From Legal Insurrection this morning
“the pursuit of Net Zero by continually raising the cost of living is going to cause populist revolts that will make Brexit and Trump look like minor blips”
It’s true. The backlash that’s coming will be a game changer.
We’re not just talking about energy, although that’s a large part of the issue certainly. We’re talking about the food shortages that we’ve been seeing because of the green agenda.
In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky. The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be postponed. If there were a shortage of, say, shoes, we could make do for months or even years. A shortage of gasoline would be worse, but we could survive it, through mass transport or even walking, if necessary. But food is different. If there were an interruption in the supply of food, fear would set in immediately. And, if the resumption of the food supply were uncertain, the fear would become pronounced. After only nine missed meals, it’s not unlikely that we’d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food. If we were to see our neighbour with a loaf of bread, and we owned a gun, we might well say, “I’m sorry, you’re a good neighbour and we’ve been friends for years, but my children haven’t eaten today – I have to have that bread – even if I have to shoot you.” …
The psychological effect of empty grocery store shelves has already begun to show up in Joe Biden’s approval ratings as well as the rest of the people pursuing this green insanity.
And is the article points out, the Canadian truckers strike, the Dutch Farmers striking, etc indicate that this is not limited to these United States. The backlash against the Green is worldwide, and growing in strength.
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Somehow I don’t think this is the outcome that Pelosi and company wanted.
Moreover, it seems that more and more people are calling the January 6th confrontation a legitimate protest instead of an insurrection. Wow, reality. What a concept.
That’s where the conversation needs to start because if the Constitution is the law of the land, using the judicial branch to make rulings that simply aren’t supported by the Constitution itself, endangers the rights that are protected by that federal Constitution. At least, in the case of the Federal Constitution I don’t believe abortion to be among them.
Now, before you start warming up, I made no argument as regards abortion per se’, within that first piece, because that wasn’t the point. But to have a rational discussion on the subject we need to understand why the ruling from the Federal Supreme Court was the correct one.
To say the least, I’ve taken a little heat from a couple of people for being focused on that constitutional aspect.
In that post I focused on the constitutional perspective because, of the many aspects of the subject of abortion, it seemed to me that the constitutional aspect was the one that was most widely (and wildly) misunderstood, and the one most critical and foundational to understanding the rest of the aspects.
Among them would be…
* The scientific
* The racial
* The political
* The emotional
* The societal impact
There are certainly other aspects that can be added to that list, but these are probably enough for the moment to continue the conversation.
I have always thought to examine these separate aspects in a compartmentalized fashion, tackling one and then going on to the next. The reason for that is relatively simple. Each one of those aspects presents its own set of hard questions, and for the sake of clarity, needs to be examined separately, I believe
I have been accused by a couple of people of being cold and dispassionate on the subject. The thing is, I believe that in matters such as this passion tends to cloud our judgment. Certainly, there was a good deal of passion in a couple of the comments I got. However, the emotion is counterproductive to truly understanding the situation, I believe.
It probably would have been better if I had addressed these separate issues in a somewhat more rapid fashion but alas, life happens. It comes down to a matter the availability of time to think and to write.
Rest assured, I will be addressing each one of these as time allows. Frankly I get the feeling we’re going to have some time because this is going to be an ongoing discussion for the next several years.
Over at PJ media, Matt Margolis:
So, according to the White House, protests that disrupt an entire restaurant are “what a democracy is.” I wonder if she would say the same thing about protesting outside a Planned Parenthood clinic?
You know as well as I do the reaction would be different if they were harassing RBG or Sotomayor.
In fact I’ll take it a step further and suggest to you that the entirety of the j6 committee is an example of how the Democrats would react to their own being given the same treatment.
The double standards being applied here are astounding.
Before you start believing the leftist hype about how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis doesn’t have any suppooort in Florida, you might want to touch base with the facts of the matter.
More here
Of course, now Twitter is going to have to reveal their bot info that they wouldn’t reveal presale. And as a result, must will probably end up picking up the service at less than the original price. As I say, either way, Elon Musk wins.
Addendum
Called ‘Darkest Hour” it is a storyline about Sir Winston Churchill from slightly before his being appointed prime minister up to the moment that he declared on the floor of Parliament that Great Britain
The more recent events to which I refer will be discussed in another post. However, I wanted to pass this on because I found the movie to be a moving portrait of Sir Winston.
I also found it a telling bit of History about the forces that Churchill was up against domestically. Devil Chamberlain, Hallifax, and so on. Despite the obvious utility of negotiating with Hitler Halifax and Chamberlain at all still insisted on that course. To which a rather frustrated Churchill responded:
When will the lesson be learned? You cannot negotiate with the lion when your head is in its mouth.
Let’s remember the disaster that was the negotiation between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler was fresh in the minds of everyone in the country. And yet Chamberlain and Halifax were still pushing the idea of negotiation.
I found this to be the most moving scene in the entire movie, in a movie full of them.
The scene I will show you here is preceded by his wife telling him that he is strong because he is imperfect, and he is wise because he has doubts.
At this point she advises him to his shock, that the King of England is visiting his home in the wee hours of the morning.
We need to remember that the King had just come away with a meeting at Buckingham Palace with Halifax, who was urging him to rule in absentia from Canada. The King had finally had enough, and got on the horn with Mrs Churchill to make the arrangements to meet her husband.
Churchill was on the verge of giving in to the negotiators. But changed his direction at his Kings command.
I am firmly convinced that had this conversation not happened, we would all be speaking German to this day.
I am quite aware that there is a major difference between conservatives here the states and conservatives in Great Britain. There’s two vastly different cultures involved despite their many rather striking similarities.
That said, however, the similarities that are also striking on these situations is what happens to establishment GOP types. They, too, spend a good deal of time pandering to conservatives until such time as they get governmental power in their hands. As soon as that happens they start governing like Democrat lite.
So it is that the disconnect between the supposedly conservative politician and the rank and file GOP which itself is far more conservative than anything The Establishment GOP has puked up in recent times, is exposed.
The universality of this is the polluting and poisoning effect of the power of government that our founders warned us about repeatedly. Doesn’t matter where you are, power corrupts.
So, bye-bye Boris. In the end you were too much the liberal, even for big- government England.
Does anyone suppose that this is a coincidence anymore?
1/11/21 A fire that destroyed a 75,000-square-foot processing plant in Fayetteville
4/30/21 A fire ignited inside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, IL
7/25/21 Three-alarm fire at Kellogg plant in Memphis, 170 emergency personnel responded to the call
7/30/21 Firefighters on Friday battled a large fire at Tyson’s River Valley Ingredients plant in Hanceville, Alabama
8/23/21 Fire crews were called to the Patak Meat Production company on Ewing Road in Austell
9/13/21 A fire at the JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday night forced a halt to slaughter and fabrication lines
10/13/21 A five-alarm fire ripped through the Darigold butter production plant in Caldwell, ID
11/15/21 A woman is in custody following a fire at the Garrard County Food Pantry
11/29/21 A fire broke out around 5:30 p.m. at the Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant
12/13/21 West Side food processing plant in San Antonio left with smoke damage after a fire
1/7/22 Damage to a poultry processing plant on Hamilton’s Mountain following an overnight fire
1/13/22 Firefighters worked for 12 hours to put a fire out at the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, LA
1/31/22 a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire on Cherry Street in Winston-Salem
2/3/22 A massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston
2/3/22 At least 130 cows were killed in a fire at Percy Farm in Stowe
2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas
2/15/22 Nearly a week after the fire destroyed most of the Shearer’s Foods plant in Hermiston
2/16/22 A fire had broken at US largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana
2/18/22 An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm
2/19/22 Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont
2/22/22 The Shearer’s Foods plant in Hermiston caught fire after a propane boiler exploded
2/28/22 A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire at Nutrien Ag Solutions
2/28/22 A man was hurt after a fire broke out at the Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery
3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri
3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware
3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD
3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA
3/14/22 The blaze at 244 Meadow Drive was discovered shortly after 5 p.m. by farm owner Wayne Hoover
3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin
3/16/22 A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis.
3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas
3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa
3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware
3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota
3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
3/24/22 Fire fighters from numerous towns are battling a major fire at the McCrum potato processing facility in Belfast.
3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa
3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota
3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa
3/29/22 A massive fire burned 40,000 pounds of food meant to feed people in a food desert near Maricopa
3/31/22 A structure fire caused significant damage to a large portion of key fresh onion packing facilities in south Texas
3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa
3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa
4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska
4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota
4/13/22 fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire
4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant
4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.
4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota
4/19/22 Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon
4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color
4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota
4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Georgia
4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah
4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska
4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers
4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2M chickens in Delaware
4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado
4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma
5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota
5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota
5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan
5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed Jensen Beach FL
5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota
5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms
5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota
6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay.
6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola
6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta.
6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs
6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin.https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/another-food-plant-erupts-flames
It seems that the mastodons of rock are returning to Spotify, with their massive tails between their legs. The only paper in New York City worth reading, the New York Post, explains:
Crosby, Stills & Nash are back on Spotify in an apparent end to the classic rockers’ five-month protest of controversial podcaster Joe Rogan.
The folk rockers, who pulled their library of songs off of the streaming platform in solidarity with ex-band member Neil Young, are reportedly planning to donate their earnings from streams to charities aiding those infected with COVID-19, according to Billboard.
This is going down precisely as I suggested it would 6 months ago. I told you that their attempted virtue signaling was going to be unsuccessful. That was because in the end, what they were selling didn’t really have all that much in the way of virtue attached to it.
Bill Buckley famously told us, and in many ways showed us, that the left is forever telling us how open they are to other views, but are invariably shocked when people they find that people actually have other views. That’s where we were six months ago when they pulled their material from Spotify. So much for openness to other ideas.
I can pretty much guarantee you that there’s not going to be any press releases from these guys explaining their total 180. But we all know what happens. All this will end up going down the memory hole in another 6 weeks nobody will even remember it happened.
If you want proof that the staff at Twitter is a bunch of junior high schoolers, you need to look no further than this.
It doesn’t exerpt well, so I’ll just ask you to go read the Red State article at the link.
Frankly the article has this one spot on. It’s clear that there is a long way to go to get the Twitter staff to understand what free speech is, particularly when we observe the Delta between Jordan Peterson, and the numbskulls threatening Supreme Court justices on Twitter. Guess which one of those two didn’t get suspended?
# R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch in jail. I didn’t even know He had anything on the Clintons.
# So when do we start seeing “build back better” hats?
# Have we reached the point where the counterculture consists of a heterosexual couple with children?
# The road to despotism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.
# Seems the Democrats figure that they haven’t convinced enough people how good they are and how bad Donald Trump is so they’re extending the January 6th hearing through July. Apparently they’re using the same calendar as 15 days to stop covid. Or maybe they began to realize what a disaster that Cassidy what’s her name was. They’ve been going at this long enough that they’re being correctly labeled as a one-trick pony. It’s the only thing they can do… you would think they’d be able to get it right. And yet, they still haven’t made their case. Don’t be overly shocked if this nonsense goes on until they get voted out, in November. But from now until then, these guys are going to make Joe McCarthy look like an amateur.
#Kamala Harris has the lowest approval rating since they started keeping them. That’s after Dick Cheney shot his hunting buddy in the face.
