GOP Senator Compares Climate Change Activists To Stalin

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who once accused those fighting climate change of “environmental jihad,” has now compared such people, including his Democratic opponent Russ Feingold and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), to Joseph Stalin and Hugo Chávez.

Speaking Tuesday on WRJN 1400 radio in Wisconsin, the longtime climate-change denier said liberals and progressives, like socialists and communists, “want to control everything.”

“The whole climate change debate gives ― and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and promoters of climate change ― the reason they’re doing it is it’s such a great opportunity to control, you know, pretty much, government, and control your lives,” he said. “I mean, again, I don’t know why they want to do it. There’s an arrogance of power there that they’re utopians, that they really think they can create heaven on Earth, and where it’s failed in the past, those people like Stalin and Chavez and the Castros, the nut cases in North Korea ― by the way, if you want equal results, go to North Korea, you have equal misery.”

“The arrogance of liberal progressives,” he added, “is that they’re just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, they’re going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isn’t true.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ron-johnson-climate-change-stalin_us_57a240fee4b0104052a0fb1c

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Just in case you need a reminder that Trump is hardly the only Republican who is anti-science.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. They need to kick this AH out of the Senate

Another Obstructionist on everything that makes sense to anyone

[AllyCat]

2. Please remind anyone you know in Wisconsin to vote for Feingold Aug 9th!

GOP is running a fake Dem against him in the primary. Feingold will beat this tool if he can get through this primary!

[Javaman]

3. he denies it at his own peril.

I'm always amused by nuts who feel it's better to be a "know-it-all" than be correct.

[ck4829]

4. "RW Talking Point 1. LIBERALS! RW Talking Point 2. The government! RW Talking Point 3."

[truthisfreedom]

5. And rather than control excess, this bozo thinks "out of control" is

the correct choice.

Just like repuke spending.

[downeastdaniel]

6. Long time swill eater, chomping down the money, shame on his greedy ass. Liar!

[lonestarnot]

7. Woohoo. What a thinker. Not. Part of that Duck Dynasty Think Tank.

[Feeling the Bern]

8. Rectify one of your nationally embarrassing mistakes this November, Wisconsin

Get it right this time. You have three of them. This douche Johnson, that Kochsucker Walker and the Uncle Ruckas Sheriff.

[Roy Rolling]

9. Except for....

Other than the murdering of millions of his own citizens they are exactly the same.

[ck4829]

10. Yep, what else...

Cults of personality, because we see huge paintings and statues of climate scientists on every street corner
Purges, 'revisionists' who have different opinions about climate change are edited out of history books and photographs
Gulags and prisons, all those people who question global warming are dropped off in Siberian work camps

There's got to be a similarity somewhere, right?

[Botany]

11. CO2 has a molecular weight of 44 and O2 has a molecular weight of 32 so ....

.... CO2 has more mass and can hold more energy (heat). The science is done
on this stuff.

http://www.convertunits.com/molarmass/Carbon+Dioxide

http://www.convertunits.com/molarmass/O2

[Yallow]

12. After 2 Years Of Fires My Home Area Has Not Burned.... This Summer.... Yet....

Even two years ago, some trees didn't burn.

Great!

[TomCADem]

13. Well, Koch Brothers Just Rewarded Him...

...with a $1 million ad buy. Coincidence?