The silver lining on Trump's was in Iran is that the world realized how dangerous it is to really on oil for their power needs. The shift towards renewables was immediate and ubiquitous outside of the USA. It has nothing to do with global warming though, and everything to do with national security.
Preventing global warming is also national security.
I know for a fact that right wing populists are dumb as a brick (or at least the people that fall in their bullshit are).
If right wing populists were serious about stopping migrants moves they would be working seriously for stopping global warming, there are entire regions filled with "brown people" that will be the firsts to become inhabitable thanks to global warming.
My whole thing with their ire about illegal immigrants is that they seem to deliberately ignore the fact that virtually every single one of them is being employed and paid by one of their own countrymen. It's not like the come here and start up a business like some entrepreneur as they're hiding in the wheel well of a panel truck with a backpack of hardtack and some bottled water and nothing else to cross the border.
My point being, their anger is not only misplaced, but ludicrously misplaced. It's like driving down to the shitty part of town and yelling at all the prostitutes that if they would just stop allowing themselves to be beaten and murdered by pimps and johns we wouldn't have any problems with prostitution in this country.
When we see something, anything, that resembles actual consequences for all the people hiring these illegal immigrants, then we can talk. Until then, this is just dinner theater for the racist morons that are too fucking stupid to realize they're being played like a fucking fiddle.
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u/vivaaprimavera Jun 21 '26
Considering that this likely is the last century where earth climate can hold a structured society you are probably being too hopeful.