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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
1. I swear it's some type of coup. There is definitely something going on. The old GOP
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 05:25 PM
Jun 2017

is long gone and the new GOP is trying to dissolve the USA.

Thrill

(19,178 posts)
2. They're always better on message than Democrats, which why they stay in power
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 05:27 PM
Jun 2017

Democrats can learn something from them on talking points

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
3. Rand Paul was lecturing CNN reporters on how "trumped up" the climate change argument is.
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 05:33 PM
Jun 2017

How liberals describe pulling out of the Paris Accords as something that will cause extinctions of sea and land life.

"We've had much bigger swings in climate in the last millions of years! Was it our campfires that caused these," he said?

How "Sea levels were 300 feet lower when our ancestors crossed the Bering Sea in Alaska. What's five more inches, or five more feet"

He failed to mention these cataclysmic climate changes are also know as Extinction Level Events.

Unless he has some dinosaurs or hairy mammoths living in his barn.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
4. Failed also to mention that warm periods means sea level rises
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 05:59 PM
Jun 2017

And puts the homes of millions or even billions of people under water.

onethatcares

(16,178 posts)
6. at this point in time
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 06:04 PM
Jun 2017

those homes are populated by millionaires and billionaires. Once they start going under water all hell is going to break out and we the people are going to pay for their things.

global1

(25,263 posts)
7. Let's Hope Mar-A-Lago Is One Of The First To Flood......
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 06:12 PM
Jun 2017

I hear that there are multiple problems in Miami already - due to climate change. They are experiencing sea water in the sewer system and flooding - even when there is no rain.

Let Trump experience this first hand at one of his prime properties. Then again - he'd probably figure out some way that us taxpayers would pay for protecting his property.

Ace Rothstein

(3,183 posts)
5. Probably because most in their Party are for this?
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 06:03 PM
Jun 2017

If the Republicans actually cared about this, it would have passed through Congress so a President couldn't pull out unilaterally.

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