Green new deal equals magical thinking

[SkyDekker 1,465]

Interesting to see the people who were highly offended somebody made a joke about Trump's kid having no problem insulting and denigrating this kid.

 

[gowlerk 2,275]

11 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

Interesting to see the people who were highly offended somebody made a joke about Trump's kid having no problem insulting and denigrating this kid.

 

That's not a good comparison. Barron Trump is 13 years old and stays out of the public view. Greta is older and actively seeks the spotlight.

[brenthutch 444]

3 hours ago, gowlerk said:

Yes, it would seem that many climate change deniers are using the same lame tactics that brenthutch no doubt picked up from some denier web site. Losers who don't like her message are using her Asperger Syndrome to denigrate her and then are denying the denigration. The fact is that she is somewhat inspiring. That causes fear and anger in deniers.

I have made so such attack, I have a problem with the warmists using her as a prop.

[gowlerk 2,275]

19 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Just got done listening to a congressional panel on climate change headlined by a mentality ill teenager.  Way to go democrats, good on you. 

This is clearly an attack on her. And of course democrats. And it is clearly an effort to belittle her. I accept that you would like to back peddle now, but that does not change your earlier words. She is not a "prop". But some people find her to be somewhat inspiring, as I said earlier. Myself, I have not really bothered to read what she is saying. I don't need to, I know that the Earth is warming.

Edited September 19, 2019 by gowlerk

[JoeWeber 2,940]

2 hours ago, gowlerk said:

That's not so bad. I do not see a hockey stick in that graph so it must be alright.

Go Jets!

[brenthutch 444]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/09/09/democratic-candidates-climate-policy-commitments-are-incredibly-ambitious-but-fail-a-reality-test/#2e3a04e66faa

Democratic policy prescriptions remain in the domain of magical thinking.

[gowlerk 2,275]

2 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/09/09/democratic-candidates-climate-policy-commitments-are-incredibly-ambitious-but-fail-a-reality-test/#2e3a04e66faa

Democratic policy prescriptions remain in the domain of magical thinking.

Sure, just like the magical thinking of "trickle down" economics. Sometimes policy is aspirational.

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

7 hours ago, gowlerk said:

And from earlier: Just got done listening to a congressional panel on climate change headlined by a mentality ill teenager. 

I agree, you are not making fun of her. You are insulting her, denigrating her, and attempting to minimize her by implying that her points are not valid without addressing her substance in any way. It does not look good on you.

Just like Trump does. 

I find it rather funny how frightened people are of this young lady. 

Intelligent, articulate and passionate.

So of course they attack her.

Next will be blatant misrepresentations of what she said. Misquotes, material taken out of context, blatant lies. 
And of course, the fools will believe the lies. They always do.

[Coreece 190]

2 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

I find it rather funny how frightened people are of this young lady.

It's not so much frightening as it is an appreciation for taking the whole "think of the children" thing to the next level. . .

[Coreece 190]

6 hours ago, gowlerk said:

8 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Yesterday it was the polar bears, today it is Greta.  I wonder what will  tomorrow bring?

An entire edition of Time Magazine perhaps?

I found them to be more biased when compared to other "reliable" liberal/left-leaning news outlets.

[brenthutch 444]

4 hours ago, gowlerk said:

Sure, just like the magical thinking of "trickle down" economics. Sometimes policy is aspirational.

Trickledown economics is demonstrably successful.  Low taxes and low regulation have lead to the greatest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the country.  

[gowlerk 2,275]

12 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

Trickledown economics is demonstrably successful.  Low taxes and low regulation have lead to the greatest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the country.  

Current taxation policy has led to an unsustainable wealth gap.

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

10 hours ago, gowlerk said:

Current taxation policy has led to an unsustainable wealth gap.

And a huge deficit. 

[Stumpy 284]

On 9/19/2019 at 1:40 PM, DJL said:

What's up with people making fun of this girl?

Yep. That was the point he got muted. Can't say I'm surprised given that the habit of mocking people who are a little different comes from the example set by the president.

[kallend 2,148]

50 minutes ago, Stumpy said:

Yep. That was the point he got muted. Can't say I'm surprised given that the habit of mocking people who are a little different comes from the example set by the president.

Well, he's not totally useless.  In the future he will be useful as a really bad role model.

[kallend 2,148]

12 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Trickledown economics is demonstrably successful.  Low taxes and low regulation have lead to the greatest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the country.  

$1 TRILLION deficit this fiscal year so far, and it's not over yet.

It's easy to look prosperous on borrowed money.  Unfortunately the nation can't declare bankruptcy as easily as Trump's companies did.

[DJL 235]

On 9/18/2019 at 9:17 PM, brenthutch said:

Just got done listening to a congressional panel on climate change headlined by a mentality ill teenager.  Way to go democrats, good on you. 

And how's that metally ill teenager is doing today: Worldwide attendance.  400’000 across Australia. 100’000 in Berlin. 100’000 in London. 50’000 in Hamburg. 

[JoeWeber 2,940]

14 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Trickledown economics is demonstrably successful.  Low taxes and low regulation have lead to the greatest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the country.  

Indeed. And considering the apparent reverse causality between the rise in atmospheric CO2 and the drop in long term treasury yields since 2000 (CO2 371ppm-411PPM and LTR 6.94%-1.77%) it seems obvious that simply borrowing less money will lower CO2 levels. Why has no one thought of that?

[gowlerk 2,275]

14 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Indeed. And considering the apparent reverse causality between the rise in atmospheric CO2 and the drop in long term treasury yields since 2000 (CO2 371ppm-411PPM and LTR 6.94%-1.77%) it seems obvious that simply borrowing less money will lower CO2 levels. Why has no one thought of that?

Correlation, causation, you expect the likes of him to notice the difference unless it suits him?

[billvon 3,118]

On 9/19/2019 at 6:03 PM, brenthutch said:

Trickledown economics is demonstrably successful.  Low taxes and low regulation have lead to the greatest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the country.  

Sure.  Cars, airlines, medicine and industry have almost no regulations on them at all today, not like the nanny state 1930's.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

On 9/19/2019 at 6:03 PM, brenthutch said:

Trickledown economics is demonstrably successful.  Low taxes and low regulation have lead to the greatest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the country.  

Just as long as it isn't used for electric cars amiright

[Coreece 190]

3 hours ago, SkyDekker said:

amiright

I think Jakee is the only one that used to use that term consistently, but he did it sparingly enough that it still held it's desired effect.  Now it's just cliche.

And BTW, it's Amirite, as in "a bluish green semiprecious stone found predominately along the coasts of Khazekstan said to give it's holder complete mental clarity and the ability to think you are correct, all the time."

[SkyDekker 1,465]

37 minutes ago, Coreece said:

I think Jakee is the only one that used to use that term consistently, but he did it sparingly enough that it still held it's desired effect.  Now it's just cliche.

And BTW, it's Amirite, as in "a bluish green semiprecious stone found predominately along the coasts of Khazekstan said to give it's holder complete mental clarity and the ability to think you are correct, all the time."

Pffff, I am using the Canadian spelling.

 

(and if you think Jakee was the only person online using that term.....well, I have a wonderful piece of the ww intrawebz to sell you!)

[normiss 897]

42 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

Pffff, I am using the Canadian spelling.

 

(and if you think Jakee was the only person online using that term.....well, I have a wonderful piece of the ww intrawebz to sell you!)

It's not like it started showing up on Internet groups back in the late 90's or anything.

Surely a solitary DZ'er is responsible.

Speaking of "wonderful pieces of the intrawebz", I actually saw a V.90 USRobotics modem in a data center today. It made me giggle. Mostly because it was mounted in the fiber feeds rack.

[Coreece 190]

1 hour ago, SkyDekker said:

if you think Jakee was the only person online using that term...

No, I meant that I think he was the only one on dz.com that ever used it consistently, even if others here used it once or twice.  But all that was really beside the point anyway.

 

25 minutes ago, normiss said:

It's not like it started showing up on Internet groups back in the late 90's or anything.

Surely a solitary DZ'er is responsible.

He certainly wasn't the first person to use it on this site, and unfortunately won't be the last, apparently. . .