12-03-2020, 12:18 PM
(12-03-2020, 12:04 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-02-2020, 08:40 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I just have a feeling that 2020 isn't over. The hospitals are on the brink of overloading. Thanksgiving is apt to cause another holiday surge on top of the current surge. Trump seems to be going for pardons over revenge. He is seeking money for his next life while the legal cases are pending.
I keep waiting for the base to wake up. They ought to wake up. If they don't, they deserve what is coming.
Nope. 2020 is going to extend well into 2022. The Republican base is awake and has been awake for years. The Democratic base is groggy, clueless, still dreaming and wishful thinking. So, what's coming Bob? Is climate change coming or is climate change here forever? I assume climate change is here forever. AOC says that we are going to die in ten years unless we spend Trillions and eliminate evil industries today but the plan is over thirty years. ARE THERE ANY LIBERALS WHO UNDERSTAND MATH or ARE ANY GOOD AT MATH? Since we're all going to be dead in years I've noticed we only have spend 3 Trillion so we can all die feeling good about ourselves. Sounds comical but Liberals are pretty comical these days but it seems to work for largely disconnected Democratic voters/supporters these days.
Republicans may be awake, but out of touch with reality. Demographic trends do not favor a Party which relies upon bigotry, superstition, and delusion. The Millennial generation would surprise anyone who takes the generational theory seriously if it didn't turn out more liberal, rational, and bland than previous generations since at least the GI's. I'm not going to say that Millennial young adults will make a run on music recorded by Lawrence Welk or Guy Lombardo, but it already shows a strong tendency to reject shock-jock rhetoric of any kind. The ratings for "Rash Libel" are way down.
I'm not Bob, but:
1. Climate change is real. We have seen more record warmth. 80F in mid-November in the middle of Indiana this year? No way! But it happened. We have already had a veritable "Year Without a Winter" (2012), and we are likely in for more of those.
Do you know what winter wheat is? It is planted in the autumn, when it germinates. Snow covers and protects it from sharp cold snaps and of course drying conditions. Then when the winter ends, the melting snow allows rapid growth of the wheat crop. That is much of your food from the Upper Midwest and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. That makes Ukraine the richest cropland in Europe even if Ukraine is an economic basket case in all else. Wanna see a decrease in the food supply? When that happens, political instability emerges.
Much of the population of Egypt, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China is still peasant farmers growing crops close to sea level. What happens if these people find that "King Neptune" has confiscated their land and opportunity to farm by inundating it? If you thought Stalin's collectivization of Soviet agriculture was horrible -- well, at least those peasant farmers that Stalin didn't murder for not turning over their land to the State in return for being serfs on State property still got to farm and eat. What happens to several hundred million peasant farmers?
Wanna see a decrease in the food supply? There is no technological fix for hunger.
Quote:Well, if we are going to die and the world is going to starve or die of thirst or be flooded out of house and home due to rising seas, the 1st priority should be exterminating China?
Immoral and nonsensical.
Quote:The polar bears will adapt.
Polar bears typically prey on seals. When they can no longer catch seals from icy shelves in the Arctic Ocean, they will instead find other prey, most likely some large, clumsy animal that can't outrun even a dog.
A polar bear is to the Arctic what a (pick one: this is multiple choice) are to the Sundarbans.
A) deer
B) water buffalo
C) tiger
D) canoe
Quote:So, what are we going to do about it? Are you going to change Mother Nature? Did you know that our carbon footprint is less than a quarter of China's?
China still burns huge amounts of coal. America no longer burns as much coal as it used to.
Quote:More of the same as far as what we seen last summer? Are the blacks giong to take power and begin enslaving whites?
That is fascist talk typical of a Klansman or a neo-Nazi.
Quote:Are our guns going to be taken away by crazy Liberals? The Republican base is awake Bob.
I know sport hunters. They want nothing to do with fascist creeps.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
