President Biden recently appeared at the border for a visit, during which he not only took photos and met with a few Border Patrol agents along the US-Mexico border, but also gave a speech. Though his speech was primarily on border security, he also used the Texas wildfires to sound off on climate change and attack those who are skeptics.
As background, massive wildfires are raging in the Texas panhandle. They have consumed hundreds of thousands of acres, if not over a million acres, and have spread from Texas into Oklahoma. President Biden blamed wildfires on climate change.
During his speech, Biden said: “I’ve flown over a lot of these wildfires since I’ve been president. Flown over more land burned to the ground. All the vegetation gone more than the entire state of Maryland in square footage.” The cause of the Texas wildfires has yet to be accurately determined.
Biden continued his inflammatory remarks: “The idea there’s no such thing as climate change. I love that, man. I love some of my Neanderthal friends who still think there’s no climate change.” What most Democrats fail to realize is most folks don’t literally deny climate change but rather the assertion that it is an existential threat that will kill all of us unless the federal government comes to the rescue.
Biden continued the rhetoric: “Anyone who willfully denies the impact of climate change is condemning the American people to a very dangerous future. Impacts are only going to get worse, more frequent, more ferocious, and more costly. None of this is inevitable.” Perhaps still stinging from the collapse of the electric vehicle industry, the president nonetheless continues to push the idea that humans can control the weather.
After his climate change remarks, Biden took aim at Congress relative to the border legislation and Ukraine and Israel aid boondoggle. He said: “This bill was on its way to being passed. Then it was derailed by rank-and-file politics,” He continued, “The U.S. needs to reconsider this bill and those senators who oppose it need to set politics aside and pass it on the merits.” What Biden doesn’t acknowledge is that he already has the authority to do all of the things he wants funding for.
The president continued, “The majority of Republicans and Democrats in both houses support this legislation until someone came along and said ‘Don’t do that. It’ll benefit the incumbent. That’s a hell of a way to do business in America for such a serious problem.” Biden also called on President Trump to join him in urging Congress to pass the bill. Meanwhile, Trump was 300 miles away in Eagle Pass, Texas, and he said: “This is a Joe Biden invasion.”
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