Everything you didn't want to know about Trump and were not afraid to ask

[Seabass]

Comparisons of Republicans to Nazis are unfair. The Nazis were racist, genocidal maniacs, whereas the Republicans are a threat to the continued existence of all life on earth, with the possible exception of some extremophiles. Clearly, the Republicans are far more dangerous.

Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html

Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees by the end of this century.

A rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit, or about four degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels would be catastrophic, according to scientists. Many coral reefs would dissolve in increasingly acidic oceans. Parts of Manhattan and Miami would be underwater without costly coastal defenses. Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.

But the administration did not offer this dire forecast, premised on the idea that the world will fail to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, as part of an argument to combat climate change. Just the opposite: The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed.

The draft statement, issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), was written to justify President Trump’s decision to freeze federal fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks built after 2020. While the proposal would increase greenhouse gas emissions, the impact statement says, that policy would add just a very small drop to a very big, hot bucket.

“The amazing thing they’re saying is human activities are going to lead to this rise of carbon dioxide that is disastrous for the environment and society. And then they’re saying they’re not going to do anything about it,” said Michael MacCracken, who served as a senior scientist at the U.S. Global Change Research Program from 1993 to 2002.

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Trump has vowed to exit the Paris accord and called climate change a hoax. In the past two months, the White House has pushed to dismantle nearly half a dozen major rules aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, deregulatory moves intended to save companies hundreds of millions of dollars.

If enacted, the administration’s proposals would give new life to aging coal plants; allow oil and gas operations to release more methane into the atmosphere; and prevent new curbs on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air-conditioning units. The vehicle rule alone would put 8 billion additional tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this century, more than a year’s worth of total U.S. emissions, according to the government’s own analysis.

Administration estimates acknowledge that the policies would release far more greenhouse gas emissions from America’s energy and transportation sectors than otherwise would have been allowed.

The statement is the latest evidence of deep contradictions in the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

Despite Trump’s skepticism, federal agencies conducting scientific research have often reaffirmed that humans are causing climate change, including in a major 2017 report that found “no convincing alternative explanation.” In one internal White House memo, officials wondered whether it would be best to simply “ignore” such analyses.

full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html

[Animavore]

Time to get rid of the old denialists who'll be dead soon and put forward thinking people equipped to deal with the situation in charge.

You know what to do.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump has been caught on camera admitting to another extramarital affair, with Lil' Kim: “We fell in love.... He wrote me beautiful letters... they were great letters.. and then we fell in love.”

[pErvinalia]

He does love a dictator.

[Animavore]

Trump, once again, proves he's a piece of shit.

It’s against this backdrop that the president hosted a press conference this morning on the revised NAFTA agreement. Here was what happened when Trump called on ABC News’s Cecilia Vega:

TRUMP: OK, question? Yes, go ahead. Sure. She’s shocked that I picked her. Like in a state of shock.

VEGA: I’m not, thank you, Mr. President.

TRUMP: That’s OK, I know you’re not thinking. You never do.

VEGA: I’m sorry?

TRUMP: No, go ahead. Go ahead.

The members of the administration huddled behind the president, most of whom were men, chuckled as if the exchange was amusing.

It wasn’t. As the Washington Post’s Amber Phillips noted, the comments came “across as gender-driven. When Trump wants to attack women, he often resorts to stereotypes, reducing women to their looks or their intellect (or supposed lack of it) in many instances. In summer 2017, he attacked MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski by alleging that she had a ‘facelift.’ In his very first presidential debate, Trump pushed back on host Megyn Kelly for questioning him about his treatment of women by saying that ‘she had blood coming out of her wherever.’ He has called NBC News’s Katy Tur ‘little Katy’ and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd ‘crazy.’”

As usual; we don't have to add anything.

[Cunt]

Trump, once again, proves he's a piece of shit.

It’s against this backdrop that the president hosted a press conference this morning on the revised NAFTA agreement. Here was what happened when Trump called on ABC News’s Cecilia Vega:

TRUMP: OK, question? Yes, go ahead. Sure. She’s shocked that I picked her. Like in a state of shock.

VEGA: I’m not, thank you, Mr. President.

TRUMP: That’s OK, I know you’re not thinking. You never do.

VEGA: I’m sorry?

TRUMP: No, go ahead. Go ahead.

The members of the administration huddled behind the president, most of whom were men, chuckled as if the exchange was amusing.

It wasn’t. As the Washington Post’s Amber Phillips noted, the comments came “across as gender-driven. When Trump wants to attack women, he often resorts to stereotypes, reducing women to their looks or their intellect (or supposed lack of it) in many instances. In summer 2017, he attacked MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski by alleging that she had a ‘facelift.’ In his very first presidential debate, Trump pushed back on host Megyn Kelly for questioning him about his treatment of women by saying that ‘she had blood coming out of her wherever.’ He has called NBC News’s Katy Tur ‘little Katy’ and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd ‘crazy.’”

As usual; we don't have to add anything.

I've seen him mistreat reporters pretty fairly...he treats men, women and others pretty well the same.

Why only react when he treats women or persons with disabilities this way? Do they somehow deserve more respect than other people?

[pErvinalia]

It's the way he treats them.

[Brian Peacock]

Does somebody need a Manbulance!? But hey, it's OK to belittle people and mistreat them if you do it indiscriminately.

[Cunt]

Does somebody need a Manbulance!? But hey, it's OK to belittle people and mistreat them if you do it indiscriminately.

My point was that he wasn't being sexist, he was being an asshole.

I understand they smell similar, but come on...

[pErvinalia]

He's actually a liberal.

[Animavore]

A fucking disgrace.

[Brian Peacock]

Freedom and liberty mean having the freedom to hold and express your vies and the liberty to do so without censure. While he remains at liberty Trump is free to express whatever views he wants on behalf of the American people, seemingly without restraint.

[Seabass]

I'm sure Coito Deuce will be along shortly to explain that there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for it. And if there isn't, Australia is shitty to refugees and SJWs are destroying the cosmos, so look over there instead...

Trump Administration to Deny Visas to Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats, U.N. Officials
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/01/tr ... -gay-lgbt/

[JimC]

He's playing to his rabid audience...

Anything but sex between man and wife in the missionary position, in the dark, is Satan's work!

[Scot Dutchy]

The woman must not enjoy it either.