To the reader who sent me the piece at left, I respond: Great point. Modern-day America just may be unique in all human history for the huge importance it places and the sheer joy it takes on punishing others based on their ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.
At left is a statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that indicates precisely how stupid she believes the average Trump supporter to be.
Can anyone possibly accept what she says here is true?
The catastrophe in Texas occurred because the installation of the new systems that Trump immediately saw as necessary upon taking office are as yet not complete?
Here are the words of attorney and former Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub.
It’s interesting that he begins, “When this is over,” making the presumption that it will end, and the United States will go back to the zeitgeist that was present in the pre-Trump days.
I sure hope he’s right, but our nation’s voting base is one of widespread racism, cruelty, and stupidity. Coupled with unbridled corruption in congress, we don’t exactly have a recipe for getting things back on track.
The meme here is misleading; this is a pilot program in a very small part of Switzerland.
As much as I favor solar, and siting in clever new ways, I’ll bet this effort fails, due to the crushing vibrations caused by the passing trains.
There are several independent reasons that a robust investment in solar and wind on America’s part is a good idea. One is establishing a leadership role in an industry that must grow if our planet is to continue to support our civilization; it really is a “can’t lose” proposition.
Like so many other business arenas, however, low-carbon energy and transportation has become a political football, and Big Fossil Fuels have successfully teamed up with congress and the Trump administration to end efforts in this space and hand global leadership over to the Chinese.
There is no third option?
Really?
How about the millions of rich assholes who simply have no interest in the well-being of anyone but themselves?
Here’s a video from Trump on the subject. Note that he started to blame Biden, but for some reason backed off at the end.
This was a 100-year event, perhaps even a 1000-year event, until recently. Now, disasters like this are happening at some place on the globe on a regular basis.
Could be a coincidence.
It’s understandable that this woman is angry. And she’s not alone; she is joined by tens of millions of our country’s meanest and most poorly educated people who are slowly figuring out that what little money they had is being steadily moved into the hands of the billionaires.
The MAGA crowd is not happy to learn that their costs of living (including taxes) are going up, even in the aftermath of DOGE, where their former hero Elon Musk gutted dozens of different activities that government formerly performed for the common American, e.g., weather forecasting and the maintenance of national parks, and padded his wallet with the proceeds.
One thing we all need to admit about Trump is that he makes no attempt to lead Americans forward as a united country; in fact, he goes to great efforts to pull us apart.
This makes him appear childish, even traitorous, to most people around the globe, but his supporters here in the U.S. can’t get enough of him.
Obviously this is a glimpse of our future. Higher temperatures bring the energy required for more frequent and more severe storms.
The only aspect of the tragedy in Texas that puts it in our face is that it happened in the United States, home to only four percent of the world’s population. Americans are far less concerned about the other 96%.
Of course, we can make it worse, and we’re doing precisely that, by continuing to dump greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, and by eliminating government efforts to predict the weather and mitigate climate change.
