The hiding under the blankets solution
So now it’s reality.
First stop: the erasure of climate change:
All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House Website
Cool. That means there no longer is such a thing, and Trump’s children and grandchildren won’t have to deal with it in the next several decades.
At 11:59 am eastern, the official White House website had a lengthy information page about the threat of climate change and the steps the federal government had taken to fight it. At noon, at the instant Donald Trump took office, the page was gone, as well as any mention of climate change or global warming.
It’s customary for www.whitehouse.gov to flip over to the new administration exactly at noon, but the only mention of climate on President Trump’s new website is under his “America First Energy Plan” page, in which he vows to destroy President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which is a government-wide plan to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change.
Cool, because climate change is of course 100% political and therefore will respond to political actions. There is no such thing as natural processes that happen independently of what indignant human beings say about them, so all we indignant human beings have to do is erase all mention of climate change and IT WILL GO AWAY.
“President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule,” the site says. A search of the website found no mention of “global warming,” and the only mentions of “climate change” were archived pages that, after clicking on the links, led to scrubbed pages.
The magic is under way, and it will save us all. What a relief.
This isn’t just how a Republic dies; this is how a planet dies.
Apocalyptic Christians, gotta love ’em.
(really, Really, REALLY hope I’m overreacting here. Someone please assure me that I am).
I can’t.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1417623901589400/?type=3&theater
A friend who works in HIV outreach informs me that the national HIV program web site (and, one might presume, the program itself) is gone.
Oh good god.
… as is whitehouse.gov/lgbt.
I guess I should find the archive.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/whitehouse-gov-removes-climate-change-and-lgbt-pages.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/20/trump-s-whitehouse-gov-disappears-civil-rights-climate-change-lgbt-rights.html
My urge to leave school and drink myself to death is almost at its peak…
Dear god…
BKISA – come over. I’ll empty the wine cellar. (well, it is wine, and it is in the cellar, but don’t expect all fancy wines with special dates. If you don’t mind cheap, come on over).
Don’t worry guys, Glorious Leader will just make climate changes and contracting HIV illegal. Problem solved.
In ‘abolishing climate change’, Trump has declared himself arbiter of the laws of physics and chemistry, which presently hold, inter alia, that CO2 is a heat-trapping gas, and give REASON for it, at both the quantum and macro levels..
King Canute’s order to the tide to stop coming in was by contrast, his royal way of demonstrating the limits of royal power
A more lucid confession of Trump’s own despotic delusions will no doubt be shortly available.