RUSH: So the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein on Friday was, quote, unquote, invaded by something called the Sunrise Movement, and they videoed this. And they posted video of several of their activists and their children confronting DiFi — actually in her San Francisco office — about the Green New Deal.
Now, the video I’ve seen, I think these are all kids. I don’t know that there are parents here. I think we’ve got 16- to 18-year-old kids and then some younger ones. But I may be wrong about that. There have been references to parents in some of this, but I’m not sure. But it’s largely just a bunch of kids. And we have a couple of bites here. The first one, this is one exchange between an unidentified boy and girl and what is called an unidentified woman. I don’t know if there’s anybody over 18 in this group. But for whatever it’s worth, this is how it began.
CHILD: We are trying to ask you to vote “yes” on the Green New Deal.
CHILD: And please.
FEINSTEIN: Okay. I’ll tell you what. We have our own Green New Deal.
CHILD: Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.
CHILD: The government is supposed to –
FEINSTEIN: Well, it’s not gonna get turned around in 10 years.
CHILD: The government is supposed to –
FEINSTEIN: What we can do —
ADULT: Senator, if this doesn’t get turned around in 10 years you’re looking at the faces of the people who are gonna be living with the consequences.
CHILD: The government is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people.
FEINSTEIN: You know what’s interesting about this group, is I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that. I’ve gotten elected. I just ran. I was elected by almost a million vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing. So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.
RUSH: Now, on the one hand, I totally understand her frustration, and I like it. On the other hand, she is helping create this! Do you hear these robotic little kids? These kids are not old enough to think or know anything. They are plenty old enough to have absorbed like sponges and be able to repeat it. Look, I’m not exaggerating. This is scary, scary stuff to me because it shows you that we are up against a bunch of indoctrination and propagandizing, not education. And here are young kids who, whether you think they know what they’re talking about or not, they think 10 years, 12 years, they think that’s it. They think she’s not doing enough.
Why did they target Dianne Feinstein? Why not find some Republican to storm into? Why did they go after Dianne Feinstein? I want to play this again. And now that you’ve heard it once, I want you to listen — we started out with the young boy, then the young girl, and the young girl says, “Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.” And Feinstein tries to say, “Well, it’s not gonna get that bad. And it’s not gonna get turned around in 10 years. We can’t fix this in 10 years. What we can do –”
“Senator, if this doesn’t get turned around in 10 years, you’re looking at the faces of the people that are gonna be living with the consequences.” They’re storming into Democrat senators’ offices with this stuff! So here, listen to this one more time.
CHILD: We are trying to ask you to vote “yes” on the Green New Deal.
CHILD: And please.
FEINSTEIN: Okay. I’ll tell you what. We have our own Green New Deal.
CHILD: Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.
CHILD: The government is supposed to –
FEINSTEIN: Well, it’s not gonna get turned around in 10 years.
CHILD: The government is supposed to –
FEINSTEIN: What we can do —
ADULT: Senator, if this doesn’t get turned around in 10 years you’re looking at the faces of the people who are gonna be living with the consequences.
CHILD: The government is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people.
FEINSTEIN: You know what’s interesting about this group, is I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that. I’ve gotten elected. I just ran. I was elected by almost a million vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing. So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.
RUSH: Let me ask you a question, folks. I tell you, you go back to when you’re 6 to 8 years old and you’re over at Nanaw, Papaw’s house, wherever, your grandparents. Let’s make you 10 or 12, whatever, and you’re telling Nanaw, Papaw, everything you know. Did your Nanaw and Papaw ever say, “Kid, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you know who I am? I’ve been alive 70 years. You don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t respond to people like that.” This is how she’s treating these kids!
Believe me, one half of me loves this because it is pushback, but this is the party that’s for the children. Everything is for the children. And you can tell, she has got no time for ’em. You might say she’s being somewhat patient. I don’t. I think to try to tell 8-year-olds how important you are, to have to tell 12-year-olds how important you are and how long you’ve been doing it. Dianne Feinstein does not know how to talk to people, and what you must be to be offended by a 12-year-old. Have you ever been offended by a 12-year-old, Dawn?
Has a 12-year-old ever offended you? I’ve been at homes, friends’ homes, they have like a 5- or 6-year-old kid, “You’re fat. Has anybody ever told you –” It doesn’t offend me. It’s a kid! Well, they wouldn’t say it today, but I mean back in the days where it was true, it was said, but Dianne Feinstein’s taking it personally here and reacting to this by giving these kids the what-for. But then the programmed, robotic nature of the kids.
Now, here is the next bite. This is same situation in her office in San Francisco.
TEEN: I hear what you are saying, but we’re the people who voted for you. You’re supposed to listen to us. That’s your job.
FEINSTEIN: How old are you?
TEEN: I’m 16. I can’t vote.
FEINSTEIN: Well, you didn’t vote for me. (group crosstalk)
CHILD: It doesn’t matter, we’re the ones who are getting impacted. It doesn’t matter, we’re going to be the ones who are impacted!
TEEN: But you represent…
FEINSTEIN: I understand that.
TEEN: … all the people in your district.
FEINSTEIN: I have seven grandchildren.
TEEN: …whether they voted for you or not.
FEINSTEIN: I understand it very well.
RUSH: All right. Here we go. It’s a 16-year-old girl here who says, “Look, I hear what you’re saying, but we’re the people who voted for you. You’re supposed to listen to us. That’s your job.”
She says, “How old are you?”
“I’m 16. I can’t vote.”
Feinstein says, “Well, you didn’t vote for me.” Meaning, I don’t have to listen to you. Ha-ha-ha. You didn’t vote for me. Who the hell are you? You know, you didn’t pay me. I don’t have to listen to you. You didn’t make a donation to my campaign. Who do you think you are? I don’t have to listen to you. I’m the senator. I’m the one who knows this stuff. I’m the one that’s been doing it. You don’t know diddly-squat. Who do you think you are coming in here telling me how government works?
But notice what they think government of the people, by the people, for the people means. They have no concept of representative republican government. They have no concept. They don’t know what of, by, and for the people means. They think it means they get their way. And, if they don’t get their way, then they get to be acting like spoiled kids, and they start getting to shout and proclaim things.
“It doesn’t matter. We’re the ones that will be impacted. Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. We’re the ones who are gonna be impacted.” So they’re scared to death. Whoever the adults are that have been in charge of these kids, look at how they’re literally scaring them to death. Who does that? I maintain to you our buddies on the American left. Kids, anybody else, scare the hell out of ’em. One more bite from the Sunrise Movement storming the San Francisco offices of U.S. senator from California, Dianne Feinstein.
ADULT: Senator, the cost of not taking this action is far higher than the cost of what the Green New Deal will be, and there is enormous popularity for this bill around the whole country and we’re asking you to be brave and do this for us and for your grandchildren.
FEINSTEIN: I’m trying to do the best I can, which was to write a responsible resolution.
ADULT: Any plan that doesn’t take bold, transformative action, is not gonna be what we need.
CHILD: We need your leadership.
FEINSTEIN: Well, you know better than I do. So I think one day you should run for the Senate.
CHILD: Great, I will.
FEINSTEIN: And then you do it your way.
RUSH: She said you know more than I do, screw you, kid, run for the Senate, get your own job someday and do what you want to do. For now, get the hell off my office. Haven’t got any more time for you. Can’t talk to you anyway. You’re a robot.
This is breaking down on the left, folks. And this is a microcosm of the pressures that all of these Democrat presidential candidates are gonna be under. The ones running for office are gonna respond to entreaties like this from these programmed teenagers. And who do you think is programming them? Is it their parents? Is it their teachers? Is it the media, a combination of all of these things? But how many of you have laughed or not believed me or thought I was exaggerating when I told you that I know a bunch of young people scared to death the earth is not going to be habitable when they’re 65? Do not doubt me on this. This is exactly what they think.
Now, actually it is more what they feel, which is actually the key to it. They’re not thinking about this at all. From the Sunrise Movement website. Who we are: “Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and well-being of all people. We are ordinary young people who are scared about what the climate crisis means for the people and places we love. We are gathering in classrooms, living rooms, and worship halls across the country. Everyone has a role to play. Public opinion is already with us — if we unite by the millions we can turn this into political power and reclaim our democracy.”
That’s how they describe themselves, the Sunrise Movement, the radical movement behind this, that’s how they describe themselves on their website. I just want to reiterate something here. The whole idea that the activity of human beings in the United States is destroying the climate of this planet is pure folly. There is no science that says so. There’s nothing but computer models that have been around predicting this since the 1970s. And it alternates between global cooling and global warming and now climate change is meant to encompass and include every act of inclement weather that they can toss into it.
But the idea that we are in the middle of a man-made climate phase that will lead to the near destruction of the planet is just pure BS. And even more so if you use these people’s reasoning. Fossil fuels. CO2 emissions. We’re doing so much better in reducing CO2 emissions. We’re doing so much better in cleaning up the messes that we make, cleaning up our pollution. We’re doing far better than the ChiComs. We’re doing far better than the nation of India is doing. They are literally putting CO2 into the atmosphere like crazy, and it’s not resulting in any warming!
The whole thing, folks, is a bought-and-paid-for left-wing agenda item to promote socialism and communism and gigantic government control over everybody. It’s all this is. And it’s classic. They have been trying this in earnest since the 1980s. And they’ve not been able to get a foothold in this. So now they’ve made a move directly on kids, and they have indoctrinated a bunch of kids and turned them into an army.
But the whole thing — I still cringe when people on our side start debating this in terms of science, because that is akin to accepting the premise. And the premise is bogus. The idea that we can control the weather, the idea that we can control the planet, the idea that we can damage the climate. The idea that we can damage it beyond repair. The idea that we can take action to improve it or make it worse is absolute folly. We haven’t the power.
We don’t have anywhere near the power to be able to affect something as complex and almost impossible to calculate as the climate! We don’t know what the norm for this planet is. We haven’t been alive long enough to know. There are not records from the first days of the earth to the present for us to have an idea of what the norm is! Isn’t it the height of vanity to assume that at that moment in the history of the universe, our tiny little speck of sand moment on it, that this is when everything is normal and as it should be and any variation from this is a catastrophe?
How do we know? How do we know that the earth’s normal climate is not much cooler than this or much warmer? How do we know? We don’t know. We have no way of knowing because we don’t have any records back beyond the 1800s that are reliable, and even those are not. We have no idea. We’ve got all these former ice ages and then with the Roman warming period and a glacier warming period and the urban Indian warming period and we have the El Nino cooling period.
We don’t know what we’re talking about. We have no empirical data that can prove this claim. Zilch, zero, nada. But the idea just intellectually, the idea that American progress, that improving and increasing the American standard of living is destroying the planet, who in the world would benefit from that? The idea that the greatest standard of living anywhere in the world, the best conditions for humanity anywhere in the world, the envy of the world everywhere in the world, that’s the place where the destruction of the planet is occurring? The United States of America? It’s beyond fatuous. It’s beyond absurd. And the fact that it has acquired as many believers as it has proves that it is nothing more than a political issue. There’s nothing scientific that can be proven in any way, shape, manner, or form about this.