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9/4/2019

What Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Peddling This Week

Filed under: General — Dana @ 7:12 pm



[guest post by Dana]

As the Climate Change town hall is happening on CNN as we speak, I wanted to share few quick items that the Democratic presidential candidates are trying to sell voters on this week.

First, Andrew YangAutomobile Buybacks!

Blitzer: …are we all going to have to drive electric cars?

Yang: We are all going to love driving our electric cars.

Blitzer: Will we have to drive electric cars?

Yang: Well, there will still be some legacy gas guzzlers on the road for quite some time because this is not a country where you’re going to take someone’s, you know, clunker away from them but you are going to offer to buy the clunker back and help them upgrade.

Next up, Beto O’Rourke’s Gun Buybacks!

O’Rourke was asked Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, how he would address the fears of some Americans that the government would take away their assault weapons.

“I want to be really clear that that’s exactly what we are going to do,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said. “Americans who own AR-15s, AK-47s, will have to sell them to the government. We’re not going to allow them to stay on our streets, to show up in our communities, to be used against us in our synagogues, our churches, our mosques, our Walmarts, our public places.”

Bernie Sanders is hoping to sell Americans on a whopping $16 Trillion Dollar Climate Change Plan!

At roughly $16.3 trillion, it’s the most expensive proposal to address the climate crisis from any 2020 Democrat…

The presidential hopeful…adds far more specifics to the…plan that was put forward, in part, by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

“The scope of the challenge ahead of us shares some similarities with the crisis faced by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940s. Faced with battling a world war on two fronts ― both in the East and the West ― the United States came together, and within three short years restructured the entire economy in order to win the war and defeat fascism. As president, Bernie Sanders will boldly embrace the moral imperative of addressing the climate crisis…”

…US to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050 and “immediately” ending “all new and existing fossil fuel extraction on federal public lands.”

…bans fracking, fossil fuel imports and exports, mountaintop removal coal mining, and offshore drilling.

… cut carbon emissions by 71% from 2017 levels by 2030.

Sanders hopes to achieve this in part by “reaching 100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation by no later than 2030” by expanding the “existing federal Power Marketing Administrations to build new solar, wind, and geothermal energy sources.”

By transitioning to fossil fuel-free energy, Sanders plan said electricity will be “virtually free” by 2035.

Sanders’ plan states it will “pay for itself” over 15 years, including by “making the fossil fuel industry pay for their pollution, through litigation, fees, and taxes, and eliminating federal fossil fuel subsidies.”

The plan calls for declaring climate change a “national emergency” and seeks to create 20 million jobs “needed to solve the climate crisis.”

The plan says it would offer a “just transition” for fossil fuel workers, guaranteeing “five years of a worker’s current salary, housing assistance, job training, health care, pension support, and priority job placement for any displaced worker, as well as early retirement support for those who choose it or can no longer work.”

And here’s Uncle Joe peddling voters his unique policy known as Don’t Sweat The Details!

[Joe Biden’s] campaign is focused on a mission to “restore the soul of this nation.”

That’s also why the former vice president does not think anyone should get bogged down in the small details he mixes up on the campaign trail.

“That has nothing to do with judgment of whether or not you send troops to war, the judgment of whether you bring someone home, the judgment of whether you decide on a health care policy”…

…The Washington Post reported that a dramatic story he told about the war in Afghanistan conflated and confused facts from multiple different incidents.

Biden has said that he was not intentionally trying to mislead anyone with that story, and he argues that kind of mistake has nothing to do with his ability to serve as president.

“The details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making,” Biden told NPR.

These goobers are pretty funny. Unless they actually get into power…

[Ed. Oh, please, how does the government buy back what they never owned in the first place? Let’s be honest and just call it Compensated Mandatory Confiscation.]

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

27 Responses to “What Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Peddling This Week”

  1. Welp.

    Dana (fdf131)

  2. Bernie is a nut case and his plans (all of them) don’t have any real basis in reality.

    Also, I don’t think we are going to be 100% on EVs any time in the near future. I think probably a mix of EVs and hybrids, mostly, relatively soon, in part because they are cheaper to drive and the market has been moving in that direction. I don’t know why y’all would care about that anyway, since everyone drives an automatic now-adays and so the move to a hybrid wouldn’t impact YOUR driving experience at all (said bitterly, as a manual transmission lover who almost certainly won’t be able to find one to buy next time even if no laws at all change).

    Electricity is not going to be “virtually free”. People who have solar panels on their houses might pay less, but there is quite a bit of initial layout (or rental costs) on that and battery replacement costs. People in multi-unit housing will still be paying the power companies for all their electricity.

    Nic (896fdf)

  3. Are they campaigning to get the Democratic nomination or are they campaigning for Trump?

    nk (dbc370)

  4. “The details are irrelevant in terms of decision making,” Biden told NPR.

    Yep, Herbert Delano Eisenhower felt the same way, JoeyBee:

    “Air Raid Sag Harbor. This is no drill!”

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  5. On the other hand, I’d hate to think that “those people” who drive their low-riders and Escalades with fluorescent wheel rims to my neighborhood on Saturday nights actually vote.

    nk (dbc370)

  6. Are they campaigning to get the Democratic nomination or are they campaigning for Trump?

    Heh.

    Dana (fdf131)

  7. Wouldn’t be too dismissive of every proposal. Some things, seemingly improbable now may just be adopted and become a reality.

    ‘…it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer. To rest. To wait…’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRbkBAOGEw

    Still the most inspiring, motivating and prescient speech by a POTUS in half a century.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  8. Kamala Harris… ooooohhh what a feeling:

    She’ll sue Exxon
    Pursue the Green Nude Eel
    Ban fracking and plastic straws!

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/kamala-harris-would-slash-the-filibuster-to-pass-a-green-new-deal/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  9. The scope of the challenge ahead of us shares some similarities with the crisis faced by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940s. Faced with battling a world war on two fronts ― both in the East and the West ― the United States came together, and within three short years restructured the entire economy in order to win the war and defeat fascism.

    I love these jerkoffs who use World War II analogies to argue for whatever big government program they are pimping today. You want to fight the climate war the same way we fought against the Axis Powers? OK. Then let’s do the following:
    * restore tax rates to confiscatory levels
    * go back to rationing of important items, with no exceptions for government personnel
    * conscript everyone from 18-25 into some sort of national service, upon penalty of imprisonment if they fail to comply, and force them to devote several years of low-paid servitude in dangerous work
    * take a bunch of scientists and lock them up together in the New Mexico desert for several years and don’t let them out until the have produced super-efficient solar and wind systems
    * impose huge restrictions on who can enter into the country, but bring in a whole bunch of men across our southern border to work for starvation wages, then send them the hell home after their work is done
    * impose major restrictions on what goods can be brought into our country

    To show that I’m not a complete ogre, I’ll even agree to forego picking an ethnic minority to send to internment camps this time around, but I do think we should impose media blackouts and harass reporters as much as possible.

    I can’t wait until the Bernie Bros and Womyn for Warren get outfitted for their uniforms and awoken at 05:45 to the sounds of Reveille, with their phones and other devices locked safely away for the duration of the “war.”

    JVW (54fd0b)

  10. Thats called gas, coronello, this is a zombie plague of candidates, otoh its amusing in a dark humor way on the other its ultimayely terrifying

    Narciso (52211c)

  11. WWII belongs to the woke because they’re just that shameless.

    Dana (fdf131)

  12. Google the history of electric vehicles and you may be surprised at how prevalent and popular they were in Americ at the turn of the century — around 1900 or so– in use as taxis and delivery vehicles- in cities like NYC, what with the pollution problem of the day–horse poop. Their decline in use was due to a persistent problem– battery life. Reliably whip that challenge and gas powered cars in the cities of today can go the way of the horse.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  13. @9. I see it more as moon shot motivation; more inspiring. But fitting Bernie and Liz into their respective space suits, squeezing meals out of toothpaste tubes and using a baggie as a bathroom would be an amusing SNL skit.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  14. Poor Orwell was a very imaginative man and a brilliant wordsmith, but his frame of reference was still a sooty little island with its real-life proles enduring a standard of living to be found only in the poorest Third World countries today. Our proles are used to a much bigger variety of distractions and entertainments than the cheap liquor and p*rnography available to the proles of Oceania. This is one of them.

    nk (dbc370)

  15. No he based it on his experience with the bbc world service, during war time, the rationing of food, the devastation wrought by the bombers and the v2

    Narciso (52211c)

  16. If Beto wants to buy my guns, he’s going to have to undergo a background check and I’m pretty sure he ain’t passing the mental stability part of the exam. If there’s a moral turpitude section, ain’t no politician passing the check.

    Jerryskids (702a61)

  17. Just saw a Trump sticker on a Prius going over the GW Bridge in NYC.
    Hope And Change

    mg (d6a5b5)

  18. No he based it on his experience with the bbc world service, during war time, the rationing of food, the devastation wrought by the bombers and the v2

    And is that to be seen outside “the poorest Third World countries today”?

    nk (dbc370)

  19. Our word for the day:
    cy·no·sure
    /ˈsīnəˌSHo͝o(ə)r/
    noun
    a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration.

    nk (dbc370)

  20. The Biden (-Booker/Buttgieg) ticket would be for the Green Clothed Eel, as in “close enough” to the original, but one that could actual pass the 2 chambers of Congress.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  21. 17, Admiral Ackbar told me not to follow that bait car.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  22. #14 —

    Huxley’s Brave New World seems a more likely distopia these days. But Huxley was imagining a more capitalist and sexually decadent universe than Orwell, who had Satlin and totalitarians in his head.

    Appalled (d07ae6)

  23. I agree, Appalled. Less like “imagine a boot stamping a human face — forever” and more like “imagine being on Thorazine — forever”. For our part of the world, at least. For now.

    nk (dbc370)

  24. Hunger games has oceania for the proles, and luxury for the upper classes

    Narciso (52211c)

  25. Who are we to be skeptical?

    They’ve given LA a typhus outbreak, and SF endless fecal deposits.

    The state got a 3b tax for stem cell “research.” And the 98b Bullet Train. It goes between LA and SF, no wait it won’t–well between two small towns in Nor Cal that may one day have enough traffic to justify a train.

    Harcourt Fenton Mudd (0c349e)

  26. The media and their – I’ll be generous – unwitting accomplices have now tried to focus their ire and outrage on Sharpiegate. This, of course, helps to put that 7 hour meat-focused, food police, outlaw combustion engine, Climate snoozer on CNN in the rearview mirror as fast as they can possibly do it.

    God help us if any of these hosers come to power.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)


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