Trump & Rubio Prevent UN’s Global Climate Tax on Shipping; “Principled Free Traders” Are Mute About Stopping this Tax on Consumers

Much gratitude to President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for once again putting Americans first, and for also striking another huge blow against the climate hoax and the global “net zero” agenda.

Trump and Rubio not only refused American participation in a proposed “global emissions tax” on shipping that was being pushed by the UN and all the usual globalists, but Trump and Rubio also prevented the proposed tax from being implemented altogether. Team America made it explicitly clear that if the “international community” was going to compel Americans to pay tithes and offerings carbon taxes in service to the apocalyptic climate religion, then the U.S. would impose harsh penalties on those countries voting against us. The international community backed down. As Steve Milloy tweeted about this, “Better than merely not signing a UN climate treaty is punishing countries that do sign. Thank you, President Trump.”

The proposed emissions tax would have increased shipping costs by as much as 10% according to the Trump administration. That is equivalent to a 10% tariff on all goods shipped by ocean carrier.

It’s also noteworthy that the “principled free traders” who incessantly criticize Donald Trump’s America-first tariffs as being a “tax on consumers” are curiously silent about Trump’s success in preventing this global carbon tax from being imposed on shipping. The proposed tax would have been a clear-cut tax on consumers. But as I type this piece on October 19th, I don’t see a single story in National Review crediting President Trump for killing this tax, nor do I see any tweets from the “free traders” I often highlight who incessantly go on Twitter/X to denounce Donald Trump’s tariffs as being a “tax on consumers.” It’s almost as if they are simply America-last globalists who reflexively oppose Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Therefore, when their friends in the “international community” want to impose a tax that hurts Americans, these anti-tariff “free traders” stand down due to their hatred of Trump and his voters.

Or perhaps, they’re actually being consistent. The proposed emissions tax would also be the equivalent of imposing a 10% tariff on U.S. exports. The unilateral free traders who oppose Trump’s import tariffs have always made it clear that they are supportive of foreign trade barriers and tariffs being imposed on U.S. exports, because that helps put Americans out of work in service to offshoring American manufacturing. This emissions tax would have hurt American exports in the same way.

“‘Huge Win’: Trump Admin Delivers Blow to UN Climate Agenda, Derails ‘Ideological’ Global Carbon Tax” [Daily Wire – 10/17/2025]

A global tax on shipping emissions won’t take effect after pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the climate activist-fueled proposal.

“This is another HUGE win for [Trump],” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “Thanks to his leadership, the United States prevented a massive UN tax hike on American consumers that would have funded progressive climate pet projects. Our country will continue to lead the way and put America FIRST.”

Last week, the Trump administration warned that the tax could increase shipping costs by up to 10% and said that it was considering a number of retaliatory actions for countries that support the measure. These actions included investigating countries pursuing anti-competitive practices, imposing visa restrictions and increasing processing fees, and placing additional port fees and commercial penalties.

Donald Trump correctly called the proposed tax on shipping emissions a “green scam” while threatening retaliatory tariffs on those countries who would try to impose this tax on us:

“Landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions in tatters after US pressure” [BBC – 10/17/2025]

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.

More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.

But US President Donald Trump had called the plan a "green scam" and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they voted in favour of it.

Better than merely not signing a UN climate treaty is punishing countries that do sign. Thank you, President Trump. https://t.co/0NnxOb7bOs pic.twitter.com/CUsUzrJJCE

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) October 17, 2025

Thank you President Trump and Secretary Rubio for continuing to put America first.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Boston Harbor
Charles Manger

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The Morning Report — 10/20/25

Good morning kids. So, considering CBD is our art aficionado and has spent much of the past year shuttling between the USA and Paris, after learning that the Louvre was broken into and robbed of Napoleon's jewels, he remains unvailable for comment!

The French National Police refuse to comment on the status of the famed Jewel-encrusted Dilde de Bone-Apart. If that was purloined, it would be a tragedy of historic proportions! Fess up CBD!!!

Thankfully I think the Rubied Yacht of Omar Khayyam is still secure.

Meanwhile over the weekend, an utterly meaningless. astroturfed phony baloney mass protest occurred that consisted of completely bought and paid for rent -a-crowds as well as the easily duped and braindead that constitute much of the Democrat voter base, along with perverts and violent goons who have no compunction about gunning down school children, police and their political enemies — of course all in the name of peace love and understanding in order to preserve our precious democracy! Indeed we have No Kings — but sadly we are a nation that as was on full display on Saturday, overrun with diseased schlongs.

Americans rage against a “king” they can see, while bowing to ten million unseen dukes—bureaucrats, judges, and technocrats who rule every corner of daily life. . . For the fact is that Americans are governed by innumerable unelected bureaucrats, “human resource” meddlers at work, layers of administrative deflectors at school, incomprehensible protocols set by medical insurance companies and connived at by hospitals, the Internal Revenue Service, and now, slouching towards the United Nations to be born, what threatens to be a worldwide public health super-government, grinding to indiscriminate dust every last feature of an independent local human life. . . . . It’s easy to oppose Donald Trump, because he’s visible, all too visible, and he invites the outrage. But let’s be honest. In a healthy society, there would be no superhighways from the national capital directly into your living room or into your child’s brain. Of the 365 days of the year, you might spend two or three of them grouching about the president, not because you belonged or did not belong to his party, but because most of human life would be quite separate from the whole monstrous thing we take for granted as the national government. We don’t want a king, but we’ll take ten million dukes instead? “Here, peasant, sign this petition against kings, and be quick about it,” says the duke’s flunky. “If you value your freedom, you’d better do it.”

The irony here is that President Trump's legacy, if successful Please God, will be to denude as much of the ill-gotten power of an all too powerful and corrupt tyrannical bureaucracy and return as much of it it not all of it back to where it was intended to be by our Founders, with the people.

Yeah, I seem to remember that popular Leftist chant from the 60s "Power to the People," Right on! Except for Democrat/Leftists, they mean Their people and only their people.

Funny how quickly the Dems seem to forget that their hero/demigod FDR by executive order set up actual concentration camps where thousands of Americans of Japanese were forced to live during World War 2 because they were considered potential if not actual enemies. And yet George Takei (Tacky-Eye) uses it to rip America and Americans in general whenever he has the opportunity while omitting the context as well as the salient and crucial fact of who and which party was responsible. But Donald Trump is literally Hitler? And now a "King?"

If Trump were a King wouldn't he have shut down the national mall and called out the Guard in every city to arrest if not order them to OPEN FIRE on the protesters?

But of course Barack Hussein Obama preventing World War 2 Vets from visiting the memorial in DC as a reaction to congressional budget cuts, was not an act of a tyrannical king! Of course not!!!!

King or no king, Trump had better take care of this madness:

In a suspected cyberattack, a shadowy hacking collective has reportedly published the personal information of hundreds of U.S. federal employees, including agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the FBI.

Considering the growing number of violent assaults on police and federal officers for merely doing their jobs in rounding up criminals and illegal aliens, whoever did this is counting on individuals to use this information to target police, since after all if Trump is Hitler, then the police, ICE and National Guard are the equivalent of the Nazi SS and Einsatzgruppen and so gunning them and/or their families down is a blessed act of resistance to tyranny.

Oh to be able to go back in time to prevent America's original transexual Democrat terrorist John Wilkes Booth from assassinating Lincoln and then convincing Honest Abe to wield the terrible swift sword of justice to utterly destroy the remnants of the Democrat Party from ever rising again. Then a quick trip to Russia put two behind the ears of Marx and Engels.

As long as I have access to the Wayback Machine, I'd set it back 1600 years and take care of this Mohammed cancer, because look at what we're dealing with all these centuries later...

Yahya Sinwar’s Memo for October 7, 2023: Kill as Cruelly as You Can, and Record It “Slaughter them. End the children of Israel.”

With that, Lurker-extraordinaire Prof. Victor Davis Hanson still asks:

Who or What Will Finally End Hamas? Hamas is an irredeemable terrorist cartel that subverts Gaza, uses civilians as shields, and must be dismantled and barred from power before any genuine peace can begin.

The problem, sir, is not Hamas. The problem is ISLAM. Blaming Hamas for what happened on 10/7 is like blaming guns for school shootings.

And so it seems as if this ceasefire in Gaza was, as I had feared a fools' (plural) errand. In this case the son-in-law and the business rival turned political ally. . . But that said, the ceasefire and its failure, despite the release of the hostages, is ultimately of course on Trump himself.

President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff — the pair largely responsible for Trump’s Israel-Hamas peace deal — provided rare insight into how the administration is trying to disarm the terror group and re-establish secure leadership in war-torn Gaza. Kushner and Witkoff explained how they brokered the 20-point deal and what the next steps are on the Sunday episode of “60 Minutes” ahead of their trip to Israel on Monday.Kushner warned that they expect Hamas to “try to reconstitute and take back their positions” within the power vacuum. “The success or failure of this will be if Israel and this international mechanism is able to create a viable alternative. If they are successful, Hamas will fail, and Gaza will not be a threat to Israel in the future,” Kushner said.

I guess it had to be tried if for no other reason than to liberate the Israeli hostages. But at the cost of over a thousand followers of Islam . . .

Dr Hagai Ben-Artzi is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law. And he is deeply critical of the deal Netanyahu has agreed to with Hamas, believing that the exchange of nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners, 250 of whom are convicted murderers serving life sentences, for 20 Israeli hostages, will only lead in the future to hundreds or thousands of Israeli victims of those prisoners being freed today. More on Ben-Artzi’s scathing remarks can be found here: “Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi: We are signing off on the next massacre and kidnappings,” by Uzi Baruch, Israel National News, October 9, 2025:

I hope Bibi's in-law is wrong but that is for sure hope over experience in a sea of blood spilled over centuries.

Have a good day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• ICE, DHS, DOJ, and the FBI were reportedly targeted.
  Hackers Dox Hundreds Of Federal Agents In Suspected Cyberattack

• From the inimitable Robert Spencer, a last-minute plea for New Yorkers to come to their senses.
  A Mamdani For No Seasons

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Daily Tech News 20 October 2025

Top Story

• Four words to drive a stake into the heart of Sam Altman: Artificial intelligence is mid. (Anil Dash)
  
  Put less succinctly:

  Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.

  But who exactly feels that way?
  
  Turns out, almost everyone in the industry:

  What's amazing is the reality that virtually 100% of tech experts I talk to in the industry feel this way, yet nobody outside of that cohort will mention this reality.

  Can't risk bursting that don't-ever-call-it-a-bubble.
  
  

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - October 19, 2025 [Doof]

The Sunday ONT is here. And so are you. As are the gray boxes. Content is MoMe focused, but this is an open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Gun Thread: Post-TXMoMe X Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Post-Texas MoMe Edition? Please use this thread to discuss your TXMoMe X experience!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Ovens...A Poor Man's Grill?

Yes, yes, I know. Grilling and barbecuing is always preferable to cooking in the oven. Except that isn't really the case, especially when it is spitting rain and windy and altogether unpleasant.

Can I grill or smoke or barbecue in the rain? Yes.

Do I enjoy it? No.

And when there are excellent recipes for such standards as pulled pork or barbecued chicken that work quite well in the oven...why not give them a try?

Last night I made chicken thighs. Yup! Plain old chicken thighs, and not from the fancy end of the display case. No, these were the commodity thighs that were minimally trimmed. And that's how I like them, because I get a bounty of several ounces of chicken fat and skin that is just perfect for a small portion of chicken cracklins, or in Chez Dildo...Gribenes.

To be fair to my very good local supermarket, their commodity chicken is miles better than the big chains' versions. But still, fancy it ain't!

I salted the thighs a couple of hours before cooking them, then dusted them with my own dry rub (sound familiar? I wrote about the grill version a couple of weeks ago) and put them on a rack in a baking sheet, then into a 300 degree oven for about an hour. Sort of a reverse sear! Then out, painted with my own barbecue sauce (thank you again, Bluebell), and into a 425 degree oven for 10 minutes or so, just until they got nice and brown.

The advantage of the outdoor grill and smoker is obvious...all of that delicious smoke and byproducts of fat combustion that flavors the meat. But the oven version is solid, with the advantage of being able to control the temperature very easily. From summer to winter I'll bet my grill high-end temperature varies by 100 degrees!

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First-World Problems...

Hex, Torx, Slotted, Phillips, Square, and there are others! I think I have a Tri-Wing driver from about 10 years ago when I was pretending to repair a laptop.

The number of different fasteners is bad enough, but keeping the various wrenches and drivers in some sort of order is impossible.

Gun and gun accessories might be the worst offenders. I think every scope I have uses different size Hex or Torx bolts! And the makers helpfully provide a wrench! But...throw it out, knowing that I probably have seven just like it?

No! That is wasteful. I'll put them in one of the 83 small containers I save for just this eventuality!

Now I need a label maker...

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Can Religious Morality Be Coherent Without Belief?

Charles Murray of "The Bell Curve and "Losing Ground" fame, has written a book called Taking Religion Seriously.

That, in and of itself is a good thing, as the examples of the failures of societies that move away from religion are piling up. You know...the West! But his take seems to suggest an intellectual approach to religion, rather than the more common belief-based one. And that is immensely appealing to me, because regardless of the significant scholarship of Judaism, the intellectual analysis of Christianity is many times larger and more comprehensive.

Taking Religion Seriously is Murray's autobiographical account of the decades-long evolution in his stance toward the idea of God in general and Christianity in particular. He argues that religion is something that can be approached as an intellectual exercise. His account moves from the improbable physics of the Big Bang to recent discoveries about the nature of consciousness, from evolutionary psychology to hypotheses about a universal Moral Law. His exploration of Christianity delves into the authorship of the Gospels, the reliability of biblical texts, and the scholarship surrounding the resurrection story.

No matter one's religion...no matter one's belief or lack thereof, the intellectual and moral structure of Christianity has had a profound effect on the world. We live in a country founded by deeply devout men who also appreciated their religion for its ethical constructs. We are the product of Western culture that is based heavily on the teachings of the Bible (yes, both the Jewish and the Christian bibles) and the extrapolation of its teachings to an entire world.

And that is separate from the also vitally important belief in God, and his influence on us. What makes Murray's take so important is that in our current post-religious world, it is possible to construct a coherent moral framework from the teachings of Christianity. Is it ideal? No...absolutely not. Eventually it will fail in the absence of God, but perhaps as a bridge to a world in which there is a renewed sense of faith and religiosity (and there are signs that it is coming) it is a worthwhile endeavor.

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Reading Thread 10/19/2025

Howdy Readers! Welcome to the Reading Thread, your Sunday morning source for the insightful, lively and spirited discussion of books 'n stuff. I'm filling in for a while as this space re-invents itself under new management so please set your near-term expectations accordingly low.

What do we have this week? Why, it's none other than Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. As I mentioned in the other editions of the Reading Thread you may not always get such fabulous selections as this.

Anyhoo, feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined.

I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!

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Daily Tech News 19 October 2025

Top Story

• Solar car maker Aptera is about to go public and I'm worried. (Elektrek)
  
  Also, prescient. This article was posted ten days ago.
  
  Aptera listed on NASDAQ last week with a share price around $20.
  
  Three days later it's trading below $6.
  
  Aptera has spent 19 years and an untold amount of money - something like $150 million - trying to build what has been unkindly but accurately described as an electric tricycle, and all it has to show for its efforts is a handful of shiny prototypes.
  
  Though given how similar the protypes have all appeared over the years it's not unimaginable that they just painted a solar cell pattern over the original diesel/electric model and called it a day.
  
  Production was originally scheduled to start in 2008.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" October 18, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Ladies and gentlemen, Ette's and Rons, welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. Coming to you live from the one, the only Texas MoMe X. Live might be generous. Some pre-blogged content. Ok, most of it. Let's see what's on the docket this evening.

The 3D's are in Corsicana this evening. JQ has the door, bar, snacks, and jukebox tonight - for one night only... No tokens required for the restrooms.

*****

Coincidence that one would go to great lengths to make the journey to Corsicana?

My 3x grandfather, after serving in The War of Northern aggression, walked (no horse) from Eastern Tennessee to Corsicana, Texas. I think about that a lot. He must have known someone there. This picture was shared by a relative in California. pic.twitter.com/iX09Y74a0s

— Clint (@TexianKlan) August 28, 2025

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The Music Thread

[Mystery Click dedication to our resident SQ Fan]

Good evening, Charles is on vacation. So, you get what you pay for. Yours truly.

Once upon a time in a different world that stereo looked vaguely familiar. The Fabulous and I downsized earlier in the 2000s. We now have something much more compact, Bose Wave Sound. But, all good things must come to an end and so is that particular model.

Ours is still working and it works wonderfully with our turntable. So our stereo and turntable sit with the large dust collector television in the living room.

How do you listen to your music?

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Hobby Thread - October 18, 2025 [Astro Rex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on space shuttle air transport.

Are you thinking "That's an oddly specific hobby but I love space and modeling and I like history and traveling and engineering. There are so many aspects that make this more of an interest than a hobby. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.

Going to be a slightly abbreviated thread this week...for reasons. TRex is in an undisclosed location doing undisclosed things.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 18

Courtesy EJ

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct 18

I've saved some spring flower photos from Neal in Israel. I like these. Above, an Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) that seems fitting today. Below, a dark hollyhock to attract some critters.

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They don't want kings. What DO they want?

One of my lefty social media "friends" seems really excited about the big protest planned for today, explained below by the "Tony Michaels Meme Machine":

The second No Kings protest against Donald Trump is planned nationwide for Saturday, October 18. Organizers are expecting over 10 million participants, which would make it one of the largest in American history. These events are organized by groups such as 50501, Indivisible movement, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Third Act, and Move On.

"No Kings" is an ultra-short theme which allows people to imagine that any criticism that they have of the President is shared by their fellow protesters and to misrepresent current events in ways that suggest that Trump wants to be a king for life. But sometimes I wonder if they have a shared vision of what they DO want?

What kind of leadership did they think they had when Joe Biden was in office? With Kamala's book tour underway and new interview clips starting to appear, I am thinking about their alternative in the last election, too:

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Mug H/T - JQ]
[Music H/T - Hadrian]

*****

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Albuquerque)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) Are you kidding me? No, you may not run with anything sharp.
4) To those in Texas for the Texas MoMe, be careful with your travels. No, you may not request prays for bail money.
5) Have a great week!!

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Daily Tech News 18 October 2025

Top Story

• Your AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed Texas land. (Tech Crunch)
  
  You had me at fracked gas.
  
  
  
• Amazon has unveiled plans to build up to a dozen modular nuclear reactors in Richland, Washington generating a total of 960 megawatts. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  We can still use the bulldozers, right?

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Here's The Peck Of ONTs That Peter Piper Picked

Hi folks! Welcome to theTxMoMe Friday ONT! How many of y'all have made it to Corsicana already? I hope you're enjoying our Texas weather.

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