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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#191126: May 31st 2017 at 8:25:03 AM

[up]x7 I was quoting Theodore Roosevelt, who amusingly was a republican himself. (Yes I know that the parties switched positions.)

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

The jokes makes themselves, especially when you realize The GOP literally has an Anti-Public Lands Caucus.

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/sites/default/files/attachments/antiparks-brief.pdf

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2016/04/11/135044/the-rise-to-power-of-the-congressional-anti-parks-caucus/

edited 31st May '17 8:46:51 AM by megaeliz

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#191127: May 31st 2017 at 9:15:15 AM

[up][up]I'm more inclined to believe that he exited the Paris Accord out of pettyness over the Covfefe thing. I mean even his daughter and FBI-suspect-in-law were against pulling out.

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#191128: May 31st 2017 at 9:15:20 AM

Edward Snowden spoke by video link at the Estoril Conferences.

He stated that democracy is under threat due to leaders like Trump decrying inconvenient journalism as "fake news" and eroding civic rights due to fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Funny how the last viable candidate for US President that didn't do either was referred to by his truly as "Goldman Sachs".

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#191129: May 31st 2017 at 9:25:06 AM

[up][up] Were they? I can't remember either of them taking a statement concerning the issue. As John Oliver pointed out, I don't even know how if Kushner speaks at all.

This is either about the coal industry or Trump is thinking that he can push the other countries into making special concessions. He is wrong. This has been too long in the works to make last minute changes for one obstinate and untrustworthy child.

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#191130: May 31st 2017 at 9:35:10 AM

Ivanka thinks its a bad move for diplomacy, but Bannon is all for it.

Seems as if the Influence Wars are back

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#191131: May 31st 2017 at 9:50:46 AM

Climate aside, Trump has just wrecked the US economy. He thinks it is difficult to built a golf course in the EU? Ha! Once the EU, China and other growing markets like India agree on standards and agree on not allowing or putting additional fees on products which don't adhere to their standards, the US will wish that they have the same trade deficit they have today. The world is big, but at the end of the day there are only a few markets which are relevant because they have enough buying power.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#191132: May 31st 2017 at 9:53:44 AM

Back on climate for a moment, some positive news. A wind power company wants to train coal miners as technicians.

https://www.ecowatch.com/wind-jobs-coal-miners-goldwind-2426715170.amp.html

edited 31st May '17 9:54:15 AM by megaeliz

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#191133: May 31st 2017 at 10:09:01 AM

A former Republican Congressional candidate for the Inland Empire founded Consevative Move which seeks to relocate conservative Californians to Texas.

In announcing his move, Chabot, who also lost to Aguilar in 2014, said that after the November election, he and wife Brenda “took a long hard look at our state of California and agreed it was time to move to ‘America,’ to find a region of our nation that embraces the values and morals we cherish.”

California, Chabot said, was “overrun by illegals, drug addicts and violent criminals under the umbrella of a radical liberal ideology that has destroyed the state.”

Chris Robles, chairman of the San Bernardino County Democratic Party, said Chabot “is still trying to justify his loss in 2016 by blaming the voters for his being out of touch with their values. So much that he ran away to Texas, and now he’s monetizing that failure.”

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#191134: May 31st 2017 at 10:13:53 AM

People moving from California (and elsewhere) to Texas was big thing anyway. And in response to California having a lot of illegal immigrants you move to Texas?

Hopefully this doesn't prove to be a very lucrative venture for him.

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#191135: May 31st 2017 at 10:23:27 AM

[up][up]I am pretty sure that this would be a win for California.

edited 31st May '17 10:23:43 AM by AngelusNox

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#191136: May 31st 2017 at 10:25:42 AM

Not really as it gives Texas undue weight in the electoral college.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#191137: May 31st 2017 at 10:35:54 AM

I mean, not undue, if people choice to live there for whatever reason, then they have a right to representation.

Still, I find myself hating the "we don't live in a political echo-chamber so let's move" view. It has other things attached to it, but that is one thing I a fairly confident in saying is prolific on both the left and right. It just so happens that a lot of people who would want to leave can't for other reasons. Which is an entirely different problem.

edited 31st May '17 10:36:23 AM by LSBK

WhatArtThee Since: Oct, 2015
#191138: May 31st 2017 at 10:44:57 AM

Welp my optimism that Trump wouldn't be as bad as I thought just went out the window.

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#191139: May 31st 2017 at 10:49:30 AM

The timing of this raises alarms for the paranoid cynic in me. My gut says he's full of shit. This is just an attempt at buffering Texas's number of voting Republicans at a time when the state is in very real danger of turning blue.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#191140: May 31st 2017 at 10:56:22 AM

Well, turning purple. But I'm sure things like this have happened before and probably didn't do much. I can't image something like this being helpful to anyone who wasn't already looking to move.

Seriously, people move to Texas all thr time, a good chunck from California. Demographic and political transition still going steady.

edited 31st May '17 10:57:54 AM by LSBK

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#191141: May 31st 2017 at 10:56:29 AM

Why don't people see that climate change will offset any economic growth from allowing fossil fuel industries to keep on growing?

Why don't people understand that manufacturing jobs aren't the driving force behind our economy anymore, and service jobs are?

Even the energy companies said, publicly at least, that they wanted the US to stay in the Paris Agreement.

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FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#191142: May 31st 2017 at 11:06:23 AM

Now the US is going to be one of the only 3 countries not in the Paris Accord. The other two? Nicaragua and Syria. SYRIA. The US is now on level with SYRIA. At least Nicaragua can be happy they aren't the only North American country that isn't in the Paris Accord anymore...

edited 31st May '17 11:09:43 AM by FireCrawler2002

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#191143: May 31st 2017 at 11:09:58 AM

Because of Truthiness.

Anti-intellectualism is extremely popular among modern Republicans. They hate experts, hate science, and hate facts. Climate change, like all other scientific phenomenon, is just a malevolent plot invented by Satan and/or China to destroy your life. You, personally. China is trying to murder you by making you believe in climate change.

Whatever value the conservative philosophy may or may not have, it does not exist in the modern Republican party, which is strictly a reactionary movement populated by belligerent regressives whose only unifying purpose or central philosophy is a mutual hatred of progressive policy.

And since facts and science are Satanic plots to murder you, once they're in power, they make their decisions based not on hard evidence and data collection but on what feels like it's probably true. Trickle Down Economics feel like they would work. Climate change feels like it's probably bunk. Being allowed to torture enemy combatants for being inhuman devil monsters feels like it would probably make them talk. Etc. etc.

edited 31st May '17 11:10:13 AM by TobiasDrake

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#191144: May 31st 2017 at 11:10:10 AM

@Link To The Future You are attempting to ascribe rational thinking to these people. What is driving them? A combination of short-sighted greed, willful ignorance of economics/climate/reality, and/or very bad risk assessment ("climate change won't be that bad!").

Oh, and "Obama BAD!"

edited 31st May '17 11:21:53 AM by M84

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#191145: May 31st 2017 at 11:10:26 AM

[up][up][up]You do realize that pulling out of one agreement doesn't suddenly put the US in the exact same position as Syria right? I get that hating the U.S (and the United Kingdom) is your thing, but perspective.

edited 31st May '17 11:11:16 AM by LSBK

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#191146: May 31st 2017 at 11:10:50 AM

@Whatartthee: Im impressed that you maintained that attitude this long.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
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#191147: May 31st 2017 at 11:12:14 AM

[up][up] It's actually worse than Syria (in this particular matter of course), since Syria isn't exactly in a position to agree to anything. They have other far more pressing matters on their plate. And Nicaragua apparently actually has non-bullshit reasons to disagree with the terms of the Paris Agreement.

edited 31st May '17 11:12:31 AM by M84

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#191148: May 31st 2017 at 11:13:02 AM

More American Voters support Trump's Impeachment then Trump himself, according to POLITICO. Trump's Approval rating is 41%. Support for Trump's impeachment is 43%.

I seriously hope and pray that the Blue Wave exists in 2018 and that in 2020 people see just how terrible Trump has been and vote him out.

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#191149: May 31st 2017 at 11:15:47 AM

[up][up] At least Nicaragua can be happy they aren't the only North American country not in the Paris Accord anymore, and that they or Haiti probably won't be the worst North American country for much longer...

edited 31st May '17 11:23:30 AM by FireCrawler2002

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#191150: May 31st 2017 at 11:16:26 AM

Paul Ryan appointed a controversial cancer doctor to a Health and Human Services committee.

https://t.co/Dt06Lrqzn9

House Speaker Paul Ryan has named Patrick Soon-Shiong, a controversial billionaire scientist, to a committee that will advise the Trump administration on policy around health information technology, a Ryan spokeswoman said this evening.

Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles surgeon who leads a network of for-profit and not-for-profit ventures conducting cancer research, has been the subject of news stories, including by POLITICO and STAT, that have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.

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A POLITICO investigation found that the majority of the expenditures of his nonprofit research organization, for instance, flow to businesses and not-for-profits controlled by Soon-Shiong himself, and the majority of its grants have gone to entities that have business deals with his for-profit firms.

Soon-Shiong joins a 25-member Health IT Advisory Committee that was authorized by the 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law by former President Barack Obama in December. The legislation gives congressional leadership the power to name eight of the members.

Earlier in the day, it was reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell named Steve Ready, CIO of Louisville, Ky., health system Norton Healthcare, to the committee, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chose Steven Lane, an informatics executive with Sutter Health in the San Francisco Bay Area.


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