This country is being gutted.
‘Holy crap this is insane’: Citing coronavirus pandemic, EPA indefinitely suspends environmental rules.
The EPA uses this global pandemic to create loopholes for destroying the environment. This is a schoolbook example for what we need to start looking out for.”
The Environmental Protection Agency, headed by former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, announced on Thursday a sweeping and indefinite suspension of environmental rules amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic, a move green groups warned gives the fossil fuel industry a “green light to pollute with impunity.”
Under the new policy (pdf), which the EPA insisted is temporary while providing no timeframe, big polluters will effectively be trusted to regulate themselves and will not be punished for failing to comply with reporting rules and other requirements. The order—applied retroactively beginning March 13, 2020—requests that companies “act responsibly” to avoid violations.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/holy-crap-this-is-insane-citing-coronavirus-pandemic-epa-indefinitely-suspends-environmental-rules/
I hate these m'f'ers.
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tin!!! I've been suspicious all along and it's too convenient. The tell-tale signs are the obvious dragging of feet on EVERYTHING they could possibly d to help. China doesn't seem to be hit very hard but everyone else is getting nailed. On top of that, I suspect that all the rump buddy despots around the planet have decided there's just too many underlings to manage so a pandemic would be convenient. I know it sounds ct but what if some of them come true?
A lot of bad stuff is happening, as planned, while we are locked up at home. How will we resist letting them get away with this? My red alert alarms have been screaming since the impeachment nightmare. And I think the incentive for letting this happen is revenge.
They LIHOP, and we ended up destroying Iraq, and torturing people (just to name two clusterfucks that resulted), all based on lies. Cheney, Bush and all the war hawks had their wet dreams.
Remember, Hussein invaded Kuwait because Kuwait was using slant drilling to actually steal Iraq's oil.
Herbert Walker urged the Iraqi people to rise up against Hussein, and he would stand behind them. They did, but then he didn't come to their aid.
HW visited Kuwait in 1993, where an assassination plot was uncovered. Clinton investigated and intelligence found that the Iraqis were behind the Kuwaiti assassination attempt, and retaliated against Iraq because of it. Many were arrested and killed. After W stole the election, he was still pissed because of the assassination attempt on daddy Bush.
So we DID invade Iraq, completely destroying it. (Hint, the WORST thing we did in this time of history was to take out Saddam Hussein. HE was keeping it under control, and the Iraqi people were some of the most educated in the region, and had the most freedoms of any Arabs, in the region. And we took him out. Yes, he was bad, but look what we got as a result...)
The first thing we DIDN'T do after invading Iraq was to take control of all the arms and munitions IN Iraq. So the political vacuum left resulted in ISIS forming, and they had a huge arsenal to work with, which we just handed to them.
THAT all worked out so well, didn't it?
Fast forward to today, where the same conservative USA USA USA war hawk mindset, led by an absolute idiot who is still trying to compensate for being an EPIC failure at EVERYTHING he has touched, backed up by the most ignorant, racist, bigoted, cult voters, is leading (ahem, cough, HACK) America in a fight against a most deadly disease, by throwing science out the window...
Now people are dying because of the turd's greed, and fear of what is coming after he loses the election, and yet they are still ramming through their agenda for right wing, corporate interest, and 1%.
We can go two ways...
Either we are fucked... or
This will finally be the straw that takes THEM ALL down.
There is no half way. If we try to take the high road 
and there is no accountability, sorry, but that falls into the "we are fucked" category. We must learn the lesson, or all has been for naught.
This "slow motion train wreck" is going to shape our future for a more sane and just America, or completely destroy it.
Like a well-oiled machine, ready at every turn to pounce and destroy more of what America stands for! 
EVERYTHING - quite a concerted effort -- from removing the Eagles from the endangered species list to selling off our national parks, and now literally trying to kill us!
I'd always been baffled by the fact that Hitler wasn't stopped by someone or some group...how could they have let that happen? And now we are watching it happen in real time!
And it's ALL on the GOP!
and probably not until.
A massive drop in global pollution following one-third of the world's population being in isolation probably prompted Rethugs to do this.
Would not surprise me to see some other nations with right-wing leaders doing the same.
News media: We've noted a 10% drop in the US murder rate.
Republicans: Let's make murder legal again to boost the economy from gun sales!
KY-EG.........
