This explains Montgomery County in a nutshell

[Anonymous]

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There's nothing wrong with having lofty goals. I'm European. Member states have set very ambitious goals for themselves for various climate change actions. Nobody expects to see them fulfilled in their original timeline, but there is extraordinary power in the VISION and the COMMITMENT. It's better than none, and all Europeans will work towards those goals, knowing the deadlines will be pushed back again and again, that funding will be lacking, that special interests will whittle away at industrial regulations, etc... The point is to have a UNIFYING FORWARD MOMENTUM. We'll get there one day.

So I approve of this person's plan. He's not doing this in a vacuum. Most of the world, with the ridiculous exception of certain backward-looking Americans from the dark ages, is doing the same thing.

Take this bullsh*t back to Europe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
There's nothing wrong with having lofty goals. I'm European. Member states have set very ambitious goals for themselves for various climate change actions. Nobody expects to see them fulfilled in their original timeline, but there is extraordinary power in the VISION and the COMMITMENT. It's better than none, and all Europeans will work towards those goals, knowing the deadlines will be pushed back again and again, that funding will be lacking, that special interests will whittle away at industrial regulations, etc... The point is to have a UNIFYING FORWARD MOMENTUM. We'll get there one day.

So I approve of this person's plan. He's not doing this in a vacuum. Most of the world, with the ridiculous exception of certain backward-looking Americans from the dark ages, is doing the same thing.

Take this bullsh*t back to Europe.

+1. You (PPP) really don’t seem to get that Americans, fundamentally, resent being told what to do. That’s what gave birth to the country in the first place.

Your failing here - and it IS your failing - is that you just don’t understand America or Americans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There's nothing wrong with having lofty goals. I'm European. Member states have set very ambitious goals for themselves for various climate change actions. Nobody expects to see them fulfilled in their original timeline, but there is extraordinary power in the VISION and the COMMITMENT. It's better than none, and all Europeans will work towards those goals, knowing the deadlines will be pushed back again and again, that funding will be lacking, that special interests will whittle away at industrial regulations, etc... The point is to have a UNIFYING FORWARD MOMENTUM. We'll get there one day.

So I approve of this person's plan. He's not doing this in a vacuum. Most of the world, with the ridiculous exception of certain backward-looking Americans from the dark ages, is doing the same thing.

Take this bullsh*t back to Europe.

+1. You (PPP) really don’t seem to get that Americans, fundamentally, resent being told what to do. That’s what gave birth to the country in the first place.

Your failing here - and it IS your failing - is that you just don’t understand America or Americans.

I honestly suggest therapy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There's nothing wrong with having lofty goals. I'm European. Member states have set very ambitious goals for themselves for various climate change actions. Nobody expects to see them fulfilled in their original timeline, but there is extraordinary power in the VISION and the COMMITMENT. It's better than none, and all Europeans will work towards those goals, knowing the deadlines will be pushed back again and again, that funding will be lacking, that special interests will whittle away at industrial regulations, etc... The point is to have a UNIFYING FORWARD MOMENTUM. We'll get there one day.

So I approve of this person's plan. He's not doing this in a vacuum. Most of the world, with the ridiculous exception of certain backward-looking Americans from the dark ages, is doing the same thing.

Take this bullsh*t back to Europe.

+1. You (PPP) really don’t seem to get that Americans*, fundamentally, resent being told what to do. That’s what gave birth to the country in the first place.

Your failing here - and it IS your failing - is that you just don’t understand America or Americans.

*meaning, many (but not all) Americans who are white men, because most other Americans take it as given that people (usually white men) will constantly be telling them what to do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never voting for any Republicans again. Don't care.

Never ever again.

+1

I will literally vote for the spawn of Satan and Hitler before I ever vote for a rethug. I’d literally hang myself before voting for one.

When your own policies hit you directly in the face and impact your life, you will quietly and secretly vote conservative. A conservative is simply a liberal who has not been mugged yet.

DP. Untrue... lived in DC for a decade. Had all sorts of experiences, negative and positive. Still liberal. And in spite of what everyone told me, I've gotten even more liberal now that I'm a parent with small children and a reasonably decent HHI. The overall policies of the Republican party just do not align with my values. You guys gave us that vile orange thing and cannot be trusted.

Yeah, but you guys gave us the half-wit in the White House now.

And a half-wit is an improvement over the no wit that preceded him. Small Man was an empty suit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
There's nothing wrong with having lofty goals. I'm European. Member states have set very ambitious goals for themselves for various climate change actions. Nobody expects to see them fulfilled in their original timeline, but there is extraordinary power in the VISION and the COMMITMENT. It's better than none, and all Europeans will work towards those goals, knowing the deadlines will be pushed back again and again, that funding will be lacking, that special interests will whittle away at industrial regulations, etc... The point is to have a UNIFYING FORWARD MOMENTUM. We'll get there one day.

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This is a significant difference between Europe and the U.S. Europeans view "COMMITMENT" as a desire. We view commitment as a promise. So no, if we truly commit to something through our democratic processes, we don't just move the goal posts again and again. And frankly, that European attitude is part of the U.S. distrust of European commitments.