Sometimes, only Sidney Wang will do…
Christina Khalil is the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator in New Jersey. Here is her campaign bio that sits on her website:
Christina Anna Khalil (she/her/hers) is a native of New Jersey, and she grew up in foster care where she overcame many trials and tribulations throughout her childhood and adult life. Christina has her B.A. in psychology and her Master’s in Social Work both from Ramapo College, which were both major accomplishments for her, and Christina believes that one of the true keys to freedom lies in education. In her free time Christina has avidly volunteered for community organizations doing important work, such as (BCLA) Bergen County LGBTQ+ Alliance. While obtaining her Master’s Degree, Christina worked on the front lines during the height of the pandemic at a medical detox facility and never quit school, while also volunteering at Hackensack High School. While working in the medical and substance abuse field, Christina noticed that our current elected leaders appeared detached from the reality of the current struggles that citizens of New Jersey face and made a vow to herself that when it was her time to step up and work towards change, she would do just that.
Christina’s leadership and resiliency are unmatched, and she is the leader that New Jersey needs to fight to make the New Jersey citizens’ quality of life better.
Impressive! What a pity she’s an idiot. Here’s proof, her tweet yesterday:
Yes, the Green Party has nominated someone who thinks climate change causes earthquakes. Her biography claims that “our current elected leaders appeared detached from the reality.” One can’t get much more detached from reality than believing the movement of tectonic plates in the Earth’s crust are affected by the climate. This woman has a Master’s Degree, and has the critical thinking skills of a pangolin. Score another one for America education.
She exemplifies the people advising Joe Biden, arguing for the banning of gas stoves, air conditioning and gasoline-powered cars while wasting billions of dollars in the process. Some New Jersey residents will vote for her, maybe thousands. How such people get through the day without stabbing themselves in the eye with forks is a mystery.
Here’s Christina…
…she looks nice enough, though I think I see the sky shining through her eyes from the back of her head. She is truly a dolt, and it is unethical for dolts to run for elective office.
Note: WordPress says I should tag this post “art,” “poetry” and “music.” So apparently their bot is affected by climate change too…
Ethics Alarms 
I think she was being tongue in cheek…
*BUT*
1) a politician shouldn’t be tongue in cheek about that
2) given how bonkersly fervent some of these insane people are, it can’t be differentiated from some of the serious things people assert
Believe it or not, she defends her tweet. She really is an idiot.
So much for my generosity
No good deed goes unpunished.
Truth
She does have a B.A. in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Social Work that she views as major accomplishments.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: “The Elite.”
Thank you for putting that in quotes.
I have a Facebook friend who connects every significant astronomical event and some weather-related events to the imminent return of Christ, especially if it coincides with a Jewish feast or festival.
He’s smarter than she is.
But you are correct in that people will vote for her. I imagine there some kind of causal effect in which the melting ice causes higher levels of water that puts undue pressure on the tectonic plates.
Or something.
The climate change obsession has often been compared to a religion, and the comparison is apt, My late wife (gee it’s hard to write that!), whose father was a minister, used to rail about people who argued that if their prayer for something good was followed by the desired event occurring, it proved the existence of God, and if the prayer’s plea was denied, it just proved that God worked in mysterious ways. Both are powerful lessons in how confirmation bias works.
And when Hurricanes Joseph and Mary which happen to be blowing at the same time as the Star of Bethlehem comet passes closest to Earth during Yom Kippur comes and goes and still no Lord, the videos stop for a few months until the next thing.
Biblical prophecy is hard. But Jesus will return before we get anywhere close to an accurate consensus on climate change.
I have complete faith in THAT.
She is delusional. Your Facebook friend is just hoping for the best case scenario to get us out of this disastrous economic and government tyranny situation we are in.
”She is truly a dolt, and it is unethical for dolts to run for elective office.”
The problem is that most dolts are not smart enough to know that this rule applies to them.
As for her claim about earthquakes and climate change, I have heard the argument that there is a link between the two because glacial ice sheets exert significant pressure on the plates. This is plausible; I live in an area where glacial movements have carved out approximately 10,000 lakes; the glacial ice sheet sitting on Antarctica is quite heavy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_ice_sheet#:~:text=The%20Antarctic%20ice%20sheet%20covers,sheet%20weighs%20about%2024%2C380%2C000%20gigatonnes.
the argument goes that the melting of glaciers removes that pressure, allowing the plates to move more easily, resulting in greater tectonic activity and more earthquakes.
Is that plausible? Sure.
Do I believe that? Not really. I don’t know that the theory has ever been substantiated enough for me to give it credence.
Can I refute that argument? No, not based upon my current or anticipated increase in knowledge about plate tectonics.
But, even if it is true, this person’s comment is irritating because, as with many global warming arguments, the causal link between global warming and any particular event is presumed, rather than proven.
-Jut
Indeed, all of the climate change hysteria is based on similarly weak evidence, weaponized by bias, flawed logic (“X may have a role in causing Y, Y occurs, ergo X was the cause”) dishonest science, and fearmongering.
Yes. That would be the converse error, or “affirming the consequent.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
-Jut
I can buy the idea of isostatic rebound from glacial melt influencing tectonic activity – in places where there are, in fact, large glaciers overlying fault zones.
But not in New Jersey.
I almost made a Chris Christie joke, but I didn’t.
She is a dolt, but when she gets together with her friends, they laugh at all the ‘stupid people’ who disagree with her. They talk about how they need to ban such people from speaking and ‘misleading’ the unaware about these important issues. She knows SHE is the smart one because the smart people told her so.
“ Some say” This was merely an aftershock from the performance at Biden’s fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall. While she offers climate change as a reason.
Both attributions are equally as accurate.
New Jersey identifies as being located on or near a glacier; ergo, . . . QED.
jvb
Yikes! That’s actually a real theory? My comment above – which I now realize should have been read and reread before I posted it to make sure it was clear – was meant as a joke exemplifying the type of argument people like her will use to defend such a silly tweet.
I think it is the opposite of what you said. The water run-off lowers the pressure on the land underneath, allowing it to rise up or move around more easily-leading to more earthquakes.
-Jut
She’s a third-party candidate running for a Senate seat she has precisely zero chance of winning. I’m more concerned about the two dolts running for President, because one of them will win.
#22!
About Christina Khalil’s tweet…
Melting ice sheets or not, the implied meaning of that tweeted paragraph is completely unsupportable without the core of the argument being correlation = causation. As absurd as it may seem to some, it won’t be too long and consumed imbeciles like this are going to use their extensive scientific observation skills and correlation = causation tunnel vision to blame changes on the surface of the sun on climate change here on earth, think about that logically for a couple of minutes.
Additionally; anyone that correlates anything to the “climate crisis“ is revealing themself to be a fully consumed global warming cult member that disregards any supportable scientific evidence that disagrees with their conclusions. We do not have a climate “crisis”.
Has Christina claimed he eclipse is due to climate change yet?
I bet she will!
Climate change research works like a prosecutor building a case. They start at the end with a certainty “People are causing global warming through their activities and this is causing devastating problems for the Earth”. Then, they find some way to make that true.
Instead of a more typical “We are burning fossil fuels, that should increase the CO2 in the atmosphere and lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect. Let’s see if that is so. Then, let’s see what this will do to the climate”, it was an immediate “This is causing horrible problems, let’s find out what they are and how.”
In order to do this, they have
(1) Falsified the past temperature record.
(2) Rigged the measurement of temperature measurement today.
(3) Changed and/or deleting information from the internet (The war on the medieval warm period, for example).
(4) Tweaked the temperature data to make it fit computer models.
(5) Capture journal editorial positions and mandate only 1 viewpoint can be published. The American Physics Association does NOT allow anyone to publish anything questioning the “Global Warming Gospel”. You can question gravity, but not Global Warming.
(6) Push stupid narratives when, time after time, the models are shown to be wrong. My current favor is the ‘truth’ that gaseous CO2 causes water nucleation and the formation of clouds.
(7) Pushed insanely expensive and impractical ‘solutions’ and push governments to mandate them despite (or perhaps because) of the economic damage and the harm it does to all but the wealthy. (examples are wind power, solar power, electric cars, etc). None of these ‘solutions’ even solves their problem and all of them seem to increase environmental damage.
Climate Change research and response are exactly like the COVID ‘research’ and response. In fact, I think the global warming movement allowed the disastrous COVID masking, lockdowns, and forced medical experimentation to occur by getting people used to government overreach and bad ‘science’.
IOW, Policy-based evidence making rather than evidence-based policy-making and taking money from poor people in rich countries in order to give it to rich people in poor countries.
PWS