I have some very bad news for the author of the meme here. Barring a miracle, Trump will spend the next four years trying to make himself an autocrat, along the lines of Putin, Xi, Jong Un, and the scores of other people whose names are unknown to most Americans, i.e., those that rule less internationally important countries like Somalia, Uzbekistan, or Myanmar.
The idea that Trump will be out of our lives anytime soon is pure fancy.
If you want to hear from someone who’s truly pessimistic about the next four years of life here in the United States, check out Michael MacKay at left. Holy cats.
I join those who hold out hope that this isn’t going to be as bad as most of the world fears.
The GOP, at least for the last century, has indeed consistently been about helping the rich get richer.
The only thing new is that they are now empowered to make this happen like no prior time in U.S. history. Our country is led by a criminal sociopath who has the full support of both houses of congress.
It’s hard to understand how the working class relates to Trump; they certainly aren’t doing well financially.
It’s a considerable mystery; they can’t afford eggs, but they seem to love getting stepped on by the U.S. federal government.
Wait a ding-dong minute here. Wasn’t the top priority lowering the price of gasoline and eggs?
Won’t the MAGA crowd feel ripped off when they learn that Trump and his appointees couldn’t care less about them?
Just kidding. The answer is no. There is exactly nothing that the incoming president could do, no crime or act of betrayal he could commit that would weaken the loyalty of the rank and file Trump supporter.
He hates ethnic/religious minorities, intellectuals, and woke liberals, and that’s all that matters.
While what Bill Nye said here is true, here are a couple of points:
Obviously, there are parts of the globe that will be inhabitable far into the future, even as most of the globe is subject to extreme levels of heat, desertification, flooding, etc. Here, I’m talking about land masses that are far above sea-level, and relatively cool, due to their latitudes. For example, most of Canada will be in good shape far longer than India.
We keep talking about space migration, i.e., exporting humankind to another planet. That means finding a new home for all our greed, stupidity, and tribalism. Doesn’t sound appealing to me.
I had the opportunity to meet a fellow from Norway the other day who confirmed the unbelievable scale of EV adoption in his country.
Out of curiosity, I asked where in the country he lives. He named the town, but it was unfamiliar to me. “Near Oslo?” I asked. “Not really,” he replied. “About 800 miles north of Oslo; 300 miles above the Arctic Circle. 67 days of darkness every winter.”
Yes, that’s different.
The reader who sent me this answers his own question “bottled water.”
Excellent response. Staying hydrated is a very strong idea, but ruining the planet with microplastic is horrendous. How hard is it to re-use containers?
The other thing that inflames me about bottled water is that it enriches companies like Nestle, Pepsico (Aquafina) and Coca Cola (Dasani), some of the most destructive agents on the planet.
This meme presents an extremely pessimistic statement about America’s future.
Yes, it’s possible that Trump will succeed in the tasks he wants to take on, e.g., weaponizing the justice system against his enemies, removing rule of law as it applies to him, further wrecking public education, removing environmental protections, using military aggression against our allies, and so forth. But he’ll need to fight hard to achieve these victories; he’ll face some fierce opposition.
Sure will be interesting.
If you’re a conspiracy theorist who believes that only 3% of scientists are honest, you most certainly have never known anyone who plays a role in this discipline.
Now, you don’t have to be a QAnon/MAGA Trump supporter to harbor this type of BS in your mind. A few years ago, I attended a lecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara where the speaker asserted that science, especially climate science, is now a matter of politics, rather than science per se, and that the subject of climate change is being forced upon us by people with PhDs whose work is all about government funding that has no basis in reality.
That’s quite an accusation, given, as it was, without any evidence. The president of the university got a letter from me the next day. Some random guy is impugning the integrity of tens of thousands of our world’s most intelligent people?
If you happen to be an honest person who for some reason wants to maintain this asinine idea, do yourself a favor. Make a few phone calls, or send a few emails to the people who have dedicated their entire adult lives to understanding the phenomenon of global warming.
That’s what I did, about 15 years ago, in the course of writing my four books. Speaking with real scientists does wonders in cleansing oneself of ignorance.
