Tom Toles for December 12, 2018

CON man scam artist grifter Trump-ividual 1 knows damn well that the only “clean” coal is coal left in the ground. (He loves coal because he thinks it is baby diamonds.)

And actually Trump knows climate change is real but finds it more profitable to lie and deny.

We know he knows it is real because he petitioned the government of Ireland for permission to build a SEA WALL to protect against rising sea levels at his golf course property in Doughmore Bay, Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland.

So he knows it is real, wants to protect himself, but will sell everyone else (and future generations) down the river for thirty pieces of oil-stained, blood-stained silver.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-doonbeg-ireland-permission-to-build-wall-for-golf-course-2017-12

“The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum… shadow, and flame.”

Then he won’t be disappointed when he gets coal for Christmas.

And his intelligence can’t be under estimated.

I’ve been thinking for a while now that he’s lowered the bar so far it could open its own mine.

It may not be much longer before those who were looking to the resident for solutions realize that he has no ability to deliver them … that undermining America’s future to serve a mythical past is not working. The yellow vest movement in France cannot be defined by the extreme left or extreme right as both are failing the people as they are here. In America, we seem to have a similar problem where the middle class is being subordinated by business and wealthy interests supported by left and right. Because we call ourselves a constitutional democratic republic does not mean that we are one … as we actually are a corporatocracy and neither left nor right — by themselves — can govern to satisfy We The People, it seems. Our representative should not be wealthy “aristocrats” -with privileges/immunities unavailable to the people - dividing the public into tribes to suit their own agendas.

Here’s the number one reason Trump’s wall won’t work. Those wanting to cross the walled border will just dig under it.

After seeing the official Trump position get wild bouts of laughter from the international conference, it’s clear to me that (as he already knows from his UN performance) Trump is a natural born comedian with YUGE potential as a stand-up comic after his aborted term as POTUS comes to an end.

Underachiever-in-Chief

Republican deniers don’t care about the earth.

It’s all going to fall in on him before long.

Fake cartoon! Trump hasn’t done that much physical labor in his whole contemptible life put together! (By the way, 36 cheers for the 36 months in federal prison Trump’s fellow criminal Michael Cohen was just sentenced to.)

Permafrost in Alaska is melting, houses sinking, cities by 2050. Nothing to worry about.

So far Glorious Leader’s gamble – that there is no way to undermine his base – has carried the day. Will it last? America’s adventure through the looking glass continues . . .

Here is an interesting research exercise for you.

Get a pad, not a single sheet, and list all of the climate scientists who have demanded over the years that their names be removed from the final versions of UN climate reports. Extra credit if you read the specific reason for each one.

Not skeptics, not opponents. These are highly qualified people who create the UN reports, then subsequently demand revisions, retractions or dissociation because the UN bureaucrats change or misrepresent their actual findings to suit the overall agenda.

Sapping and mining.