Supreme Court climate decision

[minzy]

Another horrible decision:
apnews.com/article/supreme-court-epa-ruling-2e893673819a1b6c6aa272a5e814f0b0

[Velar Fricative]

Will delete my thread!

[pixy0stix]

They're just really hell bent on killing us all, aren't they?

[Patsy Baloney]

Jun 30, 2022 10:52:43 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

They're just really hell bent on killing us all, aren't they?

And putting the pedal to the metal on the process.

[ECB]

I just dont' understand the GOP agenda. I really don't. Some things I "understand" from a point of just being greedy assholes, but this? Climate change? Being rich ain't going to help you when one of many catastrophes may destroy us.

But then again, these people only think of themselves in the here and now. The future doesn't matter, especially when it's far enough away that they'll be dead anyhow.

[HRH Queen Dick I]

Justice Jackson has just been sworn in. I hope the job doesn't crush her soul.

[abs]

Jun 30, 2022 10:52:43 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

They're just really hell bent on killing us all, aren't they?

I owe you an apology pixy. Truly. You’ve been warning us all this time and I truly thought we had more time.

Nope. We have less than I ever imagined. This has been an unbelievably sobering terrible month.

[abs]

Jun 30, 2022 11:12:46 GMT -5 ECB said:

I just dont' understand the GOP agenda. I really don't. Some things I "understand" from a point of just being greedy assholes, but this? Climate change? Being rich ain't going to help you when one of many catastrophes may destroy us.

But then again, these people only think of themselves in the here and now. The future doesn't matter, especially when it's far enough away that they'll be dead anyhow.

1. They don’t believe in climate change.

2. If it will help gas prices then do it!

So myopic in their thinking.

[missva]

And the hypocrisy of the Christian right strikes again. The bible says over and over again that we are to be stewards of the earth and that end times come once you destroy it.

[Velar Fricative]

Jun 30, 2022 11:12:46 GMT -5 ECB said:

I just dont' understand the GOP agenda. I really don't. Some things I "understand" from a point of just being greedy assholes, but this? Climate change? Being rich ain't going to help you when one of many catastrophes may destroy us.

But then again, these people only think of themselves in the here and now. The future doesn't matter, especially when it's far enough away that they'll be dead anyhow.

They want the red states to be their own fiefdoms with little federal oversight while at the same time tapping into fed coffers via the blue states that almost entirely fund the federal government. So yes, money and power is what they want. Tale as old as time.

[Patsy Baloney]

Don’t they want end times, though? Isn’t that what the zealotry is about?

[Velar Fricative]

Jun 30, 2022 11:27:12 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

Don’t they want end times, though? Isn’t that what the zealotry is about?

OMG your name!!!!! Thank you for the much needed comic relief.

[missva]

Jun 30, 2022 11:27:12 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

Don’t they want end times, though? Isn’t that what the zealotry is about?

Not if you're the one responsible for destroying the earth. 

[pixy0stix]

Jun 30, 2022 11:21:50 GMT -5 abs said:

Jun 30, 2022 10:52:43 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

They're just really hell bent on killing us all, aren't they?

I owe you an apology pixy. Truly. You’ve been warning us all this time and I truly thought we had more time.

Nope. We have less than I ever imagined. This has been an unbelievably sobering terrible month.

I didn't want to be right.

[underwaterrhymes]

We should be very alarmed. In addition to this and all of the other shit they’ve pulled this week, they’ve agreed to hear Moore v Harper, which allows for voter suppression, gerrymandering, and partisan interference in ballot counting.

Heather Cox Richardson is rightly calling this a Constitutional crisis.

[W.T.Faulkner]

FOR FUCK’S SAKE

[calamity]

This was their plan all along, right? Exhaust us with dealing with the orange menace for years, gaslight us, and then BAM BAM BAM strip away all of our rights?

At what point do the people go to the streets? I mean it IS a constitutional crisis!

[karinothing]

This isn't just about the environment. They are working to strip government agencies of any regulatory authority. They want congress to pass EVERY single regulation as law. Can you imagine anyone in congress passing a million laws on pollution particles or any other small detail of any agency. Its a horrible mess. They are working on dismantling the gov.

[ssmjlm]

So when do they go for interracial marriage....


OH WAIT

[rubytue]

Jun 30, 2022 13:34:36 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

So when do they go for interracial marriage....


OH WAIT

Don’t put it past him

[TR]

Jun 30, 2022 13:34:36 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

So when do they go for interracial marriage....


OH WAIT

They could do it, right? It would still be 5-4 if Thomas dissents.

[buffalogal]

Jun 30, 2022 14:57:22 GMT -5 TR said:

Jun 30, 2022 13:34:36 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

So when do they go for interracial marriage....


OH WAIT

They could do it, right? It would still be 5-4 if Thomas dissents.

i assume then left up the states like abortion and Thomas will be in an allowing state, right?

[msmerymac]

Jun 30, 2022 15:30:50 GMT -5 buffalogal said:

Jun 30, 2022 14:57:22 GMT -5 TR said:

They could do it, right? It would still be 5-4 if Thomas dissents.

i assume then left up the states like abortion and Thomas will be in an allowing state, right?

He literally lives in Virginia, state of the original SCOTUS case. 

I mean, he has some sense of self-preservation. And he probably hopes his colleagues realize they have to work with him for several more years, lol. 

[goldengirlz]

I knew this was going to be bad news before I even opened the thread.

And yet the GOP has been the side screaming about the left trying to install “activist judges.” Just fuck them with their gaslighting.

[sofamonkey]

It’s like they’re trying to CREATE rapture. Except their way, no one ever wakes up.

What an awful feeling. All of this.

[isabel]

I feel like I understand now how helpless people feel in countries run by dictators or where their political systems fall apart. As a kid, learning world history, I always wondered "why didn't they do anything?" This is why. Because what the fuck am I supposed to do about this? My God. I don't know how to help fix this.

This ruling is terrifying.

[tacokick]

Jun 30, 2022 17:31:11 GMT -5 sofamonkey said:

It’s like they’re trying to CREATE rapture. Except their way, no one ever wakes up.

What an awful feeling. All of this.

I really do think this is part of it. It’s also why they aren’t concerned with gun violence because they think righteous victims will be in heaven. They look forward to death. They think life on earth is and should be difficult. So we all suffer because they have this outsized power.

[tacokick]

Jun 30, 2022 15:30:50 GMT -5 buffalogal said:

Jun 30, 2022 14:57:22 GMT -5 TR said:

They could do it, right? It would still be 5-4 if Thomas dissents.

i assume then left up the states like abortion and Thomas will be in an allowing state, right?

Or he’d finagle it that it isn’t retroactive and only affects future marriages.

[agnes]

You know, I don’t really believe in like a literal hell in the afterlife, if there is that’s totally where they’re gunna end up.

[seeyalater52]

Jun 30, 2022 13:16:42 GMT -5 karinothing said:

This isn't just about the environment. They are working to strip government agencies of any regulatory authority. They want congress to pass EVERY single regulation as law. Can you imagine anyone in congress passing a million laws on pollution particles or any other small detail of any agency. Its a horrible mess. They are working on dismantling the gov.

I came here to say this but you’ve covered it. The decision is absolutely sobering in its own right when it comes to the EPA and climate.

Outside of this context, it amounts to a complete disarming of the powers of all federal agencies and the regulatory process. This is very bad news for health care and probably just as mad for every other function the government has too.