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Source: Trump Will Withdraw U.S. From Paris Climate Agreement – The New York Times

Since the election of Donald Trump, the media world has become a never ending  low budget TV melodrama.  Every day brings some new alleged transgression against another segment of mankind on the part of the Donald.  Apparently, no one is safe from his crazy and depraved policies.  Every utterance brings forth indignant wails akin to keening at an Irish funeral. Personalities from all quarters of the media take their obligatory turns at denouncing every breath that Trump takes.

The latest round of chest beating and wailing is coming from the usual  and expected places after the announcement of the decision to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement on global warming so beloved by his predecessor.  The cacophony of baleful moaning makes one’s eyes spin like pinwheels because of their abject stupidity.

Consider the critics: If there was ever an all star team of disingenuous double talkers, hypocrites, drama queens and just plain bald face liars, then these are all among the top candidates.  Only Joe Izuzu is missing.   We’re talking Ben Rhodes, John Kerry, Dan Rather,  Al Gore, CNN and of course the previous President who signed on to the agreement.  Let’s not forget the famous climate intellectual,  Leo Decaprio.  And of course, the ACLU thinks this is racist.  Can’t make that stuff up.  All of those mentioned have advanced degrees in hyperbole and they couldn’t communicate at all without the hysterical exclamation point.

The narrative goes that to withdraw from this agreement is tantamount to no less than a death sentence for the world.  Nobody points out that the expiry date tipping point forecast by such as Al Gore, has already passed.  If that is to be believed, then it makes no difference what happens now.

Few will admit to a naïve public that the Paris accord was not an environmental agreement to restrict warming, but rather an economic one designed to transfer wealth from the US to other countries.  It’s essentially an income redistribution scheme so loved by socialists, in the guise of climate alarmism.  Few things are as effective as pictures of sad polar bears on dwindling ice floes to capture the sentiment of those naively being sold this fairy tale.  A radically rational viewpoint on this can be viewed here.

Some may be old enough to recall the hysteria half a century ago about the ‘imminent’ calamity of world overpopulation.  Now, years later, the earth still spins and its population has probably doubled.  There’s no money in restricting births….but there is money in taxing a larger population.  They’ve got that figured out.

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Why is Twitter even something that people do? Why do people Tweet?  How did the world get along without this stupid app?  I’m not even sure of how to use the word.  I guess it’s a verb, as in I twit you, or I twitter you.  If in a bar, do you tell someone to twitter you? Would they twitter you later, after dinner perhaps? Is it a noun, as in he’s a twitter, or they’re all twitters? If it’s singular, does that make someone a twit?

This useless app was invented on the heels of the success of all social media phenomenon beginning of course with Facebook.  In the case of Facebook, the app at least makes some sense as social voyeurs and exhibitionists alike could satisfy their particular needs.  In the case of Twitter, it appears that the utterances of a few celebrities or personalities are so compelling that subscribing to their timely bon mots is a must do.  It’s a bit of an evolution from the days of gathering around Moses while he reads pronouncements from a stone tablet.  But you’d think that based on the popularity of the app, that the pronouncements made by present day social deities are no less sage.

Why can’t people wait until the 6 pm news to know what Kim thinks? Why do we need to instantly know that she just bought a tennis bracelet for her cat? Why would any sane person need to be piped in to Al Gore’s recent verbal discharge?  According to Google, the accounts with the largest followings include Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Barack Obama.  Wait…Barack Obama?

Unless you’re a spy, the compunction to be a twitter user implies that someone else’s life is more interesting than your own. It actually accentuates the very human tendency to listen to those views that are already agreeable to their own.  The more people that are in that echo chamber, the more it reinforces and validates their own worldview.  As the top twitter personalities above indicate, this is the realm of 12 year old girls.  This is the constituency of those that wait breathlessly for every word from their idols.

It’s actually brilliant marketing, since they don’t stop making 12 year old girls which come with their natural need to be part of a popular mob.  It’s curious that some people never outgrow that though. That’s why they’re called followers.