If he got more sleep instead of “working” 20 hour days, he might’ve worded that more carefully. As in, for all the gun toting far righters, there have surprisingly been no attempts at something similar on those two.
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Trump’s ties to far-right activist alarm GOP: From the Politics Desk
Plus, the questions Harris and Trump didn't answer at the debate.
Trump allies worry his ties to far-right activist Laura Loomer could cost him Georgia and North Carolina
The former president's allies say Trump needs to put distance between himself and Loomer — or the association risks alienating key groups of voters in battleground states.
Far-right activist Laura Loomer's access to Trump reveals a crisis in his campaign
Loomer, who has pushed a number of conspiracy theories, was on Trump's plane to the debate and accompanied him to memorial services on Sept. 11.
Would you look at that? Trump is shooting himself in the foot again....with a rocket launcher.
Have you already forgotten the attack on the Pelosis ?
I dunno. I have a family member that takes him pretty literally and she's all but disowned me.
You could be right about the diminishing resource that is fossil fuel but we've been hearing the alarms about this since around 1882 when Standard Oil incorporated. What the market will bear. ITMT: I am all over the idea of planting stuff to deal with CO2.
I think we all do that to some extetent. Do you really think Cackles has a central governing philosophy in her head? She goes from really enjoying the high life and locking up poor people for minor offenses and using them for slave labor while in the other breath, speaking of the need for communism in the other. (No, I don't think she is a communist. That would actually require having a political center.
But we have ways of predicting future behavior. I think this lady has got it at around 2:22
Won't work. There is not enough land or water in the world to plant enough stuff to compensate for CO2 at current rmission levels.
Gossil fuels need to die. Soon.
I highly doubt that. The Sahara dessert alone is nearly the size of the entire CONUS. Imagine if we can turn that into lush forest.
It'll be fine.
"I made up an impossible-with-current-technology-and-political-will solution, so don't worry about this real life issue"
Might as well claim that we shouldn't worry about people starving to death because we can imagine Star Trek replicators.
I think we could end starvation, today, right now with existing technology. What we don't have is the economic and political architecture with which to do it. Same with making the Sahara a lush jungle. I hear good things from MIT and Israel and more about doing just this sort of thing.
ITMT: It is the climate hysterics, warning we'll be out of oil back in 1880s, that whole nations will be under water by 2007, wanting us to base our energy policies on unicorn farts. I know which side I'd rather be on.
We can’t rely on “what if” solutions that would involve improbable time, money and energy in itself though. The elephant in the room is our population has increasingly outpaced a healthy, practical way of supporting it for quite some time now thanks to our ever expanding desire for “progress” and “civilization”. The funny thing about human beings is how our self-aggrandizement seems to overshadow everything, even when attempts to show concern for something else. There may be selfless outliers here and there, but deep down all we really care about is our own survival.
Kevin Costner’s character on the show Yellowstone summed it up best:
“There will come a time when earth sheds us like dead skin. And it will be our own fault.”
Another character elaborates upon something similar in a different episode:
Thomas Rainwater: There's two futures for this valley: One with the land stripped of the second homes and hobby farms, and returned to the way it used to be... You drive twenty miles into the park and that's how our whole nation looked at one time. Modern society wants people to go to school and learn a trade to make money to buy food, clothes, a place to live. But on land that hasn't been ravaged by man, you don't need to buy food. You just go find it. You don't buy clothes, you make them. And you don't buy houses, you seek shelter. You live with the land. Not on it.
Doug: You said two futures. What's the other?
Thomas Rainwater: The other's where you live. Concrete world with stick houses and grass that can't survive without fertilizer and sprinklers. You know someday this planet's going to shake your world off its back like dirty water.
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So you've made up a scenario where you can make it someone else's problem down the line rather than attempting to do something to address it now.
How boomer of you.
You don't have the water for that.
And no, you can't just use desalinated sea water. You don't have the energy for that. We could far sooner afford to get rid of fussil fuels globally than providing enough water for the Sahara.
And even if that would work, once a forest is there, it only very slowly absorbs CO2 because any eaten/rotting biomatter gives the CO2 back. You only continually absorb as slowly as some of it is bound in the soil instead of properly being digested/burned/whatever.
What do you mean, "what if"? Go outside and plant something. That's a start.
We do fear science and technology (and man made development). But it isn't all Pandora's box. I prefer a man made cure to a disease than a nature created disease itself.
Again: go out and plant a tree. There you go. That's a start.
I have to wonder how climates will change if you turn the Sahara into a jungle. Won't new fresh water rain fall be a norm?
I trust my jungles to have a more positive impact on a global scale on balance before I trust batteries made by poisoning African villages.
To me? The Green Scam is about impoverishing and controlling people. Destroy farmers and cause food shortages. Shut down nuclear energy and cause shortages to ration out. Etc. I don't want to shut up, obey, get in the pods, eat the bugs.
Clearly your other half is the actual brains of you two. Shows how little you know of nature and science. Explain that's actual professionals in their respective fields on the subject and they'll point out every single flaw or problem with your little "theory".
A secretive group recruited far-right candidates in key US House races. It could help Democrats
Several little-known pro-Trump candidates are running for Congress in key races as independents, and an Associated Press review finds they were recruited and backed by the same shadowy group.
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3 Georgia Women, Caught Up in a Flood of Suspicion About Voting
An election skeptic challenged hundreds of voter registrations, including one for a voting rights activist. A county official is dealing with the mess.
Hmmm. "Kamala Harris the Racist"
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Little more Styx
So flawed I am advised by lefties in my circle that "desert greening" (I didn't make up this term) is one part of the Green New Deal. One I actually can favor.
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In 2020 during Trump's election campaign Trump pledged to start planting 1 trillion trees to reduce global warming.
A Trillion Trees: How One Idea Triumphed Over Trump’s Climate Denialism (Published 2020)
A tech billionaire’s PowerPoint brought the Trillion Trees climate plan to the president, a textbook case of ad hoc policymaking in the Trump era.
From that article:
Even if we planted a trillion trees, and even if all 1 trillion trees survived (unlikely) it would take 100 years before we would see the full benefits, which would only be about 5-10% reduction in greenhouse gases. In the meantime the only way to reduce global warming would be reducing fossil fuel emissions, which is something that Donald Trump is not only staunchly against, he actively wants more emissions.
Anyway, according to experts the planting of 1 trillion trees is not a serious solution to the climate crisis.
The Magical Thinking of McCarthy’s Trillion-Tree Plan to Solve Climate Change
Planting 1 trillion trees, a plan recently proposed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is not a serious solution to the climate crisis. In fact, it is magical thinking....Continue Reading The Magical Thinking of McCarthy’s Trillion-Tree Plan to Solve Climate Change
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And Trump's administration didn't actually end up planting any trees, though they talked about it a lot.
Saying "just plant some trees bro" is the boomer way of deflecting responsibility. "I planted a tree, I did my part, now I should be allowed to drive my 8 mile per gallon truck all I want while I complain about gas prices."
You don't actually want to do anything, you want other people to solve the problem for you, but you also don't want to be inconvenienced in any way, and you don't want to pay for the problem to be solved. You want to do nothing but have a magical silver bullet that solves the problem in the future with technology that doesn't exist.
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If you take Trump literally, he's insane or incompetent or both. If you need to take Trump figuratively, then he's dishonest and you don't know what he's actually going to do.
Cut through the bullshit, that's the bottom line.
No
There are millions of former Trump voters who now hate him because he betrayed them