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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20160 on: September 11, 2019, 06:28:12 PM »


...(a) problem doesn't have to terminate our species in order to be taken seriously as a threat.

But of course it helps the democrat cause to say otherwise. As Bernie and Warren continuously do.

Fool.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20161 on: September 11, 2019, 06:44:14 PM »


...(a) problem doesn't have to terminate our species in order to be taken seriously as a threat.

But of course it helps the democrat cause to say otherwise. As Bernie and Warren continuously do.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20162 on: September 11, 2019, 07:54:45 PM »

I already have. If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

I understand that you want to think it isn’t. No you have not made an argument that it isn’t.

By  continuing  to focus on growing the economy. Climate Change poses challenges that will cost money to adapt to.

Lol. The Republican position on climate change is that no one should spend money on mitigation or adaptation to climate change. So no, focusing on what they would be focusing on anyway is not proof of taking the threat seriously.

Want to try again, on both counts?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20163 on: September 11, 2019, 08:21:48 PM »

I already have. If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

I understand that you want to think it isn’t.
I know it isn’t. Maybe you need more time in ESL classes.
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By  continuing  to focus on growing the economy. Climate Change poses challenges that will cost money to adapt to.

Lol. The Republican position on climate change is that no one should spend money on mitigation or adaptation to climate change.
LOL.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20164 on: September 11, 2019, 08:38:01 PM »


...(a) problem doesn't have to terminate our species in order to be taken seriously as a threat.

But of course it helps the democrat cause to say otherwise. As Bernie and Warren continuously do.

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No.

I grew up on the South Shore of Long Island. Experienced hurricanes, nor’easters, blizzards, etc.

We’re experiencing five hundred year floods and extreme hurricanes every other year, thanks n part to our carbon policies.

Europe has never experienced such prolonged extreme heat. The polar ice is melting causing sea levels to rise...

The future envisioned by conservatives is the Jetsons (see? no termination of the species so stop being alarmist!) living within a controlled environment way up high in what’s left of the atmosphere with no thought about the poor motherfuckers left on the ground.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20165 on: September 11, 2019, 08:50:40 PM »


...(a) problem doesn't have to terminate our species in order to be taken seriously as a threat.

But of course it helps the democrat cause to say otherwise. As Bernie and Warren continuously do.

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No.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20166 on: September 11, 2019, 08:57:01 PM »


...(a) problem doesn't have to terminate our species in order to be taken seriously as a threat.

But of course it helps the democrat cause to say otherwise. As Bernie and Warren continuously do.
Those of us who remember criticism from the right over Obama saying ISIS was not an existential threat find your current line of.argument remarkable in its mendacity.

Not remarkable at all. Business as usual.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20167 on: September 11, 2019, 09:01:00 PM »

If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

What would convince you that it does threaten our existence?

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #20169 on: September 11, 2019, 09:03:29 PM »

GOP playbook...

You see the shit they pulled in NC today? Virginia GOP did the same bullshit on Inauguration Day 2013.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/va-republicans-move-on-redistricting-draws-criticism/2013/01/22/f7645ee8-64b9-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html
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« Reply #20170 on: September 11, 2019, 09:05:12 PM »

If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

What would convince you that it does threaten our existence?
How could it?
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« Reply #20171 on: September 11, 2019, 09:39:28 PM »

If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

What would convince you that it does threaten our existence?
How could it?

Go Google...
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« Reply #20172 on: September 11, 2019, 09:45:26 PM »

If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

What would convince you that it does threaten our existence?
How could it?

Increased sea level wipes out current coastal cities, destroying the global economy.

Increased heat causes current crop rotations to fail, while happening too fast for ready transition to the new ones to accommodate the volume of agriculture we need.

Shifting of climate zones causes "circle of life" in multiple regions to fail, eliminating most pollinating species, leading to further crop failure, dying off of fish in major zones, and other food sources.

Climate zone changes also move disease-born insects into regions where the animal life has no antibodies for them, potentially destroying the livestock that feeds many of us, whether chickens, pigs, or cows.

Avian flu and swine flu variants arrive, but with collapse of economy, CDC doesn't have the resources to construct a good counter to one or more such things.


Since you asked.

Also: "existential" for many people does not mean extinction of humanity, "merely" extinction of our current level of "civilization," which this could do all too easily.


Again, Ward, what would convince you that this is a threat that is worth considering action to prevent?
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« Reply #20173 on: September 11, 2019, 09:45:56 PM »

If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

What would convince you that it does threaten our existence?
How could it?

Go Google...
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« Reply #20174 on: September 11, 2019, 10:20:35 PM »

If you don’t understand that climate change does NOT threaten our existence I can’t make it any clearer than that.

What would convince you that it does threaten our existence?
How could it?

Jim’s advanced Syphilis does not give him enough time. The disease, so immediate, overshadows any other concerns. Since he has no legacy, that not an issue either.
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