 pm

Covid continues to pay bills, as in subsidies for insurance premiums. Lots of people want that to continue.

KevinM
Reply to  Gregory Woods
November 26, 2025 9:52 am

Quote from story tip: “Increasing temperatures are already killing enormous numbers of people.”

Andrew McBride
November 26, 2025 5:10 am

99.9999% of COP attendees are on junkets paid for Leftist NGOs or the governments. No money No travel 🙈

Dave Burton
Reply to  Andrew McBride
November 26, 2025 7:03 am

Or by climate industry backers.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 9:36 am

Not sure I see the nuance. Leftist NGOs or the governments are all climate industry backers, with a few noted exceptions such as USA.

November 26, 2025 5:23 am

You sure his name is not WHINEhouse?

Reply to  Brian
November 26, 2025 6:27 am

He is whining about something every time I hear him speak.

He’s worthless, just like all the Radical Democrats in Washington DC.

mleskovarsocalrrcom
November 26, 2025 5:53 am

There was nothing ‘official’ about the US representatives going to COP30. Where did they get off thinking it was even appropriate being that the US policy towards AGW is to ignore it and foreign policy is the purview of the President and those he appoints? Those that attended from the US should be censured.

Dave Burton
Reply to  mleskovarsocalrrcom
November 26, 2025 7:28 am

I disagree. Congressmen and Senators have the same rights to go where they wish and say what they wish as other Americans. Just as we would defend the right of climate realists in Congress to attend CFACT and GWPF events, we must defend the right of climate crackpots to attend COP.

(Not on the public dime, of course.)

mleskovarsocalrrcom
Reply to  Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 7:45 am

I disagree with you on this count. For a Congress person to visit a country is allowed and they often do. To represent the country on their own is not. The US delegation to the COP was there, by their own admission, to represent the US. They did not go as ‘observers’. Saying that, I was not there to witness their involvement.

starzmom
Reply to  mleskovarsocalrrcom
November 26, 2025 2:06 pm

They may have thought they were representing the US, but the US did not send a delegation. Therefore, the US had no obligation to pay their way.

Dave Burton
November 26, 2025 7:05 am

It’s All About the Benjamins, baby.

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The climate grift is ALWAYS About the Benjamins.

November 26, 2025 7:07 am

When I was a boy, my Grandmother told me to listen politely when people speak but watch carefully what they do.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Shoki
November 26, 2025 9:39 am

Talk softly and carry a big stick?
— Teddy Roosevelt

There are days when I wish Trump had embraced that approach.

November 26, 2025 7:45 am

I did NOT vote for a candidate that would not pay for Sheldon Whitehouse to attend COP30.

I voted for an executive that would fly Whitehouse to Brazil … and then cancel his return airline ticket!

Trump has (slightly) disappointed me again.

Alan M
November 26, 2025 9:23 am

Love his acronym “globe”. I bet he’s also a member of the frequent user committee for knowledge of unlimited platitudes.

Sparta Nova 4
November 26, 2025 9:41 am

If there is a writeup that goes with the headline, it does not appear for me.

November 26, 2025 10:54 am

Whitehouse is worth around $20 million. He could pay his own way.
Why didn’t he?
Because he won’t put his own money where his mouth is.

ResourceGuy
November 26, 2025 12:00 pm

Send the bill to RI taxpayers and add a climate travel surcharge tax.

Bob
November 26, 2025 2:03 pm

The tragedy here is that these jokers think they are entitled to a free ride on my dime. To hell with them pay your own way.