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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 11:09pm On Jun 01, 2017 |
His Secretary of State told him not to do it. The military told him not to do it. 69 Fortune 500 companies told him not to do it. Exxon, BP, Chevron, Mobil and ConocoPhillips told him not to do it. America's Allies in the European Union told him not to do it. Many citizens of the United States told him not to do it. He pulled out of the Paris Agreement anyway. The US, Syria and Nicaragua are the only countries who are not part of the agreement with the US being one of the major polluters on this planet. 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Missy89(f): 3:33am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Liberals want the US to be part of an agreement that does the following: Gives 3Billion a year to other countries from 2020 (countries that may include china and India) Destroys manufacturing jobs in the US (over 6 million in the next 23 years) and cost the economy $3 trillion Allows China (economic rival) not to do much until 2030 while America pass draconian laws to cripple its own companies immediately increase energy costs for the average American All for reducing 0.2 degrees of warming by 2100. Keep in mind America is already one of the leaders in clean energy both oil and gas. Yet, liberals want to spend the money they dont have on other nations. By the way, this have nothing to do with the science of climate change. The ECONOMICS of this deal is the problem. Europe is now refusing to to renegotiate the Paris Accord. Why? Because it was NEVER about saving the planet - it was about the $$$$$$$. Democrats are complete 1diots 5 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by PDPGuy: 4:08am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Former FBI Director, James Comey, will testify before the Senate Intel committee on June 8 at 10am ET. 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Missy89(f): 4:08am On Jun 02, 2017 |
PDPGuy: Highest ratings EVER 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by PDPGuy: 4:10am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Missy89: For sure. We have to thank Comey and the Senate Intel committee for their willingness to make it an open hearing. 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 5:04am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Missy89: Says the supporter of the party of climate change deniers. 3 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 5:47am On Jun 02, 2017 |
The Republicans who urged Trump to pull out of Paris deal are big oil darlings Twenty-two senators wrote a letter to the president when he was said to be on the fence about backing out. They received more than $10m from oil, gas and coal companies the past three election cycles A withdrawal by Donald Trump from the Paris climate accord would go down as a hallmark of his presidency. It would be unilateral, reckless and splashy – trademark Trump. The president has said he will announce his decision at 3pm ET (8pm BST) on Thursday. But while Trump has often stood on a range of issues as a maverick outlier from mainstream Republican politics, on climate change he is at the centre of the party’s orthodoxy. Trump’s disbelief in climate change and imminent decision on whether to support the Paris agreement reflects an area of unusual agreement between the president and elected Republicans, whose track record of climate change denialism is plain and long. Unmissable behind the elected Republicans stand other interests: the oil, gas and coal industries, which together are some of the most influential donors to Republican candidates. The big-money supporters got a return on their investment last week, when 22 Republican senators whose campaigns have collected more than $10m in oil, gas and coal money since 2012 sent a letter to the president urging him to withdraw from the Paris deal. Trump had been said to be on the fence about the deal. Members of his inner circle, including his daughter, were reported to favor staying in. “We strongly encourage you to make a clean break from the Paris Agreement,” read the letter, drafted by Wyoming’s John Barrasso, chairman of the Senate committee on environment and public works, and Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe, a longtime climate change denier and senior member of that committee. The letter argued that the Paris deal threatened Trump’s efforts to rescind the clean power plan, an Obama-era set of regulations and guidelines that include emissions caps and other rules deemed onerous by the fossil fuel industries. It was not as if Trump wanted for advisers urging him to withdraw from the Paris deal even before the letter was sent. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt and chief strategist Stephen Bannon urged withdrawal, while energy secretary Rick Perry favored renegotiation. Public opposition to the deal from almost two dozen senators just as the president prepared to make his decision, however, demonstrated the extent to which the opponents of the Paris deal were organized, ready to strike and to offer important political cover if Trump pulls the US out of the historic global deal. Donations from oil, gas and coal interests to the signatories of the letter are Open Secrets that seemed ready for a new review. A Guardian survey of Federal Elections Commission data organized by the Center for Responsive Politics found that the industries gave a total of $10,694,284 to the 22 senators over the past three election cycles. Visible donations to Republicans from those industries exceeded donations to Democrats in the 2016 election cycle by a ratio of 15-to-1, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And that does not include so-called dark money passed from oil interests such as Koch industries to general slush funds to re-elect Republicans such as the Senate leadership fund. At least $90m in untraceable money has been funneled to Republican candidates from oil, gas and coal interests in the past three election cycles, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics. Here is a breakdown for the past three election cycles (2012, 2014 and 2016). James Inhofe, Oklahoma Oil & gas: $465,950 Coal: $63,600 Total: $529,550 John Barrasso, Wyoming Oil & gas: $458,466 Coal: $127,356 Total: $585,822 Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Oil & gas: $1,180,384 Coal: $361,700 Total: $1,542,084 John Cornyn, Texas Oil & gas: $1,101,456 Coal: $33,050 Total: $1,134,506 Roy Blunt, Missouri Oil & gas: $353,864 Coal: $96,000 Total: $449,864 Roger Wicker, Mississippi Oil & gas: $198,816 Coal: $25,376 Total: $224,192 Michael Enzi, Wyoming Oil & gas: $211,083 Coal: $63,300 Total: $274,383 Mike Crapo, Idaho Oil & gas: $110,250 Coal: $26,756 Total: $137,006 Jim Risch, Idaho Oil & gas: $123,850 Coal: $25,680 Total: $149,530 Thad Cochran, Mississippi Oil & gas: $276,905 Coal: $15,000 Total: $291,905 Mike Rounds, South Dakota Oil & gas: $201,900 Coal: none Total: $201,900 Rand Paul, Kentucky Oil & gas: $170,215 Coal: $82,571 Total: $252,786 John Boozman, Arkansas Oil & gas: $147,930 Coal: $2,000 Total: $149,930 Richard Shelby, Alabama Oil & gas: $60,150 Coal: $2,500 Total: $62,650 Luther Strange, Alabama (Appointed in 2017, running in 2017 special election) Total: NA Orrin Hatch, Utah Oil & gas: $446,250 Coal: $25,000 Total: $471,250 Mike Lee, Utah Oil & gas: $231,520 Coal: $21,895 Total: $253,415 Ted Cruz, Texas Oil & gas: $2,465,910 Coal: $103,900 Total: $2,569,810 David Perdue, Georgia Oil & gas: $184,250 Coal: $0 Total: $184,250 Thom Tillis, North Carolina Oil & gas: $263,400 Coal: $0 Total: $263,400 Tim Scott, South Carolina Oil & gas: $490,076 Coal: $58,200 Total: $548,276 Pat Roberts, Kansas Oil & gas: $388,950 Coal: $28,825 Total: $417,775 Sum total for all 22 Republican signatories: $10,694,284 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations More than 190 countries agreed on a common goal, America, the biggest polluter, is not one of them. 1 Like |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by schwarzkopf(m): 6:12am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Mindfulness: Common sense and rationality are alien to that brain fart. Anyway major US corporations and state governors think the Orange cheeto just nuke himself. Thanks to Orange cheeto for putting the climate as an election talking point in 2020. 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 9:01am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Mindfulness: That is why I thought the whole deal was stupid.. If Obama is involved it must be a stupid deal How did we move from the climate to the environment..? I just dey laugh u,,, |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 9:05am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Missy89: 20 gboza for you...,,,.... 3 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 9:31am On Jun 02, 2017 |
For those that said the economy will crash under president Trump..,..... U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday, with each of the major U.S. indexes notching record highs 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 10:20am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Missy89:You should be awarded a ''common sense'' degree, u too much. |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 10:25am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Mindfulness:Lol she presented facts and this is all u've got in response. You want to control the weather but you freak out when others want to control the borders to prevent illegal immigration. I hear you. Meanwhile have you ever come across this from the holy book, somewhere in Genesis: ''While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest shall continue forever...'' 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 10:28am On Jun 02, 2017 |
schwarzkopf:It is you who lack common sense. The globalists are the ones who use this Climate sham as a medium to line their pockets, they have made billions of fortunes from this and u libtards still can't figure out. |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 10:36am On Jun 02, 2017 |
obixcel: It is a fact that Trump is a climate change denier and many of his Republican friends as well. And look at this i.diot asking for facts and then quoting the Bible. 1 Like |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 10:37am On Jun 02, 2017 |
stanech: What is this one saying again? |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 10:39am On Jun 02, 2017 |
schwarzkopf: Nicaragua, Syria and the United States. Every other country has a common GLOBAL goal for us and future generations. Never have the United States been in such a decline. Trump is not the cause, he is the symptom. He is not the inventor, he is the accelerator. What a joke, the only part of the economy this climate deal would have hurt where the lousy coal industry, which for no reason I can understand the Trump administration wants us to continue to support. Coal is expensive, dirty, dangerous (mining wise), and not cost effective as a power source. A better use of public funds would go towards green energy which support higher paying jobs and R & D which pays dividends. Complete amateur. |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 10:43am On Jun 02, 2017 |
obixcel: You are an i.diot. The Republicans are filling their pockets with the money from companies which pollute the environment. That's what it is about genius. |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 11:01am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Mindfulness: If you do not know the difference between the environment and the climate oga.. I pity U 1 Like |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 11:02am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Mindfulness:You are a fool! If I have to quote the bible for you to regain sense then so be it. Trump is not like your average typical Republican. 1 Like |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by schwarzkopf(m): 11:13am On Jun 02, 2017 |
obixcel: Your stupidity in water droplets will drown the Pacific and Atlantic oceans together, I am suppose to hold the view of a retaaarded slowpoke like you over views of 96% of the scientific world. Fhuck off and go hit your head on concrete. 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by schwarzkopf(m): 11:15am On Jun 02, 2017 |
Mindfulness: Nicaragua is signing pretty soon cos they don't wanna be labeled with a maniac like drumpf. Drumpf and his fellow I.diot are out of depth. Coal can't even compete with gas talk more of the newer efficient and cheap source of energy. They definitely live in an alternative reality. 3 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 11:30am On Jun 02, 2017 |
This is getting interesting. Dispute erupts over House panel subpoenas for CIA, FBI The subpoenas asked the spy agencies to provide details of any requests made by two top Obama administration aides and the former CIA director to "unmask" names of Trump campaign advisers inadvertently picked up in top-secret foreign communications intercepts, congressional sources said. |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 11:37am On Jun 02, 2017 |
The U.S accounts for 15% carbon emissions, the EU 10%, Russia, India, Japan combined 15% - CHINA 30 PERCENT !!! Why no meltdown by snivelling liberals over China? - And why is the US paying more? 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 1:13pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
obixcel: You quote the Bible because you think it will make me regain sense? You are Einstein. |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 1:14pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
stanech: Says the one who claims that the term global warming has been changed to climate change. |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 1:16pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
stanech: Developed countries, on a per capita basis, often produce more greenhouse gases than developing countries. For instance, on a per capita basis, the United States in 2015 produced more than double the carbon dioxide emissions of China — and eight times more than India. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by rakish(m): 1:19pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
stanech:The US accounts for 17% emissions and China 20% . China is committed to fulfilling its carbon emission goals just like several other member states. The Accord isn't even binding but persuasive. So I don't know what you are talking about that US pays more. See what is happening in Beijing? Trump is an ignorant climate change denier and he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions in the long run. 2 Likes |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 1:22pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
PDPGuy:Yes Comey, Go for it, perjure yourself |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 2:49pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
Mindfulness: Per capital bases? Oga China is the number one GGE us is number 2. Why then is the Us paying more I ask? |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 2:53pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
rakish: What is happening in Benjin is called environmental pollution and the reason is because most of the world's products are made in china the bad is due to the number of industrial and car emission generated in the city |
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 4:57pm On Jun 02, 2017 |
stanech: China is still a developing countries. Developed countries have been polluting the air for a longer time and it is just fair they would contribute more. 3 Likes |
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