I'm trying really hard to ignore Trump's shenanigans, but it's hard. Do you see me trying?
I want to ignore the fact that he can't sing the National Anthem from memory, that he can't read from a teleprompter, that his vocabulary is third grade or less, repetitive, and sometimes slurred, that he tweets a hissy fit against:
Black Lives Matter athletes who kneel respectfully,
the North Korean dictator who goads him,
the mayor of San Juan in Puerto Rico who asked him for aid,
anti-racists responding to the Nazi march in Charlottesville,
anti-pedofiles responding to the Alabama Senatorial race,
female news anchors who report his unprofessional actions,
his smart prepared African American Presidential predecessor,
his smart prepared female 2016 Presidential opponent who won the popular vote.
Oh, I know I'm forgetting a lot of people. Here it is: if any female, African American, Muslim, Asian, liberal, Hispanic, nonwhite person catches his attention, he will denigrate them on Twitter.
I am trying to ignore all that because that is the shit-show. The show I intend to be involved in is GOP Congress's lack of response to the Russian investigation, to the damage he's doing by reducing the State Department, the damage he's doing to the free press, the damage he's doing to our sacred and fragile ecosystems.
We need to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The area, called the middle Arctic tundra is such a fragile environment that it depends on mosquitoes for pollination. It is treeless, cold, averaging 10 to 20 degrees, and gets little rain. It's winter temperatures average negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Summer hangs around 37 degrees. So, summer seems like winter to me and winter is like those wild winter days when I was in college and the school warned that my spit would freeze before it hit the ground and my exposed eyeballs would freeze in three minutes. Stuff can grow there, but life is tenuous, at best.
It hosts lichen, wildflowers, and low shrubs. Trees can't survive there. Most wildlife can't either. The fauna of the middle Arctic tundra has also become completely dependent on its climate. Arctic foxes, polar bears, caribou, Arctic hares, Arctic squirrels. Notice the Arctic title before most of those names. It's an incredibly fragile ecosystem. Have you looked at the photos of the starving polar bears. It's heartbreaking.
Drilling will bring in roads, people and equipment squashing tiny homes. Spillage of any kind will poison areas which may take centuries to recover after it stops.
This plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge came in the name of the '2017 Tax Reform Bill.' I put that in quotes because most people call it the 2017 Tax Scam, in which the 1% gets significant tax breaks on the backs of the poor and the middle class.
So, there is the added 'benefit' in this new tax bill that our most precious biome could be destroyed in the name of oil.
Did you notice that the GOP tacked this onto it? At the last second, without allowing more than 48 hours to review the 300+ page document?
The GOP flockers.
Are they bound and determined to ruin what is most beautiful about this country?
Thank you for listening, jules
I want to ignore the fact that he can't sing the National Anthem from memory, that he can't read from a teleprompter, that his vocabulary is third grade or less, repetitive, and sometimes slurred, that he tweets a hissy fit against:
Black Lives Matter athletes who kneel respectfully,
the North Korean dictator who goads him,
the mayor of San Juan in Puerto Rico who asked him for aid,
anti-racists responding to the Nazi march in Charlottesville,
anti-pedofiles responding to the Alabama Senatorial race,
female news anchors who report his unprofessional actions,
his smart prepared African American Presidential predecessor,
his smart prepared female 2016 Presidential opponent who won the popular vote.
Oh, I know I'm forgetting a lot of people. Here it is: if any female, African American, Muslim, Asian, liberal, Hispanic, nonwhite person catches his attention, he will denigrate them on Twitter.
I am trying to ignore all that because that is the shit-show. The show I intend to be involved in is GOP Congress's lack of response to the Russian investigation, to the damage he's doing by reducing the State Department, the damage he's doing to the free press, the damage he's doing to our sacred and fragile ecosystems.
We need to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The area, called the middle Arctic tundra is such a fragile environment that it depends on mosquitoes for pollination. It is treeless, cold, averaging 10 to 20 degrees, and gets little rain. It's winter temperatures average negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Summer hangs around 37 degrees. So, summer seems like winter to me and winter is like those wild winter days when I was in college and the school warned that my spit would freeze before it hit the ground and my exposed eyeballs would freeze in three minutes. Stuff can grow there, but life is tenuous, at best.
It hosts lichen, wildflowers, and low shrubs. Trees can't survive there. Most wildlife can't either. The fauna of the middle Arctic tundra has also become completely dependent on its climate. Arctic foxes, polar bears, caribou, Arctic hares, Arctic squirrels. Notice the Arctic title before most of those names. It's an incredibly fragile ecosystem. Have you looked at the photos of the starving polar bears. It's heartbreaking.
Drilling will bring in roads, people and equipment squashing tiny homes. Spillage of any kind will poison areas which may take centuries to recover after it stops.
This plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge came in the name of the '2017 Tax Reform Bill.' I put that in quotes because most people call it the 2017 Tax Scam, in which the 1% gets significant tax breaks on the backs of the poor and the middle class.
So, there is the added 'benefit' in this new tax bill that our most precious biome could be destroyed in the name of oil.
Did you notice that the GOP tacked this onto it? At the last second, without allowing more than 48 hours to review the 300+ page document?
The GOP flockers.
Are they bound and determined to ruin what is most beautiful about this country?
Thank you for listening, jules
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