I see "old man" Biden is a leader of the climate conference. You know, as part of the effort to Save the World before it's too late?
Fat chance!
It's amazing there actually really are 130 HOUSE MEMBERS AND 30 SENATORS who are STILL toting water for Carbon Lobby (coal, oil, gas and natural gas) who combine to spend OVER $200 MILLION a year to bribe politicians and propagandize the public. And it's working well enough that most of the Republican Party is swooning over the transparent lies, like there's a "controversy" swirling around the science, when in reality it's literally 99.9% settled.
It's an extremely serious problem, but apparently the lies work just as well on this issue as it did on covid-19, or 2020 Election Fraud, or the peaceful BLM protests WEREN'T made to look violent by groups like the Proud Boys, or pretty much anything Trump says, or even old chestnuts like Iraq had WMDs, or "supply-side economics."
Yes, there is a large, stubborn, and sloganized segment of the American population which apparently learned nothing in school, and allows itself be led around by the nose by any demogogue who knows how to wave around the red meat.
But the "climate thing" is perhaps THE most serious problem we've EVER faced, but it's eerie how deafening the silence is, because it's still a few years out, and because all those hundred of millions of dollars have done the job, let's face it.
And it's yet another fight with the Stupid Squad, which is so exhausting it feels like the Hobbits must have in Mordor fighting the Orcs: they're stupid and ugly, but there sure are a lot of them,!
So give it up for "Good 'ol Joe;" he's ignoring the penny gallery and getting on with it, just another Democrat TRYING to clean up yet another Republican mess.
But it ain't gonna be easy.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's the system that allows lobbyists to bribe public officials, notably members of the House and Senate. They are all bought and paid for by one interest or another.
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More false equivalency. Democrats passed campaign finance reform in 1974, then in 2002 McCain-Feingold turned off the "soft money" spigot (bipartisan only because of John McCain--remember when they could actually cooperate every now and then?), at least the best they could do, and that (sort of) worked, then the Republican-sponsored Citizens United decision in 2011 did away with 99% of it altogether.
You know, cynicism only gets you so far. Didn't the Dems just pass a $1.2 TRILLION INFRASTRUCTURE bill, with more on the way for all kinds of good things if they can somehow get it past Manchin and Sinema (half her staff walked out on her). Or is that money funnelled through "special interests" too?
And the Democrats would have passed a new, comprehensive voting rights bill to stop Republicans from debasing our democracy further, despite unanimous Republican opposition, if it weren't for (Democrat in name only) Manchin standing in the way.
And wasn't it Trump who pushed through a $2 TRILLION tax cut for the super rich, with unanimous Republican support?
And the Democrats under Biden reversed Trump's decision to pull out of climate change talks. Think the fossil fuel industry had nothing to do with that? Who's the "special interest there, electric car and solar energy conglomerates?
When are you and some other people going to get it through your heads there are HUGE differences?
@Storm1752 Yes there are. I think the problem is the Big Tent itself and how many tribal cries begin clashing. Pelosi is doing a masterful job steering through those rapids by allowing the natural flow to take place and everyone gets heard. That builds for stronger unions and we saw 13 Con's vote for the infrastructure bill. The Big Tent is like our feet and we get tripped up in it. Given the time it will produce the best work, however. Given time. There's the rub.
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