Lux Lucet

“We’ll always have Paris.” Those words, uttered by Humphrey Bogart, are among the most iconic in film history.

Fast forward seventy-five years and Donald Trump flips the script, saying Thursday in so many words “We’ll never have the Paris Accord!”

Well, praise the Lord and amen!

The Paris Accord was a disaster for this nation, and Trump was absolutely right to reject it.

Let’s take a closer look

Trump’s Thursday Speech

Running about 27 minutes, Trump’s speech was music to the ears of his supporters and a trigger to his foes.

Said Trump, “Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord…As President, I can put no other consideration before the wellbeing of American citizens. The Paris Climate Accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers – who I love – and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production…Compliance with the terms of the Paris Accord and the onerous energy restrictions it has placed on the United States could cost America as much as 2.7 million jobs by 2025…I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States – which it does – …while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world’s leading polluters…In short, the agreement doesn’t eliminate coal jobs, it just transfers those jobs out of America and the United States, and ships them to foreign countries…This agreement is less about climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States…The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries…The fact that the Paris deal hamstrings the United States, while empowering some of the world’s top polluting countries..the real reason why foreign lobbyists wish to keep our..country ties up and bound down by this agreement: It’s to give their country an economic edge over the United States. That’s not going to happen while I’m President…The Paris Agreement handicaps the United States economy…I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris…Foreign leaders in Europe, Asia, and across the world should not have more to say with respect to the U.S. economy than our own citizens and their elected representatives. Thus, our withdrawal from the agreement represents a reassertion of America’s sovereignty..AS President, I have one obligation, and that obligation is to the American people.

Not only were Trump’s words a stinging rejection of the globalist Paris Climate Accord, but conversely they represented the single strongest statement of American sovereignty by a president in my lifetime.

Well done, Mr. President. Well, done.

My One Concern

As strong as this speech was, it was not without blemish.

No sooner had Trump announced the US was pulling out the Paris Accord than his trumpet made a somewhat uncertain sound. He remarked, the US will “begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States.”

Why not just leave the Accord and let that be that?

As Trump himself said, even implementing the Paris Agreement in full would make no difference in the overall global temperature by 2100. If this is true, and I suspect it is, why not just let this atrocious New World Order nonsense collapse under the weight of its own stupidity and be done with it?

Further, Trump correctly noted that “risks grow as historically these agreements only tend to become more and more ambitions over time.

A little leaven leavens the whole lump. Why give the globalists a chance to work their evil at all? Pull the rotten thing up by the roots, cast it into the deepest part of the ocean, and be done with it.

The USA forever! The Paris Accord never!

Trigger Warning!!

It hardly needs to be said that Trump’s audacity was not universally, shall we say, appreciated. He has something like genius level talent for triggering his opponents. And he certainly did in this case.

My personal favorite rant came from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who mocked Trump’s promise to pull out of the Paris Agreement, even before Trump made his Thursday announcement, by saying “that’s not how it works.”

Continued Junker, “The Americans can’t just leave the Climate Protection Agreement…So this notion, ‘I am Trump, I am American, America First and I’m going to get out of it’ – that won’t happen…We tried to explain that to Mr. Trump in Taormina in clear German sentences…It seems our attempt failed, but the law is the law, and it must be obeyed.”

Here’s a clear English sentence for Mr. Junker and his European Commission flunkies: The governing of the United States of America is the sole business of the American people and their duly elected representatives; you have no say in the matter whatsoever.

Obama made a bad deal, one that was never constitutionally ratified. Trump nullified it. End of story.

The Antichrist Roman Church-State was another victim of the Trump trigger. “If he really does (pull out), it would be a huge slap in the face for us,” opined Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

One of the odder meltdowns came from the ACLU, which accused Trump, in so many words, of racism for this decision. “Pulling out of the Paris Agreement would be a massive step back for racial justice, and an assault on communities of color across the U.S.” Go figure.

Bill Nye just couldn’t resist chiming in. He tweeted, “U.S. chooses not to stay in Paris accord. The “Losers?” Everyone on Earth. Sad.” On the contrary, what’s sad is a man posing as a scientist who in reality is nothing more than a Social Justice Warrior in a bow tie and lab coat.

Crony capitalist Elon Musk, whose business celebrity is matched only by his firm’s singular lack of profitability, took his toys and went home, tweeting “Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for American or the world.”

Actually, it’s a great day for lovers of liberty in America and throughout the world, even if it means Musk’s overpriced cars and solar panels lose a little bit of their shine.

I could go on, but by now you probably get the picture. All the usual suspects – Hollywood, the media, bit shot CEOs, etc. – were in full meltdown mode.

It’s remarkable how the same people can be so wrong about so many things so consistently.

I could get angry and frustrated with them. But I prefer to look on the bright side. These guys always give me fresh material to write about. Where would I be without them?