Sigh

It’s quite the ironic development. Many prior attempts from centrist and liberal governments around the world to reduce carbon emissions by increasing the price of fossil fuels, like with a carbon tax, ended up rolled back in large part because conservatives like Donald Trump screamed bloody murder about raised costs. That’s why the Biden administration settled on a strategy of “all carrot, no stick”—it didn’t jack up the gas tax, for instance, only subsidized EVs. Now Trump, through his signature combination of deliberate malice and murderously stupid incompetence, has created a de facto climate policy of “no carrot, only stick.” That could end up better than the current trajectory of hurtling toward a fiery future. Governments may recoil from volatility and build an energy system that’s not as reliant on geopolitics and shipping bottlenecks. But in 20 years, America and the world might be in a similar place climate-wise had Kamala Harris been elected, it will just have cost twice as much and caused untold death and suffering along the way. —Ryan Cooper

real black irony that it's Donald Trump of all people who has imposed a gigantic de facto carbon tax on the entire planet prospect.org/2026/04/15/a...

I, for one, would love to see a special election for Senate in Texas in mid-2027 ...

Trump could really teach the Pope a lesson by taxing churches.

Jakub Krupa Jakub Krupa After delivering his speech, Orbán kind of shrugs his arms to someone in the front row as if saying “what else was I supposed to do.” He looks defeated.

This is the future liberals want

Blockading a blockade is the work of a pure stable genius like no one has ever seen before. Only Donald Trump could have thought of this.

It's like, "You think you can shoot at us? Well, we'll show you—we'll shoot ourselves!!"

We should all have tears in our eyes.

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

That’s not what happened at all. The price of eggs was too high and Americans decided to elect a fascist.

Bathtub Gin is legal

Yes - they connected mikes bass to the haptics. Twas awesome

::taps the sign::

YES, A FAILED IMPEACHMENT MEANS REPUBLICANS APPROVE OF TRUMP'S CONDUCT. THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON TO DO IT

Melania on her way to give a speech to deny any involvement with Epstein. She is covered with Trump's birthday card image to Epstein.

She has the foul odor of Epstein all over her.

Dear GI How are you? Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania

Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”

And Dems, if you wanna get really brave, you could follow up with this:

"As long as we're hooked on fossil fuels, we're going to get volatile prices, inflation, financial crises, and dumb oligarch wars. There is no army large enough to bully our way out of this."

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans."

Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.

Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.

Fucking say it!

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Now, now. We don’t know how much of a cut Trump gets

“right wing billionaires sell off chunks of longstanding American institutions to Arab oil billionaires” is a plot point in the 1979 Kurt Vonnegut novel JAILBIRD and it probably read a little heavy handed at the time

If the Democratic Party fully embraces slopulism that’s going to make me a lot more bearish about the long term prospects for American democracy.

Seung Min Kim @seungminkim WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump promises strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened.

textbook sanewashing

Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business JERUSALEM—In an effort to soften the blow for a human race eagerly awaiting His glorious arrival, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, clarified Monday that His return would be strictly limited to His carpen...

Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business

Donald Trump did that.

Firing Cabinet members and generals won’t make the Iran war go well.

The reasons it’s going badly are structural and geographic. Not hard to see in advance, and widely warned about.

But those warnings came from experts, and were dismissed by leaders who insist reality isn’t real if they say so.

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Pam, if you want to talk, I’m on Signal!

annabower.24

my takeaway from the byron noem titty situation is that top to bottom this administration is probably the most blackmail-able group of people ever assembled.

*Saves in case the Utah Jazz get the No. 1 pick and draft AJ Dybantsa*

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.