Examples of GOP Leadership

985_ganjawoody

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If there is one thing the GOP prides itself in, it's the way they relate to the working man. . . . . . .

Evidence has been gathering steadily overnight that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas — the state currently undergoing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as a result of extreme winter weather, leaving millions of people without power, water, and access to food — flew to Cancun, Mexico, yesterday as his constituents faced freezing conditions, hundreds of thousands of them still without electricity.

I remember this.
 

Budzbuddha

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Georgia Republican Herschel Walker said the Biden administration’s sweeping new climate law represents unnecessary spending because it sets aside money to plant and protect trees.

“They try to fool you and make you think they are helping you out — they’re not. You know that some of this money is going into trees? We got enough trees — don’t we have enough trees around here?” Walker said Sunday in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Essentially, no — the planet does not have enough trees to neutralize the impact of burning fossil fuels.

While a 2015 study found the earth has over 3 trillion trees, the number of trees here now is far less than at the beginning of human civilization — and not nearly enough to offset the devastating effects of climate change, scientists say.

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Congress without a single Republican vote, allocates $1.5 billion over a decade to the Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program, which funds tree-planting in cities like Atlanta that struggle with poor air quality. Especially in lower-income areas, scientists agree that trees are beneficial, helping to reduce air pollution and temperatures.

In 2020, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order joining the United States in the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Trees Initiative, which Trump described as “an ambitious effort to bring together government and the private sector to plant new trees in America and around the world.” Climate advocates opposed the order, however, on the grounds it didn’t do anything to mitigate the driving factor behind climate change — the consumption of fossil fuel — and encouraged logging.


Trump blames Wind Power
Hersh blames the trees

:wall:
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
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Georgia Republican Herschel Walker said the Biden administration’s sweeping new climate law represents unnecessary spending because it sets aside money to plant and protect trees.

“They try to fool you and make you think they are helping you out — they’re not. You know that some of this money is going into trees? We got enough trees — don’t we have enough trees around here?” Walker said Sunday in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Essentially, no — the planet does not have enough trees to neutralize the impact of burning fossil fuels.

While a 2015 study found the earth has over 3 trillion trees, the number of trees here now is far less than at the beginning of human civilization — and not nearly enough to offset the devastating effects of climate change, scientists say.

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Congress without a single Republican vote, allocates $1.5 billion over a decade to the Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program, which funds tree-planting in cities like Atlanta that struggle with poor air quality. Especially in lower-income areas, scientists agree that trees are beneficial, helping to reduce air pollution and temperatures.

In 2020, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order joining the United States in the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Trees Initiative, which Trump described as “an ambitious effort to bring together government and the private sector to plant new trees in America and around the world.” Climate advocates opposed the order, however, on the grounds it didn’t do anything to mitigate the driving factor behind climate change — the consumption of fossil fuel — and encouraged logging.


Trump blames Wind Power
Hersh blames the trees

:wall:
41 years ago, Reagan scapegoated trees for being big polluters.

 

CunningCanuk

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Georgia Republican Herschel Walker said the Biden administration’s sweeping new climate law represents unnecessary spending because it sets aside money to plant and protect trees.

“They try to fool you and make you think they are helping you out — they’re not. You know that some of this money is going into trees? We got enough trees — don’t we have enough trees around here?” Walker said Sunday in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Essentially, no — the planet does not have enough trees to neutralize the impact of burning fossil fuels.

While a 2015 study found the earth has over 3 trillion trees, the number of trees here now is far less than at the beginning of human civilization — and not nearly enough to offset the devastating effects of climate change, scientists say.

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Congress without a single Republican vote, allocates $1.5 billion over a decade to the Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program, which funds tree-planting in cities like Atlanta that struggle with poor air quality. Especially in lower-income areas, scientists agree that trees are beneficial, helping to reduce air pollution and temperatures.

In 2020, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order joining the United States in the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Trees Initiative, which Trump described as “an ambitious effort to bring together government and the private sector to plant new trees in America and around the world.” Climate advocates opposed the order, however, on the grounds it didn’t do anything to mitigate the driving factor behind climate change — the consumption of fossil fuel — and encouraged logging.


Trump blames Wind Power
Hersh blames the trees

:wall:
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injinji

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A $650,000 "charitable contribution" former President Donald Trump's political action committee made to the Smithsonian Institution will help fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider.

The contribution, which Trump's Save America PAC disclosed without explanation in a Federal Election Commission filing Saturday, will "support the artists' fees, shipping, framing, installation, and events," Linda St. Thomas, a Smithsonian spokesperson, said.

"Two artists have been commissioned, one for each portrait. The names will be released closer to the reveal of the paintings," St. Thomas said. "The creation of the portraits is underway. The timing of the artworks' reveal not determined yet."

Save America PAC's $650,000 contribution came to the National Portrait Gallery as a wire transfer on July 14, St. Thomas said.

She added that "one additional private donation" — she did not specify the amount or source, beyond saying it's "a family" — is also helping fund the portraits.

"We cannot give out name of a donor without telling them first, so that's on hold," she said.

St. Thomas noted that "all portraits of presidents at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery are paid for with private funds raised by the museum."

Representatives for Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

The Save America PAC — Trump's flagship post-presidency political committee — reported more than $99 million cash on hand through July 31.

Save America has engaged in almost nonstop email and text-message fundraising since shortly after Trump left the White House, with hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters combining to contribute tens of millions of dollars.

At times, the fundraising messages have been decidedly aggressive and deceptive, with a recent text solicitation suggesting that there were problems with recipients' voting registrations — and that they must click a link and take action.
Ego is large in this one.

 

injinji

Well-Known Member

Roger A. Shrubber

Well-Known Member
Republicans Say They’ll Go After Labor Movement If They Take Control of House

House Republicans are planning to launch a barrage of attacks on government institutions that administer to and support labor unions if the party takes control of the House this fall, new reporting reveals, showing that the GOP likely feels threatened by the growing labor movement that’s taken hold across the country in recent years.
well, that's typical...the party of rich white entitled assholes wants to keep workers in their place, which according to them, is under their boot...fuck every republican alive. i'm starting to hope for a civil war so we can take the motherfucking trash out, once and for all
 

Roger A. Shrubber

Well-Known Member
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A $650,000 "charitable contribution" former President Donald Trump's political action committee made to the Smithsonian Institution will help fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider.

The contribution, which Trump's Save America PAC disclosed without explanation in a Federal Election Commission filing Saturday, will "support the artists' fees, shipping, framing, installation, and events," Linda St. Thomas, a Smithsonian spokesperson, said.

"Two artists have been commissioned, one for each portrait. The names will be released closer to the reveal of the paintings," St. Thomas said. "The creation of the portraits is underway. The timing of the artworks' reveal not determined yet."

Save America PAC's $650,000 contribution came to the National Portrait Gallery as a wire transfer on July 14, St. Thomas said.

She added that "one additional private donation" — she did not specify the amount or source, beyond saying it's "a family" — is also helping fund the portraits.

"We cannot give out name of a donor without telling them first, so that's on hold," she said.

St. Thomas noted that "all portraits of presidents at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery are paid for with private funds raised by the museum."

Representatives for Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

The Save America PAC — Trump's flagship post-presidency political committee — reported more than $99 million cash on hand through July 31.

Save America has engaged in almost nonstop email and text-message fundraising since shortly after Trump left the White House, with hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters combining to contribute tens of millions of dollars.

At times, the fundraising messages have been decidedly aggressive and deceptive, with a recent text solicitation suggesting that there were problems with recipients' voting registrations — and that they must click a link and take action.
i'm disgusted with the smithsonian for taking his filthy money, and for planning to hang a portrait of a piece of shit...

so trump's pac has 99 million? there's a target for Anonymous to hack, distribute that money to orphanages, abortion clinics, planned parenthood offices, and democratic candidates...where it can actually make a positive impact on someones life, instead of being used to fuck the entire world even more
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
i'm disgusted with the smithsonian for taking his filthy money, and for planning to hang a portrait of a piece of shit...

so trump's pac has 99 million? there's a target for Anonymous to hack, distribute that money to orphanages, abortion clinics, planned parenthood offices, and democratic candidates...where it can actually make a positive impact on someones life, instead of being used to fuck the entire world even more
I doubt the Smithsonian has a say in the matter. I imagine the portraits have an undisturbed future gathering dust in the basement.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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i'm glad some republicans are starting to wake up...but he's not a democrat, no matter what letter he puts in front of his name.
i don't see him having much of a future in politics, democratic voters won't support him, with those republicunt values, and republican voters will want to hang him next to pence as a traitor to their fucked up cause
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I had heard something about that too. You know you are big time when ladies like her spend their time thinking about you.

That is the first top-40 song that I awarely remember hearing. Mama’s radio was always tuned to Easy Listening aka elevator music.

The only earlier wild-eyed escapee from rainbow unicorn hell was a snappy tune from Miriam Makeba.

 
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