Bye, Bye Red States. This is what you get for climate change denial!!!
This map is the climate resilience screening index map, which is a map of the climate resilience screening index, which is designed to be sensitive to changes in the natural environment, built
environment, governance, and social structure and vulnerability or risk
to climate events.
CRSI has been used to develop an index score for climate resilience at
the county level (scalable both upward and downward spatially) the
represents both the vulnerability of the entity to multiple climate
events and the potential recoverability of these entities from climate
events. The approach uses five domains (natural environment, built
environment, governance, social structures and risk) and 20 indicators
related to the domains. CRSI characterizes holistic climate resilience
throughout the US at the county level (2000-2015); ascertains the
relationships among those domains and indicators; and, provide
information regarding how that resilience score is constructed and the
actions a community/county can take to improve their climate resilience.
The short form: it's how badly you are screwed when the effects of climate change start becoming even more obvious. And hard to remediate: as in forget electric cars--you're gonna need a bike, or to walk.
It's too bad that most red states are pro-life as well since they can't claim Darwin Awards for ignoring science and the weather warnings. At least we won't have to listen to their stupid comments any more.
Running Biden demonstrates that the Dumbocrats learned nothing in 2016.
One of the reason they lost in 2016 was that Clinton didn't campaign in
the "close" states (MI, PA, and WI). Running a candidate who is absent
is sure to be a losing strategy.
Also, no word from Burisma Holdings with a job offer. it's no surprise that my Ukrainian connection doesn't carry as much weight as being the son of the US vice president. I did tell Rep. Madeline Dean repeatedly about this connection, but she voted party line rather than reality.
I also said that they were prosecuting the wrong person by going after Trump. Ukraine is a cess pit of corruption.
Anyway,Hidin' Biden is going to be a loser no matter how bad Trump is: Biden is much worse.
I am so certain that Hunter Biden's job at Burisma Holdings was a bribe that I sent Burisma a job application.
I am far more qualified for the job than Hunter Biden is down to speaking Ukrainian.
And an even more unique qualification than Hunter has.
I thought about sending a copy of the letter to Trump and the White House, but the unique qualification is something I prefer to not talk about. it's something I'm not very proud of.
Which why I am not being explicit about it.
On the other hand, a good Ukrainian would see that qualification as being an asset. It is also about as slimy as Hunter Biden's (it's a family tie).
I may get the job anyway which is why I didn't want to pass it on to the White House. Maybe if there's a rejection because my reason isn't as politically useful as being the son of the Vice President of the United States.
Remember the time Trump tweeted "Covfefe"? and it created a stir because no one knew what "Covfefe" was? Trump tweeted again at 6:09 am: "Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!" and the original tweet was removed.
People were confused. Lots of way out guesses.
But some people know about World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) and that Trump is a WWE Hall of Famer.. Let's add in that not only is Trump an actor, he's a reality show star.
Kayfabe is a term in WWE:
In professional wrestling, kayfabe (also called work or worked) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not of a staged or predetermined nature of any kind. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public.
"Covfefe" doesn't make sense, but the tweet makes a whole lot more sense if we change the word to what it should have been "kayfabe":
"Despite the constant negative press covfefe"
"Despite the constant negative press faked hatred"
We know that the Dems wanted a pied piper candidate (Wikileaked Podesta e-mail). Why not have Trump be the "jobber" or faked opposition in WWE Terms? The Candidate would be a great reality TV show as CBS CEO Leslie Moonves said about Trump, "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS."
Trump received nearly 6 Billion in free coverage because he was good for ratings. Better yet, not only was he the "jobber", but he could be the "heel" (villain, baddie) to Hillary Clinton's "face" (the good one). Trump acts like a jerk and distracts from Clinton. Did Trump just say "pussy"?
Got it?
Except things didn't work to plan. Hillary Clinton was so bad, which was something mentioned in 2007. But you were a "misogynist" if you said in in the 2016. Clinton was so bad that the result of the 2008 Michigan had Clinton "win" with 51% of the vote, but the runner ups were "Uncommitted" 31% and "undecided" 9% (total 40% for nobody).
The way that translated in 2016 was that she couldn't get enough votes in what she thought were the close states: Michigan being one of those close states.
That meant that Trump would move reality shows from "The Candidate" to "the Presidency of the United States". He would keep the role of the heel and the public could boo him to their hearts content.
They would have "the impeachment" as a spin off where the Democrats could pretend to look into what went wrong in 2016 while really doing fuck all about the problem. But like "The candidate" the Dems didn't plan on public reaction. The Dems had to create a show for the public.
But the problem was that the Dems knew it was a bad idea and would be doomed to failure.
Pelosi's failure to pass on the articles of impeachment is an admission the impeachment was kayfabe. A show trial to try and make the public happy. Democrats can watch their people attack Trump. Republicans can watch their people defend Trump. Both Democrats and Republicans could feel good.
Sort of.
Some people got it and didn't feel so good. They couldn't understand why.
It's like covfefe. People were guessing. People were confused until they understand it was Trump breaking kayfabe.
You won't know what to feel until you understand the impeachment was just duopoly kayfabe.
show trial /SHō ˈtrī(ə)l/ nounshow trial; plural noun: show trials
a judicial trial held in public with the intention of influencing or satisfying public opinion, rather than of ensuring justice.
Now, The impeachment seems to be playing to the base of partisan Democrats since, as the Republicans correctly pointed out, the Democrats made it clear from BEFORE Trump even took office that they would impeach him.
Next characteristic of a show trial:
A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant.
The fact that the vote pretty much went down party lines is indicative that the outcome was predetermined. My Rep., Madeline Dean, has members of Ukrainian Nationalist Stepan Bandera's family in it. I know at least one contacted her repeatedly to tell her that the impeachment was a bad idea. Not sure whether Rep. Dean's vote was due to willfull ignorance or just towing party line.
Ukraine is a cesspit of scandal and corruption and to have brought charges against Trump based on events happening there was a serious error of judgement.
It was already ordained that the House would impeach and this would die a death in the Senate. Mitch McConnell said as much. Now, Pelosi is holding off on sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
A public trial with the intent of satisfying public opinion with a predetermined outcome is the perfect description for what just happened. I dare anyone to argue that wasn't what happened.
But please don't blame the left. I know this lefty would have preferred that the Democrats have been productive with their time and work on election reform. But I know that it was easier to find blame in others and do the neo-McCartyite totalitarian thing.
Because any serious investigation into what went wrong in 2016 would find plenty of dirt on the Dems.
I don’t want impeachment “to be a way of life in our country.”
The Democrats impeachment thing is totally
pathetic. The impeachment is a prime example of Trump Derangement
Syndrome. The Dems SHOULD have spent the past few years looking into
what really went wrong in 2016. Instead, they have spent the time on
total bullshit.
Worse, they announced they would impeach Trump early on. So, points for the Republicans who are pointing out that the impeachment is a joke.
The
really pathetic thing about the Impeachment hearings is listening to
the Democrats trying to justify giving military aid to Ukraine as being
in the US national interest.
Worse, picking a scandal that takes place in Ukraine is a total recipe for disaster. The Republicans could be having a field day with this one if they did their research. Yet only one Republican mentioned this during the "debate" or whatever the dog and pony show I just witnessed was called.
After all, this all started under Obama and features Biden. This is a scandal worse than anything that Trump has done if they want to do their research.
And the Dems are handing it to them on a platter.
There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment
substantially supported by one of our major political parties and
largely opposed by the other. Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy,
would produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to
come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political
institutions.
--Jerry Nadler, on why he opposed impeaching Bill Clinton
But make the analogy even more accurate by saying the Republican are sitting there with a royal flush while the Dems are bluffing. I'm not sure how the Democrats could be so blinded by TDS to miss that they are running straight into the Grand Canyon without a parachute.
These people are so blinded by partisanism that they aren't listening to themselves let alone other people.
Seriously, watching the impeachment debates is like watching a really bad movie
where you know how it's going to end. You watch it anyway to see how
much worse it can get.
My Questions from watching this are:
Democrats: How does
giving money that ends up in the hands of neo-Nazi Groups like Right
Sector and the Azov brigade in the US national interests? Very important
since those people train US right wing crazies.
Republicans: how can you say that Trump was "democratically elected"
when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a margin of 2.1%? It was
the anti-Democratic electoral college that put Trump in Place.
Seriously, this mess could have been avoided if there had been a serious examination of what went wrong in 2016. But that would look bad for both parties. Although I think the Dems would come out of it looking much worse than the Republicans.
I have to wonder what more could go wrong here. The ending is obvious, this is a partisan exercise where Trump will be acquitted in the Senate.
You have to wonder why the Democrats are bothering with all this. Since the real time to remove Trump is coming in less than a year. Is it because the Democrats have nothing to offer?
I love alternative reality scenarios and this one is easy to do.
Here is the
alternative reality where Hillary Clinton becomes president because she
won the popular vote with a margin of 2.1% (or nearly 3 million votes).
Forget the Electoral College result because Katherine the Great didn't persuade the founding fathers to put that in the Constitution.
