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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I side with those who say we’re experiencing the end-game of unbridled capitalism.  Since the late 19th Century, we’ve seen a dwindling spiral of greed, moral decay, and poor education.  Each re-enforces the other two.

Countries that have free education and healthcare don’t have this plague.

When moral bankruptcy, selfishness, and ignorance dominate a society, the result is a forgone conclusion: that society will soon be led by a criminal sociopath, because voters are, at this point, too stupid to know the difference in the character of a person like Barack Obama and a conman like Donald Trump.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I guess I can see that 14% of these morons are women, but I’d love to get a read on the 6% (of the 600 = 36) of the insurrectionists who aren’t white.

Who else is storming the Capitol demanding four more years of Trump?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I try not to be pedantic, but “worthless” is very clearly the wrong word here.  Both these people are extremely powerful forces that are aimed at everything people of decency and compassion abhor:

• Making rich people richer, while making poor people poorer, sicker, and less educated.

• Inciting racial hatred to further their careers

• Inflicting cruel treatment on children. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As mentioned previously, in order to survive in today’s GOP, congresspeople now need bat**** crazy stories to promulgate to their supporters.  Those without a single senseless narrative to spread are susceptible to being called RINOs, and hunted down by Republican lunatics.

Pictured here at center is Andrew Clyde (R-GA), who denied that the event of January 6th at the U.S. Capitol was an insurrection, and likened the rioters to tourists.

Here he is barricading the chamber doors against the “tourists.”

I didn’t major in hospitality in college, but something seems amiss here.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In the county of Maricopa, the largest in Arizona, County Recorder Stephen Richer is one of the Republican officials tasked with maintaining files on 2.6 million registered voters, and he’s completely done with Trump’s false accusations about the 2020 presidential election.

With respect to Trump’s statement at left, i.e., that the entire voter registration database has been deleted, he wrote, “Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5.” He continued, “Here’s a great example of a plain-as-day lie that will lead our Arizona residents to think the Maricopa County database has been entirely deleted. Help me call out this lie.” (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Ever since Trump came on the political scene in 2015, we’ve been saying that we live in a “post-truth world” in which “facts no longer matter.”

Now, it seems, we’ve taken all this one step further.

For what could be called the “Trump wing” of the Republican party, the belief in at least something that is completely absurd is de rigueur, i.e. demanded by current custom.  Rock bands of the 20th Century had to have long hair, and GOP politicians who side with Trump, like Andrew Clyde (pictured), need to believe that things like the insurrection at the Capitol was a “normal tourist event.”

Like the rest of the world, Clyde has seen footage of hundreds of seditionists scaling the building’s walls, massive objects breaking windows and knocking down doors, Capitol policemen being beaten senseless, and human feces smeared on floors and walls.

But the kicker is this:  none of that matters.  In fact, quite the opposite.  Clyde has just earned his stripes by proving that he’s at least as insane as his followers.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

eighth largest agricultural county in the country

Here’s a well thought-through piece called “Five great things Biden did for the climate in 100 days — and 4 things he should do next.”

The author mentions Biden’s work in undoing the damage caused by his predecessor.  Trump was a wrecking ball for everything pertaining to the environment, climate being an important piece of this. At the very least, the world knows that the United States is back in the game, rejoining the development of solutions that will help turn the planet around from its race to destruction. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s a piece from ExxonMobil explaining how it intends to reduce emissions. A couple of observations:

Let’s begin by noticing the irony here.  This is a company that spent 25 years and countless millions of dollars hiding what it knew about the effects of its emissions on the Earth’s atmosphere and spreading what it knew to be lies about it, making it impossible for the world scientific community to develop technology that could have nipped global warming in the bud.  Now, it wants us to believe that this culture of deception and treachery has been replaced by one of kinship and a spirit of kum-ba-yah.  (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

This seems true to me.

Another factor at work here is the success of the Biden presidency so far, with its 63% approval rating.  That’s an awful lot of people in support of what’s happening in pandemic control, the infrastructure jobs bill, consumer optimism, environmental responsibility, as well as the relief that comes from having a basically honest human being in the White House and the concomitant hike in the respect accorded to the U.S. from foreign allies.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I wanted to offer another observation on the moron pictured at left, one of at least 600 thus far who committed a federal crime while believing that Trump would be there for him in the end, and issue his sorry ass a pardon.

Yes, it’s pathetic indeed, but at least it’s stupid and evil people who are getting hurt here, and it makes us feel good to know that justice is being served, and that innocent people aren’t being injured. (more…)

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