🚨NEWS: Amid record-breaking heat, Republicans are introducing legislation to block any president from declaring a climate emergency.
Fossil fuel donors funneled more than $5 million to the bill sponsors — and some of the lawmakers are oil/gas investors. https://www.levernews.com/new-gop-bill-would-curb-bidens-power-to-fight-climate-change/
How can Congress forbid the executive branch from performing one of their functions? I'm not a legal scholar, but that sounds unconstitutional to me. Aside from the fact that it's foolish, catastrophicly destructive and wrong.
glad you're here.
Republicans strategy of banning people from discussing reality is continuing.
@Sandywb @davidsirota During the height of COVID, Trump tried claiming that COVID would vanish if we simply stopped testing for it. Apparently, the Republicans are adopting that technique to deal with climate change.
"If we all just stopped talking about it, it would vanish!"
Too bad that the climate doesn't care if we talk about it or not just like COVID didn't care if we tested or didn't test. Reality doesn't go away because you don't like it.
@davidsirota Hmm. Lawmakers with personal investments making laws that are in favour of the companies/industries (and not of the planet they live on) those lawmakers have personal investments in.
Sounds like that should be illegal! And sounds like there were some attempts before to make that illegal but too many on both sides struck down any progress to make that illegal!
@davidsirota A level of corruption in public office Americans & all of human mankind can no longer afford in the face of the prospect of being BBQed alive, drowned or starved.
#RuleOfLaw #SaveLives #ClimateChange #GlobalHeat #Floodings #Wildfires #BadHarvests #DroughtDisasters #BanTheGOP #Corruption #Bribery #FossilFuelsProfiteers #FreeFromFossilFuels #Renewables
👍 I like it
@davidsirota "“Our legislation ensures that President Biden does not abuse the power of his office to pursue his anti-American energy agenda against the will of the American people,” said Pfluger in a statement when the bill was introduced."
They meant against the will of the FF companies. The overwhelming majority of Americans want climate action, and now.
They must literally be avoiding all information sources on the topic, for fear they might discover they are wrong.
Maybe they think their descendants can live in some eutopian bunker environment while the rest of us go extinct.
Wonder where they plan to get their oxygen from, once all the phytoplankton are dead?
@davidsirota I think it's time for the public to declare a GOP emergency.
The climate is a planet sized monster which we can do little about at this point.
The GOP is a small group of limp-dicked thugs which we can do plenty about.
@davidsirota GOP are just diabolically greedy at this point.
If you want clean water, food, and air you can breath in your future: #VoteBlue
BuhBye #Florida
Hello #Tatooine
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning
Harlan Crow continues his shopping spree.
He's completed his collection of publicly corrupt Supreme Court Justices, he's moving on to corrupt Senators etc.
The GOP will take money from anybody, literally anybody.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/fundraising-ploys-highlight-five-alarm-fire-find-new-gop-donors-rcna94121
https://newrepublic.com/post/174371/rfk-jr-a-lot-gop-donors-someone-running-democrat
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See it from Vladimir's view
To own us what has he to do?
Elect thirty-five men
Who will serve him and then
There'll be not much we're able to do
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