Will Trump do the right thing on climate change?

[Econoline]

• MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.
  
  The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
  
  “These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”
  
  More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”
  
  While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain. “The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said.
  
  While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future. “Our research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” he said.

[Bicycle Bill]

Wouldn't the US dependency on employer-provided healthcare be a DISadvantage to US business????

If it's 'employer-provided healthcare', then why am I paying nearly a grand a year (plus deductibles) for it?
My last three employers pretty much said, "This is the health-care provider we will work with; make your own selections as to what you want and how much you're willing to pay for it.  And here's an AFLAC rep to talk to for anything else."

-"BB"-

[Bicycle Bill]

Omigod, Trump was right.  Coal mining is coming back, and it is creating jobs.
Maybe as many as a hundred of them.

-"BB"-

[ex-khobar Andy]

Apparently Trump called Fox News to get their opinions on the Paris accords before he decided. I wonder if he called any climate scientists? You know, people who actually know this stuff.

Guilfoyle, the co-host of The Five, revealed Trump called her Thursday before making the public announcement to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement
She said his decision to pull out of Accord was a 'brave and courageous thing'
In fact, I told him that this morning at 8 a.m. when he called,' she revealed
Guilfoyle revealed it was not just climate change, they had also discussed taxes, and The Five, which she said Trump was big fan of
Guilfoye has been tipped to replaced the beleaguered White House press secretary Sean Spicer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l-out.html

I see it is being called the "Paris pull-out." There is a joke in there somewhere but I am sure it would be in poor taste, so I wouldn't wet dream of making it.

Edited to clarify that the "Guilfoyle . . " paragraph is a quote.

[BoSoxGal]

[Burning Petard]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... fbfd84fce6

The Washington Post now says the EPA Sect'ry is the new center of power in the Whitehouse staff. Yesterday I watched the Rose Garden presentation. My first reaction was huh? They can't even find a technician who knows how to set up a teleprompter? The the Veep came out and gave what I thought was a typical warm-up introduction. Trump did his thing, replete with fake predictions of non-existent horror in the awful deal called the Paris something or other. Lots of bad statistics and how this announcement was gonna bring back jobs to Pennsylvania. OK. about what I expected. THEN the POTUS introduced Scott Pruitt. WOW ! ! ! I thought I was hearing a translation from some North Korean general praising his divine leader who had just blessed the world with a new revealment of absolute truth. What was that all about?

Late last night I was watching CNN with five talking heads going on about this presidential announcement. Among them was Ana Navarro. She has been praised by several on this board, but I believe this was the first time I have seen/heard her. I can only agree with the praise Ms Navarro has been given here.

She said Pruitt's follow up speech was stomach-turning. . . .never seen such blatant bootlicking from an American politician.

So it makes complete sense that the Washington Post would now identify Scott Pruitt as the president's most powerful advisor.

God bless America--and the whole world, please. We really need it.

snailgate.

[ex-khobar Andy]

I couldn't bear to watch his Rose Garden speech yesterday but I steeled myself to read the transcript today.

Apart from anything else he started off telling us about the terrorist attack in Manila. I had not heard any evidence that anyone was calling it an international terrorism event so maybe his buddy Duterte, who seems to have a flexible relationship with the truth, common standards of morality and normal human decency, had shared information with him. So far it appears to be the action of a casino robber.

And then we got this:

The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement. They went wild. They were so happy. For the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage. A cynic would say the obvious reason for economic competitors and their wish to see us remain in the agreement is so that we continue to suffer this self-inflicted major economic wound.

Clearly this is a man who has no life experience of any cooperation among people unless the purpose is to screw someone else outside the group. This tells you so much about the man and his worldview.

[Lord Jim]

If you saw what Putin said yesterday about how "Patriotic Russians" may have been behind the email hacks, and what he said today in his interview with Megyn Kelly, it's pretty damn obvious who is "laughing at us"...

(He's not even attempting to conceal his amusement...)

It's the one person Il Boobce can never seem to bring himself to say a single harsh word about, no matter what he says or does...

[RayThom]

The Mayor of Pittsburgh gives his assessment of Lord Dampnut's deluded, preconceived, misconceptions on the Climate Agreement.

Pittsburgh mayor fires back at Trump: My city will follow Paris agreement
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... llow-paris

[Scooter]

[rubato]

They really are the stupidest party, international competition;


https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wo ... limate.png



yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

I thought I was hearing a translation from some North Korean general praising his divine leader

I've been noticing the severe ass-kissing "Dear Leader rhetoric" too...

Sean Spicer used it in his other-worldly account of Trump's foreign trip...(They were also talking about it on Morning Joe last week)

Apparently, those working for Trump have learned that if you want to be influential with him, you don't do it by showing that you really know your stuff, or that you bring a well thought out perspective to the table...

No, you do it by employing humiliatingly effusive praise for The Orange One that shows you to have your tongue shoved so far up his rectum that you're wearing his pasty butt cheeks for ear muffs...

What an embarrassing and degrading display...

[ex-khobar Andy]

We will soon be seeing his entourage carrying those little notebooks in which they write down every random thought of Kim Il Donald.

[rubato]

I'm reminded of dog walkers carefully wrapping and preserving their pets droppings.


yrs,
rubato

[Scooter]