Title: "The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiendz..." Source:
Black XVI URL Source:https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/849830/posts Published:Oct 18, 2021 Author:Mudboy Slim Post Date:2021-10-18 10:24:42 by Mudboy Slim Keywords:None Views:352475 Comments:4422
"The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..." (To be sung to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In the Wind")
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? How many Dreams must each Tyrant kill before he's forced outta Power? How many Lives must Dem Socialists kill, before RATZ are forever banned?!!
The A.N.S.W.E.R, my FRiends, is Lib'ralismz DEAD!!! The A.N.S.W.E.R. is fightin' 'gainst RATZ Spin!!
How many Fears must the Networks create before RATZ're quashed by the FRee? How many years can RAT-sheeple persist that Mass-Murder's just peachy- keen?!! How many times can RATZ Hearts trick their Heads, pretending Slick's blacker than me?!
The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is helping FReep RATZ pigs, The A.N.S.W.E.R. is blowin' out the Ditz's!!!
How many times must Lib'rals be duped before they will see RATZ LIE? How many victims must Sosh'lists have before Dem Rapists hear OUR cries? How many deaths will it take 'till World knows that Central Bureaucracies are VILE?!!
The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is Fightin' 'Gainst RATZ Spin... The A.N.S.W.E.R. is taking down BIDEN. (gettin' outta the UN?!)
"Don't Surrender!!" (To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender")
Yeah, Dem Lib'rals got no class...RATS' tyranny's built fer fools... We learn more from the FReepublic Forum, Nation, then we ever learned in school!! We'll fight Left's fear...our neighborhoods're standin' proud... Singin' from our hearts...we're singin' loud!! We shan't git tired...our goal must be EXPOSE Left's LIES!! So git up and FReep now...
Dutch Reagan's promise lives on in all who remember... Yer Effete, Kerry, you'll surrender!! We're soldiers in a Righteous fight...it's our Peace we'll defend... RATS retreat, Kerry, you'll surrender!!
DemRAT faces are mad and cold... Left's schemes are weak and olde... We abhor Big Guv'ment and Medyuh Spin... And Right's ready to stand tall again!! We hear the Lib'rals voices cheerin' fer John... DemRATS, they ain't too smart!! Well maybe we could give Libs a place of their own... Send Dem Lib-uh-rulls to Mars!!
Folks, George Dubyuh's promise since that sad day in September... "No retreat...Dubyuh won't surrender!!" George Dubyuh, he will do what's Right...our Country he'll defend!! Don't retreat, Nation, don't surrender!!
Folks, hit the streets to fight fer Right...we'll win!! We're armed with the TRUTH 'gainst Lib'ral spin... Culture War's the fight we're wagin'... RATS say the fault's ours fer the war we're winnin'... I wanna FReep Elites...Peacenik's LIE...damn the Lib'rals' dread!! Fer our wide open country we shall fight...we got heroic dreams in our head!!
Folks, George Dubyuh's promise since that sad day in September... "No retreat, Country won't surrender!!" George Dubyuh, he will do what's Right...our Country he'll defend!! Boldly FReep, Nation don't surrender!!
Mudboy Slim
1 posted on 10/28/2004, 2:00:58 PM by Mudboy Slim
Isn't THIS SPECIAL?!
Heh heh heh... RATZ got NO DEFENSE 4 a Righteous (Wo)Man with a Righteous Plan, imho.
"BTW..." (To be sung to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "By The Way")
Standin' fer Right...gives US a virtuous might... And Right shall fight on...Let US Roll!! By the way, we proudly pray... Reject Fear...RATZ're whores!! Chi-Com traitor...we're singin' songs fer Truth... We FReep 'cuz we're FRee...Liberty!!
Way Right...we're marked... Limbaugh...root cause!!
Impeached Slick...Senate failed its reason... We'll convict...we'll FReep 'til JOEZ career's done!! JOE ain't Slick...he LIES, claims he's a hero... BIDENZ sick..."Defeat Treason!!", that's our goal!!
Dubyuh...mudrats... World stage...Nags Head!!
Standin' fer Right...gives US virtuous might... And Right shall fight on...Trump's got soul!! By the way, Left died today... Reject Fear...FReep the World!!
Black thread...hope's thick... Song shop...git Slick!!
FReedom's Right...our future is a bold one... Win the fight...folks, DeeCeeRATZ are pond-scum!! Righteous Right...you know Dutch Reagan's goals won!! Lib'rals whine...fer Power gained via Treason!!
Standin' fer Right...gives US virtuous might... Far Right shall fight on...Limbaugh knows!! By the way, RATZ LIE and Rape... Left breeds Fear...Tyrant Whore'd!! Dandy Lib'rals...Right's singin' songs fer FRee... We FReep 'cuz we're FRee...bless our souls!! By the way, I'm proud we pray... Reject Fear...FReep the World!!
(chant)
Standin' fer Right...gives US virtuous might... RightWing shall fight on...Donald knows!! By the way, Left's Tyranny...is waning...Culture War!! Algore's a whore...he's writin' poems 'bout trees... We sing, "Sic Semper...Tyrannus!!" By the way, we're proud we pray... To one God...sacred world!! Standin' fer Right...grants US virtuous might... FReepers shall fight on...Mudboy knows!! By the way, we proudly pray... Reject Fear...FReep the World!!
"Rally Fer Our Nation!!" (To be sung to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication")
JOEZ a spy fer China... Leftists' zeal's to smite FReeNations!! Lib-uh-rulls love Sweden... Dreams of Amsterdam libations... Dem Lib'rals want Big Guv'ment dreams... Right, Rally Fer Our Nation!!
The Beacon fer the world... Pride of the western civilization... We're warriors fightin' fer Peace!! Unleash the wisdom derived via liberation!! Left's oh so queer...RATZ're HollyWeird!! Folks, Rally Fer Our Nation!!
Donald's surgin' very well... Twenty 2-4 awaits US!! Reject Media's spin...help FReedom win... 'Tis Culture War we're waging!!
[Chorus:] Airborne...uniform... MUDZ corps...just war... FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!!
Kerry's [like] a girl...Hanoi Kerry, he destroyed... Lied about his own conflagrations... JohnnyBoy LIED...fer the Viet Cong side... Genghis Khan's mis-information!! Lied 'bout his bronze star...and three purple hearts... John LIED to the whole Nation!!
TRUTH is what the Lib'rals most fear... Should be shamed by their Michael Moore baseness!! Limbaugh, you shall hear fer years... Righteous songs on yer AM stations!! Our liberties are here to stay... We're FReepin' fer our Nation!!
Oooh-ahh-ooooh...oooh-ahh-ooooh...
RATZ're stained...they chose their way... Devolve Power to the States, men... Everybody, we're due fer Right's righteous liberation!!
[Chorus:] War-torn...Desert Storm... Must win...fight sin... FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!!
Corruption breeds 'cuz Dem Lib'rals WON'T know... But good patriots rule this Nation!! 'Cuz God looks out fer those hearts so stout... We're just another FReedom station!! Come, righteous waves, Truth'll save the world... FReep fer our Liberation!!
Donald's surgin' very well... Twenty 2-4 awaits US!! Slick's takin' a rest...JOEZ just a pest... 'Tis Clinton's scalp MUDZ craving!!
[Chorus:] War-torn...Desert Storm... Must win...fight sin... FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!! FReep fer Righteous Liberation!!
"Big Guv'ment!!" (To be sung to Steppenwolf's "The Pusher")
You know I pay way too much in tax... Good Lord, (I) take nuthin' from the till!! Folks, I never wanted nothin'... From Dem Lib'rals like Bill!! You know, I've seen a lot of Lib'rals walkin' 'round... With HATRED in their eyes!! 'Cuz Big Guv'ment don't care... Ah, if you live or if you die!!
God damn Big Guv'ment!! God damns--I pray--Big Guv'ment!! Right shall Devolve Power from Government!!
DemRATZ are dealers...Big Guv'ment is a SHAM!! Gotta whup ass on "The Man!!" 'Cuz folks, Dem Marxists they're all monsters... Good God, Right's gotta make a stand!! The hammer and the syckle ain't the way!! Folks, Left's sellin' you all their FReaky schemes... Ah, but Big Guv'ment takes all yer money... Lord, we'll FReep Dems...we'll FReep fer Righteous Dreams!!
God damn...Big Guv'ment!! God damns...God damns Dem Sosh'lists!! Folks must RISE UP, God...REJECT Big Guv'ment man!!
Well, now if I were the president of this land... You know, I'd declare total war on Big Government!! I'd cut back on our taxes...and I'd cut how much we spend!! Yes I'd kill Left with my Bible and my FReepin' and my pen!!
God damn Big Guv'ment!! God damn Big Guv'ment!! I sing, "God damn, God damn Big Government!!"
"The FReeper!!" (To be sung to Molly Hatchet's "The Creeper")
Ohhh...listen to Doug's story...
Right is gettin' stronger, Nation... Time Big Guv'ment's gone!! Lib'rals don't know the difference no mo'... Between--ahhh--Right and Wrong!! Say, we're gonna be both Bold and Right... When the FReeper sings his songs!! Strike out fer yer FReedoms, ladies... Ahhh...Righteous're strong!! I say we're gonna be both Bold and Right... Loh-oh-ord...when the FReepers sing their songs...yeah!!
We're strong...we're bright...loathe RATZ...let's win!! Right's out fer Justice...I'm Mudboy Slim!! The road Left walks is dark and dim... Don't let DemRATZ lead you towards Left's sins!! They'll cut a whole baby... Mods'll stab you in the back... Reject all those DeeCeeRATZ!! Truth's more trouble--Medyuh--than Left thinks... We know Donald, he won't blink!! Say, we're gonna be both Bold and Right... Oh-oh-ohhh...when the FReepers sing their songs...yeah!!
Oh, we're gonna getcha, Biden...
(Powerful guitar jammin')
Ohh...they're enemies of yer Liberty... Killin' people every day... Ahh...soldiers're out to catch them sadists... Freedom's here to stay!! I say, "Right gonna stand and fight the fight... When the FReepers sing their songs!!" Watch out fer Doug's CD, baby... Forum's patriot songs!!
Say, we're gonna be both Bold and Right... Oh-oh-ohhh...when the FReepers sing their songs!! Yeah!! Said we're gonna stand and fight the fight... Oh-oh-ohhh...when the FReeper sings his songs!! Yeah!!
"Call Me Extreme!!" (To be sung to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Call Me The Breeze")
Call me extreme...Lib'rals hate me 'cuz I'm bold. Yes folks, RATZ call me extreme...Right is such a lonely road. I'm lookin' fer somebody...help me carry heavy load!! Ain't been FReepin' forever...but I'm fightin' fer FRee. Folks, it's time fer chains and fine leather...all Dem Lib'rals are freaks!! And Right is fightin' 'gainst Dem Leftists...Donald Trump's fightin' fer me!! And that's the way it's supposed to be...
(FReakJam ensues)
Bush, this ain't no green card nation...Right's gotta enforce the Law!! RATZ, this ain't no green card nation...Folks gotta obey our laws!! Well, Right must go win back California... Fight Left's Power in Georgetowne... RightWing KNOWS!!
(More FReakJammin')
Well, I'm tired of empty speeches...Guv'ment keeps right on growin'!! Folks, Dem RINO Big Guv'ment leeches...Help us FReep!! Fight Dem HO's!! Sure, Right loathes foes of ol' Dutch Reagan...but Reagan Revolution's strong!! ModSquad, they call me "extreme"!! RINOZ shun me 'cuz I'm bold!! Medyuh, they call me "extreme"...RATZ keep killin' Unborn Souls!! Right's lookin' fer somebody...House shall hear US when we vote!! Oooh...Slim's Extreme!!
"I'm Their Father!!" (To be sung to Kid Rock's "Single Father")
Lately I've been spendin' lots of time with my kids... Laughin' 'bout stories about the things Uncles did... In their Daddy's family...not too long ago. My little girl, Jessie, and my little boy, Jake... To MUD, they're perfect...and Marxists, they hate!! 'Cuz I tell him the truth...and they ain't too young to know!!
I'm a father...who loves their mother... Ain't always fun...selfish, don't bother!! Our family's...like many others... 'Cuz I'm my children's father...and I love their mother.
I spend every minute I can with my boy... There's no doubt about it, he's my pride and joy!! Someday, Jessie'll grow up...and I won't have her no more. Her cute little smile...lights up my whole day... They're why MUD fights Dem Lib'rals...they're why Mudboy don't play!! So Right must git it together...gonna WHUP all Dem whores!!
I love my life...just being their father... How does daddy explain...why he can't convince mother? While we love this family...and we love our nice home... MUD don't understand it...fer all of our lives... Why there's just four...when there should be five... Of us sharing our future...Lord, bless us with one more.
I'm a father...who loves their mother... Ain't always fun...selfish, don't bother!! Our family's...like many others... 'Cuz I'm my children's father...and I love their mother. Our family...sister and brother... And I'm a full-time father...and I love their mother... Folks, I'm one happy father...'cuz I love their mother!!
"Muslims" (To be sung to the Rolling Stones' "Angie")
Muslims...my FRiends... When will yer Jihad disappear?! Arabs...my bro's... Help tell Dem zealots, "NEVER HERE!!" With good Allah in their souls... Saudi money...EVIL goals!! Please explain why them folks died!! But Muslims...my FRiends... 'Twas fer FReedom them Sheeple died!!
Allah...is innocent...yeah... Koran's Right...put HATE aside!! Muslims...we'll still love ya... Lord Allah ain't fer gen-o-cide!! All Left's dreams they were so close... But they all went up in smoke!! Let me whisper in yer ear, "Osama...bin Laden...YOU SHALL JOIN ALLAH THIS YEAR!!!"
(Haunting keyboard solo)
So...daughters, gently sleep... Fer yer futures Right does FReep!! Avenge bin Laden's shameless crimes!! And soldiers...our sons, ain't no way we'll say "Goodbye!"
'Cuz there's lovin' in our souls... And there's Honor in our goals!! Fer yer FReedom we shall fight!! 'Cuz Muslims...FReepers love ya, baby... Everywhere Left looks, they'll fear our Might!! We won't let Lib'rals git their claws in you... C'mon FReepers, join our fight!! Allah...Allah...ain't it good to be alive?! Muslims...my FRiends...you can't say MUD never tried...
FReegards...MUD
3 Posted on 09/18/2001 08:44:26 PDT by Mudboy Slim (Left's NO MATCH fer a Righteous Man with a Righteous Plan!!)
"Woodstock II (RightWingVersion)" (To be sung to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's "Woodstock")
Well, I came upon a dude named Rush... He was talkin' about Left's 'Ho-oh-oh... And I asked him, "Tell me where we are goin'?!" Limbaugh told me...
Said, "We're goin' to the DeeCee Mall... Gonna join in The Patriots' Stand... Rebuild Reagan's Shinin' City on the Hill...yeah!!"
We are starvin'...fer some Boldness... RE-IMPEACH...Senate shall CONVICT!! Folks, we must now DETHRONE Slick the Evil Tyrant!!!
Folks, show the Left what Right is... Lib'rals shall recoil in FRight!! Yes, they'll cower from Lord's Justice... Waco's burnin'... Democrats're the Party of Fear... FReepers, ain't it time we make Our Stand?! Just IGNORE the Media Spin... Them Leftist Whores ain't winnin'!!!
We're the Right-Wing...we're emboldened... We'll git Slick...you know it, too, Rush!! We shall then INDICT Clinton...CONVICT! IMPRISON!! By the time we got to Abe's spot... We were o'er One Million Strong... Poker Face cranked righteous songs...Whatta Celebration!!! Yes, we FReep because we love this Great Land... Takin' MY guns?! That won't fly... Demand Justice fer Slick's lies... Lord, Save Our Nation!!
Git Out, Lib'rals!! Yer time's OVER!! Yer payin' up fer yer Devil's Bargain!! 'Cuz we got to get ourselves back to the Gah-ah-ah-arden!!
"Heathen Slime!!" (To be sung to the Velvet Underground's "Pale Blue Eyes")
Liberty makes me happy... Sosh'lism...it is bad. Lib'rals ain't never happy... They're Marxists who are oh so mad... Patriots must REJECT Left's SCAM!! Just move on, you Chi-Com spies... Left is WRONG...Come join the Right!!
Sing it out from the mountain tops... "Liberty for the Meek!!" Marxist tools love enslavement... It's YOUR money Leftists seek!! It's yer Freedom RATZ seek!! Just move on...Dem Marxists LIE!! Left is WRONG...come join our fight!!
If we could tell the World the TRUTH 'bout DemRATZ Tyranny... Righteous shall ne'er bear it!! Stand up fer Liberty!! Stand tall because you're FRee!! Just move on...Joe Biden's slime... RATS are WRONG!! Come join the Right!!
Vote fer Life and Freedom!! Whup Dem Marxists' butts!! We say, "Justice is Right On this time... Joe LIES...his gig is up!!" Down for FOOLS is UP!! Can't move on...RATZ Treas'nous Spies!! Left is WRONG!! RINOZ ain't Right!!
It is GOOD that Right IMPEACHED Willie... Right must do it once again!! Must fight Dem Lib'ral FEYries... Fight fer TRUTH, my LF FRiends... MUD ain't foolin'...we'll git Ol' Slick!! Shan't move on...Left's Heathen Slime!! Left is WRONG...Come Join the Right!!
"US Country Folks Shall Survive!!" By Hank Williams, Jr.
The preacher man says its the end of time And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry The interest is up and the stock markets down And you only get mugged if you go down town
I live back in the woods you see My woman and the kids and the dogs and me I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive I can plow a field all day long I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive
Chorus Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun We say grace and we say ma'am
(riff)
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn
We came from the West Virginia coal mines And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies And we can skin a buck we can run a trout line And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive
I had a good friend in New York City He never called me by my name just HillBilly My GrandPa taught me to live off the land And his taught him to be a business man He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Nights And I'd send him some homemade wine But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife For forty three dollars my friend lost his life I'd love to spit some Skoal Longcut in that dudes eye And shoot em' with my ole 45 Cause a country boy can survive Country folks can survive
Chorus Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun We say grace and we say ma'am
Were from North California and South Alabam And little towns all around this land And we can skin a buck and run a trout line And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive Country boy can survive Country folks can survive.....
Pre...MUD
380 posted on 11/23/2001, 12:27:39 PM by Mudboy Slim
"Simple Man" (Skynyrd Version)" (To be sung to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man")
His Mama told Bill...when he was young... "Slick, sit beside me...my eldest son. My life's been wasted...on Boyz who Play... So, please don't do this...you will thank me... Good Guys don't stray!! Ah, yes...
Stop spendin' time...with that Hill'ry lass! Her legs are stumps...and her ass is fat. Bill, find a woman...oh, yeah...you truly love... This Rodham chick, son...is Ol' Chi-ca-go Scum!!
Slick, life is simple...have a plan... Oh, be someone...folks trust, then you're a Man. Willie, be a simple, kindly man. Oh, won't you do this...for me, Slick...if you can!
Forsake your lust...for the ChinaMan's gold... Don't lust for Power...it corrupts your soul! Slick, you can do this...oh baby...if you try... All that I want for you, my son...is to say, 'I never lied!'
Slick, be a symbol...make your stand! Bill, serve your Country...if you're called to Viet Nam! Willie, life is simple...for a Man... You've been blessed, Slick...so give up...those one-night stands!!"
Slick lied, "I WILL!!"
(Guitar Jammin')
You know the story...Slick loved himself! Bill's Lust For Power...eclipsed all else! Committed TREASON...bombed babies...and HE LIED! Killed folks in Kosovo, Good Lord, just to cover up his crimes!!!
Now Slick's a symbol...I can't stand... Gotta do something...perhaps, I'll start a band!! Willie, he's a symbol...New World Man! Good Folks, don't let this...Chi-Com Whore's...TREASON stand!
Willie, you're a simple, Traitorous Man... You are "Guilty!"...time to pay The Band....
Mudboy Slim
454 posted on 11/30/2001, 12:23:47 AM by Mudboy Slim
"Imagine!! (A Conservative Version)" (To be sung to John Lennon's "Imagine!")
Imagine no bureaucracy, Lib'ralism left to die; No damned IRS, a reigned in FBI; Imagine all US people...with increased take-home pay! Ah ha ah aahhh!
Imagine no more Waco's, no booted thugs to rue; No Clinton goons to lie for...religious freedom, too! Imagine all free people...no Village, just families. Yoo hoo ooo! You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, a patriot's work is never done.
Imagine unbridled Capitalism, regulation on the wane; No need for greed or hunger, each spending what he's earned. Imagine all free people, the Left driven underground! Yoo hoo ooo! You may say I'm a dreamer, but Right's War it shall be won!! 'Cuz as an Ol' Gen-Xer, this next Century's ours to run!
Mudboy Slim
1 Posted on 05/09/2000 00:26:24 PDT by Mudboy Slim
In 2003, someone leaked a “secret” Pentagon report warning of the dire consequences of climate change. “Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,” it reads. “Once again, warfare would define human life.” The report’s authors offer dramatic examples, including the claim that “catastrophic” shortages of potable water and energy would lead to widespread war by 2020. Britain would have winters similar to those in Siberia as European temperatures drop off radically by 2020.
In 2017, there was a war in Yemen. But it wasn’t all that widespread. And Yemenis experienced water shortages, but not war due to a shortage of water.
Britain underwent milder winters in 2015, and there were slightly colder winters in the five years prior.
So 2020 came and went.
Of course, a credulous press, eager to propagate the dire warnings, had been happy to report what turned out to be false predictions. In other words, we never did get catastrophic water shortages and permafrost in Britain. How could the authors have gotten things so wrong?
To give you a better idea, let’s zoom out.
Imagine we’re in a low intellectual orbit, high enough to get a wide shot but low enough to see some things. From this macro perspective, we want to evaluate a set of claims about climate change that we must connect to form a coherent theory. Let’s take some familiar premises from what we might term the Climate Collapse Thesis and view them in their totality. To accept the Climate Collapse Thesis – that climate change ought to be seen as the number one potential driver of catastrophe – we have to accept all of the following hypotheses:
1. The earth’s atmosphere and oceans are warming.
2. The earth is warming primarily due to emissions like carbon dioxide and methane, generated by people engaging in production, trade, transportation, and energy use.
3. Scientists can link the most important phenomena associated with a warming climate, and disentangle human causes from natural ones, extending into the distant past.
4. The data gathered and then aggregated by the scientists are overwhelmingly error-free, and the scientists operate free of biases when packaging and presenting their data. (This special group of scientists suffers neither from a peer-review nor a replication crisis, and they are immune to the perverse incentives of government funding.)
5. Even though individual scientists are working separately on different aspects of climatology and related fields, they can stitch these diverse aspects together into one complementary dataset, supporting a single, coherent hypothesis up to this point.
6. Scientists can then use computer models to simulate most of the phenomena associated with the earth’s warming and make reasonable predictions, within a degree or two, about a hundred years into the future.
7. A different group of scientists can repackage that packaged information and make certain predictions about the dangers that a couple of degrees of predicted warming will make over that hundred years, say to glaciers, farmland, and sea levels.
8. Social scientists, including economists, can then repackage – without loss of accuracy or the introduction of error – the aforementioned global predictions and make yet further predictions about the costs (and benefits) accompanying those predictions. Of course, the relevant subset of these portends either ecosystem collapse, social collapse, or both (and that subset is appropriate to the Climate Collapse Thesis in this context).
9. Based on what the world might be like if that different group of scientists and the social scientists turn out to be correct, policy wonks can, in turn, accurately predict what the world will be like if specific climate policies are implemented. And these policies minimize those effects the social scientists predicted.
10. Policymakers can then take the prior groups’ predictions and set policies that will mitigate the predicted warming (and subsequent collapse). Such will ensure that what’s best for the people and planet – on net – is balanced against other important considerations.
11. The policies, once imposed, will be implemented such that they work as intended. And all major emitting nations must cooperate close to global unanimity. That means there should be no defections, corruption, or false reporting by such trustworthy authorities as China’s Communist Party.
12. Abatement of greenhouse gas output has a real effect on the rate of climatic change, enough to pull the world out of danger, including climate collapse.
13. Those policies are worth the costs they impose on the world’s people, especially the poorest.
I repeat: to accept the Climate Collapse Thesis, we have to accept everything above.
Yet the interdependencies are staggering. It’s not just possible but probable that any one of these linkages will break. A humbler interpretation of climate change science and policy, far from being a conspiracy of denialists, turns out to be an imperative of reason.
Twitter has dropped its entirely appropriate designation of NPR as “state-affiliated media”, instead creating an entirely new designation, “Government Funded”, which it has also now given to the accounts of outlets like the BBC and Voice of America. You still see establishment guard dogs decrying this new label for western propaganda outlets on nonsensical pedantic grounds, but really the problem is that they’re not receiving the same “state-affiliated media” label as outlets like RT and Press TV despite being equally propagandistic. The label is designed to provide the false impression that western propaganda outlets are not propaganda outlets.
It’s actually very revealing how huffy and indignant empire apologists are getting over the “Government Funded” label, because it shows that they see it as Twitter’s responsibility to facilitate western propaganda. Imperial spinmeisters have a vested interest in maintaining the illusion that propaganda is something that only happens to other people, and any move that might disrupt that illusion even slightly is met with hostility.
It’s one of the most shameful jobs in the entire world to spend your time doing critical reporting on the enemies of your government while ignoring your own government’s far more egregious crimes.
People talk about sex work as shameful, and in America they’ll even shame you for working a low-paying job like McDonald’s, when on all our screens every day we see people selling their own government’s ugly foreign policy in a line of work that is entire universes more shameful.
That’s why I dislike the use of the word “presstitute” to refer to these people. Not because it’s insulting to the press, but because it’s insulting to sex workers.
