To be fair, Trumpists have no idea how to actual govern, so to them, everything probably is an emergency.
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Stop being fair; fascists don't deserve it. Their entire ideology is being unfair to you.
They know it isn't an emergency, they know they're lying, and they're doing it on purpose in order to seize power unjustly. Their disinformation must be opposed at every turn and they must be given no quarter.
I agree with you. Outside of sarcasm, I'm tempted to apply this version of the word:
"We'll give you a fair trial, followed by a first-class hanging." --Sheriff Cobb in Silverado
I don't think violence is really the right answer to this mess, but I have to keep telling myself that. The hardest thing about facing down awful and destructive people isn't winning, it's not becoming them in the process.
Especially the shortage of diapers in Donnie's size..
"They did it for COVID, therefore we get to do a for everything else" - MAGA, probably
Biden couldn't even forgive student loans, meanwhile Trump gets to dismantle the whole damn department for some reason
Well, Trump can’t forgive anything.
It's weird how they can use Biden/Obama/The Clintons for so many things, including alternative histories.
I had a conversation with a dumbass magabrain that's in my life and he legit said he hopes that donvict will fix the "terrible Biden economy". This, after nearly six months of donvict doing nearly everything to fuck up an economy that was doing very, very good especially after having to recover from Covid. I told him as much and how I don't recall things being bad at all for my household prior to Jan 20th (nevermind looking at the actual numbers) and his response?
Well, he was doing okay, too, but it's possible not all the right people were doing okay, and many wrong people were benefiting under Biden. I didn't have time to ask what the fuck that was supposed to mean, but I sure have a few guesses....
These people will try to rewrite history of even a few months ago and when called on it, sheepishly have to admit that claim is bullshit (usually - the spokescreatures for donvict won't admit anything because they are paid liars, but everyday schlubs are not that agile at brazen lying in many cases) and then switch to some other topic or change the narrative to having the government suddenly needing to choose winners and losers in the "right" way. Usually choosing "winners and losers" is supposed to be bad, but this is something like "states rights". They don't really mean any of this shit, the base mostly just wants a white country that centers cishet white male xtian men, and the elites that run things just want the tax cuts and no labor movement that threatens any of their plans...
For sure, coal fired generators should be treated as an emergency. They’re slowly going away (in the US)/but our environment can’t take the pace. We need to treat this a lot more urgently, get totally off coal asap. I bet we could do it in only a couple years of emergency action.
I believe it’s mostly two states, and West Virginia always needs an investment
…. But they’re probably not thinking of it that way
They'll just rebrand coal as 'Natural American Fuel Pellets' and double the price of energy.
They will also call them "Freedom Lumps" and sell collectors lumps for $47 each for MAGAs to put in their Christmas stockings
Except that those chunks of coal will be imported from another country where there are fewer safety and environmental regulations while the trump's pocket the savings.
Freedom Lumps fill the MAGA diapers
Freedom cancer pills!
Trump administration officials also used emergency powers to protect coal-powered electricity generation. ... The recent flare-up relates to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issuing an emergency order to keep open a Michigan coal power plant that had been scheduled for retirement. Michigan regulators and grid officials, however, deny the existence of an emergency or shortage of power.
The emergency order is particularly odd. Typically, the Department of Energy is responding to a request from the locality in question, but that did not happen in this case. This particular Michigan facility, the J.H. Campbell plant, had been deferring maintenance as it was expecting permanent retirement on May 31, 2025. It also had not been placing orders for coal to burn, and many of its workers had been reassigned, since everyone had expected the plant to be shut down.
It's times like this, with this kind of phraseology floating around, that I think about the Poison Girls' track Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlTJUaYo6Vk