It's Hopeless

Here's a little compilation of a few tweets from the last couple of days:
This is what we are up against in this country.  There are no laws against stupidity and hatred.

Comments

Grung_e_Gene said…
Propaganda has won...
August 29, 2017 at 6:13 PM
Green Eagle said…
Hatred has won. Greed has won. Racism has won. Every bad thing is winning. And the only ones who can do a thing about it, Trump's fellow Republicans, won't because they are every bit as corrupt as he is.

Gene, you know there are so many like you and me that have been warning about this for years, but we were shouted down by right wing money and the ownership of the press by the rich. At this point, I am afraid that the most we can hope for is a violent rebellion when the stupid crackers who voted for Trump realize they are not going to get what they were promised; at which point they will discover, much to their amazement, that, like what happened in Charlottesville or Boston, they are going to be outnumbered about a hundred to one by decent people that won't stand by and see everything they have lived for destroyed in an orgy of violence. And that, as I said, is the best possible outcome, as far as I can see. It ranges down from there to the 50,000,000 dead that were the price of stopping the Nazis, and (given that Hitler did not have 6,000 nuclear weapons) things that make even that look like a cheap price to pay for freedom.
August 29, 2017 at 8:27 PM
Magpie said…
"Heavy monsoon rains have brought Mumbai to a halt for a second day as the worst floods to strike south Asia in years continued to exact a deadly toll. More than 1,200 people have died across India, Bangladesh and Nepal as a result of flooding..."

Something like a third of Bangladesh, which relies on agriculture, is under water.

Now this is not new. Hurricanes are not new.
But Harvey is record-shatteringly bad.
Events like this are getting worse.
They will continue to do so.
The science is what it is. It's not something I or anyone here makes money out of... it just is.
It's not something we invented to bash the Right, for we have more than enough to work with on that score already.
It's real. The impacts are real.
I haven't even spoken its name yet in case the flying monkeys of the Right wing come through my window and call me names for just pointing out the notion that SCIENCE actually means something.

Short summary of what I'm talking about here:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/29/how-did-climate-change-worsen-hurricane-harvey
August 30, 2017 at 4:39 AM
Green Eagle said…
As you know, Magpie, I have been trying for a while to interest self-absorbed Americans in the fact that even what we are seeing in Texas is a minor thing compared to what is going to happen in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia in the next half century due to global warming. Of course the number of Americans who don't give one God damn about brown people is large enough, and they spend enough time (when they are not in their usual oxycontin haze) screaming about things, that no one will address that except a few lunatic left wingers.
August 30, 2017 at 10:21 AM
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