{"id":89882,"date":"2019-08-16T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89882"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:06:32","slug":"89882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89882","title":{"rendered":"A New Democrat In the Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Steyer came to my attention a short while ago from various sources. He\u2019s a very, very busy busybody who made his fortune (net worth $1.6 billion) spending his time in the business of investing in high risk floundering companies. In January 1986, Steyer founded Farallon Capital, an investment firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. Steyer made his fortune running Farallon, which was managing $20 billion by the time he left the company. Steyer was known for taking high risks on distressed assets within volatile markets.<\/p>\n

He made his fortune that way, then abandoned it and became an \u201cenvironmentalist\u201d, a red flag in politics right now. Environmental fanatics and climate crisis utopians are part and parcel of something that is turning away from valid climatology and toward a narrow-minded religious quackery.<\/p>\n

He has acquired a following of 130,000 donor supporters, the required number to enter the debates, and has now officially thrown his hat into the ring.<\/p>\n

Per this article from\u00a0 The New Republic: If you have $10 million or so lying around, you can\u00a0buy your way<\/a>\u00a0into a Democratic debate. That, at least, was one lesson from Tom Steyer\u2019s announcement Tuesday that he had\u2014after spending\u00a0$7 million on television commercials<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0$3.5 million on online advertisements<\/a>\u00a0(including $2.6 million on Facebook ads alone)\u2014likely purchased a lectern at the third primary debate, coming next month. \u2013 article.\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/154768\/stacey-abrams-smarter-tom-steyer<\/a><\/p>\n

In the New Republic article, he refers to the United States as a banana republic. His goal is to use the Presidency to override Congress.<\/p>\n

From the Washington Post:\u00a0 Trump\u2019s embrace of executive actions has whetted the appetites of Democrats eyeing the White House.\u00a0<\/em>Steyer\u00a0and other Democrats are\u00a0openly talking about\u00a0how they would harness and further\u00a0expand\u00a0the power of the executive branch instead of working with Congress.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/the-energy-202\/2019\/08\/15\/the-energy-202-tom-steyer-says-2020-race-needs-him-for-urgent-action-on-climate-change\/5d54365a88e0fa79e5481fa1\/<\/a><\/p>\n

He wants to bring in Congressional term limits because of people like Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham, probably two of the more stable members of that body. I would even object to his booting Nancy Pelosi because she is one of the few people who can squelch idiots like Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n

Steyer is running on a platform of the “emergency of disastrous climate change”, which is going to somehow, in his overheated imagination, set the entire world on fire.\u00a0 That kind of thing would require the impact of the asteroid I posted videos about a weekend or so ago, which, as Hondo kindly pointed out, would have an impact of some 680+++ megatons. BOOM! There go the dinosaurs again!\u00a0 And the front porch!<\/p>\n

The reason I\u2019m posting this is that this bored billionaire is on a crusade to control everything. He is, if I read the overall picture of him, a control freak of the worst kind. If he\u2018s stupid enough to believe the preposterous nonsense about the environment\/Earth self-destructing somehow in 10 years (see the Green New Deal about this), he\u2019s also stupid enough to think that he knows more about agriculture and manufacturing, and everything else than the people who do these things for a living.<\/p>\n

Control freaks are not known for their willingness to listen to other people.\u00a0 We do, after all, have Joseph Stalin\u2019s and Mao Tse-Tung\u2019s approach to how to manage a population and keep industry growing, never mind Pol Pot\u2019s brilliant ideas about governance, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

Keep your weather eye on this guy. When you have someone willing to be this openly radical, you need to be very aware of how bad things could really be.<\/p>\n

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