Thanks, Pookie.

Why is it @massadvj you never include evidence in your incendiary posts and ignore those that ask you for it?  Your claim is DJT screwed Elon Musk.  Why not tell us how?

Give it a shot.

Trump promised Musk DOGE cuts and fiscal responsibility in exchange for Musk's support. Instead, we got OBBB that increases the size of the federal government instead of shrinking it, and a new $5 trillion in debt.

 We’re Doomed
Permission to panic sir

Posted on 16 Jun 25
by John Ridgway
 
In the summer of 1969, a young astrophysics graduate, J. Richard Gott III, was touring Europe and found himself gazing upon the Berlin Wall. Pondering just how long it would take before it would finally be pulled down, he turned to his touring companion and confidently proclaimed that it would last at least two and two thirds more years but no more than 24. In 1987, President Reagan said ‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’, and within five years the wall was gone. That’s within 23 years of Gott making his 24 year prediction.

So was Gott a crack political analyst, or did he possess a crystal ball? Neither, in fact. He was simply employing a principle he had learned at college, i.e. that we have no reason to presuppose that we occupy a special place in the universe. This principle, known as the Copernican principle, can be applied in both space and time, and is not restricted to cosmological questions. Gott just reasoned that he shouldn’t assume he was living in any special epoch as far as the Berlin Wall was concerned. That is to say, he wasn’t likely to be living during the very early life of a long surviving edifice, nor at the very end of a shorter-lived one. The likelihood instead was that the wall’s future would be as long as its past (to be precise, the probabilities would take the form of a normal distribution centred upon Gott’s Copernican judgement).

In 1993 Gott submitted a paper to Nature describing his reasoning (which he referred to as the ‘delta t argument’) and, much to everyone’s horror, Nature accepted it. Experts of all persuasions dismissed it as facile numerology, unworthy of a prestigious magazine’s attention. The problem, however, is that the technique works, and has been successful in predicting everything from Broadway show runs to the future value of stock market investments. Indeed, the idea has been independently developed by others in a number of forms (all of them essentially variations on Bayesian reasoning). The techniques now go by the name Doomsday Argument, principally because they are used to predict how much longer we can expect the human race to survive.

https://cliscep.com/2025/06/16/were-doomed/

Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’
A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies.

 
Like California, other parts of the country are pulling back on climate policies in the name of affordability, too. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

By Jeremy B. White and Camille von Kaenel
07/07/2025 05:00 AM EDT


SACRAMENTO, California — Donald Trump is coming for California’s signature climate policies — and so is California.

Stung by the party’s sweeping losses in November and desperate to win back working-class voters, the Democratic Party is in retreat on climate change. Nowhere is that retrenchment more jarring than in the nation’s most populous state, a longtime bastion of progressive politics on the environment.

In the past two weeks alone, California Democrats have retrenched on environmental reviews for construction projects, a cap on oil industry profits and clean fuel mandates. Elected officials are warning that ambitious laws and mandates are driving up the state’s onerous cost of living, echoing longstanding Republican arguments and frustrating some allies who say Democrats are capitulating to political pressure.

“California was the vocal climate leader during the first Trump administration,” said Chris Chavez, deputy policy director for the Coalition for Clean Air. “It’s questionable whether or not that leadership is still there.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/democrats-climate-retreat-california-energy-00439882

‘Scientists & the media published thousands of articles claiming that climate change would destroy small atoll islands due to sea level rise’ – But ‘it was all a big lie’ – Study finds ‘89% of the islands were stable or had increased in size’

By Admin
July 8, 2025
7:38 am
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1806341713826378035.html

By Michael Shellenberger

Over the last two decades, scientists and the media published thousands of articles claiming that climate change would destroy small atoll islands due to sea level rise.

And the climate change was our fault. “You’re making this island disappear,” claimed @CNN

It was all a big lie. Scientists have known since 2018 that, “Over the past decades, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization in the face of sea-level rise.”
And now, six years after scientists published that study, which found that 89% of the islands were stable or had increased in size, the New York Times has finally informed its readers of this “surprising climate find.”

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/07/08/scientists-the-media-published-thousands-of-articles-claiming-that-climate-change-would-destroy-small-atoll-islands-due-to-sea-level-rise-but-it-was-all-a-big-lie-study-finds-89-of-the/