First of all, once Trump won this was a foregone conclusion. It’s not that Trump is some steely eyed maverick willing to buck international norms for doing the “right thing”, climate change denial is a feature of the Republican party (and AFAIK, there is no real comparison to any other major political party in the entire world.) Secondly, the MSM is complicit in this as they spent far more time in 2016 talking about “email behavior” and “optics” than policy and even less on climate change. (Polls also show broad support for Paris, fwiw.) Lastly, painting trump with the brush of “rebel” further leads to the normalization of his inanity (which got us here, i.e.both trump and the modern GOP.)
While it is true Paris does not go far enough, the BBC reported today that if countries meet their commitments through 2050 that results in a 1 degree change, not the .2 or whatever it is the original MIT study said (they assumed all countries would stop after 2030.)
Here’s part of a (dreaded) “tweet storm” that explains the importance of the Paris accords beyond the cynical (and wholly predictable observations from the conservative “intelligentsia” who laugh at the “left” for caring about the planet and future generations.)
(I know McMaster just penned an op-ed that extols the virtues of viewing the world through the lens of “winners and losers” and disparages the idea of a global community, but fuck him and everyone else who thinks that way.)
But seriously why the fuckchrist did the entire world get together and decide, "Hey, what if we communicated our important ideas in the least efficient way imaginable???
(But the adults continue their conversation. The toddler sees a dining room table covered with stuff. Toddler tugs hard on the tablecloth and everything on the table comes crashing down.)
Cenc Uygur (The Young Terks) posits that Trump just doesn’t believe in Win-Win deals. Someone always wins and someone loses. Since all the other countries agreed with Obama, this clearly means they won and we lost somehow. So cancel it, until he can make a new deal so we can be sure we win and they all lose.
We all worry that someone will get Trump’s goat and he’ll send nukes flying. But who could have predicted that his nuclear war would be against France?
Nah, that’s not going to trigger nukes flying. Now, if someday Trump needs to shake Merkel’s hand and if it goes wrong, I’d look to move away from Berlin. London is probably fine, May wouldn’t try to make him look bad…
It’s not that one thing, it’s more that Macron is making it his personal quest to piss off the Donald (go Macron!). I get the feeling Macron is just getting warmed up.
Your regular reminder that Lindsay Graham’s “I’m actually one of the reasonable and responsible ones” act is just that, only an act. There is nothing Trump can do that he won’t rubber stamp:
It’s basically LemonParty.jpg, but there’s no mutual pleasure here. Just four years of fluorescent orange Trump dick running train on the gaping holes where Graham’s and McCain’s self respect used to be.
