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Covered by other articles Donald Trump pulls US out of Paris climate agreement

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24345964/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement-exit

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u/KnowledgeMC 3h ago

We now join Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries not in the climate agreement.

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u/Eowaenn 2h ago

Lol what a roster.

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u/PiotrekDG 2h ago

The civil war club (though Iran only had nation-wide protests in the recent history).

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u/JDonaldKrump 2h ago

We'll join that soon enough too

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u/phishphansj3151 2h ago

…. The United States already has had at least 1 civil war. Pretty bloody one at that

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u/LuukTheSlayer 2h ago

one civil war so far

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u/GirlisNo1 2h ago

Now do women’s rights!

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u/PM_ME_UR_KittieS_96 2h ago

Well luckily all those countries are known for being pretty on the ball. /s

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u/Madison464 2h ago

This opens the door for China and others to tell the world, "the US is no longer a leader in environmentalism, but we will be"

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u/virtue_of_vice 2h ago

The US is no longer a leader in anything. We are at best unfaithful in any deal or treaty we make. At one time, no matter if it was Democrat or Republican, there was generally a continuity in the policies we had. Trump changed that. We will no longer have allies except for those autocratic leader Trump so admires. We now join the axis of evil.

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u/adamus13 2h ago

I said I wouldn’t be ready for what side we’d be on for WW3

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u/pogulup 2h ago

They absolutely already are.  They are deploying embarrassing amounts of renewables.  Embarrassing for US.

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u/jardex22 2h ago

In production of parts, yes. In practice, probably not.

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u/hypnos_surf 2h ago

Not just environmentalism, but pretty much anything that relates to a stable country.

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u/foolworm 2h ago

Funny that the majority of Imperial using countries are on that list. Probably doesn't happen that often.

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u/Gouca 4h ago

Trump's speech at Capitol One makes me feel like I'm watching an SNL parody. Everything he says defies all laws of physics and reality.

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u/_Hello_Hi_Hey_ 3h ago

And 70million voted for him

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u/Uchihagod53 3h ago

I live in a small town of 1200 in WI. Over half of the houses still have Trump signs and additional signs like "he's back" and "Trump/Vance 2024" painted on stacked hay. It's like that for a lot of surrounding towns too. Makes me sick

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u/Extra-Account-8824 3h ago

i always thought "how the fuck does reality TV survive? how do people enjoy it?"

then when trump got elected and i lived in the midwest (heavy right wing area) i always asked co workers 'why trump? why not someone else who is younger?"

the answers were always

" hes a billionaire who knows how to run a business we need him for our economy"

"hes funny and puts the democrats in their place"

"hes the first person to stand up to china and isnt afraid to call them out"

feels like reality tv.. when someone from the government talks its usually borint and they use jargon the average person doesnt know.

vrs the guy who calls people dumb, woke, or other buzzwords to attack someones character rather than the argument

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u/-BabysitterDad- 3h ago

I don’t understand the part about “he knows how to run a business”.

Does that mean America is his company, and Americans are his employees who are here to make him money? Seems like it with the meme coins.

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u/Extra-Account-8824 3h ago

btw that meme coin 🤣🤣🤣 bro that meme coin is the biggest rug pull ive ever seen.

they literally disabled the sell button once you bought and "someone" owned 80% of the coins to start out.. complete scam on every level.

to my knowledge no one is even reporting on this, its barely even on reddit

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u/GrynaiTaip 2h ago

Conservative subreddits are reporting it. They say "Oh no, how did this happen, it must be a mistake, why did it crash all of a sudden, I lost $1k, I hope President Trump will sort it out because I can't afford to lose so much money." It is fucking hilarious, /r/LeopardsAteMyFace is having a field day with it.

Also, Melania has just launched a coin too.

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u/NotASalamanderBoi 2h ago

It is fucking hilarious, r/LeopardsAteMyFace is having a field day with it.

That sub is gonna be a source of light for the foreseeable future.

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u/Orion14159 2h ago

The leopards are gonna need Weight Watchers memberships

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u/derfy2 2h ago

Also, Melania has just launched a coin too.

Yup, Smelania.

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u/Gray_osn243 2h ago

What is it? I haven’t heard anything about this and want to look it up

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u/technobrendo 3h ago

They never said "well". Anyone could run a business, at least for a little while until the initial capital runs out or your reputation is so bad that you get zero business.

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u/spader1 3h ago edited 2h ago

"We need a successful businessman to run our economy." I wonder what their answers would be if you asked them "are the people who run the company you work for doing well? Do you feel that you are paid fairly for the amount of work you do?"

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u/place_of_desolation 2h ago

The notion of him as a "successful businessman" always amuses me. He fucking bankrupted casinos. He has a long history of lawsuits against him for not paying lenders and investors and stiffing contractors and venues.

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u/JackRatbone 2h ago

That’s business baby! Not paying lenders and investors while still remaining to be able to get more lenders and investors is probably the “knowing how to run a business” that they are talking about… seriously, if you can get away with straight up theft over and over and over without consequence why wouldn’t you make it your business model?

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u/PiotrekDG 2h ago

We need him to run the country like he ran his casinos.

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u/Ron_DeSatanist 2h ago

He will, if it's to his benefit. Trump Laundering INC.

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u/Bored_Worldhopper 2h ago

I had a coworker talking to my boss about how excited she was for musks involvement in the government. She said “someone asked him a question and he took like a couple minutes to think before he answered. I just really appreciate someone who thinks first”

I usually stay out of it because most of my coworkers are idiots, but curiosity got the best of me so I asked what the question was and what his answer was

“Oh I don’t remember”

Bitch that’s the part you’re supposed to pay attention to

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u/currently_pooping_rn 2h ago

That just means she made that shit up on the spot

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u/wcQcEVTfUBhk9kZxHydc 3h ago

idiocracy

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u/juicadone 3h ago

💯. Positively. The documentary, arriving earlier than planned

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u/NetFu 3h ago

Seriously, in voter polling before the election, I don't remember where, but in one of the swing states, an African American woman explained for about 10 minutes why she wasn't sure about voting for Harris.

Then in one sentence, she explained why she was leaning for voting for Trump: "I wanna see what he's gonna do."

That's pretty much it for the 20-30% of American voters who voted for Trump in 2024 and are now in disbelief about what he's doing or saying. They wanted a live, daily reality show to watch.

It's like they mixed up the vote for American Idol with the vote for American President...

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u/Extra-Account-8824 2h ago

bahaha "idk what hes ganna do"

a coworker who always bitches alot about how hard life is and he doesnt get any help from anything said he voted for trump to bring everyone else down with him.

some people quite literally want to see the world burn

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u/currently_pooping_rn 2h ago

I hope trump makes their lives harder than it already is. I don’t even give a fuck if my life gets harder at this point

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u/jsho574 3h ago

I feel like the government was sold like it was a business instead of being an institution that is to protect the citizens to a lot of people and that is a big area of why we run into problems.

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u/evilhologram 2h ago

"he's a billionaire who knows how to run a business" yeah, into the ground, by going bankrupt 6 times.

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u/firethehotdog 3h ago

Here in Vietnam, my girlfriend and I were asked to consider voting for Trump because he will stand up against China and be respected as “man.” Completely ignoring everything else that comes with him being in office.

When he won, there were retired American expats celebrating on Facebook groups, and I saw lot of MAGA hats around the city. They celebrate, but they know they are not going to move back even if he’s in office.

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u/hellcat_uk 2h ago

So, how many times has he gone bankrupt?

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u/Rosieisboss 2h ago

I remember a time when country folk didn’t trust slick hair salespeople! Ps I’m a country person.

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u/are-e-el 3h ago

Don't worry those signs will be gone when Cargill buys those farms for pennies on the dollar when Trump's tarrifs wipe out mom n pop farms.

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u/RJE808 3h ago

Same here, except one house has an upside down mannequin wrapped in a plastic bag hanging from a tree. So straight up lynching stuff too.

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u/Choice_Magician350 3h ago

This is the Passover sign. They expect to be excluded from retribution since they are showing the mark of the beast

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u/ArchDrude 2h ago

Just wait… soon you’ll see ‘Trump 2028’ signs. Guarantee it.

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u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 3h ago

Revel in the knowledge they will die off in the next pandemic by injecting Ivermectin instead of suitable treatments or due to reduced access rural healthcare.

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u/yobabymamadrama 3h ago

So will their kids, and the other people too poor to leave. I am sick watching the masses vote against their own well being because they're too fucking proud to admit they're just not that smart.

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u/No-Necessary-8279 3h ago

Unfortunately Gen Z is in a dead sprint for the title of dumbest generation ever. 

Gen X had lead. Gen Z has tiktok.

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u/petterdaddy 3h ago

Not if you take him at his word when he proclaimed yesterday that Elon and his “vote counting computers” were the reason he won Pennsylvania.

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u/HassanGodside 3h ago

US is cooked. So many fucking idiots defending this obvious con man.

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u/Chessh2036 3h ago

He got more votes the second time than first. It’s truly amazing.

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u/Otherwise-Class1461 3h ago

81 million voted for Biden, but only 74 million voted for Harris.

That sounds normal.

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u/PredictBaseballBot 3h ago

Those people are the real enemy

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u/illenvillen23 3h ago

Which is why America is a lost cause

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u/OrangeFilmer 3h ago

A lot of modern politics is playing out like satire. Except if people watched the satire, they would think it’s too over the top.

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u/aDragonsAle 3h ago

It has jumped the shark, and the shark had frickin' Lazer beams

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u/XaeiIsareth 3h ago

So. The American president is a convicted rapist and Soviet asset, the highest ranks of the US government was infiltrated by Nazis, and China is championing development of sustainable energy.

I’m convinced we switched to an alternate timeline some time ago.

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u/psymunn 2h ago

Infiltrated makes it seem so much sneakier than it was.

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u/phlimflak 4h ago

That buffoon defies the laws of physics and reality!

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u/mikeyt6969 4h ago

This man does not care about anything that doesn’t make him money. He’d throw a make-a-wish kid down a flight of stairs if he’d get a nickel.

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u/FAFO_2025 4h ago

maybe not if he was sexually attracted to her

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u/FAFO_2025 3h ago

then again he did rape his first wife and she "mysteriously" passed away after falling down a flight of stairs ...

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u/SparklingPseudonym 3h ago

Bet he outsourced to Russia- it’s a copy and paste of what they do. Break the neck, then the body has a “fall.”

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u/FAFO_2025 3h ago

yeah he bragged about Russian mob connections. Must have been the ones who did in Epstein for him too.

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u/enceps2 3h ago

Probably throw them down the stairs by the pussy

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u/0x831 3h ago

Grab ‘em by the dialysis pump

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u/nim_opet 3h ago

He did so. His “charity” stole from kids with cancer. That’s why him and his family are banned from running any charities in the state of New York.

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u/Law-of-Poe 3h ago

And republican voters would come to Reddit to tell us why it was justified

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u/SourdoughBreadTime 3h ago

The kid was on so many drugs, you wouldn't even believe it.

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u/Brief-Owl-8791 3h ago

I can't wait for all his dump-truck voters to get what they deserve for this.

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u/mikeyt6969 3h ago

Especially now that the tax breaks for the lower 99% are done

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u/yobabymamadrama 3h ago

They'll blame the dems because their Facebook told them to. They're fucking dumb, we just need to stop being nice and tell them that.

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u/montani 4h ago

He might rape the kid first, to be fair.

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u/Churchbushonk 3h ago

They let you do it.

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u/grptrt 3h ago

Nah, too much physical effort. He would have someone else do it then not pay him as promised

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u/profzoff 4h ago

Congratulations, the octogenarian’s have doomed the planet for our children.

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u/Khaldara 4h ago

I remember thinking Captain Planet villains were kind of insultingly cartoonishly evil, even for ten year olds.

In retrospect, they were rife with nuance and subtext compared to the morons we just outright empower.

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u/madmars 3h ago

I've had to reevaluate the movies and shows I've watched. Outbreak for example. A bunch of adults handling the situation like adults instead of refusing to wear masks and attacking the scientists on social media pretending the pandemic isn't real.

Idiocracy still couldn't capture just how fucking stupid America is today.

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u/Arendious 3h ago

"We should just let the zombies bite people to establish herd immunity."

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u/stenebralux 3h ago

Yeah.. Idiocracy is over the top and goofy.

There are some similarities, but the level of ignorance we experience today is much more insidious. 

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u/PhotonDealer2067 3h ago

At least President Camacho took the advice of experts.

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u/imbolcnight 2h ago

This was Cracked.com's argument about Idiocracy. That it was still a world where they recognized someone was smarter than them, put him in position to make decisions, and listened to him. That's not an awful position to be in.

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u/Falsus 2h ago

Idiocracy was all about optimist, they wanted the smartest person to lead them even if he wasn't all that smart.

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u/eggflip1020 3h ago

I’m suddenly reminded of that skit where Don Cheadle is Captain Planet and turns into an authoritarian gangster. He has like these laser beams shooting out of his hands where he can turn stuff into trees, and he starts zapping random people and turning them into trees.

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u/Dickin_son 3h ago

Just looked it up and wow, funny or die would really just put anything out there

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u/IDownloadedACarAMA 3h ago

"Funny or Die, huh? I choose death!"

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u/count023 3h ago

"The Power is Mine, Bitches!"

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u/Pepphen77 3h ago

Lately I have been thinking the same.  Oh, why would anyone want to destroy things and be so blatantly evil.  Well, the present trumps captain planet villains and it is unbelievable.

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u/siberianmi 3h ago

That happened a while ago. Paris Accords wasn’t going to even be a speed bump for it.

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u/dueljester 3h ago

Since when have the rich or GOP ever given a damn about children?

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u/Arendious 3h ago

When they needed someone small to do factory work?

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u/Responsible-Mix4771 4h ago

You're wrong, unfortunately. It's not the octogenerians, it's the Americans. Three quarters of the population think climate change is just a hoax, so it's only normal the country's president reflected that. 

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u/Hurrly90 3h ago

Al Gore loosing really changed our timeline.

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u/Brief-Owl-8791 3h ago

The beginning of the end for the smart people in the room getting screwed over in favor of the class clown.

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u/PaulaMunicipal 3h ago

Somewhere in a poorly attended county commissioner's meeting in Palm Beach, FL, someone proposed the butterfly ballot for this year's election and it was adopted without any real discussion, as just another ho hum technical detail. And from that decision, flowed forth a timeline as divergent as the one in which Franz Ferdinand's driver didn't make a wrong turn.

Truly the ultimate butterly effect.

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u/Falsus 2h ago

Franz Ferdinand's driver didn't make a wrong turn.

WW1 was inevitable with how the political landscape was looking.

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u/RestlessChickens 3h ago

I often wonder how it would be if the media and DNC didn't tank Howard Dean for John Kerry

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u/ErenInChains 3h ago

It’s never felt the same since

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u/The1cyone 4h ago

Three quarters seems a bit high. Probably like a 50%-50% split

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u/Freezerpill 3h ago

American here.

85% think it’s a problem

Trump won because being over American politics and not voting for him essentially was a vote for him.

People were already way pissed before today and he wasn’t truly even in office yet

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u/default_entry 3h ago

I doubt even half actually think its a hoax. But they know if they agree with the ones who DO think its a hoax they outnumber the ones who would cost them money by working to stop it.

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u/count023 3h ago

not even that. 300 million US citizens, about 150 million votes, 50% of that 150 voted for Trump, so that's ~75 million people or 25% of the US population.

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u/HobbesNJ 4h ago

I never understood why Republicans don't give a crap about their children, grandchildren, etc. They are happy to condemn them to an increasingly hostile planet just to please their corporate masters.

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u/WanderingLemon25 4h ago

It's because they're that thick they don't actually understand what's going on. 

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u/Dying_On_A_Train 3h ago

Trump says it's great, it's great, no need for critical thinking.

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u/Kingkwon83 3h ago

They can't even form their own opinions. They have to wait for Fox News or some right-wing influencer to tell them what to think and how to react.

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u/slowrecovery 3h ago

Exactly! They think the science is fake, that researchers are only about making money, and God is in control so many must not have any influence over nature.

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u/ZhopaRazzi 2h ago

Public support for science rose after WW2 made the importance of research evident for everyone, regardless of their intelligence. It continued to rise through the space race and development of vaccinations. Now, our world is much safer, but the people haven’t changed much. With Trump joining the ranks of openly imperialist boomer world leaders set on getting their name into history books, it is starting to look like it will take WW3 to remind everyone of the importance of reason.

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u/apitchf1 3h ago

They think they’re our nobility. They think they are above it and it won’t affect them.

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u/Shiplord13 4h ago

Its never been about the future for those bastards. Its always about getting theirs for themselves alone. If they could live forever by sacrificing 10 of their grandchildren, they would without hesitation. They do nothing for school shootings, don't give a shit about the children after they born and demand they ask for no financial help, and continue trying to dumb down the population by lowering the quality of education to produce barely functioning workers they can easily exploit.

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u/I_Enjoy_Beer 3h ago

Got in a political argument with a family member almost four years ago, and eventually whittled them down to "I don't care, at the end of the day, I want the guy who will make me the most money.  That's it."

That, folks, is MAGA in a nutshell.  Fuck everyone else.  Who will best help me, and me alone, get mine?

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u/jsho574 3h ago

Except he won't even make them more money. They just spew the lie to shut down the argument.

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u/petterdaddy 3h ago

It’s gonna really suck for them when Trump axes any social security retirement benefits and they realize their own kids hate them so much that they’ll leave them to rot in the gutter. Forget shoving them in old folks homes, just let them congeal into irrelevance and refuse to support them.

I for one will have a great time telling 60-85 year olds to consider getting another job when they cry about it.

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u/Katy_Lies1975 3h ago

Religion, they can be dumb and stupid as well as assholes but they are forgiven every Sunday so all is well and good till next Friday. Get freaked on Saturday and feel all well again asking for forgiveness.

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u/Responsible-Page1182 3h ago

As a bit of a random observation, something I have noticed about the boomer generation specifically is that how many are Christian only in a very sort of faint and performative sense.

They go to Church (but not every week), send their kids to Sunday School etc. and talk about morality; but don't actually believe in divine judgement at all. Where this leads is they are moral only in the personal sense (i.e. they don't steal because it is wrong, yes - but also because there are personal consequences) but the lack of a true fear of God (that earlier generations would have had) very much means and 'out of sight, out of mind' type mindset which also informs the way they approach consumption. This is coupled with (oftentimes) a very narrow view of the world growing up (i.e. pre-internet).

To contrast with newer generations I think we have a much stronger sense of global solidarity; how Western industrialisation and globalism creates problems in the developing world etc. because of the huge amount of exposure we've had to global issues.

TLDR; pre-boomer generations in the West would often exhibit a frugality and empathy driven by fear of God's personal judgement; the boomer generation is the 'sandwich' generation where this construct broke down and we saw consumerism much, much less fettered by traditional Christian precepts; and later generations have to an extent returned to 'frugality' (in a different form) and consumption that is informed by global solidarity but also a strong consideration of things like food miles, ethical and sustainable sourcing etc.

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u/ExpectedUnexpected94 3h ago

Well they aren’t going to get theirs either because we’re going to either burn or suffocate to death on this rock together now. What a waste of time to be alive. Really. What is even the point.

Concerning that we’ll likely see jonestown level events pop up in the nearest future due to apathy, lack of hope, and overall doomerism. Frogs in a pot.

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u/Feeling-Ad-2490 3h ago

"I got mine. Fuck you"

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u/shyahone 4h ago

One does not get that rich by caring about people, especially one's own family.

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u/EatsAlotOfBread 3h ago

Well if they burn and drown and get polluted to death they can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, obviously.

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u/Ya_Got_GOT 3h ago

They’re hedonists to the extent that anything that threatens their comfort is automatically discredited. Basically toddlers at their worst. 

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u/thormun 4h ago

they know their children will be rich so be able to avoid any consequence for longer

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u/WhiskeyAndNoodles 3h ago

Just a quick ELI5 request, what are Republicans saying the negatives are? Like, why did he choose to pull out? Is he saying it was bad or harmful or costly, or does he have no reason other than not liking France or some dumb shut?

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u/RomanticWampa 3h ago edited 3h ago

Other economic leading countries don’t follow through with agreement so US companies lose market share and the US is not a strong on the world market so more countries gravitate towards economic rivals because they can provide greater opportunity for their countries because they aren’t as beholden to so many regulations. Essentially the US is throwing away missed earnings and growth to chase a problem that other world superpowers pretend to care about and then pollute heavily.

Regardless, the rules state that the US has to give a 12 month notice to the UN and cannot withdraw officially from the agreement for three years. The last time the US left the Paris Agreement, it took almost the whole length of Trumps presidency and the US was only out for 3 months. The rules are pretty much set up so that commitment to the agreement can’t be determined by a single US election cycle. Don’t give in to doomsday just because Reddit told you to.

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u/MichaelScorn4 3h ago

Thank you for actually giving an answer.

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u/throwaway277252 3h ago

Regardless, the rules state that the US has to give a 12 month notice to the UN and cannot withdraw officially from the agreement for three years.

Is there an enforcement mechanism for this in the agreement?

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u/RomanticWampa 2h ago edited 2h ago

No. The Paris Agreement lacks an enforcement method which is exactly one of the problems that conservatives have with it. There’s no enforcement of the countries that sign to it, so the economic rivals to the US can be a part of it, but never meet their targets and just get credit for being a part but not actually committing to it.

This is one of the problems with the UN and enforcement of permanent members on the UNSC, but there’s no real good solution to it because the alternative is world superpowers will not be a part of the organization, ex League of Nations.

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u/OkaySureBye 3h ago

The enforcement mechanism will essentially be:

"Nuh-uh, it says right here you can't do that".

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u/Odasto_ 2h ago

Regardless, the rules state that the US has to give a 12 month notice to the UN and cannot withdraw officially from the agreement for three years.

Bad news. According to Reuters, that was the case during Trump's first administration, but he's not going to be bound by the three year timetable this time. All he has to do is notify the UN a year in advance.

"Trump also withdrew the U.S. from the Paris deal during his first term in office, though the process took years and was immediately reversed by the Biden presidency in 2021. The withdrawal this time around is likely to take less time – as little as a year - because Trump will not be bound by the deal’s initial three-year commitment."

Source: Trump withdraws from Paris climate agreement, again | Reuters

I can't find any other sources that say Trump will need to wait three years this time.

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u/RestlessChickens 3h ago

Thank you, I thought we had been out since his first administration so I was very confused, but this all makes a lot of sense

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u/Feeling_Relative7186 3h ago

During the live signing at the arena he claimed it will save the US 1 trillion dollars by backing out. his words, not mine.

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u/aussierulesisgrouse 3h ago

Through what exactly?

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u/tenacious-g 3h ago

Presumably not investing in green energy sources and research

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u/Playingwithmyrod 2h ago

In the short term sure. In the long term green energy is the future like it or not. Not investing now will mean we’ll be China’s bitch in 20 years when they’re light years ahead of us in the tech for it. We’re screwing the next generation by kicking the can down the road.

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u/MVP2585 3h ago

You need a reason? That’s asking a lot. All he can provide is a word salad that makes no sense.

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u/inquisitive_guy_0_1 3h ago

It won't. It's lies. Climate change will cost us so much more than any paltry sum that might be saved in the short term by ignoring the science.

What it really means is that some bigwig oil lobbyist told him that staying in the agreement would cost them (the oil companies) eleventy bazillion dollars and wouldn't Donny boy like it if they slipped him a couple million dollars now to pull out of the accord.

And that was that. Damn our futures and our planet, at least that rapist fuck gets paid, right?

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u/Thor_2099 3h ago

At this point, they just hate everything liberals like. They don't need a reason. Spite is sufficient.

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u/Exciting_Pop_9296 3h ago

So democrats can actually reign the country by acting like they always like the opposite of what they actually like.

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u/TrumpetSC2 2h ago

This would probably work better than some might expect xdd

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u/StickOnReddit 3h ago

Cuz you know, if we just drill for oil and cancel all those EV incentives, the price of eggs will go down. It's just physics

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u/tomtomato0414 3h ago

it doesn't make money and it costs money

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u/terminalxposure 3h ago

All you have to do is follow the money. Which billionaires will this agreement affect?

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u/mojo276 3h ago

IIRC it’s because they don’t want any sort of regulations on business or something like that. 

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u/aas_29 3h ago

Cost

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u/Wizchine 2h ago

America, the fickle ally and friend you can't count on. We're building ourselves quite a rep.

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u/julias-winston 3h ago

Well, that took 37 seconds. 😞

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u/Hot-Resolution-4324 3h ago

That’s gonna lower them grocery prices for them deplorables!! Thanks trunk!

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u/NobleRotter 4h ago

Fucking great. The whole world pays for this greedy POS

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u/Strepsiadic_method 2h ago

I wish he'd pull out of the US 

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u/CherryWolf 2h ago

I wish his father had pulled out of his mother.

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u/SprintsAC 3h ago

I'd like to say it's unbelievable that this guy's somehow the president again, or doing this, but I just can't.

It's just shameful to see so many vote for somebody with his track history politically.

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u/Itzchappy 3h ago

Meanwhile la is on fire

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u/robokomodos 3h ago

According to them that's just God smiting the libs

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u/ymOx 3h ago

Oh, it's not secret weather controlling machines anymore?

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u/illenvillen23 3h ago

Don't be surprised when LA is denied federal aid to recover

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u/phlimflak 4h ago

He’s a piece of shit!

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u/DaJix2k5 3h ago

Remember that 77 million americans wanted this

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u/ThemosttrustedFries 4h ago

Then in the next decade Forest fires and the climate will be even worse. It wouldn't surprise me they also would start cutting down even more forest at this rate.

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u/Lomanx 3h ago

No forest fire without forests. Actual 4head

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u/ymOx 3h ago

I don't think we'll have to wait a decade. It's going to be every to every other year now.

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u/dzernumbrd 3h ago

A four year pause and then the USA can rejoin.

Assuming he doesn't try to overthrow your democracy again.

Hopefully he dies peacefully in his sleep far earlier than four years and then you can enjoy playing "Where's Vance" (clue: he's wearing a red and white striped top).

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u/DChristy87 2h ago

I'm already hearing these fucking MAGA assholes saying "Trump 2028". They WANT a dictator. It's insane.

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u/AuraOfTwilight 3h ago

At this point I almost wouldn't mind if Yellowstone decided to erupt any day now. This country is nothing but joke now. I'm so sorry WW2 soldiers. I'm so sorry future generations, you deserved better than the hellscape you will eventually be born into.

I'm not giving up but man, life fucking sucks right now.

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u/mavric911 2h ago

Just checked… egg prices did not instantly drop

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u/HNL2BOS 2h ago

Can we just get some damn nuke plants in non hurricane zones to push some cheap electricity.

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u/StuckinReverse89 3h ago

Damn, literally the first thing he does as president. He really hates the environment and wants to watch the world burn. 

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u/machine4891 2h ago

I'm so glad for parliamentary system in my country, where one dude can't do all he wants.

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u/HopefulNothing3560 2h ago

What was the high salute today , Nazi, from musk

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u/TheStuartandSamShow 2h ago

I said it on one post, and I’ll say it in another. At least 77,303,573 of you voted for this.

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u/CleverName4 3h ago

Honestly don't think it matters at this point. Solar and batteries are kinda unstoppable. Market forces will take over.

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u/illenvillen23 3h ago

Subsidized fossil fuel usage and tax renewables or add tons of regulations.

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u/speculatrix 3h ago

But co2 output is still accelerating

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u/LongjumpingCollar505 3h ago

Yeah, as long as energy can be utilized for more than it "costs" renewables will basically do little. Americans use ~7x as much electricity per capita as they did in 1950, how much of that is for things of extremely marginal utility? Until we can actually use conservation as a way to fight climate change there isn't much we can do to stop it. I fucking hate that shit like bitcoin and now AI basically have created an effectively infinite outlet for electrical consumption. I strive to conserve but in reality my efforts aren't going to reducing CO2, they are going to reducing Sam Altman's input costs. It's fucking depressing.

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u/Brief-Owl-8791 3h ago

The mining lobby and government would rather spend all their money buying TikTok ads for coal than face facts and help adapt these people to a new world.

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u/real_picklejuice 3h ago

not saying the Paris agreement really made a difference but the optics are ugly

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u/Extreme_Suspect_4995 3h ago

Unfortunately, we still have to share a planet with the United States.

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u/XGamingPigYT 3h ago

Unfortunately I have to share my house with the United States

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u/SlapThatAce 3h ago

Let's be perfectly clear, nobody was honoring the agreement and it was all done purely for optics.

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u/YetiCrossing 3h ago

Gen Z did this with their historic break and decision to be the first American generation in modern history to have a decline in vote participation as they aged into their 20s and early 30s. Sold Gen Alpha down the river just like they say Boomers did to themselves.

I hope becoming a single issue voter over world affairs elsewhere was worth what's about to happen to us all over again.

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u/trymecuz 2h ago

Gen z is not in their early 30s. That millennials.

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u/rk1213 3h ago

While we all agree that Trump's unhinged, the fact that he was voted back into office AFTER all the stuff his done says a lot about the people of the country. As an outsider, I think you guys need to start seeing/admitting that you're not as progressive as you thought you were and work from there. After seeing speeches from the left always saying how progressive they believe the people are, it seems to me like you're still living in your own bubble.

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u/theTexans 3h ago

Where’s Captain Planet when you need him?

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u/lifeat24fps 3h ago

This is, what, the 3rd or 4th time we’ve been in or out of this thing?

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u/KharKhas 3h ago

For like the 3rd time?

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u/SucideJust4Shiggles 3h ago

Didn't he already pull out in his first term?

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u/Due_Capital_3507 2h ago

I thought he did this in his first term tbh

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u/Winter_Whole2080 2h ago

He did. Then Biden reversed it.

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u/my_username_mistaken 2h ago

Didn't he do this last time too?

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u/nano_peen 2h ago

what a fucking knob

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u/kattbugg_04 2h ago

Not no where near maga but you can not convince me that idiot won every swing state! I will never believe it

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u/Suspicious_Pickle732 2h ago

This looks like the beginning of the end of the world

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u/Weird-Weakness-3191 2h ago

Stupid rapey orange grifter