[Ed Note: What follows is the official press release from President Donald Trump at the White House. It marks the official stance of the United States pulling out of the Paris Agreement. Though there is certainly a political aspect to this, I would like to see if we can try to avoid political bickering and focus discussion on the actual details of the press release. See, also, our previous coverage, Report: Trump Plans to Exit Paris Climate Agreement. --martyb]
From the desk of President Donald J. Trump
For Immediate Release
June 01, 2017
President Trump Puts American Jobs First
“Our government rushed to join international agreements where the United States pays the costs and bears the burdens while other countries get the benefit and pay nothing.” – President Donald J. Trump
ALREADY THE WORLD’S ENERGY LEADER: The United States had already become the leader in cutting CO2 emissions while still leading in oil & gas production.
HARMFUL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: The Paris Climate Accord could cost the United States economy millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in economic output over the next several decades.
SHOULDERING THE BURDEN: Under the Paris Climate Accord, the United States would carry the burden while other countries would get the benefits.
INEFFECTIVE: Even if every nation fully complied with the Paris Climate Accord, it would barely impact the climate.
PROMISE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is fulfilling his promise to the American people to stop international agreements that disadvantage the United States.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 02 2017, @02:23PM (1 child)
His brand of brittle hubris characterizes much of his class. When a person owes his wealth and position to the old boy network rather than the strength of his own right arm, bluster comprises the totality of his persona. Any challenge to his constructed facade invokes reactions like Trump's. A few of them work hard to justify to themselves the wealth and position they already have, but most spend most of their time and energy to maintaining their place in the old boy network that cares for and feeds them. The rest of us are aphids to be farmed.
A handful of genuine, self-made unicorns who achieve economic wealth and influence, are regarded as demi-gods; they quickly attract coteries of hangers-on who hope to be considered less worthless by association. If the unicorns spurn those too coarsely, though, the old-boy network turns on them quickly and tries hard to destroy them.
That was the dynamic at work in Martha Stewart's case. She built her empire of home fashion, but she was nasty to the old boy network. Too many slights at too many cocktail parties. So they used the insider trading affair to take her down, even though that sort of things is universally done among the old boy network.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @06:54PM
Not even close. His brittle hubris isn't due to the silver spoon in his ass. There are plenty of old money people who aren't like that. You just don't hear from them because they aren't so insecure to they have to bluster. I've met plenty of similar assholes who aren't rich and plenty of rich people who weren't pathetic losers as people. His paranoid insecurity is a character defect that money amplifies. Maybe it is genetic or maybe his dickhole of a father and smothering mother made him that way, but money did not cause it.
As for martha stewart, lolwut? She lost a fight with other billionaires. That wasn't about her being mouthy. It was just another power struggle between titans.