{"id":342015,"date":"2018-01-02T06:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/please-oh-please-happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T06:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:01:49","slug":"please-oh-please-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/please-oh-please-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Please, Oh Please, Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had to run out to the hardware store on Thursday morning for two 50-pound bags of road de-icer because I live on Hoth<\/a> now. My driveway and stairs are two inches of sheet ice covered with packed snow. They would kill me if they could, my driveway and stairs, so I thwarted them via chemical warfare.<\/p>\n

The special stuff, too: Item #2 on the display rack, special because it “works at -30 degrees,” which is good, because that’s been winter for a fair swath of the country since Christmas. “Even Sharks Are Freezing to Death,” read<\/a> a New York Times headline. Being outside hurts, and there is no end in sight.<\/p>\n

Of course, President Pud decided to weigh in on this latest meteorological phenomenon with quite simply the worst “Cold enough for ya?” quip in human history. He did it via Twitter<\/a>, of course, writing, “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!”<\/p>\n

The “Bundle up!” is what makes it art. No middle finger salute has ever been more prominently displayed.<\/p>\n

For the record, this is the man who just signed off on giving a trillion dollars in taxpayer money to himself and his friends, the man who just recently received<\/a> long-sought permission to build a sea wall around his Irish golf resort in Clare County because the rising oceans of climate change threaten to wash away his investment. The disconnect is both awe-inspiring and utterly predictable.<\/p>\n

Every single thing Trump wrote in that tweet was wrong, ignorant, damaging<\/a> and truly dangerous. It represents yet another brick in the wall between actually addressing climate change and ignoring it, because ignoring it makes the liberals angry. It is one of a thousand severely pressing issues this president has ignored, deplored or made measurably worse during his first disgraceful year in office.<\/p>\n

“Making liberals angry” seems to be, in the minds of Trump supporters, the sole reason for this administration’s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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