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John Kerry warns that Project 2025 would be "absolutely unimaginable and destructive"
John Kerry warns that Project 2025 would be "absolutely unimaginable and destructive"President Biden's top climate change adviser spoke with Salon about the stakes for climate change in the election
By MATTHEW ROZSA
Staff Writer
PUBLISHED JUNE 18, 2024 5:30AM (EDT)
(Salon) During a sweltering rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 9, former President Donald Trump complained to his supporters about "sweating like a dog" in the triple-digit heat. Because climate change is breaking temperature records all over the world, one might have assumed that the aspiring leader's next act would have been to express concern for the other people at his event.
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One person who definitely did not laugh at Trump's joke is John Kerry. A former United States Senator and Secretary of State, as well as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, Kerry's most recent job was as the first U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. A longtime environmentalist, it made perfect sense for President Joe Biden to tap Kerry for this role, especially as Kerry and his wife Theresa Heinz Kerry co-authored a determinedly optimistic book warning about climate change, "This Moment on Earth."
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During a recent rally in Las Vegas, Trump told audience members who are suffering from the climate change-exacerbated heat that "I don't care about you, I just want your vote." Now he says that was a joke. But do you believe it can be dismissed as just humor given his ongoing denial of climate change?
It is remarkable, narcissistic, even if it was a joke. It Is just all about him. It is never really about them. Never really about people, and certainly never really about a serious issue like the climate crisis, which he denies, which he is at the forefront of trying to dismiss.
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What are the consequences in terms of climate change if President Biden loses to Trump, especially if Project 2025 is implemented?
....That is not hyperbole. I say that because we know exactly what Donald Trump tried to do the first time, and Project 2025 is specifically geared to make sure they can do what they didn't achieve in the last round, and that they can put the people in place who they know are absolutely committed to this destructive path. This is really as big a fight as you get in an election, and I hope young folks all around the country who have the energy and obviously the vision and the passion to put themselves on the line for this must make it one of the real top voting issues of this next election. .............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/18/john-kerry-warns-that-project-2025-would-be-absolutely-unimaginable-and-destructive/
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The Heritage Foundation isn't a foundation, nor is it a think-tank. It's a group of pro-wealth anti-democracy insurrectionists who are saying out loud now what they used to whisper behind closed doors.
The "revolution" will begin as soon as they can find some stupid dopes to fight it for them, while they hide away and continue living in style. Members of Heritage will never lay their own lives or their own money on the line. I'm sure they find Chump a useful idiot but his use-by date is about to expire.
