A state away to the West and relativistic distances separating legislative environments literally and figuratively, Washington demagogue and Democratic royalty Governor Jay Inslee signed a clutch of unrelenting and restrictive climate bills into law last year.
Inslee’s counterpart, at least in ceremonious titles, Montana’s Governor Greg Gianforte countered with a resounding mandate of his own in sending a searing and concise message to federal and state agencies and climate apologists that what happens in ultra-progressive Washington does not reach over the panhandle of Idaho and contaminate and prohibit the rights of private property owners. While Inslee and cohorts drafted and passed the series of unprecedented measures highlighted by an egregious bill that penalizes corporations that bring in billions of dollars into the Washington’s economy for infractions based on “carbon emissions”, the borderline corrupt herd of elected officials could not resist tacking on a “facial recognition” rider into the text of what is titled as an “environmental act”.
Seeing the Tesla self-driving vehicle writing on the wall, Gianforte responded to the growing threat of individuals and groups outside the scientific community influencing overbearing policy in approving HB 971, which identifies and defines unsubstantiated and unverified research in preventing working theories from hindering the extraction of natural resources, and the development of infrastructure. The Al Gore’s and Greta Thundberg’s of the world, lacking credentials, education or certification in reference to environmental engineering are effectively nullified from pushing politics into bills that are bereft of empirical evidence. The “stay in your lane” approach to fostering accountability is a template for common sense that other states should consider to protecting basic rights from nebulous extremists pushing an unrealistic agenda for personal gain or fame.
As slogan-oriented as Inslee’s tenure in Washington has been with his reckless use of the decadently repeated term “carbon footprint”, Gianforte’s bill revising Montana’s “environmental policy act” procedurally quantifies the concept of “carbon emissions” as a work in progress and insinuates that the absence of a consensus within the scientific community is problematic and emblematic of inconclusive research that to this point has been forcefully interjected into law in many liberal states. Thanks to the universal lack of critical thinking skills and the attenuation of the attention span in the US and Europe, rhetoric has replaced viable data as the trending fantasy land rainbow-laden dream world of cognitive dissonance. Common sense is simply not cool anymore, especially within a deluge of propaganda and forced tribalism.
While the controversial tenure of the Trump administration was dissected on a superficial love/hate dynamic through social media and the prevalence of bias dictating humans, bots, AI, and other electronic lackeys, reality rendered a differing image. Under the egomaniac’s reign and unorthodox style of leadership, the Endangered Species Act militarized under Obama was effectively rescinded to a sensible level. The landmark case which epitomized the controversy and advanced all the way to the Supreme Court featuring the amphibian formerly known as the “Mississippi” gopher frog, where the “Mississippi” was unceremoniously removed from the critter’s taxonomical bibliography by the federal fish and wildlife department under political pretenses. The sordid affair illuminated the inherent corruption and the surface level of a land grab scheme forged by bureaucracy. During Trump’s run in the White House, the aggressive tendencies towards eminent domain enacted during Obama’s eight years, were essentially reversed, as the infamous frog and the legal fight was the icon for policy that resonated with the essence of private property rights, rather than the will of tyrannical government to haphazardly adopt vernacular in a wry attempt to inflict the shackles of control on landowners.
Gianforte’s directive to implement legislation on a state level that protects both citizens and corporations from the caustic whim of hypothesis forwarded by activism exemplifies the reverse engineering effort of public channels in circumventing career politicians and special interests which seriously compromise the framework of both the republic and the vibrancy of the free market.
Ironically, the ascension of the Green New Deal infused with dark money and other channels of funding, crowning its politicians and investors with billions, is sparked by ideas that are unprovable, and marketable and popular to liberals. As perception is powerful, especially when the anecdotal has been replaced by empty promises, protecting residents from the possibility of government seizing land is fortunately being addressed by elected officials such as Gianforte in barring intellectually dishonest UN endorsed environmental policy from careening across the border. The next step is quarantining the rest of the nation from laws drafter in California and Washington.
