The Biden Administration gave $600M to “environmental justice” groups.
Who are they?
Well, $50M went to the Climate Justice Alliance. CJA pays for illegal anti-Israel protests, on the basis that “the path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine.”
Thomas Jefferson had high hopes for the University of Virginia. Then the first term students got drunk, disguised themselves as Indians, and threw urine through a professor’s window.
Next, a group of masked students threw brick bats at professors who asked them to calm down.
The basis of ESG and net zero is that if the West limits oil and gas production, the world will follow suit, out of climate solidarity.
In fact, the world will capitalize on the West’s naïveté by producing more. Supply meets demand.
Our forefathers defeated slavery, Nazis, and the Soviet Union without abandoning individual rights and democracy.
But wokeness, that’s just too powerful to be overcome by standard means.
Must have theocracy.
Counterpoint: she isn’t upset about working, she is upset she can’t afford housing near her job and therefore has a long commute. That’s a problem.
We should build more housing!
When Putnam wrote “Bowling Alone”, he included as “alone” those who bowled with friends, informally.
When Tocqueville warned of “individualism”, he meant men withdrawing into their families and close friendships.
But today when we speak of loneliness, we really mean alone!
The Biden administration’s plans to support a lithium mine in Nevada are running into environmentalists concerned about an “endangered flower.”
And of course, NEPA.
#permitting
Amazing that overturning a 1984 precedent denies Congress the ability to write laws the way they have “for more than a century.” Did Congress anticipate Chevron in the 1920’s?
Nobody is prepared for this jolt to the legal system. The Supreme Court has shifted an unfathomable amount of power from Congress and the executive brach toward unelected, unaccountable federal judges. This will fundamentally alter how government works.
Brooks' piece implies that powerful people can't influence outcomes through covert action. So in order for conspiracy theories to be false, the US intelligence community and much corporate activity must be an elaborate ruse.
Which sounds a lot like ...
Yikes. Just had an electrician over to install 240V outlet for Lvl 2 EV charger. He gave me an EARFUL about how overworked electricians are & how FEW people are coming into the trade behind his generation (he's mid-50s). Real bottleneck. Need to train an army of new electricians!
Men trying to get over a girl:
Have you considered writing ten books, 400 articles, 60 book reviews, 17 book introductions, 3,000 newspaper columns, and literally founding modern American conservatism?
Normies have a hard time rebutting conspiracy theories because they wish to restore trust. The best argument against conspiracy theories is that power centers are too incompetent to pull them off.
True, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
-Noah posts a chart of global emissions showing Western decline and Chinese increase
- this guy attacks him for undermining climate action
-Noah responds that the focus should be on China
- the guy responds by … defending Chinese policymakers
Upshot for lawyers, firms, law profs: its not enough to take admin law anymore. Statutory interpretation is a must, and those classes must teach textualism.
“Experts” hate economists because they think economists are the reason they can’t everything they want.
Actually it’s because resources are scarce and their values are unpopular. But they would have to listen to economists to learn that.
Amazon recently bought a data center campus in Pennsylvania that is powered by a nuclear power plant.
Here's the crazy part:
This campus alone will draw 1/3 of it's total nuclear capacity (which is the 6th largest power plant in the US).
Still can't believe how Big Tech is
I simply wouldn’t outsource major national security and economic decisions to a Chinese social media platform’s algorithmically selected stars, but I don’t have a Master’s degree so whatever.
Robin's "scholarship" groups Churchill,, Trump, Fukuyama, Tocqueville, Hayek, Schmitt and Scalia all together as "Trumpy".
Why? They oppose "revolutions." A broad category that includes the French and Bolshevik Revolutions.
It's guillotines and gulags, or Trumpiness.
Stancil googled his way back to posts and pieces I wrote in 2015 where I discussed the divisions and damage Trump would bring to the GOP, which in no way contradict the obvious thesis of my book, which is that conservatism, going back to the 1790s, has been Trumpy. Contra what
@AriTeman
@JeffKorzenik
If they’re good employees then they shouldn’t have to be mandated as hires. We can prioritize “social justice” or efficacy, not both.
Will is correct, but I will add that the lawyer partly responsible for the demise of Chevron has a squat rack in his living room. It’s the lifter bros who read big boring books that you really have to watch out for.
And for those who don't like the slow boring involved in changing legal culture, legal scholarship, judicial nominations, think tank work, etc, note that this work is now going to have a much bigger and lasting impact on reining in the administrative state than memes, own the
One of the holes in our new "industrial strategy" is demand side support to close the cost gap for buyers.
"But [Cleveland Cliffs CEO Goncalves] said his company cannot persuade buyers... to pay the price to cover the costs of producing more environmentally friendly steel."
- Western civilization is good, actually.
- Widows, orphans, the poor and foreigners rightly deserve our compassion.
- A man who loves his own power above all becomes a slave to his appetites.
- A civilization that disregards justice becomes a slave to others.
- Go fix Tesla.
The arc of ESG as told through oil & gas quarterly investor presentations:
pre 2020: not mentioned
2020-22: dedicated slide among first 10 pages of deck
2023: mentioned in back half of presentation
Right wing populists just swept the Greens in Europe, and it’s about backlash to Net Zero, not just immigration.
Only a small, wealthy minority of voters are willing to tolerate a higher cost of living for the sake of the climate.
🚨Bombshell story from
@lukerosiak
on how Pierre Omidyar hijacked Biden's antitrust agencies as part of his plan to "reimagine capitalism" in service of woke social goals.
FTC + DOJ Antitrust Division are completely captured by left-wing activists. More:
Liberalism is ultimately the theory that the state can be neutral.
Stew in this false theory long enough and you end up believing that *you* yourself can be neutral.
Photo from my baptism and confirmation last Sunday.
Thanks to Father William George and my sponsor
@michael_pakaluk
, and to my RCIA director Cathy Rusin.
Father Bill is Lebanese and we chit-chatted in Arabic beforehand, because I am incorrigible.