Why do Republicans always roll over on "climate change?"

Why are Republicans supine in the fight against the Marxist takeover of our entire way of life? They are petrified, for some reason, about engaging the debate on the "science" of "climate change."

This abandonment of the playing field has allowed climate spending to overtake the landscape like Kudzu vines on steroids.

In Joe Biden's so-called Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law in 2022, estimates are that $1 trillion in climate pork is stuffed into the bill. For perspective, the current federal budget is roughly $7 trillion.

All this to support policies that are based on a lot of sound and fury but very little, if any, valid science. Restoration News' Jeffrey Reynolds summed up nicely the flimsy nature of climate science in his recent two-part report, "How the Left's global warming ideology wrecked science and how to stop it." He concluded that the underlying science of Anthropogenic Global Warming has not been proven, its furtherance as an emergency policy imperative is based on massive data, temperature, and other manipulations, and all this deception is being protected through censorship aided by dutiful news media and compliant Big Tech.

For example, did you know that the U.S. EPA's own data shows that 81 percent of U.S. weather stations report no increase in warm days since 1948?

You likely don't know this because data like this is suffocated under a massive censorship regime that infects the highest levels of Big Science, Big Tech, and corporate liberal media. Only liberal propaganda gets through the rigid screen most of the time.

Where have Republicans been as Democrats have made deep strides in dismantling America's robust and reliable energy supply? Mostly giving lip service and doing nothing where it counts -- debating the science and scrutinizing the spending.

Big Climate's' 25-year blitz of propaganda on the American people has frightened Republicans from fighting back. The consultant class has convinced many GOP politicians to hedge the issue -- not taking on the phony science, but expressing platitudes about the environment. Thus, the propaganda on climate science, unrebutted, appears more valid as the years go by to casual consumers of news.

That's a shame because "climate change" is a scam on many levels. Starting with the term itself, which was adopted by the Left when "global warming" was too dangerously specific -- and sometimes wrong. "Climate change" is the perfect propaganda phrase because it can never be disproved. All weather, cold or warm, wet or dry, are explainable as "climate change." The phrase itself is nonsensical gaslighting -- the climate has always changed and always will.

On a spiritual level, "climate change" is an affront to the God of the Bible. The Creator made a universe so exquisitely fine-tuned that life can exist on earth only through an endless series of microscopic tolerances that shatter any logic behind a non-intelligent creator. It is absurd to think He forgot to consider His creation, man, might produce a little extra life-affirming carbon dioxide and screw the whole thing up. "Climate change" is just another in a long line of examples of man believing he controls the universe, not God. That's why it is disheartening to see so many Christians jump aboard the culture's bandwagon hype on climate without thinking through how it undermines a bedrock theological precept they claim to believe -- God's sovereignty.

Meanwhile, by not fighting back, the GOP is standing uselessly on the sidelines as climate spending is taking over the federal budget. The most recent GAO report on climate indicated the following federal agencies are spending your tax dollars on climate: Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Interior, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Department of Treasury, Environmental Protection Agency, Millenium Challenge Corporation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Peace Corps, Smithsonian Institution, Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

Where were the Republicans when all this was happening? Asleep at the switch. And the same kind of climate spending creep is happening at statehouses throughout America.

It's a shame because there is a growing list of courageous scientists who have done the heavy lifting to demonstrate the hollowness of climate hysteria. If the Republicans don't want to educate themselves, these people can teach them the truth. Dr. Judith Curry and many others don't like what the Big Climate mob is doing to real science. Republicans ought to embrace them, highlight their work before Congress, and become masters of the details regarding the gigantic scam that is being perpetrated.

The climate fight needs to be engaged constantly. No bogus assumption or premise should be left unchallenged. No Republican should ever embrace or use propaganda phrases such as "climate change," "carbon pollution," or "carbon credits" again.

This sounds like a daunting David vs. Goliath fight and in some ways it is. Yet the Republicans' secret weapon is the weakness of Big Climate's argument. It truly is flimsy and will collapse upon even a moderate level of pressure. It's time to apply that pressure.

Where DeSantis went wrong

The pundits have weighed in -- either Ron DeSantis ran the worst possible campaign ever, or it didn't matter what he did, Donald Trump couldn't be beat.

In between somewhere is the truth. A strong argument can be made it was foolhardy for the Florida Governor to run. Another strong argument can be made that you don't wait around in politics -- if you are popular and viable, you don't calculate for a day that might never come.

What is missing in the analysis is the messaging. Since DeSantis did run -- how was he supposed to position himself with Trump in the race? What was his messaging ''lane?" This is where most of the pundits are getting it wrong.

Most assume that DeSantis needed to be more aggressive criticizing Trump. That he needed to neutralize Trump's support and pick up enough independent-minded conservatives to build his coalition. That he needed to be the "reasonable Trump." Some "experts" said he needed to spend more time on liberal media outlets. Those strategies were doomed to failure. DeSantis ultimately took both of the above pieces of bad advice and it only speeded along his decline in the polls.

Another path was preferable. DeSantis had no chance to go head-on and change the minds of Trump supporters by criticizing him. He needed, instead, to convince Trump supporters that maybe he was even more in touch with America than Trump is. After all, Trump's main appeal is that he cuts through the layer of political BS that infects our campaigns and spells out our problems and solutions. For real.

DeSantis did something similar in Florida. He rose to the occasion by assessing the threats facing his state and confronting them bluntly. When it came to his presidential run, however, DeSantis' message was small and seemingly oblivious to the crumbling mess America is becoming. Part of this was his handlers telling him he need to appear as a "more reasonable" Trump. So he messaged himself out of the race.

What DeSantis should have done, especially after the Trump indictments, is double down even more aggressively than the ex-President. He should have proclaimed loudly and often America cannot tolerate such a weaponization of our justice system. He should have shouted from the rooftops about the J6 lies and persecutions, many of whom victimized Florida residents. Wait, you say, wouldn't that just be reinforcing Trump's plight and message? Yes, but he could do it more precisely and effectively. He could go to war with the liberal media over those issues. Instead, DeSantis went on mainstream media outlets and was tepid on the issues conservatives strongly care about.

When asked why he is running if he agrees with Trump's messaging, he could say I agree with Trump on the issues -- I'm just a better messenger at this point.

Another crucial part of this strategy -- he could have been equally forceful about getting to the bottom of all the COVID lies. There, he would have a sharp contrast with Trump. He would have established himself as a bigger reformer of the system than Trump.

You could argue that this messaging path was too narrow and tricky to pull off. That's a fair criticism. However, it was his only path to victory in the primary. After all, there still remain many Republicans who are now supporting Trump but were willing initially to give DeSantis a chance. And when they saw DeSantis on the playing field, he didn't resemble the gigantic warrior needed to take on the extraordinary and unprecedented upheavals America faces in 2024.

He looked like he was playing for second place and hoping the leader would succumb to the Left's Lawfare, or would fall prey to health problems or worse. He played to lose and lost.

WH invokes 25th Amendment with a transcript

We get the joke. Liberals in the media ignore Joe Biden’s mental misfires. Liberal viewers never see them. Conservatives see all of them and wait for the reckoning.

Nobody knows it yet, but that reckoning may have come when the White House posted a little-noticed transcript from Biden’s visit to Houston last week. Check out this spaghetti bowl of disconnected words and thoughts from the leader of the free world.

And I’m proud to say we’re halfway there: 50 million shots. Actually, I — I was telling the congressman earlier, I carry a little card with me. And it lists, every day, the number of — the actual number of vaccines that have been administered. As of today, five- — as of last night, 503,587 — every single one matters — in just 37 days. (Applause.) Weeks ahead of schedule. We’re weeks ahead of schedule. Even with setbacks from the winter storm, we’re moving in the right direction.

In case you are not tracking the numbers here, Biden is talking about the number of vaccine shots — 50 million. He’s saying he has them listed on a card. Then, mid-thought, his brain switches to the number of deaths in the country, slightly more than 500,000. And he continues to mix up the two, referring to the deaths as ahead of schedule.

This is not merely confusing a couple of numbers. He’s intertwining two different aspects of the virus situation and weaving one into the other in an incoherent manner. Strangely enough, somebody applauds. Certainly not Jill, who, standing next to him, had to realize the massive brain lapse.

This is after earlier in the remarks Biden called Sheila Jackson Lee “Shirley” and said, according to the transcript, “excuse me Pannill — and — what am I doing here? I’m going to lose track here.” All this with a teleprompter. This isn’t hard. Biden has been making remarks like this for years and should be able to read text off a prompter without issue. The point is he’s losing it fast. I’m not a doctor but I have eyes and ears and so do other Americans who aren’t behind the liberal media’s blockade.

Conservative radio host Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, said last week his law enforcement sources told him Biden’s orbit is alarmed at the steep and sudden decline in his cognitive abilities.

We had several rounds of phony stories during Donald Trump’s administration about the 25th Amendment. The only impairment then was centered in the amygdalas of Trump’s enemies. Now, it is different. It’s time to start talking about the 25th for real this time. The transcript doesn’t lie.

Don't bother, Nikki

Right out of the playbook it comes. After years of backing Donald Trump, it was time to distance herself. She hired consultants. She made a speech. And she had those consultants arrange an interview with the Washingtonest of Washington publications at an opulent coastal club where she made the split with Trump explicit.

Mission accomplished! That is, if your intention is to be a powerhouse Swamp lobbyist. But Nikki Haley is eyeing another occupation — President of the United States. Let’s save her any further effort. She’ll never ever ever win a Republican nomination for the highest office of the land. She just joined a growing line of Republican hopefuls who already have eliminated themselves in 2024.

Don’t mistake the real reason, either. It certainly is in part because she trashed Trump’s post-election behavior. The more precise reason her future aspirations are null was the vehicle she chose to transmit her Trump betrayal. It was Politico, one of the leaders of the liberal media’s four-year coup against Trump that included non-stop lies, hoaxes, and smears against him and other conservatives starting with spying against Trump in 2016 and ending with a second phony impeachment.

Conservative America — not those fake conservatives posing on liberal cable TV — understand the liberal media has transformed in recent years from an adversary to an institution dedicated to destroying its existence. Real conservatives understand that if they don’t develop more non-liberal news and social media sources, they are doomed to losing elections indefinitely. But not Nikki Haley. She apparently believes Politico, one of the nastiest dishonest purveyors of false conservative narratives and blockader of news that hurts Democrats, is the appropriate platform for her entrance into the 2024 presidential race.

Haley has other gaping blind spots when it comes to interpreting the news. She continues to parrot the liberal media’s lie about what Donald Trump said at Charlottesville, and she fell for the NASCAR noose hoax. Is she dumb or pandering? Either answer is unsettling.

Every single conservative still seething at the scams the liberal media, Big Tech, and the Democrats pulled in 2020 noticed that Nikki went to Politico. It’s not that Haley had much of a chance in 2024 anyway. On paper, Nikki is a formidable potential presidential candidate — smart, personable, a good communicator, and has an interesting life and professional story. However, among conservatives there always has been a notion that her adherence to conservative values is weaker than her personal ambition. Let’s just say she had an authenticity problem before her Politico debacle.

Nikki’s political strategy is right out of the Establishment Republican playbook. It might have worked in eras past. This is a different time, however. The battle lines between conservatives and liberal media, corporate America, Big Tech, and most major institutions in America are more distinct than ever. Conservatives understand we are in a war where our only allies are the bulk of normal Americans dwarfed in power by the rising authoritarianism of the coastal elites. You can’t pretend to be on both sides anymore. You can’t pretend the mainstream liberal media is legitimate. You have to assume they are your enemy and not engage them. None of the conservatives who hope to be president in 2024 should ever agree to an interview with any of the major liberal media outlets. Build up conservative outlets instead. We’ll need them going forward.

So save your money, Nikki, you are never going to be the Republican nominee for president. Enjoy the polished marble and golf at Kiawah Island and take in a Clemson football game now and again. Your future is a Washington lobbyist, not one of George Washington’s successors.