The summer of 2003 was said to be Europe’s hottest in 500 years. Those who saw this as largely due to human-caused climate change could reasonably have blamed the US, the global leader in carbon emissions. Less so in 2023. The International Energy Agency’s estimates of 2023 carbon dioxide emissions, published last week, show all climate change roads (still) lead to Beijing, even if that’s inconvenient.
In 2003, the annual carbon emissions rankings saw: 1) the US at 5.7 gigatons, 2) the PRC at 4.6 gigatons, 3) the EU at 3.6 gigatons, and no one else really matters. By 2013, Chinese emissions had jumped 125 percent and American emissions dropped 10 percent, leaving Chinese emissions more than double that of American. European emissions had fallen fast and India emerged as a clear fourth.
Fast-forward 10 more years and American emissions dropped again, actually a bit more quickly than the prior decade. There are people who still think the PRC and the US are about equal in emissions. In 2023, China was at 12.6 gigatons versus America’s 4.5 gigatons. The EU’s emissions also fell from 2013-2023, and it’s now fourth globally, with India grabbing third.
In 2023, the US, India, EU and heck, let’s just toss in Japan too, combined to 1.8 gigatons less in terms of emissions than China, alone. The PRC’s emissions growth has slowed sharply in the past 10 years, but the volume increment was still 175 percent larger than the increment to Indian emissions (with the others declining).
Advocates of tight restrictions on emissions cite their views as supported by science and skeptics’ views as selfish and/or completely wrong. And some climate change skeptics say odd things. But the climate movement’s devotion to science and the overriding imperative to cut emissions often vanish when emissions are attributed to sovereign sources. Then science is unceremoniously dumped in favor of fairness.
It’s not fair to hold China accountable because of history or population size or income level or a vague merger thereof. The atmosphere doesn’t care about your excuses, wasteful Americans, but is forgiving of China’s roughly 64 percent share of global coal emissions. The per capita claim may be the worst. China has the same population as India and 4.5 times the emissions.
The important per capita failing concerns solutions. Per climate change warnings, there’s not nearly enough time for solutions via personal decisions. Solutions must be imposed top-down, as broadly as possible. It’s one government, and to a notable extent, one man who can change the trajectory of 1.4 billion people.
The climate change return to influencing Xi Jinping, history notwithstanding, is many times higher than any other form of climate change advocacy. And if he can’t be moved, advocacy is largely performative. If the US, EU, and Japan had all cut emissions by half 2003-2023, and India’s hadn’t grown at all, China would have still caused a global increase.
Some climate change advocates previously went beyond fairness to fantasy. There was an expressed belief that, if the US led on emissions, China would follow. This is dead now, right, my green friends? Numbers over 20 years show otherwise. The slightest bit of sense shows otherwise. Science doesn’t mix well with faith that Xi, of all people, waits for American leadership.
The best defense of PRC emissions levels is the world’s factory defense. Many Chinese numbers are inflated by global demand for cheaper goods—emissions were relocated along with jobs. If so, serious climate change action calls for painful US policies to block cheap, carbon-intensive imports from China. Actually prohibitive tariffs or low quotas.
Those are costly, but there’d be a logic to them. There’s no climate logic at all in leaving tariffs and quotas on China untouched while pausing American exports of liquefied gas, as the Biden administration did in late January. The pause is not even performative—it will likely increase global coal use or shift gas markets toward bad actors, plus harm American producers and workers.
The climate change movement often expresses frustration at not being taken seriously. Export halts for the US, protests for the EU, and fairness for China, whose emissions are 80 percent higher than the US and UE combined. This is why.
Former President Donald Trump celebrated the unanimous Supreme Court ruling keeping him on the presidential ballot in Colorado and other states that ruled him ineligible.
Minutes after the court released its decision, the 45th president took to Truth Social to call the ruling a “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!
9-0 shocker on Supreme Court.
Does this mean election fraud is now illegal too?
I like these comments from my Facebook thread:
Justin Scott Allen: “I think the leftists were warned how close the nation is to CWII, and they simply went along as they have other cheats planned. They pretty much refused to reveal their thinking. It’s beyond crystal clear ‘the rule of law’ is a phrase to which leftists at best pay lipservice, which they feel free to ignore the moment they believe there will be no repercussions for their multi-tier application of justice.”
Leeda Dundale: “Yes, the Dems have other plans and believe me they won’t be good for the Election!”
Why would members of the Supreme Court who vote against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights every single time (in the case of the Obama appointees), much of the time (in the case of bought-and-sold and/or blackmailed Chief Justice Roberts), or a lot of the time (the squishy Trump appointees) — why would they suddenly find reason, principle and justice? Why have they suddenly discovered the U.S. Constitution?
Do they have their limits? Why no other limits — why only this one? What about election fraud? And what about the immunity for Trump as president for actions that Biden already gets immunity for, as president (e.g. having documents in his possession outside of government offices)? Do you seriously think the majority will rule in Trump’s favor on those cases?
They’re planning on getting him in jail. So no worries about the ballot case. That could come back to haunt them with one of their own candidates, someday.
I smell a rat. Come November (if not sooner), we’ll know if I’m right.
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President Joe Biden is declining at a geometric, not an arithmetic, rate. His cognitive challenges are multifaceted.
His gait is shaky. His daily use of stairs now risks the chance of a tenure-ending fall. Even when he sticks to the teleprompter, he so slurs his speech, mispronounces words, and glides his syntax that at times he becomes as incomprehensible at the podium as he is unsteady in his step.
He now speaks a strange language foreign and untranslatable to most Americans. White House transcribers leave hiatuses in their written texts of his remarks to reflect that they either have no idea what he said, do not wish to publicize their guesses at what he said, or do not wish the public to know what he was trying to say.
Despite the circling-the-wagons media and the passive-aggressive sycophants like the opportunistic Gov. Gavin Newsom in waiting, the left understands that Biden will be lucky to get to the August convention. This spring and early summer, he will not campaign as a normal presidential candidate, and this time around, there is no pretense of the COVID epidemic to excuse his absence.
The people have already polled numerous times that their president is unfit to serve now and, in the future, should not run. So the 2020 Faustian bargain is in shambles. Remember its quid pro quos: all the major Democratic presidential candidates of 2020 nearly simultaneously pulled out the primaries to coronate Biden—but only on the condition that Biden would play to the hilt his “ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton” schtick that would offer a veneer to the otherwise unpopular hard left agenda of the new Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren/the Obamas/Squad Democratic Party.
The people voted for a “return to normalcy,” all while the left destroyed the southern border, unleashed a critical legal theory/George-Soros crime wave, dismantled hard-won deterrence abroad, and printed money to spur hyperinflation.
Moreover, it is increasingly clear that the entire Biden family consortium is compromised and corrupt. Neither Hunter nor Jim nor Frank Biden had any consulting skills, business expertise, or corporate experience to warrant leveraging over $25 million from foreign interests. Their only commodity was to sell corrupt parties the appearance that Joe Biden would be quite willing to help their various causes if they enriched his family. Everyone knows that to be true, and only now, as Biden sinks into incoherence, are his protectors shrugging about the obvious money-making schemes that revolved around a corrupt senator, vice president, and private citizen, Joe Biden.
None of Biden’s record is popular. His policies on the border, economy, energy, foreign policy, and crime poll below 50 percent. And this trifecta of Biden’s mental deterioration, family corruption, and failed presidential record will only grow worse.
Then there is the Kamala Harris issue—the Spiro Agnew insurance policy of our age that so far has protected Biden from overt efforts to replace him. She is as unpopular as Biden and often as incomprehensible, but without the excuse of age or mental diminishment. Of all the major Beltway elected officials, only Sen. Mitch McConnell polls worse.
By August, Democratic donors and politicos may well conclude that the only way to rid the party of both is to release Biden’s delegates, open up the convention, and let candidates fight over the now-free delegates. Harris then will not be nominated, but not through a backroom, Machiavellian removal of a black woman. Instead, she will “fairly” lose an “open” and “transparent” free-for-all of various Democratic want-to-be replacements and recede into a sober and judicious Mike Pence-like retirement.
The problem with this scenario, of course, is that late-season convention or post-convention machinations in the modern era don’t work out too well. In 1976, Ronald Reagan, after losing a series of early primaries and being declared nearly inert, suddenly caught fire and entered the August 1976 Republican convention in Kansas City within striking distance of incumbent Gerald Ford. President Ford, remember, had never been elected either president or vice president.
In the end, in one of the most acrimonious Republican conventions in memory, a wounded Ford won the nomination by only 117 delegate votes out of some 2,257 cast. In some sense, Ford never recovered and lost the election to Jimmy Carter, even as the tumult gave Reagan the exposure and his team the experience needed to win the nomination in 1980.
About two weeks after the 1972 Democratic convention, a desperate George McGovern and the Democratic hierarchy removed Vice President running mate Sen. Thomas Eagleton from the ticket due to revelations of little-known past electric shock treatments given to combat depression. After futile efforts, the Democrats settled on the Kennedy clan’s Sargent Shriver, who had never run for office. McGovern would have lost anyway to an incumbent Nixon. But the margin of defeat in one of the greatest landslides in presidential history was often attributable to the sheer chaos of changing a vice presidential candidate so late in the campaign.
In sum, the Democrats can—and may have to—replace Joe Biden, and they can ensure that Kamala Harris is not the nominee, but the means of doing so will be chaotic and messy and will wound the winner for the rest of the campaign.
Trump’s Circuitous Path to Victory
Donald Trump challenges have now been discussed ad nauseam, and they are threefold: he must either beat or postpone campaign-season court trials—and find perhaps $800 million to $1 billion to post bonds, pay interests on them, and meet gargantuan legal fees—without turning off donors and supporters and by avoiding the diversion of Republican National Committee and various campaign funds to his own personal defense.
As in the past, Trump will be vastly outspent, perhaps by 3-1 or 4-1. Molly Ball’s infamous Time 2022 essay outlined the left-wing scheming that ensured a mail-in/early balloting election by aggregating the deep state, the corporate boardroom, the social media monopolies, and the 2020 riotous street thugs of Antifa and BLM. What she called a “cabal” and “conspiracy” was designed not so much as a one-off to defeat Trump as to create a permanent system by which a Trump-like candidate could never win a presidential election, both in 2020 and afterward.
Given changes in the 2020 state voting laws that saw 60-70 percent of the ballots in many swing states not cast on Election Day, while the rejection rate of faulty ballots counter-intuitively plunged despite such an influx, Trump will have to win by 3–4 points. Otherwise, in the swing states, we will again stare at the late-evening televised wizardry in which his huge leads mysteriously melt on the screen as drop boxes and mail sacks are tallied.
To achieve a 51-plus majority in the popular vote—no Republican has achieved such a national ballot margin in 36 years since George H.W. Bush beat Mike Dukakis in 1988—Trump will have to win, or win back, more Independents, apostate Democrats, and RINO Never-Trumpers.
He can do that in only two ways:
One, he must hammer away at Joe Biden’s disastrous record on the border, energy, race, foreign affairs, the economy, and social issues that scare moderates and fence-sitters, especially when comparisons are made to the achievements of 2017-2020. Inner-city residents are being tag-teamed by both the influx of thousands of illegal aliens who apparently have first claims on stretched social services and street criminals who loot, assault, and carjack mostly their law-abiding neighbors with impunity.
Two, Trump needs to model his remarks after his Iowa Primary victory speech or his recent Fox Townhall event with Fox’s Laura Ingram. Translated, that means there is no reason to reference Nikki Hayley’s deployed husband, to refer to her as a “birdbrain,” or to say much of anything other than she will lose, and in the process, she is needlessly hurting more than half of America by draining resources away from the only real chance to repeal the current socialist agenda.
Hayley is imploding without any need for a Trump push. Magnanimity, rather than salt in her self-inflicted wounds, is the better strategy to unite the party. Trump has cemented his base. He will increase his share of minority voters who have been hurt the worst by the Biden socialist agenda. But to ensure victory and a Republican Congress, he cannot give swing voters a reason not to vote for policies and initiatives that they overwhelmingly prefer over those of the now hard-left Democratic Party.
In sum, after Super Tuesday, when Hayley will either quit the race or become inert, Trump needs to call her, politely remind her of her promise to support the nominee, and welcome her back into the fold. If she is wise, she will likely agree to disagree, let bygones be bygones, and thus pledge to support the assured nominee, Trump.
Two of her three choices are in her own interest: 1) She endorses him, and Trump wins, and she is vibrant in 2028; 2) she endorses him, and Trump loses, and she is still viable; 3) she opposes him, and Trump either wins—and she is persona non grata—or he loses, and she is blamed for splitting the party and his defeat. Breaking her public promise to support the nominee will bleed what support she retains, and would prove a suicidal blunder.
Trump has achieved the greatest political comeback since Richard Nixon arose from the ashes of defeat in California in 1962 to win the nomination and presidency in 1968. Trump’s Phoenix-like rebirth from January 2021 to the present was achieved by Biden’s failure, the natural empathy accruing from the weaponization of the law by partisan or corrupt prosecutors against him, and Trump’s greater success in giving independents fewer reasons to vote against him. If he can praise those he defeats, call for unity, and campaign in 50 states in non-Republican strongholds, then he can win—even despite the hatred of the left, the corruption of the media, the weaponization of the bureaucracy, and the eroding trust in the way we vote.
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004, and is the 2023 Giles O’Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer (growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump and the recently released The Dying Citizen, and the forthcoming The End of Everything (May 7, 2024)..
Photo: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – MARCH 02: Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a Get Out the Vote Rally March 2, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. Sixteen states, including Virginia, will vote during Super Tuesday on March 5. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Immigration to the USA — originally, a free country — used to mean: “You’re welcome. Now make your own way, and leave your fellow man alone.”
The greatest proof that you were a worthy immigrant? Your willingness to come. There were no freebies, there were no free rides. The price of freedom was self-reliance. Without self-reliance, you could not be free. You could ask for charity, but NEVER compel or coerce it.
Today’s warped concept of immigration is 100 percent the opposite. The less independent, the less self-reliant, the less responsible and the more corrupt you are — the better. Why? Because you’ll feed as a parasite off the state, and that will keep the established parasites who run the state in permanent power.
There is nothing misguided or accidental in today’s open border politics. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s all done in broad daylight. Biden brags of it daily, and laughs at the good people forced to endure it, and forced to pay the bills through taxes, inflation and crime. Today’s immigration policies are deliberately designed to destroy what’s left of what used to be the best of America.
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Contrast the timeless, clear brilliance of Aristotle with today: “Trust the science, which means: Trust the government. Do what you’re told or we’ll label you a threat to democracy.”
Without critical, independent and objective thinking, freedom cannot continue.
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It’s not enough to defeat the Commiefascists (my term for Democrats and most established Republicans.) We have to lock them up and remove them from power, forever. Start with Fauci. Then the Obamas. Then the Biden crime family. And all their highest level associates. Yes, the Clintons. Yes, Mitch McConnell. And all those in the corporate world who enable them. George Soros is a war criminal, literally a modern day Nazi. His son is an unhinged freak, set to unleash a multi billion dollar wrecking ball, and he openly brags of doing so. Bill Gates? He may be worse than Fauci. If we don’t punish them all, and keep them from destroying the economy, life as we know it, as well as the rights of man, then evil will have won and another 4 years in the White House for Trump would just be a circus and a show — with any good he does reversed, the minute he’s gone.
This is not a political crisis. It’s literally a war. It’s a war for the American republic, but also for all of civilization. If you keep pretending it’s not a war, then you’re going to lose it.
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There’s a lot to be said for the destructiveness of Marxism, particularly the unique brand of Marxism that has taken hold of America and so much of the Western World. But one of the greatest indictments of Marxism/leftism is that, at its heart, it is nothing short of the deification and idolization of weakness. And this quality has played a major role in bringing the once-great civilizations of the West to decline.
Similar descriptors of Marxism have been used before; some conservatives refer to the Left’s politics as that of grievance or of victimization. These are correct, but they do not get to the deepest level of the matter, which is that the various forms of Marxism reverse the traditional ideals of strength, success, and achievement and instead ennoble weakness and failure as the targets to which one must aspire.
In the Marxist conception of history, for example, the emphasis is no longer on great men who performed heroic feats.
Historians from ancient times up to the modern era focused on generals, kings, statesmen, warriors, and the conquests they made, empires they built, and civilizational innovations they fostered.
But in contemporary times, under the influence of Marxists in academia, much history is now concerned with “oppressed” peoples and the ways in which their descendants allegedly continue to be oppressed, in one form or another, by “white cisgender power structures.”
Reading the history of old — the works of Herodotus or Thucydides or Charles Oman — imbued the reader with a sense of wonder and greatness for the potential of the individual’s capacity for accomplishing monumental, world-changing tasks. These historians did not hide or embellish the faults and foibles of great historic men — men such as Alexander, Cesar, or Napoleon — but rather documented that human ambition and intellect are capable of overcoming tremendous hurdles in spite of one’s personal failings.
By contrast, modern historical works cast such men as mere villains, concerning themselves instead with crafting a version of history in which “poor” “indigenous” peoples are repeatedly the victims of (usually white) oppressors. Of course, this narrative is simplistic, more akin to a Disney film than the nuanced and complex reality that indigenous populations in many cases were more violent and oppressive than Europeans.
A similar phenomenon occurs in the realm of literature and the arts. From ancient times across nations and cultures, stories and art were made to inspire people to the ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Think of the writings of Homer championing the military prowess of Achilles and the cunning of Odysseus, or of the Arthurian legends touting the courage and chivalry of Arthur and his knights. Think of Renaissance art displaying the beauty of the human form at peak physicality and painting scenes of warrior angels vanquishing Satan and his forces.
The art and literature of old was centered around heroes. These stories didn’t necessarily pretend that their heroes were perfect men — both the Greek dramatists and Shakespeare usually characterized their protagonists with some sort of tragic flaw; but, nevertheless, they presented the public with templates on which one could pattern one’s life on the journey to greatness. These works lifted men up to Heaven rather than dragging them down to Earth (or even deeper, to Hell).
Modern art, music, and literature no longer attempt to inspire men. Rather, the aim is always ostensibly to “depict the world as it is” by displaying knavishness, vice, victimhood, immorality, crudeness, and a host of other ills. And the hero is no longer the focus of the story, for he is deemed to be unrealistic and outdated. Instead, the protagonists are antiheroes or even outright villains and wimps — psychotics, serial killers, mentally infirm individuals, or lonely antisocial recluses.
Meanwhile, the type of art and literature that was once considered great is now looked upon with disdain. Academic elites at universities label as “true literature” that which is subversive, while panning tales of heroics and ideals as “mindless, unserious, escapist, juvenile genre fiction.”
The combined effect of all this is a society in which people avoid greatness, strength, personal development, and other virtues in favor of basking in vice. This is more than readily apparent physically in the way that immodest clothing and obesity are now heralded as hallmarks of style and beauty.
This tendency can only result in the complete downfall of a civilization, and America’s enemies are more than happy to see this development. After all, what fight can be expected from a people who inwardly hate themselves and believe they have no right to exist as a nation and who view fighting as something dastardly? The nation’s enemies are watching with glee as our society rids itself of the will to fight and even of the will to survive.
Western man must return to the traditions that made his civilization great. If not, the downward spiral to complete collapse will be swift and brutal.
The fiction that the Democrat party is “the party of working class people” is being exposed by liberal advocates. In fact, they confirm that the Democrat party is actually acting against the interests of the working class voters.
In his article, “The Coming Working Election,” Ruy Texeira, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-founder and politics editor of the Substack newsletter, The Liberal Patriot, discusses how out of touch the people he describes as the Brahmin Left are that have taken over the Democrat party. He posits that the Brahmin Left support issues that are opposed by working class voters. He lists and comments on the following issues:
• It is not the working class that sees the police as an unnecessary evil and opposes rigorous enforcement of the law for public safety and public order.
• It is not the working class that believes public consumption of hard drugs should be tolerated, with intervention limited to reviving addicts when they overdose.
• It is not the working class that believes many crimes like shoplifting should be decriminalized because punishing the perpetrators would have “disparate impact”.
• It is not the working class that believes you should never refer to illegal immigrants as “illegal” and that border security is somehow a racist idea.
• It is not the working class that believes an overwhelming surge of migrants at the southern border should be accommodated with asylum claims, parole arrangements, and release into urban areas around the country.
• It is not the working class that believes competitive admissions and job placements should be allocated on the basis of race (“equity”) not merit.
• It is not the working class that views objective tests as fundamentally flawed if they show racial disparities in achievement.
• It is not the working class that believes America is a structurally racist, white supremacist society.
• It is not the working class that sees patriotism as a dirty word and the history of the United States as a bleak landscape of racism and oppression.
• It is not the working class that thinks sex is “assigned at birth” and can be changed by self-conception, rather than being an objective, biological reality.
• It is not the working class that thinks it’s a great idea to police the language people use for hidden “microaggressions” and bias against the “marginalized”.
• And it is definitely not the working class that believes in “decolonize everything” and manages to see murderous thugs like Hamas as righteous liberators of a subaltern people.”
The reason for the failure of Democrats to advance policies that are not in sync with the interests of working class voters is because the Brahmin Left currently controls the Democrat party. This group is highly-educated, progressive left thinking and controls the party.
According to Thomas Pikkety a French economist, the Democrat party has been a party that has shifted its base from the party of slavery and the party of poor whites, and has evolved through the party of the New Deal and to its current state of being the party of intellectual elites and minorities alike.
One group that has been excluded from the current state of this new Democrat party is the working class. They get up every day and go to work earn a pay check usually at a job that they cannot zoom into and watch their purchasing power shrink daily from rampant inflation.
The Green energy policies of the elitist ways of the party are also destructive to the working class that actually have to pay for their energy consumption.
Take home heating oil (the untaxed version of diesel gas), which initially tripled under Biden; it is now only double what it was when President Trump left office, but this sharp increase is forcing working class people and poor people, to suffer through our cold winters without adequate heat.
Food price inflation is forcing working class and the poor to change their diets to less meat protein with lower costs cuts of meat in their diet. Credit card debt has soared and interest rates on this debt make it even more painful. The interest rates on car loans have gone way up making new cars less affordable.
Middle class businesses, which have been a path for upward social mobility under our capitalistic system of economics, are under stress as many more are failing thanks to the crime, higher interest rates, higher labor costs and impossible regulation. Under the current administration, there is no end in sight.
Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans are standing up for working class voters. We are against all of the policies listed by Ruy Teixeira.
We are the party that believes in equality for everyone regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sex and sexual orientation. Martin Luther King and his “I have a Dream Speech” would be a speech for a Republican today as the party has shifted to the leadership of the Brahmin Left. We are a country of opportunity to live out the American Dream and the only party that offers this today is the Republican party.
It is time for the working class voters to realize that the Democrats have abandoned them and they in turn should stop voting for Democrats and vote instead for Republicans.
They should walk away like Brandon Straka and his walk away movement to educate democrats about the reality of their party that deserted them so long ago.
As a candidate for Congress I was born into a middle class family of small business owners and I stand for working class values.
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