Is anyone else happy that Kamala Harris will presumably be the President of the Senate on January 6th, 2025? When Arizona Secretary of State and January 6th attendee Mark Finchem decides to send the Senate an alternative slate of electors.
In the midst of the January 6 House Select Committee hearings detailing the attempt of Donald Trump to overthrow the government, based on the lie that the 2020 election was “fraudulent,” Texas Republicans ended a three-day convention over the weekend by adopting a resolution declaring that “President Joseph Robinnette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
The resolution passed “without any real debate,” the Texas Tribune reported.
In reality, Biden defeated Trump 306-222 in the Electoral College vote and by some 7 million in the popular vote. The first three hearings established that Trump was repeatedly told by top officials in his Justice Department and some members of his inner circle that there was no truth to his claims of massive voter fraud.
This, however, did not stop the largest state Republican Party in the country from affirming Trump’s lie and in the process condoning the violent attack on the Capitol. The adoption of the resolution refutes the attempt of the January 6 Select Committee and the Biden administration to suggest that Trump’s attempted coup had only marginal support, limited to a few “crazy” Republicans, while the majority of the party continues to maintain an allegiance to democratic forms of rule.
Trump’s coup had the support of a majority of the party at the time, and his ongoing preparations to install himself as president-dictator continue to have the institutional support of the Republican Party. The plot was also backed by substantial sections of the police, military and intelligence apparatus, along with elements in the media and on the Supreme Court.
The Dutch joined Germany and Austria in reverting to coal power on Monday following an energy crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Netherlands said it would lift all restrictions on power stations fired by the fossil fuel, which were previously limited to just over a third of output.
Berlin and Vienna made similar announcements on Sunday as Moscow, facing biting sanctions over Ukraine, cuts gas supplies to energy-starved Europe.
“The cabinet has decided to immediately withdraw the restriction on production for coal-fired power stations from 2002 to 2024,” Dutch climate and energy minister Rob Jetten told journalists in The Hague.
The Dutch minister said his country had “prepared this decision with our European colleagues over the past few days”.
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
It depends upon how long you plan on staying alive and what you regard as runaway global heating. I am 73 YO. Climate change is likely already running freely behind the hysteresis of glacial loss pumping methane from prehistoric permafrost that is no longer permanent nor frosty alongside lower reflection from glacial ice and snowcaps. However, the mainstream prognosis is screwy given that linear models projecting from recent experience data (all that exists in any detail) lack the capability to foresee tipping points and just wave their hands at the thermohaline circulation and other second and third order effects emanating from the disappearance of glacial ice. Hansen and other climate scientists with knowledge rooted in the geologic historical climate data understand the uncertainty and complexity far more than the trendy conventional climate scientists with their computer models and oceanic monitors.
I live in central VA, about 100 miles from the national capital area. Here it seems like the deniers are getting their prayers answered with the coolest early summer weather that we have had in recent memory while much of the rest of the US is scorching hot again. Of course, this is only a temporary result of La Nina paired with accelerating arctic spring warm-up and a mostly negative trend of the NAO steering the eastern trough of the northern polar jet stream usually far south for spring and early summer. The days are just starting to get shorter up there now and in a few weeks expansion of the warming northern polar region air will stall and that persistent northerly air flow into the mid-Atlantic will end and we will be back in the climate oven again.
When I was a kid the conventional wisdom was that Earth was heading for another Ice Age, more correctly called a glaciation since there is no evidence that we are not still in the Ice Age now. But few people even knew what the Ice Age really was. Most believed that the glaciers came because the Earth was cooling off. Only one in ten geologic climate scientists understood that it was the gradual warming of the Earth that reached the tipping point that caused the return of the glaciers when the end of melting ice trapped the heat near the equator and left the cold sitting at the poles. It is the cross latitudinal flow of water and air that creates temperate climate, without which there is little but a hot zone surrounded by two cold zones. It is a feature of the location of Earth’s tectonic plates where they now sit. In a few million years then it will be different, but for now the concentration of heat sumps, reflectors, and radiators can produce only a certain spectrum of result.
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
Yeah, I know – unproven BS. But it kind of goes with territory of geologic climate change and the theoretical grounding dates back at least 60 years and maybe further. It keeps popping up. However, in recent years mainstream science has focused more on how climate change might affect plate tectonics than how plate tectonics influences climate change. Well, it does not matter. We are toast either way now or maybe popsicles.
I cannot help but believe that if people of mostly European descent had imagined that climate change would mostly snuff out white people instead of mostly snuffing out brown people, then they might have actually taken decisive action to slow climate change. Furthermore, I believe that the ultimate outcome is roughly the same regardless of measures taken. At our present pace then the next glaciation of the northern hemisphere will just happen about 10-15 thousand years earlier than it otherwise might have.
Ron, i figure we’ll have reached runaway global heating when it’s driven by feedback loops rather than our own increased emissions; ie, that would be whatever temperature the arctic has to reach such that thawing permafrost is releasing more CO2 than the planet’s plants can absorb, thus increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations annually, and thus increasing global heating annually, even if all human sources of CO2 are shut off…
as far as how long i plan on staying alive goes, i am older than you are, so go figure…
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
I don’t think I would emphasize the unknowns about climate change. The here is already here. Moreover death of ecosystems has been going on without needing much help from climate change. And there is NO evidence people are going to do anything to stop it.
How about a gas tax holiday, because, you see, we have an inflation problem. So the administration wants to deal with that by giving people MORE money, as long, of course, as they spend it on burning fossil fuels. And of course, the only way to deal with Putin shutting off the gas is to burn more coal.
A factory chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, with the engine running and the door closed.
On Monday, aspiring US senator and disgraced former governor of Missouri Eric Greitens, a Republican, released a 38-second campaign ad in which he and a heavily armed squad of paramilitaries break into a home as part of a “RINO [Republican In Name Only] hunting” expedition.
The ad begins with a grinning 48-year-old Greitens carrying a shotgun and touting his military background as a US Navy Seal. “Today we are going RINO hunting,” Greitens says as he chambers a round into the shotgun he is holding.
After Greitens loads his weapon, the camera cuts to him and a squad of heavily armed men dressed in military fatigues, similar to a police SWAT team, in front of a residential house. Greitens comments, “The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice.”
As he finishes his sentence, one of the men uses a battering ram to smash open the door, followed by another masked paramilitary, who throws a smoke grenade into the home. Greitens and company enter the home through the smoke with rifles pointed up, ready to fire. Greitens tells his viewers: “Join the MAGA crew. Get a RINO hunting permit, there is no bagging limit, there is no tagging limit and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”
The “RINO hunting permit” is a sticker available for purchase on Greitens’ campaign website and requires a minimum donation of $25.
This is the second advertisement issued by the Greitens campaign in the last two months in which he glorifies homicidal violence against his political opponents while wielding a firearm.
In a campaign ad released this past April, Greitens and Donald Trump Jr. are filmed shooting metal human cutouts with automatic rifles. As Trump Jr. and Greitens walk toward the camera, Trump Jr. says they are “striking fear into the hearts of liberals everywhere, folks.”
“Liberals beware,” Greitens adds over the sound of gunfire.
While ex-president Donald Trump has yet to make an endorsement in the Missouri primary, which will take place on August 2, Greitens is currently the front-runner to replace retiring Senator Roy Blunt.
Greitens is closely linked to the Trumps. His campaign chair is Don Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani hosted a rally for him last year, and Greitens has already made at least one pilgrimage to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort this year.
One of two Republican members of the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, starkly warned Sunday that his own party’s lies could feed additional violence.
“There is violence in the future, I’m going to tell you,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on ABC’s “This Week” program. “And until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can’t expect any differently.”
Kinzinger, who defied party leadership by serving on the Democratic-led committee, described an alarming message he received at home in the mail several days ago threatening to execute him, his wife and their 5-month-old baby.
“I’d never seen or had anything like that. It was sent from the local area,” he said.
On Sunday evening, Kinzinger tweeted a copy of the letter addressed to his wife that read in part, “that pimp you married not only broke his oath, he sold his soul.”
“although it might take time, he will be executed… “But don’t worry!” “You and Christian (the Kinzingers’ five-month-old child) will be joining Adam in hell too!”
Is anyone else happy that Kamala Harris will presumably be the President of the Senate on January 6th, 2025? When Arizona Secretary of State and January 6th attendee Mark Finchem decides to send the Senate an alternative slate of electors.
Jim:
When, in 2024 or for 2022?
Finchem is running in 22, but I’m referring to Electoral College vote for the 24 election.
Ok, it would not surprise me if they were still fighting the battle of 2020 either.
Joe Biden is getting the band back together: https://www.levernews.com/biden-taps-anti-social-security-ideologue-to-oversee-program/
I figured we would see the guy from the Senate. Eventually. Voila.
RJS
the Texas Republicans weigh in…
Texas Republican Party passes resolution declaring Biden government illegitimate
In the midst of the January 6 House Select Committee hearings detailing the attempt of Donald Trump to overthrow the government, based on the lie that the 2020 election was “fraudulent,” Texas Republicans ended a three-day convention over the weekend by adopting a resolution declaring that “President Joseph Robinnette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
The resolution passed “without any real debate,” the Texas Tribune reported.
In reality, Biden defeated Trump 306-222 in the Electoral College vote and by some 7 million in the popular vote. The first three hearings established that Trump was repeatedly told by top officials in his Justice Department and some members of his inner circle that there was no truth to his claims of massive voter fraud.
This, however, did not stop the largest state Republican Party in the country from affirming Trump’s lie and in the process condoning the violent attack on the Capitol. The adoption of the resolution refutes the attempt of the January 6 Select Committee and the Biden administration to suggest that Trump’s attempted coup had only marginal support, limited to a few “crazy” Republicans, while the majority of the party continues to maintain an allegiance to democratic forms of rule.
Trump’s coup had the support of a majority of the party at the time, and his ongoing preparations to install himself as president-dictator continue to have the institutional support of the Republican Party. The plot was also backed by substantial sections of the police, military and intelligence apparatus, along with elements in the media and on the Supreme Court.
it looks like the odds that i’ll get to see runaway global heating in my lifetime are improving…
rjs,
It depends upon how long you plan on staying alive and what you regard as runaway global heating. I am 73 YO. Climate change is likely already running freely behind the hysteresis of glacial loss pumping methane from prehistoric permafrost that is no longer permanent nor frosty alongside lower reflection from glacial ice and snowcaps. However, the mainstream prognosis is screwy given that linear models projecting from recent experience data (all that exists in any detail) lack the capability to foresee tipping points and just wave their hands at the thermohaline circulation and other second and third order effects emanating from the disappearance of glacial ice. Hansen and other climate scientists with knowledge rooted in the geologic historical climate data understand the uncertainty and complexity far more than the trendy conventional climate scientists with their computer models and oceanic monitors.
I live in central VA, about 100 miles from the national capital area. Here it seems like the deniers are getting their prayers answered with the coolest early summer weather that we have had in recent memory while much of the rest of the US is scorching hot again. Of course, this is only a temporary result of La Nina paired with accelerating arctic spring warm-up and a mostly negative trend of the NAO steering the eastern trough of the northern polar jet stream usually far south for spring and early summer. The days are just starting to get shorter up there now and in a few weeks expansion of the warming northern polar region air will stall and that persistent northerly air flow into the mid-Atlantic will end and we will be back in the climate oven again.
When I was a kid the conventional wisdom was that Earth was heading for another Ice Age, more correctly called a glaciation since there is no evidence that we are not still in the Ice Age now. But few people even knew what the Ice Age really was. Most believed that the glaciers came because the Earth was cooling off. Only one in ten geologic climate scientists understood that it was the gradual warming of the Earth that reached the tipping point that caused the return of the glaciers when the end of melting ice trapped the heat near the equator and left the cold sitting at the poles. It is the cross latitudinal flow of water and air that creates temperate climate, without which there is little but a hot zone surrounded by two cold zones. It is a feature of the location of Earth’s tectonic plates where they now sit. In a few million years then it will be different, but for now the concentration of heat sumps, reflectors, and radiators can produce only a certain spectrum of result.
Yeah, I know – unproven BS. But it kind of goes with territory of geologic climate change and the theoretical grounding dates back at least 60 years and maybe further. It keeps popping up. However, in recent years mainstream science has focused more on how climate change might affect plate tectonics than how plate tectonics influences climate change. Well, it does not matter. We are toast either way now or maybe popsicles.
I cannot help but believe that if people of mostly European descent had imagined that climate change would mostly snuff out white people instead of mostly snuffing out brown people, then they might have actually taken decisive action to slow climate change. Furthermore, I believe that the ultimate outcome is roughly the same regardless of measures taken. At our present pace then the next glaciation of the northern hemisphere will just happen about 10-15 thousand years earlier than it otherwise might have.
Ron, i figure we’ll have reached runaway global heating when it’s driven by feedback loops rather than our own increased emissions; ie, that would be whatever temperature the arctic has to reach such that thawing permafrost is releasing more CO2 than the planet’s plants can absorb, thus increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations annually, and thus increasing global heating annually, even if all human sources of CO2 are shut off…
as far as how long i plan on staying alive goes, i am older than you are, so go figure…
Got it.
Ron
I don’t think I would emphasize the unknowns about climate change. The here is already here. Moreover death of ecosystems has been going on without needing much help from climate change. And there is NO evidence people are going to do anything to stop it.
How about a gas tax holiday, because, you see, we have an inflation problem. So the administration wants to deal with that by giving people MORE money, as long, of course, as they spend it on burning fossil fuels. And of course, the only way to deal with Putin shutting off the gas is to burn more coal.
A factory chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, with the engine running and the door closed.
this reminds me of the kind of ads Joe Manchin used to run..
https://youtu.be/eWOldIaNvhw
GOP member of Jan. 6 committee warns that more violence is coming –
One of two Republican members of the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, starkly warned Sunday that his own party’s lies could feed additional violence.
“There is violence in the future, I’m going to tell you,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on ABC’s “This Week” program. “And until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can’t expect any differently.”
Kinzinger, who defied party leadership by serving on the Democratic-led committee, described an alarming message he received at home in the mail several days ago threatening to execute him, his wife and their 5-month-old baby.
“I’d never seen or had anything like that. It was sent from the local area,” he said.
On Sunday evening, Kinzinger tweeted a copy of the letter addressed to his wife that read in part, “that pimp you married not only broke his oath, he sold his soul.”