Today, you hand-delivered a message to essential workers who had to clean up your crap – a message of supremacy in action on #EarthDay which is supposed to center indigenous people and essential workers. Your performance is what’s bullshit. You owe those workers an apology. https://t.co/vO0bdHhinD
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) April 23, 2021
Self-righteous white people parading with their matching pink wheelbarrows, for a much-photographed stunt that will be blamed on ‘Democrats’. Thanks for nothing, jagoffs!
oh, the poop leftists were extinction rebellion? the anti semitic group that also cost jeremy corbyn in the UK? lol.
I guess they were attempting another hunger strike by loading their usual lunches into wheel barrows.
— Bernie supported ethnic cleansing in Nicaragua (@TheRosesAreOver) April 22, 2021
IIRC, the two-hour-‘hunger strikers’ in Nancy Pelosi’s office were a different batch of self-righteous wankers, but I’m sure there’s some membership overlap (when they’re not feuding with each other)…
I was wrong, it’s the same ‘movement’:
I forgot how extremely funny this all was. https://t.co/362I8t15wp
— Centrism Fan Acct ? (@Wilson__Valdez) April 22, 2021
Breaking: Israeli Neo-Fascist LeHava Is Wilding Through Jerusalem
Ruckus
I get some protests. There are valid reasons to protest. There are also valid ways to protest.
Dumping cow shit at the White House.
Can’t tell if they think everyone but them are shit, everything but exactly what they want is shit, or if they just like shit.
You can call it manure but we know what it is and where it came from.
NotMax
Ramadan may not be the most propitious timing.
Just sayin’.
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Martin
UC and CSU will require all students and staff to be vaccinated for fall terms. That’s roughly a million people in CA that will have a vaccine mandate. The community college system may follow suit, but it’s a bit more complicated for them. They aren’t residential campuses, so the pressure isn’t as high, and they serve such a diverse population that it would be really difficult to implement. They have 2.1 million students, so its a hell of a logistical problem.
But that allows every other university to have the same mandate.
piratedan
what galls me the most about this stunt is that it they only show up when Dems are in charge.
why is that?
most likely because if they had done this stunt with 45 in office, he most likely would have had them either arrested or gassed or both.
You want to speak about your convictions, then show up when the bad guys are in charge, otherwise, shitting on erstwhile allies means that you’re just a bunch of fucking poseurs.
mrmoshpotato
Fucking wankers!
“WWWWAAHHHHH We want free healthcare, free college and unicorn butlers NOW!“
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
“And a unicat.”
Ugh.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: NotMax of the links to nowhere. :)
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Is there supposed to be a unicat link? ‘Cause it ain’t linkin’ here.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Who?
Aren’t these the ones who tried to rob Nakatomi Tower?
NotMax
@NotMax
Linky fix. Unicat
/Fat Fingers R Us
Martin
Fire at Mumbai hospital kills 13 in the ICU. Man, everything that can go wrong is going wrong there.
eclare
@Martin: And six hospitals in Delhi have run out of oxygen. It’s tragic.
HumboldtBlue
Fuck unicat …
Here’s team DOG!
Kathleen
Tony Jay
With a crisis as existential and immediate as climate change if you’re not laser focussed on actions that help bring about rapid changes then you’re actually helping the polluters and the deniers distract from the real issue.
Dumping shit on the White House lawn could serve as a focus-grouped example of just that.
Swear to God I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that well-funded former intelligence assets have been tasked by the bad guys to recruit and promote infiltration of the decision-making positions in groups like ER. Nothing like excessive zealotry to disguise intentional sabotage.
It’s what I’d do, if I was a bad guy.
Martin
So, someone explained the European Super League to me in a way that made sense. US soccer is Comedy while Euro soccer is Tragedy. US sports are only focused on winning championships. If your team is dogshit, the only consequence is actually a positive – you get better draft picks the next year. But in euro soccer, winning the championship is at best balanced out against being relegated. That’s usually a worse outcome than winning a championship is a better outcome. Americans don’t really have a concept of relegation, and that’s really what the ESL was designed to mimic – a league where teams couldn’t fail. US sports self-correct. In many ways they don’t need to earn their place – it’s guaranteed.
rikyrah
@Martin:
Yessss????
rikyrah
I don’t remember these clowns doing this during the Dolt45 years?
rikyrah
@eclare:
?????
piratedan
@rikyrah: they never will, they only show up when it’s “safe to do so”, working against the same people that are trying to make a difference. I consider these dingbats just like the M4A group. Not interested in working to tell us how we’re going to get there, they’ll just stay on the sidelines, not lending their shoulders to the effort but happy to criticize that we’re not lifting it high enough.
If these guys had shown up during the 45 administration, he would have sicced the National Guard on them before they even approached the WH.
sab
The person in me that used to be young, idealistic and naive just says “stupid kids. What were they thinking?” The older cynical me thinks “Who hired these guys to sabotage Biden’s earthday rollout on climate change.”
Cynic in me won out. Those pink wheelbarrows were not free. This took organization and some bucks. Nobody as tone deaf as these kids appear to be has that much cash to throw around.
eclare
@sab: I am also Team Cynic.
Baud
@rikyrah:
That, right there. A bunch of Brave Sir Robins.
Martin
@sab: My first thought: net zero by 2025? How much in emissions came from spray painting those pink wheelbarrows?
I’m pretty optimistic about addressing climate change, but net zero by 2025 is beyond impossible.
sab
@Martin: Pretty consistent color. So were they spray painted pink, or manufactured pink.? I think manufactured. That suggest a lot of expensive planning.
sab
@Tony Jay: What I said at # 21 is what you said better.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Never mind us Muslims, most people go two hours in a normal day not consuming anything as a matter of course. I am less than deeply impressed by a two-hour “hunger strike”.
sab
@Amir Khalid: Good point. Normal work day for most people.
Martin
There’s an interesting paper arguing that national climate policy has been focused on the wrong problems.
The authors argue that the problem with climate change thinking in the US is that we are concerned that we will take action, and other nations like China won’t, resulting in the US being harmed economically, and China benefitting. They argue that it’s a distributed conflict problem – that a post-carbon world will have different economic winners and losers, and nations will compete for the winners.
That’s how CA views matters. We don’t worry about cutting our carbon footprint and Alabama rolling more coal. For decades we’ve viewed climate change as an economic opportunity – we’ll be the leader on renewables or clean transportation and eventually Alabama will need to fall in line, and they’ll start shipping their dollars to CA. It’s not always easy to get the balance right, and CA has fucked up plenty, but we get it more right than wrong. But you see it with how we present it to the public. Not only do we publish our emissions inventory, but we publish it also as emissions/GDP. We proved decades ago that you could decouple economic growth from power usage and emissions.
This is why I was really excited to see Kamala in the VP role, and more CA voices in the WH. Climate change is an opportunity, and CA has always seen it as such. You can either choose it to be an opportunity that you jump at, or choose it to be an opportunity you leave to others. But you can’t just wish it away.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Two hour hunger strike with supplements!
Martin
@sab: Eh, Ms Martin would have no problem with it. She starts getting withdrawals if she goes more than about 3 days not painting something. She makes regular visits to the city’s hazardous waste dropoff where you can take spray paint that people have dropped off for disposal.
Martin
@Amir Khalid: I actually am impressed by a 2 hour hunger strike. That implies that they don’t ever go more than 120 minutes without eating, which is pretty fucking impressive. I mean, most people would become psychotic if they never slept more than 2 hours at a go. Can you imagine needing a root canal and having to stop 1-2 times midway through for a meal? Going to a movie means popcorn is almost mandatory.
I dare anyone here to go a week with no more than 2 hours between meals.
sab
@Martin: Interesting. So she could spray paint that uniformly? Facts are useful in making judgments.
sab
@Martin: Pre-Covid I used to go 6 hours between meals my whole working life.
Baud
This thread is making me hungry.
sab
@Baud: Of course it is. We love you. Please don’t eat our children.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: These slapdicks. A two-hour hunger strike is called running errands. Sometimes three, four, five or six hours!
DMcK
@Tony Jay: The Green Party in a nutshell.
Tony Jay
@sab:
You were pithier.
mrmoshpotato
@sab: Baud! 2024! Why not cannibalism?!
Robert Sneddon
@Martin:
TV rights money. At the moment UEFA spreads the broadcast rights moolah around all the professional teams in Europe large and small, the ESL would reserve all their franchise and TV rights earnings to the small coterie of top clubs in the ESL.
Regular fans could also expect to be priced out of being able to watch their teams play with the corporate boxes taking over the stands, a thousand bucks a seat. A Liverpool season ticket costs about a thousand bucks US at the moment for forty-plus League and Cup matches (there’s a waiting list, natch).
Kathleen
@sab: Spealing of dropping poop why are “Progressives” “replying” to Biden’s address to Congress?
Booger
@eclare: Well, at least that reduces the chance of a massive fire, amirite?
Ken
I don’t think that would be allowed at our city’s site. Even pre-COVID it was “stay in your vehicle please” while men in gloves and breather masks took the stuff out of your trunk.
And I’m sure it wouldn’t be allowed at the site where you can drop off unused medications.
Geminid
@Martin: The IPCC’s October 2018 report set a goal of 2050 for a net-zero carbon emissions world. I suspect they chose this round number because their experts concluded that it is the earliest achievable date. The clean energy transition is possible, but it will be, figuratively speaking, a marathon. Extinction Rebellion wants a sprint, and “degrowth” is their plan. But if we want a sustainable planet, we need a politically sustainable program to get there. The environmental lefties with pink wheelbarrows seem to take pride in advocating unworkable programs.
If we can get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, we can move on in the remainder of the century to negative carbon emissions, through afforestation, agricultural tecniques etc., and possibly negative CO2 technologies. In his February 2019 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article titled “The Green New Deal: A View From Across the Atlantic,” British climate scientist Myles Allen gives a good overview of the problem of atmospheric CO2, and reviews available and potential solutions. Allen helped write the IPCC report.
Lum’s Better Half
Extinction Rebellion are Saint Greta’s peeps, so be careful with the back talk.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Want to be this is just just a group of conservatives feeble attempt at parody.
kindness
These people claim to be liberals? Sorry sacks of shit really.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@kindness: They don’t claim to be liberals; to them, liberals are the problem.
They aren’t about effective politics; they’re about moral purity and rebellion theatre, and I use that spelling intentionally, because this isn’t really supposed to be understood by the masses—it’s aimed at the other cosplayers.
Another Scott
I got an email yesterday with the subject “We’re taking action in D.C. on April 28 to give Democrats a wake up call”…
92-ish days Biden has been in office and Democrats are the problem.
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
whomever
@sab: Yeah. Along the same lines, I’m not veggie, but sympathetic to them, but PETA is so constantly tone deaf I’ve always assumed they were secretly funded by the meat industry…
Ms pennycandy
To think I was once banned from here for shitting on Bernie types. Lol
Ruckus
@Martin:
Net zero in 4 yrs.
At least half of the 9 billion people on earth will have to change every thing about how they live, like not actually doing that at all.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be better for the planet, just that it’s not really all that realistic. And who gets to choose which group one fits into, the gone or the remaining.
This science project brought to you by the world mortuary guild. And the concept of total stupidity.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: What are their issues? Did they say?
Ruckus
@sab:
You don’t think they actually work do you?
You know productive anything…..
Also what does cow manure give off into the air as it slowly disintegrates?
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Sorry for the delay.
It was from Nestor at UnitedWeDream (but I don’t see anything similar on his Twitter or on the UWD website, so…):
Pressing for action is good and proper. Demanding citizenship “now” is counter-productive. Effectively saying that only Democrats have agency is all too typical…
Cheers,
Scott.
Lobo
I always laugh at “…. now!” It is often unaccompanied by any “how”. Effective pressure to accept refugees had a mechanism that could be acted on. But without identifying the mechanism, it all amounts to “please activate the Green Lantern Corps.” Oh, with a side of unicorns.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Ah, thank you. I am guessing that Biden has a basic strategic plan for what to get done in what order, and adjusts in response to what’s happening on the ground.
I’m pretty confident that he is first going for the stuff that Rs should be on board with, but likely are not.
God, I hope we ditch the filibuster, or at least change some of the rules so the Rs can’t send an email and then anything with less than 60 votes is essentially dead in the water
Hopefully he’s giving them enough rope to hang themselves, and Manchin and Sinema will wake up to the reality we live in. Read your fucking history and learn. (Directed at Manchin and Sinema, in case it wasn’t obvious.)