The most horrifying part of all this is he openly admits this.
Normally, those trying to overthrow a world government keep their true intentions secret as long as possible. Here, those intentions are part of his campaign platform.
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This is a critical step for the entire world in mitigating climate change, because of China’s dependence on coal.
Here’s Exxon’s survey on the subject.
What purpose does it serve?
Well, if most people either a) don’t understand the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, or b) reject what our scientists are telling us, the oil giant stands a good chance of getting us off their back so they can continue to bake this planet into a cinder, while raking in record profits from the agony they’re inflicting.
What we’ve done to our teachers, in terms of underpaying them, putting them in harm’s way, and cutting off their means to discipline our children, is deplorable. We get precisely the next generation of idiots and juvenile delinquents we so richly deserve.
It’s almost as if certain of our politicians gain from our ignorance. But that couldn’t be, could it? We couldn’t be electing people who appeal to, and profit from the diminution in our capacity to think critically and rationally. Could we?
Here’s a meme of global warming from a reader whose screen name is “climate change is crap.”
The article on the subject linked above is from Scientific American.
This is fact, and here’s an opinion: People who deliberately spread disinformation are despicable.
The meme here came from a reader who seems not to understand that everyone supports law enforcement as long as its actions are legal and fair.
What Mary Trump says here is something you either understand or you don’t.
Fortunately, that means huge voter turnout, which is never good for Republicans.
What Kennedy said here was wonderful, yet how far from today’s political discourse it is.
The meme here from a reader.
These really are five excellent sentences–for people who have no understanding of how the developed world became developed, and how the United States became the world’s super-power following the close of the Second World War.
High marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they control created a huge, well-educated, extremely productive and prosperous middle class.
Most of that is gone now. 40+ years of trickle-down economics has left the billionaire class with unprecedented wealth, and most common Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
This disease is almost entirely absent in the rest of the First World. It has virtually no bearing on how people live in Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Oceana, and the other most affluent countries dotted around the remainder of the globe.
Another clever reference to the ultimate disposition of Donald Trump.
As readers know, I’m with Snoopy on this one.
