Posted on 12/21/2017 12:11:37 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Let’s start with the universe and work our way in. Who cares? Not them because as far as we know they aren’t there. As far as we know, no one exists in our galaxy or perhaps anywhere else but us (and the other creatures on this all-too-modest planet of ours). So don’t count on any aliens out there caring what happens to humanity. They won’t.
As for it - Earth - the planet itself can’t, of course, care, no matter what we do to it. And I’m sure it won’t be news to you that, when it comes to him - and I mean, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who reputedly has a void where the normal quotient of human empathy might be - don’t give it a second’s thought. Beyond himself, his businesses, and possibly (just possibly) his family, he clearly couldn’t give less of a damn about us or, for that matter, what happens to anyone after he departs this planet.
In the phrase of Jonathan Schell, the fate of the Earth remains not just in his hands, but in ours. If they, those nonexistent aliens, don’t care and the planet can’t care and the alien in the White House doesn’t give a damn, then it’s up to us to care. It’s up to us to protest, resist, and change, to communicate and convince, to fight for life rather than its destruction. If you’re of a certain age, all you have to do is look at your children or grandchildren (or those of your friends and neighbors) and you know that no one, Donald Trump included, should have the right to consign them to the flames.
2018 is on the horizon. Let’s make it a better time, not the end of time.
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Me,too!
Which planet? Uranus?
And what planet are you on?
The Nation - left of Mother Jones.
Apparently Obama was an underacheiver - he only tried to destroy America.
I thought he was Hitler.
Now he is a Deathstar?
This is so confusing! /sar
Tell that to "planned" parenthood.
Does this place share writers with National Review?
Sounds like a liberal’s version of a Christmas sermon (without the Christmas and Gospel, of course).
Actively trying to destroy the planet. Wow
Like Simon bar Soros?
A little projection of not all out derangement
I guess pollution doesn't apply to Communists and only to Capitalists who are stupid enough to fall for this BS.
Ya know, I think I heard my first Uranus joke in 3rd grade. They never get old! lol
Or the awful air pollution from uncontrolled coal burning that is already affecting the health of people in the Korean peninsula and Japan.
Future Historians will read this crap for laughs.................
Why post this?
I he wanted to destroy the entire planet he would have done it by now.
I like to flip this around on these people: You say he is a dolt and a buffoon but then in the next breath you believe he is an evil James Bond super villain capable of destroying planets. So which is it?
This worked very well at a party when they were bashing Bush. The two leftards in the conversation were struck dumb. Their expressions were priceless.
I knew it when I saw that Trump had bought one of these!
Obviously, he is Death Star Hitler.
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