What progress could they possibly be thinking of?
And then there’s the classic lib thought process that criticizing or not voting for Dems means voting for Trump.
The abortion access argument is fucking hilarious considering how its going under A DEMOCRAT GOVERNMENT
It gets even funnier when you have the leftist superpower of remembering what happened 2 years ago. In this case it was the decision literally being leaked to the public, which meant that Biden and his administration literally had a whole ass month to prepare for a decision that they KNEW were happening. And what did they do? They sent out a bunch of emails asking for money.
What progress could they possibly be thinking of?
Having to bring your own bag to kroger. It’s the incrementalist solve for climate change.
Complete tangent, but am I the only one who’s noticed that most grocers took the switch to reusable bags as an excuse to no longer have employees bag the groceries and instead have customers do it?
obviously it’s so that you can forget to bring your own reusable bag and be forced to purchase a new $3 reusable bag from them
WASHINGTON—Putting forth a less ambitious legislative package in an effort to secure enough votes for passage in the Senate, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his original $2 trillion climate plan would be replaced with a scaled-back proposal to purchase a single reusable grocery bag. “For those members of the Democratic caucus who have demanded a more slimmed-down, manageable approach to the catastrophic effects of climate change, I believe we’ve finally reached a compromise in the form of this handy canvas tote bag, which should hold up through years of regular trips to the supermarket,” Biden told reporters in the White House briefing room as he gestured toward a screen that displayed a cotton bag featuring an illustration of a woman and text that read “Jane Austen Is My Homegirl,” an item administration sources confirmed was available from CafePress. “This proposal brings the cost of the plan down to just under $10 plus shipping. While some of you may be concerned this bill doesn’t go far enough, it’s at least a start, and our hope is that in future congressional sessions we will be able to appropriate funding for even more tote bags. Failing to act on the climate crisis is simply not an option. But I believe that as long as nobody spills inside the bag or forgets it on the bus, this new plan will bring us one step closer to reaching our environmental impact goals.” At press time, sources reported the proposal had been slimmed down once more after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) insisted the reusable bag be dropped and replaced with a more affordable program that would allow for the purchase of a single disposable plastic bag.
https://www.theonion.com/biden-scales-down-2-trillion-climate-plan-to-single-re-1847901494
Protecting abortions rights was one of the more compelling “harm reduction” arguments I heard from pro-electoralism progressives, enough to get me to vote .
But that ship has clearly sailed on the federal level, the DNC has done Jack shit to codify abortion rights on the federal level. So the real focus now is on the state level. And I don’t think who POTUS is really matters much there, Vermont and California aren’t gonna shut down planned parenthood just cuz DC said so. So yeah if you wanna keep fighting at the state level go for it, but it’s already a lost fight at the federal.
What do you mean? Biden’s made plenty of progress on climate change. From expanding drilling leases on federal lands to building out the LNG infrastructure, which is likely contributing hidden emissions through methane leakage, to making sure that the US is not meeting its share of the emissions reductions necessary to keep the planet under 2 C (i.e., the threshold at which we lose virtually all of our shallow-water coral reefs), he’s zealously guarded America’s status as the world’s #1 climate change contributor.
Oh and he passed an EV tax credit that’s definitely going to mitigate all that, I almost forgot.
which is likely contributing hidden emissions through methane leakage
Undoubtedly.
There is no gas infrastructure which does not leak. It’s theoretically possible but it’s an impractical proposition in real terms and in terms of cost.
Reminder that methane is about 150x as potent as carbon dioxide over its 11-ish year lifespan in the atmosphere before degrading into, you guessed it, carbon dioxide.
Good thing that the next 11 years aren’t the crunch time for climate change, right?
: “As America’s left party, we take great pride in doing our best to fulfil Lenin’s glorious vision of ‘decades where nothing happens’!”
