Animavore wrote:Seriously, this government is just fucking scum.
Senators voted 54-45 Thursday to kill an Obama administration coal mining rule, giving President Trump his first chance to formally take off the books an environmental rule from the previous administration.
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) challenge passed by the Senate undoes the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule, a regulation requiring coal firms to clean up waste from mountaintop removal mining and prevent it from going into local waterways.
Animavore wrote:Seriously, this government is just fucking scum.
Senators voted 54-45 Thursday to kill an Obama administration coal mining rule, giving President Trump his first chance to formally take off the books an environmental rule from the previous administration.
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) challenge passed by the Senate undoes the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule, a regulation requiring coal firms to clean up waste from mountaintop removal mining and prevent it from going into local waterways.
Oh it's gonna get better. They have a new strategy to ditch Obama rules, the State's attorney general sues the federal government over the statute. And then Trump caves Plaintiff and defendant reach an amicable agreement. Rule gets dropped, case dismissed. No congress needed
A rational skeptic should be able to discuss and debate anything, no matter how much they may personally disagree with that point of view. Discussing a subject is not agreeing with it, but understanding it.
Trump tells lawmakers he wants to rewrite NAFTA to add an extra F - for 'free and fair trade' because the agreement is 'very unfair'
NAFFTA
A rational skeptic should be able to discuss and debate anything, no matter how much they may personally disagree with that point of view. Discussing a subject is not agreeing with it, but understanding it.
Trump Leads the Religious Right to the Promised Land.
It’s been a heady two weeks for right-wing Christian evangelicals. Never before has a president of the United States — not Reagan or either of the Bushes — delivered so much of their agenda in such short order as Donald Trump has just done. He capped off his string of early valentines to the religious right with the announcement of a Supreme Court nominee who is poised to revoke the rights of women, further tear down the “wall” between church and state and open wider the doors for big monied interests to buy the political system they want.
The right-wing press was breathless in its praise for 49-year-old Judge Neil Gorsuch, named by Trump on Tuesday night to ascend to the high court with the seat vacated by the death of Antonin Scalia, who was a ferocious opponent of reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights and significant remedial measures for ensuring civil liberties for African-Americans. Yet religious-minded conservatives may come to love their new man even more than the lionized Scalia: The New York Times places Gorsuch to Scalia’s right.
No True American is an atheist. This is just part of the administrations program to normalise bigotry. Once the puppeteers have achieved that anything is possible.
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There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
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"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Faced with a U.S. retreat from international efforts to tackle climate change, European Union officials are looking to China, fearing a leadership vacuum will embolden those within the bloc seeking to slow the fight against global warming.
While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to act on campaign pledges to pull out of the 2015 Paris accord to cut greenhouse gas emissions, his swift action in other areas has sparked sharp words from usually measured EU bureaucrats.
When Trump's former environment adviser, until the president's inauguration this month, took to a stage in Brussels on Wednesday and called climate experts "urban imperialists", a rebuke from Britain's former energy minister drew applause from the crowd packed with EU officials.
But with fault lines over Brexit, dependence on Russian energy and protecting industry threatening the bloc's own common policy, some EU diplomats worry Europe is too weak to lead on its own in tackling climate change.
Animavore wrote:I can't wake up every day for the next 4 years wondering what act of tremendous stupidity this brain dead administration has done today.
At least you can wake up thankful it's not YOUR administration
Tero wrote:Trump accuses Australia's prime minister of trying to send US the 'next Boston bombers' in 'worst deal ever'
Yeah, what Trump said was unbelievable. These people have been accepted as refugees by the UNHCR.
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Tyrannical wrote:Everyday is like Christmas now! Love it! Thank you Trump for an awesome future 8 years!
You are kidding yourself. He won't make even make it four years. And if by some miracle he does, I can't see your country falling for all the same lies over again.
Sent from my penis using wankertalk. "The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007. "Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that.. "Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt. "I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.
Tyrannical wrote:Everyday is like Christmas now! Love it! Thank you Trump for an awesome future 8 years!
You are kidding yourself. He won't make even make it four years. And if by some miracle he does, I can't see your country falling for all the same lies over again.
See this is exactly why I have all Trump supporters blocked. How can you talk to that? How can you sit and listen to someone who thinks this is all funny? Someone who doesn't give a crap because they're not affected by any of this. People who show a debilitating lack of empathy.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
Plaintiff and defendant reach an amicable agreement. Rule gets dropped, case dismissed. No congress needed 
