And he wore a tan suit once, the devil.
Can you imagine??
The abortion u-turn is just the start
SC just ruled for WV, saying the EPA doesn’t have the power to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act. To be fair, I have thought it was a weak foundation from the beginning. But the net effect is US climate change policy has not made material advances in 20 years.
The first European settlers in the US were non conformists fleeing religious orthodoxy.
Now the Republicans want to introduce state religion.
Gilead, here we come.
Why? Because they have leaned into regulation for the purpose of mitigating climate change rather than simply air quality?
Things the US Supreme Court believe the Founding Fathers wanted…
- Religion to be forced on children
- People to be able to carry a concealed handgun into a school
- The earth to end in a climate catastrophe
Things the US Supreme Court believe the Founding Fathers did not want…
- Women to have rights over their own bodies
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Yes. The Clean Air Act was quite directly focused on precisely that, and the extension of it beyond the initial criterion air pollutants in a given area had already been knocked back once, in 2008 related to the Clean Air Interstate Rule - and that was still actually governing air quality, it was simply a question of the emissions trading mechanisms. I don’t fault the executive branch for trying to find a way around a dysfunctional Congress, but fundamentally I think CO2 regulation was simply a stretch. The Supreme Court just never really considered the body of the law in Mass. v. EPA, and the basic reason it doesn’t lend itself well to regulating CO2 is it was never intended to do so.
It is actually very hard to make sense of Mass. v. EPA and the CAIR being struck down coexisting, they are in many ways direct contradictions of one another. But that is what the EPA has had to deal with in the absence of real direction from Congress.
Anyone who has real dirt in Trump is either a “spy” or a liar 
Fixed
FMD
This thread is depressing.
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You seem surprised by this. How did you come by the notion that a thread about US politics could be anything but depressing to anyone who even vaguely resembles a functioning human being?
Mind I’m not sure any other country’s politics are significantly better…
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Time for other western countries do the right thing, sanction the US! 
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Don’t make us come north over the border!!!
Not surprised…but you gotta admit, it has been a fucking shit few weeks Stateside!!!
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I know - of course I’ll happily admit the last few decades have been pretty shit politically.
Now I’m depressed and going to have to spend my whole long holiday weekend drinking
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Fuuuk me if this is what this bloke believes then I don’t even know what to say
They’re doing a bloody good job of eviscerating themselves I’d say
Gross.