Everything.

us with his gutting of the Clean Water Act

n/t

Many of us knew this would be our fate back in Nov of 2016.

Nancy P. had it right when she said all roads lead to Putin.

Where Bolton Is Headed — Putin

https://medium.com/@Simon_Rosenberg/where-bolton-is-headed-putin-71e09cff2e0c

DU's link parser can't deal with some characters if you just pop the link in. Oddly enough, if you use the link button, you can make it work like this.

Grr.

where the water pollution got so bad the river caught fire.

Yeah, electing Hillary in 2016 would have been just awful ...

I just don't understand how one person, in this case the person posing as the President, can gut legislation voted on by both sides of Congress and signed by a previous President.

While I understand how previous executive orders may be altered, but what about sealed and signed laws.

He also signed the Clean Air Act and established the EPA.

One of his Supreme Court appointees, Harry Blackmun, was the tiebreaking vote FOR Roe v. Wade.

(I love telling neocons that info. Really makes their unused heads spin.)

It’s a few years old, but set in a dystopian future where the wealthy have trashed the Earth and built their own paradise in a space station above the earth. Here’s a description from a movie review site.

“The film is set in 2154, when the planet has been ravaged by disease, pollution, and overpopulation. The wealthiest now live on a space station called Elysium, which can be seen in the clouds from Earth below. Max (Matt Damon) has grown up watching Elysium from his rundown, largely Latino L.A. neighborhood. A reformed car thief now working in a grueling factory job—he's lucky to have it, he's sneeringly informed—Max is trying to keep things together in a society openly rigged against the poor.

On this space "habitat," we follow the defense secretary (Jodie Foster), who offers a vigorous defense of her right to use unlimited force to benefit the liberty of a few. In a not-so-subtle commentary on the immigration debate, she shoots down refugees who try to land.”

This feels like the Trump policy toward everything: destroy anyone who gets in his way (the media and anyone who goes against him), transfer wealth to the already wealthy, ensure health care only for the wealthy, rape our lands for the sake of corporate profits, and maintain total control over all decisions affecting the people not on Elysium. The difference I see from the movie is that with no change in how we do things, this situation will appear long before 2154, maybe a hundred years before.

21st Century Feudalism is their plan. Antarctica will be their Elysium. And perhaps some far northern areas, as well. The rest of us can battle for the scant resources left in the scorched out/drowned out regions. The trajectory isn't looking good for most of humanity.

action taken by the Rump.

the destrucion of your enviornment is to allow the destrution of yourself.

it is an issue they are passionate about regardless of partisanship.

edited to add: and use this after describing WHO is gutting the Clean Water Act:

On Earth Day, 1971, nonprofit organization Keep America Beautiful launched what the Ad Council would later call one of the “50 greatest commercials of all time.” Dubbed “The Crying Indian,” the one-minute PSA features a Native American man paddling down a junk-infested river, surrounded by smog, pollution, and trash; as he hauls his canoe onto the plastic-infested shore, a bag of rubbish is tossed from a car window, exploding at his feet. The camera then pans to the Indian’s cheerless face just as a single tear rolls down his cheek.

They just can't see that -45 does not care about them. He knows he can throw $10,000 at their campaign fund, promise more $$ and then piss all over their state. That includes every state down wind or down stream if -45 can make money off the deal.

It's called a deal because it is a backroom agreement, not an open discussion in Congress with public comments and expert testimony.

to benefit financially from these rules changes? My guess is they are the ones really responsible.

Don't forget, Senator Ron Johnson (R-eally stupid) owns a plastics factory in Oshkosh. He purchased it with his wife's family's wealth.

And then we have the fossil fuel fools with their off-shore drilling and leaky pipelines. They need some lovin' too.

Maybe WE need our life back--not just that BP douche.

our own corporations and oligarchs cover for Presidential/Congressional actions they are responsible for.

They're just as slimy as oligarchs.