[Tricks]

The more I read about this the funnier it is. Trump can not pull out of the agreement until one year after it is ratified in 2019, conveniently right after the next Presidential Election. This is a purely political move, and only for optics to try and appease science hating conservatives who think God will take care of climate change.

The majority of states support it and will continue to progress with it's efforts (states rights, right Bart?) and the market forces are already pushing for more sustainable energy.

All this did was make Trump a laughing stock with everyone except his increasingly small support group. Hell even General Mattis thinks climate change is a national security threat.

[fifeboy]

Well, I'm guessing MAGA doesn't stand for MAKE AMERICA GREEN AGAIN!

[BRAH]

Trump just made a major, risky move against ISIS

$1:

In one fell swoop, President Trump just changed the future course of the war against ISIS — and alienated a vital American ally along the way.

That’s because of a new US move to arm the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian Kurdish militia that has emerged as one of Washington’s most important battlefield allies in the fight to push ISIS out of its de facto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa. A full-scale, US-assisted offensive to reclaim the city is expected soon.

Turkey, a vital NATO power and anti-ISIS ally, is not taking this news lightly. Today, in a press conference alongside President Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan’s visit said arming the YPG must “never be accepted.”

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/11/15615782/trump-turkey-weaponry-kurds-isis-raqqa-syria?yptr=yahoo
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President Trump has more important things to worry about than whiny Leftist C*nts! Keep whining Bitches your tears are delicious, MAGA 2020!

[herbie]

Well if MAGA stands for Make America a Giant Asshole, you guys are right on track.
The lying Orange sack of shit claims America is a leader in environmental protection and that "no one loves the environment more than me".
What an oaf.
He probably thinks the environment is what the machines in the basement of Trump towers make.
And what a fool, complaining that the agreement to stop the use of coal would eventually cut US coal sales by 80%... well fucking DUHHH.
And right there were the crowd of lapdogs applauding.

[Thanos]

As per Twitter today:

$1:

If my home & I are destroyed in an aberrant weather event intensified by climate change, remember me by asking a Trump voter how they feel.

- @Mobute

$1:

"All of California is in flames and the water wars have begun... how do these three coal miners feel about Trump today?"

- @alanarusso

$1:

[Beverly Hillbillies voice]
We lost three kids in the last superstorm too, but Trump is putting them latte sipping libs in their place!!

- @fastjohnny

$1:

*trapped in house from rising floodwater* lol triggered snowflake??

- @christopher_eye

Judging from the tweets the MAGA's have been making today their actual beliefs on this issue are entirely indistinguishable from the above jokes.

[xerxes]

In the space of one week Trump has abdicated America's role as the world leader. He abdicated the US' role as the guarantor of peace in Europe as a bulwark against Russian imperialism and by treating NATO members like a mafia boss treats local businesses.

And by pulling the US out of the Paris Accords, he's abdicated the US' role as leading the world against climate change.

America Last.

[ShepherdsDog]

America's fucked.....so long as that carotene loaded turd is in the White House. Even if he is charged with treason, his tainted hordes will riot.

[BeaverFever]

$1:

Trump officials pressed State Dept staffers for plans to lift Russia sanctions: report

Trump administration officials pressed State Department staffers to develop plans for removing sanctions against Russia almost immediately after President Trump took office in January, Yahoo News reported Thursday.

In turn, according to Yahoo News, State Department employees sought to convince lawmakers to codify the sanctions, which were put in place by former President Barack Obama in response to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine and the Kremlin's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Former Coordinator of Sanctions Policy Dan Fried, who retired from the State Department in February, said that he received phone calls from concerned officials tasked with developing plans to lift the sanctions asking him to intervene and "stop this."

Trump officials pressed State Dept staffers for plans to lift Russia sanctions: report

June 01, 2017 - 09:25 PM EDT
Trump officials pressed State Dept staffers for plans to lift Russia sanctions: report
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Trump administration officials pressed State Department staffers to develop plans for removing sanctions against Russia almost immediately after President Trump took office in January, Yahoo News reported Thursday.

In turn, according to Yahoo News, State Department employees sought to convince lawmakers to codify the sanctions, which were put in place by former President Barack Obama in response to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine and the Kremlin's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Former Coordinator of Sanctions Policy Dan Fried, who retired from the State Department in February, said that he received phone calls from concerned officials tasked with developing plans to lift the sanctions asking him to intervene and "stop this."

“There was serious consideration by the White House to unilaterally rescind the sanctions,” Fried told Yahoo News, saying he eventually contacted lawmakers, including Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.), in an effort to codify the sanctions, which would complicate efforts by Trump to lift them.

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski, who, at the time, had just left the State Department, also brought the issue up with members of Congress.

The revelation State Department officials had scrambled to prevent the Trump administration from doing away with Obama-era sanctions on Russia comes as the FBI and at least four congressional committees are investigating possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It also follows reports last week that Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had discussed setting up a backchannel line of communication between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin with the country's Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Kushner is currently under FBI scrutiny for his meetings with Kislyak and Russian banking executive Sergey Gorkov in December. He did not disclose those meetings.

Also present at the meeting with Kislyak was former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign from the White House in February amid revelations that he had discussed sanctions with Kislyak in the month before Trump took office.

As a presidential candidate and since taking office, Trump has expressed a desire to improve U.S.-Russia relations, though he has repeatedly denied any collusion between his campaign and Moscow and has called the federal investigations into the matter a "witch hunt."

http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... ift-russia

[Tricks]

[bootlegga]

Tricks Tricks:

Last fun tidbit, the U.S. joins Syria and Nicaragua as the only other countries not part of the agreement. Nicaragua didn't join because it wasn't strict enough.

Nice company really.

Even batshit North Korea is part of the Paris Accord - who is the rogue nation again?

[Tricks]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Tricks Tricks:

Last fun tidbit, the U.S. joins Syria and Nicaragua as the only other countries not part of the agreement. Nicaragua didn't join because it wasn't strict enough.

Nice company really.

Even batshit North Korea is part of the Paris Accord - who is the rogue nation again?

It's also generally thought that the only reason Syria isn't part of it, is because of a small civil war.

[DrCaleb]

Tricks Tricks:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Tricks Tricks:

Last fun tidbit, the U.S. joins Syria and Nicaragua as the only other countries not part of the agreement. Nicaragua didn't join because it wasn't strict enough.

Nice company really.

Even batshit North Korea is part of the Paris Accord - who is the rogue nation again?

It's also generally thought that the only reason Syria isn't part of it, is because of a small civil war.

A civil war that is linked to possible effects of climate change.

Just for added irony.

[BartSimpson]

Tricks Tricks:

The majority of states support it

Where in fuck did you get that from? That's not even remotely true.

Three state governors have said that they oppose the plan to withdraw from the agreement.

Three.

That's not a majority.

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

In the space of one week Trump has abdicated America's role as the world leader. He abdicated the US' role as the guarantor of peace in Europe as a bulwark against Russian imperialism and by treating NATO members like a mafia boss treats local businesses.

And by pulling the US out of the Paris Accords, he's abdicated the US' role as leading the world against climate change.

America Last.

Trump is also defunding our contribution to the agreement.

The US is paying 20% of the bill for this thing and now we're keeping our money.

[xerxes]

More like Trump is keeping the money. It'll likely end up in some Russian bank account soon enough.