Stephan: Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, virtually any psychiatrist or psychologist in the country will tell you that if you ask, indeed dozens, perhaps hundreds of them have already said so publicly in interviews and in print. What is particularly evil about this is that he tries to sabotage what he cannot control and, as this story describes, he will willingly and actively work to destroy the future of humanity to get back at his former opponent, who defeated him. How is it that anyone can still support this man? Today I got a lesson that taught me the answer.
I got an email this morning from a reader who said to me, "Your vitriol against Trump has bothered me for some time. I believe this is a misplaced emotion and the man, an outsider, not part of the corrupt parties, a populist and a very good man deserves better from you." At first, I could hardly take his comment seriously. Trump's corruption is legendary; hundreds of contractors, ordinary people stiffed in their contract with Trump attest to this, as do people grifted into enrolling into Trump University, or... well, I could go on for pages. How could the writer of that email not notice this? Or how could anyone see Trump as a populist. His entire life has been spent exploiting and holding ordinary people in contempt. Look at America's failure with the Covid pandemic that has cost thousands their lives because he didn't care enough to develop the proper national policies. How is it possible that anyone thinks of Trump as a "very good man"? Then I realized this was a Trumper letter, and that Trumpers really do live in a fantasy world, and there is no point reasoning with them because reason has no place in their world.
Smoke rises from a coal-fired power plant on February 01, 2019 in Romeoville, Illinois. The recent polar vortex taxed power systems across the Midwest as demand for electricity climbed as temperatures plunged. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty
In a surprise move, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday will unveil a climate rule that will effectively prohibit the future regulation of greenhouse gases from any stationary industry other than power plants.
The rule comes just eight days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged a multitrillion-dollar initiative that would combat climate change by making sharp cuts in the United States’ carbon dioxide pollution. The new regulation could hamstring much of that agenda, for example by prohibiting Biden’s EPA from setting carbon limits on oil and gas wells or refineries.
The vehicle for the latest EPA action was also surprising: The agency included it in a long-planned Trump administration regulation that had originally been aimed at a much narrower target — easing greenhouse gas limits for coal plants that might be built in the future. It never sought public comment on the […]
Another dirty trick from the GOPers. All humanity will suffer from this rule, unless Biden can overturn it with a new EPA head.