The following commentary by Steve MacDonald has been republished with permission from GraniteGrok.
Elected Democrats in Vermont must have short memories, or maybe they don’t care. The Legislature is advancing a climate bill to hike the cost of heating your home. France added a climate gas tax hike no one but elites wanted a few years ago that set the country on fire in protest.
France’s yellow vest movement lasted for months, sparking similar activities in the UK and elsewhere. They were protests against elected representatives raising the cost of fuel which inevitably increased the cost of everything:
“The so-called “yellow vest” movement, which has grown out of anger over rising fuel prices, is planning a major operation on Saturday that they hope will ring the French capital to a standstill. … Some 175,000 people have signaled they are interested in going to the event.
On Saturday the yellow vests organised approximately 2,000 roadblocks, rallies and traffic slowdowns in France to highlight their anger with President Emmanuel Macron’s government over increases in taxes on fuel and their general loss of spending power.
It worked. They shut down the country, and Macron and company were forced to bail on their climate gas tax. Closer to home, Vermont’s climate-cult-obsessed Dems are repeating Macron’s mistakes. The State Senate passed S. 5 with a veto-proof majority, which would make Gov. Scott’s promised veto meaningless. S.5 is the so-called Clean Heat Standard, which attempts to electrify all heating by some arbitrary date by making more affordable options less affordable.
Previous efforts have failed, and so should this. The public objection is reportedly epic.
During floor debate, Sen. Randy Brock, R-Franklin, told his colleagues that he received over 700 phone calls, letters and emails from Vermonters about S.5. “I have three who wrote me in favor of it,” Brock said.
Sen. Bobby Starr said he received over a thousand contacts regarding S.5, and took the opportunity to remind his colleagues that “we’re all sent here for one purpose, and that is to represent the people that send us here.”
Wrenner said that her “no” vote was, “A nod to representative government. My constituents do not want S.5 to pass.”
Vermonters oppose it, but it is moving ahead anyway because all but a few Dems bow before the climate gods before any other, including the people they were elected to serve. I won’t revisit here all the reasons why it’s not just a bad idea but doomed to fail, but you could read this for context.
The bill will likely get to Gov. Scott, who will veto it, and then pass back through the lower chamber like s– through a goose.
That brings us back to the Vermont State Senate. You can win this there if you are willing to make a bit of a scene. In other words, Vermont needs a yellow vest movement.
For the record, I am not suggesting you burn stacks of tires or cars or do anything destructive or illegal. We ban commenters for implying violence on these pages, so there are no threats, just the exercise of your lawful right to assemble peacefully in yellow vests, which are cheap. You can get a ten-pack on Amazon for about $23.00, delivered in just a few days. If you only want one or two, you can do that as well, and it’s still very affordable.
Marches, protests, anti-S.5 events with hundreds of folks in yellow vests. It paints a picture that will travel around the internet and the world. You’ll find advocates and experts in all corners willing to step up and point out why this won’t do what they say at any price. Press calls to state senators at all hours can get unnerving in the shadow of a small army of yellow vests.
This bill is not popular across political lines, so allies are everywhere, but no one does street theater like the Left, so take e a hint from them and one from France and do more than make phone calls and send emails. Stand out peaceably in opposition in a manner that cannot be ignored.
Start a yellow-vest movement, and get on that soon. Your lives and livelihood depend on it.
If we were all dead and burried,
would that end pollution??
We need a reformation within the VT GOP that is for sure.
Enjoy this video
https://rumble.com/v2c4owg-the-last-battle-top-10-memes.html
A statewide strike to reduce the state government total budget by 50%
That would be a very simple to understand goal, because it would wipe out the sales tax and income tax and inheritance tax and any taxes in pension and IRA distributions.
That would mean everyone would have more of their own money to spend and save as they see fit, instead of a coercive government grabbing your hard earned money out of your pocket
I concur. Starving them of their fuel before they starve us to death.
Revelation 18 2-4
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
FREEDOM so dearly won is now a “lost cause”.
It’s time for normal Americans to rise up and remove the elitist pieces of trash.
I favor the Dutch farmer’s response of spraying manure far and wide over government buildings. No matter what the Legislature or Governor Scott says or does, Vermont is a failed State. All actions now just add more failure upon failure…which doesn’t change the status at all. Vermont is also captured territory in a war that many don’t comprehend. There are no bombs being dropped. It is pyscological warfare carried out by an alliance with foreign support and infiltration. Considering the amount of exposed lies and deception thus far, many in Vermont are stupified and in deep denial. The only reason the despots-in-charge have free reign over the State now is because they face no formidible threat from the left or right. Vermonters are sitting ducks in a small pond with shotguns pointed squarely at their heads. Those ducks just sit there, bobbing along, thinking “this is fine.” Ignorance is indeed bliss in the Green Mountain State. Vermont is not the only State in our Union facing such dire straits. Ohio is now being attacked – literally – by domestic terrorists. As well as Atlanta, GA, Tennessee, Arizona, Indiana, etc. We are in a war – a global war. The United States is targeted for complete destruction. No State is safe from targeted attacks and it will get much worse. I fear no despot in Montpelier or any other place. They are criminals and they are, above all, cowards. They are drunk with false authority and false power. Woe unto them as their hangover will include fingerprinting and mugshots. Their judgement will be swift and final.
I think public shunning and harassment would send a stronger message and it would be directed at the culprits who don’t give a crap about you. Also any natural fuel (there’s no such thing as fossil fuel) dealers should deny them their services and products. The one good take on protesting I’ve heard about is spray cow manure on the culprits property. It’s a long lasting message.
if everyone just wore the vest everyday…….it would start a movement…..no organized protest needed……
When the Coltsfoot Bloomed
By Ellin Anderson
When the coltsfoot was in bloom
On sunny banks, and on the hill
Where Nature wove on April’s loom,
They sat in peace, as white and still
And stiff as any Dresden doll —
A little family in their car —
They will not answer when you call,
However close you are.
They rested there, through every storm —
The bleak black night, the silver day —
Had they been trying to get warm,
Or just to get away?
In unrelenting northern cold,
With dead blue lips, a mother’s kiss
Is pressed on Baby’s hair of gold —
But nothing good, not even bliss
As good as gold can stay.
Or stay the hand of cruel intent
And power open to misuse.
Would pity’s warming heart relent,
Or would the cold claw of abuse
Unfold there on the sunny bank
Where the unsullied violet curled:
A little house, a propane tank
Crumpled, to save the world.
They tap upon the window — near
The marble eye, the porcelain ear
To ask forgiveness — now, they come,
But find the father deaf and dumb,
The child who only asked a crumb —
The mother and her crystal tear —
“Forgive us” — mocking or sincere,
A prayer that only God will hear.
We had a couple yellow vest protest a couple years back. Nobody showed up except 10 or 20 of the most loyal fighters.
It’s no mistake these protests happen in the winter; that is when the state is in session session. Very convenient, I know.
“If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat…”
The Beatles had this down cold: https://youtu.be/gMdcE8jdz70
Taxman.
I see my cruel and malicious senator’s nature here. As a facist, I can see that just looking at him–old macdonald. He loves rubbing our faces in it.
These guys have less empathy than Charles Manson. Psycho, sickos.
They can get rid of those ornery peasants. Just freeze ’em out.
Why, is it that these protests and demonstrations always have to be in the winter. It is cold out and walking at some lazy pace does not warm me up.