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Trump Probably Just Put The Death Nail In California’s Train To Nowhere

By William Teach May 8, 2025 – 7:15 am

Of course, calling it a train to nowhere assumes that there is actually a train. Actually tracks. First off, here’s Politico providing some cover and press for Gavin Newsom

Newsom jabs at ‘MAGA trolls’ as he broadens information war

And here’s Gavin’s government



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No tracks have been laid. None. The comrades in the People’s Republik Of California voted on this all the way back in 2008. It’s about $100 billion over budget. No tracks. No trains. It was supposed to be from LA to San Francisco by 2020, now they’re talking about Bakersfield to Merced by 2030. Look at a map: who’s really going to ride the train? Provided it ever gets completed. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai took six years to build. Big, giant skyscraper. Tallest in the world.But, the money train from Los Federales stops

Donald Trump says US government ‘not going to pay’ for California high-speed rail
President Donald Trump says the U.S. government will not pay for California’s high-speed rail project, fueling growing concerns that the bullet train will not have stable federal funding for the foreseeable future.
“That train is the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen,” Trump said during a Tuesday news conference in the Oval Office.
“It’s, like, totally out of control.” “This government is not going to pay,” Trump added. “We’re not going to pay for that thing.” (snip)
The president directed the U.S. Department of Transportation in February to launch an audit to determine whether he should rescind roughly $4 billion in unspent allocated funds for the project. The audit is not yet complete.

I think we can all agree that Trump will rescind it, even if it was part of a specific, named allocation in the federal budget. Whether it is in the budget as a named allocation or not you can bet a left wing federal judge will Demand that Trump give California the money. Even as an audit by the Department of Transportation is auditing the project. Even as it is a huge waste of money. And the legal rangling could take years, so, even if eventually restored, this could be the death knell of this boondoggle.

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New Pope Picked. Climate Cult Already Jumping In

By William Teach May 8, 2025 – 4:11 pm

It was seriously just a few hours ago that they announced the new Pope



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and, already

Pope Leo XIV Might Be the Climate Champion We Need
In picking a new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, the Vatican had a chance to honor the late Pope Francis’ legacy as the greenest pope in modern history. In choosing the American (and Peruvian) Cardinal Robert Prevost — henceforth known as Pope Leo XIV — his fellow cardinals appear to have seized that opportunity. Humanity’s hope of avoiding the worst of climate change can only benefit.
We’ll learn more about the pope’s views in the days to come. But he is on record telling a seminar last November that the world must move “from words to action” on climate change. In the same speech, he warned that humanity’s “dominion over nature” shouldn’t be “tyrannical” but “a relationship of reciprocity.” He also touted the Vatican’s green record, including purchases of solar panels and electric vehicles — a fleet that now includes the first all-electric Popemobile.

Will he continue to prioritize the climate cult, blowing off the whole “thou shall have no God before me” thing, as Francis did? Supposedly he voted Republican when he was back in the US, but, he is also Trump deranged, and an open borders advocate. So, yeah, I expect him to yammer about climate doom a lot.

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Bummer: Majority Of Britons Want Net Zero Scrapped

By William Teach May 10, 2025 – 7:15 am

Eh, it’s kinda unscientific, since it is a web poll, but, come on, how scientific are so many polls taken by pollsters? (via Watts Up With That?, which has a screenshot of the numbers being 95% for scrapping it)

Poll of the week: Should the 2050 net zero target be scrapped?
Ed Miliband has long been one of Westminster’s most vocal advocates for Britain’s net zero agenda. But his vision of a green future is increasingly coming up against a less forgiving reality.
This week, we asked readers: Should the UK scrap its 2050 net zero target? A resounding 95 per cent of over 26,000 respondents said yes.
Telegraph readers’ reasons ranged from economic survival to energy security and a growing frustration with what many see as climate policy detached from common sense. Here’s why you believe the time has come to pull the plug.
For many, net zero has become synonymous with financial burden – rising energy bills, increased costs for businesses and pressure on household budgets.
“If the Government wants to grandstand about cutting the UK’s one per cent share of global emissions, fine,” says Russ Hindle. “But don’t hike our energy bills – do it slower, cheaper and pay for it yourself.”

I’m looking at the version via Internet Archive, so, cannot see the actual poll, but, yeah, 95%

Other accused politicians of blind idealism. “No matter how much evidence is given to them, our politicians are hell bent on throwing us off a net zero cliff without giving us a say,” argues Mrs P.

The same politicians who refuse to practice what they preach.

“No one wants to pay the highest energy costs in the world to solve a problem that’s likely beyond humanity’s control, and certainly beyond Britain’s ability to meaningfully influence,” says Hugo McEwen.
He continues: “This is Jacobin-style communism disguised as climate policy, intended to impoverish and ‘equalise’ us. Nigel Farage is right: stop it now, or face a revolution.” (snip)
One reader puts it bluntly: “Net zero is lunacy. We contribute a tiny percentage of global CO? emissions, yet we’re trashing our economy in the name of the ultimate virtue-signalling project. Meanwhile, the world’s largest economies are doubling down on coal and gas to stay competitive.”

See, every experiment needs an experimental group. Initially, Brits thought this was great, but, now that they have had to live it, they aren’t too thrilled, to say the least.

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India And Pakistan Edge Closer To Full Scale War

By William Teach May 10, 2025 – 10:30 am

It would be very, very bad

India and Pakistan edge closer to war as nuclear-armed rivals trade strikes


India and Pakistan appeared to be edging closer to war on Saturday, as the two nuclear-armed nations both claimed they were provoked by the other before launching strikes against military assets in their rival countries.
Early Saturday, Pakistan’s armed forces said they targeted military sites inside India in response to an Indian missile attack at three air bases in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Hours later, India said its attack — which it claimed had hit four military bases in Pakistan — was in response to Pakistan attacking its civilian infrastructure.
Before Pakistan’s military action early Saturday, Pakistan’s chief military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said India had targeted Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi, Murid air base in Chakwal and Rafiqui air base near Shorkot with air-to-surface missiles. Most of the missiles, he said in a later appearance, were intercepted and there were no casualties or damage.
India’s actions, he said, were “pushing the whole region toward dangerous war,” and vowed a firm response. (snip)
The Indian government dismissed Pakistan’s claims of destruction of Indian military capacities, including damage to the country’s critical infrastructure such as power systems, as “completely false.” “It is Pakistani actions that have constituted provocation and escalation,” India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said in a late morning news briefing.

Every day this seems to escalate more and more between two countries that despise each other. And have nuclear weapons

Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations on Friday issued a call for de-escalation and said the two countries should “engage in direct dialogue towards a peaceful outcome.”

Good sentiment, but, they hate each other

“There is no real historical precedent for what we’re seeing unfold,” said Asfandyar Mir, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a D.C.-based think tank. “We are now at a critical height on the escalation ladder.”

I’m rather surprised that no articles discuss what full scale war looks like between the nations.

(Metro UK) In 2019, a team of scientists investigated how a nuclear war between the two countries could start – and what the consequences could be for the rest of the world.
The direct effects of a nuclear exchange in India and Pakistan themselves would be apocalyptic.
Depending on the precise number of weapons used and their respective yields, anywhere between 50 million and 150 million people would be killed.
That is not to mention the cities obliterated, the millions more injured with no hope of immediate help, and the destruction of major infrastructure.

A slightly antiseptic way of saying this would be horrible

The huge amounts of smoke sent billowing into the stratosphere from those burning cities would block out sunlight, sending global temperatures plummeting by up to 10C.
Professor Brian Toon, a leading expert on climate and atmospheric science who co-authored the study, told Metro: ‘Even [nuclear war between] India and Pakistan can produce ice age temperatures with their arsenals.’

Which could cause serious problems with food production around the world, for one. And then all the nuclear fallout. Which could all result in one to two billion being killed around the world. Pakistan has 170 nuclear weapons and India has 164

The study estimates that 95 to 100% of the population would be left starving in Canada.
In Russia, the figure is 75 to 95%, while the proportion of people left starving in China was projected as 50% and 25% in the United States.

So, when JD Vance said this is not the problem of the U.S., which Karoline Leavitt contradicted in calling for de-escalation, he was wrong. This has world wide implications.
Whelp, I wrote this in the early morning for posting at 1030am, and, before it could even post



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This has weirdly made many people, meaning Trump haters, upset.


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GOP Looks To Annihilate Biden’s Climate Scam Incentives

By William Teach May 13, 2025 – 7:15 am

But, can they actually get this out of the Senate?

House GOP looks to gut Biden’s climate incentives in megabill proposal
House Republicans are proposing a significant rollback of Democrats’ clean energy tax credits— a key step toward fulfilling President Donald Trump’s pledge to eviscerate President Joe Biden’s landmark climate change programs.
The tax-writing Ways and Means Committee is moving to repeal key subsidies for electric vehicles and phase out many other clean energy tax incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act — derided by Trump as the “Green New Scam” — as part of its highly anticipated portion of the GOP’s megabill.
The tax incentives made up the core of the IRA’s clean energy stimulus, and were estimated to cost about $370 billion by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation over the decade until they expired in 2032, though other analyses predicted their costs would exceed $1 trillion. The incentives have sparked hundreds of billions in private sector investment in clean energy since the law was enacted.
As part of the Ways and Means Committee’s contributions to the party-line package intended to enact broad swaths of Trump’s domestic agenda, GOP leaders are seeking to satisfy conservative hardliners who want to eliminate all the energy incentives under the climate law to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts. But they are also looking to keep the support of moderates who fear scrapping these credits will jeopardize the jobs associated with manufacturing and power generation projects in their red states and districts.
The proposal would preserve some IRA tax credits, including the advanced manufacturing production tax credit, known as 45X — though wind energy components would no longer be eligible after 2027. It would, as well, maintain credits supporting carbon capture, while extending subsidies benefiting biofuels that are backed by the fossil fuel and agriculture industries — which a group of House Republicans successfully defended in 2023.

I’ll be honest, just keep the EV rebates. It’s hurting anything, and, come on, this costs nothing. It just means less inflow of tax money. And, really, it’s not all that much. Is it worth the fight to ditch them? Not really. It also doesn’t hurt to keep tax credits for solar and wind. Hell, let’s extend it to hydro! Carbon capture can go. The biofuels garbage needed to be cut decades ago.
There really is nothing wrong with incentivizing clean energy. Forcing it on citizens is something completely different. If the GOP tries this it will never make it past the Senate. Democrats, and a few squishy Republicans, will block it. Pick your fight.

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Warmists Upset Trump Trying To End State Climate Scam Initiatives


By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 3:14 pm

I love how Democrats suddenly discover the 10th Amendment when Trump is president and it interferes with their moonbattery

Trump is illegally trying to overturn state climate laws
The foundation of American government rests on a simple but powerful principle: states are not mere departments of the federal government. They are sovereign entities with both the right and the responsibility to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of their residents.
President Trump’s recent executive order, which instructs the Justice Department to block state climate laws such as New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, is a direct attack on that principle. But executive orders cannot undo duly enacted state laws.
Trump’s action is a political stunt, not a legal reversal. New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act stands on strong constitutional ground.
Across the country, states are stepping up to respond to the rising toll of climate-fueled disasters. More than ten states have introduced climate superfund legislation based on a simple idea: those massive, multinational oil and gas corporations that caused the climate crisis should help pay for the damage. This is not only fair but necessary. The costs of climate change are staggering, and without action, those costs are already falling entirely on the shoulders of working families.
Under our system of federalism, states have always had broad authority to enact laws that protect their people. That authority is rooted in the Tenth Amendment and reinforced by centuries of precedent. Whether regulating public health, consumer safety, or environmental protection, states serve as both innovators and defenders when federal action falls short.

Huh. But, when Democrats work to force states to comply with the notion that CO2 is a danger to the United States the 10th Amendment doesn’t apply? Weird. They want it both ways. And one of the ways they did this was by saying it was interstate commerce, hence, Los Federales had authority. Which is it, Dems?

Trump’s executive order does not simply challenge this one law, but rather the very idea that states have the right to hold powerful interests accountable when Washington will not. By branding state efforts as “illegal” simply because they conflict with his administration’s ideological agenda, the president undermines the same state sovereignty that he once claimed to champion.

So, when the feds pass ‘climate change’ laws that force companies in states to comply that is un-Constitutional? Make up your minds.
I know how we can solve this: all fossil fuels companies should stop operating in these states. Let’s see how well they do without gas, diesel, natural gas, and lubricating oils. It would be fun.

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Trump – China Announce Interim Tariffs Deal

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

Oh, this must be giving Democrats a serious case of heartburn

US, China announce reduced tariffs for 90 days after trade talks
The U.S. and China announced on Monday that tariffs against one another will be reduced for a 90-day period after officials held trade negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The tariffs President Donald Trump announced against China on April 2 are being cut by 24 percentage points for this temporary period while retaining the remaining ad valorem rate of 10% from that announcement, according to a joint statement.
China agreed to the same stipulations, adding that it will “adopt all necessary administrative measures to suspend or remove the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2,” the announcement stated.
Under the deal, reciprocal tariffs for both countries would be reduced by 115%. The U.S. will temporarily lower its tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, and China will reduce its levies on American products from 125% to 10%.
Both the U.S. and China agreed to take the aforementioned actions by Wednesday.

Could this turn into something long lasting? The NY Times, Washington Post, and many other Credentialed Media outlets are gently naysaying this, almost like they want Trump, meaning America, to lose. Reducing tariffs on exported American goods would be a good thing, right, especially to China? Hey, maybe this would lead to all those Chinese EVs being brought over. You’d like that, NY Times and Washington Post, right? You’ve posted articles about how great they are and so much less expensive many times.

The two sides also agreed to “establish a mechanism” to continue discussions about economic and trade relations, which will be led by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, according to the joint statement.

It’s good that you have business people who want to protect the U.S. first, rather than squishy diplomats squishing around.



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Doom Today: Bananas Under Threat From Global Boiling

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

Well, this is horrible

Bananas under threat as rising temperatures killing crops – report
Bananas are coming under increasing threat from climate change, and farmers saying extreme weather is “killing” their crops, according to a report.
An analysis by international development charity Christian Aid released on Monday shows rising temperatures and climate-related pests are putting bananas at risk.
It found that nearly two-thirds of the most suitable banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean – a region responsible for around 80% of the world’s banana exports – could be lost by 2080 due to climate impacts.
Bananas grow in a temperature range of between 15-35C but are also very sensitive to water shortages, meaning increasingly extreme weather is affecting the plant’s ability to photosynthesise.

Oh, phew, it’s in the far flung future. Surprise? It was just last year that we were told that climate doom would just make bananas more expensive.

In light of the findings, Christian Aid is urging developed nations to urgently reduce their carbon emissions to stem the growing impacts of climate change.
It also calls for international climate finance to support banana growers and agricultural communities to adapt to the changing climate.

Government force and redistribution of money from the 1st world to the 3rd.



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Bummer: States Sue Over Trump Admin Freezing Charging Station Funds

By William Teach May 11, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’m not so sure why they are upset Mayor Pete barely built any while serving under Biden

US states sue over Trump freeze on funds for electric-vehicle charging stations
California and 15 other states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, saying the federal government was illegally withholding billions of dollars awarded to states for building electric-vehicle charging stations.
The U.S. Transportation Department in February suspended the EV charging program and rescinded approval of state plans pending a review.
Senate Democrats said President Donald Trump was withholding more than $3 billion from the program, which was approved as part of former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
The lawsuit, joined by the District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey and Colorado among others, was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington State.
The states said the administration’s decision “will devastate the ability of states to build the charging infrastructure necessary for making EVs accessible to more consumers, combating climate change, reducing other harmful pollution, and supporting the states’ green economies.”

Well, why can’t they use their own taxpayer money to build them? Surely they can get The Rich in those states to pay, right? And the peasants won’t mind paying for the chargers as good little Liberals, right? All mostly Dem states, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
Gavin gave a press release

When America retreats, China wins.
President Trump’s illegal action withholding funds for electric vehicle infrastructure is yet another Trump gift to China – ceding American innovation and killing thousands of jobs.
Instead of hawking Teslas on the White House lawn, President Trump could actually help Elon – and the nation – by following the law and releasing this bipartisan funding.

You know what would be really funny, once a Democrat judge says the money must be spent? To spend all the money building EV charging stations in Republican states. The bullshit Inflation Reduction Act never said what states the money had to be spent in, you know.
And Gavin can spend California money building the chargers. It’s not like the Biden admin did such a great job building them. A grand total of 58 by the time he left office.

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EPA Looks To Get Auto-Engine Idle Feature Out Of Vehicles

By William Teach May 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Well, this would be a big conundrum for the Trump haters: do they support ditching auto-engine idle/start-stop because every single one of them hate the feature, or oppose because Orange Man Bad?

EPA takes aim at start-stop systems in cars, calls feature a ‘climate participation trophy’
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to roll back federal incentives for automatic start-stop technology in new vehicles.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced the move Monday on social media, calling start-stop systems a “climate participation trophy” that most drivers dislike.
“EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it,” Zeldin posted on the social media platform X.
The system automatically shuts off a vehicle’s engine when it comes to a complete stop—like at a red light or in traffic—and restarts when the driver lifts their foot off the brake or taps the accelerator.
While not required by law, the feature became widespread due to fuel economy credits granted under federal emissions rules. Start-stop systems are considered an “off-cycle” emissions-reduction technology, meaning they provide benefits not measured during standard testing procedures.
The incentive was created more than a decade ago as part of federal emissions and fuel economy standards, which aimed to reward automakers for adding technologies that cut pollution in ways not captured by traditional testing. Start-stop systems are one of several features that qualify.

Two things: first, the engines aren’t shutting off on every vehicle, some just go into an idle, especially those which are more fuel efficient. Second, they are really put in vehicles to avoid fines and fees from certain Blue states, as increasing the the fuel economy a tiny bit on each vehicle helps across the entire line. That came directly from a high level suit who works for a car manufacturer. Heck, they’d remove the moonroofs if they could. The extra weight and slight air flow change reduces MPG just a little bit.

Supporters say the technology can reduce fuel consumption in city driving and lower greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Battery Council International, start-stop systems helped eliminate nearly 10 million tons of emissions in 2023 alone.
Tests by the Society of Automotive Engineers show the feature can improve fuel economy by 7% to 26% in stop-and-go traffic. However, the benefits are minimal for highway driving.

And the minute the car has done it a few times in traffic people shut them off. But, that doesn’t matter, because they are about EPA testing, not for you the consumer.

The EPA’s proposal would not ban start-stop systems but would eliminate the incentives that reward automakers for including them.

But, again, that would only end the federal incentives: you’d still have the state mandates. So, would manufacturers still install auto engine idle to avoid the fines/fees? Or, would those states drop the mandates? Because, yeah, there may be some “advocates”, as the article says, but, I bet they hate driving cars with auto engine idle as well.

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