Monday - the weather threatens the Gulf Coast. Trump doesn't want the FDA to make him look bad.

 I was bad enough that we got clobbered by a tropical storm a few weeks ago. It was also unusually early for that sort of storm, but now two storms are aiming at the Gulf Coast and even one strong storm, hurricane force or tropical storm force, will do much damage to the low lying areas along the Gulf.

A few years ago, already beginning to be convinced by climate science's sounding alarms regarding climate change, I was willing to not attribute individual events or seasonal variations to climate change. But as these events pile up, and the weather becomes weirder, observations reinforce what those who make their living studying these things have published. There are more hurricanes and tropical storms and the climate models demonstrate why this is so, there are more extreme weather evens and again, the models predicate and nature delivers. It's very scary.

Our President - soon to be ex-President if we work hard enough as a nation for it - only believes in the parts of science and knowledge that agree with how he wants things to be. He disbelieves and belittles all disagreement. In his own mind he is god, but to us looking at him, he is barely a man

 His actions on the environment are destructive, his attempt to muzzle scientific discourse - probably because he knows that these discussions make him look bad, like a man with a sharpie and a map -  are damaging to both the necessary discourse and to the already shaky belief by many Americans that science matters.

We should not forget that when a governmental agency tasked with working with scientific evidence doesn't bend their announcements to what he wants to hear, he says, "they are making me look bad." 

No Doofus Donald, you make yourself look bad, and you hurt most Americans in the process.

Unelect Trump.

Kick the Repulsive Republican Senate majority in the minority.

Elect Joe Biden in 2020.

Photos:

Three triptychs of my friend Ron Kolm. He is a terrific poet, writer of fiction and editor.

Prints are available.

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