Financial incentives to not pollute do shift behavior when they’re big enough.

The major issue is that imposing a tax like this has been politically difficult. By describing it as a penalty for damage done, this tries to sidestep some of the opposition

Resigning like this means he can keep his pension instead of refusing and getting fired a few minutes later. Not everyone can afford the latter

I really hope people who died didn’t vote for Trump again. 😜

You should spend some time talking to Unitarian Universalists.

My impression is that this comes down to internal politics within the crime family, with there being some disagreement over the relative importance of hate and prosperity.

The only pattern that can work is to elect only Democrats in the mid-term so he can be ousted via impeachment

The ones I was with had voted early, and were out canvassing. The kids were under 18.

That said, a lot of people are sufficiently disconnected from the news that they didn’t get how much worse Trump would be this time.

The movement is getting larger and louder each cycle. Protests like this dont bring down the government directly, but are demonstration that a movement has support

From what I could tell, only few were outside the US. This was largely Americans, in the US, objecting to Republicanism

Lots of kids joined their parents at the one I was at. These were by design peaceful events. Cops and haters did things at a few, but that was it

There is no need; the point is to create a riot so as to provide an excuse for a broader crackdown

They’re worried that people might get organized enough to vote them out

I don’t treat his words has having any specific meaning; more indicating that his attention is on a topic

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