If you’ve ever been around someone who is dying, it may have struck you how strong a person’s lifeforce really is. When my dad was gravely ill, an invisible point of no return was gradually crossed, then suddenly death was in plain sight. We stood back helplessly, knowing that nothing more could be done, that something vital had slipped away. All we could do is watch as life extinguished itself in agonising fits and starts.
As a climate scientist watching the most destructive bushfires in Australian history unfold, I felt the same stomach-turning recognition of witnessing an irreversible loss.
The relentless heat and drought experienced during our nation’s hottest and driest year on record saw the last of our native forests go up in smoke. We saw terrified animals fleeing with their fur on fire, their bodies turned to ash. Those that survived faced starvation among the charred remains of their obliterated habitats.
During Australia’s Black Summer, more than 3 billion animals were incinerated or displaced, our beloved bushland burnt to the ground. Our collective places of recharge and contemplation changed in ways that we can barely comprehend. The koala, Australia’s most emblematic species, now faces extinction in New South Wales by as early as 2050.
Recovering the diversity and complexity of Australia’s unique ecosystems now lies beyond the scale of human lifetimes. What we witnessed was inter-generational damage: a fundamental transformation of our country.
Then, just as the last of the bushfires went out, recording-breaking ocean temperatures triggered the third mass bleaching event recorded on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. This time, the southern reef – spared during the 2016 and 2017 events – finally succumbed to extreme heat. The largest living organism on the planet is dying.
As one of the dozen or so Australian lead authors involved in consolidating the physical science basis for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment report, I’ve gained terrifying insight into the true state of the climate crisis and what lies ahead. There is so much heat already baked into the climate system that a certain level of destruction is now inevitable. What concerns me is that we may have already pushed the planetary system past the point of no return. That we’ve unleashed a cascade of irreversible changes that have built such momentum that we can only watch as it unfolds.
‘Australia’s horror summer is the clearest signal yet that our planet’s climate is rapidly destabilising.’ Photograph: Adwo/Alamy
Australia’s horror summer is the clearest signal yet that our planet’s climate is rapidly destabilising. It breaks my heart to watch the country I love irrevocably wounded because of our government’s denial of the severity of climate change and its refusal to act on the advice of the world’s leading scientists.
I mourn all the unique animals, plants and landscapes that are forever altered by the events of our Black Summer. That the Earth as we now know it will soon no longer exist. I grieve for the generations of children who will only ever experience the Great Barrier Reef or our ancient rainforests through photographs or David Attenborough’s documentaries. In the future, his films will be like watching grainy archival footage of the Tasmanian tiger: images of a lost world.
As we live through this growing instability, it’s becoming harder to maintain a sense of professional detachment from the work that I do. Given that humanity is facing an existential threat of planetary proportions, surely it is rational to react with despair, anger, grief and frustration. To fail to emotionally respond to a level of destruction that will be felt throughout the ages feels like sociopathic disregard for all life on Earth.
To confront this monumental reality and then continue as usual would be like buying into a collective delusion that life as we know it will go on indefinitely, regardless of what we do. The truth is, everything in life has its breaking point. My fear is that the planet’s equilibrium has been lost; we are now watching on as the dominoes begin to cascade.
With just 1.1C of warming, Australia has already experienced unimaginable levels of destruction of its marine and land ecosystems in the space of a single summer. More than 20% of our country’s forests burnt in a single bushfire season. Virtually the entire range of the Great Barrier Reef cooked by one mass bleaching event. But what really worries me is what our Black Summer signals about the conditions that are yet to come. As things stand, the latest research shows that Australia could warm up to 7C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. If we continue along our current path, climate models show an average warming of 4.5C, with a range of 2.7–6.2C by 2100. This represents a ruinous overshooting of the Paris agreement targets, which aim to stabilise global warming at well below 2C, to avoid what the UN terms “dangerous” levels of climate change.
The revised warming projections for Australia will render large parts of our country uninhabitable and the Australian way of life unliveable, as extreme heat and increasingly erratic rainfall establishes itself as the new normal. Researchers who conducted an analysis of the conditions experienced during our Black Summer concluded “under a scenario where emissions continue to grow, such a year would be average by 2040 and exceptionally cool by 2060.”
It’s the type of statement that should jolt our nation’s leaders out of their delusional complacency. Soon we will be facing 50C summer temperatures in our southern capital cities, longer and hotter bushfire seasons, and more punishing droughts. We will be increasingly forced to shelter in our homes as dangerous heat and oppressive smoke become regular features of the Australian summer. Looking back from this future, the coronavirus lockdown of 2020 will feel like a luxury holiday.
Australia’s Black Summer was a terrifying preview of a future that no longer feels impossibly far away. We’ve experienced, first-hand, how unprecedented extremes can play out more abruptly and ferociously than anyone thought possible. Climate disruption is now a part of the lived experience of every Australian.
We are being forced to come to terms with the fact that we are the generation that is likely to witness the destruction of our Earth. We have arrived at a point in human history that I think of as the “great unravelling”. I never thought I’d live to see the horror of planetary collapse unfolding.
As an Australian on the frontline of the climate crisis, all I can do is try to help people make sense of what the scientific community is observing in real time. I use my writing to send out distress beacons to the wider world, hoping that processing the enormity of our loss through an international lens will help us feel the sting of it. Perhaps, then, we will finally acknowledge the terribly sad reality that we are losing the battle to protect one of the most extraordinary parts of our planet.
I often despair that everything the scientific community is trying to do to help avert disaster is falling on deaf ears. Instead, we hear the federal government announcing policies ensuring the protection of fossil fuel industries, justifying pathetic emission targets that will doom Australia to an apocalyptic nightmare of a future.
Recording-breaking ocean temperatures triggered the third mass bleaching event recorded on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. Photograph: Greg Torda/ARC Centre Coral Reef Studies/EPA
The national conversation we urgently needed to have following our Black Summer never happened. Our collective trauma was sidelined as a deadly pandemic took hold. Instead of grieving our losses and agreeing on how to implement an urgent plan to safeguard our nation’s future, we became preoccupied by whether we had enough food in the pantry, whether our job or relationship would be intact on the other side of the lockdown. We were forced to consider life and death on an intensely personal level.
When our personal safety is threatened, our capacity to handle the larger existential threat of climate change evaporates. But just because we can’t face something doesn’t mean it disappears.
As many trauma survivors will tell you, it’s often the lack of an adequate response in the aftermath of a traumatic event, rather than the experience itself, that causes the most psychological damage. And if there is no acknowledgment of the damage that has been done, no moral consequences for those responsible, it’s as if the trauma never happened.
How can we ever re-establish trust in the very institutions that let things get this bad? How do we live with the knowledge that the people who are meant to keep us safe are the very ones allowing the criminal destruction of our planet to continue?
Perhaps part of the answer lies in TS Eliot’s observation that “humankind cannot bear very much reality”. To shy away from difficult emotions is a very natural part of the human condition. We are afraid to have the tough conversations that connect us with the darker shades of human emotion.
We are often reluctant to give voice to the painful feelings that accompany a serious loss, like the one we all experienced this summer. We quickly skirt around complex emotions, landing on the safer ground of practical solutions like renewable energy or taking personal action to feel a sense of control in the face of far bleaker realities.
As more psychologists begin to engage with the topic of climate change, they are telling us that being willing to acknowledge our personal and collective grief might be the only way out of the mess we are in. When we are finally willing to accept feelings of intense grief – for ourselves, our planet, our kids’ futures – we can use the intensity of our emotional response to propel us into action.
Grief is not something to be pushed away; it is a function of the depth of the attachment we feel for something, be it a loved one or the planet. If we don’t allow ourselves to grieve, we stop ourselves from emotionally processing the reality of our loss. It prevents us from having to face the need to adapt to a new, unwelcome reality.
Unfortunately, we live in a culture where we actively avoid talking about hard realities; darker parts of our psyche are considered dysfunctional or intolerable. But trying to be relentlessly cheerful or stoic in the face of serious loss just buries more authentic emotions that must eventually come up for air.
As scientists, we are often quick to reach for more facts rather than grapple with the complexity of our emotions. We think that the more people know about the impacts of climate change, surely the more they will understand how urgent our collective response needs to be. But as the long history of humanity’s inability to respond to the climate crisis has shown us, processing information purely on an intellectual level simply isn’t enough.
It’s something Rachel Carson – the American ecologist and author of Silent Spring, the seminal book warning the public about the dangerous long-term effects of pesticides – recognised nearly 60 years ago. She wrote: “It is not half so important to know as to feel … once the emotions have been aroused – a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love – then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning.” In other words, there is great power and wisdom in our emotional response to our world. Until we are prepared to be moved by the profoundly tragic ways we treat the planet and each other, our behaviour will never change.
On a personal level, I wonder what to do in the face of this awareness. Should I continue to work my guts out, trying to produce new science to help better diagnose what’s going on? Do I try to teach a dejected new generation of scientists to help fix the mess humanity has made? How can I reconcile my own sense of despair and exhaustion with the need to stay engaged and be patient with those who don’t know any better?
Joëlle Gergis: ‘Something inside me feels like it has snapped, as if some essential thread of hope has failed.’ Photograph: Lannon Harley/ANU
While I hope this will be the summer that changes everything, my rational mind understands that governments like ours are willing to sacrifice our planetary life-support system to keep the fossil fuel industry alive for another handful of decades. I am afraid that we don’t have the heart or the courage to be moved by what we saw during our Black Summer.
Increasingly I am feeling overwhelmed and unsure about how I can best live my life in the face of the catastrophe that is now upon us. I’m anxious about the enormity of the scale of what needs to be done, afraid of what might be waiting in my inbox. Something inside me feels like it has snapped, as if some essential thread of hope has failed. The knowing that sometimes things can’t be saved, that the planet is dying, that we couldn’t get it together in time to save the irreplaceable. It feels as though we have reached the point in human history when all the trees in the global common are finally gone, our connection to the wisdom of our ancestors lost forever.
As a climate scientist at this troubled time in human history, my hope is that the life force of our Earth can hang on. That the personal and collective awakening we need to safeguard our planet arrives before even more is lost. That our hearts will lead us back to our shared humanity, strengthening our resolve to save ourselves and our imperilled world.
“Trump’s Landslide Meets the Politics of Electoral Fraud in America”
“You can’t flip a coin 300,000 times and expect to always have heads”
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:22 am
Fox’s Lou Dobbs goes off the rails and accuses Bill Barr of joining ‘the Deep State’ to work against Trump
“U.S. Attorney General William Barr has been one of President Donald Trump’s most aggressive defenders, but this week, Barr essentially acknowledged Joe Biden as president-elect when he told the Associated Press that there is no evidence showing that widespread voter fraud robbed Trump of a victory. And Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs is furious, accusing the Trump loyalist of joining “the deep state.”
Trump ‘erupted’ at Bill Barr during ‘angry’ meeting earlier this week: report
“President Donald Trump’s relationship with Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly sunk to a new low this week after Barr told the Associated Press that the Department of Justice had not uncovered any evidence of systemic voter fraud.”
The far-right has embraced an election conspiracy theory so absurd the Army came out and denounced it
“Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, has not been shy about pushing ridiculous conspiracy theories — whether he was promoting the racist “birther” theory that President Barack Obama wasn’t really born in the U.S. or claiming that the late Sen. John McCain divulged information to the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
Now, McInerney is doubling down on his recent claim that U.S. Special Forces died during a recent attack on a CIA computer facility in Germany — where, McInerney claimed, information was being kept on a plot to flip votes from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. But as Military.com explained, the Army has debunked McInerney’s claims as nonsense.
Reporter Gina Harkins explains, “No special forces soldiers were killed while seizing computer servers in Germany as part of a CIA operation after the presidential election. There was, in fact, no mission of the sort. And members of the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion are not ‘the kraken’ that an attorney for President Donald Trump said, last month, she’d be unleashing. The unit is not involved in any post-election missions supporting the White House — a move that would be highly unlikely considering it’s an entry-level training battalion where new soldiers who haven’t yet picked up their military occupational specialty are assigned.”
Sam Rohrer Says the ‘Coup’ to Allegedly Steal the Election From Trump Is a Sign of the End Times
“During an appearance on TheDove TV’s “Focus Today” program Tuesday, Sam Rohrer of the American Pastors Network said that the alleged effort to steal the election from President Donald Trump is a treasonous coup for which people must be tried by a military tribunal, and a sign that we are living in the End Times.”
Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal
“The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court records unsealed Tuesday in federal court.
The case is the latest legal twist in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration after several of his top advisers have been convicted of federal criminal charges and as the possibility rises of Trump giving pardons to those who’ve been loyal to him.”
My Call With Ron Johnson: He Knows Biden Won But Won’t Admit It
The Wisconsin senator says it would be “political suicide.”
“The TL;DR of the call was this: Senator Johnson knows that Joe Biden won a free and fair election. He is refusing to admit it publicly and stoking conspiracies that undermine our democracy solely because it would be “political suicide” to oppose Trump. I find this unconscionable.”
Pence attempts disappearing act, trying to avoid going down with Trump’s ship
“The second to the two-time popular vote sore loser impeached Donald Trump, Mike Pence, has been slowly and quietly backing away from the train wreck that is his boss’s “legal” efforts to overturn the election. Pence, sources tell the Daily Beast, “doesn’t want to go down with this ship”
‘Some were audibly coughing’: Trump holds yet another superspreader event on his way out
“But certainly not all of us care. Case in point: the soon-to-be-former president of the United States. We all know he’s damn well aware of the dangers of this pandemic, but truly does not care. He gets VIP treatment and never sees a bill and is immune for a while so why should he give a shit about the rest of us?”
“Sam Rohrer Says the ‘Coup’ to Allegedly Steal the Election From Trump Is a Sign of the End Times”
It is The End indeed… of the US.
“Fox’s Lou Dobbs goes off the rails and accuses Bill Barr of joining ‘the Deep State’ to work against Trump”
The article doesn’t make it clear why Dobbs “went of the rails”.
Wikipedia on Alternet:
“The founding editor of AlterNet was (((Alan Green))), who with his deputy, Margaret Engle, created print and electronic mechanisms to syndicate both the works of AAN papers and freelance contributors, among them Michael Moore [OMG] and (((Abbie Hoffman))).”
These folks confuse leftist political propaganda for news.
Dems and Reps: “I go left, you go right, we will not meet at the pass. In fact, we’ll never meet again”.
And 2 new countries were born, a cowboy country of deplorables and a libtard country, full of people of color and jews. You know what, make that 5. America is more than big enough for that to happen.
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:43 am
“‘Some were audibly coughing’: Trump holds yet another superspreader event on his way out”
So what, destabilizing society and economy is a white interests in 2020. Give these people some slack, will ya.
Worse is better.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:45 am
Trump ‘can’t handle the humiliation of being labeled a loser’: CNN White House correspondent
“CNN White House correspondent John Harwood on Thursday said that President Donald Trump is lashing out everywhere because he cannot psychologically cope with the fact that he lost the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden.”
“Florida GOPer tries to commit voter fraud in Georgia runoff, gets caught”
Outrageous! Let’s cancel the election and hold a new one, this time with ballot papers that need signatures and a thumb ink mark. No more fraudulent mail votes, you have to show up in person. Hand-counting only. Never mind if the counting takes 3 days. Let Europeans oversee the counting. Democrats and Republicans obviously can’t be trusted.
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:46 am
“Trump ‘can’t handle the humiliation of being labeled a loser’: CNN White House correspondent”
CNN can’t handle being called a “Fake News Organization”.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:53 am
GOP governor sends White House to voicemail, certifies election results
“Rachel Maddow shares video of Arizona Governor Doug Ducey muting a call from the White House as he continues the process of certifying his state’s election results in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.”
Rachel Maddow
Trump and crew cash in with election fraud ‘scare stories’
“Rachel Maddow points out that the overblown election fraud lies that Donald Trump and his legal team are spreading about Trump’s loss to Joe Biden are more lucrative for Trump than the actual campaign.”
Joe bidet is a collapse accelerator. He is a blessing and will speed up things going forward. We are in oil depletion situation and the energy equations and chaotic events are how in charge. I like bidet and repugnant harris more and more. I like the destructive power that is coming with both.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 12:08 pm
Rachel Maddow
Entertaining Trump’s post-election antics begins to backfire on Republican interests
“Rachel Maddow reports on how the fanatical devotion of Donald Trump’s followers to the manufactured narrative of a stolen election has begun to pit Trump supporters against Republicans who don’t demonstrate sufficient devotion to their lost cause, potentially at the expense of the crucially important Georgia special election.”
I’m lib-clog, clogs equally stupid twin brother & I approved these messages – dumb American political propaganda not even pretending to be news. It’s our life’s work even though we were born & live in a safe warm-N-fuzzy Euro welfare state. Thing is it’s soooooo fucking boring. We prefer to live vicariously & we picked Americans because they’re on the same intellectual level as us (gutter). We like to brag about how culturally superior Europe is, but obviously we don’t believe it otherwise we would be enjoying it instead of playing American mud slinging every waking moment.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 12:24 pm
Chatter monkeys
You’ll never guess what… We spend 80% of our time gossiping
peakoil.com is not the only (former) collapse discussion site that has devolved into a platform for crisis cult disciples to scream & shout & blame all, except their sub-tribe for the great unravelling of the human built complex system (civilization) & the non human built complex system (biosphere). Both are natural since the humans are nature built.
The level of hysterics & magical thinking grows by the day, but as humans have proven since time immemorial there is no ceiling on crisis cults, daddy saviours, nor their savagery, when they lose their shit.
Nothing can save civilization. Not 1 super daddy or 10,000 benign elites.
Humans don’t control shit. You are along for the ride.
Nothing can save the human species.
Civilization is collapsing for the same reasons they’ve all collapsed. It’s inevitable.
Humans will go extinct (within a century) for the same reasons 99.99% of all species on this planet have. It’s inevitable, just like your death & the deaths of everyone you’ve ever known or will.
It’s very amusing how puny humans continue to think they’re ‘all that’ when all they can manage is 70 years of breathing (Bowhead whales live over 200) on a 4.5 billion year old planet in a 14 billion year old universe. Fleeting specks of dust who are temporary gods….. in their own minds.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 3:14 pm
Thousands without power, hundreds evacuated as new fires erupt in California
“Los Angeles — Southern California utilities had cut power to tens of thousands of customers by Thursday morning to reduce the risk of sparking new wildfires, as new blazes popped up regardless, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes. The power cuts, and many thousands more possible in the coming days, were aimed at reducing the fire threat as the region found itself whipped by Santa Ana winds that can turn sparks into catastrophes.”
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 10:41 am
“Sidney Powell at ‘Stop the Steal’: Massive voter fraud exists, money traced back to China”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2TzFoMX3bA
https://www.unz.com/article/trumps-landslide-meets-the-politics-of-electoral-fraud-in-america/
“Trump’s Landslide Meets the Politics of Electoral Fraud in America”
“You can’t flip a coin 300,000 times and expect to always have heads”
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:22 am
Fox’s Lou Dobbs goes off the rails and accuses Bill Barr of joining ‘the Deep State’ to work against Trump
“U.S. Attorney General William Barr has been one of President Donald Trump’s most aggressive defenders, but this week, Barr essentially acknowledged Joe Biden as president-elect when he told the Associated Press that there is no evidence showing that widespread voter fraud robbed Trump of a victory. And Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs is furious, accusing the Trump loyalist of joining “the deep state.”
https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/lou-dobbs/
I heart deep-state.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:24 am
Trump ‘erupted’ at Bill Barr during ‘angry’ meeting earlier this week: report
“President Donald Trump’s relationship with Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly sunk to a new low this week after Barr told the Associated Press that the Department of Justice had not uncovered any evidence of systemic voter fraud.”
https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-barr-2649123962/
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:27 am
The far-right has embraced an election conspiracy theory so absurd the Army came out and denounced it
“Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, has not been shy about pushing ridiculous conspiracy theories — whether he was promoting the racist “birther” theory that President Barack Obama wasn’t really born in the U.S. or claiming that the late Sen. John McCain divulged information to the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
Now, McInerney is doubling down on his recent claim that U.S. Special Forces died during a recent attack on a CIA computer facility in Germany — where, McInerney claimed, information was being kept on a plot to flip votes from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. But as Military.com explained, the Army has debunked McInerney’s claims as nonsense.
Reporter Gina Harkins explains, “No special forces soldiers were killed while seizing computer servers in Germany as part of a CIA operation after the presidential election. There was, in fact, no mission of the sort. And members of the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion are not ‘the kraken’ that an attorney for President Donald Trump said, last month, she’d be unleashing. The unit is not involved in any post-election missions supporting the White House — a move that would be highly unlikely considering it’s an entry-level training battalion where new soldiers who haven’t yet picked up their military occupational specialty are assigned.”
https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/army-conspiracy-theories/
Next week they’ll blame space aliens.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:30 am
Sam Rohrer Says the ‘Coup’ to Allegedly Steal the Election From Trump Is a Sign of the End Times
“During an appearance on TheDove TV’s “Focus Today” program Tuesday, Sam Rohrer of the American Pastors Network said that the alleged effort to steal the election from President Donald Trump is a treasonous coup for which people must be tried by a military tribunal, and a sign that we are living in the End Times.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sam-rohrer-says-the-coup-to-allegedly-steal-the-election-from-trump-is-a-sign-of-the-end-times/
Geebus luvs Trump.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:33 am
Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal
“The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court records unsealed Tuesday in federal court.
The case is the latest legal twist in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration after several of his top advisers have been convicted of federal criminal charges and as the possibility rises of Trump giving pardons to those who’ve been loyal to him.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/presidential-pardon-justice-department/index.html
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:34 am
My Call With Ron Johnson: He Knows Biden Won But Won’t Admit It
The Wisconsin senator says it would be “political suicide.”
“The TL;DR of the call was this: Senator Johnson knows that Joe Biden won a free and fair election. He is refusing to admit it publicly and stoking conspiracies that undermine our democracy solely because it would be “political suicide” to oppose Trump. I find this unconscionable.”
https://thebulwark.com/my-call-with-ron-johnson-he-knows-biden-won-but-wont-admit-it/
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:37 am
Pence attempts disappearing act, trying to avoid going down with Trump’s ship
“The second to the two-time popular vote sore loser impeached Donald Trump, Mike Pence, has been slowly and quietly backing away from the train wreck that is his boss’s “legal” efforts to overturn the election. Pence, sources tell the Daily Beast, “doesn’t want to go down with this ship”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/3/1999699/-Pence-quietly-fades-into-background-as-Trump-spins-further-off-his-axis
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:38 am
Florida GOPer tries to commit voter fraud in Georgia runoff, gets caught
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/3/1999664/-Florida-GOPer-tries-to-commit-voter-fraud-in-Georgia-runoff-gets-caught?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:40 am
‘Some were audibly coughing’: Trump holds yet another superspreader event on his way out
“But certainly not all of us care. Case in point: the soon-to-be-former president of the United States. We all know he’s damn well aware of the dangers of this pandemic, but truly does not care. He gets VIP treatment and never sees a bill and is immune for a while so why should he give a shit about the rest of us?”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/2/1999516/-White-House-holds-yet-another-superspreader-event-Christmas-edition
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:41 am
Pre-recorded speech shows that Trump is still not taking his election loss well, to say the least
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/3/1999680/-Pre-recorded-speech-shows-that-Trump-is-still-not-taking-his-election-loss-well-to-say-the-least
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:41 am
“Sam Rohrer Says the ‘Coup’ to Allegedly Steal the Election From Trump Is a Sign of the End Times”
It is The End indeed… of the US.
“Fox’s Lou Dobbs goes off the rails and accuses Bill Barr of joining ‘the Deep State’ to work against Trump”
The article doesn’t make it clear why Dobbs “went of the rails”.
Wikipedia on Alternet:
“The founding editor of AlterNet was (((Alan Green))), who with his deputy, Margaret Engle, created print and electronic mechanisms to syndicate both the works of AAN papers and freelance contributors, among them Michael Moore [OMG] and (((Abbie Hoffman))).”
These folks confuse leftist political propaganda for news.
Dems and Reps: “I go left, you go right, we will not meet at the pass. In fact, we’ll never meet again”.
And 2 new countries were born, a cowboy country of deplorables and a libtard country, full of people of color and jews. You know what, make that 5. America is more than big enough for that to happen.
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:43 am
“‘Some were audibly coughing’: Trump holds yet another superspreader event on his way out”
So what, destabilizing society and economy is a white interests in 2020. Give these people some slack, will ya.
Worse is better.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:45 am
Trump ‘can’t handle the humiliation of being labeled a loser’: CNN White House correspondent
“CNN White House correspondent John Harwood on Thursday said that President Donald Trump is lashing out everywhere because he cannot psychologically cope with the fact that he lost the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/trump-cant-handle-the-humiliation-of-being-labeled-a-loser-cnn-white-house-correspondent/
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:46 am
“Florida GOPer tries to commit voter fraud in Georgia runoff, gets caught”
Outrageous! Let’s cancel the election and hold a new one, this time with ballot papers that need signatures and a thumb ink mark. No more fraudulent mail votes, you have to show up in person. Hand-counting only. Never mind if the counting takes 3 days. Let Europeans oversee the counting. Democrats and Republicans obviously can’t be trusted.
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:46 am
“Trump ‘can’t handle the humiliation of being labeled a loser’: CNN White House correspondent”
CNN can’t handle being called a “Fake News Organization”.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:53 am
GOP governor sends White House to voicemail, certifies election results
“Rachel Maddow shares video of Arizona Governor Doug Ducey muting a call from the White House as he continues the process of certifying his state’s election results in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-governor-sends-white-house-to-voicemail-certifies-election-results-96906821957
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:54 am
Rachel Maddow
Trump and crew cash in with election fraud ‘scare stories’
“Rachel Maddow points out that the overblown election fraud lies that Donald Trump and his legal team are spreading about Trump’s loss to Joe Biden are more lucrative for Trump than the actual campaign.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-and-crew-cash-in-with-election-fraud-scare-stories-96972357570
OldWordIsDead on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 11:59 am
Joe bidet is a collapse accelerator. He is a blessing and will speed up things going forward. We are in oil depletion situation and the energy equations and chaotic events are how in charge. I like bidet and repugnant harris more and more. I like the destructive power that is coming with both.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 12:08 pm
Rachel Maddow
Entertaining Trump’s post-election antics begins to backfire on Republican interests
“Rachel Maddow reports on how the fanatical devotion of Donald Trump’s followers to the manufactured narrative of a stolen election has begun to pit Trump supporters against Republicans who don’t demonstrate sufficient devotion to their lost cause, potentially at the expense of the crucially important Georgia special election.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/entertaining-trump-s-post-election-antics-begins-to-backfire-on-republican-interests-97031749970
I’m lib-clog, clogs equally stupid twin brother & I approved these messages – dumb American political propaganda not even pretending to be news. It’s our life’s work even though we were born & live in a safe warm-N-fuzzy Euro welfare state. Thing is it’s soooooo fucking boring. We prefer to live vicariously & we picked Americans because they’re on the same intellectual level as us (gutter). We like to brag about how culturally superior Europe is, but obviously we don’t believe it otherwise we would be enjoying it instead of playing American mud slinging every waking moment.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 12:24 pm
Chatter monkeys
You’ll never guess what… We spend 80% of our time gossiping
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1211863/Youll-guess–We-spend-80-cent-time-gossiping.html
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 12:29 pm
Like the color:
https://i2.wp.com/digbysblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screenshot-2020-11-12-at-9.44.32-PM.png?w=631&ssl=1
zero juan on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 12:50 pm
Mother fucker JuanP and his selfish trolling. The prick takes up most of the board with stupidities. Fuck you juanP and the whore that bore you.
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FamousDrScanlon said Florida GOPer tries to commit voter fraud in Georg…
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Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 1:00 pm
“China reminds EU to chart its own course as European leaders reach out to Biden”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-reminds-eu-chart-own-065330012.html
Everybody wants with Europe and hates America, for good reason. China, Russia, Biden. Heart of the world, always was.
“Exclusive: China presses Europe for anti-U.S. alliance on trade”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-eu-exclusive/exclusive-china-presses-europe-for-anti-u-s-alliance-on-trade-idUSKBN1JT1KT
Davy on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 1:39 pm
FamousDrScanlon is not juanPpeeee zero juan.
you stupid fuck
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 3:01 pm
peakoil.com is not the only (former) collapse discussion site that has devolved into a platform for crisis cult disciples to scream & shout & blame all, except their sub-tribe for the great unravelling of the human built complex system (civilization) & the non human built complex system (biosphere). Both are natural since the humans are nature built.
The level of hysterics & magical thinking grows by the day, but as humans have proven since time immemorial there is no ceiling on crisis cults, daddy saviours, nor their savagery, when they lose their shit.
Nothing can save civilization. Not 1 super daddy or 10,000 benign elites.
Humans don’t control shit. You are along for the ride.
Nothing can save the human species.
Civilization is collapsing for the same reasons they’ve all collapsed. It’s inevitable.
Humans will go extinct (within a century) for the same reasons 99.99% of all species on this planet have. It’s inevitable, just like your death & the deaths of everyone you’ve ever known or will.
It’s very amusing how puny humans continue to think they’re ‘all that’ when all they can manage is 70 years of breathing (Bowhead whales live over 200) on a 4.5 billion year old planet in a 14 billion year old universe. Fleeting specks of dust who are temporary gods….. in their own minds.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 3:14 pm
Thousands without power, hundreds evacuated as new fires erupt in California
“Los Angeles — Southern California utilities had cut power to tens of thousands of customers by Thursday morning to reduce the risk of sparking new wildfires, as new blazes popped up regardless, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes. The power cuts, and many thousands more possible in the coming days, were aimed at reducing the fire threat as the region found itself whipped by Santa Ana winds that can turn sparks into catastrophes.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-wildfires-thousands-without-power-hundreds-evacuated-as-new-fires-erupt/
Vote your asses off, scream & shout, kill kill kill. You’ll burn nonetheless. We all gonna burn.
https://youtu.be/ZQMJHZ3y8A8
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 3:16 pm
“Security Cam Catches Poll Workers Bringing Out Hidden Ballots After Kicking Out Poll Watchers“
https://www.infowars.com/posts/security-cam-catches-poll-workers-bringing-out-hidden-ballots-after-kicking-out-poll-watchers/
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 3:17 pm
Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast, study finds
Mass die-offs of coho salmon just before they are about to spawn have been traced to tire fragments washed into streams by rain
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/03/coho-salmon-pollution-car-tires-die-off
No price is too high to keep our happy motoring going.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 3rd Dec 2020 3:56 pm
clog, how long until you cease to exist?
Is there some obituary website for losers that’ll jot down a few comments on your all important life’s work?
“nobody shared Alex Jones links like clog did”
“clog will be fondly remembered for 1.5 seconds for his contributions to cancer ape history”
https://world.wng.org/tags/obituaries