There’s not really much scientific debate, but climate change is a big concern of the US population. Considering the POTUS represents all of us, this concern should be recognized by the White House.
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From what I understand the whole website was replaced with the administrations platform (or Republican platform). When this was a news story they made it sound like they cherry picked only the climate change and lgbt pages and left everything else the same.
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Global warming may be real, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t being used as a fear tactic and a manipulative tool…
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Back to topic, Trump supporters do you support what he is doing? Why?
Do you think he is doing what he is doing for the betterment of the USA?
I never said jail and if by “stuff” you mean propaganda and misinformation for profit then yes I think people should be held accountable for what they say. By people I mean corporations profiting from it.
find some stats and I am in.
But it’s his job to hinder the progress of fighting climate change? Once again if all he did was remove all political involvement with Climate Change and Scientists fine. What he is actually doing is censoring scientists from discussing it.
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to save the planet.
Both sides have people doing wrong things, but the side doing it to save the planet is doing it for the right reasons.
Reminds me of abortion. Both sides have people doing the wrong things, but the side doing it to save the millions of human beings being slaughtered is doing it for the right reasons.
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Again I’m no blind sycophant, and I think he’s a thin skinned goober. But the below I think any American can appreciate.
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Supreme Court justices that interpret what the Constitution and the law actually says, no more arguments about “living or evolving” documents. If we decide as a people we don’t like something we can ammend the Constitution and the laws. Not adjudicate it via twisted interpretations or site international law. What makes the government of the US special is that it’s limited by design. Every time a “progressive judge” rules the government gets more power. If Trump chooses 1-3 originalists over his 4-8 years then liberty wins. His first pic passes that test, although why must SCJ’s be so old? I wonder if there’s any qualified 25yo Dugee Houser judges who can give us sound decisions for 70 years lol.
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He likes our country. For all his faults Trump talks up the US. This seems really childish on its face, you’re not supposed to elect a head chearleader but a chief executive right? Well think about some unquestionably inspiring presidents. Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan. While he can’t hold a candle to their speaking abilities the idea stands. When a leader stands up and says “this is a great place to live and we’ll defeat our adversaries and overcome our challenegs, because we’re awesome.” It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Think about Reagan’s take on the economy vs Carter’s. When presidents speak markets move, foreign leaders notice. I’d rather listen to Charlie Sheen soundbites saying we’re “winning” every morning than listen to another 4 years of apology tours and anecdotes of how unfair/sexist/racist/bigoted/homophobic etc…we are. Also no bowing to the Saudi king. The hell with kings, and the Saudis for that matter.
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Unilateral trade agreements. If he can actually do that (who knows) that could be a game changer for world commerce. No silly tarrifs or trade wars just fairness. Notice how we don’t tarrif Chinese goods but they can tarrif/restrict ours? Notice how we can’t invest in China without insane restrictions but they can invest here? That isn’t “Free Trade” that’s a bum deal. Also if the US is the world’s largest economy (for now) we have leverage to change behaviors. If we’re cutting a 1 on 1 deal with China we could ask them to calm down with the military islands. We could ask Russia to stop rebuilding the USSR. We could ask the Saudis to stop exporting their salifist mosques.
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Oil, gas and coal. Economies need energy, for everything. There is no reason we can’t be energy independent right the hell now with the new extraction technologies, except for government interference. Renewables are on their way but they don’t work without subsidies yet. Pretending like the US makes any difference to worldwide CO2 output is silly. China mines 4B tons of coal per year and imports more. That’s more than the rest of the world combined. There’s no reason to slow our economy and bleed when we are sitting on this much energy. Let the renewables grow, hell even fund their development. But don’t hamstring us in the meantime. I like nuclear, but nobody else does, so drill baby drill.
If you actually want to give trump a fair shake then check out this video: https://youtu.be/mxf1XmVZ9qY . He’s been saying the same things for 40 years (China, blue collar workers, illegals, bad trade deals). He sounds like a one note Charlie, nowadays, but that was his message in 1980. So I truly think he believes what he is saying on those issues. If he’s a Russian stooge manchurian candidate then they got to him in the 70’s. Will he get results… I dunno.
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Do you live in an oil, coal or natural gas rich region? In other words, when we “drill baby drill” is it going to be in your backyard?
I always wonder when people are so adamant that we mine our natural resources, if they themselves have to deal with the consequences. I live in a shale rich area, there are several towns around here whose water lights on fire, we’ve been lucky enough that they haven’t started dropping wells on us just yet, but I imagine all the roadblocks for that will disappear soon.
I also grew up with my backyard against a barren strip mined wasteland which took 20 years of reclamation to make it something other than a black, eroded moonscape. I’d prefer we don’t go back to that, but maybe I’m crazy.
Just curious really, I understand the need for energy resources, but to me the regulations are necessary (and most of the time not going far enough). If you want companies to compete with foreign fuel, then tax fuel imports before we haphazardly tear up our land. Does anyone live in a heavily mined region and think they should do more mining?
For the record, I’m a fan of nuclear power as well.
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Yes. I live in middle-of-nowhere PA and commute into Pittsburgh to work. There’s a gas lease on my and my parent’s property.
The towns with water that lights on fire had gas in the water in journals from the 1800’s. Long before shale gas was a thing.
I never said no regs, just not the moratoriums and “we will bankrupt them” of the Obama administration.
Also if we can achieve energy independence and let the Saudis, Iranians, Venezuelans et al choke on their oil then I’m all for some temporarily ugly terrain in flyover country where I live. We can get to coal and shale gas without killing people and destroying the enviromment.
I knew there was a reason I liked you. Which particular “nowhere” around Pittsburgh do you live in?
(I live in the city proper, but living here for…gulp…13 years now, I know the region pretty well)
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Beyond parody.
Note that we’ve never had a president who would respond to a question about Putin’s murderousness with a petulant, automatic defense organized around a central thesis of YOU THINK AMERICA’S SO GREAT, PAL? Until now, that is.
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That’s just not something i’m OK with personally but I understand your position.
Good, then we should do that… but if companies don’t want to figure out how to do it on their own, the government should help by providing the proper regulations and if necessary, halting production until it can be done safely for the people and the land. That’s just my opinion as a fellow PA resident…
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I concur.
Very small town in Beaver County, the smallest. I’m not that worried about anonymity since I posted a face pic already, but I don’t want to make it too easy to find my location.
Wife and I lived in Moon for 4 years during college. We loved it. Prosperous little burbs surrounded by woods and close to everything. Great school. When we went to go from renting to owning and saw the taxes… forget it. Allegheny County is absolutely insane. For the difference in school/local taxes between allegheny and beaver, we could afford a very expensive tutor for each kid.
No worries on anonymity and specific location; the general direction is enough to have this particular chat, although I am mildly curious if that’s where you’re from originally or where you’ve settled (not mutually exclusive, I suppose).
I’ve lived in the city proper (came for school, stayed for more school, stayed for work) but my wife and I will be navigating the where-to-buy-a-house decision in the next two or three years; I’ve heard the same about the difference in taxes. Tough decision for us because we genuinely like living in the city and both of us are particularly commute-averse…anyways, that’s a bit of a derail.
Nice to have a fellow Pittsburgher around.
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Get your house in the country and get a small condo in the city
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Town magnet/country magnet!
You could fly back and forth in your personal gyro-copter, just like Frank Lloyd Wright imagined!
-Have you Pittsburg bros gone to see Falling Water?
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I’ve never been, but going this year. There’s a park there with 5 relocated FLW houses that you can sleep in for $300- $500 per night. I’m determined to take the wife there for the anniversary.
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If you take 22/30 west you can be in WV in 25 minutes of downtown. There’s a neighboorhood right accross the line with $500k → $1M homes named Colliers. They have country clubs and good schools and nearly $0 property tax. Guess where they all work. That’d be my vote.
Caught brook trout from the creek that flows beneath it.
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