From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/17/2026 10:25 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:42:29 +0000, Julian    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Across the West, working people are pushing back against the End Times   
   >> environmentalism of the ruling class.   
   >   
   > Pogo sez,   
   > We have met the enemy and he is us   
   >   
   > https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/   
   >   
   > Funny how that became "environmentalism of the ruling class".   
   >   
   > You can make a reasonable sounding argument for any proposition   
   > whatever.  It helps, though, that walt did that strip in1971.  Plenty   
   > of time for people to forget what it was really all about.   
   >   
   > We met the enemy, declared victory and ran from the battlefield.   
   >   
   It's not that complicated.   
      
   Cut the red tape so working people can get to work!   
    >   
   >>   
   >> When the history of our times comes to be written, it’s possible the   
   >> date of 17 November 2018 will feature prominently. For two extraordinary   
   >> events rocked Europe that Saturday. Two of our most populous cities –   
   >> London and Paris – were shaken by vast gatherings of citizens making   
   >> noisy demands of their ruling classes. And the demands could not have   
   >> been more different. One side wanted nothing less than to drag society   
   >> back into the benighted hell of pre-modern, pre-industrial existence.   
   >> The other demanded the right to drive and work and live well, free from   
   >> the onerous eco-rules of the elites. This cross-Channel clash of moral   
   >> visions may well have been the first battle in the war of the vibe shift.   
   >>   
   >> Gathered in London was Extinction Rebellion, the death cult of poshos   
   >> convinced Earth’s fiery end is imminent. Gathered in Paris were the   
   >> gilets jaunes, that mass uprising of working men and women enraged by   
   >> Emmanuel Macron’s hike in fuel taxes in the name of ‘fighting climate   
   >> change’. Six thousand of XR’s doom-fearing activists swarmed London and   
   >> blocked five of the bridges across the Thames, as they sang and danced   
   >> and wailed, medieval-style, about the ‘billions’ of souls who will   
   >> perish in the coming ‘collapse of civilisation’. It was the movement’s   
   >> first-ever ‘day of rebellion’. In Paris – and more than a thousand   
   other   
   >> locations around France – a quarter of a million citizens hit the   
   >> streets to slam the punitive eco-policies of their rulers. It was the   
   >> gilets jaunes’ first day of rebellion, too.   
   >>   
   >> That these two movements launched on the same day is a most fortunate   
   >> quirk of history, for it allowed us to see with crystal clarity one of   
   >> the most cavernous dividing lines in the 21st-century West...   
   >>   
   >> https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/16/the-great-revolt-against-greenism/   
      
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