cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/2330924
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at āprotectingā American energy from āstate overreach.ā The move, some energy experts say, is a legally dubious federal overstep designed to undermine the rights of states and local authorities to combat climate change.
The order claims āmany States have enacted, or are in the process of enacting, burdensome and ideologically motivated āclimate changeā or energy policies that threaten American energy dominance and our economic and national security.ā
It specifically points to Blue-state policies like Vermontās Superfund rules, which require fossil fuel companies to pay for damage to the climate, and Californiaās cap-and-trade program as examples of efforts to ādictate national energy policy.ā In Section 2 of the order, Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify state laws or policies āburdeningā access to ādomestic energy resources that āare or may beā¦unconstitutional, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable.ā
What might some of those state laws be? According to the executive order, that could include any effort to address āclimate change,ā support āenvironmental justice,ā or reduce āgreenhouse gasā emissions, among others.
Thatās not the end of it. The order also directs the attorney general to āexpeditiouslyā take action to āstop the enforcement of State laws and continuation of civil actionsā determined to be illegal.
Itās unclear whether this will stand up in court. Michael Gerrard, the faculty director of Columbia Universityās Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, told E&E News that the executive order is ātoothlessā and that Trump āhas no authority on his own to nullify state laws.ā Journalist David Roberts, who runs the clean energy newsletter Volts called the order on Bluesky, āwildly, unambiguously unconstitutionalā and ādictator shit.ā
Others on social media noted the presidentās contradiction of traditionally conservative values. As climate reporter and Drilled podcast host Amy Westervelt put it on Bluesky, āStates rights! But only when the states agree with us[.]āClimate scientist and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contributing author Zeke Hausfather posted, āSo much for federalismā¦ā And Tulane environmental studies professor Joshua Basseches wrote, āFederal overreach has historically been a crusade of the Right, but these times are wild and different.ā
This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
Soā¦is he likeā¦trying to end the world? For the lulz?
Cause it seems like he does
Heās a narcissist. A true, clinical narcissist with NPD, not just a selfish fuck with narcissistic tendancies as most Americans have been indoctrinated/propagandized/miseducated/deluded to be so as to be optimal consumers.
As such, he truly believes the world, all of humanity, and the entirety of all existence only ever mattered as a function of bringing him, Donald Trump, into being and facilitating his divine grandeur, and canāt ever matter again once heās gone.
he has also never shown to have a genuine smile too,w hich is a red flag.
thatās what the christofascists like about him. theyāre trying to trigger the end times so they can be raptured. unfortunately they fail to recognize which faction they are in revelations. theyāre not the true christian church, but rather the followers of the antichrist
evangelicals are so obssesed with the rapture yet they are not doing anything that warrant anything to be raptured, aka ascension. the end of time would be when āangelsā start appearing over tokyo.
It kind of astounds me thatās these people think an omnipotent and omniscient deity, capable of speaking the universe into existence, needs their help to bring about his plans for Armageddon. Like, God is gonna be foiled if America stops unconditionally supporting Israel or something.
Not for the lulz, for the stacks. Gotta get them greens
just look at this map
if for example the us were to control greenland and canada (like krasnov is saber rattling over), weād just see russia (on the south) and the us (on the south) along most of the arctic ocean (the disputed zone). ocean temperatures rise, the arctic thaws, and the us (a vassal state of russia under krasnov) and russia control all of the trade.
it is not a pretty picture