Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Sorry self xp

not really. only 22 GOP Senators signed that stupid letter

xp

and majorities in EVERY STATE support staying in the agreement

yep

http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Politics-and-Global-Warming-November-2016-01.png

he doesn't even pretend to be the president of all of us

he is only the president of everyone's stupid uncle who posts that dumb shit on facebook

But those coal miners are clinking their oxygen tanks together in toasts tonight!

this is so demented

Imagine if Trump visited a coal mine and it collapsed on him? That would be a fitting end.

I confess to not understanding the apparently monumental nature of pulling out of the Paris Accord.

We will re-enter as early as 2021; in the intervening time, private investment will still turn more and more to sustainable sources, and at this point no amount of renewable green anything is anything more than a tourniquet; some kind of technological reversal solution is the only likely way to save life as we know it anyway.

― El Tomboto, Thursday, June 1, 2017 6:21 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark

agree

it's what it represents, innit? the sheer old-fart fuck-you nihilism.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBRO6srWAAEmm_b.jpg

Silver lining: maybe it's almost time to start the Anglo-American Cultural Supremacy into the shitbin thread

or wait did we do that already and it was about something funny ha-ha instead of the actual wagon wheel going into history's mud

even if we end up going down some hail mary geo-engineering path, that will require global cooperation. even then, lowering emissions will still need to be a part of addressing climate change. it's insane for america to be the one country to try to undermine global solidarity on this issue.

Is this how we get to the utopian star trek future?

Silver lining: maybe it's almost time to start the Anglo-American Cultural Supremacy into the shitbin thread

It won't go down without a fight.

Agree with tb and Chinese symbol

Stevie, what dyou think wouldn't it be better all round just to ignore the old fuckers symbolism, it's ugly and all and obviously his having garnered enough pustules with voting rights to occupy the position is troubling but even moves as showily malevolent as this won't in the medium run achieve anything much at all

Good yanks just need to stay alive and healthy until 2018, and hope that whatever momentum the tea party at al managed to get up while Obama was in office will well and truly have worn off by that stage.

Yes. It is also insane to have a democracy that elects the less popular leader because "them's the rules!"

Nothing sane about democracy tbf

I wouldn't let a randomly selected quorum pick a fucking sandwich

we're a democracy that enshrined the rights of a minority of white supremacists into our founding document, an error which we will never stop paying for

So many xps on xps. Not following my own Zing pro tips

Sorry to stick with this people don't give a shit thought. I know I am reducing things, but I can only assume the vast majority of the millions that didn't vote did not do so because they were gerrymandered or otherwise restricted, they did it because they didn't care or didn't care to bother. I understand that by any reasonable metric Trump has been doing a terrible job and has terrible support, but by any reasonable metric he should not be president either.

xp:
Technically, geoengineering doesn't require cooperation, just persistence. A squadron of jet fighters with 20km+ ceilings could deposit enough sulfur aerosols, but they have to do it for roughly 500-1000 years, til 60% of emissions are dissolved in the oceans. Skip a few years, the albedo falls to normal and everyone experiences abrupt extreme climate change.

Josh, we all agree with you.

The fact that anybody would vote Republican in this climate, and therefore tacitly endorse whatever Trump is doing, is sign enough that even if people do give a shit, millions upon millions of them give a shit about enacting horrible horrible policies. Which frankly is the not the kind of civic engagement I find hopeful. Like, re Russia, even if people are disturbed a huge hunk of them aren't disturbed enough to consider it more important than all the horrible things they want him to do. Given how terribly destroying the ACA or dropping out of the climate Accord poll, I don't even know what these people want from Trump.

Sorry, readily admit I am just ranting. Need to vent, so thanks for whatever patience you can afford me.

Technically, geoengineering doesn't require cooperation, just persistence. A squadron of jet fighters with 20km+ ceilings could deposit enough sulfur aerosols, but they have to do it for roughly 500-1000 years, til 60% of emissions are dissolved in the oceans. Skip a few years, the albedo falls to normal and everyone experiences abrupt extreme climate change.

― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Thursday, June 1, 2017 6:52 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesus Christ

Trump is like some idiot who promised to eat glass. And when everybody tells him, no, you don't have to eat glass, he says, I'm sorry, a promise is a promise.

Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g

nah, trump is the guy who enforces the promise to eat glass on the idiot who agreed to it. then everybody's like "hey, it's ok. he doesn't really have to eat the glass" trump buckles down and insists that he must eat the glass.

imo

And then he eats glass himself anyway.

i never hated anyone so much

he is making us eating the glass, rather.

"trump makes us eat the glass while pruitt tonguefucks his ass", and 12 other family friendly songs, by gerald freedom with the true american patriot orchestra

Hitler lived when global population was 2 billion, and competed with Stalin. Trump may in fact become the most hated living person.

is this where somebody's supposed to say but the emails?

but HER emails

good one tho

naomi klein:

NOW THAT IT SEEMS virtually certain that Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, and the climate movement is quite rightly mobilizing in the face of this latest dystopian lurch, it’s time to get real about something: Pretty much everything that is weak, disappointing, and inadequate about that deal is the result of U.S. lobbying since 2009.

The fact that the agreement only commits governments to keeping warming below an increase of 2 degrees, rather than a much safer firm target of 1.5 degrees, was lobbied for and won by the United States.

The fact that the agreement left it to individual nations to determine how much they were willing to do to reach that temperature target, allowing them to come to Paris with commitments that collectively put us on a disastrous course toward more than 3 degrees of warming, was lobbied for and won by the United States.

The fact that the agreement treats even these inadequate commitments as non-binding, which means governments apparently do not have anything to fear if they ignore their commitments, is something else that was lobbied for and won by the United States.

The fact that the agreement specifically prohibits poor countries from seeking damages for the costs of climate disasters was lobbied for and won by the United States.

The fact that it is an “agreement” or an “accord” and not a treaty — the very thing that makes it possible for Trump to stage his action-movie slow-mo walk away, world in flames behind him — was lobbied for and won by the United States.

hilarious, in that context, to consider this part of trump's speech:

Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a 2/10 of one degree – think of that. This much….Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100. Tiny tiny amount.

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/531090243/trumps-speech-on-paris-climate-agreement-withdrawal-annotated

Sorry to stick with this people don't give a shit thought. I know I am reducing things, but I can only assume the vast majority of the millions that didn't vote did not do so because they were gerrymandered or otherwise restricted, they did it because they didn't care or didn't care to bother. I understand that by any reasonable metric Trump has been doing a terrible job and has terrible support, but by any reasonable metric he should not be president either.

Generally speaking, it's not good enough to vote against something (France excepted). You need to actually be promoting something worth believing in to get people to give a shit, and be at least semi-credible while doing it.

It's telling that even with Le Pen running there was still 33.4% abstention when it came to that or voting for a centrist

did he say 2/10 because is sounded smaller than 1/5?

he likes to divide everything up into tens because it's easier to visualize using his fingers

we're a democracy that enshrined the rights of a minority of white supremacists into our founding document, an error which we will never stop paying for

― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 1, 2017 10:46 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we're also the only democracy on the planet that still uses a constitution from the 18th century

Nicaraguan businessman friend: "A group of us will ask Ortega to sign Paris Accord. Being in same group w/Trump is so damn embarrassing."

— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) June 1, 2017

Russian environmentalists brand U.S. Green Party Putin 'accomplices'

Oops, a bit dated, that.

Jesus, EVERYTHING i read in the paper now is reminding me of Trump and Bannon...

"Astronomers said Thursday that they had felt space-time vibrations known as gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes resulting in a pit of infinitely deep darkness weighing as much as 49 suns, some 3 billion light-years from here."

my (endangered) congressman:

The effects of pollution and climate change do not obey national or continental borders. This us vs them mentality makes 0 sense.

— Carlos Curbelo (@carloslcurbelo) June 1, 2017

That 2/10 bit was what I heard on NPR, I think I screamed obscenities and immediately afterward had a car nearly crash into me. I think unrelated but maybe the driver was just trying to help.

As long as the defensive ring of accomplices are like 5-deep, I dig this:

Hundreds came together to support #IftarInTheStreets in #NYC this evening in front of Trump Tower. #Ramadan2017 pic.twitter.com/Mw2LuixhIn

— Kyle O'Leary (@tkocreative) June 2, 2017