Harris leaves climate & energy solutions to Trump
VP Harris didn’t mention or defend the administration's Inflation Reduction Act or green energy subsidies in her acceptance speech. Trump could both seize the climate debate . . . and end it forever.
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.
The following is not a real speech that was given by Donald Trump. It is a hypothetical speech that I wish a presidential candidate would give, and in this election, Donald Trump is the only remaining option who is remotely likely to do so. Trump’s border and trade policies (referenced herein) do not conform to my own. The partisan jabs are inserted to provide realism, because all candidates use them. I have attempted a rough approximation of how Trump speaks when he does this.
I believe carbon emissions and climate warming are manageable problems, not existential threats that require (as promoted below) taxpayer support for non-hydrocarbon fuels. But that opinion is not shared by a reasonable fraction of Americans who believe it is mission critical for us to radically reduce carbon emissions. And the job of the employees that we elect to Congress and the White House is to seek reasonable compromises on big issues, not insist on 100 percent ideological triumph.
Their job should be to end the climate and energy debate in a fashion that 345 million Americans can live with and prosper. This is how that could be done.
Donald Trump (fictional rally speech)
A pretty day in September 2024
Cherokee, North Carolina
So, here we are, outside the GREAT Smoky Mountain National Park. Isn’t it great?
This is an example of how we once made America great. All of our national parks are great. People come here from all over the world to see them.
A lot of our national parks, like this one, can be very windy places. What if the KamalaJoe administration decided to fill up this beautiful spot with wind turbines? Would you like that? Do you think that’s what we need to save the planet?
I sure don’t. But let me get back to that in a minute.
Did anyone see the vice president’s acceptance speech at her convention? It was hard to see it, wasn’t it? Hard to see SOMETHING when she didn’t say ANYTHING. She was very specific in telling lies about what she says I will do, and almost totally silent on what she has done or plans to do.
It just proves she’s not ready for the job, and everyone knows it. Everyone.
She tried to claim she could fix the border. She was the BORDER CZAR! When she got that job she had Democratic majorities in Congress. She could have fixed it her way, their way, any way she wanted, but she failed. Everything is a big mess down there and getting worse.
SHE HAD ONE JOB!
Well, really, she had TWO jobs.
Sleepy Joe hasn’t been up to his job for a long time now, but he still has it for some reason. He can’t stay awake long enough to finish an episode of Matlock. We all know it. Foreign leaders know it. Foreign enemies know it.
Our military knows it! And he’s supposed to be their commander in chief!
The whole thing has been embarrassing and terrifying.
But whoever is running things at the White House and telling Sleepy Joe what to do (ya know, maybe Pelosi, the Obamas, Schumer or whomever) thought their president dozing into his ice cream can still do the job better than vice president can while wide awake.
She has a nice laugh, but that’s not funny at all. She had ONE JOB and even the people close to her don’t think she can do it.
So, four years ago, Democrats nominated TWO people who couldn’t do the job. What a mess. This is not what a great country deserves.
Even Democrats know she’s a disaster with no ideas, and her awful convention speech showed it. She said nothing about crime, nothing about fentanyl addiction, nothing about our children learning nothing for two years because of the school lockdowns.
She also didn’t mention the fake job creation they’ve been trying to brag about. Did you see that? Their Labor Department has been lying about job growth during an election year. What a surprise!
More than 800,000 FAKE JOBS! We created real jobs when I was in the White House. It was the greatest economy in decades.
The KamalaJoe administration’s Inflation Reduction Act was such a disaster that she didn’t mention that in her acceptance speech either.
We’re still paying the high prices caused by their inflation. Inflation is another thing she didn’t mention.
Most of that Inflation Reduction Act was just corporate welfare, the biggest pile of pork spending in American history. A lot of the loot was for wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles. Cars few Americans can afford or want, and volatile energy nobody needs.
No wonder she didn’t mention any of that. Who got all that money? We may never know. How many fake jobs did it create? We don’t know that either. The fake news media won’t ask her tough questions, so we don’t know the answers.
The fake news will let Democrats get away with anything. You know how you make them ask tough questions? YOU PUT ME IN FRONT OF THEM.
So, she did say that we’re in a “climate crisis,” but then didn’t breathe a word about the policies she and Sleepy Joe claimed would fix it, or all that money they took from you to do so.
Well, I won’t ignore it. But instead of climate, I’d like to get back to calling it “conservation.” President Teddy Roosevelt was a great conservationist, and one of our greatest presidents. We put him up there on Mt. Rushmore.
Teddy was the vice president and took over when President McKinley was shot and killed. Presidents can get shot, and vice presidents need to be ready. Just like Teddy, and unlike our vice president, JD Vance is ready to do his ONE JOB if he’s called to do it.
Teddy Roosevelt became the “conservation president,” doubled the number of national parks, and set aside the Grand Canyon as a national monument, which later allowed it to become one of our greatest national parks.
What did the KamalaJoe administration do for conservation? They bought us a bunch of ugly wind turbines and solar panels from China.
Did you know their own Department of Energy said we got less electricity from wind in 2023 than we did in 2022? How did we spend all this money on more wind turbines that produce less power?
Making China great again is the environmentalism we don’t need. You need to be a special sort of stupid to think that the weather is going to get dangerous, but then expect that same weather to produce all your electricity AND run your cars.
But that’s the KamalaJoe climate agenda. What we need is what Teddy Roosevelt gave us: a REAL conservation agenda.
Here’s a dirty little secret: Nuclear reactors don’t emit carbon dioxide. Even the Department of Energy admits they produce “minimal waste” and that a typical large reactor needs only one square mile to operate.
I own golf courses bigger than that!
Just one square mile. Yet a typical big nuclear reactor produces just as much electricity as wind turbines that take up 360 square miles.
How big is that? 360 square miles of wind turbines would fill up almost half of his beautiful national park we’re standing near today.
The wind blows through lots of beautiful places, including our gorgeous coastlines. Do we really want to fill them up with these monsters that can’t even give us reliable electricity?
Environmentalism used to mean preserving the environment, not polluting America with wind turbines and Chinese solar panels.
That’s why we call it unreliable energy. Their climate policy is a total disaster. No wonder she didn’t mention it in her convention speech.
We fixed NAFTA when I was president. It was a terrible trade deal made by another president, and we fixed it. The American economy boomed afterwards.
Now, JD Vance and I have to fix the KamalaJoe administration’s Inflation Reduction Act.
We will propose a Make America Beautiful Again Act that will cancel the climate pork for weather restricted, land hogging energy. Instead, our plan will direct your hard earned money to a rapid build out of nuclear power. Lots and lots of clean energy that doesn’t emit carbon dioxide, but works when you need it, and from tiny places where you hardly notice it.
The vice president, my opponent, won’t even brag about her own climate policy. She can’t. It didn’t work.
I will brag about mine right now. And more importantly, just like fixing NAFTA and the creation of our national parks, it will be something Americans will brag about for many generations. It will RELIABLY power up America, even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. It won’t pollute America’s landscapes.
And it will help Make America Great Again.
This is tremendous... She had two jobs . How they came up w the fuzzy #s, Ken. Play along!
Great work my friend... love this one. Could be an SNL skit