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Everyone sleeping well? While you're fast asleep, the fair-haired and self-tanned guy is being sworn into office and I'm watching the live ceremony in parallel. As of tomorrow we'll be flooded with news about what he did on every single day including the last bowel movement.
In his speech he said among other things that America's territory would be extended (Panama Canal), the Gulf of Mexico renamed Gulf of America, and common sense be restored again. Amen.
 
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looker-on said:
is being sworn into office and I'm watching the live ceremony
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Not a bit bothered. Been there done that, like Trump. He had his previous four years to make America great again, all he did was divide it. This time he will divide the Free World. ''Strap yourselves in as it is going to be a bumpy ride''.
 
A fact checker pointed out numerous lies and disinformation from Trump's inogrenation speech. Nothing unusual about that.

Pulling out of WHO and the Paris Climate accord is very sad for the planet. Pardoning rioters from a felon's perspective, deporting millions of illegal migrants... Who then will do all the low paid jobs?

The ushering in of the Golden Age of America that will save the world and bring in a magnificent new global age, .... yada, yada, yada, ...

14 more hours and the war in Ukraine will be over as promised... !

Trump's tariffs will affect the world pushing up rates of inflation, mostly in the USA. Wanting to plant the Yanky flag on Mars, wanting to claim Canada, Panama canal, resource rich Greenland, ...
Musk, the chief Twit, being a fascist loon.

When will they learn?
 
Grier said:
When will they learn?
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The hard way only and that applies to both Trump's cronies and all his voters but it's to be feared that subsequent generations will have to clean up after them. And then yesterday will indeed go down in history but in a different way than Trump believes.
 
Trump said God had saved him from an assassin's bullet for him to save America. 🙄

Trump chants "Drill baby, drill" with his crowd joining in. That will allow Global Warming to rise faster with other Global leaders joining in no doubt following the agenda of self interest and stuff the planet. If the US ignores GW, that legacy will certainly affect future generations as you said Thomas. History will look darkly at the stupidity of Trump, the worst ever Potus.
We've already passed the 1.5C rise in GW since pre industrial times. Twice the amount of Co2 in the atmosphere since pre-industrial too.
"Burn baby, burn".... 🔥 ... look at LA.

I guess it makes sense that the wealthiest of peoples are the most selfish.
 
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Grier said:
"Burn baby, burn".... 🔥 ... look at LA.

I guess it makes sense that the wealthiest of peoples are the most selfish.
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a) Another excellent pun and applicable not only to LA but to the whole planet.

b) So true that wealth is of enormous importance to people and, thus, to societies. Once accumulated, the odds are poor that people let their property go again, no matter what consequences this attitude would entail. If we look at the developing countries, we can watch the same upward social mobility among the middle classes followed by a status anxiety as described by Alain de Button in his same-titled book. This observation is actually a platitude since our national poet Goethe didn't think highly of people's foresight as early as in the 19th century and, even earlier, Madame Pompadour had expressed the same: „Après nous le déluge!“. Peter Sloterdijk , a philosopher who I often have trouble understanding, suspects that: "The carefree, the careless, the uninhibited of today celebrate no party between St. Moritz, Dubai and Moscow at which the Marquise's winged word would not be in the air." They know only too well that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But this the-devil-may-care attitude prevails for it seems to be inherent in the human race. A bridge will only be crossed when they get to it.

It is too bad that climate protection is being voted against all over Europe and in the Western World as a whole, and all the densely populated countries will follow suit. The underlying reason is, as you say, peoples' selfishness rooted in the anxiety of the people to lose their status. Trump and right-wing populism embrace this attitude, popularise it, and translate it into day-to-day politics. That's why he's so popular and lots of people hang on his every word.
 
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