I was just getting ready to fold a load of clothes when the ‘Breaking News’ came across with this headline:
Trump administration to revoke California’s power to set stricter auto emissions standards
NO … No No No No No! This is not right! I was so furious that I nearly shredded poor Miss Goose’s favourite shirt as I was folding it. Just who in hell does this ‘man’ think he is? He is not the king, nor is he the dictator … at least not yet!
For decades, California has had stricter emission standards, has been a frontrunner in trying to protect life on earth. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have vowed to adopt California’s standards if they diverge from the federal government’s, as have several major automakers. But now, Donald F. Trump (yeah, I know it’s a ‘J’, but in my book he now has a new middle name) has decided that he and he alone can doom all life on earth, bring about our demise even sooner than was previously planned?
In July, California reached an agreement with four companies — Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW of North America — under which they pledged to produce fleets averaging nearly 50 mpg by model year 2026. The deal upset Trump and his buddies in the oil industry, for it would, conceivably, cut down on the amount of fuel they could sell … never mind that it would make the air cleaner, healthier, more breathable, and perchance help cut down on the carbon emissions that are killing life on planet Earth! By all means, the profits of companies like Exxon Mobil, and by extension Donald Trump, are far more important than our lives!
Congress has repeatedly reaffirmed California’s right to set its own emissions standards, and in 1977, lawmakers said other states could legally adopt California’s stricter car emissions standards. Over time, emissions control strategies first adopted by California — catalytic converters, nitrous oxide regulations and “check engine” systems, to name a few — have become standard across the country. Over the decades, the EPA has repeatedly approved waivers for California under the Clean Air Act. And now, along comes Donald Trump whose fortunes are obviously tied to the fossil fuel industry, and says we all have to spend more money and sacrifice our very lives to put money into the pockets of he and his rich cronies.
This simply cannot be allowed to continue. We don’t have a president, we have a madman bent on destroying the earth as rapidly as possible. Let us hope that there is broad intervention by both Congress and the Courts, and that Trump and his oil buddies will have their tiny hands slapped and removed from the cookie jar. Someone, somehow, must prove to this sorry excuse for a president that he is NOT the dictator of the nation, and that his job is to ensure the safety and best interest of the people of this nation … not to try to destroy us all!
Trump start World War 3 already.
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Not yet, but he’s working on it.
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I support California’s secession from the United States for multiple reasons. If he does not respect the legal rights for all the states in America, then he does not deserve to serve as President over them all.
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I agree! California is the 5th largest economy in the world … I think the U.S. needs California more than California needs the U.S.
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Hello Jill. I never seen it my self, but I heard a lot of talk about cities and smog when I was growing up. Do these people in the administration really want to bring that back? Hugs
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I’ve seen it and it is bad … still is even today. But, the administration, ie Trump, and his buddies who are raking in money hand over fist now that many regulations on their industry have been rolled back, don’t really care whether the people who live in L.A. or New York can breathe. Only thing that matters is more and more money. Sigh.
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Ideally states should work in conjunction with federal when regulating environmental issues. When it comes to autos i do believe states should dictate emissions levels. Every state has their own local requirements and emissions testing, feds can recommend general guidelines but cannot enforce them.
Trump is definitely overstepping his executive powers bordering on abuse. He’s also displaying conflict of interest and should recuse himself from this issue. Sleeping with Big Oil should get him impeached, but Democrat wussies led by that centrist corporate shill Pelosi would never allow that to happen. She’s definitely part of the problem considering her party fundraisers are notorious for accepting fortune 500 wall st donations, also big oil, banks, GUN LOBBYISTS, big pharma, U.S. defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman etc., basically she’s no different than the Republican party! They are all beholden to corporate America. Sigh
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(Fred Flinstone voice)……Ohhhhh boy
Picking a fight with the largest economy in the USA, fifth largest in the world.
SFB I tell ya!
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That song could be Trump’s theme song! Then again, some days I think it could be mine, too.
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But you would get the joke 😉
Not tweet like some 12 year old made to clean up their room
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True. 😉
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This is just another of the many despicable things that Trump is attempting to enact and nothing seems to done to deter his indiscriminate actions. Sadly for our country, we may see POTUS enabled by SCOTUS win. Thank-you!
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That is my fear. SCOTUS caved on gerrymandering and they caved on immigration … I have no faith that they will uphold state’s rights on this one, either. Sigh.
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Apparently “Make America Great Again” means polluting the air, poisoning the water, and taking actions to jeopardize life on the planet. Trump and the congressional Republicans are despicable.
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Apparently so. And yes, Trump and his sycophants in Congress definitely ARE despicable, but … so are the 40% of adults in this nation who still, after everything, support him. It is to them we owe this nightmare. Sigh.
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
Someone, somehow … I see that so far off!! … ‘Someone, somehow, must prove to this sorry excuse for a president that he is NOT the dictator of the nation, and that his job is to ensure the safety and best interest of the people of this nation … not to try to destroy us all!’
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Thank you, my friend. More and more, I believe we are “On the Eve of Destruction”. Sigh. 😥
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GM, dearest one … you are on the right ‘track’ … hugs!! ❤ … tight hugs!!
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I can’t wait for this $hit$how to end.
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I feel the exact same, but I fear the end is not near. Even once he is voted out, I think we won’t see the end. Sigh.
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I just did a bit of quick reading, and it seems the automotive industry would like a compromise between California’s regulations and those set by Trumpty-Dumpty. Even that cannot be allowed. The stronger the regulations the better, and the faster we outlaw combustion-engine vehicles the better.
But I have a question? How come I hear nothing about regulating the airline industry. I do not know the stats, but are not airplanes and other aircraft some of the biggest pollution contributors in the world. They use massive amouts of high-pollution fossil fuels every time a motorized aircraft rises into the air, multiplied by how many aircraft rise into the air EACH AND EVERY DAY, factored by the distance travelled by every flight, factored by the weight of travellers and cargo, the strength of headwinds, and who knows what other factors and conditions. How long can our home planet go on with this concentration of pollutants being put into the air DAILY. This on top of all the other polluters.
CITIZENS OF EARTH, BOYCOTT FLYING IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR HOME!
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You have made an excellent point. I don’t know the answer, and I don’t know the statistics about how much carbon a flight from, say New York to San Francisco would emit, but … I think I shall look into that soon, too! Greta Thunberg made the point when she came here in a zero-carbon boat, and her family has stopped flying altogether, but I didn’t think to do any research into it. I shall soon. Thanks!
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Not to worry. Hopefully one of your readers knows someone who knows someone who…
I have been wondering this for a few years now. It was Greta who finally sparked me to ask.
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I’m looking into it now … stay tuned!
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Absolutely. I have decided I will not fly again. We need to do this!
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Still Tuesday…sigh…
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Yeah, but … don’t look for Wednesday to be any better. Sigh. 😥
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California must be a Dem state.
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Very much so!
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I despise this man and his party of loyal goons, the GOP, more and more every day. What a despicable piece of garbage he is–and deeply, deeply dangerous.
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I can honestly say that in all my 68 years on this earth, I have never hated anyone as much as I hate Trump. He is, as Keith often says, a clear and present danger … not only to this nation, but to the world.
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When I try to have a reasonable discussion with acquaintances (idiots) I wan to choke (them) when they say, “He’s such a good person. 😳. He’s doing so much for Jerusalem (hypocrite Christians speak) and ‘I’ll vote for him agin to keep the economy strong (vomit in my mouth) like it is now!’” I just want to shake them till their stupid grin goes away. 🙈😫🧘🏼♀️🧘🏼♀️🧘🏼♀️🤬🤮🤦♀️
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The key word here is “reasonable”. You’ll not get reasonableness out of a die-hard Trump supporter … I’ve tried time and time again, and all I got for my troubles was ulcers. Fortunately most of my interactions with these fools is online, for if it were face-to-face, I would almost certainly be sitting in a jail cell now!
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It is not fun.
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Piece.. of.. shite..
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Precisely!
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Hello Jill. What makes this even more spiteful is the Republican party is the party of states rights. We have over the last decade heard them fight Obama’s administration based on “states rights”. The fought the ACA based on that. They fought same sex marriage on that idea of states have rights to make their own laws on stuff. All those defence of marriage state constitutions laws they championed before the SCOTUS shot them down. So many times when the Government wanted to enact a country wide law the GOP disliked they screamed states rights. I guess that was OK when it comes to the culture wars, but never OK when it hits big corporations profits. Big money, which means big corporations that run the government and that means anything that interferes with profits must be closed down and one away with despite anything we the annoying people may want. Hugs
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Yes, I thought the same thing when I heard this … all we have heard out of them is that the federal government take too much upon itself and that this, that, and the other ought to be a decision for the individual states. I guess they mean only as long as the states aren’t cutting into the profits of either the gun industry or the fossil fuel industry, eh? Y’know … I’m fairly sick of this country. I think I might like to renounce my citizenship and live elsewhere. 😥 Hugs.
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Jill, this will not fly. The US is a Republic. He will be stripping power away from all states. If he is not talked out of this move, SCOTUS will overturn it. Keith
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SCOTUS is his plaything. They will do nothing.
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I hope you’re right, my friend, but SCOTUS has let us down a couple of times recently, and my faith in the independence of the Court is wavering.
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Jill, I called my two GOP Senators. My message is what Scottie said. This is against what the GOP stands for. Plus, with Greta Thunberg calling Congress on the carpet, the attacks in Saudi Arabia and the need for car companies to be competitive, this action by Trump is even worse.
We should not overlook the competitiveness issue. GM could have owned the electric car business, but they backed away from the EV1 and shredded the cars back in early 2000s. The owners wanted to buy the leased cars, but GM shredded the vehicles (even their own board questioned them). They do not want to be on the wrong side of history again. Keith
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Good job, Keith! I will be writing to my own Senators and representative today, also. I wasn’t aware of GM shredding the electric cars back in the early part of the century! Don’t know how I missed that one. Shows a remarkable lack of foresight, doesn’t it? I surely hope somebody wakes up soon and stops the madman’s rollback of common sense!
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Trump like our PM is doing the role not for the greater good, he’s doing it for self gratification. They are bankrolled by hedge funds and big business. He will look after himself and his backers. That means profits and deregulation. Both governments are a clear threat to their own people and future generations. They need to go and they need to go quick or we are in huge danger.
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You are right … this is just another money-making scheme for him, and he neither realizes nor cares that he is destroying not only our own country, but the entire globe. I so wish he would just die in his sleep tonight!
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Unbelievable! Apparently he doesn’t understand the difference between being the president of a company versus being the president of a country. Wow!
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I don’t think he sees himself as ‘president’ in the way we would define it, but rather as dictator. I do hope that somebody, be it Congress or the Courts, stops him soon!
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Exactly. I was recalling a time in my career when I reported to a president of a mid-size company. Once when I argued with him over a policy, he said to me, “You have mistaken this for a democracy”. I don’t think Trump is introspective enough to see himself as anything other than ‘in charge’.
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Your former boss sounds like one or maybe two former bosses I had back in the day! No, Trump isn’t … he is used to always getting his way, and from the accounts I have read by former staffers, he bullies and browbeats to get it. I guess he thinks he can do that to We the People as well, but I think he’s going to be in for a rude awakening. At least I hope so.
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Let’s hope Karma comes into play!
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I do so hope! 😉
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Save an awful lot of time if Trumps hands were just cut off at the wrist since he’s always in one cookie jar or another
Cwtch
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I think that’s a great idea!!!! I shall sharpen my knives first thing in the morning! In my current mood, I would have no problem doing that!
Cwtch
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Cut them off at the neck – far more effective!
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I like the way you think!
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