“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse,” declared President Trump on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Gosh, what 17-year old pig-tailed school dropout could he possibly have meant by that?
Earlier in the day, Greta Thunberg had delivered her usual cheery message of doom and gloom – “Pretty much nothing has been done” – to the assembled globalist elite.
But President Trump wasn’t having any of this apocalyptic nonsense. Not one bit.
“This is not a time for pessimists. It is a time for optimism,” he declared.
Doom-mongers like Greta – though he was too polite to name names – are, he said, “the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune tellers. And I have them, you have them, we all have them – and they want to see us do badly but we won’t let that happen.”
Trump listed some of the doomsday predictions which had failed to come true:
“They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s, the end of oil in the 1990s.”
Not only were these doom-mongers wrong, he suggested, but they were also leftist control freaks.
“These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, eradicate our liberty.”
“America will always be the strong, proud, unyielding bastion of freedom.”
This was more than a bravura act of trolling in Davos, the belly of the beast, the epicenter of globalism, political correctness and the technocratic dictatorship that the Trump revolution has done so much to overthrow.
(Though, obviously, there was a trolling element too: especially in the bit where Trump completely wrong-footed all those people who would like to caricature him as a planet destroyer by announcing he was leading a global program to plant a trillion trees. Hmm. I wonder where he got that idea…)
Much more importantly, Trump was doing what no other world leader has managed to do so clearly and firmly: speak up for Western Industrial Civilization.
Sure they all pay lip service to it, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the rest.
But Trump is one of very few leaders in the world – among the very few others are Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, Hungary’s Viktor Orban and India’s Narendra Modi – who truly understands that prosperity is based on growth, innovation, and optimism and that this is totally incompatible with the pessimistic, anti-growth message of fashionable doomsayers like Greta Thunberg, Sir David Attenborough, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
In this landmark speech, Trump threw down the gauntlet to all those politicians, economists, and other ‘experts’ – useful idiots of the green movement – who imagine that it’s possible to improve ordinary people’s standard of living while yet crippling their economy and killing their job prospects with endless environmental taxes and regulations.
“In America, we understand what the pessimists refused to see – that a growing and vibrant market economy focused on the future lifts the human spirit and excites creativity strong enough to overcome any challenge.”
Exactly. As lonely voices like Matt Ridley – zoologist, author and peer in Britain’s House of Lords – keep pointing out to largely deaf ears: things are getting better and better, not worse.
We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time.
It was 60 percent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging as Africa and Asia experience faster economic growth than Europe and North America; child mortality has fallen to record low levels; famine virtually went extinct; malaria, polio, and heart disease are all in decline.
Trump totally gets this truth. What he also totally gets is that the job of a President is, perhaps above all, to look after the interests of working people.
Earlier in his speech, in a wearied voice that sounded almost bored with so much #winning, he listed the leaps and bounds made by the US economy during his presidential tenure so far. This was all, he said, because he had prioritized the workers.
“Every decision we make on taxes, trade, regulation, energy, immigration, education is focused on improving the lives of everyday Americans.”
Because Trump sincerely believes this and because he also sincerely believes that this is a moral good he feels absolutely no need to engage in the kind of environmental virtue-signaling used by so many other politicians, especially conservative ones, to try to demonstrate to the leftist opponents that they can be nice guys too.
It’s why there was no mention in his speech – none at all – about ‘renewables’, which Trump understands are a complete waste of space.
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We need Common Sense back we need to use Level headed thinking instead of all this Doom and Gloom stuff don’t allow a bunch of Eco-Freaks and Brainwashed youths to dictate our lives to us
I think Greta and Prophets of Doom were an 80s metal band. They only had one hit.
Listened to the whole speech. This was the Donald at his very political best… he spurns remaining in the States where his “impeachment trial” is just getting going and attends the meeting in Davos to deliver what can only be described as the opening salvo to his re-election campaign. He was on the World Stage, thumbing his nose at all those petty Dems who cannot command such a venue. He had a World audience to which he delivered the litany of his Administration’s achievements. “Fact – Check” it all you like, but in the political world rumors are half way round the world before any comeback has it’s trousers on! The Dems must be steaming mad. Well done Trump. His political handling of the falsehoods of the claims of the CACCC – Catastrophic Alarmist Climate Change Cult – was politically masterful. But there will be minimal reporting of this speech tomorrow in our Mass Media and CNN, MSM, NBC, WaPo, the NYT etcetera will be even more vitriolic as Trump has stung them with the timing, the place and the content of this speech.
I will comment on one aspect of President Trump’s speech. He believes that the best interest of the average American has top priority. By their stated goals it is obvious that the Democrats could care less. I have read articles by some that believe the life style of Americans is excessive and they want to down grade it.
Thunberg is a a sign of just how bad the education system has gotten i mean real bad its nothing but Indoctrination/Brainwashing
Sadly, Trudeau is a Greta groupie.
And Canadian voters are Trudeau’s groupies. We choose not to compete. The growth in our economy is entirely dependent on immigration. Give us all a participation trophy.