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“They want to start taking — now.”

The two stories linked below, describing what it was like at Sunday’s People’s Climate March in New York, confirm for me what I had surmised from earlier reports prior to the march, that the march was a leftwing get-together with its central goal to use the climate as an excuse to impose leftist and communist redistributionist policies on the free citizens of America.

My headline is a quote from the second article. The full quote:

Put it all together — all the justice demanders, the tax Wall Streeters, and the spirit of Occupy symbolized by the angry pacifist — and the People’s Climate March was one long, loud, loosely organized demand that vast sums of money be taken from the wealthy and given to the clients of the coalitions and alliances and networks and task forces that make up today’s environmental justice movement. They’ve had enough of debating climate models. They want to start taking — now.

Lord help us, in that we have already tragically allowed many of these people to wield significant amounts of power, and they are using that power to impose their agenda on us all.

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4 comments

  • Cotour

    It is 10:48 on Monday morning and I am listening to the Brian Leher radio show and he is playing speeches and interviews from the “climate change” demonstrations, one of the speaker is Bernie Sanders and others speaking and these people are pure communists! They make their points about inequities in the power structure but all of their solutions are aligned with revolucion! and a Utopian socialist world.

    Lord help us? We may need more than that.

  • Pzatchok

    It all starts at home.

    These children are taught these ideas. First by parents who started teaching them by having ‘no consequence’ decisions and games. No matter what you don’t lose.
    They no longer teach them to think through any decision. They no longer think of the bad possibilities if they get or do what they want.

    Those children eventually become teachers themselves. And they always end up teaching what they themselves have been taught. And in many cases take things a little bit further never thinking of the consequences. Just thinking of the possible outcome they want.
    The Utopia in their minds.

    Environmentalists were never for the environment, they were always against industry. Private industry especially.

    I have the impression that hunters have saved more species and habitats to support them than any environmentalists organization.

    Ducks unlimited for one.
    http://www.ducks.org/

  • Follow up 11 years later: Do you notice anything?

    IS A CONSERVATIVE A LIBERAL WHO HAS BEEN MUGGED?

    “I have a customer, he is a 50ish aspirational New York City political candidate, a good responsible family man. He is a Democrat “progressive” as I understand it. He tells me a story:

    He was just in the boogie down Bronx standing with his son waiting for a bus, both with their eyes down looking at their phones.

    Before he realizes it a pair of “Urban Entrepeneur’s”, you know probably guests in the country of Joe, Kammy, Nancy, Chuck, Mayorkas and the Democrat party leadership, traitors to their country all in other words.

    The two young men were on a scooter and as they swung by my customer and his son the second young man on the back of the scooter reaches out and seamlessly snatches BOTH their phones. Smooth as silk, he didn’t know what was happening until it was too late. Almost like they were very practiced at the activity. And he could do nothing as he impotently stood there as they quickly drove away and out of sight.

    Both my customer and his son just standing there with their mouth a gape, phone less!

    I asked him: “Did you learn anything from this experience?”. “I think I did” he said.

    I told this story a short while after it was told to me to a fine young NYC police department officer who happens to be a man of color. He immediately told me: “And if I as a police officer saw this happening and dared to chase down the “Young Urban Entrepeneur’s” and one of them got injured, I would be personally charged and prosecuted!”.

    Bill Deblasio (D) was the first stone cold Marxist / Socialist / aspiring Communist to be politically empowered as the New York City mayor. Just one in a long line of weak pandering Liberals and now Leftists. Q: Where did the racist Leftist “Big Bird” Deblasio and his lovely wife honeymoon?

    “In 2019, New York City Mayor Bill Deblasio was forced to defend his decision to honeymoon in Cuba during an appearance on ABC’s The View. Host Ana Navarro pressed de Blasio on his choice of honeymoon destination, his support for the Nicaraguan government, and his quoting of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara during a rally in Miami, Florida.”

    Bernie Sanders (D) honeymooned in Moscow, Bill Deblasio (D) honeymooned in Cuba. And then of course the newer “American” politician on the scene, Tim Walz (D). And where did he honeymoon?

    “In 1989, Walz moved to Communist China to teach at a high school for a year. He later said it was “one of the best things I’ve ever done.” Five years later he got married and chose to honeymoon there. He has been to China at least 30 times.”.

    Are you beginning to get the theme and see where this is all going America?

    And then we had as the coupe de grass Socialist political kill shot after Deblasio late night “shorty” stalking Eric Adams (D). Eric Adams is an incompetent, bloviating, politically compromised and mumble mouthed Democrat politician who God apparently told he would be the mayor of New York City. And possibly the president of the United States! I think that Godly outlined goal is now on hold, however.

    And then we have the newest contender for the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani (Democrat Socialist), “We must take control of the means of production” Mamdani is an unapologetic no longer hiding in the shadows full blood Communist.

    Zorhan Mamdani: “On taking control of the means of production” : https://youtube.com/shorts/BHziumplMCg?si=-hc-XGHwgTrYIhcn

    Nothing happens in a vacuum, this trend in Democrat party politically controlled cities and states in America is an ongoing infiltration and financially supported by the CCP China and all other Socialist and Communist operators and enemies of America in the world.

    A little more evidence of what is really going on in American politics: Michelle Wu (D), mayor of Boston: https://washingtonstand.com/news/report-boston-mayor-michelle-wu-received-300k-in-campaign-funds-from-ccp-operative

    So, will my customer who was recently so easily relived of his private property on the streets of New York City see what the actual results of the “progressive” “Democrat Socialist” “progressive” political agenda is actually about and become more Conservative? Stay tuned.

    Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 7/1/25

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/is-a-conservative-a-liberal-who-has-been-mugged

  • A Democrat New Yorker comments on the current political trajectory of the city:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Svaoh5YpdVY?si=Ply91PCVDOSH4_C9

    Does hope spring eternal?

    I think it may.

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