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We talked earlier about the big money climate change discussion and all the private jets flying in for it. Here's an updated article.
Billionaires descend on Sun Valley in private jets to talk about climate change
The private conference was canceled last year because of the pandemic
By Bradford Betz FOXBusiness
Sources tell FOX Business' Charlie Gasparino that Sun Valley residents are complaining that corp jets owned by moguls disrupted other flights.
A cabal of some of the most high-profile people in media, finance, and technology descended on Idaho’s resort town of Sun Valley in private jets this week to tackle, among other things, climate change.
On Tuesday, the day the conference kicked off, traffic from private jets got to be so busy that the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned planes on the West Coast from taking off.
The FAA told Fox News it briefly held planes on the ground at their departure airports to avoid congestion in the airspace around Sun Valley.
The manager of the Friedman Memorial Airport in the neighboring town of Hailey, Idaho told NPR ahead of the conference he expected more than 90 private planes.
A session preaching the perils of climate change to people who flew to the event on their own carbon-emitting Gulfstream jets rankled some business leaders that Fox Business contacted earlier in the week.
"Talking climate change on his private jet?" one CEO remarked with a laugh, referring to Gates.
One Twitter used pointed out the "Climate Hypocrisy."
The private conference, hosted by the private investment bank Allen & Company, has been held in July every year since 1983, with the exception of last year due to the pandemic.
Neurologist Dr. Frank Petito rides to a morning session at the Sun Valley Conference on July 08, 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Getty Images)
The event is largely a summer camp for some of the world’s billionaires. Notable attendees this year included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, whose public image has taken a hit in recent months over his divorce announcement and reported ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The event concluded on Saturday, with a closing speech by billionaire Warren Buffett.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
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These are the souls which are destroying America.
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The rules don't apply to them.... or else they buy "carbon credits" to make themselves look and feel better.
Quando omni flunkus moritati
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The rules don't apply to them.... or else they buy "carbon credits" to make themselves look and feel better.
I at first misread that as "cartoon credits". Which seems oddly appropriate.
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I’d like to read Warren Buffet’s closing speech to the assembly.
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The rules don't apply to them.... or else they buy "carbon credits" to make themselves look and feel better.
I at first misread that as "cartoon credits". Which seems oddly appropriate.  Yes it does. The emperor wears no clothes.
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I’d like to read their obits.
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I’d like to read their obits. +
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The real married couple players travel in 2 separate jets. Incase one crashes, they both don't get killed in the crash. His and Hers private jets, very environmentally conscious.
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Pompous bassholes….every one of them 🤬
They know how to live your life better than you do. As far as they are concerned you’re just a peon.
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Ok!!!! We’ve got em ALL in one spot......
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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It was much funnier a few years back when they all tried to fly their private jets to Europe for a global warming conference and it got snowed out.
Progressives are the most open minded, tolerant, and inclusive people on the planet, as long as you agree with everything they say, and do exactly as you're told.
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"Do as I say - NOT as I do"
Right?
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
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Getting easier and easier to see where the problem is...
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Masters of the Universe. All consider themselves morally superior, intellectually superior, financially superior, and do-gooder superior to all us worker peasants and serfs.
Just ask them. They'll tell you.
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