We've been selling freedom for other things that have value for 10,000 years. Freedom isn't the only important thing in life. We get sold on the primacy of freedom over all other concerns by groups who stand to benefit from said freedoms more than I could ever imagine.
This would have been a perfect year for an independent to run
Sounds like a strong defense.
It will end up carrying him further than it should. It's funny, I can recall being in school and using the excuse, "I don't remember." And it never did as good a job as it does today getting politicians and conglomerates out of a scrape. Wow, I just sounded like a bitter old man.
I have a feeling the intelligence community can help him remember what he talked about.
Sounds to me like he might be pleading the 21st; I know I started about a month ago.
LOL! I don't think it's without the realm of possibility that we will see Kushner pleading the fifth, along with Flynn. I know Trump's base is hard core, but, somewhere along the way, people are going to have to start asking themselves what they've elected. Silver's take - LINK
I disagree. I think it's tremendously meaningful that nearly every nation on earth put pen on paper in recognition of the danger presented by greenhouse emissions. The fact that there is no official means of enforcing each signatory's pledge doesn't eliminate the significance of that joint recognition, IMO.
Not to mention the fact that living up to the commitments therein would result in no meaningful impact on "climate change".
I don't buy that argument. While the Paris agreement probably doesn't go far enough at baseline, given how long we've waited to act, I don't think it's reasonable to argue that slowing the rate of warming (thereby giving us time to find more effective solutions) is no better than just ignoring the problem and running full speed ahead right off the cliff.
The goal of the Paris agreement was to limit temp increases to something like 1.5 degrees Celsius. The result of the agreement still means an increase on the order of 3.0 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels. By definition, that's a placebo. No one is interested in living in the Stone Age in order to achieve some textbook level of global temperature.
The agreement also stipulates that the targets will be increased over time, and studies have shown that, while more can and must ultimately be done, the agreement targets would reduce the degree of warming compared to inaction. It's not the final solution, but it's hardly a placebo. I'll take the possibility of some short-term economic hit in exchange for saving millions of lives and preserving both global stability and habitable geography. But I know I'm a pinko commie hipster.
