The Supreme Court has just declared combating climate change unconstitutional

[Rev. Rye]

The US Supreme Court just made yet another devastating decision for humanity.

In a 6-3 decision, the openly partisan and undemocratic court ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by fossil-fuel-producing states against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The decision strips power from regulatory agencies and advances the Republican goal to end government oversight. In particular, it eliminates one of the only remaining avenues for systemic federal climate action: using the Clean Air Act to phase out fossil fuel power plants. As a result, it may now be mathematically impossible through available avenues for the US to achieve its goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, which is anyway feeling dangerously unambitious in light of recent climate disasters.

I can't say I'm too surprised by this. Well, maybe that the Supreme Court would take the inertia that was inevitably going to happen with industries' slowness to adapt to climate change and codify that into law. But honestly, I never expected that the drastic action necessary to slow down climate change would end up happening. 

And a few days after they overturned Roe v. Wade, I think this clip from First Reformed is very fitting:

[Neo-Scholastic]

Love it...when the court takes power away from an unelected buearocratic agency because said power is properly vested in elective representatives, the left calls it undemocratic. Sure. Ritght.

[The Grand Nudger]

The elected representatives created the agency, and the clean air act, and gave it the task. Let's not pretend this is something it isn't Neo.

[Fake Messiah]

It is like basically the Court saying to Congress, “Get out of the way, we are in charge of the country now”.

[The Grand Nudger]

One wonders if the food and drug administration can actually regulate food and drugs. Can the usda enforce standards?

(one doesn't wonder, they can't, there are already suits waiting)

[Jehanne]

SCOTUS ought to rule that the Sun henceforth must rise in the West and set in the East.

[The Grand Nudger]

If it triggered the libs they would.

[arewethereyet]

I'd be good with them getting rid of Daylight Saving Time. That's something I can support.

[Fake Messiah]

This is an interesting post by Occupy Democrats from Facebook called

"A day in the Life of Sue The Trump Supporter"

Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Sue gets it too.

She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.

Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Sue begins her work day. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue's employer pays these standards because Sue's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.

It's noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Sue has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Sue and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.

Sue is home from work. She plans to visit her father this evening at his farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.

She arrives at her childhood home. Her generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Sue wouldn't have to.

Sue gets back in her car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Sue enjoys throughout her day. Sue agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats...840945427/