Biden’s rumored climate goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030, reported days before his #EarthDay2021 Summit, is a step in the right direction but falls woefully short of what the science says must be done to avert a climate catastrophe. https://t.co/PJfZRj4gK3
— Green Party US 🌻 (@GreenPartyUS) April 21, 2021
Today's Climate Summit is being well-attended by global leaders and well-received in the corporate media, but like so many of Joe Biden's other initiatives, what he's offering is half a loaf.
And with respect to the climate crisis, we need everything in the bakery.
President Biden is against the Green New Deal and pro fracking so I have no idea why he thinks that his administration has “brought science back.” pic.twitter.com/FOJhpDYeAo
— 🌻The Official New York Socialist ✡️ (@TheNYSocialist) April 22, 2021
Platitudes R Them. It's what Kamala brought to the ticket, it's what got Mayo Pete another job in government, and it's apparently what sustains the sycophants among the Donkey orthodoxy who are breathing easier, sleeping well, and brunching every weekend. These compromises, like the $1400 stimmys, the still-not-enough $15 minimum wage killed by Joe Mansion and Kristen's Enema, the initiative to expand the Supreme Court that died at Nancy Pelosi's hand last week, and all the other things that would keep this sentence running on to infinity and beyond are leaving me with a very sour taste in my mouth again.
So I really didn't need to hear that Biden hasn't canceled the Enbridge #3 pipeline yet to know that there's a lot he'll give lip service to, but only so much he's willing to do.
Ed Markey and AOC have introduced Bernie Sanders' watered-down Green New Deal once more, to the expected huzzahs and hosannas. They'll have to fight not only Pelosi and Schumer but MTG and Ted Cruz every step of the way, so it's performative, an art the Queen of Queens (and the Bronx) is burnishing of late. Their highest hopes are by aiming low, maybe they can slip under the bar, much like old Joe himself.
AOC & Markey reintroduced their nonbinding resolution for a Green New Deal today - the same diluted version of the GND the Green Party has championed since 2010. Its goal of "net zero" emissions by 2050 instead of zero emissions by 2030 is way too late.https://t.co/WqlIddMZ7X
— Howie Hawkins (@HowieHawkins) April 20, 2021
I'm gonna take a hard pass on all of that.
Twenty twenty-two is the statewide cycle, which means that a whole bunch of Blue Dogs will try to show that they're not as bad as the TXGOP. And our state media will focus on the Republican primary, because their self-fulfilling prophecy for about 30 years now has been that's the only election that matters. Meanwhile the Permian farts methane like a small gaseous planet -- from fracking flares to uncapped, abandoned wells; the Amazon burns, our oceans are full of plastic and our air is full of carcinogens. Does that sound like something we ought to keep doing?
If it is then you must be on the waiting list to buy a ticket on the first Elon Musk rocket flight outta here. Good luck with that.
The pandemic, and the resulting economic slowdown, demonstrated that reducing our consumption of fossil fuels could heal the Earth. But we're getting back to business now. That's a death sentence. Now a very wise man once said that repeating the same action and expecting a different result is a symptom of insanity. So now you know why I will be voting for NO Democrats who don't indicate that they understand this simple logic.
In the case of Governor of Texas, the choice is easy.
Pls RT
— 🌻⏳AllDemsRCorruptVoteGreenAnd3rdPartyOnly🌻😷 (@1Kitty6) April 13, 2021
ATTN: TEXAS
🌻@DelilahforTexas is running for Governor. She accepts NO corporate or lobbyist💰
She supports:
Med4all
Publicly owned utilities
GND
$20 mw
Affordable🏡
RCV
Legal☘️
Donate:https://t.co/Cf5gyOY97p
Follow & visit her website.https://t.co/ll9KZi2x6U
David Collins interviewed her some time back, and she's got an active and engaged Tweet feed, so direct your questions there if you have any.
Don't expect her to get much publicity. That's up to you and me, unless you think voting for a conservative Democrat again -- or Dishrag forbid, Matthew McConaghey -- and anticipating that person to defeat Greg Abbott is a smart idea. (Hint: Abbott isn't going to lose a November election, no matter what that recent poll says. If he gets upset in his primary, that Republican will win. Which means Texas will have an farther-right-wing freak than him calling the shots.)
Even Rick Perry got re-elected running against another Republican and Kinky Friedman not so long ago. And the other Republican, in this case, wasn't Chris Bell. So you might as well vote for someone with some principles you believe in, as opposed to 'lesser evil', 'harm reduction', etc. And maybe the Democrats will catch a clue and stop running GOP-Lite.
Maybe that last is too much of a stretch ...?
