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Ginsburg and political scum

Ginsburg died on Friday. Nobody will replace until later. Certainly not this f'ing weekend. My very conservative cousin posted something simple, rest in peace condolences to her family. Why is the media already talking about preventing someone replacing her rather than eulogizing her. Can't they wait until she is buried to talk about her replacement? Trump just said, he felt sad. To all sides, show respect, talk about her legacy, talk about her as a person, a human being. Let politics sleep for the weekend and let this woman of amazing accomplishments be remembered.

I didn't agree with her all the time and I an recognized as a constitutional expert. I have the documents and recognitions. I don't agree with any court all the time (except 99% with judge Leornard Hand deceased). This was a woman who lived a long and amazing life and had cancer for 21 years and beat it. Tip of the hat to her and real condolences to her family and friends. That is respect, not using her as a poker chip in a political game.

Climate Change or Poor Forest Management by Governors

In 2010 the California legislature ordered a report on forest management. The resulting report showed that the prohibitions on forest harvesting resulted in increased fires and trees being killed by increased disease and insects. Forbes - Wildfires caused by bad environmental policy are causing California to be net CO2 emitters. 

Well lets ask a question. If Gavin Newsom knew that the forests were at risk for increased fires (regardless of whether or not he thought the cause was global warming) then why didn't he increase the focus on forest management and allow for more forest harvesting? If Newsom and Cuomo believe the oceans are going to rise, why aren't they investing in programs to protect the coastal areas?

So what is Trump doing about it? His administration is proposing a billion dollar plan to improve forest management in California, which incidentally will decrease CO2 emissions. Breitbart - Newsom takes Trump's advice : Agrees to 1 billion dollar forest management plan to prevent wildfires. 

So why has it taken so long to decide on managing California's forests? Let's talk about CO2. In 2016 China was the top emitter producing almost 1/3rd of the worlds manmade CO2 and doubling that produced in the United States. The total CO2 emissions were estimated at almost 36 million tons. At the same time, China planned to build over a thousand new coal powered electrical generating plants and doubling their CO2 emissions. Once completed, China will produce over half of the worlds CO2. At the same time, the United States and the western world have been reducing their CO2 emissions. This means ALL of our efforts to reduce emissions is meaningless. Why isn't Newsom talking about this? Why isn't Biden talking about this? Why isn't AOC discussing this? She thinks we will all be dead in ten years if America doesn't stop eating meat and using plastic straws and doesn't discuss China at all.

Political divisions, family and friends

 I don't believe I have ever given much background on myself on this blog. I have been fascinated by government since elementary school, got my Bachelors in Political Science, my Doctorate in Law and spent half my life in government. My political views are not defined by any party and I would describe myself in shorthand as a European style social democrat. I am also a strong believer in national sovereignty and despise monopolies while I appreciate managed capitalism. I stopped voting years ago; but, followed the last presidential election and hoped that either Trump or Sanders would win to shake up the establishment and get them to see how pissed people were after the financial crisis.

Since the 2016 election I have seen the establishment attempt to overturn democracy in the United States and have seen the media be complicit in this. I did not vote for Trump and don't plan on voting in this election either. The majority of my family and friends are conservative; but, they never attack me for my left leaning political views. At the same time, I cannot discuss my political views with my liberal family and friends because they have no tolerance for views that differ from the established Democrat talking points.

When people first began discussing Trump Derangement Syndrome, I thought it was a joke. I now know it is real. When people that think they are on the left start calling blacks for Trump white supremacist's or calling gays for Trump, homophobes. We have a problem.

I look around and read all news from all sides and am astounded. There are many who think that everything that is bad was caused by Trump. This is derangement and distracts from the real issues. I say, Trump, Muslims, Jews, gays, blacks, Mexicans, the homeless, junkies and the working class did not crash the economy, cause the housing crisis, create Covid 19, fix the financial markets or cause the market crash or get us into 7 wars.

In my posts I try to point to the real criminals are the international institutions and corporations that control the nations and their political leaders. Having said that, before we can begin addressing the real threats to this nation, we need to begin to have open dialogue and unfortunately I do not see that coming from the left. Below is an interesting video and kind of funny.