I thought the ongoing comments on the US elections thread were increasingly at odds with the title and theme of that thread. Trump has now been inaugurated so its time to move to a thread about his presidency.
This is likely to be a thread with strong opinions and one influenced by controversial actions & decisions by Trump. Please therefore stick to facts, observations and views about the consequences of what Trump does (or says he is going to do). Try to avoid name calling and insults.
I’ll start with one observation. Trump did say he would act quickly and his rush of executive orders has shown that he intends to keep to his goal. It is a pity, from my perspective, that what he sees as most urgent could be seen as most destructive. That is:-
Pardoning the Jan 6 rioters. This is undermining the rule of law and endorsing aggressive, dangerous and violent actions. Surely the head of the state should endorse such rioting.
Taking the US out of the climate change agreement. The US is already the largest contributor to global warming. This will only cause more natural disasters, incur more cost in rectifying the damage from these disasters and risk destroying many small island nations. Surely there was scope for something reasonable between being in the climate agreement and being out of the agreement?
And certainly one could argue there are more urgent things than either of these two.
Is China,
I’ll correct that, the largest contributor of all time is the US. And China has not decided to walk away from the climate agreement.
Fasten the seatbelts.
“Clash of the Titans”. Anytime soon !
All the way 2. >> TvM Final.
And its Collateral Damage.
And his bestie, space Karen was giving the nazi salute
Two small incidents I noticed re-enforced my opinion of all politicians.Obama and Trump giggling together at the Carter funeral and Biden standing on the steps of the White House greeting Trump with “welcome home”.
There are all in one select club and we are not members.
To be fair China is also the country doing the most to reduce its CO2 emissions with solar farms and EVs
It is true that, so far, the number 1 polluter is , still, China (due to the fact it had its industrial revolution a century later compared to Europe eg) followed by India and the USA.
Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined
But the huge difference is that China is very conscious about that, and 100% committed to a greener earth and is indeed becoming the world leader in green technologies making huge progress daily in inventing and inovating world wide green technologies.
Trump realises the folly of this CO2 and net zero nonsense and wants no part of it, I commend him for that. If all the world were to alter the CO2 there would be some red faces when the extreme weather continues to make life difficult for us humans. Much better to prepare for climate change than try to prevent it.