The groups listed at left are certainly under pressure at this point.
But let’s not forget about everybody living on a warming planet who may not have the wherewithal to pack up and leave their homelands that are becoming uninhabitable.
The environmental action group One5c.com points out that Trump’s efforts to trash our planet so as to benefit the fossil fuel industry are often unsuccessful. They write:
The good news is that climate and public health advocates have been keeping a close eye on things, including moves that can be challenged in court. During Trump’s first term, states and environmental groups filed hundreds of lawsuits against the administration, and the vast majority were successful, including a suit that spurred the courts to strike down a Trump policy called the Affordable Clean Energy rule that would have increased carbon pollution at many coal-fired power plants.
Another piece of good news is that progressives, by their very nature, are tenacious; we tend not to give up in tough times like these.
Does anyone think the people who re-elected Donald Trump could possibly give a damn about his ripping off his non-profit that purportedly fought against childhood cancer?
This is part of his very DNA, and his supporters rejoice in it.
With great exuberance, a friend told me, “He always wins!”
Two points:
Not sure that means much to decent people.
Undefeated people always win…until they lose.
Shakespeare wrote about “the quality of mercy.”
Here in the 21st Century America under Donald Trump, it might just cost you your U.S. citizenship.
There is a vast difference between the demographic of “working families” and the uber-wealthy, the two groups that re-elected Trump. In particular:
Working families tend to be poorly educated, a phenomenon that’s only getting worse with each passing year. Too many of them are ill-equipped intellectually to understand that they’re supporting a criminal conman.
Rich families are well-educated, making them smart enough to know that Trump will make sure his wealthy donors get even richer. But sadly, most of them couldn’t care less about anyone but themselves.
If I were to show this to a science classroom of high school students who have B-or-better grades, the majority of them would understand instantly that this is just one example of the onslaught of misinformation that is circulating around the Internet. Solar PV generates electricity by absorbing photons, not by letting them pass through.
Legitimate question: Who profits from a scientifically illiterate population?
If you take the damage Trump inflicted on our country (and the rest of the world) yesterday and multiply it by the number of days in four years, you get a startlingly large amount. Yet it’s finite, and more to the point, he’s bound to run out of atrocities eventually.
There is no way of knowing the degree to which the meme here describes Trump’s true motivation for his despicable act, but there is no doubt that today there are millions of armed, hateful morons in this country who feel empowered to commit violent felonies on the president’s behalf.
I have a friend who said, “I feel so much safer now that Trump’s back in the White House.” I don’t.
Bernie Sanders delivers the truth about the real power structure in the United States, and adds, “We must fight back.”
From her Wikipedia page:
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She writes:
Back at the White House, retaliation continued. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of the January 6 rioters who had been convicted of crimes related to the attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election, including Enrico Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys who was serving 22 years for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.
