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lved. And if there's another president might want to just sign up again in NATO. So that'll be fun. Meanwhile Democrats are trying to figure out how to be more like Republicans and that's their strategy. So according to reports the New York Post is reporting that a group of moderate Democrats had a little gathering in Virginia last month and they were trying to figure out how to make the Democrat…

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kind of forcing homeowners to lie to protect their own home. It's the craziest thing.

And every time the Democrats come up with a new idea it feels like it's designed to drive Californians out of their houses. Let's raise the taxes on your house. What? Okay I'm not even sure I'll be able to stay in my house. Let's give you no insurance. You won't be able to buy fire insurance. What? Everybody can buy fire insurance. Nope not you, not in California. Well but what are the odds of a fire? Oh really high, really high. We're going to make sure that we haven't taken care of that. Now maybe that's changing with Newsom. And you know the stores are going to be available for people to just take anything they want. It just all seems like it's the same thing. It's like Democrats are literally trying to take everything you have and give it to people who have been in the country for a month. And it's so consistent it's hard to imagine it's any kind of accident because the theme is just so striking. It's so obvious.

Anyway according to the New York Post editorial board the Western countries must soon admit that the Paris Accord, that's the climate change agreement, was a disastrous mistake. Now of course Trump is pulling out or has pulled out as he did in the first term but Biden put us back in there. So here's what has been accomplished. After trillions of dollars have been spent trying to curb greenhouse gases, global emissions have increased by 6% since the Paris Accord was signed. And of course the main reason is that China and India were just going nuts. And of course the carbon doesn't respect borders so everybody's got more.

But here are some of the things that some individual countries did. So Germany trying to be as green as possible not only tried to phase out its fossil fuels but even shut down all its nuclear reactors because somehow they were convinced that nuclear reactors were not green. That's the greenest techno

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logy there is. Ask France. It's not like France didn't exist which has very robust nuclear energy, sort of the envy of other countries I would say. It's not like Germany didn't notice that France was in a much better situation. So they basically crippled themselves so that energy is hard to get which means the price will be high which means the things manufactured will be a higher price. But it g…

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