hang my pants

 

On the June 13th post here, I listed the main things to worry about / fix, and I forgot climate change.

        That isn't something to forget.

So it's --

Ukraine

fascist takeover in the U.S.

mass shootings

Citizens United (overturn)

gerrymandering (outlaw it -- computers can draw voting district lines using a fair and unbiased algorithm)

Supreme Court (no longer legitimate - needs oversight, maybe...?)

climate change

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Can we handle seven major problems?

We would not have so many really hard problems if politicians had done the right thing in the first place instead of only enriching themselves.

And maybe we have to add filibuster to that list.

So -- eight.

2 reader comments under NYT story headlined, "Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment."

        A Supreme Court environmental case being decided this month is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general and conservative allies:

Barbarossa

Longuyland

~ What is beginning to become clear is that the corporate interests and their Republican servants have been implementing a well thought out strategic plan with long term goals.  

Environmental regulatory policy is just one small part of it.  

Broadly speaking, "regulatory capture" has been achieved and our government no longer is capable of functioning in the best interests of "We the People."  

Rather, the corporate interests of Big Oil, Big Pharma, etc. have become the primary considerations.

Evan

Berlin

~ End the filibuster.  

Expand the court. 

Pass an environmental protection amendment to the US constitution.  

Make it unlawful to harm the nation's natural resources.  

This should have been done at the dawn of the industrial revolution.  

Now we have no choice but to take aggressive, drastic action.  

We really have no choice.  

Corruption is endemic in US government.  

This is what constitutions are for.  

Write it in stone.

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January 6 Committee hearings can be watched on You Tube.

Under one of the videos where the committee discussed how President Trump tried to pressure Vice President Pence to overturn the election, someone typed in a comment saying when the rioters were chanting,

"Hang Mike Pence!"

it came out sounding like

"Hang my pants!"

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