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Uncle Joe

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5. Actually I believe *rump's rise and the growing awareness
Thu May 9, 2024, 12:40 PM
May 2024

Last edited Thu May 9, 2024, 07:49 PM - Edit history (1)

of climate change are intricately tied together.

The global oligarchs and owners of the major fossil fuel producers saw global warming and knew it was for real, but were more concerned about it as a personal or bottom line threat and decided to abandon the people in favor of building or buying "life boats" and islands for their survival for when it all hits the fan.

The oligarchs own the vast majority of the corporate media so it was easy for them to ignore in the 1990s before the rise of the Internet, the foremost political leader in the fight against global warming warnings in favor of someone dedicated to fossil fuels and basic ignorance.

Had global warming been treated as the existential threat that it is in the 1990s, there is no way a fossil fuel adherent gets close in a Presidential election, of course he still lost by half a million votes.

That set the political table for *rump's dining with fear and ignorance beings the only items on the menu.

I view *rump as a direct consequence of climate change and vast, dysfunctional wealth disparity.



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