My latest in PJ Media:
The cackling embarrassment known as the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, has not been much in the public eye lately, as her handlers have likely determined that the easiest form of damage control is simply to keep her away from the microphones. However, Harris did surface on Friday at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where she received, according to a NASA press release, “a firsthand look at how the nation’s space program studies climate change and provides crucial information to understand our planet’s changes and their impacts on our lives.” At one point, the person who is Old Joe Biden’s heartbeat away from the presidency interrupted the presentation to ask if NASA could “measure trees” in the cause of “environmental justice.” Yes, it has come to this: trees are racist now.
Video shows the NASA presenter discussing “climate adaptation strategies” when Harris interrupts to ask: “Can you, can you measure, um, trees?” The presenter, perhaps trying to humor the woke ideologue, responded “Yes!,” but Harris plowed on: “‘Cause part of that data that you are referring to, and it’s in EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhood where people live.”
What Harris had in mind was “tree equity,” the idea that minority communities suffer disproportionately from global warming because they generally live in urban areas that get even hotter than the rest of the country does as the internal combustion engines keep eating away at our protection from the sun’s rays, because there is a relative lack of trees compared to the rich, white suburbs. So what we need to do, you see, is plant a lot of trees in urban areas.
This is not just some UC Berkeley students getting stoned and theorizing at 3:00 a.m. about how to save the planet. Old Joe’s Build Back Better agenda actually spends $3 billion of your money and mine on “tree equity,” because as it turns out, according to the Tree Equity Score website (yes, it exists, and yes, it is not a joke), trees are “critical infrastructure that every person in every neighborhood deserves.” In fact, like so many other things these days, they’re “a basic right that we must secure.” However, trees are now distributed in a racist manner: “But a map of tree cover in America’s cities is too often a map of income and race. That’s because trees often are sparse in low-income neighborhoods and some neighborhoods of color. Ensuring equitable tree cover across every neighborhood can help address social inequities so that all people can thrive.”
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Scott Vaughan says
Stop the world I want to get off.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Alice in “Wonderland.”
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
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mortimer says
This is an add-on to her embarrassing speech to Marine graduates who were forced to endure her babbling about ‘combat solar panels’ … an excellent way to give the enemy your exact position for his pinpoint-accurate missiles, mortars and artillery.
She is so ignorant of practically EVERYTHING in the practical, real world that no amount of coaching will stifle her little-girl mind. It never lived the hard, real life of the low-class people she looks down upon.
Let them eat cake.
gravenimage says
+1
VICTOR COWEN says
Not much to add really other than of course, this whole administration is a criminal fraud. She is just part of the scene….soon to be forgotten.
mortimer says
RACISM! In space … the empty space between the ears. Ha, ha, ha, ha, hee, hee … cackle.
tim gallagher says
A good, witty observation, mortimer. She does seem like a brainless twit. Where do they dredge these politicians up from? I saw her rabbiting on to a bunch of kids about space a while back and it was pretty cringe worthy. I think people like her spend all their time with their minds full of trivialities while they seem to be unaware of far bigger, far more important issues such as the rising power of China or the malignant spread of Islam. Instead they find “racism” everywhere they look..
mortimer says
Harris thought Joe Biden was too racist to be president during the Dem debates … until she got a good job offer and stifled it. She probably thinks Old Joe is racist today. What about Kammy’s white husband? Isn’t he BORN RACIST according to neo-Marxist, Frankfurt-school Critical Race Theory??
Perhaps others have noticed too, but it seems that ‘Islam’ has just recently stopped being referred to as ‘a race’ … the Left has changed their weekly narrative. Eternal Glory to the Wise American Vanguard of the Proletariat!! Glory!
gregbeetham says
In the interim while she works out which slum buildings can be replaced with trees what about the graffiti artists doing some trees on those walls instead of scribble? At least that would be something.
Nigel Blumenthal says
Sadly (because your approach makes a good headline) she’s not entirely wrong. The pressure for low-cost, “affordable” housing leads to higher development intensity, which is enabled by taller buildings and a footprint that is not characterised by leaving stands of existing trees. In suburbs, single-family homes exert less pressure on land space which leads to existing trees being left standing, where in a more intensive development, they would be cut down to allow access for heavy machinery, cranes, etc., that are needed to produce that build form. So it’s not the trees themselves that are racist – and actually racism has nothing to do with this – but it’s more an effect of inequity of incomes that produce the effect that she so inelegantly observed. Is income inequity a racist issue? That’s a question for another day, although of course if you view the world through this administration’s racist lens, the answer would be “yes”.
Westman says
While riding a bus through minority neighborhoods to Chicago’s, “Museum Of Science And Industry”, I noticed many front lawns of single-family homes strewn with debris, trash, that had been left there by the residents. There were a number of large trees, not recently planted, which could fend for themselves, so the only visual racism concerning trees was neglect for the trees.
One of the social disasters for Chicago was the building of the Projects, built with good intentions to provide safe affordable housing for minorities. It seems the buildings were unable to provide safety because some of the residents were the source of danger.
Harris, from a historical background without slavery, is no exception to white do-gooders who think that there are monetary or social solutions to inequity in a competitive capitalist system – or ANY system. After vigorously prosecuting blacks as a former prosecutor, Harris is now singing the leftist song that she will be a Marxist saviour? Ironic.
Putin, recently bemused by these Marxist notions said, we already tried that. It was a failure.
The elephant in the room that humans deny is this: The basic human drive, instinct, is competition. Even survival is a competition against Mother Nature. As Putin’s society discovered after 1917, it cannot be changed. Every society will arrange itself into tiers.
There is nothing racist about who will or will not pick up trash on the lawn of their residence. But yet it certainly signals which person will advance in their life.
somehistory says
She is the very definition of an evil idiot. She makes biden’s perfect compliment…as in a poker hand…a “pair” of jokers who are not the least bit funny; and any ancient king would have them both ejected for “foolishness.”
And this from the Geller Report: “A British Columbia emergency room doctor diagnosed a patient with ‘climate change’ after believing his asthma worsened as a result of a historic heat wave”
Next, harris will be claiming that it also is “racist.” The climate and the trees will have to be eliminated because they are just so racist.
Doesn’t she realize…guess not…that “trees” are green? Do they not want to “go green”? Trees grow best where they are near a source of water, tree pests are eliminated, they are allowed to grow and not be cut down…
The way she, um, um, worded her question, um, um, sounds as though she thinks trees can be “measured according to how racist they are.”
That will be next….if “roads” are racist, then so can trees be. How about dogs, horses, hamsters, clouds, birds flying overhead….are they in each neighborhood in equal measure?
Such a mixed-up, demon-controlled world in which we live.
Walter Sieruk says
With Biden things in the United States of America is very bad. With Harris in the White House as President, things in the USA would not go from “bad to worse” but skip the word “worse’ and go from “Bad to the very worst possible . Harris would be complete catastrophe for America and a total disaster for the American people.
The only “good” thing that can be said about Joe Biden is that when compared to Kamala Harris he is the lesser of the two evils. Nevertheless, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
James Lincoln says
Walter Sieruk says,
“The only “good” thing that can be said about Joe Biden is that when compared to Kamala Harris he is the lesser of the two evils.”
What a relief that we still have Sleepy Joe!
I guess now I can sleep well tonight. (Sarc/off)
Westman says
Not really. When you wake up tomorrow everything will cost more.
Walter Sieruk says
The one and only negative thing about Joe Biden impeached and then removed from Office is that he would be replaced by that rude, obnoxiously abrasive, narcissistic, self-serving sinister and insidious Marxist, Kamala Harris, as President’
If Harris actually becomes the next President of the United States the result of that total catastrophic for America.
So much so that the damage and harm would be so severe that it would most probably be irreversible. As Abraham Lincoln had said “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
David M says
She’s a younger, dumber, darker, more leftist & even worse version of Hilary Clinton, who the world only narrowly dodged from becoming US President. Same pant suits though.
Infidel says
While Que Mala may think trees are racist, our great newly minted daddy Pete Boot-edge-edge has now come out w/ the theory that roads are racist, since they divide white areas from areas of color, and that somehow, only white people can walk under underpasses. I think every member of the cabinet has been tasked to discover something racist about the subject of his/her/zer/____ department
Like they say, when everything is racist, nothing is!
gravenimage says
Ridiculous AND Ominous: You Won’t Believe What Kamala Harris Thinks Is Racist Now
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I am already familiar with this trope, living here in the bluer-than-blue Bay Area.
Note: I grew up in a neighborhood in San Francisco that had become a dangerous slum in the late 1960s to 1970s. There were several tree-planting campaigns by the city or neighborhood groups there when I was a child; they only began to work once the area started to gentrify. Teenaged thugs uprooted the trees, laughing and screaming as they did so. I once picked up one of the saplings after they had pulled it up and was threatened if I thought about replanting it.
The area is pretty leafy now, though, with about ten trees on the block I grew up on…
raja says
Gravenimage,
I thought only Indian politicians had a penchant for slums !
Wellington says
I strongly suspect that trees are smarter than Kamala.
That’s all.
raja says
? Good one Wellington, her smartness was always suspect…