We've now reached the commissar stage of the Trump dictatorship.
We've now reached the commissar stage of the Trump dictatorship.
#Trunp #Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on #ClimateChange
To applause from #oil & #gas executives, #ChrisWright said #NaturalGas was preferable to #RenewableEnergy & #climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”
#ClimateCrisis #Fight4aFuture #FossilFuels #science #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/climate/energy-secretary-climate-change-fossil-fuels.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=B781C9BB-6190-487F-BE56-E9937CE369A8
Wie alles was #Trunp macht:
Ein kurzfristiges Strohfeuer zu Gunsten der #USWirtschaft...
Und gleichzeitig ein nachhaltiger Flächenbrand für die Welt...
Das die #usa die Innovation im #Eauto|sektor dadurch genauso verlieren wie Deutschland damals bei #Windkraft und #photovoltaik ist leider kein Trost...
Naturally, I suspect that this is the part where a few outraged liberals in their feels will pop into my mentions to call me a liar, point out that a Trump administration will almost certainly allow Israel to keep conducting a genocide in Gaza, or perhaps gleefully tell me to "enjoy the camps" the American fascist party no doubt has in mind for folks like me, whether they mean trans women or anarchist shit disturbers. They will tell me that a Trump administration would be a far more enthusiastic supporter of the carceral state, deportations, and boiling the planet like soup so his rich donors can make a quick buck. Of course I won’t argue most of these points with them, but as I’ve written multiple times in the past my question here is how much does it mean that the Democratic Party of 2024 is merely better than the most unhinged, genocidal, nativist freakjob in American politics since the presidency of Andrew Jackson? What kind of campaign slogan would it be to proudly shout “we’re less fascist than Donald Trump?” What possible result can appeasing fascists and surrendering to fascist ideology on all of these issues have, but to produce more fascism? Please keep in mind here that you cannot tell me with a straight face that I’m asking for too much out of Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party because the Party itself agreed with me on most of these issues as recently as the day it released its 2020 Party Platform; a platform I personally voted for, and Joe Biden won a presidential election running on, by the way.
In the end, that final point is the part I can’t rightfully shake from the darkest corners of my mind; the fact that all this appeasement and the open rightward shift of the Democratic Party since 2020 isn’t even remotely necessary because Joe Biden won the 2020 election without appeasing the fascists at all. In that context, I’m forced to assume that the Party, and its presidential candidate are for some reason choosing to embrace reaction, appease cracker fascists who’re voting for Trump anyway, and alienate the very same broad, diverse, progressive coalition that got them over the finish line only four years ago. Despite what I said at the top of this blog, I must confess that I don’t believe this is really even about cynical political maneuvering or acquiescence to the dictates of realpolitiks; these choices represent what the Democratic Party wants to be, and what its leaders want to show the voting public. And given that reality, I’m forced to conclude that the Party and a potential Harris administration have willingly surrendered whatever meagre claims they ever had to anything resembling a soul.
Look, I’m certainly not here to tell anyone how to vote this election, but after what I’ve seen this week during the 2024 Democratic National Convention you cannot tell me that the Party itself hasn’t succumbed, at least in part, to the sickness of fascism and the dubious idea of a rightward shift in the Overton Window. Kamala Harris may well be the next President of the United States, but unless something changes drastically between now and November, there will be no victory over fascism. How could there be when reaction, nativism, and genocide are set to win no matter who we elect this fall?
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#Farage, rather like #Trunp before, claimed that postal ballot is open to fraud and intimidation adding “it happens in this country all the time” while he was quizzed by callers on BBC’s 5 Live today.
However, the Electoral Commission has said that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the UK.