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"It'll Start Getting Cooler, You Just Watch": Trump Spits Climate Denialism Right in California's Face

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#87

It perpetuates the delusion.

It’s the same delusion that people apply to the Democrats. Too many people choose to believe the Democrats are constantly “bumfuzzled” or “incompetent” or “ineffectual” or the numerous variations thereof that allow people to preserve their hope that THIS time the Lesser Evil Gambit will turn out OK, that the Democrats are not almost equally insane or evil and therefore Biden will do what he’s sort of a little but not really said he’ll do even though he and Pelosi and the other corporate Democrats have made it clear for decades that they believe and will do exactly the opposite, because they too are psychotic and psychopathic.

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#88

You’re right that this generalized “bumfuzzled” business (our clueless leaders) is so painfully contrived, it’s hard to stomach. Gruesome Newsom talks a good game sometimes, and that’s about it. All hat, no saddle, like the rest of 'em – which might have something to do with why he gets along w Orangeman so famously! My voice is starting to sound gravelly like GN’s now, from weeks of constant smoke.

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#89

We have to take to the streets to get rid not just of this idiot but his party, the corporate duopoly that includes Biden, Pelosi, et al. If either of them is president for the next 4 years the chances of civilization surviving the next century approach zero, since neither major US party will ever do what’s necessary to prevent catastrophe. We have to insist on someone the quality of FDR and/or Churchill, and there’s no that there. Bernie or bust. Or change the Constitution and let AOC do it.

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#90

our president is so stupid that he does not understand the difference between climate and weather–the sad part --in this he is not alone–the really sad part is that so many of our so called " leaders" are intentionally participating in the collapse of our ecosystems --FOR THE MONEY

this is intentional criminality --done by ignoring the science for the last 50 years --the crime? putting every living thing on this planet in danger of extinction–can you say genocide in a global scale–because that is what we are facing

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#91

stop voting for the criminals–organize a new party–see the People’s Party–or go Green as I will this year --again

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#92

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Climate Catastrophe, we are the proud parents of quadruplet hurricanes: Sally, Paulette, Rene, and Teddy. Something you don’t see everyday…

~https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/09/sally-intensifies-into-a-dangerous-hurricane/

Vicky’s out there somewhere, too. We’ll recycle the hurricane alphabet soon.

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#93

And they grow up so fast!

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#94

Newsom- another bought and paid corporate democrat. In other words, a fucking traitor.

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#95

You really think that the US will get away with only 640,000 COVID-19 deaths by 2024?

IMO…1,000,000+.

#96

Hopefully Newsom has destroyed his chances of higher office anywhere.

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#97

We used to joke about stocking the (now tropical) Ohio & Potomac with piranhas, letting the odd number interstate bridges collapse beneath all the obese baggers’ SUVs & powering giant bug zappers with the TVA… USED to!

~https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-force-a-new-american-migration (PLEASE, donate NOW!)

~https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html

~https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-the-best-place-to-move-if-youre-worried-about-climate-change/

It’s not quite hilarious. The formerly green sites, bought up by the Greenwashing Industrial Complex (Grist, Guardian… basically Bezos, Bloomberg, Gates) all herded the yuppies up the West Coast & recently herding indentured kids into Detroit, Pittsburgh… Murika’s grooviest ‘hoods (basically, wherever deaths o’ disparity enabled old, rust-belt workers’ homes to be flipped & red-lined super-site victims gentrified into private equity slaughterhouse retirement homes?)

~https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/hot-hoods-in-the-us-10-neighborhoods-you-need-to-visit (fucking hilarious)

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#98

These press conferences have become the filter for our national Schadenfreude.

We watch trump demean and ridicule our so-called “representatives” and the “free press” and in the back of our minds we know they all deserve it. Still they try to placate and reason with a machine of their own creation that does not care what they say or what they do. It (trump) only wants what it wants. He is the most American thing in the room at any given moment.

And the most chilling aspect of these communications are to be found in the silences, in what has not been said but should. There is no one to call out what is obvious to all - that the madness is in complete control now. We only see the semblance of weakness caused by cronyism and corruption desperately trying to put a lid on it, trying to reign in their foster child “tyranny”, but to no avail.

The viewer is left with only the vague hollow hope that our representatives have indeed gotten a taste of what it’s like to yell and to not be heard, to protest and to be ignored, to be forced to choose between the lesser of two evils.

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#99

“His base lap this stuff up”
Absolutely. I read a book recently, written in 2016 by an Englishman who travelled across the US talking to Trump supporters. The number one reason that they supported him? Because he “sticks it” to the " wimpy, liberal snowflakes".
How do you fight that?

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#100

Good observation, where all this becomes karma (law) and further changes our thinking in unexpected ways. Sort of no one is right if everyone is wrong. It is like the ability to know things, we can do it, we just don’t use it enough to become good at it. Plus, we are a little stingy about who can know things.

#101

Our moron fuhrer POTUS said the very same thing about covid-19 spread. Don’t worry be happy, global warming will take care of itself. Just as he predicted covid-19 would be gone way back in March. News has emerged that the SOB knew full will revealed based on his taped admissions that the virus was a very dangerous killer. So what does that make him.

#102

Too little too late, imo. The system’s too thoroughly corrupted for voting differently to be The Solution. Meanwhile, the climate clock is ticking…

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#103

You can not win an argument with an ignorant man.

#104

Not a hard prediction for even an imbecile. Fall and winter generally mean cooler weather. He’s a nutter.

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#105

“climate change wierdos”? Just who are they? People concerned about the rapid destabilization of the climate control system that has allowed most current life, including ours, to evolve?

As for your remarks about “forest management”: you’re partially correct in one regard: past programs to completely suppress all wildfire has been pointed to over the years as unwise, creating conditions in which larger, more destructive fires might ensue. Many, if not most forest managers do, in fact, now engage in selective controlled burns. Some mismanagement practices were the result of forest managers managing them too much for “production” instead of as bio-systems. But as for '“forest litter”: Trump (and, I fear, you) are way off base. Healthy forest ecosystems DEPEND ON the decomposition of “forest litter”. If you’ve ever seen seedlings sprouting under the protection and decomposition of a “nurse log” (or stump), and if you were able to see the incredibly dense fungal mycelial networks, and all the other biota that are integral parts of the forest ecosystem, you’d have a better appreciation for all their contributions and as well, the necessity of allowing such “litter” on the forest floor.

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#106

Democrats can make a great case and convincingly explain what they want you to vote AGAINST. But four, eight, twelve years from now, what will you tell your children you voted FOR? Endless war, fossil fuel subsidies, the world’s largest for-profit penal colony/slave state, a GNP based on corporate profit and personal debt, media censorship, demonization of whistle-blowers, dissidents, truth-tellers and independent thinkers, and a “health care system” run by a cartel whose products kill more Americans than guns? Maybe you could just tell them you voted FOR the same people that made Donald Trump look good after eight years of broken promises. Or just admit that you bought a little temporary comfort for yourself by selling their future down the river to hell. But you won’t really have to explain - that will be clear to them without asking.

“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.”

  • Eugene V. Debs
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