{"id":15880,"date":"2019-09-09T00:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2019-09-09T00:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:37:04","slug":"climate-madness-pandemic-in-the-democratic-presidential-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/09\/09\/climate-madness-pandemic-in-the-democratic-presidential-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Madness: Pandemic in the Democratic Presidential Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In an unwitting attempt to sway the 2020 Presidential Election, CNN hosted a climate shindig where the Democratic candidates for the Presidency went out of their way to out-woke each other with the most &#8220;watermelon\u201d of eco-solutions to what they all consider to be the unsealing of the seventh seal of the eco-apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kamala Harris, for example, wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/2020-democrats-mull-changing-laws-meat-consumption-climate-change\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">restrict\u2014or even ban\u2014the consumption of red meat<\/a>.  Andrew Yang, in contrast, wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/2020-democrats-mull-changing-laws-meat-consumption-climate-change\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">global vegetarianism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bernie Sanders, not to be outdone, and in homage of his Communist heroes, suggests outright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/climate-crisis-town-hall-august-2019\/h_8aa19dabc6dc5e280f44d813a49101fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">curbing population growth and numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSen. Bernie Sanders was asked if he&#8217;d make curbing population growth through birth control a key part of his climate plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019The planet cannot sustain this growth,&#8217; the voter said while asking the question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSanders said he would\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yang, not willing to just limit us to mandatory vegetarianism, also wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/andrew-yang-wants-buybacks-for-your-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take our cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring Wednesday&#8217;s seven-hour Climate Hoo-Ha ordeal on CNN, Yang offhandedly proposed buybacks of regular cars &#8212; you know, the ones you can drive more than 300 miles even in winter, and can fill up anywhere to 100% in just a few minutes &#8212; and stick us all in electric vehicles which he insists \u2018we are all going to love\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe admits that there will still be some \u2018legacy gas-guzzlers\u2019 on the roads when he&#8217;s president, but &#8220;some&#8221; indicates the sheer scale of his ambition and\/or ego. There are more than 270 million motor vehicles licensed in the United States alone &#8212; the vast, vast majority of which are gas\/diesel\/hybrid. Annual passenger car\/light truck sales are highly variable, but last year totaled about 17 million. If Yang were to wave a magic wand and mandate nothing but e-car production from now on, it would still take about 15 years to replace American&#8217;s existing inventory of ICE vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As if thinking all that wasn\u2019t enough, Julian Castro wants to make it easier to file lawsuits over \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaselzippers.us\/431563-julian-castro-ill-make-it-easier-for-americans-to-file-lawsuits-over-environmental-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">environmental racism<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.air.tv\/v1\/iframe\/vExxEhLiTdyYMoFpu7rvRw?organization=wJiaPTouTlSDiJOoEDkiQw\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Buttigieg, meanwhile, went full scold and blamed the death of Gaia on people who\u2026 eat tasty burgers or use straws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k08HTjeYqyo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Harris also echoed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/kamala-harris-plastic-straw-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jihad against straws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I think we should&quot; ban plastic straws, says Sen. Kamala Harris, but she adds we still need to rely on innovation to perfect the paper straw.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s really difficult to drink out of a paper straw&#8230;if you don&#39;t gulp it down immediately it starts to bend.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LmjJvRwO5a\">https:\/\/t.co\/LmjJvRwO5a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZcEut4HFZd\">pic.twitter.com\/ZcEut4HFZd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1169383449951690753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Heck, they were all for <a href=\"https:\/\/news.grabien.com\/story-dems-climate-forum-ban-everything-supercut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banning all the things<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gHAnxALOCQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9381\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/c2o6w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/c2o6w.jpg 400w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/c2o6w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Climate Madness: Pandemic in the Democratic Presidential Primary\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In an unwitting attempt to sway the 2020 Presidential Election, CNN hosted a climate shindig where the Democratic candidates for the Presidency went out of their way to out-woke each other with the most 'watermelon' of eco-solutions to what they all consider to be the unsealing of the seventh seal of the eco-apocalypse. \" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/02\/19\/us\/19whitney-span\/19whitney-span-artihttps:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/c2o6w.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In an unwitting attempt to sway the 2020 Presidential Election, CNN hosted a climate shindig where the Democratic candidates for the Presidency went out of their way to out-woke each other with the most &#8220;watermelon\u201d of eco-solutions to what they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/09\/09\/climate-madness-pandemic-in-the-democratic-presidential-primary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[15,26,24],"class_list":["post-15880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-green","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15888,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions\/15888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}