Fresh Stupid From WV Governor: God Will Give Us Time To Fix Global Warming - If It Exists
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice said that God will “give us time” to fix climate change—“if” it exists, he emphasized—if the U.S. acts now to increase fossil fuel production to respond to the burgeoning energy crisis thanks to the invasion of Ukraine. I can’t believe I just typed that sentence, but here we are! The remarks came during a public briefing Justice gave on Monday that was supposedly a covid-19 update for West Virginia. After spending about 10 minutes talking about the pandemic, Justice took a sharp pivot and started discussing the war in Ukraine and its implications for energy in the U.S.—or, rather, what Justice thinks is happening here.
“Our coal miners, our gas workers, our oil workers, they get up every morning, they get their dinner buckets, and they go get dirty, don’t they,” he said. “Oftentimes they’re doing stuff that is extremely risky.” After describing the recent death of a West Virginia miner, Justice lauded how coal miners “saved us in World War II and everything by giving us the coal that was mandatory to make steel, and absolutely preserved this country.” He then goes on to blame the Biden administration for “trying to extinguish them…Now all of a sudden we’re on the brink of World War III, maybe, and now who do they call? …They call screaming, ‘drill, baby, drill!’”
I’ll just let you read a (slightly condensed) transcript of where this goes next, because it’s really a journey:
"Absolutely today in many ways, West Virginia, they could call on West Virginia, and West Virginia may be very well the catalyst to stop a lot of the carnage, to reinforce in many ways the fact that this country should be totally independent. I absolutely stand rock solid in favor of all the alternative energies. But I believe it is absolutely frivolous to think that today we can do in this country or this world without fossil fuels, and if we believe that we’re going to have just what the hand has dealt to us right now. We’re going to have chaos, we’re going to have real problems. … I believe, and my belief as strong is it may be, or can be, I believe with all in me, that we’ll have time and [God] will give us time as we go forward. If there is such a thing, and I underline if, if there is such a thing as climate change, I believe that he will give us time and the smart people will fix it. But today, today energy is being used as a weapon. This country, hands down, needs to be totally energy independent. It is a crying, pitiful shame to see what has happened under the Biden administration in trying to absolutely cripple us. We have become weak, have we not?”
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https://gizmodo.com/god-will-help-us-fix-climate-change-so-drill-baby-dril-1848654471
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A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.
A man in a rowboat came by and shouted to the man on the roof “Jump in, I can save you.”
The stranded fellow shouted back, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.”
So the rowboat went on.
Then a man in a motorboat came by and shouted to the man on the roof “Jump in, I can save you.”
The stranded fellow shouted back, “No thanks,I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.”
So the motorboat went on.
Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down “Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety.”
To this the stranded man again replied “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me."
So the helicopter flew away.
Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, “I prayed to you, I had faith in you, but you didn’t save me, you let me drown.”
To this God replied, “I sent you a rowboat, and a motorboat, and a helicopter. What more did you expect?”
The smart people ARE trying to fix it. Fuck's sake
