They just don’t want to acknowledge it’s happening already because that would drive markets further down. It’s happening.

I don’t particularly want to watch the world burn, but if it’s out of my hands you might as well pass me some popcorn 😂

This guy literally sourced all of his claims from a fake economist who was actually an anagram of his own name. I wish I was joking

But, but… I thought we were bringing industry back! I thought we were STRONG and POWERFUL and everyone was going to be riding on bald eagles with gold bars in their pockets under Trump 🙄

This timeline is ass.

You know what they say about broken clocks

Now this is epic

Chat, are we cooked? (Yes)

Mentally, this is where I am at: https://youtu.be/rN6fcu1qCcw

The California cases were interesting, because at first I was almost inclined to agree with the prosecution, it seemed like blatant negligence. That being said, these people were clearly unwell, punishing them for the horrors brought forth by their poor decisions seems gratuitous. I think it would easily be a slippery slope without the sweeping ban that has been put in place on that.

Punishments also do not prevent or deter these things from happening in the first place, IMO. Investing in things like education and making healthcare and treatment accessible do.

I mean, even from a fiscally conservative standpoint, on paper it is substantially cheaper to rehabilitate people than it is to house them in a jail or prison. Tax payer funded slave labor sounds pretty good in comparison when you’re not paying taxes I guess.

I knew it was bad when the general consensus on the sycophantic subreddit r/conservative also held the opinion that these people should be held accountable. How terrible do you have to be to piss off your own loyalists? This timeline does not even feel real sometimes

That ship may have already sailed before this administration took over, but my hope was that society could restructure itself in a way that would still sustain human life. At this point we may even be on an extinction track if nothing changes. The world is chaotic enough at 1.5C. I shutter to imagine a world at 4C.

The article was not paywalled, also I think the term we like to use for this phenomenon is “brain drain.”

The climate research community has been gutted by what’s happening with the US government. NOAA and NWS collected some of the most important and valuable data in the world for this and now that’s pretty much over. It will take decades to undo what has been done in only a few months and I’m being hopeful.

Money aside, as a society we should probably be putting more investment into keeping older, but fuel efficient cars on the road. The carbon footprint from manufacturing the car is already there and the with the fuel mileage/emissions/ longevity on something like a used Camry, a Tesla probably wouldn’t even last long enough to pass the break even point.

Buying a new EV makes sense for someone who’s driving a gas guzzling clunker, but most people driving those vehicles probably couldn’t afford an EV anyway.

This will probably fuck up the used car market so it’s stupid regardless, but we don’t have to keep buying new shit especially if it doesn’t make sense from an environmental standpoint as well as a financial one.

What’s that in Scaramuccis?

We gotta fight fire with fire. Avoiding potentially “dangerous rhetoric” is part of what got us here, we need to tell it like it is and start referring to things as “common sense” because that will reach the majority of Americans.

Driving into protesters is essentially legal in Florida per the Riot Bill if I recall. They made caveats to it like they have to be obstructing the road, as if that makes it much better. https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1/?Tab=BillHistory

For some reason Gary Peters aligned with Schumer on the spending bill, but also signed this

As horrible as this is, the hypocrisy is what pisses me off the most. Absolutely rubbing salt into the fact that these people are political targets

I’ll stop calling and emailing when they start doing their damn job. The status quo bullshit has to end, now.

No shit, someone just pulled that number out of their ass because it sounded good. Regardless of how much bullshit and nonsense this is, I would rather have a functional government keep the money and use it effectively than whatever the fuck this administration is currently doing.