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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#257176: Oct 8th 2018 at 2:12:19 PM

I kinda covered the homophobia trap that men can fall into.

Edit: Well, isn't that a page topper.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Oct 8th 2018 at 10:14:54 AM

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#257177: Oct 8th 2018 at 2:16:31 PM

[up]Maybe but the only way to call rep narrative here, specially trump is pretty much republican role reversal: is women who are predatory and can go and ruin a good,inocent, poor poor man with just a couple of words.

it was watching a bizarro a this point.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#257178: Oct 8th 2018 at 2:19:03 PM

That's the oldest story in the Christian world. See Adam and Eve.

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#257179: Oct 8th 2018 at 2:36:49 PM

And the third option comes with a new, insidious twist: sympathise, don't demonise.

This is the very opposite of a 'lovely change'.

I completely disagree, they aren't doing it because it's what they want to do (the fact they hired a female attorney should show that they wanted to call her a lying whore but couldn't) they're doing it because even the Republicans realize that calling her a lying whore just wouldn't work anymore.

And the fact that it's necessary now is a lovely change in that it shows how far our culture has come on sexual assault.

Obviously, it's still pretty awful but we're talking about Republicans and thus that was a given.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#257180: Oct 8th 2018 at 2:55:38 PM

Speaking of Kavanaugh, I was just wondering; earlier today I saw a newspaper headline here in Britain (it was The Guardian, for the record) telling me that the Republicans were hoping to 'turn [the controversy surrounding Kavanaugh's nomination] to their electoral advantage' (paraphrased), and were calling it a 'Brett Bounce'.

All I could ask myself at the time was - how, exactly? Maybe I'm missing something here, but everything I've seen tells me that this can be nothing but harmful to their electoral prospects. Die-hard Republicans (by which I mean those who haven't already disowned the party by now) were going to vote for them anyway, who can they expect to gain who wouldn't have otherwise voted for them? Are they telling us there are some Republicans who were all 'hmm, I wasn't sure about the Trump Administration, but them sticking to their guns and putting an alleged sexual predator on the Supreme Court has totally turned me around'? :V

In addition to what's already been said, the opinion I've seen elsewhere is that the protests surrounding Kavanaugh's confirmation are a gift to the Republicans in November; according to the people arguing this, all you have to do is show footage of the protests and then have some ominous voiceover go, "The Democrats have gone crazy. Vote GOP in November for LAW AND ORDER."

Whether that tactic will be effective with the non-hardcore voters remains to be seen, but that's likely how they're gonna spin it.

Edited by speedyboris on Oct 8th 2018 at 4:56:05 AM

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#257181: Oct 8th 2018 at 3:09:17 PM

In addition to what's already been said, the opinion I've seen elsewhere is that the protests surrounding Kavanaugh's confirmation are a gift to the Republicans in November; according to the people arguing this, all you have to do is show footage of the protests and then have some ominous voiceover go, "The Democrats have gone crazy. Vote GOP in November for LAW AND ORDER."

The problem is that this... isn't an effective message. That hypothetical Republican voter could just as easily reply with "So? We control the government and the courts, everythings fine". Generally people need something to vote for and "that guy is bad" isn't very powerful, and when it is powerful it's generally not for the incumbent party that already has much of what they want.

I could imagine Kavanaugh boosting them if he had successfully been blocked, that would've lit a fire under the Republican base to vote or else the liberals will block the seat (and to avenge Kavanaugh). But now there just isn't the same impetus.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#257182: Oct 8th 2018 at 3:31:58 PM

The whole "Dr Ford has a case of mistaken identity" thing is just part of a classic conservative DARVO strategy - Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender

They consistently Denied that Kavanaugh did it

They Attacked Ford's credibility

And with the "mistaken identity" story, they Reversed the Victim and Offender, making Dr Ford the Offender, "trying to smear the reputation of a 'good man'", and making Kavanaugh the Victim of an "unfounded attack on his character".

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#257183: Oct 8th 2018 at 5:07:38 PM


     Story 

By Stephanie Mc Crummen October 7 at 7:20 PM

FORSYTH, Ga. — He was a Democrat in Republican territory, a citizen of a rural Georgia town that people tended to pass by on the way to someplace else, including politicians running for high office. But this election felt different to John Howard, so one morning in August he began writing a letter.

“I am reaching out to you all, to inquire about the possibility of Stacey Abrams coming to Forsyth,” began his email to the campaign of one of those politicians, who in November could become the first female governor of Georgia, the first black governor of Georgia and the first black woman to govern any state in America.

He introduced himself as the former mayor of Forsyth, and the first African American elected to the job. He explained that he was interim chair of the local Democratic Party, which was “in serious need of being shown the way.”

“We understand that our county of Monroe, does not have a strong showing of Democrats,” he typed. “But never the less, we are here!”

Outside his front door was a town of 4,000 people that appeared on electoral maps as a small blue dot in a sprawling sea of red — the red of rural Georgia, the red of the rural South and the red rest of America that had elected Donald Trump president.

Now Georgia’s campaign for governor was underway, and huge signs for Abrams’s opponent, a self-proclaimed Trump acolyte named Brian Kemp, were starting to appear in yards and fields encircling Forsyth. John figured Abrams had blown by Forsyth multiple times heading south on I-75 to campaign stops in Macon or Valdosta or somewhere other than this town where he’d spent most of his life. She had probably seen it through her window — the DQ off Exit 187, the Waffle House off 186, the little brown sign pointing to the historic courthouse square, which was not far from the church by the railroad tracks where John envisioned Abrams addressing a crowd.

“In Abrams taking the time to appear in our city, and actually speak to us, I believe it would bring on the much needed spark to ignite some serious hope! And believe me, when I tell you that is definitely something we need in Forsyth, Monroe County at this particular time . . .” his email continued. “It is MY HOPE that this request, I am making to you, is strongly considered.”

He read it over, hit send and began waiting for a response.

As the midterm elections come down to the final weeks, so many campaigns across the country are unfolding the same way — not just as a choice between Democrats and Republicans, or liberals and conservatives, but between mini-versions of Donald Trump and candidates representing an opposite vision of America.

In Florida’s race for governor, one candidate is a white Republican running ads that show him teaching his kids how to “build a wall” and say “You’re fired,” while his opponent is a black Democrat arguing Trump should be impeached. In Virginia’s U.S. Senate race, one candidate is a white Republican who has openly associated with white nationalists and describes himself as “Trump before Trump,” and the other is a white Democrat known for being Hillary Clinton’s former running mate and at times delivering stump speeches in Spanish.

In races in California, Indiana, Mississippi and elsewhere, the choice is Trump or not-Trump, a polarized dynamic that has been especially apparent in Georgia, where Kemp is courting Trump voters by calling himself a “politically incorrect conservative” in ads featuring explosions, chain saws, rifles and a pledge to “round up criminal illegals.”

Abrams, meanwhile, is courting everyone else — not just the reliable Democrats of Atlanta but all the forsaken voters in blue-dot towns across rural Georgia.

“We have to reach out to those who do not believe their voices matter . . .” she said in her victory speech on primary night. “We’re going to search out those we don’t know yet and prove they matter to us, too.”

It was a message that resonated across Georgia, in places like Pearson and Moultrie and Sparks and so many other small towns where people were sending off speaking requests to the campaign every day. And in Forsyth, too, where John wasn’t the only one hoping Abrams would come.

“She should hit all these little towns around here,” said a friend of his, James Green, sitting one evening outside his auto repair shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

“They assume it’s all red,” said Green’s friend Kendell Thomas.

Green pulled out a folder of voter information he had just gotten from the NAACP titled “Defeat Hate: Vote!” He was starting a Forsyth chapter ahead of the election, and he knew the numbers. Hillary Clinton had won Forsyth with 1,486 votes to Trump’s 1,044 — 58 percent to 41 percent, which almost exactly mirrored the town’s racial breakdown. Trump won surrounding Monroe County, which is roughly 73 percent white, with nearly 70 percent of the vote.

It was same the story all over the rural South. Blacks were often the majority in small towns, but whites remained the majority overall, their power visible in the names of white families chiseled on buildings and in the framed portraits of white faces in town halls, courthouses and the office of the governor, where an unbroken procession of 75 white men had held the job for the past 243 years.

“She could come to the arts center,” Green continued.

“It’d be big,” said Thomas.

“My thing is, if you see a young black woman running as governor, a young person seeing that might think, ‘I can be governor, too,’ ” said Green.

“People would get motivated,” said Thomas. “Stacey Abrams could do that.”

John felt the same way, and a few hours after he sent his email, he got a response from the campaign.

“Good Afternoon Mayor Howard — Thank you for reaching out . . . ” it began, explaining that all speaking requests for Abrams needed to be submitted to the campaign scheduler, who was fielding hundreds of requests every week. John sent off another email.

“We already have the venue approved, which is our church of course!” he responded. “We are here!”

The story doesn't end there by a long shot. note  And it is an interesting tale, and Wa Po deserves the clicks. Plus, the article has the pictures.

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#257184: Oct 8th 2018 at 5:54:26 PM

@Wyldchyld: For what it's worth (and this is getting really technical), the book of genesis and its creation story is not the oldest story in the bible. That's believed to be Job which seems to predate the book of genesis and even mentions elements of Canaanite mythology (such as Leviathan, who was part of a Canaanite creation myth).

Leviticus 19:34
FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#257185: Oct 8th 2018 at 6:08:00 PM

Washington Post: "A betrayal beyond words": The far right melts down over Taylor Swift's endorsement of Democrats

Taylor Swift's declaration that she plans to vote for Democrats next month fell like a hammer across the Trump-worshipping subforums of the far-right Internet, where people had convinced themselves, for reasons it will take some time to explain, that the world-famous pop star was a secret #MAGA fan.

The news caught 4chan and Reddit trolls mid-post. On the pro-Trump r/The_Donald board, someone had just written out a sexual fantasy in which Swift and Kanye West hooked up because "Trump being the best president is actually something they both agree on." The author edited the post minutes later: "NVM didn't realize Taylor sold out to the left."

Missives about Swift's perceived betrayal of conservatism clogged far-right message boards. Some simply refused to believe what she had written to her 112 million Instagram followers Sunday evening - a 400-word condemnation of "systemic racism," homophobia and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the GOP Senate candidate in her home state of Tennessee, complete with Swift's endorsement of two Democrats: Phil Bredesen, the party's Senate candidate, and Rep. Jim Cooper.

"This is more than likely from Democratic MK ultra forces from above," m3Me_Magic wrote on The_Donald. "I highly doubt Swift decided to become political at the 11th hour all on her own."

That a 28-year-old celebrity - even one who had previously kept her politics private - would weigh in on a potentially crucial midterm election seems much less strange than the story of how the far-right Internet came to believe Swift was their secret ally - "our girl," as many put it.

The delusion traces back to the middle of the Obama administration, 2011, when a certain fraction of 4chan users convinced themselves that Swift had let them name her cat.

In some ways, it's not much different from how every other conspiracy theory arises out of nonsense on that anonymous message board:

Among the hundreds of thousands of posts written on 4chan that November, one was a kitten-naming contest. The winning name was Meredith, which - lo and behold - was also the name of Swift's new kitten, according to a People Magazine article that 4chan users subsequently passed around in astonishment.

The fact that Swift had named her kitten Meredith at least three days before the contest was held made little difference to those who convinced themselves she was a secret 4chan user. Amateur sleuths began sifting through the website in search of more supposed secret messages from the pop star, coming up with a photo of someone's window blinds that looked like Swift's and an anonymous message from a "conservative" "entertainer" who claimed to be "one of the 50 most famous people on the planet."

A myth that began with a kitten took a dark turn a few years later, when a neo-Nazi blogger came across a joke meme that mashed up photos of Swift with quotes from Adolf Hitler. He apparently mistook these as authentic and published them on the Daily Stormer under the headline: "Aryan Goddess Taylor Swift: Nazi Avatar of the White European People."

Probably not many people believed Swift was a Nazi - but between the 4chan rumors and the Daily Stormer memes, a vague but widespread belief spread across right-wing circles that the star was on their side.

"Swift is very white and very blonde," Milo Yiannopoulos wrote on Breitbart in 2016. "She was born on, and grew up in, a Christmas tree farm in rural Pennsylvania. You heard me right: a Christmas tree farm. Little wonder the tradition-oriented alt-right are swooning."

More than swooning - they were expecting.

"Taylor Swift will soon come out of the MAGA closet," reads a typical post from that era on The_Donald, complete with a doctored photo of the star in a "Make America Great Again" hat.

"Taylor Swift is secretly based," a user called MrGreggle wrote on Reddit last year, after learning she had sent flowers to a police officer injured in the Las Vegas massacre. "She gets flak all the time for refusing to become a leftist spokesperson and she let 4chan name her cat."

To be sure, there were warning signs, if anyone cared to look. "I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive," she told Rolling Stone at age 19, after the election of Barack Obama. She came out for gun control in March. She was shown on Time magazine's "Person of the Year" cover in 2017 as one of the "silence breakers" fighting back against sexual harassment. The cover story cited her legal battle with former radio DJ David Mueller, whom she accused of sexual misconduct.

But hope springs eternal until it suddenly goes dry, which it did abruptly Sunday night.

Mr Greggle redistributed his allegiance to the libertarian punk musician Michale Graves after seeing Swift's Instagram post. Another regular on The_Donald who had once sung her praises claimed he didn't listen to her.

"I would say 90% of T_D thought she was 'our girl,'"added dieselnut, who a few hours earlier had been celebrating photos of police "groping" women protesting Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. "No hard feelings fellas, but let's not claim them as our own until they prove they love America."

"GG, you just lost over half of your fanbase, including me," Swimming Junky wrote in one of The_Donald's most popular posts Monday morning, up-voted by thousands of people. (Even the president said Monday that he likes Swift's music "about 25 percent less now, OK?")

And where there was not despondency, there was anger.

"Nobody pisses off 4chan," wrote Martian Space Cat. "She will regret this move for that reason alone."

Maybe. Even on a good day, 4chan's overtly misogynistic /pol/ board is awash in rants from men angry at "feminists" and "social justice warriors" they believe have taken over society.

As you'd expect, the mood was more foul than usual after the forum's imaginary protege declared her real feelings. The Washington Post's language policies prevent linking to most of what 4chan had to say.

Suffice to say, a meme of Pepe the Frog openly weeping with a gun to his head appeared in one of the most popular threads, more or less summing up the mood.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#257186: Oct 8th 2018 at 6:17:16 PM

Honestly, what makes me smile most about that is that guy talking about how 'she will regret this' because 'nobody pisses of 4chan'; somehow managing to get that sentence out of his mouth without realizing that he had become a particularly two-dimensional cartoon bad guy.

fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#257187: Oct 8th 2018 at 6:19:13 PM

It’s so stupid. Still, /pol/ has done real damage to our community.

StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#257188: Oct 8th 2018 at 6:36:46 PM

I guess now they know what getting cucked (sort of) feels like.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#257189: Oct 8th 2018 at 6:42:19 PM

I almost made a joke about these shitheads being the ultimate internet tough guys...but then I realized that there's a not!zero chance that one might actually go after Swift.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#257190: Oct 8th 2018 at 6:45:24 PM

Bit late with this tonight but here's today's WTF Just Happened Today feed:

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/10/08/day-627/

Day 627: "An insult to the American public."

1/ The Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in a 50-48 vote. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted "present," although she said he opposed the nomination. Joe Manchin was the lone "yes" vote from the Democrats. Kavanaugh is the first justice nominated by a president who lost the popular vote, confirmed by senators representing less than half of the country, while also having his nomination opposed by a majority of the country. (New York Times / Washington Post / CNN / The Guardian / NPR)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/06/politics/kavanaugh-final-confirmation-vote/index.html

Chief Justice John Roberts has already received more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh. Roberts has chosen not to refer the complaints to a judicial panel for investigation. (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dc-circuit-sent-complaints-about-kavanaughs-testimony-to-chief-justice-roberts/2018/10/06/c7e7b526-c8d0-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html?utm_term=.9ac2a29fbed3

The campaign to impeach Justice Kavanaugh has begun. A petition to impeach Kavanaugh gathered more than 125,000 signatures, but while it takes majority of the House to impeach a federal official, removing them requires a two-thirds supermajority of the Senate – or 67 votes. (Newsweek / NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/impeaching-kavanaugh-rouses-progressive-democrats-after-confirmation-n917376

2/ Trump called the allegations against Kavanaugh "a hoax that was set up by the Democrats." He said talk of impeaching Kavanaugh was "an insult to the American public." (The Hill / Washington Post)

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/410408-trump-calls-kavanaugh-allegations-a-hoax-set-up-by-the-democrats

Mitch Mc Connell called for an investigation into the leak of Christine Blasey Ford's letter to Diane Feinstein, which alleges that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while the two were in high school. (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/07/christine-blasey-ford-leak-investigation-880177

John Kelly formed a working group to prepare for the possibility of investigations if Democrats win the House. "Subpoenas flowing into a White House create paralysis," said Neil Eggleston, Obama's White House counsel. "The whole system stops while everyone tries to comply with subpoenas and prepare to testify." (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/white-house-prepping-trump-democratic-legal-storm-6802dc91-bb27-4e14-86ba-028aab3bd793.html

Susan Rice said she'll decide after the midterm elections on whether to run and try to unseat Susan Collins in 2020, who was the deciding vote to confirm Kavanaugh. Rice was Obama's national security adviser. (ABC News / Washington Post)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/susan-rice-2020-challenge-collins-maine-58348163

Ford has not been able to return to her home due to constant threats, according to her attorneys. "They are not living at home […] The threats have been unending, it's deplorable." Ford "still believes [coming forward] was the right thing to do." (Huff Post)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christine-blasey-ford-home-unending-threats_us_5bbaa112e4b0876eda9f3317

3/ Trump won't fire Rod Rosenstein after all, saying they have a "very good relationship." Trump and Rosenstein met following reports that Rosenstein wanted to wiretap the president and using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Rosenstein oversees the Russia probe led by Robert Mueller, whose work Trump has labeled a "witch hunt." (New York Times / CNN / Washington Post / Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/08/rosenstein-trump-travel-880973

4/ A U.N. report on the effects of climate change predicts a strong risk of an environmental crises much sooner than expected. The report finds that the atmosphere could warm by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels by 2040 if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, which would cause sea-levels to rise, intensify droughts, wildfires, and poverty, and cause a mass die-off of coral reefs. To prevent 2.7 degrees of warming, greenhouse pollution must be reduced by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, and fully eliminated by 2050. The use of coal as an electricity source would have to drop from nearly 40% today to between 1 and 7% by 2050. Renewable energy would have to increase to about 67%. Trump has mocked the science of human-caused climate change, vowing to increase the burning of coal and intends to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement. The world is already more than halfway to the 2.7-degree mark and "there is no documented historic precedent" for the scale of changes required, the report said. (New York Times / Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/

Notables.

North Korea will allow inspectors to visit a nuclear testing site that Kim Jong Un says he destroyed, according to Mike Pompeo. North Korea has not yet agreed to provide a full inventory of their nuclear arsenal, a move widely seen as the first step toward denuclearization. Additionally, South Korea said Trump and Kim agreed to a second summit. (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/world/asia/pompeo-north-korea-visit.html

A Republican operative raised at least $100,000 in an effort to obtain Hillary Clinton's stolen emails just weeks before the 2016 election. In an email, Peter W. Smith sent wire instructions to "fund the Washington Scholarship Fund for the Russian students" with the donations days after Wiki Leaks and DC Leaks began releasing emails damaging to Clinton's campaign. Robert Mueller's office has been investigating Smith's activities. He killed himself in May 2017 – 10 days after describing his efforts to a reporter. (Wall Street Journal)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-operative-secretly-raised-at-least-100-000-in-search-for-clinton-emails-1538913614

Federal officials froze all of Oleg Deripaska's U.S.-based assets, including his mansions in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Deripaska is close with Putin and is allegedly involved in murder, money-laundering, bribery and racketeering. (New York Post)

https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/feds-freeze-russian-oligarchs-assets-upper-east-side-mansion/

Fox News hired Hope Hicks as Chief Communications Officer. After she left the White House in February, former Fox News executive Bill Shine took over as deputy chief of staff for communications. (Fox News / CNBC / Variety)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/hope-hicks-lands-at-fox-news-as-chief-communications-officer.html

How to register to vote: If you're not sure if you're registered, check your registration status on https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

If you haven't registered, use https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/ , https://turbovote.org/ , or pick up a registration form at your local post office or library.

Check your voter registration deadline:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/state-voter-registration-deadlines.html

or

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/7/17947768/voter-registration-deadline-verify-2018-midterms

CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#257191: Oct 8th 2018 at 6:59:47 PM

[up] Why is the deadline getting sooner when the rest of the world is doing all they can to stop Climate Change? Shouldn't that offset the US?

Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#257192: Oct 8th 2018 at 7:09:33 PM

Newer models indicate that a smaller temperature increase than previously thought would still result in catestrophic ecological damage.

If anyone was serious about this we wouldn't just be installing solar panels and wind turbines, but aldo doing things like updating nuclear plants and expediting construction of new plants on sites previously approved where nuclear plants were either never actually built or where the plants were built and later shut down.

NIMBYism has long prevented one of the most potent carbon-neutral power sources in the world from being in wider use.

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#257193: Oct 8th 2018 at 7:17:42 PM

I thought the 2.7 deadline was in the 2050s?

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#257194: Oct 8th 2018 at 7:30:32 PM

Newer models indicate that a smaller temperature increase than previously thought would still result in catestrophic ecological damage.

If anyone was serious about this we wouldn't just be installing solar panels and wind turbines, but aldo doing things like updating nuclear plants and expediting construction of new plants on sites previously approved where nuclear plants were either never actually built or where the plants were built and later shut down.

NIMB Yism has long prevented one of the most potent carbon-neutral power sources in the world from being in wider use.

I've got some good news on that front, Trump signs legislation to promote advanced nuclear power.

I think this is a step in the right direction especially considering that once he's voted out of office the Democratic successor can continue this while expanding other forms of renewable energy.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Oct 8th 2018 at 10:32:55 AM

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#257195: Oct 8th 2018 at 7:42:00 PM

Where's an emperor Palapatine Gif of him going "Good....let the hate flow through you." as a reaction to the republicans metldown over Taylor swift being a liberal when you need one?

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Oct 8th 2018 at 10:47:09 AM

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#257196: Oct 8th 2018 at 7:46:07 PM

I'd make a joke about this, but like Rational said there's a non-zero chance one of them might actually try to hurt Swift over this.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#257198: Oct 8th 2018 at 9:08:50 PM

Ford has not been able to return to her home due to constant threats, according to her attorneys. "They are not living at home […] The threats have been unending, it's deplorable." Ford "still believes [coming forward] was the right thing to do." (Huff Post)
I pray all those death-threateners find themselves smote with Laser-Guided Karma of the most cruel and humiliating kinds ever possible in this existence.

Trump has mocked the science of human-caused climate change, vowing to increase the burning of coal
May the Ugly Orange choke on all the smoke from that coal someday. If he wants to poison us all with it, then I say he should share in the "fun".

and intends to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement.
... Didn't he already withdraw from this particular treaty last year?

He killed himself in May 2017 – 10 days after describing his efforts to a reporter.
Is there any chance that this is actually a murder disguised as a suicide? Because I wouldn't put it past Putin to have ordered a hit on that guy for being some sort of liability, especially given this later bit of news from the same feed...

Russia's Deputy Attorney General, who allegedly directed the foreign operations of Natalia Veselnitskaya, died last week in a mysterious helicopter crash in Russia; the pilot of the helicopter had two bullet wounds; (...) GOP operative Peter Smith, who killed himself in an alleged suicide, solicited and raised at least $100k in his search for Clinton's emails

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#257199: Oct 8th 2018 at 9:13:53 PM

[up]People Putin doesn't like do have a tendency to "fall down stairs"...assuming they don't end up exposed to a nerve agent exclusive to the Russian Federation.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#257200: Oct 8th 2018 at 9:34:46 PM

It depends on whether they want plausible deniability or to send a message (with a veneer of deniability).

They can pull off the nerve agent crap in the UK since Russian oligarchs prop up the UK's real estate market.

Edited by M84 on Oct 9th 2018 at 12:38:22 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised

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