Florida Man @mattgaetz, talking about Silicon Valley canceling conservatives says "We have a 2nd amendment in this country and I THINK WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO USE IT!" pic.twitter.com/FFEWnyEF0o
— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) May 27, 2021
On May 7 in FL I gave remarks virtually identical to those from GA last night on the Constitution.
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) May 28, 2021
Nobody freaked out (more than usual).
Twitter (and thus lazy MSM reporters) fell for a creative edit that distorted the context.
Listen to the whole thing
I stand by every word pic.twitter.com/nSWYY7jbjt
7 comments:
"The 2A is not about hunting, it's not about sports shooting, the 2A is about maintaining with the citizenry the ability of maintain an armed insurrection against a tyrannical government if necessary"
Since the Shays rebellion was the immediate focus of those in Philadelphia who were determined to give the federal government the power to put down armed insurrection --- and since Washington and Hamilton exercised that power to put down the Whiskey rebellion, the argument that the 2A give the people the power to foment insurrection is simply delusional.
Gaetz never read the Constitution, apparently. He's right that it's not about hunting or sports shooting. However, Article I Section 8 of the constitution says Congress has the power to call "forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions". Also, it says Congress has the power "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia". Article IV, Section 4 says the United States protects the States against invasion or insurrection.
The anti-federalists like Patrick Henry and George Mason were deeply concerned that the Federal Government alone had the right to arm the militia (which means they could be disarmed by the federal government) and that the States had no right to put down armed insurrection themselves. Patrick Henry in particular was concerned with insurrection by slaves. Read about it directly from the debates in the Virginia Ratifying Convention:
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a4_4s9.html
"If there should happen an insurrection of slaves, the country cannot be said to be invaded. They cannot, therefore, suppress it without the interposition of Congress."
This is completely off-topic, but I have a request. I'm trying to write something to colleagues about the timetable in which fusion might impact the decarbonization effort, but I'm having trouble getting one piece of information. So I thought I'd crowd source it from this group, many of whom are literate on CO2 and energy.
My question is: what is the share of CO2 emissions GLOBALLY that comes from electricity alone?
In the US, it is 25%
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
The best that I could come up with globally is 43% for electricity AND heat.
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-browser?country=WORLD&fuel=CO2%20emissions&indicator=CO2BySector
I want electricity alone. Anyone know the answer? Thanks in advance
I'll ask on Twitter.
Joe, someone on Twitter said the number is 27%, according to a Bill Gates book. He showed the excerpt, but the context isn't exactly clear:
https://twitter.com/bellomatic/status/1401279414009278470
But I don't know. This page from 2016 says 42.5%
https://www.planete-energies.com/en/medias/close/electricity-generation-and-related-co2-emissions
Is cogeneration the reason why so many reports lump together electricity and heat? I could imagine that makes it hard to allocate emissions, especially in industry.
Thanks David for your help! I appreciate it. I found the same number 27% at Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy web site: https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/our-challenge/the-grand-challenges. But I need a real reference.
When you click further on at Breakthrough Energy it says it gets their data from the Rhodium Group. So I go to the Rhodium group and .... find it very difficult to actually find any data. One would think it would be a lot easier to find.
Yeah, that 43.5% is the same number I got from the International Energy Agency, but I'm pretty sure it includes heat.
Ned, I think you're right that cogeneration lumps them together.
Oh yeah, David ... retweeting 'Bowzer'. Saw him (many) decades ago in concert. What a stand-up guy. I like what he wrote about the 2A, "Worst piece of writing in the document". Yup.
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