monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

. In so many ways he is so obviously unqualified to be President. IMO

He's mentally unstable.

Those of you here mainly interested in insulting other posters, either grow up or go away.

How is it that a group as disorganized as the Trump Administration has been so methodical when it comes to the (anti) environment? The simplest answer is that money focusses the mind. Lots of corporations stand to profit from Trump’s regulatory rollback, even as American consumers suffer. Auto manufacturers, for example, had argued that the 2022 fuel-efficiency standards were too expensive to meet. (This is the case even though, when they accepted a federal bailout, during the Obama Administration, the car companies said that the standards were achievable.) Similarly, utilities have argued that the power-plant rules are too costly to comply with. Coal companies will probably benefit from the rollbacks. So, too, will oil companies, and perhaps also ceiling-fan manufacturers, though, in the case of the appliance standards, the affected manufacturers were at the table when the proposed regulations were drafted.

But, while money is clearly key, it doesn’t seem entirely sufficient as an explanation. There’s arguably more money, in the long run, to be made from imposing the regulations—from investing in solar and wind power, for example, and updating the country’s electrical grid. Writing recently in the Washington Post, Amanda Erickson proposed an alternative, or at least complementary, explanation. Combatting a global environmental problem like climate change would seem to require global coöperation. If you don’t believe in global coöperation because “America comes first,” then you’re faced with a dilemma. You can either come up with an alternative approach—tough to do—or simply pretend that the problem doesn’t exist.

“Climate change denial is not incidental to a nationalist, populist agenda,” Erickson argues. “It’s central to it.” She quotes Andrew Norton, the director of the International Institute for Environment and Development, in London, who observes, “Climate change is a highly inconvenient truth for nationalism,” as it “requires collective action between states.” This argument can, and probably should, be taken one step further. The fundamental idea behind the environmental movement—the movement that gave us Earth Day in the first place—is that everything, and therefore everyone, is connected.

Ridiculous ! The only interference in our election process came at the hands of DNC staffers and CNN reporters who conspired to thwart Bernie Sander's more-successful-than-programmed primary campaign, and later the election debates with the Republican Candidate. It appears that Russian hackers were involved in getting and leaking some documents confirming all this. FBI staffers monitoring various hacking efforts tried repeatedly to warn the DNC but were ignored. Now Democrats embarrassed by these missteps, an ineffective campaign and widespread political losses across the country are excitedly and neurotically attempting to hide the truth from themselves and their base supporters.

Those of you here mainly interested in insulting other posters, either grow up or go away.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—An overwhelming majority of Americans say that their lives have improved since Kellyanne Conway went away, a new poll finds.

According to the poll, Americans have been sleeping more, eating better, and enjoying a markedly greater sense of well-being following Conway’s sudden departure.

“I had lost my zest for life,” Carol Foyler, a poll respondent, said. “Now that Kellyanne Conway is gone, I greet every day with a smile, I feel my energy coming back, and I want to have sex again.

Blatham appears here to have low tolerance for disagreement. That's unfortunate. Could this be an indicator of an authoritarian personality?

He's gotten us closer to armed conflict with North Korea and Russia than we've been in decades, all through his brainless bumbling and chest-thumping.

You insult the intelligence of every poster here with virtually every post you make, eh, Blabby?

Blatham appears here to have low tolerance for disagreement. That's unfortunate. Could this be an indicator of an authoritarian personality?