Ted Cruz echoes Trump to slam Biden for rejoining Paris climate accord

By Yuliya Talmazan

Senator Ted Cruz repeated Donald Trump's America-centric climate rhetoric as President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris agreement on his first day in office.

Cruz, R-Texas, said in a tweet late Wednesday that by returning America to the multinational climate accord, Biden has indicated he was more interested "in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh."

When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the agreement, the biggest international effort to curb climate change, in 2017 he said: "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."


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Trump said the accord disadvantaged the U.S. — part of his broader strategy to loosen restrictions on domestic oil, gas and coal producers. The U.S. is the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China.

Cruz’s comment on Wednesday was met with criticism on Twitter, with users pointing out the obvious: the Paris agreement is a multinational effort.

France was just one of the 196 participants to commit to the 2015 accord, which aims to keep the increase in average temperatures worldwide “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., responded to Cruz in a tweet, saying: "Quick question: do you also believe the Geneva Convention was about the views of the citizens of Geneva?"

The Geneva Convention, a set of protocols that regulates armed conflict, takes its origins in Geneva, Switzerland, but is recognized by nearly every country in the world.

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Ocasio-Cortez introduced a sweeping policy resolution called "Green New Deal" that called for tackling climate change by moving the U.S. off fossil fuels in 2019, but it was defeated in the Senate.

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Pittsburgh’s mayor, Bill Peduto, also reacted to Cruz on Twitter, saying: "Here we go, again…”

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg quipped in an apparent reference to Cruz's tweet: "So happy that USA has finally rejoined the Pittsburgh Agreement. Welcome back!"

Meanwhile, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., also criticized Biden's decision to rejoin the Paris agreement, saying in a tweet it will cost American jobs and "force households and small business to pay higher utility bills." It's not clear what the costs of the U.S. rejoining the agreement would be — if any — to Americans, or how it would impact utility bills.

Biden’s rejoining of the Paris accord marks the start of a major policy reversal for the U.S. on the international stage, but he is already facing pushback at home.

Moments after Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the accord on Wednesday, a group of Republican senators called on Biden to submit his plan to re-engage the U.S. in the agreement to lawmakers for "review and consideration."

The senators’ move reflects the deep-seated political divisions over climate policy that could hamper Biden’s ambitious $2 trillion climate plan.

Reuters contributed to this report
Yuliya Talmazan is a London-based journalist.Yuliya Talmazan

 

Cruz wants to be seen as the heir apparent to Trump.

 

Donald Trump saved America from Ted Cruz.

 

She's got a wit about her!

 

Cruz is so panicked and desperate he launched a tweet aimed at Texas but using Pittsburgh for his example of the Paris agreement killing jobs in Pittsburgh because he knows his constituents are too stupid and ignorant to know Trump never brought the jobs back to Pittsburgh which is why Pittsburgh voted for Biden. And sure they will try to claim that was the Black vote but they are lying because Trump got killed in the mostly white suburbs.

 

And here I thought black people were citizens and could actually vote. I guess repukes have other ideas.

 

And they are so desperate and panicked they are now shouting the quiet part out loud. Like the Georgia GOP official that came right out and said they have to change the voting laws because if Black people vote the Republicans will never win another election. And about the only law that would help is if they just made it against the law for Black people to vote in Georgia.

 

Wait! Wait a second! Are you saying that THIS shows Ted Cruz's ignorance? Why, he's been doing that pretty much on a daily basis since he was spat out with disgust from his mother's vag.

 

'Idiot' Ted Cruz pretends to care about Pittsburgh — and it does not go well for him

Zach Heltzel
@zachheltzel
Replying to @tedcruz
Let's see what Pittsburgh has to say:

12:12 PM · Jan 21, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-trump-2650059015/?scrollPosition=4758.41650390625

 

If Cruz sees the base of his party as Q believers and those "patriots" who stormed the Capital. Then the GOP is in a lot of trouble going forward. Trumpism has been finally and fully unmasked since the election. Any coat tails Trump once had are gone.

 

This shows your Ignorance stupidity lack of education and disrespect for your own country . Sorry if you Offended but I’m not going to tell the truth constantly

 

Poor Freeloader you really don’t understand do you Ted Cruz tells it like it is you are unable to comprehend

 

Joe Biden another strike at American workers . Fantastic job guys .
Of course this just doesn’t bother Any of the people who agree freeloader because none of them motherfuckers work . The whole thread is full of free loaders from top to bottom . Freeloader brought you’s altogether isn’t that nice . .

 

I love how thick Ted Cruz is and how embarrased those who voted for him must be!

The guy could not get laid in a brothel nor get a drink in a brewery!



Thinskin

 

Actually many of the people who voted for him are as stupid and ignorant as Trump is. And those who aren't don't care because the only true value conservative/Republicans have is winning at all costs so they would vote for Cruz just like they voted for Trump now matter how corrupt and treasonous they are.

But the Democrats aren't and neither is corporate America. Democrats have filed an ethics complaint with a lot of evidence to back expelling Cruz and Hawley. But just as deadly to them is corporate America running away for them. That hits them where it hurts in the purse strings and breaks their life line for survival

 

Attaboy

 

Globalism.

 

Isolationism.

 

VoteVets
@votevets
As more than 150 National Guard in DC test positive for COVID, @tedcruz decides to put more at risk by grabbing a photo op maskless. Just when you thought you couldn’t despise a seditionist more.

12:51 PM · Jan 24, 2021