Did you know that in
Santa Barbara, CA, a waitress can go to JAIL for serving a plastic straw that
wasn't requested, and that throughout the state this “crime” is subject to a
fine originally supposed to be $1,000. (See bit.ly/2Wtx5uj and bit.ly/2ZcrN38.)
Did you also know that,
despite all the claims that it never goes away, plastic can actually be
dissolved in a pretty common chemical: acetone, which is the main ingredient in
nail polish remover. (See bit.ly/2MtsMdJ)
So here’s a suggestion
for the California Legislature: Instead of fining people or letting them be
thrown in jail for this “crime,” each of you who voted for this bill should go
to the beach with a little pail and shovel.
You should gather up
all the straws, soak them in acetone, and then go house to house and drinking
place to drinking place and gather up all the remaining straws throughout the
state and soak them in acetone. This would be a job commensurate with your
level of intelligence, common sense, and compassion.
Maybe you’ll like this
job so much, you’ll want to keep on doing this kind of work and never run for
public office again.
*****
What makes this
legislative outrage so significant is that it may very well be a sign of what's
to come. The Green-Left is on the edge of a meltdown. As they see it, the time to
the end of the world is running out. With each passing year, less time remains
to reduce CO2 emissions
This implies a need to
reduce them all the more drastically in the reduced time that remains. This is
what the “Green New Deal” is all about.
Now if they’re ready to
throw people in jail over a plastic straw, what will they be ready to do to
stop people from crossing the Left’s alleged "tipping point" leading
to the “destruction of the planet”?
I envision public
executions—scenes out of China under Mao, or North Korea. They’ll make people
kneel in the street and shoot them in the back of the head for having used
gasoline or electricity, indeed, for having exhaled.
It’s no joke to say
that we’re dealing with a lunatic fringe. They are virtual lunatics. And they
are very close to coming to power. All they have to do is beat Donald Trump in
the next election. And they might very well do that.
They almost certainly
will do that if a new financial crisis develops before the 2020 election day (and
then before the 2024 or 2028 election days.)
In preparation for that
possibility, I hope enough people will realize that even a great depression under
Trump (or his “right-wing” successor) is better than a reign of terror under
the Green Left, and full employment in chain gangs.
