July 20, 2023

Al Gore on recent extreme weather events.

The most recent edition of NYT's Climate Forward newsletter included excerpts from an interview with Al Gore. The newsletter is available for subscription here: https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/climate-change

From the article:

“Every night on the TV news is like taking a nature hike through the Book of Revelation,” Gore said.
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“Fossil fuel companies are desperately trying to use their political and economic networks and their successful capture of policy in too many countries to slow down this transition,” he said. “They don’t disclose their emissions. They don’t have any phase-out plan. They’re not committed to a real net zero pathway. They’re greenwashing. They’re performing anti-climate plotting.”

Gore is particularly livid about the fact that fossil fuel companies continue to play a major role at the annual United Nations climate change conference known as COP (full name: Conference of the Parties to the United Nations climate convention).
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“The climate crisis is in the main a fossil fuel crisis,” Gore told me. “If the world is not permitted to discuss the phasing down of fossil fuels because the fossil fuel companies don’t want the world to discuss it, that’s the sign of a very flawed process.”

Meanwhile the media on @RealPlanetEarth devotes half of its current "news coverage" to whether TFG should eat a jaywalking ticket for acts of treason, fraud, rape, etc.

July 19, 2023

Climate change? What climate change?

Start planning your vacation as soon as the smoke clears.

June 28, 2023

RoboRon is the new torchbearer for the DeSantis campaign.

It's a "no boots" campaign reboot. And lookit them claws! Nobody is going to make fun of this candidate for small hands either! RoboRon is an honest-to-white-Jesus woke warrior.

June 20, 2023

Jim Jordan stumbles over the truth.

Questioned about his remark later, Jordan claimed it was "just locker room talk."

June 12, 2023

The drunk uncle defense- he's OUR traitor.

The Republican presidential primary is heating up for everyone not named Donald Trump. Under a thin veneer of faux outrage, candidates are positively giddy about their burgeoning prospects. They are unburdened by the near certainty that Trump engaged in seditious behavior.

Pardons for crimes as yet unknown? Of course. Retroactive carte blanche is on offer.

Charges of weaponized prosecutions by the DOJ? Of course. Holy Benghazi, Batman!

June 9, 2023

About all those documents: Donald Trump doesn't read...

This from an article in the Atlantic in 2018:

...how little Donald Trump reads. While, like many of the tendencies described in Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, Trump’s indifference to the printed word has been apparent for some time, the depth and implications of Trump’s strong preference for oral communication over the written word demand closer examination.

“He didn’t process information in any conventional sense,” Wolff writes. “He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate.”

Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”

If Trump had no interest in reading the documents himself...

link to article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/

June 2, 2023

Why Florida bans books.

May 30, 2023

Woke mind virus breakthrough!

@RealRonaldDeSantis confirms the discovery of the first documented case of infection by the woke mind virus. Sidekick Elon was heard to mutter "We keep trying to kill the son of a bitch."

May 26, 2023

The debt ceiling scam

The (former) guy and his friends didn't pay their tab but they did leave a nice tip for the staff.

May 25, 2023

Ron DeSantis has an important announcement.

Ron DeSantis offered America another "look at me" moment on the first anniversary of the Uvalde massacre. It's one more pathetic act of bush league spite from Florida's governor.