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Beto O'Rourke Warns: Only 10 Years Left to Act on Climate Change
2019-04-02
[PJMedia] WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), a 2020 presidential candidate, predicted that the U.S. has 10 years left to act on climate change.
Down from 12. No point adding more to my 401k I guess. Let's party down!
"At this point there can be no shadow of a doubt that our own excesses and emissions and inaction politically and as a country and a democracy, where each of us comprise the government, have led to the warming we've seen so far -- one degree Celsius just since 1980," O'Rourke said during the "We the People Membership Forum" in Washington on Monday. "I direct you to Valencia from Florida, whose question I just listened to backstage -- how does this First World country create second-class citizens who face Third World conditions?"
It is called socialist policies and graft
To support his position on climate change, O'Rourke referred to the "58 inches of rain that fell from the sky" in Houston. He called on lawmakers to start "confronting climate change before it is too late, within the 10 years we have left to us to act."
How many times has the green priests and believers screamed at us that weather isn't climate? Oh it is different when you do it because shut up. Got it.
O'Rourke said he would join the Paris climate agreement that President Trump withdrew from in 2017.

"As ambitious as those are, [they] are not ambitious enough," O'Rourke said of the agreement.

O'Rourke promised that he would sign an executive order on the first day of his presidency requiring all cabinet secretaries to hold town hall meetings with the public each month "to listen to you and be accountable to you."
Um... that isn't their job. And what good would it do other than to waste their time with true believers (who are very ignorant usually) screaming at them about whatever the emergency dejour is?

The more Beto opens his mouth the more of a dumbass he sounds.
Posted by:DarthVader

#22  I'm sure they'll still be talking about global worming at the heat death of the universe.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-04-02 17:08  

#21  This is becoming like Zeno's Paradox - but instead of going halfway each step, you have to go 10 years. I'm sure we'll get there eventually.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-04-02 16:46  

#20  Apropos #19, internet time has made most time oriented predictions useless. If it doesn't happen by the end of the YouTube video, it's time for a bong or to go out for craft beers and mini tacos.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-02 15:17  

#19  These things always remind me of Ghostbusters 2 when Vinkman interviews the guy who says the worlds going to end on new Years and Bill Murray responds, why not delay it to get some book sales out of it, or something along those lines.

100 years is too distant for anyone to care, 10 years is too easily proven incorrect.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-04-02 14:52  

#18  Thanks, TW. I figured pictures out but the link thing was beating my behind. Thanks again...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-02 14:20  

#17  Tried to embed the link.

Fixed.

M. Murcek, you need to attach a bit of text In order to make the link visible — it was sitting there quietly in the comment, awaiting that last step. ;-)

First type in a bit of text, then highlight it, then click on the hyperlink icon, and finally paste the link into the pop up box.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-04-02 13:59  

#16  Sorry, Bobby, I didn't see your comment. I feel so silly!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-04-02 13:36  

#15  AOC gave us 12! Boy, those first two years just flew by!
Gimme 8 ... Gimme 8 ... Do I hear 6 ... 6 ... There's a 6 ... Thank you, Sir!! .. Going for 4 ...
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-04-02 13:35  

#14  We had 12, 12, now we have ten. Do I hear eight? Will anybody bid eight?
Posted by: Bobby   2019-04-02 13:00  

#13  Tried to embed the link. She's a no flush. Sorry...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-02 12:07  

#12   M. Murcek’s link
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-02 12:06  

#11  I'd like the case of dillahs with pimento cheese, please a vor.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-04-02 11:56  

#10  Up there with swiss cheese on the cheesesteak.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-02 11:42  

#9  "The picture of the tacos, that is mayonnaise right? Oh, and a fork please..er por favor-eh."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-04-02 11:39  

#8  Corned beef tacos
Posted by: Frank G   2019-04-02 11:34  

#7  Native Spanish? I get a kick out of regional dialects, I'd like to hear that bit and take a guess at it.

I'm going to guess first...."I'd like the numero dos combo por favor." - from Carlos O'Kelly's
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-04-02 11:28  

#6  but they didn't say which 10 years
Posted by: Frank G   2019-04-02 11:24  

#5  Didn't the New York Times predict that we had only 10 years to save the planet - back in 1989?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2019-04-02 11:15  

#4  The definitive take on politics and phony numbers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wncTgMi3pWc
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-02 10:26  

#3  Maybe Robert should read up a little more. Like this meteorologist's opinion:
Climate Change Agenda Driven by Hysteria, not Facts
Posted by: Bobby   2019-04-02 10:12  

#2  Did he say this in his 'native Spanish'?
Posted by: Raj   2019-04-02 09:56  

#1  If he's not willing to back up his predication by say, agreeing to be burnt at the stake in ten years when his predication doesn't come true, then I'll just assume he's a lying, posturing Nazi like all other Democrats.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-04-02 09:44  

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