Yes, I should have explicitly said that. Harris needed to support trans people. She shouldn’t have left that to Walz. She needed to say that the situation in Gaza is wrong and the US needs to use our power to stop it.
She was never going to win over the bigots and misogynists anyway
… and because of that, we are looking at multiple genocides, abroad and here in the US as well.
I do know that I’m not going to go down without a fight- I will leave a crater where I make my last stand and make my death every expensive.
If he could still speak, he could make a speech like Frederic March.
A little bit of this would have helped him in the debate too.
Maybe less fallout coming than expected on this front:
plenty of climate action would be very difficult for a second Trump administration to unravel, and the 47th president won’t be able to stop the inevitable economy-wide shift from fossil fuels to renewables.
“This is bad for the climate, full stop,” said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at the Columbia Business School. “That said, this will be yet another wall that never gets built. Fundamental market forces are at play.”
A core irony of climate change is that markets incentivized the wide-scale burning of fossil fuels beginning in the Industrial Revolution, creating the mess humanity is mired in, and now those markets are driving a renewables revolution that will help fix it. Coal, oil, and gas are commodities whose prices fluctuate. As natural resources that humans pull from the ground, there’s really no improving on them—engineers can’t engineer new versions of coal.
By contrast, solar panels, wind turbines, and appliances like induction stoves only get better—more efficient and cheaper—with time. Energy experts believe solar power, the price of which fell 90 percent between 2010 and 2020, will continue to proliferate across the landscape. (Last year, the United States added three times as much solar capacity as natural gas.) Heat pumps now outsell gas furnaces in the U.S., due in part to government incentives. Last year, Maine announced it had reached its goal of installing 100,000 heat pumps two years ahead of schedule, in part thanks to state rebates. So if the Trump administration cut off the funding for heat pumps that the IRA provides, states could pick up the slack.
Maybe our best bet is to convince him that clean energy was his idea in the first place.
And all his fans will readily agree that expanding renewables was his idea, and a great idea, and continue to roll coal without seeing any irony.
Trump has a weird grudge against wind turbines, or windmills as he calls them. He’s as likely to be tricked into supporting them as he is anything with Obama’s name on it.
Maybe all prople named Don have s problem with windmills
I find myself reading more Cory and less BB
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/12/the-enemy-of-your-enemy/
All the monopolists are kissing ass so they don’t get punished.
I guess the key difference is that the people spreading evidence-free conspiracy theories this time around aren’t the candidate or top leadership within the party.
https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-should-throw-them-a-party
The whole “community centers” is what ward leaders/committee members were supposed to do in days of yore. In Philly they’ve been insular and really only reaching out the week before the election. A bunch of political has beens & never weres nursing their self importance and collecting their election “walking around money”.
John Fetterman said in a post on X Tuesday that he will ‘look forward’ to voting for Marco Rubio’s confirmation to be secretary of state.
Asshole.
I kinda expect that shithead to become a Republican soon. What a sad, strange disappointment he turned out to be.
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