The Biden Administration declared a "Climate Emergency" Wednesday and claimed that "100 million Americans are suffering from extreme heat," which I'm pretty sure means that it's the middle of July and there's a heat wave because... well... Summer.
So to make the best impact with his "Climate Emergency" announcement, President Biden hopped on a helicopter and flew with an escort to Joint Base Andrews, boarded a giant 747, and flew, with an escort, a few hundred miles up the coast to Massachusetts.
He then de-planed from Air Force One, boarded an armor-laden, internal combustion vehicle, and drove, in a large motorcade, to an old, converted coal plant for a televised campaign-style event.
That's one hell of a giant carbon footprint he dragged up and down the Eastern Seaboard to announce that he would execute extra-constitutional authority that will probably get thrown out in court.
Meanwhile, he's doing whatever he can through his elfin Transportation Secretary and his Canadian Energy Secretary to force you into a crappy little Chevy Volt because you're being too irresponsible with your energy use.
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OK. Fine. Whatever. We've seen this before.
The dude is underwater in the polls and has a disastrous midterm around the corner. He's throwing everything he can against the wall to see if it will stick.
Biden made now-infamous statements referring to his childhood in Delaware that made it sound as though he was currently suffering from cancer. The White House has already cleaned up aisle six, again, and explained that the president does not have cancer, but his story revealed something more than his obvious mental incapacity.
As he meandered his way through his prepared remarks and started to riff on his old tales of yesteryear, he accidentally revealed a very basic truth about himself and his party's radical, anti-oil agenda.
"Gina McCarthy, a former regulator in Massachusetts, was telling me on the way up how folks used to get a rag out and wipe the gunk off of their car’s windshields in the morning just to be able to drive — not very much unlike where I grew up in a place called Claymont, Delaware — which has more oil refineries than Houston, Texas, had in its region — just across the line in Pennsylvania. And all the prevailing winds were our way.
I just lived up the road. I just — in an apartment complex when we moved to Delaware. And just up the road was a little school I went to, Holy Rosary grade school. And because it was a four-lane highway that was accessible, my mother drove us and — rather than us be able to walk.
And guess what? The first frost, you knew what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window. That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up [with] have cancer and why can- — for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation."
Now, this is a fanciful tale, and you'd be forgiven for not believing a word of it. After all, earlier this year, he told the exact same story about the oil slick and the four-lane highway and Holy Rosary grade school, but in April, the takeaway was that he had asthma because of the oil, not cancer.
And I — we — I went to the small little school that was about a mile from the apartment complex we lived in, and — a little school called Holy Rosary. And I — you couldn’t walk to school because, although it was a four-lane access highway, it was just too dangerous to cross some of the streets.
And my mother would get — and when it came spring — I mean it became the fall — this is the God’s truth — and you’d get in the car, there’s a little frost on the window, turn on the windshield wiper, there’d be an oil slick. Not a joke.
I have asthma, and 80 percent of the people who, in fact, we grew up with have asthma.
Seriously. Those two excerpts are from two separate speeches told several months apart.
Here's the video proof:
We've heard this story before...
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 20, 2022
BIDEN IN APRIL: "I have asthma and 80% of the people who, in fact, we grew up with have asthma."
BIDEN TODAY: "That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer." pic.twitter.com/8farOJVAfl
Yes, he's a doddering fool. And yes, he lies (or, as The New York Times says, he "is by nature a storyteller with a penchant for embellishment"). But look beyond the obvious BS about the oil slick on his car windshield and notice what he's done here.
This announcement was supposed to be about the dire threat of supposed climate change allegedly caused by carbon emissions released when oil, gas or coal is combusted into invisible carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The "Climate Emergency" has nothing to do with Biden's claim that oil refineries caused cancer in his childhood home. It has nothing to do with imaginary oil slicks on his mom's windshield. It has nothing to do with asthma three months ago.
So why even waste time with these stories?
Because Biden is such a ham-handed fool that all his inner programming tells him is, "Hey, Jack, this is an environmental issue... sell it hard, baby!" and he immediately just pulls up the entire catalog of memorized anecdotes he has told over the past 50 years to bash the oil industry and try to get votes.
Hell, he was giving speeches like this back in the mid-70s when oil and gas exploration was causing the coming Ice Age. It's the same old demons that have to be destroyed, it's just the dire emergencies that have changed during his long and unremarkable political career.
Between this and Biden's instinctive reflex to drop everything and head to Saudi Arabia to beg the terror-adjacent Saudis to drill more oil rather than sit down with American companies to work out an agreement to allow them to drill more American oil, we see what's really happening here.
This is not about climate change and it's not about cancer and it's not about asthma and it's not about oil slicks and it's not about ducks covered in oil. It's not about lighting tap water on fire and it's not about multiple, low-level earthquakes. It's not about pipelines infringing on Native American territory. It's not about caribou breeding grounds and it's not about the ozone layer and it's not about acid rain and it's not about baby harp seals. It's not about any of the multiple other dire emergencies the Chicken Little Party has been screaming about for the past decades.
This is, and always has been, about one thing: They hate the American oil industry and are hell-bent on destroying it.
