From "Why Al Gore Is Shifting His Climate Activism Abroad/Given the Trump administration’s recent moves relating to climate, the former vice president is looking to the developing world for the next generation of climate activism" (NYT).
When Biden was President, "democracy" meant gracefully accepting the result of the election and working on winning the next election. But with Trump as President, "democracy" means stopping the duly elected President from doing what voters heard him promise he'd do.
I'm just asking for a stable definition of "democracy" to go along with the demand for our devotion to it. I agree with Gore that the courts have role to play. But it's a counter-majoritarian role. And we can argue about the scope of their role and whether they are doing too much or too little. We'll see how they do.
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Why is Al Gore relevant today?
You go, Al. You go.
Democrats up to and including the President of the United States, Joe Biden, warned us that Democracy was at stake in the election and that this would be the last election we would ever have if Donald Trump got back into the White House.
So we all went to the polls and decided this issue. That's exactly what we want.
Democrats lost that election ... and I think it's highly prescient of Al Gore to pull up stakes and head on out into the wild international with his brand of shtick. Because it's not gonna sell here any more and he's been the recipient of an awful lot of laundered money.
Gitmo awaits the tardy.
Democracy means people who call themselves Democrat have power. Any traditional meaning of Democracy is like the meanings Liberty/Liberal or Free Speech these days, antiquated for those who wish to regain and retain power. Liberty means the right to abortion on demand, protest with firebombs, and hire illegal aliens. Free Speech means using a persons pronouns, parroting bureaucratic talking points, and having your bank account frozen for hate speech online.
He invented the internet, Danno! If it wasn't for him, there'd be no polar ice caps, no polar bears, no whales, no George W Bush, and no Althouse blogspot!
We'll see how they do
We already know Hawaiian judges are addicted to TROs, universal injunctions and any other non-reviewable weapon at their disposal against The Executive. We’ve seen more since January than any other President during their entire administration. A let’s sit back and see what happens attitude is bs…
When Biden was President, "democracy" meant gracefully accepting the result of the election and working on winning the next election. But with Trump as President, "democracy" means stopping the duly elected President from doing what voters heard him promise he'd do.
oops - place quotes around that.
You nailed it, Ann.
And we can argue about the scope of [the judiciary’s] role and whether they are doing too much or too little. We'll see how they do.
Two months and two weeks after Inauguration Day, I think we’ve seen enough. The judges have delusions of relevance to go with their delusions of competence.
This is one of the most interesting and entertaining rounds of political FAFO gaming I’ve ever seen. The Trump team knew what to expect and while I don’t think they really know how SCOTUS will ultimately rule, unless Roberts pulls something akin to Obamacare is a tax again, there will be some real defining of Executive Branch powers and the limits or lack thereof for what the Administrative State can do. And I’m not sure that the opposition is going to like the FO part regardless of how it impacts the Executive. Really fascinating times on the Lawfare front.
It makes me wonder where Al Gore thinks he's going to go, what markets does he really believe are ripe for his shtick? The US, with its huge GDP, has a high capacity for parasitical schemes like the Green New Deal.
Europe? They've all been shutting down Nuclear plants and coal plants and proclaiming their environmental superiority, and now look at them: Out of electricity. Norway, throttling their supply to the other nations, who are dependent. The EU, self-limiting their Russian gas imports. What's Big Al going to sell them, as their industrial base crumbles and the US steps back and closes their wallet?
Where's Big Al going to go? Pakistan? China? The Saudis, whose sole income is from O&G? Big Al sees the writing on the wall. He's not going somewhere else - he's going away, and this is face-saving. The Climate Crisis is over.
Stop wasting our tax dollars on your Solyndra type stuff. mmmkay?
Al Gore knows his grift is coming to an end here. He's transferring it to Europe because they're still in the grip of net-zero fantasy.
Democrats - Democracy is what we say it is.
The courts could solve climate change in an instant by putting a hold on temperature.
ManBearPig found dead in a locked lockbox.
You need a new tag - Democracy Bullshit
Maybe Gore will find his "chakra" in the Czech Republic; or in Crete, or on Cyprus. I really don't care much about Gore these days. I did compare and contrast the statesmanlike gesture of ol Tricky Dick Nixon who gracefully conceded what was probably a stolen election in 1960 to JFK. Versus Al Gore's gaggle of election lawyers searching for lost buckets of chads in Florida when Dubya beat Gore.
Aggie said...
Where's Big Al going to go? Pakistan? China? The Saudis, whose sole income is from O&G? Big Al sees the writing on the wall. He's not going somewhere else - he's going away, and this is face-saving. The Climate Crisis is over.
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Oh, I hope like hell you're right. We've had so very many 'wonderful' ideas to 'save the planet' over the last few decades that I can't even begin to count them And whenever we got to a point where we'd adapted to the latest crazy dictate (dumb-ass 'water saving' toilets, faucets, energy saving appliances and HVAC systems, switching to nat gas to 'save on CO2' when it cost more, but then demonizing it when fracking made it cheap, massive solar plants that never made enough power to be viable, windmills that became bird-choppers.) they cranked some new stupidity into the mix.
I'd love to see us go full bore on making nuclear power plants, and get rid of those unsightly windmills that litter the western plains...
Danno said...
Why is Al Gore relevant today?
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Because former political figures like Bush Jr., Clinton and Obama have wisely gone silent in recent days. For women like ann, only the NYT can tell the story...
Gore talked to the "paper".
Ann's current hustle relies on her "bravely" taking apart NYT stories, and this one features Gore. His opinion is the one she is reading today, =who the NYT chooses to cite is the one she is engaging with... Thus he is relevant.
"It's a mixed up, muddle up, shook up world..."
Danno said...
Why is Al Gore relevant today?
Because Al made hundreds of millions if not billions by pushing global warming and sucking up tax payer dollars that subsidized the scams.
Al Gore is only relevant to those who find him relevant.
Just say no.
During the last eight years, Democrats were committed to ending democracy in darkness as the Washington Post has bragged on its front page.
Grifted his way through Tennessee, DC, NYC, and Europe. Wore out his welcome in all. On to the Third World!
The courts could solve climate change in an instant by putting a hold on temperature.
They don't work that way, chuck. They will order the Trump Administration to do it, though.
@Jerry, I think the movement jumped the shark when Senator Schumer stood on the floor of the Senate and scoffed at the idea that the Biden administration was planning to take away our gas stoves, followed by the Biden administration announcing new environmental regulations aimed at outlawing gas stoves.
Al, this is what democracy looks like.
Schrödinger's democracy.
I'm just asking for a stable definition of "democracy" to go along with the demand for our devotion to it
There's the rub! The Left does not believe in fixed definitions any more than they believe in Natural Law or good faith arguments. We ALL know what "democracy" means and can give a definition easily. Just like "woman" is a noun with a million-year history of meaning "adult female human."
But for the constantly revolutionary Left definitions are just one more casualty, just more broken eggs, that are necessary to dissolve the bonds of citizenship and patriotism in hopes we will finally, at long last, accept their insane Marxist view of Paradise.
With them in charge of course.
The developing world is more dependent on currently available cheap, plentiful sources of energy so that they can actually...develop. Oil and gas (and to a lesser extent- coal) are still the most plentiful cheap sources of energy, while we continue to work on functional, available, easily disposed of alternative sources.
Sicking Al Gore on the developing nations is sentencing them to be forever developing nations, never actually reaching the point of being developed.
Al Gore has made large sums off of the global warming/ climate change grift. The fact that his work has contributed to impoverishing millions of people is a cost of doing business.
Weird, I seem to remember the Republicans pursuing a lot of court cases to stop Biden from doing things he wanted to do. Was that anti-democratic as well? He tried to forgive student loans, regulate CO2 emissions, allow more immigration, and other things. Republicans opposed those measures and sued the Biden administration in court, in many cases winning injunctions against him.
It's a bit disingenuous to get mad about lawsuits when both sides use them whenever it's to their advantage. The Republican system is based on balance, and a mob is just as much a danger to democracy as a despot.
The differences between Republicans and Democrats can mostly be summed up by saying: Republicans want strict limits on things that cost them, directly, so they can get on with their lives. Democrats want no limits on things that cost other people, in perpetuity, so they can claim credit for the gifts.
The democratic/dictatorial duality.
I read that name as AI Gore, and I suppose Artificial Intelligence Gore is better than Al?
Biden's team were always saying that we had a "broken" immigration system. They were right. They broke it. Now Trump is trying to fix it. The courts did little or nothing to stop Biden's flood. They ought perhaps to consider giving the Trump administration a freer hand in attempts to fix the migrant situation now.
It's also a little curious: were there actually more suits against the Biden administration because of open borders or because of that administration's very feeble efforts to curb the flood. Add in the federal government's suits against states that refuse to comply and it's not clear that Republican or anti-Mayorkas suits predominated.
As god is my witness I thought AL Gore was dead.
Steven said...
"Weird, I seem to remember the Republicans pursuing a lot of court cases to stop Biden from doing things he wanted to do."
You never asked if those things were constitutional?
Note that Gore isn't claiming, and can't honestly claim, that Trump's doing anything illegal.
He's just claiming that Democrat "judges" will stop Trump.
And he finds this good, because the Left are scum
Steven said...
Weird, I seem to remember the Republicans pursuing a lot of court cases to stop Biden from doing things he wanted to do. Was that anti-democratic as well?
Not when they were stopping Biden from violating democratically passed laws.
He tried to forgive student loans
Which he did not have the legal power to do. Only Congress can shove to spend money like that, and Congress refused to pay for that.
regulate CO2 emissions
IOW, he tried to be a dictator and exercise powers he didn't have
allow more immigration
By violating US immigration law
and other things
All of which were equally illegal.
Guy 1 (Trump) consensually makes love with his wife
Guy 2 (Biden) rapes a 12 year old
Yes, both of them involve "having sex with someone", but the first is good, and the second is not.
It takes a truly psychotic monster to not be able to grasp the difference between "doing something legal" and "doing something illegal", and to just focus on the "doing something" part.
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