Pic Of The Moment: Here's How President Jeb Bush Would Combat The Threat Of Climate Change

[EarlG]

Jeb Bush thinks climate change will be fixed by "a person in a garage somewhere"

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[onehandle]

1. What a total boob.

'The smart brother.'

[SharonAnn]

81. People have already come up with some of the solutions. Solar, Wind, etc.

Where has he been?

[SoapBox]

2. 1st Rec!

And of course that person will be working MORE hours per week for LESS money, to come up with the solution.

No...More...Bush...EVER!

[Nitram]

3. What a doofus.

Yeah, let's just wait until that happens. Meanwhile, let's all run out and buy SUVs because Technology.

[tclambert]

4. Maybe by a few billion people in garages with electric cars and solar cells on the roof.

(Roof of the garage and house, I mean, not just the roof of the car.)

In other words, his plan is to do nothing and provide no leadership at all. Sounds like he shares his father's disdain for "the vision thing."

[corkhead]

5. And I thought Dubya was the dumb one.

Thanks for posting these featuring republicon buffoonery. It is a welcome break from the infighting.

[TrollBuster9090]

62. Dubya should have said "Terrorism? Don't sweat it. Ultimately it's gonna be some guy in a garage

that comes up with a technological solution to that problem, too."

[TBF]

6. And this is "the smart one"? nt

[phantom power]

7. GOP: "The answer is tax cuts and de-regulation. What was the question?"

[mindwalker_i]

8. So people are suggesting this shows that Jeb is stupid

I submit to you that Jeb, like his brother, need to appear stupid because the republican base doesn't trust people who sound smart - it makes them (the base) feel like someone's putting one over on them. My impression of all the repub candidates is that they are all doing this. Republicans value people who sound stupid - to us at least - but seem to come up with solutions "from their gut."

[Hekate]

15. Point. It worked for Dubya.

[Moonwalk]

18. Only with the help of certain justices on the Supreme Court....

But, yes, it clearly worked in that anyone voted for him at all, listened to him regarding Iraq, and voted him in for a second term.

[arcane1]

52. He didn't need the Supreme Court in 2004 n/t

[niyad]

57. no, he had ken blackwell, and voter suppression across the land then.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. If this is the "Smart One" in the family, what must the others

be like?

Oh yeah, we already know the answer to that, I guess.

[Cyrano]

10. Dear Jeb!: I don't have a garage,

but I'm pretty sure I have a couple of suggestions on how to solve this issue.

And by the way, why did you change your last name to "!"?

[malthaussen]

11. Ah, yes, the "When we'll need it, we'll have it" argument.

Very popular among the more fanatical sci-fi crowd. The (wholly innacurate) proposition that technology always comes riding in on a white horse when all is lost.

When you think of it, it is totally compatible with both the Hidden Hand of the market and supply-side economics. It's a unified faith.

-- Mal

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. Yeah, but we DON'T need it according to them because global warming is a hoax.

[BlueJazz]

12. I've been working on the problem....getting close.

[seafan]

13. Look out. Jeb's talking 'disruption' again....

"Disruption" oozes out of his mouth again.

.....in an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader, (Jeb Bush) did offer his vision of how the climate change problem will be solved.

“Ultimately, there’s going to be a person in a garage somewhere that’s going to come up with a disruptive technology that’s going to solve these problems, and I think markets need to be respected in this regard," he said.

.....

So, basically, we're just sitting around waiting for someone in a garage somewhere to fix all of this — while, locally, we pray Miami Beach isn't swallowed by the sea.

Sure, a lot of companies got their start in garages: Apple, Microsoft, and Hewlett Packard in the tech sector, plus Disney, Barbie, and Nike.

Of course, all of those companies started with the ultimate aim of making money, not solving major world problems. Jeb seems to think the the person who fixes climate change will end up making lots and lots of money. Granted, that's a fairly common Republican way of thinking.

However, because of today's real-estate climate, we wonder if this theoretical hero could even afford a place with a garage (unless this person were living in a garage) and if he/she has enough free time while not working to pay off student debt to devote to world-saving extracurriculars. We can only hope that our garage savior does. Please, person in a garage, save us. You're our only hope.

Meanwhile, quite a few people are looking to disrupt this guy's dark money-greased hunt for White House power.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Deliberative Lunacy

is the way of governing when you can't have a decisive majority.

GHWB did this in 1992, sounding strident and shrill in the closing weeks
of the campaign. It has been argued by some that he didn't campaign
very hard and threw the election the other way.

This is such a moment.

[MH1]

16. Confirming that Dubya isn't the only Idiot Son.

Yikes.

[Martin Eden]

17. Even if he's stupid enough to believe that ...

... he's even more stupid to actually say it out loud.

[GoCubsGo]

21. It's double-edged stupidity.

He also does himself no favors within his own party of deniers, by essentially admitting that Climate Change IS a problem.

[Martin Eden]

26. Triply stupid, then

He's challenging dim son on that score.

[GoCubsGo]

19. Wow!!! A republican who actually admits Climate Change is a problem?

That's a rarity! What's not rare is his idiotic solution to the problem. Never mind that the world's climate scientists have long been telling us what is the solution...

[Fritz Walter]

20. Didn't your mother explain things to you, "Jimmy"?

James Ellis, I know your mommy didn't want to waste her "beautiful mind" about trivial things, such as body bags and death, so this probably never came up over the dinner table. So here goes:

Back to the Future Didn't. Really. Happen.

Marty McFly, Doctor Emmett Brown, even Biff Tanner were all made up characters. Nobody converted a DeLaurean into a time machine in a garage. It's all make-believe.

I know this is hard to swallow, but have a grown-up -- other than your mommy -- explain this to you in words you can understand.

OK?

Talk about the definitive "child left behind"!

[AlbertCat]

28. Nonsense!

Everyone knows that penicillin and small pox vaccine were stumbled upon in a garage! So was the A Bomb! Hell... NASA is just a big garage! Right? RIGHT?

[niyad]

58. actually, it is john ellis bush

[Fritz Walter]

65. Yeah, I realized this

A couple hours after I posted this.

[Helen Borg]

22. Not really, Jeb.

You know, if people work 60 hours a week at crappy jobs just to be able to pay basic bills.

[Moonwalk]

23. I'm confused as to how anyone in the U.S. is going to solve the problem (garage or no) when...

...the GOP, Bush included, is so against teaching kids science. Ya kinda-sorta have to know that stuff--including the real facts--if you're going to come up with any kind of solution.

That said, I am looking forward to a new phone that controls the weather. iClimate. Pull it out of your pocket and launch an app to bring down global temperatures.

[thesquanderer]

51. He meant someone in a garage in Japan. Or China. (n/t)

[tavernier]

24. I think there should be a bumper sticker

that says:

JEB BUSH - THE SMART ONE

Anyone who wouldn't "get" that, deserves him.

[vlakitti]

29. YAY!

[lark]

25. It's just all so random, according to him.

Who could actually expect company's and people's policies and practices to support this effort, it will only be solved by magic.

[matt819]

27. What a fucking moron

How about dollar for dollar tax credits for solar or wind?

How about allocating budget resources to private and public sector for partnerships to develop new technology or to efficiently use the technologies we have.

How about the fact that China and European countries are so far ahead of the US in solar technology we should be ashamed.

And this buffoon is the smart Bush?

OMG!!

[MADem]

30. Ha ha ha!

That garage looks like the Bush family meth lab!!!!!

This guy has the most flexible mouth--he keeps stuffing his big fat foot in it, and has never gotten so much as a scrape!!!!!

[Johonny]

31. and he's the smart brother!!!

[leftieNanner]

32. Yeah, and an infinite number of monkeys

with an infinite number of typewriters could write War and Peace. Oh, and they would need to work more hours per week, too.

Jeb is a disgrace.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

33. I have come to the conclusion

either he doesn't want to win the election or he is relying on thousands of low IQ followers.

[FuzzyRabbit]

41. ". . . he is relying on thousands of low IQ followers."

Bingo!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. I'll get in mine and invent an anti-gravity device too!

Oops!



....my bad....

[kenfrequed]

36. Another brainless bush

He doesn't understand science or markets.

A disruptive technology would have to produce as a product something that reduces CO2 in the air or ceases creating more of it.


We already have Solar that is getting better by the day.

Bush may as well be saying "duh...I dunno... magic elves will use magic to make everything better."

[Angry Dragon]

37. At least some of the republicans are moving up from the basement

even if it is the garage

[louis-t]

38. Except the guy will probably be living in a garage

and be forced to power his garage with new inventions.

[underpants]

39. Like that Hewlett Packers that started in a garage

And it was such a good company you'd have to be in a peer group of complete morons to screw that up, anyway the HP as business leaders like myself call it went on to win some Super Bowls. I mean, how American is THAT?!?

[kairos12]

40. He's waiting for Orville and Wilbur Wrong.

[Phlem]

42. I'm offended by the fact that

he thinks he's fooling us with the puke coming out of his mouth.

[niyad]

59. the sad fact is that there are a lot of people who do believe that garbage--and they vote!

[NCjack]

43. I mis-underestimated JEB -- his plan is better than I anticipated. That makes

me suspect that he cribbed the answer. It kinda smells like a Dick (Cheney).

[jtuck004]

44. That would be a great commercial. Next the garage needs to blow up and the meth

dealers stagger out smoke coming from their hair and clothes...

[RiverNoord]

45. lol - so... who the hell will the GOP find to run

besides dumbass baby Bush or one of the wingnuts? There isn't a single GOP candidate today who would win the Presidency against an earthworm.

[Fritz Walter]

46. Meanwhile, from the non-cognitively-impaired candidate

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/07/3677745/bernie-sanders-introduces-solar-legislation/

Could the difference be any more evident?

Hey, John Ellis BUSH: why don't you wish for a technological miracle in one hand, take a shit in the other, and see which one fills up faster?

[RoccoR5955]

47. And this is the "smart" Bush.

OMFG, what an idiot. He also wants people to work more hours. Hows about CONGRESS working more hours? They get the entire month of August off. I would like to have an entire month off paid, as my friends in Europe get.
What, he thinks that because a couple of bright guys came up with the Apple computer in their garage, that someone is gonna do it again?
Fat chance. Those guys had help from stuff like NASA, whose research into miniaturization for the space program gave them the integrated circuits that they needed to make that home computer. And that's only one thing.
What a maroon!

[Jack Rabbit]

48. Why do you suppose this sounds like a cheap politician looking for an excuse to do nothing?

??

[LeftinOH]

49. He may be referencing the famous Hewlett-Packard "garage" origins:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Garage
...and it's the first thing I thought of when reading Jeb's quote.
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[TrollBuster9090]

61. Apple Computers, too. Steve Wozniak was supposed to have tinkered together the first Apple computer

in his parents' garage.

It's basically the technological solutions version of "log cabinizing." All of the worlds great leaders will ultimately come from log cabins, like Abe Lincoln. But then again, WHO NEEDS great leaders, when all of the worlds problems will be solved not by political action, but buy GIZMOS that were tinkered together by eccentric genius' in their garages.

[cindyperry]

50. damn when you think his brother was

a dumb ass there you go

[perdita9]

53. Can we stop referring to Jeb as the smart brother now?

[raging moderate]

54. That's what spoiled rich people always do: Wait for somebody else to clean up their mess.

You can see how the world appears to them. In a way, it's not all their fault. The rest of us should not fall for their aristocratic pontificating as much as we do. They think they have higher skills. Actually, as somebody once said, what they have is "hire" skills (when they bother to use them): just hire somebody else to make things nice again for them. Always just for them. The rest of us are not real to them.

[IHateTheGOP]

55. People don't often say it, but the dad was a dumb ass too.

Especially that day he deserted a flying airplane, bailed out, and let the other on it perish when witnesses said he could have safely landed it.

[TrollBuster9090]

56. Does anybody remember TED BAXTER's solution to the world population explosion?

Ted Baxter: "The solution to the population explosion is for everybody to have lots of babies. Because someday one of those babies is going to grow up and figure out a way to SOLVE that problem!"

I think Jeb just beat his record.

[sarge43]

77. Lou Grant re Ted

I don't mind when he puts a foot in his mouth. He does that all the time. It's when he puts both in at the same time.

Works for Jeb, too.

[HassleCat]

78. Note to Jeb

Don't talk with mouth full. That goes double when it's full of your feet.

[florida08]

60. You know

You can either be part of the solution or part of the problem. He prefers the latter willingly

[Initech]

63. So if I speak Jeb! correctly...

iWatches are going to cure all our ails, and some guy in a garage is going to miraculously solve global warming.

[Amimnoch]

64. To his credit, this places him leagues ahead of his competition, and minions.

1. He acknowledges climate change.
2. He actually believes that science/technology, and not some mythical being will be the solution.

I've got to admit.. for a Republican he's mighty impressive.

[Cha]

75. lol

[Jamaal510]

87. He and Scott Walker

are probably their most competitive candidates they could field for the GE.

[NJCher]

66. how do these people get so out of touch?

Remember his father and the scanner at the grocery store?

To make a comment like Jeb's, you would have to not read anything--the internet, books, magazines, nothing.




Cher

[marions ghost]

67. Please Great Spirit

--do NOT let this idiot run the country.

We have had enough of government by the stupid for the stupid.

[valerief]

68. Ah, yes, ye olde Garage Magick!

I really hate that fuckface.

[AllyCat]

69. The majick of the freakin' marketplace will fix it

What an ijit.

[lonestarnot]

70. Fuck what a nimrod.

[Ed Suspicious]

71. Leadership. It's his version of Obama's Hope and Change only Bush's is more like Hope and Pray

somebody figures something out someday.

[HassleCat]

72. He's absolutely right

Jeb is right. It's going to be some kid in a garage. One of his kids, in fact. She'll be backing the car out of the garage and run over dad's head. If he wants to call it "disruptive technology," that's fine by me.

[classof56]

76. Good one!

Thanks for the chuckle. I know, I'm terrible, but that image...well, I can't help myself!

[raouldukelives]

73. Some think we will engineer our way out. Some are waiting for Jesus.

Both are about as likely.

Only thing I know for sure, doing the same thing we have done will end the lives of billions in horrible suffering and lead to mass extinction of animal life.

There is nobody calling for or doing business as usual with Wall St that cares a spit about anything but themselves, that much is undeniably true.

[Cha]

74. It sure as hell ain't gonna be you, bush3.

The climate change deniers will love that one..

"wait a minute.. is bush sayin' it's real? "

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

79. Chris Elliott's character lived in a garage in the sitcom Get A Life

The guy was barely rational, living in a surrealistic world.

[NewJeffCT]

80. Yep - just like how people in their garages

won two World Wars and put men on the moon. All done by a couple of dudes in their respective garages.

[rickford66]

82. On Friday I saw a photo of Jeb with a strange flag pin on DU.

It looked like a US flag and a Confederate flag together. I was at work and couldn't sign on to DU to comment. I don't remember what the post was about either. Anyone see that photo? I was surfing on a small screen Samsung and couldn't blow it up very much.

[PatrickforO]

83. Jeb is a neoliberal capitalist. He has TOTAL faith that the 'market' will take care of it all.

[wordpix]

84. I personally think it'll be fixed by a guy living in a van down by the river

referencing Chris Farley skit on SNL

[Adsos Letter]

85. magical thinking

[Monk06]

86. As if them biased Globular Warmin Alarmists climate (scientists) haven't figured it out already.

Ease up on the carbon already !!!!!!!!

[tartan2]

88. Hot damn, watch it Jeb you

have the look of your brother "W".... those beady eyes.

[cynzke]

89. It Will Have To Be.......

Since "climate-change" technology is forbidden by the GOP in all public science outlets.

[IronLionZion]

90. So let's lock JEB in a garage and not let him out

until he's fixed the problem.