Surviving a second Trump admin

[Vrede too]

And she's one of the more acceptable ones.

Maybe more qualified, but IMO she's not acceptable at all.

https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1879610071258403080

https://x.com/mmpadellan/status/1879572951575744992

https://x.com/davidaxelrod/status/1879563827202978164

"satanic wombs"?

How bad are the nominees when Little Marco gets bipartisan praise?

[Vrede too]

She may not survive this.

https://x.com/axios/status/1878855814787502158

Carrie Underwood Faces Backlash After Nabbing Donald Trump Inauguration Gig: 'Incredibly Outrageous'

'Time to bring the country together': Village People defend decision to perform during Trump inaugural events
"We believe music is to be performed without regard to politics," they said.

[O Really]

Young man, this is really bad news
Young man, they don't have a clue
Young man, they're making us blue
I'm never going to the Y M C A
Village Idiots ruined the Y M C A

[Vrede too]

Young man, this is really bad news
Young man, they don't have a clue
Young man, they're making us blue
I'm never going to the Y M C A
Village Idiots ruined the Y M C A

Every man wants to be a MAGA, MAGA man
To have the kind of dementia always in demand
Golfing in the mornings, go man go
Dine outs in the McDonald's, fat rolls glow
You can best believe that he's a MAGA man
Ready to get stupid with, anyone he can

[GoCubsGo]

On the bright side, the odds of my pool pick, KINO, being the first one to quit or be rejected have gone way up.

You may be the winner.

[Supsalemgr]

Folks complaining about The Village People and Trisha Yearwood performing at the inauguration is just as silly as those complaining about Michelle not attending.

[GoCubsGo]

Folks complaining about The Village People and Trisha Yearwood performing at the inauguration is just as silly as those complaining about Michelle not attending.

Trisha Yearwood?

Didn't she just perform at Carter's funeral?

[O Really]

Folks complaining about The Village People and Trisha Yearwood performing at the inauguration is just as silly as those complaining about Michelle not attending.

Trisha Yearwood?

Didn't she just perform at Carter's funeral?

I think he probably means Carrie Underwood.
It would be nice if a performer would be honored to sing at any president's inauguration, regardless of party. I could be wrong (although I was there), but I don't think Fleetwood Mack performing "Don't Stop Believing" at Clinton's inauguration was seen as much of a political statement. But here's a difference: up until around 2017 (OK, exactly 2017) it was customary for a winning candidate to thank his supporters, offer some blather about everyone working together, and pledge to serve everyone regardless of party. Once opponents became "enemies" and petty name-calling, threats, and insults became the norm from the highest offices, then there was no longer much opportunity to smooth over differences. You're either for or against MAGA. You can't be a little bit pregnant.

[GoCubsGo]

Folks complaining about The Village People and Trisha Yearwood performing at the inauguration is just as silly as those complaining about Michelle not attending.

Trisha Yearwood?

Didn't she just perform at Carter's funeral?

I think he probably means Carrie Underwood.
It would be nice if a performer would be honored to sing at any president's inauguration, regardless of party. I could be wrong (although I was there), but I don't think Fleetwood Mack performing "Don't Stop Believing" at Clinton's inauguration was seen as much of a political statement. But here's a difference: up until around 2017 (OK, exactly 2017) it was customary for a winning candidate to thank his supporters, offer some blather about everyone working together, and pledge to serve everyone regardless of party. Once opponents became "enemies" and petty name-calling, threats, and insults became the norm from the highest offices, then there was no longer much opportunity to smooth over differences. You're either for or against MAGA. You can't be a little bit pregnant.

LOL

You mean the one about "American carnage? "

That was some "weird shit."

[Supsalemgr]

Folks complaining about The Village People and Trisha Yearwood performing at the inauguration is just as silly as those complaining about Michelle not attending.

Trisha Yearwood?

Didn't she just perform at Carter's funeral?

I mix up all the female country singers. It is Carrie Underwood.

[O Really]

Yeah they're easy to confuse. One of them is beautiful, fit, with great legs and introduces Sunday night football. The other one is Trisha.

[GoCubsGo]

Strap in.

[Vrede too]

Yeah they're easy to confuse. One of them is beautiful, fit, with great legs and introduces Sunday night football.

Since 2013. Time flies.

The other one is Trisha.

Not to mention aging Carrie by 19 years.

[O Really]

Folks complaining about The Village People and Trisha Yearwood performing at the inauguration is just as silly as those complaining about Michelle not attending.

Nobody finds it ironic that the replacement members of a band that originally portrayed the very essence of "DEI" is even considered to play at Trump's party, much less actually accepts. Somebody needs some money. Hope they get paid up front or they can join the long line of stiffing victims.

[Vrede too]

On the bright side, the odds of my pool pick, KINO, being the first one to quit or be rejected have gone way up.

You may be the winner.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 4569623635

My odds just improved slightly:

Aaron Rodgers Sends Warning to Senate on RFK Jr. Confirmation

... “You better come ready senators, come ready and try and see if you can pull one over on my boy, Bobby, because Bobby’s f---ing smart, dude,” Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show....

Rodgers said he was excited to watch RFK Jr.’s hearings “just see who tried to f--- with him.”

... “So it’s going to [be] as he’s doing a service to everybody if you just let him and get the hell out of the way and stop trying to label him as whatever the f--- they want to label him these days,” he continued.

I like O Really's 'KINO'. 'Batshit crazy' works, too.

“He just wants to make sure that everything that’s being given to our kids is safe, everything that we’re ingesting on a day-to-day basis is safe, and he’s going to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ or is going to freaking die trying.”

GoKaaronGo!

[Vrede too]

Of course he does:

Trump’s EPA Pick Flunks Basic Science Quiz at Confirmation Hearing

Would I have flunked, too?

... At his confirmation hearing on Thursday, former Rep. Lee Zeldin faced scrutiny of his limited environmental experience. For one senator, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, this took the form of a science pop quiz—asking, in his words, “really basic no-tricks questions about climate change.”

Whitehouse started off with a softball: “First, as a matter of law, is carbon dioxide a pollutant?”

... “Senator, while carbon dioxide is not named as one of the six in the Clean Air Act, the EPA has been treating it as such,” Zeldin said, to which Whitehouse noted that the Supreme Court had, in fact, ruled in 2007 that it was a pollutant.

I knew that.

“What effect—briefly and in layman terms, I know you’re not a scientific expert—what effect are carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion having in the atmosphere?” Whitehouse asked.

Declining to answer the question head-on, Zeldin fired back that he is “someone who believes strongly that we should work with the scientists, leaving the science to the scientist, the policy to the policymakers, and that we all work together.”

“I don’t sit before you as a scientist,” Zeldin added. “Fortunately, at EPA we do have many talented scientists who provide that research. They have that talent to be able to tell us exactly what the metrics are of their research—”

Whitehouse cut him off and pressed for a straightforward answer.

“Uh, trapping—trapping heat, senator,” Zeldin stuttered.

I would not have stuttered.

Whitehouse then asked him to name the effects of “methane leakage from fossil fuel production and transport” in the atmosphere.

Zeldin’s response: “Same.”

Worse.

“What effect are carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion having in the oceans?” Whitehouse asked.

“Well, the emissions of greenhouse gases, um, trap—trap heat, Senator,” Zeldin reiterated, adding that “rising sea levels are concerns where I’m from as well.”

And acidification and warming leading to coral bleaching, and shifts in food and migratory patterns for some species.

Zeldin had limited experience working on environmental policy as a congressman and, as he noted throughout the hearing, no scientific or climate-related background.

Unqualified, typical MAGAt.

Whitehouse continued, asking Zeldin whether the Earth has hit “1.5 degree risk threshold,” adding: “Why is that important?”

Zeldin, who is expected to lift regulations protecting the environment, demurred that he would “defer to the talented scientists to be able to provide that advice on an ongoing basis.”

In fact, the world did hit that threshold of warming, which signals an increased risk of climate-related disasters, for the first time ever in 2024.

I knew that.

Whitehouse asked him to name any key climate “tipping points.” Zeldin, stammering, couldn’t come up with a single one. “I think that as you put up a map of your district and your state, I could put up a map of mine and we could do this across the entire country. As long as that concern exists where there is in fact rising sea levels and I hear from both sides of the aisle... ” Zeldin said before Whitehouse cut him off.

Before reading further:
Methane release from thawed tundra;
Decreased heat reflection due to reduced ice pack;
Gulf Stream shut down due to increased ice melt.

To finish off the quiz, Whitehouse asked, “are we now on a pathway to climate safety or do we need to do more to reduce carbon emissions in order to get on that pathway?”

Zeldin earned maybe a few partial credit points at best. He concluded that “we will have never done enough to ensure that our water and our air is clean, safe and healthy. Whatever we do every day to achieve this objective, we need to wake up the next day looking for ways to do more.”

Meh, we need drastic and immediate change, along with mitigation strategies.

Lee Zeldin
Bachelor's degree in political science
Lawyer
ROTC
Army Reserve
Pol
Voted against the Marriage Equality Act
Opposed NY SAFE Act, a gun control bill
"introduced a (NY) bill that sought to halt implementation of the Common Core curriculum for three years."
US House committee assignments - none relevant
Anti-Choice
Anti-Bail reform
Anti-Common Core
LOL LOL LOL AGW denier LOL LOL LOL, now flip-flopped
Pro-fracking
Obedient Zionist
Nominated Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz for a Nobel Peace Prize
Anti-ACA
Anti-vaccination mandate on healthcare workers and COVID-19 vaccine mandates for schoolchildren
2020 election denier


Sole relevant qualification - unabashed MAGAt since 2016


The planet may not recover from this term of ignorance and eco-obstructionism.

[O Really]

Oh,

The planet may not recover from this term of ignorance and eco-obstructionism.

Oh, the planet will be fine. It's dealt with worse. The human inhabitants on the other hand, probably not so much.

[Vrede too]

The planet may not recover from this term of ignorance and eco-obstructionism.

Oh, the planet will be fine. It's dealt with worse. The human inhabitants on the other hand, probably not so much.

. . . and many many other species.

[O Really]

The planet may not recover from this term of ignorance and eco-obstructionism.

Oh, the planet will be fine. It's dealt with worse. The human inhabitants on the other hand, probably not so much.

. . . and many many other species.

They've been disappearing forever in astonishing numbers. Birds, mammals, fish, bugs. Of course the alligators and cockroaches will always be fine.

[Vrede too]

They've been disappearing forever in astonishing numbers. Birds, mammals, fish, bugs. Of course the alligators and cockroaches will always be fine.

No hope for slowing, halting or reversing that with the Dolt .45 crew.