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Trump’s greatest dereliction of duty - - his disgraceful denial of climate change
The Washington Post ^ | November 5, 2019 | by Katrina vanden Heuvel

Posted on 11/05/2019 1:46:07 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The Trump administration’s announcement that it would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement is a largely symbolic move, but it is nevertheless another reminder of President Trump’s greatest folly: his disgraceful denial of the threat posed by catastrophic climate change. No matter who wins the Democratic presidential nomination, Trump’s open hostility toward any action on climate will elevate it to a defining issue in the 2020 campaign. Voters will choose between a president and Republican Party proud of systematic resistance to any action on climate, and a challenger and Democratic Party dedicated to historic efforts to limit the already costly threat to life as we know it.

Against this real and escalating threat, Trump — aided and abetted by Republicans in Congress — has pushed to roll back regulation after regulation to curb fossil-fuel emissions. The president has deep-sixed President Barack Obama’s climate plan, rolled back automobile mileage standards and opened federal lands to fossil-fuel companies.

At a time when the international scientific community has concluded that we have 11 years to avert the worst of climate change, Trump and his Republican allies are working to intensify the threat, not deter it. A more egregious dereliction of duty is impossible to imagine. Trump’s denial mirrors the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Like Nero, Trump is helping set the flames. Democrats are raising the alarm. The contrast cannot be clearer.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climate; globalwarming; hoax; katrinavandenhuevel; propaganda; socialism
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To: GulfMan

That even one sick, pathetic, rotting, dying sapling is murdered to produce newsprint for this yellow rag is a serious “dereliction of duty”. What worthless cucks.


21 posted on 11/05/2019 1:56:50 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🐂💭💩
22 posted on 11/05/2019 1:57:01 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Katrina the Commie!

Now she’s a Fluid Dynamicist! Who knew!

Ask Trina what the Wall condition is, she if she snaps it out

Or maybe ask her to do a quick derivation of the Navier-Stokes Equations and show how she’s applying them to the spherical annulus known as “the atmosphere”

Waiting patiently!


23 posted on 11/05/2019 1:57:04 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Katrina vanden Heuvel is an evil liar.


24 posted on 11/05/2019 1:57:09 PM PST by abclily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whistle-blower out - - - climate change holocauster in.

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25 posted on 11/05/2019 1:57:20 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wife of Stephen F Cohen. Raging communist.


26 posted on 11/05/2019 1:57:21 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because it’s bs from the same idiots who insist Male/ female is interchangeable.


27 posted on 11/05/2019 1:57:30 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bawaha, ha, ha, ha!!!
Liberal tears taste soooooo good!!!


28 posted on 11/05/2019 1:58:11 PM PST by bantam
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To: GulfMan

That poor kid.


29 posted on 11/05/2019 1:58:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
At a time when the international scientific community has concluded that we have 11 years to avert the worst of climate change

The earth is how many years old, and it all comes down to the next 11?

30 posted on 11/05/2019 1:58:45 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
....his disgraceful denial of the threat posed by catastrophic climate change.

These people are going to be the death of me....

Laughing until I pass out and stop breathing...

31 posted on 11/05/2019 1:59:00 PM PST by Popman
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The climate and Trump

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3791788/posts

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For more than two years President Donald Trump has talked about pulling the
United States out of the landmark Paris climate agreement . Starting Monday he
finally can do something about it.

Even then, though, the withdrawal process takes a year and wouldn’t become
official until at least the day after the 2020 presidential election.

The terms of the deal say no country can withdraw in the first three years. So
Monday is the first time the U.S. could actually start the withdrawal process,
which begins with a letter to the United Nations. And it doesn’t become
official for a year after that, which leads to the day after the election.


32 posted on 11/05/2019 1:59:15 PM PST by deport
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And she repeated the “11 years left” nonsense which was an admitted joke by AOC.


33 posted on 11/05/2019 1:59:20 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I'm doing this for the children. So they're not burdened with billions of dollars of taxes for nothing.

34 posted on 11/05/2019 1:59:39 PM PST by McGruff (Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
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To: MissEdie

“”the already costly threat to life as we know it.””

WHICH IS? Any specifics about the threat to life or just generalities? That’s what I thought!

Some people will swallow anything, won’t they? She gets to keep her job AND HER LIFE!


35 posted on 11/05/2019 2:01:03 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: MissEdie

“”the already costly threat to life as we know it.””

WHICH IS? Any specifics about the threat to life or just generalities? That’s what I thought!

Some people will swallow anything, won’t they? She gets to keep her job AND HER LIFE!


36 posted on 11/05/2019 2:01:13 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More horse dung from Katrina Vanden Shovel!


37 posted on 11/05/2019 2:01:13 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

This entire climate change topic is a load of crap. No one ever heard of the topic until Al Gore came along and created this hysteria twenty years ago.


38 posted on 11/05/2019 2:01:30 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

President Trump’s greatest dereliction of duty is his REFUSAL TO WEAR THE RIBBON. Whether it’s the Global Warming ribbon, the Carbon Footprints RIBBON or whatever else these pathetic nut jobs try to force upon the American people, he just WILL NOT acquiesce to these fools. The ONLY thing he WILL wear on his lapelvis his American flag pin. YOU GO, SIR!!


39 posted on 11/05/2019 2:01:35 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Thank You Rush

Distracted - sorry.....


40 posted on 11/05/2019 2:02:52 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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