Joe Biden gave Trump a new name: climate arsonist. Truly, he is like an arsonist who returns to the fire he set and gets a thrill out of watching the destruction he caused. Just look at his expressions in the video.
Here’s a web search of “I think science doesn’t know, actually.” Below is page one of a Duck Duck Go search.
I live outside of downtown Portland. The first thing I’ve been doing every morning is look at the air quality for the air quality level.
I supposed I should be relieved that the level is only 308. I have a morning dentist appointment and by chance last month I bought a highly rated O2 Curve respirator mask which filters out both smoke and Covid. I will wear this for the 15 minute drive. A few days ago we were literally off the chart:
I am very lucky. The worst I have had to cope with is being in the “green zone” and having my “go bag” ready to leave on short notice. We are now out of the fire risk zone but of course the air quality is hazardous.
You’ve seen the horrible photos from other areas. This is as bad as the sky got here when the sun disappear over the course of just a half hour.
The most sobering news, to put it mildly, now is the growing death toll. Entire towns have been wiped out. See: Stunned residents tour Oregon town devastated by wildfires.
With at least 16 counted dead, search and rescue has now moved to search and recover as crews with cadaver dogs now are searching for bodies. This is what the main page of one of our local TV stations looks like:
The President of the United States will go down in history for saying or tweeting many vomitatious cringe inducing egregious things. Many are included in the Woodward tapes not only about knowing how dangerous Covid was but also boasting about relationships with strongmen including Turkey's Erdogan.
'I can tell you the relationships I have, the tougher and meaner they are, the better I get along with them.' The president also says, 'The easy ones I don't like as much or don't get along with as much'
For a more recent example this is what he said when asked whether he was concerned about the spread of Covid at his Las Vegas rally because he’s far enough away from the audience:
Add this to the list:
"I don’t think science knows, actually.”
The Poll:
I think just like Trump knew how dangerous Covid was, he knows damn well that climate change is both real and dangerous. He knows the dry forests are caused by climate change. However since he once latched onto climate change denialism he refuses to admit he was wrong. He knows it is the cause of wildfires, and is not due to poor maintenance of forests. If he went back on this it would be an admission that he lied. He would never do this. What do you think?
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2020 · 7:09:02 PM +00:00
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HalBrown
Not surprisingly Amanda Marcotte says it far better than I did here.
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That's also what Republicans have been doing all along when it comes to denying science. Even the duller specimens within the party tend to be a little sharper than Trump, after all. So if he understands the facts and is just pretending not to, it's safe to assume the same thing about the vast majority of Republicans whose lead he follows, and who are perhaps a bit more skillful at performing ignorance.
They aren't ignorant. They don't really believe the science is controversial. That's just an act to cover for a sadistic agenda.
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Conservatives were just lying about this stuff the whole time. We know this, because they've rallied around Trump, a man who tells so many obvious lies that he clearly doesn't care that everyone knows that he's lying. In fact, that's why he tells laughably obvious lies. It's a power play — a demonstration that he can do or say whatever he wants, no matter how outrageous or offensive, and no one has the ability to stop him.
This distinction matters, because it puts the fight over these issues squarely in the realm of a moral debate, instead of a debate about facts or science. And that's a debate conservatives don't want to have, because they know they'll always lose a moral debate over, say, whether it's OK to let the entire West Coast burn every summer and fall. The gaslighting and feigned ignorance was a tactic to keep the discussion mired in a pointless debate over facts that are abundantly clear, and to avoid these larger moral questions.
Maybe now, with Trump giving the game away, we can stop letting the right waste our time with gaslight-fueled "debates" and turn to what really matters: Will our nation do the right thing, or will we continue to let a pack of bigots and sadists determine our national priorities? That fateful decision is long overdue, but with Trump in the White House trying to lie and cheat his way into a second term, we can no longer avoid it.